A young man named Jason Hiro is depressed and feels as if his life is aimless, thus he volunteers to enter a cryogenics program so his body will at least be useful for science. He wakes up 100,000 years in the future, only to discover that humanity has gone nearly extinct, the humans who remain are all slaves, and the slave masters are the Demons. Humans are nothing more than chattel for their new overlords.
Demons now rule the galaxy, but Jason discovers he has a unique power called Wordsmithing, a magic which descends from the legends of King Arthur and Solomon, one that can rewrite the fabric of reality based on his imagination and cast by speaking a single Word of Power. Will Jason be able to uplift and save humanity? Or will the forces of evil prove too powerful to overcome?
Somewhere near the Labyrinth’s center, some ten miles from the Core, a pair of women walk through the darkness. One of them, a human, wears a shadowy-black military exosuit to help her see through Hell’s infinite gloom, while the other, a vampiress, needs no such artificial enhancements due to her demonic heritage. As they walk,…
Inside a distant corner of the Labyrinth, within the confines of a makeshift prison area, a spectral demoness with an immaterial body raises her palm into the air. Smack! She slaps a human trapped inside a cage before her, the captured leader of humanity’s military forces, Neil Adams. Neil cries out in pain and stumbles…
Tarus II, to the west of Hero City. Second day, first hour. Darkness covers the land. With the clock having struck one hour past midnight, the night-time gloom spreads out in all directions, illuminated only by red-hot bullets whizzing through the air, magical fireballs exploding against metallic armor, or the spotlights of Phoebe’s mechanized war…
A silent assassin creeps through the Labyrinth’s hallways. Decked out in a stealth-class exosuit, Amelia Greyheart, the Black Queen, slithers through the darkness like a shadowy snake searching for prey. Having spent the better part of an entire day scouring the Labyrinth, Amelia’s movements appear much twitchier and alert than when she first started. Many…
First Day, Eighteenth Hour. Ose, the Emperor of Infiltration, soars around Tarus II at blinding speeds, unconstrained by wind resistance, friction, or most other limitations placed upon mortal bodies. Only gravity exerts any pull on her invisible and immaterial ghost-body, preventing her from soaring to the heavens and leaving the planet behind. She flickers from…
AUTHOR NOTE: I corrected a big error in Part 264! Read about it here! Day One, Hour Seventeen, at the western edge of the Horned Forest. Phoebe Hiro and her army tentatively hold the line as countless waves of demons and undead swarm at them from the Warpgate encampment. No longer sealed off, it hums…
An hour earlier, near the eastern side of Hero City. Orias, Baron of the Stars, sits cross legged atop a small hill with a few dozen trees surrounding him. This lightly forested bulge in the otherwise wide-open eastern plains grants him a layer of concealment from any hostile gazes. The Baron takes a long, deep…
First Day, Sixteenth Hour. Inside Camael’s Cube. My skull throbs and pulses with pain. Every time I use my Wordsmithing, some of my brain cells die, making my vision go spotty for a moment. "Seal! Seal! Seal! Return! Haaah… haaah…" I pause my ceaseless magic-casting to sink to the ground, positioning myself at the center…
I wrote a refresher for Cryopod, which will get you from Parts 225-261, just in case you guys forgot any story beats! First Day: Sixteenth Hour. Sunlight shines upon Tarus II’s surface. At 4 PM, the midday sun beats down overhead, but its rays barely warm the planet’s surface, given the early springtime chill. Ying-Ying,…
A gargantuan metal pad rests beneath my feet, circular in shape and three hundred feet in diameter. Hovering amidst the vast inner space of Camael’s Cube, the magically summoned platform sports a complex holographic imaging interface, one which I’m currently using to render a chunk of Tarus II’s surface in extreme detail. The holographic emitter,…
