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Chapter 764: Boom
🕑 Added 2024-01-18 21:06:45 +0000 UTCDisappointed.
Alex had to admit, he was disappointed.
For days, he’d been looking forward to one particular moment: the moment he would watch Gabrian’s shocked face change. He’d played that image over and over in his mind, imagining it time and time again. He could see it in detail; the look on the First Apostle’s stunned face as he watched him spellcasting, watched him pick up a weapon, easily using it, using it specifically on him. For weeks he’d fantasised about how the man’s face would be, how his expression would shift, how it would turn from utter confidence and resolve, to shock and horror. Alex wanted to see that, to savour it, but he’d been denied. Except for his eyes peering through the visor, the man’s face was completely hidden by his helmet.
The young wizard would've loved to relish Gabrian’s horrified expression, remembering it from this moment to his dying breath, even if he lived for ten thousand years. Since he couldn’t have that moment to treasure though, he’d take what he could get; the First Apostle realising he was no longer the Fool, his screams of fear and pain, the look of shock as his eyes widened behind that visor.
Oh, and the satisfaction of taking his arm, again.
‘That was pretty good,’ he decided.
He would've loved to have done more to him, like some of the things he’d done to Theresa, Brutus, Bjorgrund and him, but he knew his enemy’s will was strong, and that allowing him even the slightest time to recover would be a mistake. He wasn’t done with him yet though, not by a longshot.
With a twitch of an eyebrow, he began speaking the words of a sixth-tier spell. Energies gathered around his sword-staff, instantly pouring from the tip of its blade.
Disintegration magic arced toward the First Apostle’s breastplate, it struck the servant of Uldar, attacking him, seeking to split the screaming priest in two. His will, abundant life-force, and divine protections warred with the General of Thameland’s spell.
Fighting to stop it from doing its worst, but failing. Armour cracked, the energies within it exploded, searing light engulfed him.
The First Apostle—his skin raw and smouldering—sailed across the room, striking a wall with a wet crunch.
His body sprayed red, covering the tattered remnants of his armour and clothing as he dropped to the floor.
His followers screamed.
“It cannot be!” one cried.
“Impossible!” another shrieked.
“The Fool cannot…he cannot…” another stammered as flames licked the golden barrier surrounding the holy warriors.
“Uldar’s beard!” the Third Apostle swore. It was in his face that Alex finally got what he wanted.
The old man was watching him as though he were a demon crawling from the hells. His complexion looked green, he seemed breaths from either fainting, or soiling himself.
But, Alex had more to do, he couldn’t just stand there basking in their shock: every moment counted.
Channelling mana into his staff, he conjured dozens of forceballs, surrounding himself with the glowing orbs. Meanwhile, he cast a spell, launching a fireball across the room, it flew straight for the injured First Apostle.
An alert foe reacted, sweeping the storm of shrapnel around the holy leader, forming a solid shield that saved him. The fireball struck then ruptured, erupting in an inferno that blasted the ancient Chosen in waves of heat.
“Well, well, will ya look at that? Don't you have quite the bite for a supposed Fool!” the Guide shouted from atop the back of his mount. “That was a surprise! I see I wasn’t wrong about you giving us a great hunt—Argh!”
Alex cut him off, sweeping his sword-staff down, conjuring Wizard’s Hands to surround the fae. Their attack was vicious, pulling skin, yanking his beard, shoving glowing fingers in his mouth, poking at his eyes.
The fae slapped at them as though he was fighting off wasps.
With a twitch of a brow and a single syllable, Alex cast a fireball at him. The fae’s moose bellowed, tensing to spring away as the ball of flame hit the wall behind them. It ruptured. Beast and master shrieked, singed by the heat.
“I'm not interested in your stupid prattling, Guide,” Alex said, watching the beams ebb in the goddesses’ fire-gems. They would need time to recharge, and the church was already seething, readying themselves to attack. “You like to laugh, it seems? Do you want to have some more fun? Try this.” Alex said to the Stalker.
Drawing on Hannah's power, he opened a dozen portals throughout the chamber, leading to different areas of the sanctum.
“Hah!” The fae burst into laughter, ripping Alex's Wizard’s Hands apart with a wave of his hand. “Your wee elemental friends aren't going to—By the fae lords!”
Alex’s army came through the portals.
