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Blood & Fur Chapter 63: The Theft
Previous Chapter------The First Emperor’s servants rushed to defend his prophet.A swarm of thousands of red-eyed bats descended from the canopy in a great tide of fangs and fur. The cacophony of their flight resonated across the silent forest. They fell upon the Skinwalker in an instant, covering her utterly. Her screams were delightful to my ears.Nonetheless, the smell of Nenetl’s and Itzili’s blood proved to be too much for the frenzied b...
Gunsoul Chapter 22: The Bullet Church
Previous Chapter------When Yuan questioned the locals about where he could buy guns, they all answered ‘go to the Bullet Church.’It didn’t take him long to find the place on the eastern side of town. The enormous stone building loomed over these parts like a Wayfinder’s temple, its steps flanked by statues of ancient warriors adorned with newer bullet bandoliers and crude armor. Impact holes and deep gouges defaced the outer walls’ mura...
Blood & Fur Chapter 62: Skin & Bones
Previous Chapter------The hour of grace had long passed and the hunters’ horns resonated across the land.Our gracious headstart had already come to an end by the time Chikal, Nenetl, Itzili, and I wandered deeper into the forest. While Eztli took Astrid downstream to the west, where she would hopefully fly the poor girl to safety, we walked to the east amidst the trees. The smell of my blood would inevitably lead Nightkin trackers to us, but th...
Commerce Emperor 2 Launch + Gunsoul Poll!
Hello everyone!Double news today! First of all, the second volume of Commerce Emperor(following the civil war arc all the way to the final battle with Belgoroth) has now launched on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited! As usual, I would like to thank you all for supporting this book during its creation.Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CWHJV1B5Like always, I would appreciate any review on Amazon or anyone's help in spreading word of the launc...
Blood & Fur Chapter 61: The Child Hunt
Previous Chapter-----I came to the hunt dressed for war.Iztacoatl had me clothed in the emperor’s fabled scarlet Tlahuiztli, as if I were about to lead my armies to glory rather than to attend an unjust execution. This lightweight armor put those worn by my warrior lodges to shame. Its laminate layers of cotton, leather, and scales formed an impressive protection coating my chest, legs, and arms. Each of them had been bathed in secret spices an...
Commerce Emperor Chapter 48: The Bullseye
Previous Chapter-------“Buy it back,” Marika ordered me. “Buy it back, Robin.”I sank back in my seat. This conversation was going about as well as I’d expected; namely, terribly. The air in the captain’s cabin had grown incredibly tense, with Eris fidgeting uncomfortably, Beni keeping his head down, and Soraseo standing still like a statue as she pondered what to do.Mirokald was behind the steering wheel, his eyes set on the window se...
Blood & Fur Chapter 60: Burned Bridges
Previous Chapter-------After slaughtering my former classmates and having their ashes join those left by Smoke Mountain’s eruption, I went to visit the rest of the refugees.I found it eerie how easily I went from one to the other. I’d committed a brutal massacre and switched to charity work in a heartbeat without guilt or remorse. My mind was clear and devoid of doubt.I’d grown numb to killing my fellow man.“By the will of the heavens, Em...
Gunsoul Chapter 21: The Apocalypse Man
Previous Chapter------It didn’t take Yuan long to find the Eastern Express’ local office.The small wooden warehouse stood near the artificial lake’s waterfront, nestled between a bar and a whorehouse. Yuan knew that because three prostitutes had tried to petition him on his way there while a child beggar attempted to pickpocket him. He told off the former and slapped the latter off his back. Nobody dared to mug him though, which he took as ...
Blood & Fur Chapter 59: The Old Dead Past
Previous Chapter-------A/N: this chapter contains a NSFW scene; as usual, I put a warning so you may skip it if needed.-------I sealed a pact with the winds of chaos to the triumphant tune of demonic applause.Xibalba’s streets rejoiced over my counteroffer with the soft sound of clapping hands echoing in the distance. Whether this place of nightmares meant to congratulate or mock me didn’t matter. I let the sound wash over me like waves on th...
Gunsoul Chapter 20: Fleshmarket
Previous Chapter-------After a short bout with Orient in the panoramic car, Yuan gave her the same assessment as the rad-hag before her: untrained, but strong.Orient showed little to no combat instincts nor self-preservation when it came to protecting her body. She didn’t even bother moving from her spot unless he closed in on her. She didn’t need to.The moment Holster sounded the start of the spar with a clap, the train came alive to defend ...
