Christopher Jackson
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The people going into the Shroudzone were naturally far more limited than those going into the Firezone itself, because we were going to be fighting undead, and Burning Undead at that. Of the Hall forces, I directed them not to penetrate the Shroudzone deeply, and to focus on encircling it and pushing any forces back from the edge that they saw, but not to risk any incorporeal or flying forces the Shroudlord sent out. We had proven that we could deal with millions of his troops and minions over the past…-
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“Ho, are we done here?” The Mick’s voice came from the neighboring room, sounding more than a little amused. I smirked despite myself, and Master Fred and I wandered down the adjacent tubeway to the seraglio. There was an enormous four-poster there, sized for a genie noble who liked to desport himself, extravagant and sumptuous like the rest of the room. It was completely out of place in a lava palace, but that was how genies rolled. The Mick was seated on a padded stool, while a crimson-skinned…
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I was in no hurry, and the servants of the Efreet were intelligent foes, having actually built up some defenses and fortifications and things to fight behind. They did not, however, reckon with the power of modern firearms, since, unlike many would think, explosive materials were not exactly common in realms of flame, for the simple reason that they blew up there! The American Army was plenty happy to bring along some howitzers and pummel a few walls and forts to dust from miles away for us, especially…
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Fireborn had moved back into the first caldera we’d cleared, but not in great numbers. It being That meant clearing it out was fairly easy, at least compared to the one we’d gotten finished with ten hours before. The landscape had a lot of stuff, but it was mostly small and weak and died in droves as we cleared the area. Being formerly Qi-dominated, control of the territory was already in flux at best, with no Elementals present to solidify anything, and being Blighted had prevented any expansion,…
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If you put in a good Review for the first two books, remember that it doesn't apply here... so, I'm asking for that Review for this story, too! If you haven't submitted a Rating or Review yet (hopefully a good one, the story is VERY reliant on 5-star Reviews due to the lower number of followers), I'm hoping you can take a minute or five to do it now. I know it's a bother, but if you aren't on Patreon, it's the best way to support an author! As I write this, I've finished Ch. 314, so there's a lot more…
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I was paying strict attention to the numbers coming out of the lava lake. The original numbers of servant creatures in the caldera were basically all dead by the end of the second hour of our assault, which surely pissed that King Firecobra off. But more Elementals were crawling continuously out of the lava pool, keeping up pressure on me as long as things were also coming from behind. Of course, things had really started slowing down from behind, which relieved pressure on We began to advance…
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The landscape was burning white around and below us, and I was sniping stuff trying to climb up to us or fall down on us as we went up the caldera. There were many, many lava tubes coming in and out of this one, and from the way various serpentine forms of Elementals were coming through it, I had a good idea of the kinds of things that might be found within. Were they a true threat? Not individually, no... but they weren’t coming individually, and their true importance was anchoring the influence of the…
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Two days passed. I was gifted with It had been a busy two days. The Firelord had noticed or been informed that someone was wiping out its troops out here, and thousands more Fireborn had marched out of the Shroudzone and the nearest volcanoes, streams of animated fire and lava and whatnot creatures. This time it was without the truly intelligent troops, who seemed to be pulling back to the volcanoes and whatever fortifications they’d made of them, leaving this to the bestial or ‘immortal’…
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Master Fred’s Vaccine beeped at him as we were Infusing. He picked up the phone and studied the message. ONE OF THE QUENCH TEAMS FOUND A HENGE SITE, BUT WERE CHASED AWAY BY DEFENDERS, he reported, and flicked up the holo of the standing Menhirs, all scorched black and partially melted in ways that weren’t exactly natural. At the center of the circle of stones was a remarkably controlled lava pool. “Well, would you look at that,” I said lazily. “Firesworn Druids serving the Firezone’s Lord.…
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The Mick was watching me carefully, given we had paused in abject slaughter of creatures of Elemental Fire raised up here by dark magic. I blinked when he reached out and pushed my jaw up. “Yer catching flies,” he advised me warily. I’M IMPRESSED. THAT MUST BE SOMETHING INCREDIBLE, Master Fred flamed over his shoulder, arms crossed and also watching me. “Bluh!” I said intelligently, trying to stop all my thoughtstreams from rampaging in crazy ecstasy at the implications of this. This, I could,…
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