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A New Star Chapter 21

I could feel it, ripping my flesh apart and tearing my body asunder. I had never felt such a thing, in either of my lives, and it. Was. Glorious.

I had spent a thousand years in battle, a thousand years as a warrior scholar, ruling an interstellar polity while growing my strength and wisdom. Growing strong enough to unite a thousand disparate species under a single banner. Growing strong enough to brutally slaughter a god.

I had never felt or done anything like this.

I guide...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Twenty-Four

Beth, Sera, and Blood all retreated to one room, Beth still feeling like she needed some rest. The dragon and the wolf would, of course, never say no to more sleep, taking either side of Beth as she slept. They were like that for a surprising amount of time, almost a third of the short trip, before Beth was awake and up again. Blood continued sleeping while Sera got up as well and sat with Beth, who was taking things out of her necklace.

"What's up?" Sera asked.

"I need new gear,"...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Twenty-Three

"Fuck," said Beth, looking at his body.

"Never gets easier, girlie," Baelvyr said, walking over and leaning down to gently close Delonne's eyes.

"You've lost people," Beth said, a question, but from his tone, she made it more a statement, understanding he certainly had.

"More than I can count," he rumbled. "Lay them to rest to bless them on their new Path, and to give a way for us to honor and remember them. Too many funerals for me to count, but we keep the traditions."

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Twenty-Two

Beth continued hammering the monster, digging her 'free' hand deeper into what was left of its armor as she obliterated its head and chest over and over. Funnily enough, while Sera's fire didn't hurt her, the other materials it heated up could slightly scald her, though it wasn't enough to really burn her. Her Mana Physique reinforced her against flame too much for anything but a truly unimaginable flame to ever burn her again, but she could feel that the superheated flesh of the creature was...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Twenty-One

Megoria wasn't there, of course, as she was very actively pursuing the monsters now, but they didn't really need to speak with her. Who did show up, however, was Baelvyr, wanting to talk to them, likely about the monsters, but possibly about the weapon they had found. Well, calling it a weapon would be…generous, and Beth wasn't sure she was feeling charitable, particularly not towards the people of Red II at the moment.

"What's up, boss?" Beth asked him when she had let him in and tak...

A New Star Chapter 20

The very first thing I thought of when walking into the room was a dragon vein. Such things were concentrations of the energy of heaven and earth, though in this new life I suppose such things would have different names and would be referred to as concentrations of mana. Getting over my surprise, which was not easy, I began to thoroughly examine the room, finding the crates, boxes, and tarps covered an elaborate array on the floor. Carefully shutting the door, which had no lock, behind me, I ...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Twenty

The tunnels themselves weren't smooth and unusual as the gash that had been carved into the surface had been, but they were a twisting warren of switchbacks, dead ends, and interconnected segments, leading up as much as down, that made navigation difficult. It wasn't helped by the fact that after the first couple hundred feet they made it in, the place was totally crawling with beasts, and not in any kind of frenzy due to the monsters, just numerous and hostile due to the influence of greater...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Nineteen

"Well, that's most of what we need," he said, gesturing for the front door.

"You don't want to stay a while? Rest for a minute?" Beth asked, glancing around the house.

"Nothing left here for me," he said, a faint note of sorrow in his voice.

"Then let's get on with it," Beth grunted, leaving the house and moving down the hill. She didn't use any skills, but even without them, she was still incredibly quick. There were times when she forgot herself and walked faster than a pr...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Eighteen

Beth and Sera had finished burning away the corpses and rot by the time Delonne was clean and joined them on the bridge, his danger senses twitching for just a second when all three glanced at him. There was a lot of power just in that one little room, far more power than he was used to being around, especially in the last couple years. He frowned a little as he took a seat to the right, sighing as he settled into one of the comfortable chairs.

"Feeling better now?" Beth asked...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Seventeen

Flying back to their…well, campsite might be an accurate description, but using a multi-mithril coin airship as their tent wasn't exactly slumming it, they decided on just a bit of rest. They likely had a day before they were given more targets, as with Baelvyr out helping, the beast population wasn't really in danger of overrunning the world anymore. Megoria was still dedicating all her energy to the monsters, or the unknown monster, leaving them at loose ends. Beth wasn't just going to no...

