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Gunsoul Chapter 68: Wasteland Legends
Previous Chapter------The three cultivators eyed each other, the radioactive wind blowing between them.Arc had long overcome her need for sight once she had crossed the Fifth Coil. Her eyes had turned to metal inside their sockets, but she had gained a truer kind of sight. Her mind saw everything in a three-hundred sixty degree radius around herself. It could penetrate most objects, walls, illusions, and barriers. Her range spanned miles when not paying attention, and hundreds of kilometers when she focused on a single point.Most importantly, A...
Blood & Fur Chapter 74: Murder in the Family
Previous Chapter------I took as much from Lady Zyanya as I gave her.Draining lifeforce through Seidr came to me much more easily than healing wounds. The latter required direction and a sacrifice on my part, while the former was like drinking from a pond of honey. I simply had to pace myself to avoid draining my partner dry without letting her notice.I was unwilling to train this skill on my consorts considering the risks involved. Zyanya was expendable, and I wouldn’t sleep with her often enough for her to notice the long-term effects of Tey...
Gunsoul Chapter 67: The Manhattan Project
Previous Chapter------The racers gathered to watch the devastation in fearful silence.Mel and Hardy had stepped out of their vehicles, while Holster, Bucket, and a few other of Orient’s passengers climbed down from the spirit-train. Yuan canceled Gun Demon Incarnation to avoid wasting his qi. The thought of them turning on each other hardly crossed anyone’s mind, even Coyote’s. There was nothing left to fight over besides a nuclear cloud roaming over the ruins.Was Slash even alive? The thought of taking revenge on that crook paled in Yuan...
Gunsoul Chapter 66: Interruption
Previous Chapter-----Yuan shed his skin.His first Gun Demon Incarnation transformation took days of cycling to complete; his second finished in seconds. His arms and head turned into weapons and the thrusters on his back propelled him forward with greater velocity than ever before. He outpaced the racer brothers in a mighty sonic boom that blew dust and ashes in all directionsThe world around him became a blur, an ever shifting mirage. His vision focused until he could only perceive the point ahead of him. Nothing existed beyond that tunnel; no...
Gunsoul Chapter 65: Drug Wizard
Previous Chapter-------The brothers’ fireball would soon reach critical mass.It had already accumulated enough qi to become a bright star illuminating the road. It was only a matter of time before its speed and size became unmanageable to the siblings. Yuan had no idea if their Dyad-powered projectile would successfully break through Chemzard’s sutra protections, and he was in no hurry to find out.Yuan took a step toward the stage’s edge when he felt an overwhelming urge to vomit.He hadn’t eaten in days, since his Fourth Coil body susta...
Gunsoul Chapter 64: Landmarks of the Apocalypse
Previous Chapter--------A battle theme to get you hyped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2alndqSn0&list=PL7VGEh9tBZE7uh8VzsH_lX0NGuZ-qbXbF&index=8-------A qi-powered beam of crimson light blazed from the Eiffel Tower and hit the ghost ship.The ray pierced the floating vessel from one side and burst out from the other, ripping a hole in its skeletal structure. The ship wailed like a living being suffering a terrible wound, as did its ghostly crew. Its rotting sails evaporated in an instant and it swiftly began to lose altitude. Yuan watched it...
Gunsoul Chapter 63: Road Rage
Previous Chapter-----A/N: I'm on my way to leave Atlanta/Dragoncon tomorrow and take a plane back to Europe; as such next chapter should be posted back at the 'usual' hours.-----Orient sped up like a bullet fired from a gun.Yuan had already seen the immense velocities that she could achieve before, but his friend usually built-up momentum before reaching it. Necessity now demanded that she did that in seconds. Her massive bulk surged across the bridge and trampled one overhasty car which had the bad luck of getting in the locomotive...