These were not the lower level summoned monsters he'd been using to harass the church earlier; those entities had been the spirits he’d first learned to conjure when he was the Fool, well before he’d erased that Mark.
They'd been the perfect distraction, a key part of the strategy to lure these hunters where he and the giants wanted them to be.
The creatures now emerging from the portals were Alex’s true army.
Scores of sixth-tier celestial dire tigers.
Elder air elementals floated from portals like storm clouds, their lightning growling within them. Elder earth elementals floated from the stone beneath where the hidden church’s warriors were standing, rising like mountains from below. Elder fire elementals—living infernos—crackled, entering the chamber, each of them a blaze of heat and blinding light. Elder water elementals rushed forward like the oncoming tide of an angry sea. Elder ice elementals, much like walking glaciers, followed, air crackling around them as they moved through the portal.
Each was a powerful, ancient spirit, representing one of the great elements.
They waited in imposing numbers.
The hidden church members had fallen into stunned silence, while even the Stalker could only gape.
But, the army was still not complete.
Its greatest members were only now joining the rest, taking up their positions.
The sound of a choir swelled, filling the chamber as several portals glowed with holy light. Winged forms floated from them, their beauty and song announcing astral engelis. The eyes ringing their halos burned, fixing upon Alex’s enemies, and in their hands, swords, warhammers, and spears, blazed. Their weapons were bathed in flickering, holy flame; its light dancing in their eyes as they looked down on the hidden church with disdain and pity.
Through another portal came Bjorgrund, his rune blazing through his breastplate. The giant glared at their enemies.
The hidden church’s reactions were mixed.
Some members had turned pale, eyes lifting to the ceiling as prayers tumbled from trembling lips.
Others looked on the summons with hardened eyes, clenching their weapons, ready to fight. While some looked to the Third Apostle for direction.
Another portal opened, this one much larger than the rest.
Through it walked Asmaldestre the Unmaker.
Alex’s champion.
The war-spirit’s claws dug into stone, her blade of energy burned at the tip of her tail. Blades plaited into her hair scraped each other with every movement she made.
But, it was the weapons in four of her six hands that drew the offended eyes of Uldar’s followers.
“Blasphemy!” the Third Apostle recoiled. “More of Uldar’s holy-weapons! How did you get them? What is this foul creature that you allow to defile them?”
In a liquid movement and without a single word, Asmaldestre the Unmaker raised a weapon, one resembling Toraka Shale’s prototype.
Before Izas even finished his sentence, she pulled the trigger.
A sound like the crack of a whip exploded through the air.
Light flashed.
A section of wall on the opposite end of the chamber—on the other side of the church warriors—exploded. Dust clouds erupted, spouting rock into the air, high above a cavernous tunnel extending through the wall leading to the next room.
The shield of golden light surrounding the Third Apostle’s followers, protecting them, abruptly vanished.
Holy warriors, in front of and behind the old priest, looked down.
Limbs were gone, holes the size of a man’s head gaped in torsos. Uldar’s followers stared at their fellows, right before they crumpled to the ground.
The Third Apostle stared too, seemingly unable to move.
The Stalker gaped at war-spirit’s weapon.
Behind him, the stone shield he’d covered Gabrian with, fell away, revealing the partly stripped body of the First Apostle. Some of his wounds were healed, his skin had renewed—for the better part—but his shield arm was still gone, tattered cloth was all that remained.
Uldar’s ancient Hero’s eyes were unblinking beneath the glowing symbol of the scales on his forehead.
Suddenly, a strangled sound escaped him, seeming to come from deep within his soul.
“Izas!” he moaned, his voice breaking at the gaping hole in the Third Apostle’s trunk...what was left of the Third Apostle’s trunk.
The weapon had sheared him nearly in two, leaving his white clothing and silver armour drenched in red. He coughed, choking up blood, yet his head turned, seeking the eyes of his leader.
“Save them…” he gurgled. “Run—”
Alex was beside him.
Few noticed the General of Thameland teleporting to the Third Apostle.
But, all noticed the General of Thameland slide his sword-staff into what was left of the priest’s chest. Alex looked up, holding the First Apostle’s eyes as he uttered the words of his spell.
Power flared.
Mana flowed.
A disintegration spell poured down the blade.
