Lester Yong & Rosa Fontelera-Yong

CoESC Book 16-9.2: Unfettered Whims

“I wonder what we’ll find out today, hmm?” the young man in the oversized lab coat said to himself while he used his Alteration to look into his patient’s secrets. “Ah, a normie, aren’t we? No matter, we’ll have you evolved and powerful soon enough. Shed your frailty and better yourself. That should be the goal of every human being, hie hie hie!”

His giggles were high pitched and echoed oddly in the chamber. The cacophony...

CoESC Book 16-9.1: Unfettered Whims

The planned departure to return to Neo Prism City and Trinity University was at four o’clock in the afternoon. At the moment, it was just past noon, and Yuriko thought of hiking out of the valley and taking a closer look at the mountain range. Cresna Mountains was roughly fifty longstrides south of Neo Prism’s state line. Three states surrounded the mountain range as it stretched from northwest to southeast, almost all the way to the coast...

CoESC Book 16-8.3: Undercurrents

The bus left early in the morning though the trip was only supposed to take about three hours or so. It would have been less, but about halfway to the camp, the road went through several hills and mountainsides. Yuriko sat on the window side while Scarlett was on the aisle side seat. Her smol friend had accompanied her, despite not being part of the fencing club, and despite the captain protesting her presence. 

“Lilibeth is rathe...

CoESC Book 16-8.2: Undercurrents

Heron grunted as Yuriko’s thighs, wrapped around his waist and hips, tightened with crushing force. Her pleased moans had heightened to a glad cry as he brought her crashing from the peak of pleasure. The melody made him shiver as he neared his own peak, though at the moment, he was more focused on not getting his hip bones pulverised.

Anima condensed in and around his loins, reinforcing his resilience and he endured gladly. She was so...

CoESC Book 16-8.1: Undercurrents

Yuriko gently intercepted the sabre aimed at her wrist with her own blade. A simple twist, and the opposing blade’s alignment was off; another twist, and she sent her own towards her opponent’s head. Kyra Hays, captain of the fencing club, managed to duck under the attack and riposte at the same time, aiming at Yuriko’s side. 

She leaned back slightly enough for the sabre to whiff past, and at the same time, she sent her own b...

CoESC Book 16-7.3: Something Comes Knocking

John Smith grunted as he bottomed out. He was balls deep into the Vice Mayor’s trophy wife and he couldn’t help but show his manic grin, though in the darkness of the bedroom, he doubted the young woman noticed. Instead, she was too busy yelling his name.

“Oh, Walt, you got so much better! Don’t stop!”

Well, the Vice Mayor’s name anyway, heh. 

He pounded her for a good half hour, with the woman screaming in p...

CoESC Book 16-7.2: Something Comes Knocking

To Desire’s senses, her master was equally distant no matter which hidden road she took. She’d delved deep into the Chaos Sea and followed her instincts to enter a Fysalli that lit up just right to her senses. 

The bubble of reality was shaped to her Will and it opened up into a valley covered with farmland. As she walked the dirt road, familiar homesteads dotted the land. Memories that should have been scrubbed, should have bee...

CoESC Book 16-7.1: Something Comes Knocking

“We got her,” Wyllan murmured, though his tone was a bit tentative.

The combination attack went off flawlessly, and there was no angle of escape that Lady Yuriko could take. Ember Cloud, Molten Arrows, Seer Bullets, and Mountain Cleaving Blade. Each one was a finishing blow that the Circle used to win tournaments back during the Convocation, and while they didn’t win the bracket they’d been in, they still placed well on the lists...

CoESC Book 16-6.3: Rumble

Even before the flames of the explosion resided, Anya slashed twice in quick succession, left and right. Yuriko parried both strikes easily even while her vision was covered by smoke and flame. Another bullet flew towards her head and she ducked down, avoiding it rather than deflecting. 

Her Anima was unscathed and not even a hint of a fissure appeared as a result of Zanji’s exploding bullet. Getting hit repeatedly would be annoyi...

CoESC Book 16-6.2: Rumble

“Oh, wait! You’re Lilibeth Lawson! The Mira-hi girl!” Lance Hiller said, smacking his fist on his palm. “You’re auditioning for The Last Warrior?”