Blood & Fur Chapter 73: Mother of Witches
Previous Chapter-------A/N: heya, sending this from Atlanta's Dragoncon (hence the odd hours; my roomate caught covid so praying I won't show symptoms either).I remind you that I'll be stubbing this story's first volume (roughly chapter 3 to 24) tomorrow as per KU's publishing rules, so if you are a Dracolich rank Patron, this is your last chance to download the PDF ebook there: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48625485Otherwise, NSFW scenes are put in brackets as usual.-------I entered Zachilaa as a god among men.Itzili had gr...
Gunsoul Chapter 62: Three, Two, One
Previous Chapter--------A hundred qi-powered engines hummed in anticipation.The residents of Battletown gathered atop its walls to acclaim and cheer on the competitors. Green flying eye-drones spread across the entire length of the History Road highway, recording and displaying everything on countless screens inside the city.The great bridge linking Battletown to the rest of the wasteland buckled under the weight of all the gathered racers’ vehicles. Over a hundred of them gathered at sunrise to participate in the race, bearing the banners of...
Gunsoul Chapter 61: Gun Demon Incarnation
Previous Chapter-----------NOTICE: Hi guys, I'll be at Dragoncon (in Atlanta) until September 2; as such, update hours will be a bit irregular compared to my usual European-based hours; posting that chapter 'early' to keep you updated. -----------Yuan’s mind was lost in a maelstrom of gunshots and violence.His bullet-core continued to cycle on its own, for beyond the agony lay a wasteland of bloodthirst and ecstasy. The pain he experienced through the death echoes of gunfire victims blurred with the satisfaction of the shooters, t...
Gunsoul Chapter 60: The Fourth Coil
Previous Chapter-----Yuan threw himself into his training after his encounter with LaChair.Both his and Bucket’s attempts at gathering information or approaching their fellow contestants yielded little results so far: Orient was nowhere near the fastest vehicle in the competition, and few competitors appeared interested in an alliance besides Mel and Hardy. Rampant paranoia and the fact Yuan openly challenged the Khan’s right-hand man made many wary of him.And most worrying of all, they hadn’t found a single sign of Manhattan’s presence...
Gunsoul Chapter 59: LaChair
Previous Chapter------Jared LaChair’s clinic was unlike what Yuan had expected from a Flesh Mansion Sect cultivator.Instead of a chapel of flesh built from the backs and spines of harvested slaves, it was a mere office located in one of Battletown’s poorest districts far away from the slave market. Glowing bars set into the ceiling nearly blinded Yuan with harsh light when he walked inside while rows upon rows of shelves were filled with bottled body parts and harvested organs. The room was cleanly pristine and free of bloodstains, while st...
Gunsoul Chapter 58: Mel & Hardy
Previous Chapter------Yuan had only spent a day in Battletown, and he already hated it.While the city was made of steel, suffering and exploitation were its true foundations. Yuan guessed he should have expected a place centered around a yearly death game and the slave trade to cater to all of humanity’s vices. The streets sprawled with taverns, inns, bars, restaurants, brothels, drug shops and gambling dens. Every street corner even had its own massive screen showcasing one gladiatorial match or another.History Road wasn’t the city’s onl...
Blood & Fur Chapter 72: Forbidden Unions
Previous Chapter------I woke up alive.My body felt both fresh and sluggish at the same time. My skin was smooth like a fresh fruit and my flesh was brand new. The Nightlords had stripped my old, burned remains from my skeleton and draped me in a new shell of life.My senses were sharper than knives. The smell of incense filled my nostrils and raised me from my slumber. I rested on a bed of white flowers with stone borders, all while dressed in my imperial regalia. My eyes looked up at the ceiling of an underground vault lit up by ghostly flames....
Gunsoul Chapter 57: Slash
Previous Chapter-------“Who the fuck are you?” Slash asked.Yuan’s bullet-core burned in his skull. The power of the Gun which sustained his life magnified his righteous fury, fanning the flames of his anger until they transformed into a blaze of rage. It took Yuan all of his willpower to not wave a Recoil Blast Barrier around his hand and shoot Slash down in front of the entire racer assembly.Weeks after weeks of meditation gave him enough self-control to resist that overwhelming temptation. Yuan knew that even if he managed to slay Slash...