The Third Apostle’s strength was failing, Alex had no need to be either quick or kind, so he gave Izas the time he’d given Theresa; slowly disintegrating the secret church’s second in command, bit by bit.
He started on his skin, working his way in from there, controlling the spell’s destructive power.
Holy warriors wailed, crying out, pleading for the Fool to stop, as the Third Apostle—the second most powerful man in all of their church—was reduced, peeled away like an anatomical specimen in a Generasian blood magic lab.
In heartbeats, Izas was dust, gone.
Alex teleported high above, glaring down with disgust. “Before you get any ideas about surrendering, forget it. You don’t deserve mercy, you never gave anyone else any. You took my friend, Carey, you’re the ones who drove her to her death. She should be here, living her life, being with friends and her parents. She got no mercy from you monsters, so you won’t be getting any from me. Maybe, if I believed that you were misguided, things might be different.” His jaw hardened. “But I know that’s not true. You're all so sure of yourselves that you'll never stop. Everyone last one of you believes that you have some secret mission, that it gives you the right to do whatever you want to people, as long as it serves some silent god of yours. And oh, by the way, I can guarantee you one thing: he doesn’t begin to care even in the slightest about any of you, or the suffering you're inflicting on others.”
The young wizard paused for a moment, considering his next words carefully.
Then he made his decision.
None of them were leaving here alive, and—after what they’d done to him, and his loved ones—he wanted to shake their world.
He had one more thing for them before he unleashed his army’s full wrath.
“While you're standing there, gaping slack-jawed that your friend’s dead, I have a little something to tell you,” he growled. “Do you know why I’m so sure that Uldar doesn't even begin to care about you, or what you do? It’s because he's dead.” He paused, watching them. “That’s right, dead. I've actually seen his withered corpse sprawled out on his throne, and you know what? It looks the same as any other dead body. You've been killing people for a corpse!”
Gasps swept through the hidden church members.
Horrified eyes fell on Udar’s armour that the giant was wearing, and then on the weapons he and the spirit were holding.
Warriors shook their heads in disbelief.
Others screamed words of denial, shouting insults at the Fool.
For some, though?
He could see despair and understanding creep across their faces. At last, they understood how he could have taken weapons wielded by their god and not suffered his punishment.
“It makes sense…” a holy warrior sank to her knees… “His silence…the unpunished blasphemy…” she murmured.
“Hold yourselves strong! Hold onto your faith, children of Uldar!” the First Apostle limped away from the wall. Nearby, the Stalker’s eyes were darting back-and-forth, all signs of his earlier amusement gone.
The First Apostle glared at Alex with pure hatred. “You killed Izas, you killed my dearest friend in this world, you self-righteous hypocrite! Uldar will see you struck down!”
Alex laughed then, a cold sound. “There's definitely a self-righteous hypocrite here, and it isn’t me. And do me a favour, stop threatening me with a corpse, because that's one difference between you and me. I pray to a goddess who actually gives a shit about people, you stammer out phrases to a piece of carrion.”
He looked around at the First Apostle’s followers. “Looks like I gave some of you something to think about, and that's good enough for me. As for the rest of you? It's fine if you don't believe me. You will when you get to the after-world. How’s about I give you a headstart with getting to his side?”
The General pointed his sword-staff at his enemies.
Then he spoke two words in different elemental tongues.
“Kill them.”
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Author's Note
Hello forty-three cool fools, almighty chosen, wise sages, and mighty champions! Thank you for your support!
And so Izas dies and the battle truly begins, with Alex breaking the spirit before the body.
It was kinda cathartic to write too.
Comments
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Daniele Di Vitto
I hate isekai stories where someone from our world facerolls a fantasy world by recreating our technology. But i hate even more when tha isekai element is just a lazy plot device used to avoid creating a backstory, condone infodumps and as a license to drop fucking pop culture references. This was my first month as a supporter and thanks to the "we are the champions" song it will also be the last.
Daniele Di Vitto
I was trying to remember how to write the name and Alabama was one of the three suggestions from the android keyboard. I found it funny so I went for it. :D
Alex L
He should have killed the stalker here instead of toying with him. What is his ally doing? This is not how you effectively violence!
Erik Borgstrom
Alabama the Unmaker is amazing. It makes me want a Zombieland movie with a different surviver who goes by that name.
