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Punishment reincarnation 60
60 – Threats loomingMelina kept watch over the caravan, sitting at a small fire while Lisette slept inside the tent. The air was chilly and moist, the smell of rain carried by the cold wind that had picked up half an hour ago. In the distance she sometimes saw the brief flashes of a thunderstorm, and the muffled and ...
Punishment reincarnation 59
59 – End of ObscuriaIt was only after several seconds that Ishrin finally pulled out his hand from deep within Lucius’ chest. By the time he did, the former regent of Obscuria was nothing more than a shriveled shell, a dried-out husk devoid of magic, vitality and anything that could be passed as life had long vacat...
Punishment reincarnation 58
58 – ExecutionIshrin walked a good distance away from the caravan, letting the magical and mundane lights fade in the distance until he could barely see them anymore. He had dined and chatted with the merchants, but now they were all preparing for the night, each of them in their own assigned wagons so that they coul...
Punishment reincarnation 57
57 – Smite with the power of the sunMelina scanned the horizon, her keen eyes missing nothing even as her mind wandered. Her cultivation had mostly recovered from whatever was holding her back, her constantly growing worldviews—expanded by sheer osmosis because of Ishrin’s presence alone, and even more so by his ...
Punishment reincarnation 56
56 – Immoral MerchandiseThe party spotted Taiival’s caravan as soon as they left the forest and its intrusive mist behind. Before them were the vast plains that made up this little triangle of Nocturnia of the Winds between the mountains, the forest they just emerged from, and Noctis. The caravan was made of three ...
Punishment reincarnation 55
55 – Water wispThe light drew closer. Before long, it emerged from the fog that was obscuring its features, revealing itself for what it really was. There floated a spherical blob of magic, shining bright when seen with magical vision, and weakly when seen with normal eyes. An untrained adventurer, not used to search...
Punishment reincarnation 54
54 – Back in the wildIshrin gently opened his eyes to the sound of voices. He had been busy absorbing the last of the energies from his cultivation ritual, pushing himself to the middle of Tier 3 in the process, and regaining some of his shrinking lead on Tiers that he had lost when he absorbed the energies. Even tho...
Punishment reincarnation 53
53 – Awful secretsLisette was standing stock-still, staring at Lucius who was sitting at the head of the table. Guards had rushed into the room, brought to stillness by a single hand gesture of the regent who was staring at Ishrin intently, as if Lisette was not even there at all. Another mind game was being played, ...
Punishment reincarnation 52
52 – Playing gamesLater that night, the party was summoned by a servant and told to meet the regent for dinner. Surprisingly, instead of arriving early to the room and be made to wait, they were greeted by Lucius himself right outside the room, and he personally welcomed them inside, entering last. The room was large...
Punishment Reincarnation 51
51 – The mansion“What is your name?” The scaled lizard-slash-man was at the lead, only treating Ishrin as an equal and leaving Melina and Lisette to struggle against the force of the crowd.Whether they kept up or not did not seem to matter to him, and observing his behavior had Melina wonder if perhaps Ishrin fel...
Punishment Reincarnation 50
50 – AmbushMelina’s eyes immediately darted around to scan the place as soon as the road began emptying itself of people. Five seconds ago the street was like a flood, an uncontrolled stream of people walking and shuffling, elbows and limbs moving chaotically, but in the span of what felt like five seconds the chao...
Punishment reincarnation 49
49 - ObscuriaTrue to Melina’s word, the party made good time. On the way to Obscuria, they encountered some beasts, nothing more than normal wildlife that had been touched and warped by mana and rendered feral. To anyone below Tier 1, such beasts were true monsters, dangers that were more often than not fatal. They w...
Punishment reincarnation 48
48 – New questIn all fairness, despite his pompous declarations the dwarf failed to produce much useful information, enough so that Ishrin was quick to grow restless. He was deep within enemy territory, and making small talk with a weapon seller was not the best way to pass time. The well of useful info had dried up ...
Punishment reincarnation 47
47 – Dangerous visitsLisette smiled at that. Ishrin was right to worry that she might have killed Goddard again, and she was very giddy to instead surprise him by telling him the opposite. She had realized how important the man’s redemption had been, at least to Ishrin, and thus she had adapted her behavior. Truly ...
Punishment reincarnation 46
46 – Personal growthA word of power, and the ritual came alive at once. But Melina’s attention was not on the ritual itself, even though the display was impressive, because a much more pressing issue had imposed itself at the forefront of her mind, momentarily sending her in a state of panic.Suddenly the air felt e...