Yuriko nodded absently while her Anima perception spread out to cover them. The man Lance was speaking with looked awestruck at her, and his eyes were practically stripping her clothes off. Not that she could blame him for the impulse considering she was dressed rather provocativel...

CoESC Book 16-6.1: Rumble

“Don’t let me stop your game,” the golden goddess said.

Wyllan swallowed convulsively and instinctively ran anti-mental influence techniques on himself. When encountering divine beings, that was just the standard operating procedure. 

He condensed his Anima within himself, as close to the core of his being as possible without actually touching it. Igniting the core was just a fancy sentence for suicide after all. He comp...

CoESC Book 16-5.3: Ancient's Battle

“What do you think?” Wyllan asked Alyssa. The four of them had moved back when Glenn created his earthen pillar field. 

“He’s just playing,” Alyssa spat. “This is boring. That other Ancient, Heron, is obviously a kid. Someone who lucked out? Did he and that other Ancient, Gwendith, discover the Ancient’s Way on their own, or were they guided to it?”

Their voices were contained within their helm. They knew very ...

CoESC Book 16-5.2: Ancient's Battle

Heron felt his condensed aura cave in as he was struck at the side by an earthen construct. His aura, something he’d been incredibly proud of, was barely enough to keep the attack from actually reaching his flesh. Even so, the kinetic shock bypassed some of his armour and he felt as if Yuriko had kicked his side. Not a serious kick, otherwise she would have probably cut him in half. Her strength had grown to a frightening degree considering ...

CoESC Book 16-5.1: Ancient's Battle

“Lily, you alright?”

Scarlett’s voice jolted Yuriko out of her daze. She shook her head and chuckled. What was she being distracted for? Her true body was the stronger one by a huge margin, and she need not worry. It was just a waste of time, and did little other than prolong the agony. Her incarnation body only had ten strands of consciousness, and while her true body had the remaining ninety-eight, two more than when they origina...

CoESC Book 16-4.3: Skyfall

The Illustrious hung in orbit, ten longstrides from the resource planet’s Veil. Normally, anyone looking from the outside inwards, or the reverse, would be hampered by that barrier. In normal sight, the planet was nothing more than a blue-green marble floating in the darkness of the Void Ocean. However, the colour one could perceive from the Void indicated what kind of planet or plane was hidden within. Blue-green meant water and wood. ...

CoESC Book 16-4.2: Skyfall

The ocean waves bobbed Yuriko up and down white she languidly took in the rays of the sun. From where she floated, she couldn’t see any hint of land, and from another point of view, she was in between the sea and sky, illuminated by golden rays that came both from above and from within. Meditation while floating in the ocean was rather pleasant, and clad as she was with nothing but the wind and water, she could spend hours in a trance. ...

CoESC Book 16-4.1: Skyfall

It took another week before the audition for the new movie was scheduled. On the 21st Day of Air, 21 Low Air in the local calendar, Yuriko and Scarlett drove towards the venue, which was in the city over the state border, in a city in the State of Hundred Hills, unimaginably named Hillsfield. It was a couple of longstrides southwest of Neo Prism City as the crow flies, but about fifty percent longer by car. It was only a couple of hours' drive...

Health Updates

The good news is we're both doing better but the bad news is that neither of us has fully recovered yet.

We're working on getting back on track with the posting schedule but meantime, we need to spread them out a bit.

We've opened up the community chat here on Patreon but are looking to revive activity over at Discord for those who are more comfortable with Discord. I do miss the chatter there and enjoy reading everyone's thoughts ...

CoESC Book 16-3.3: Back to School

The loud, rhythmic music drowned out the moans and yells that came out of half the rooms. Only a few of them actually had closed doors, but everyone was too into their drunken festivities to mind. In fact, some even wanted others to watch, to heighten the pleasure.

Evan Andrews sat on a barstool, chugging down porter while glaring at his phone. It was his third mug of the evening, though he’d partaken of other liquor earlier. He was we...