BoxQueen
Ah, this is refreshing. I waited for this moment when Carry died. And while I also agree that I wish to see the First's expression when Alex did his reveal, the death of his companion is good enough. And Alex dumping 'your God is dead' fact is just a nice topping on their piling misery.
ItWasIDIO!!
Escape clause denied but the stalker now has vital info to make the equation of 2+2 let's see if he makes it out to do it
Randall Jones
Honestly hoping Alex takes the first to see the dead body of Uldar then kills him. "Your whole life's purpose was a lie. Goodbye."
Obi-Wan-Sage
Everything here was EPIC!!!.....Except for one thing......you had to deny alex the 1st apostle's face?!?!?!? WHY? That douchebag has a helmet? for what? The guy cocky as hell....why wear a helmet?
lenkite
Fae guy is gonna escape and run back to his Fae Lord and say: Confirmed! There is Divinity for the free taking!. Alex could possibly regret revealing all this. IMHO, its best to silently remove the trash without needing to educate them.
Gareth S
Exterminating monsters that have hunted him, killed his friends and potentially screwed an entire country over … if he kept them alive like the guide did and tortured them - sure I’d agree, if he just blew the whole lot up in one paragraph we’d all be mega pissed off….
Gareth S
Exactly what Daniele said!!! Alternate planets and planes, love it 100% agree… making earth one of those and having stupid “gods must be crazy” style references to technology = childish and lazy. With the exception of beware of the chicken I’ve hated it in every book that has it and have quit reading books like the wandering inn because of it. It’s a stupid trope, you can easily build a fantasy world without it. I seriously don’t need another “what would a fantasy character think of our world/technology” deep dive, it’s boring and dumb.
Daniele Di Vitto
I hope the 1st will be able to put up a fight. So far the summoning of Alabama the unmaker is complete overkill.
Daniele Di Vitto
But did the traveller have to come from earth? It doesn't matter that it's an alternative version of earth wito powers and so on. Up until that point this story was in a self-contained universe and any reminder that the real world exists ruins the immersion for me.
mant06
Izas was bisected (almost) with a plasma gun and finished with a gauss glaive(over a couple of seconds). I am suprised he could feel anything after the first hit.
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Shock and awe is fine initially but wears off quickly. Ask the people who lived in London during the constant bombing campaigns Nazi Germany inflicted. If kept up, the shock wears off, the awe becomes anger and you have a more determined enemy on your hands. Furthermore, purposefully cruel deaths are decidedly sound when performed as a reprisal. Specifically, reprisals are basically lawful acts that would, in most circumstances, be war crimes but are not because they are done in order to force an enemy to stop its own commission of war crimes.
deus vault
"hahah! if you don't surrender we will kill your entire family. hahaha!" said the first apostle to alex - with a jolly tone. -famous last words.
Steven Lamb
Well that chapter got dark 🤣
Kettle
I mean, not too long ago Alex was killing a whole bunch of demons. And those guys were not that different from the church. So why were you okay with Alex participating in murdering a city full of people but not setting a trap for an army out to kill him?
Bender
What you sow, so you reap!
Tijay Arnie
Wasn't that tied to Izas?
Tijay Arnie
This is also an entirely more martial led world, than our own. Alex may have more "modern" sensibilities, but his hero is Baelin, who is the epitome of these sorts of actions. Speaking of Baelin is going to be so proud of Alex when he gets back, haha
Jay Allen
Idk how, but I think we'll get just a bit more of him in this last book, my reason being the setup between him and aenflynn working out that deal to kill merzhin.
George R
Wonderful chapter
BelligerentGnu
Nah, that's a wild exaggeration. This is Alex after months of being hunted and years of watching the shadows. It's a moment of peak emotion. As for that 'worse than his enemies bit' don't you go Batman fallacy-ing this. The secret church has worked to maintain the Ravener cycles for millenia. For that matter, just recently that aided in torturing the Red Mice to death. There's no equivalence.
trufflezz
Hey he might live for 2 more chapters but you're right, he will kinda be done soon
Benjamin Mages
That's a false dichotomy to say there's no difference between them and him if he kills them slowly. Hell they aren't even trying to kill him slowly, that is 100% not what makes them evil. What makes them evil is them hunting him down for the crime of not being their god's plaything and threatening his loved ones and nearly murdering his companions because they were around him.