Gunsoul Chapter 56: Battletown
Previous Chapter------A patrol intercepted them halfway on their way to Battletown.The sight of three SUVs with twice as many power cruisers driving after them to intercept the spirit-train brought back a few terrible memories of Slash’s band slaughtering his own, even though he knew he had grown strong enough to defend himself. He watched them approaching from the locomotive’s window, with Orient at his side and Holster hiding in another compartment.Cultivators, all of them, Yuan guessed upon seeing the patrol approach. They were a motley ...
The Perfect Run Public Demo Link!
Hello everyone!This is with a great emotion that I'm announcing the release of The Perfect Rungame's public demo!Writing this from the Gamescom event, it's been years since I first wrote this story and nearly eight months since the amazing developers at Lanterns Studiostarted working on this game; none of this would have been possible without them. They've done an amazing job, and I'm super hyped to finally show you all the characters I've once put to paper now in 3D. Thank you all for following and supporting this proje...
Gunsoul Chapter 55: Bloodsoaked Road
Previous Chapter-------Mopping up the remaining plastic men hardly warranted any effort on Yuan’s part. By the time he returned to the spirit-train, Bucket and the others had destroyed most of the vehicles and melted down the few enemies that managed to board. They only suffered two dead passengers and three wounded; a vanishingly small number of casualties considering the scale of the raid they’d just faced..Such was the strength of a large, well-armed group in the Wasteland. A lethal encounter for a small team turned into a road bump for ...
Apocalypse Tamer Audio Bundle & Webtoon + Perfect Run Demo News
Hello everyone!It's been a while since Apocalypse Tamerconcluded last year, but I've been hard at work on that front in the background. I've a few good news to share with you.First of all, Aethon has released a series bundle of all audiobookson Audible, narrated by Jack Voraces! You can get the full series of Basil's menagerie with a click!Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Apocalypse-Tamer-The-Complete-Series-Audiobook/B0D9WKPJHQOtherwise, an Apocalypse Tamer webtoonis currently under production in partnership with Aethon Comics ...
Gunsoul Chapter 54: Trashemoth
Some Battle music to go along with this chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2alndqSn0&list=PL7VGEh9tBZE7uh8VzsH_lX0NGuZ-qbXbF&index=8---------Previous Chapter--------Yuan leapfrogged his way to the trashemoth and left a trainwreck of devastation in his wake.His duel with Gayak had already given him a taste of what his Third Coil-level body could achieve, but the last few days of cycling unlocked its full potential. Where Yuan once needed momentum to fly a few meters ahead, he now had to tone down his strength so as not to fly away. He co...
Gunsoul Chapter 53: Wrath of the Plastic Men
Previous Chapter-----Engraving an innate technique turned out to be a very literal experience.The Third Coil’s changes had been automatic so far, natural. Yuan hardly had to think about them. The mere act of cycling replaced his human flesh with qi-forged steel.Learning an innate technique meant directing that transformation. Arc had him write sutras onto his nervous circuits first, an act which required him to cycle in a very precise and deliberate way. It hurt too. Each inscription, each word set his neurons ablaze with pain.“Struggling y...
Blood & Fur Chapter 71: The Last Trial
Previous Chapter-----It said something about Mother that the prospect of transferring a girl’s soul into a monster’s body aroused her intellectual curiosity.“Quite the brilliant plan, my son,” she congratulated me while casting a spell on her divinatory pool. The purple water’s surface rippled, with indistinct mirages forming on it. “Very bold. Tell me, how do you intend to bind those two?”“My idea was to piggyback the ritual’s web of connections, the same way my predecessors and I exploited it to fuel the Legion,” I explain...
