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Chapter 52 : Back to the Block

The Black Block was as active as ever. As soon as the sun was in the sky people left their hideouts and shelters to come here to buy, barter, sell and steal, sometimes in that order. The countless stalls that occupied the Block had been set up in a blink of an eye and it didn't take long for the great dance of the slum-dwellers to begin. But the stalls weren't the only ones on the Block, for sh...

Chapter 51 : Electric

After a long day of reparations, cleaning, and discussions with his new employees and his prisoner, James returned to his personal room in the private section of the lair, still separated from the main part where the main entrance, the war room, the jail, the storage, and the workshop were situated. As soon as he stood in the middle of the room, he collapsed into a black puddle. The last twenty...

Chapter 50 : The two prisonners

When Grover woke up, the first thing he noticed was how numb and yet hurt his entire body felt.

The second thing he noticed was the walls of black bricks all around him, as well as vertical bars of some black metal - he was in a cell.

His first instinct was to flex his connection to his clay armor, but he was disturbed to find there was nothing there. He didn't remember exactly what...

Chapter 49 : A life in the slums

Mark and Jeffrey, the lizardman and ratkin duo that had accompanied Soluble through all these years, through thick and thin, through Sickler hordes, through Patchee hunts, through Wicked Witchcraft's mad rampages...

And yet here they were. Just the two of them. Alone in a great dark room that looked like the seat of power of some dark cult. No Soluble in sight.

They had decided to s...

Chapter 49 delay

Hello everyone!  Bad news, Chapter 49 won't be done today. I know, it breaks the routine of Tuesday releases, but I didn't have the time to finish it. Theorically I could release it now, it's over 2000 words, but this one I think deserves to be a little longer. So, I'm going to delay its release until tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience! And don't worry, it shouldn't impact the Thursday ...

Chapter 48 : The weight of words

James looked down at the spasming figure of Soluble, their translucent mass slowly getting overtaken by an inky substance emanating from their bones. They screamed, no, screeched, a high sound that resonated throughout the hall, the hallway, and even the tunnel the lair's entrance was hidden in. James didn't bother paying any more attention to them, he knew they would not be getting back up any...

Change of payment system next month

Greetings! So, not the best piece of news to share, but after hearing some advice from many of my relatives, I will soon use Patreon's "Payment on subscription" option.

Don't worry, I will wait until next month to activate it, I feel like if I activated it now I would be ripping you off. So, it won't impact current supporters but those that will come in the future.

Again, it will on...

Chapter 47 : The end of the raid

The sight of a tall and bulky man covered in what appeared to be a bronze age armor made of clay would be odd on its own but combined with a troupe of over half a dozen armed men going from a simple thug with a basic gun to a pair of men wearing bulletproof vests and holding rifles it became terrifying. And it wouldn't be good to forget the three mutants accompanying them, a small ratkin, a lar...

Chapter 46 : Things that go boom in the night

When Skuller reached the tunnel Brutus was supposed to be in, the orc did find the black wall the shark man had mentioned but no traces of the rogue thug or the rest of his team. Skuller frowned as he looked carefully at the wall, they had lost a quarter of their force because they hadn't been cautious, he wouldn't be the next.

The orc, standing head, and shoulders taller than his men too...

Chapter 45 : And let it claim you

The half a dozen thugs that had accompanied Brutus the muscled shark man biker looked all around them as they entered the strange structure. Walls of nothing but perfectly bricks of black marble, a pitch-black ceiling, and black just as perfectly cut tiles on the floor... Not a sound escaped from the confines of the place, and yet there was an eerie echo in the air, an overwhelming silence so s...

Chapter 44 : Step into the Darkness

Soluble, the humanoid mutant made of acidic grey slime within whom floated black bones, looked left and right as they descended the manhole's shaft, releasing their grip on the old rusty ladder as their leather boot-covered feet hit the ground.

"Anything down there?"

They took a few steps forward, carefully listening and watching out for any potential threats. Even without taking in...

Chapter 43 : The first Great Reunion

Larry and Barry looked nervously all around them as they entered their boss' lair. The light of their flashlight showed them nothing but walls of uniform black bricks. Not a sound was heard, only their steps on the similarly constructed ground.

"It's, uh... Unique, sir..."

"I think installing a couple of lights might be a good idea? It's pretty hard to see in there."

"Don't co...

Chapter 42 : Listening

James let himself enjoy the simple life of a puddle of tar for a while. The good news was that he hadn't fainted after infusing the phone, phone which he had quickly tested and confirmed to be functional afterward. The bad news was that he was now sporting a massive headache - or more accurately, a fate even worse considering his head was technically only fashioned to look more humanoid since h...

Chapter 41 : The power of shadows

James watched over the ratlings as they trained in the newly enhanced gym. While Sam got back to work, James had decided to enlarge the room to be closer to an actual gym's size, although a small one. It did become bigger than the war room, of course, had to make some space for all of the new equipment James had decided to install. It wasn't much, a bigger obstacle course than the old one the r...

Chapter 40!

Greetings! The first official Patreon early chapter has been published! It's already available to everyone that's at least a Super Supporter!

Thank you to those who are already patrons, really, thank you. It's nice to know people are willing to support you. I hope you'll still drop by the Royal Road chapters, both to help with the statistics and analytics and to keep on interacting with e...

Chapter 40 : Preparations

The view of a teen covered in bandages following a dark figure with some eldritch features in a building made of nothing but dark bricks, only lit up by a lantern in which burned a pure black flame, would probably confuse and unsettle most. Case in point, James had to admit that behind the Silhouette persona he felt pretty weird about the whole thing. He felt like he was abusing the kid's curre...

Greetings!

Here's a short publication to remind everyone the backlog is empty. There are no chapters to read in advance, yet. I'm working on it though!