CoESC Book 16-3.2: Back to School

To Yuriko’s eyes, the duelists were painfully slow, and after a few moments, it was clear that they weren’t really fighting, but doing a choreographed play. They were good at that, though. Both swordsmen were clad in protective gear—some kind of padded jacket and pants, and a protective headgear with a mask made of wire mesh. Their swords were about thirty to forty inches long, about a thumb in width, and bell guards with a swoop that co...

CoESC Book 16-3.1: Back to School

The scenic drive from Oakmont Estates to Trinity Valley skirted around the edges of Neo Prism City’s outskirts. On Yuriko’s Nitsuda Civilian, it was a twenty-minute drive. The direct route should have taken less time, but the early morning rush hour turned what should have been a relatively short drive into an hour-long slog. The scenic route skirted the coastline until she was roughly southeast of Trinity Valley, then circled around the m...

CoESC Book 16-2.3: Movers and Shakers

A blacked-out van had been an excellent vehicle for all manner of skullduggery if not for the fact that nowadays, with the advent of social media and the Network, as well as decades of movies, television, and even radio shows, such a van trailing after someone, or parked for more than twenty-four hours in a single location, threw up dozens of red flags. 

‘It’s actually a bit easier now in the Network Age,’ Andrew Morrison thou...

CoESC Book 16-2.2: Movers and Shakers

They sat in a darkened room, with almost no source of light except that from a computer’s screen. Or rather, a dozen screens arrayed around them. The room was dry and hummed with the sound of tiny cooling fans and electricity coursing through thick cables. Two of them were reclined on what could only be called a pod: tubes attached to gadgets that were, in turn, hooked into their bodies. The screens flickered as each one contained dozens of ...

CoESC Book 16-2.1: Movers and Shakers

Yuriko met Michael in a cafe a couple of days later. They were in Winderfield, and it was mid-afternoon, right after she attended a short meeting at Pixel Fairy’s to handle a few things. The new academic year was just a bit more than a couple of weeks away. The meeting was about scheduling and work hours, and given that she had more than a few obligations from Mira-hi and a sports apparel brand GoHime, an Athleisure brand focused on women—...

CoESC Book 16-1.3: Rising Fame

In the depths of a Chaos Storm, a cocoon made of multihued silk shifted as its maker stirred. The storm had been spinning for years, and through the vagaries of the Tides, the concept of time was diluted, warped, stretched and compressed. Though years, perhaps decades, passed within, perhaps less than a Season had passed in the Myriad Planes or the Great Continent. Even the loose connection the Chaos Sea had with the Great Continent sometimes ...

CoESC Book 16-1.2: Rising Fame

A couple of weeks passed by without much fanfare after the Hotel de Lune affair. The episode of Luvblooms got postponed, and in fact, the entire production was moved to the end of the Mid-Fire Cycle. Yuriko didn’t mind much since it would only be in a couple of weeks. What she did mind was being called back to Lockweed, Jiran County, by the Lockweed Police Department to make a report of what happened. 

Scarlett accompanied her at ...

Early Update

Three of the week's chapters will be released tonight though later than usual, but as a result of some health concerns last week, the remaining chapters will be released tomorrow up to Wednesday.

We hope everyone else is doing well!

-L&R

CoESC Book 16-1.1: Rising Fame

The midmorning sun was warm. Errant clouds cast light shadows along the fairway in Neo Prism City’s, Winderfield Golf and Country Club. A warm breeze rose just as the Hidden Ruler, Benjamin Daublin-Lawson, patriarch of the Daublin-Lawson family, teed off. The sudden change in wind direction blew his ball off course and he clicked his tongue in annoyance. 

Behind him, the mayor of Neo Prism City, Rihanna Gilliam, chuckled at his mi...

Update on CoESC Book 16-1.1 release

We're pushing the release back another day due to an unexpected tech issue.

Also, 15-23.3 text has been updated--apologies for that weirdness.

L&R

End of Book Break!

And that's a wrap for Book 15! We're dropping the 5th release for the week tomorrow, then we'll be taking an end of book break from January 20 to 24. Posting will resume on January 27.

15 books in and we're finally able to get going again on additional plans for this series and our account in general. A lot of things have happened offline especially in the past year. Pushing to get our initial plans for the series up and running--finally...