Toby Lechtenbeger
Well I'm not denying that, just feel like the guide is gonna die next chapter
trufflezz
Honestly I don't think we have seen him try really, dude was walked through a maze of traps to put Alex in a Strong position, annnnd Alex just powered up like a lot, maybe too quickly. Like the dude went from a strong Mage that blood magiced his body to the top to a full on one man Archmage + Army + Glave? (Not sure what we are calling his staff plus sword combo) maybe not master but very proficient
Duncan
While I don’t agree with everything the original poster said Alex’s reveling in the suffering of others is disturbing. Human… but disturbing. Militaries have Rules of engagement for a reason. It’s easy to get lost in a never ending cycle of repaying what was done to you. The ideal here would be a character that maintains the moral high ground. That’s not realistic at all but it lets us digest our violence in a nice neat and easy way. For me it depends on if his reveling is condoned and continued in the narrative or not to whether this is “good” writing or not. As a veteran I kind of prefer sanitized violence just because I don’t like the feelings it drudges up. But I think the authors choice is more realistic and true to the human psyche. I would personally prefer that kind of realism in a book with a different tone. Ultimately it’s good writing because it makes you feel something.
Reds
Previous chapter (or one before) noted that they had a divinity spell (Recall, I think) that would teleport them back to Thameland
Reds
I would be disappointed if this doesn't happen! Plus the Reaver needs to find out that Uldar is dead and who else would be perfect to tell it but Gabrian?
Toby Lechtenbeger
The fae guy feels a bit underwhelming for all the hype we've had with him. He feels weaker then the greater demon girl thing
Stephen
Why should Alex go easy on them when they have been hunting him endlessly and threatened his family again after nearly killing them? I guess this is a fuck around and find out situation and clearly they are finding out the hard way.
Christopher Mackey
Welp, Third Apostle dead and the First severely injured. The wild card in this situation is the Stalker. I think he's gonna somehow get the First Apostle out and die. Leaving the First Apostle to tell the Fae Lord what happened.
Kenneth
YES! They are so frustrating! But I love hating them.
IFL
Where will they run to or how would they escape? I don't think jumping into one of the random portals would help.
Scott Emery
Alex is a really great guy until he gets a little power, then he turns into an unforgiving cruelty machine that is possibly worse than the enemies he is fighting. I don't think you a real person can act that way and not have it effect them at a core level. Bye bye Alex that I actually liked.
Gessen
These cliff hangers bro! I keep wanting to get to the conclusion, as cool as the fighting is, where they're all slaughtered so I know it's safe for our heroes. There's still room for an upset T_T.
Alec Loases
Absolutely fucking beautiful.
Daf High-Voltage
He definitely would. Alex is acting like a proper wizard here!
Sanctum
Really great chapter! Thanks!
Lola
I’m fine if the first apostle escapes; he’ll just find Uldar’s corpse and suffer blue screen of death. But I will be so upset if that damn fae makes it out of this alive. He’s everything I dislike about Fae characters, causing problems for people on a lark. Here’s hoping he dies within the next 2 chapters!
Owen Kaz
They really aren't? It has been established that both other worlds and other planes exist. It has also been explained that Hannah's power allowed her to jump worlds. Which also fits with Alex eventually gaining the ability to do so himself through her power and eventually his own power.
I agree. The fae lords are likely the real BBEG and he is one of their leitenents
Lola
I’m hoping that the hidden church is too maddened by the death of the 3rd Apostle to even think of running. As for that Fae, I want him dead more than any of the others: he’s the reason the church had such dangerous mobility and he is allied with that Fae lord. I think the Stalker would have trouble leaving based on what he said about the fairy paths. But, I agree with you, someone is bound to escape given the set up of the story.
FeyOne
So many great parts of this chapter, but this one from the Stalker, “‘Hah!’ The fae burst into laughter, ripping Alex's Wizard’s Hands apart with a wave of his hand. ‘Your wee elemental friends aren't going to—By the fae lords!’”, was my favourite. Finally seeing the smug, self-satisfied, patronising, sack of trash snap from arrogantly self-assured to, “oh shit! I’m in trouble!”, so fast he probably gave himself whiplash was one of the most satisfying parts of a chapter full of satisfaction. :)
Extrobuartem Buttpanzy
“What’s the matter, First Apostle? Did someone kill your friend?”