Gunsoul Chapter 19: Miss Orient Express
Previous Chapter----------A sweet smell woke Yuan up.He had dreamed of guns, smoke, and blazing ammo since they had left the Thunderlands. His bullet-core pumped his brain with visions of firearms and desolation, of duels between faceless shadows and gunpowder songs. His soul yearned for battle, and so did his body.His metal veins hungered for qi. The air inside the spirit-train felt so dry to cycle through after the Thunderlands’ supernaturall...
End of Break update: CE Vol 2 on KU, plans for Vol 3, other news
Hello, dear patrons,It's been a while! Though I'm currently still in Japan until the 22nd and updates won't truly return to normal until then, I'll slowly start publishing again this week; first some short Gunsoul/DW chapters depending on their advancement, then Blood & Furon the 25th. The trip has been a blast so far and let me meet other fantastic authors like Actus, Jiwa/Mechanimus and Xkarnation. It's also been very inspir...
May Break and Perfect Run Game Update
Hello everyone,As I've warned for a while, I will now be on a break for some time; I've just hit 30 today (my God, that last decade flew by in an instant) and then going on a trip abroad with old friends from May 10th to the 22nd. I hope the backlog will prove entertaining until my return.I intend to publish chapters again on the week of the 20th, though I'll likely start with shorter chapters like Gunsouland Dungeon Wreckersrather th...
Blood & Fur Chapter 58: The Price
Previous Chapter--------My mind was exploding behind a face of stone.My body froze like a deer sensing a hunter, each of my muscles tensing up tighter than ropes around a hanged man’s neck. My thoughts swirled inside my skull. A thousand worrying possibilities came up, though I had grown experienced enough to hide my concern under a mask of feigned confusion.My first thought was: How could she have found Mother?My second was:She’s lying.But t...
Blood & Fur Chapter 57: The Cloak of Luck
Previous Chapter--------A tense silence briefly fell upon my room as I processed my predecessors’ words.“The failures?” I repeated in disbelief. “Of what?”“Of the embrace,” my predecessors replied with a small, weak voice. “The Nightlords do not always succeed in siring a new vampire. Sometimes, the curse… does not behave as it should. The princes become… things.A picture of the First Emperor’s silent, undead spawns flashed ...
Blood & Fur Chapter 56: The Demon Princes
Previous Chapter---------Riding an animal was a strange experience.Having spilled some of my blood in Tetzon’s food and having the docile beast, my spirit easily slipped inside his fur. His own soul was young, his Teyolia weak, so I felt no resistance and would have overcome any. That part had been easy.The trouble began immediately afterwards, before I even opened my eyes.The entire body felt wrong and mismatched. The legs were twisted in too ...
Blood & Fur Chapter 55: The Whispers of Ambition
Previous Chapter-------I practiced a dance with feet that were not my own.A dozen noblewomen had come to witness my performance. Chikal was there, her face younger and smoother. A crown of gold shone bright atop her woven hair. I did my best to ignore them all and focus on the task at hand. My steps rocked Chilam’s great stone plaza and my staff pointed up at the cloudy sky. The rainforest around our city shuddered in the wind. The fields waite...
Gunsoul Chapter 18: The Second Coil
Previous Chapter------Yuan received a crash course in rad-hag anatomy in one visceral impact.His qi-coated body punched through his enemy’s maggot-riddled flesh, shattered her ribs, and blasted apart her inner muscles. He smashed his way through her diseased black heart and broke past the coiling centidead larvae making up her spine, before erupting from her back in a shower of glowing green blood. He felt the substance burn his metal skin and ...
Gunsoul Chapter 17: The Bullet of Victory
Previous Chapter---------The rad-hag lunged at him with her immense hands.She showed no technique, adopted no martial stance, and didn’t bother with feints of any kind. She possessed none of Toshiro’s rudimentary martial arts skill nor a beast’s instinctual understanding of the enemy’s vitals.She was just fastand strong.The rad-hag reached Yuan in the blink of an eye, moving far quicker than anything her size had any right to. Her fists s...
Gunsoul Chapter 16: Rad-Hag
Previous Chapter------The bullet burst out of the barrel with a thunderous roar.So strong was the recoil that the chamber exploded between Yuan’s iron hands, sending red hot shrapnel flying in multiple directions. Yuan instinctively activated Elemental Infusion in the nick of time, the projectiles bouncing off his metal chest while Holster barely managed to duck to the ground behind him. A shockwave traveled through the air and shook the entire...