A New Star Chapter 19

I was still being watched from time to time, but there were long stretches where nobody bothered with me. My maids would prepare me in the morning, then I would be largely left unattended for the entire day. My parents were still searching for a tutor for me, and had interviewed a person, though I had not met them. Apparently, the first candidate had not met their standards, and I had not heard anything else about it in weeks.

This all meant that my maids, funnily enough, would be the g...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Sixteen

She was really lamenting the loss of her armor as she started on the grind, having a backup set of level two hundred armor that wasn't anywhere near as good as the epic armor that was all part of a set she had been using. She would have to try to acquire some as soon as they were done with this miserable, wet dirtball of a world, but she couldn't really do anything about that right now. She would ask the locals, but she doubted their smiths could do any better than the mismatched blues she wa...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Fifteen

Sera's story only made it about halfway before they got distracted with…other activities. Beth had to say, it was very pleasant to have Sera around during such things, especially with other women involved. Her knowledge and experience were a great to help with keeping things going and making sure everyone was fully satisfied. 

Megoria left very early in the morning, having not even really slept after they had finished their fun. As a peak Ascended, she didn't need to sleep more t...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Fourteen

She was still, surprisingly, winning, at least when it came to strength, though she was not winning overall. The monster's attacks with magic, the vines and branches and thorns, were starting to really stack up, and she had taken quite a bit of damage at this point. It had started with bruising and a few cuts, but she was now sliced up badly and had a couple cracked bones. Compared to her, the minimal damage to the monster's armor and external branches didn't look like it was slowing it down ...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Thirteen

The attack worked, though not quite in the way she had fully intended, as a massive cluster of vines exploded from the ground under her feet, Beth teleporting away at the last second. Still, it had caused whatever was in the woods to move, and she finally saw it, a being that looked like an old, scraggly bush transformed into a humanoid shape. It was coated in leaves and had twigs randomly sticking out all over its body, plus it had a series of thick vines interwoven between the 'branches' th...

A New Star Chapter 18

"The hell is this shit, Pietr?" the woman snapped. "You got kiddies running errands for ya or what?"

"I fuckin' wish," Pietr snarled back. "This little bitch thinks she's the boss."

The woman with dark black hair turned to me, showing she had a long scar from under the right side of her chin up to her right ear, giving me a once over. "She don't seem like much…"

"She's stronger than all the fuckin' dregs in either of our crews, though not the bruisers," Pietr said, slammin...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Twelve

"What's up, boss?" Beth asked him as she walked over, just having finished the last of the fire.

"I figured it'd be ya lot," he grunted, looking around. "Ya killed a lot here?"

"It was something like three million," Sera answered.

"Yeah, figured," Baelvyr grunted. "Ya gotta be careful 'bout that, but ya took care of it well enough. I gotta go report on some stuff to the brass, as they say. The three of ya should take a quick break. Get a couple hours sleep. Then I got some s...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Eleven

Beth led the way out of the camp, eager to put the place behind her, though it was really the world itself that was the problem. Damp, wet, chilly, raining, and muddy about summed it up, and that just wasn't great. There were areas that were so wet that they were just knee-deep bogs of mud and sludge. Beth was doing her best, as they approached the first group of beasts, already headed towards them, to not think at all about what they were squelching through.

That first group of beasts ...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Ten

Adannae didn't know what to make of the three standing in front of her. A strange human clearly in charge, leading a woman that had very significant draconic features, and a woman that had very obvious lupine features. Using some kind of Identify-type skill on them proved that true, as they were a human, dragon, and wolf, though they had other appellations that Adannae found interesting, and just a bit frightening, perhaps. She shook her head again and dove back into the conversation.

"...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Nine

Beth managed to keep it in her pants, or out of her pants, however the case may be, for the next two days. They arrived at the planet without any delays, thankfully, though Beth wasn't sure what could really threaten them with Baelvyr onboard. He wasn't as strong as it was possible to be, but then again, Beth had watched him walk into a person and kill them, so she was pretty sure there wasn't much out there that could challenge him. If Megoria, an Ascended, could fly around this area with li...