Jonathan Crandall
Hahahahahaha this is fucking awesome!
Jordan Jones
Agreed, purposely cruel deaths are unsavory, and not tactically sound. Shock and awe is better morally and is more effective at breaking morale. This is just fodder for “justified” vengeance.
Jordan Jones
If they don’t all die, everyone’s still in grave danger, and they have to all try to live normal lives looking over their shoulder, and jumping at shadows. An outcome I very much do not want. However, the way this has gone I will be truly shocked if Alex gets a clean sweep. At least one of either the Guide or First Apostle will live/escape. Probably both, but the Guide’s going to tell that Fae Lord Uldar’s fate, and I'm guessing tipping over that domino is what sets us up for the endgame.
Uroš
I hear that the realm of the dead is pretty far away. He can go reside there.
Joshua Ross
I mean this in the nicest way. If I could pleasure myself to this chapter I would
TwoMoreYears
I wonder what effect that will have. We know he’s run before but it was also from a faerie king which is likely acceptable. Names have power for someone like him and for someone so tied to the idea of being the hunter and stalker to flee from someone he has identified as prey would likely have a profound negative impact. I don’t actually know enough detail about that kind of magic in this world but it would be appropriate for sure. I imagine if he runs, Alex is likely to get added to that list of beings he stays far away from.
Fleetpanda
I have a feeling Gabrian will escape. Him breaking into uldar’s sanctum, seeing the corpse, and going fully unhinged seems like a possibility
Gareth S
God no - I hate the whole “phone” and real world references… they are really jarring and annoying
Logan
I think your right. and Alex, Asmaldestre and Co. will follow right into that Fay Lords court and kill him too
Sam
Damn Alex was cold blooded in this chapter. I am sure Baelin would approve.
stardast24
It's the killing Izas slowly is what my saying is bloodthirsty. I get the want to kill them. Do it cleanly or there is no difference between want their are doing and him killing them
Aldrin
I don't think it was. Alex was hunted like a dog for months before this moment. That's not even mentioning them killing his friend and threatening everything he holds dear. So, I disagree with that statement Alex will have to deal with his emotions after the fact. But in this moment I cannot blame him in the slightest for his actions.
Stephen
Yesss! I needed this. It’s so good.
Raivshard
I dressed up as him one Halloween. Stayed in character all night, voice and all. Freaked out lots of people. 😁 Great fun.
Al
Yeaaah, Alex fell into Wizard monologue mode.
Kass
Bloodthirsty is me wanting all the rest of them to die in the very next chapter.
stardast24
This was too bloodthirsty.
Uroš
I hope the Stalker dies last, dying a slow and very painful death.
Clark Price
Also I wonder if J.M. played Grandia 2, hahaha
Clark Price
Lolol and that's that on that! Been waiting for thisssss
Uroš
I hope every last one of them dies here and we won't have some "redemption" arc or worse, a reverse chase where the fool tries to track the Guide or the first apostole.
xxmaniaxx2019
Do you really think Asmaldestre the Unmaker will simply let him leave?
Mitchell Calhoun
That was so goddamn satisfying
Thank you for the chapter
xxmaniaxx2019
That's some brutal retribution there. I see that Alex finally embraced the dark side of the force.
noddy
Well damn......
Aldrin
I have a feeling the stalker will escape somehow. I feel it in my bones.
Kass
Great scene, but I was hoping the battle would all happen to a soundtrack from Hannah’s iPhone.
M van Dongen
Ahem. MOAR!
Jacob Oswalt
Fuck yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
FINALLY!!! GET EM!!! 🥳🥳🥳
GuyWhoReadsALot
I got strong Rorshach vibes... I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me!
M van Dongen
I think Baelin is secretly watching how his pupil is solving this problem. Proper Wizard and all that.
Duncan
This was a little more “bathe in the blood of my enemies” than I’m comfortable with but overall the comeuppance is satisfying.
Stephan Brown
This was satisfying.
mhaj58
Best chapter yet. My hands are shivering
Code Reed
Alex definitely needed that catharsis.
Owen Kaz
Alex is revelling in this. Too bad he never figured out the recording function on the phone, this would have been a good one for the fam
Hunter Garcia
The amount of cliff hangers you have been hitting us with lately is both exciting and infuriating.
Tyftc