Gunsoul Chapter 15: Phantom Bullet
Previous Chapter-------This was bad. Hideously bad.The war party had to include at least thirty vehicles to whip up such a dust storm, maybe more, with each of them likely filled to the brim with monsters out for blood. One crew would already be a challenge if it boarded the spirit-train. Fighting so many foes at once was suicide, let alone with their rad-hag mistress leading the charge.“Shit,” Yuan cursed as he quickly rose from his seat and...
Poll on story updates until May Break
Hello everyone!As I've posted earlier in March, I'll be going on a break from May8th to May 22th; the reason being that I'm hitting 30 during that period and will go to Japan for a trip with childhood friends of mine to celebrate that milestone, so I'll be less available to write during that time and cannot guarantee updates (although I will still work on the chapters during my spare time and post if I can). It would also give me ...
Blood & Fur Chapter 54: The Hand of Fate
Previous Chapter---------The dawn purged the undead with light and flames.The Nightlords had long retreated inside their underground abode by then, where the Nightkin gathered scores of the First Emperor’s abominations. My captors had me check whether my authority extended to all these creatures, and it did. Dozens of undying, soul-devouring abominations brought from the capital’s various temples knelt to me in the silent dark.“Our Godspeak...
Gunsoul Chapter 14: The Base
Previous Chapter-------Ransacking the wagon proved both disappointing and somewhat profitable. The cabins mostly contained old baubles like handheld clocks and old dolls, but he also found emergency tools like resin torches, fire extinguishers, hammers, drills, hacksaws… everything required to repair the spirit-train should it be damaged.None of these objects carried qi of any kind though. Yuan was starting to wonder if a cultivator ever boarde...
Gunsoul Chapter 13: The Treasure Car
Previous Chapter---------Of all things to run into, Yuan certainly didn’t expect to find a treasure trove.The third wagon had been nearly identical to the second, a wheeled house of seats facing wraparound windows, albeit with more tables, broken lamps, and pots that were once used to house plants and crops. Ancient cultivators no doubt attempted to cultivate enchanted flowers there, though none of them survived for Yuan to harvest. He and Hols...
Blood & Fur Chapter 53: The Emperor's Children
Previous Chapter----------Father returned with a leather blanket and put it over my shoulders to help warm me up.I tried not to think too much about the Parliament’s words. My predecessors gathered a great treasure trove of experience and wisdom over the centuries, but part of me hoped their skepticism was unwarranted and born of cynicism.Can people change for the better?They could certainly change for the worst—I had crossed lines I consider...
Gunsoul Chapter 12: Train Shui
Previous Chapter-------The spirit-train traveled gently along phantom tracks while Yuan cycled his qi in the front car.His core gorged itself on the power coursing through the air and empowered his body. His bullet’s metal roots spread down to his shoulders and spine, strengthening his back. He felt the steel intertwined with his flesh. A few more sessions would complete the process until the metal nerves reached from his head down to his finge...
Gunsoul Chapter 11: Holster
Previous Chapter---------Disarming an explosive collar demanded a certain degree of dexterity.“Hold still,” Yuan told the girl as he rewired the cables. The Hitobashira didn’t move an inch, nor did she speak a word. She instead looked at her feet dangling from the dead car’s backseat. “Almost done.”Yuan had taken the liberty of shoving both of Maurice and Gru’s corpses into the spirit-train’s oven before freeing the girl. Killing ...
Blood & Fur Chapter 52: Father & Son
Previous Chapter-----------So many years had passed since Father last hugged me that I almost forgot how warm his arms felt. The lack of flesh on his bones hardly changed that. Every part of his body radiated something that I rarely received.Love.“I am so glad to see you again, Iztac,” Father said upon squeezing me tightly. “Though I wish it were under better circumstances.”My spine stiffened. “You know?”“Your mother told me that th...
Gunsoul Chapter 10: Human Pillar
Previous Chapter------Yuan spent hours cycling his qi.He’d seen cultivators recover from heavy wounds within hours, and the exercise taught him why. Qi fueled the body, binding broken parts together, soothing bruises, and reinforcing the flesh. His wrist and heel quickly healed.Moreover, his core’s tendrils had started spreading to his spine. Dining on the Thunderlands’ energies let Yuan foster their growth tenfold. Once they had covered hi...