Punishment reincarnation 45
45 – CultivatingMelina watched with interest as Ishrin prepared himself for yet another ritual. He was holding a small booklet in his hands, and sat cross legged at the center of a perfect circle drawn with quartz and enriched with diamonds and pearls. How he had come into possession of such things was beyond her, bu...
Punishment reincarnation 44
44 – Dynasties and dystopia“I’m going to disband the party,” Melina said.Lisette grunted. It could have been in approval, or she could have been laughing at her, but Melina felt like she could not tell anymore. She did not trust her instincts on the matter, not after what happened.“Don’t be so hasty,” Ish...
Punishment reincarnation 43
43 – Hope and conflictLisette limped ahead, pale as snow, holding herself up with her two blades sliding on the ground. The sound they made when they grated against the stone floor was unbearable but Melina, behind her, paid it no mind. She dragged the stretcher as she moved like a mindless zombie, eyes staring ahead...
Punishment reincarnation 42
42 – I blame you“Let’s go.” Said Lisette.She threw the creature core, a Tier 6 blue one she just extracted from the carcass of the slain monster, at Melina. Judging by her tattered armor and appearance, one could think that the fight had been hard, and that Lisette had only managed to come out victorious thanks...
Punishment reincarnation 41
41 – DamageAn explosion rocked the cavern. He saw, right before the currents of space and time sucked it all away, the far end of the room explode as the excess power was routed through broken circuits, devoured by the collapsing of the realm because he waited too long. He tried to scream, to warn Lisette not to use ...
Punishment reincarnation 40
40 – Ritual setupIshrin was the one to stay behind, to prepare the room for the ritual. As he drew lines on the floor and on the walls all the way up to the ceiling, the girls went out hunting. Liù also joined them, to provide some extra firepower to the team. They were going to need at least three cores, Ishrin tol...
Punishment reincarnation 39
39 – Dangerous planA small very unstable portal opened at the base of the mountain. From it, three shapes emerged, accompanied by another smaller shape that flew in the air above the three. Ishrin was the last of the three to appear, and immediately rushed to the portal behind him to close it, as if in a hurry. And i...
Punishment reincarnation 38
38 – Actionable planMelina surveyed the room but was still within earshot of the other two as they cast the modified spell together. It was not lost on her that both Ishrin and Lisette had performed sophisticated math calculations in their heads in a matter of seconds. She tried to do the same math herself, but the n...
Punishment reincarnation 37
37 – A crazy planMelina pulled on the metal handle of the door. A hiss, the rush of air, then the heavy slab of metal slowly began to move. Beyond the threshold they could see the deep light of something, blue like the rest of the energies of the mountain, cast a long shadow. A shadow in which they could also see ano...
Punishment reincarnation 36
36 – Emotional tensionThe party stared at the two identical holes in the wall. They all led to a dark tunnel, devoid of ice, that went up an almost identical slope. There were few differences in the rock, but none that would indicate that one path led them to the center of the mountain.“Which one?” Ishrin asked....
Punishment reincarnation 35
35 – Powerup“What do you mean maybe?” Lisette’s stare was unbearable. Usually, it wouldn’t have been. Ishrin had been able to stand defiant even when faced with the god of multiverse himself, and yet he found himself faltering.The more he looked into her eyes, the more he found himself thinking about the word...
Punishment reincarnation 34
34 – A dark shapeThe dark figure didn’t move. Its rags undulated in the frigid wind of the cavern, which seemed to originate from nowhere at all, lit by a scant light that seemingly vanished upon touching the black cloth that covered the figure.“You are back…” the words echoed from a remote corner of the icy ...
Punishment reincarnation 33
33 – FightsThe door opened with a hiss, revealing another long tunnel of ice. However, the deeper they ventured inside the impossible mountain, the more the technological aspects of its making became harder to spot. They were more sophisticated, less damaged, and more integrated with the structure of the rock until t...
Punishment reincarnation 32
32 – Old friend MekanoMelina sat and watched as Ishrin and Lisette assembled something on the ground. It didn’t look like a ritual to her, but then again Ishrin’s rituals rarely did look like normal rituals.They made a great ring of black stone, taller than a person, with small little crystals inscribed with glyp...
Punishment Reincarnation 31
(Changed title to reflect the new RR title)31 – Locked doorMelina got up and walked over to where Lisette was currently stretching and flexing her body. She had cleaned herself after learning Ishrin’s spell, or else the foxgirl would have never approached her. The spell had worked quite well, removing all the gunk ...