Gunsoul Chapter 52: Innate Technique
Previous Chapter--------They left the station by sundown.An army of cats sang a symphony on their way out. Yuan would have expected this to result in a terrible cacophony, but their caretaker spirit had drilled them to musical perfection. They all purred and meowed in unison. As for Mordiggian and the few passengers who elected to become his future meal, they simply waved them off.“Goodbye, goodbye!” Lady Tama shouted as the spirit-train left the station. “See you at the next station, yes, yes!”“Goodbye, Lady Tama!” Orient waved bac...
Gunsoul Chapter 51: God of the Railroad
Previous Chapter-------The group ended up staying one more day at the station, during which the spirit-train changed quite a bit.Orient incorporated ten more wagons into herself, doubling her length and greatly expanding her facilities. Yuan partly contributed to their restoration by practicing Item Materialization. Though his intuitive understanding of firearms was of limited use when repairing wagons, he discovered he had an affinity when it came to creating and replicating metallic objects. Gears, bolts, pipes, pistons… Yuan suspected cons...
Gunsoul Chapter 50: The Chosen Path
Previous Chapter------Mordiggian proved to be a very different teacher than Arc.Arc’s training sessions had gotten Yuan used to practical exercises and the occasional attempts to make him figure out technique intricacies on his own; learn how to learn, in her own words. Mordiggian instead preferred detailed and in-depth explanations while happily answering Yuan’s questions in a clear and concise manner. He was, in short, someone more interested in teaching theory first rather than jumping into practice.Yuan couldn’t tell whether he was al...
Gunsoul Chapter 49: Of Guns & Men
Previous Chapter------Yuan finished his tea in silence.He still struggled to comprehend the full severity of their situation. Yuan was a courier at heart. His existence for the last few years revolved around traveling and delivering packages. He never signed on for a high-level cultivator conflict over a Lost Age relic capable of laying waste to civilization.He felt a sense of responsibility for carrying the Cube of NATO around. Had Slash not intercepted him, Yuan might have successfully delivered it to Manhattan and doomed the wasteland to nuc...
Gunsoul Chapter 48: The World is Always Ending
Previous Chapter---------Yuan and Mordiggian discussed the apocalypse over a cup of spirit-leaf tea.Though he had seen cultivators partake in the practice in the past, Yuan had never been allowed to participate himself. Qi-charged nutrients were too rare and precious to be wasted on Scraps.Now that he could test it, Yuan found himself supremely unimpressed. The beverage tasted terribly bitter and while it carried more qi than usual food rations, he could easily gather as much from training near a leyline.“My sincere apologies for the taste,...
Blood & Fur Chapter 70: Drowned in Darkness
Previous Chapter--------I couldn’t breathe through the First Emperor’s mask.Cold obsidian stone pressed on my cheeks and jaw, sucking out the air out of my lungs and the warmth of my sunlight blood. Colder hands removed my clothes from my flaccid, pallid blue skin. I could hardly feel them.“Do you know what godhood is, Iztac?” Iztacoatl asked me, her voice a pale mist slithering inside my ear. “True godhood is appetite.”My body was slow and sluggish from the drugs coursing through my veins. I tried to turn my head and glare at the N...
Gunsoul Chapter 47: Behind the Curtain
Previous Chapter------Among the thousand Paths, none were as reviled as the Sky-Biter’s.When the Spiral Dancer awakened mankind to the secrets and wonders of cultivation, she showed them all the Way; but not all Paths were as kind as her own. Some were paved with pain and blood.Few of the people who had witnessed the Unmaking lingered among the living, but their tales of terror survived to this day; stories of great teeth spanning the length of the sky and closing upon mountains to drink the oceans and swallow continents. A single bit that un...
Gunsoul Chapter 46: Neko Station
Previous Chapter-------Greenery surrounded the station, its emerald grass glittering under the sunlight.Yuan struggled to believe in his own eyes. Unlike Bucket and the other spotters, who all used binoculars to observe the place from afar from the wagon’s roof, his new eyes let him see far into the distance without assistance.The train station looked quite similar to the one Yuan encountered in the Thunderlands, a forgotten, multi-floor ruin of cracked walls and broken windows. This one, however, was covered in creeping vines and vibrant lea...
