“What do you mean no?” Don stared at the person sitting opposite the table with steely eyes. The room was a brightly lit bar, while the person opposite was flanked by two heavily armed guards in combat armour and shotguns.
Don wasn’t the least bit intimidated, with his confidence placed in the standardized rebel exosuit called ‘Vic...
2023-02-26 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe ‘White Fang’ tapped his finger on the table with obvious stress, looking at a document detailing the budget that the central rebellion command has provided to him. “This can’t be right, the budget is ridiculously low!”
Sierra nodded her head. “This budget is the final approved version. The unification has come much earlier ...
2023-02-25 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you an idiot?” Melissa scoffed. “You can get executed for crimes against the Loeric Dynasty, I don’t care. We should be targeting Athen itself. The main crux of the problem is that Athen is doing extremely well for itself. It has completely flipped the script on what a resource mining colony should be doing.”
She was right: ...
2023-02-25 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCardenia chopped off the hand of an imprisoned traitor, causing the guy to scream in pain as blood began to seep out slowly in a strong flow onto the cold metal table. Still wearing her Violet Dusk exosuit, she frowned as the loyal guards took the traitor away back to his cell. “Do they not really know who was financing the entire assault?”<...
2023-02-25 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostKitana didn’t recognize the username. If Kieran had told her that he wanted to watch another pro player, she would be fine with it, but this SentientHamster189 sounded like the person barely even knew he had such a username.
Of course, her username of ‘Steel Raven Lady’ was not that well known either, but she had put a lot more thoug...
2023-02-24 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Kitana, protect the family! Don’t worry I’ll come back soon. Get your mum and brother out of here!” A man’s voice yelled before he was grabbed by a multitude of hands, ripping him limb from him right in front of a young girl holding a baby boy.
Kitana jolted awake with a sharp scream, her back drenched in sweat as she panted hea...
2023-02-23 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post[Winner: Kitana.]
The automated voice echoed through the testing chamber, where there were more than five Keepers knocked out and scattered pieces of Athen Defender drones were littered all across the floor, the parts sparking with electrical arcs. A single Keeper stood in the midst of all the carnage, with a whimpering Keeper at her feet,...
2023-02-22 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Who’s that, fresh blood? Which zone is he from?” Randy, the younger boy who was caught bickering with Dom by Madam Sierra after the drill looked at his multi-terminal. The screen showed the black mask of Ceres with the blood crescent stroke.
“Says he’s from Zone 17! That’s crazy, isn’t the entire zone already brainwashed to ...
2023-02-21 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostArdan and Ceres returned back to the other two, only to see Halyon on the ground pinned by two soldiers. “What’s going on here?” Ardan asked Sierra, who was furious.
“This man tried to go towards you guys when we went to alert state yellow just now. Kept talking about having to stick with the main character or something to stay ali...
2023-02-20 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Are they snatching outers right off the streets? Why isn’t anybody saying anything about it on the tv?” Ceres asked, trying to dig deeper into the situation.
“Yea, this sounds impossible to pull off without garnering some attention. I never heard of anything like this!” Halyon was indignant at what he thought to be obvious sland...
2023-02-19 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJulia quickly assisted Ceres to the hovercar. “Don’t forget about Halyon…” Ceres muttered before he closed his eyes to take a nap.
Yet another moment of ‘oh shit we forgot’, but Julia and Saater quickly headed to the last known location of Halyon, finding him chilling on a bench and eating ice cream bought from a nearby store. ...
2023-02-18 11:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostJulia flew the hovercar, circling the now half-damaged Queen’s Tower. The tower was still structurally standing, but the damage was very much visible. A sizeable chunk of the middle floors was blown out, billowing with thick black smoke and sparks of flame, making it seem like a monster took a single chomp out of it.
“The timing is too...
2023-02-18 11:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostCeres hobbled over to the nearest empty dark unlit room before closing the automatic door behind him. With a strong punch, he broke the electronic control of the door, causing him to cough out blood again as he exerted strength.
“Shit, that fight really got me…” Ceres slumped against the door, breathing heavily while his ribs straine...
2023-02-18 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostCeres left the complaining Halyon behind, heading to one of the entrances. He breathed deeply, allowing the long-repressed sense of hunger to finally let loose and overtake him.
The black goo seeped out of every pore again, forming the black-scale armour around him.
The range of his vision now allowed him to see into the city. He cou...
2023-02-18 11:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostDr Theria nodded at the exosuit to leave the two of them alone, before explaining to Kitana quietly in a gentle tone. “Someone is testing a new form of biological weapon in Rockhold, and I intend to stop it. However, certain forces like the Queen’s Guards are not that gracious to let me help.”
“Why would they try to stop you?” 2023-02-18 11:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ceres strolled through the market, keeping an eye out for anything weird and generally conversing with the residents. It was naturally grimier and sleazier compared to Zone 17, but he felt a similar sense of intimacy and unity between the people who stayed here.
Word of the worm plague had spread thanks to the group, but no one panicked or...
2023-02-18 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostJulia shook her head, the stoic image of Ceres’s strength shattered by his outright naivety. “If you think this is impossible, you’re in for a shock when you see the Beyond. You probably won’t even be able to wrap your head around how entire planets function there.”
The Beyond was a completely different zone that Ceres could not ...
2023-02-17 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHalyon stared in awe as the elevator brought him up along the Queen’s Tower, his face planted on the glass. “I never got to go to the ceiling when I was living in the inner zone!” He still wore his arena cleaner medical suit, though it was a clean set.
“Shut it, kid, you’re making me look bad.” An old man wearing a formal suit ...
2023-02-16 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCeres walked into the Queen’s office, all properly cleaned up and now sporting the same uniform of the Queen’s Guards.
“Looks like you really enjoyed that room.” Cardenia smiled as she saw Ceres’s beaming face. No doubt her plan to entice him had already taken root in Ceres’s mind.
“Never had such luxurious accommodatio...
2023-02-15 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next hour passed with a flurry of exchanges between Ceres and Cardenia. Cardenia had not talked to anyone related to the incident in the last six years. She had gone completely underground, changing her identity to that of the Queen and building her own fortress deep in Rockhold.
It wasn’t easy for her. The last six years had been fr...
2023-02-14 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe hovercar spiralled downwards out of control, crashing into an abandoned district with collapsed pre-fab buildings and dilapidated homes.
Due to the sturdy construction of the hovercar, the hovercar did not explode but instead managed to dampen the force enough for the survival of its passengers.
However, the buildings and loose p...
2023-02-13 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post[Comrades, it’s been a tough year for all of us, but we are making good progress. Despite the setbacks, achieving our goals is something that will not happen in a single day. Remember our motto!] ‘Bonfire’ clenched her fist.
“Equality starts with a fire!” The cell leaders shouted back in unison.
[Good. I have already read a...
2023-02-12 09:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post