January 29th, 2021. Aevum. It was Wednesday morning when Catherine woke up. As a Lazarite, she didn’t need to sleep, but the MindCore operation had wiped out her mental resilience. After blearily showering in a fugue state, she collapsed face-first onto the bed in the bedroom Jason had made for her, adjoining the operating room,…
January 29th, 2021. Aevum. Inside a specially created operation chamber deep within Aevum’s confines, Catherine D’arc sat in a comfortable chair beside the operating table. She stared at Jason expectantly as he manipulated a magical holographic interface. Dozens of tiny little dots were placed all over Catherine’s face and head. These dots were magical nodes…
January 29th, 2021. Aevum. Weeks passed inside Aevum. These amounted to less than an hour in the outside world. All the while, Jason continued to work with Daisy’s friends, improving the understanding of their abilities. Outside, the slow march of the demons toward Mount Sinai continued. For every second that passed in Realspace, the demons…
Far-Future Era. Day 20, AJR. Noon, Volgarius. By all accounts, Unarin was not having a good day. Or a good week, or a good month, or frankly not even a particularly good decade. Things were not going his way. The Volgrim had all but lost their right to call themselves the galaxy’s ruler. With the…
Far-Future Era. Day 20, AJR. 4PM. Eastern Melodia. Inside the unified headquarters of Melodia’s Defenders, Belial finally finished explaining the situation to a small group of people. Among them were Commander Linda Adams, Commander Chadwick, Melody, Beelzebub, and Kiari. They were all sitting inside Linda’s office, which felt a bit cramped with so many people…
Far-Future Era. Day 20, AJR. Northern Melodia. Soleil and Crow leaped at one another. The Black Hole Construct swung her fist at Crow and knocked her head aside with the sound of iron crashing against steel. Crow retorted with a violent punch to Soleil’s stomach that deformed her abdomen. Soleil spin-kicked Crow. Crow absorbed the…
Far-Future Era. Day 20, AJR. Numaria. A dozen Demon Emperors, as well as Demon Deity Auger and a few others of his rank, listened to Barbatos’s tale with solemn expressions. The revelation that their greatest enemy and the galaxy’s current crisis were one and the same had a terrible effect on their moods. If before…
Recommended Listening Far-Future Era. Day 18, AJR. Inside the False Cosmic Realm. Barbatos’s eyes flashed with hatred. A rage he had never experienced before. A sense of grief mixed with self-loathing and pain. He had sworn to Artorias, an eon earlier, that the two of them would someday reunite in new bodies. He had suffered…
Far-Future Era. Day 18, AJR. Inside the False Cosmic Realm. A delicate and gentle hand reached down from the sky. It appeared thin and frail, yet its grasp was one that had held weapons of war, weapons which had reaped countless lives. Artorias looked up at the hand of light. He finally realized what Uriel’s…
Far-Future Era. Day 2, AJR. Inside the False Cosmic Realm. Uzziel spent four days prepping her brothers for the soul transference, not even noticing the destruction of Tarus II and the deaths of both Wordsmiths. Four days was no simple matter. Her family’s new bodies were vastly stronger than their originals, even at their peak….