A New Star Chapter 17

"And, as for you," Pietr said, glaring at me.

"At least you are not pointing," I said with a sigh. 

"Why, you little-" he started, clenching his fists as he glared at me.

"Pietr-ah, it is Pietr, yes?" I said, getting a sullen nod from the man. "Pietr, I did not come here to fight."

"What the actual fuck?!" he bellowed before I could go any further. Waving furiously at the common room, he angrily asked, "What the fuck do you call this shit, then? A knitting circle?...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Eight

They spent a month like that, objective time, letting the other girls use the gate to push up towards two hundred. They would need two-twenty to do at least a Perfect Rebirth with their next rebirth, but once they got to two hundred, things would slow down a bit. The month wasn't quite long enough to really get them there, but the three were close, while the other three, that being Blood, Sera, and Beth, were also grinding some levels, but not worried about going as fast.

They were inte...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Seven

The next morning her sisters were back, having slept at their home the previous night. Beth opened the gate for them and Neph, Soph taking notes on her communicator as she very carefully observed the entire process. Beth wished she could slow it down so Soph could get more notes, but the gate only took a couple seconds to fully form and there wasn't anything she could do about that. She wasn't sure the skill could even be interrupted considering how special it seemed, let alone have her inten...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Six

"They're very lovely together," Neph said brightly.

"They're too mushy," Blood growled in complaint, turning on the wallscreen, though she had the volume quite low.

"I'd rather be mushy than sneaky," Beth fired back, getting an unintelligible growl in response.

"You want to go get cleaned up, Ser?" Beth asked, craning her neck to look back and up.

"You want to join?" Sera asked, raising her eyebrow at the choking noises from Beth's sisters.

"You're very open," Ki...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Five

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It was back to some more grinding for a couple days objective time after that, though they were focusing on helping Neph out more than anything. It was still a bit slow going for the bee through the one hundreds, and the others didn't really need levels right now for anything, so they s...

A New Star Chapter 16

I walked out of the dark, finding my nose assaulted by a rather fetid stench. It appeared a functioning sewer system was still being developed for the town, though it had already been installed in our estate. I supposed that helped further narrow down roughly where we were, technological era speaking, at that point. The rich and privileged had access to indoor plumbing and several other amenities, but such things still weren't so cheap, nor thought so necessary, that most regular people would...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Four

It was a few days of objective time, but a few weeks of subjective time for them as they leveled. Despite a bit of a slower pace, Beth and Sera and Blood had caught up with Neph and then surpassed her, though they had helped pull her level up quite a bit in the meantime. Beth left Neph with the gate, as she had done before, while the three of them went looking for training. Well, they didn't really go looking, per se, as they were just going to get some coaching from Baelvyr. 

"Wha...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Three

"Beth, are you alright?" Sera asking about her was the first thing she experienced when she came to, the Path removing its altering of space around her.

"I'm fine," Beth said with another laugh, hopping up.

Well, she tried to hop up, but even with her level set to one, the new power brought about by her Mana Physique was truly astonishing. She lifted off the ground and rocketed upward, slamming into the reinforced ceiling of the training room at an appreciable speed. Her head and ...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred Two

The three of them made their way to the empty, reinforced room that Beth was pretty sure was meant as a training room. They would all be able to do their fifth rebirths there without anyone else watching in or interfering. Beth took out the materials when they got into the room, passing the stuff Sera and Blood were missing to them. The materials had cost quite a pretty penny, almost four mithril coins to buy the bits they were missing, which definitely made Beth feel the pain, even if she st...

Limitless Path Chapter Four Hundred One

It wasn't really a problem, so she just squeezed a bit tighter and enjoyed the sensations, including several quite soft sensations pressing against her torso. It took almost an hour for the other two to stir, though Beth suspected a bit of foul play. There was no way two Ascended needed so many hours of sleep, hours and hours more than her, an Awoken. The two did stir, however, and lavished her with more attention when they awoke. Beth enjoyed a leisurely morning with them, including enj...