"We've received word for the agents at the docks," the human told her.She didn't look up from her work, focused as she was on the research. One did not receive an order from Alice and ignore it. "What happened?""They were attacked by a lycan.""From the Neptune pack?""There are no unaffiliated mutts in Neptune," he replied."Is the mutt targeting us?""Yes. And he's not alone. According to our agents, another team is coming our way.""Is that so? When will they arrive?""That remains unclear.""Then we must get ready to welcome them. I won't be accused of being a bad host."

Since I won't be home until tomorrow, enjoy this previewUntil we left the forest and the encampment, Euphy was quiet. Maybe she was in shock. Maybe the bandits did something to her, but she was quiet. She only stared at me the whole time. Once we got her in the wagon and on the road, that started to change.The further and further away we got, the more alive she became. It turned out that Euphy wasn't a quiet and withdrawn girl; she was a tsundere. A real-life tsundere. I thought tsundere were confined to the pages of mana or anime. I never expected to come across a real tsundere.My first clue was when she hit me. I made a joke about her red hair looking like ketchup (it didn't) and she socked me good. It was a stupid joke, but it didn't deserve a punch. My father laughed it off and that prompted Euphy to laugh.She seemed excited about everything. Apparently, Euphy had been a pampered noble girl, because she had never left her father's dukedom before. She hadn't left the estate she

It had a real name, but the members of the pack called it the Old Den. At one point in time, the members of her pack called it home, but these days it was merely a storage facility.While the Neptune City Council used it as such a place, the Old Den was an important area to the pack. It was here when the first lycans arrived. It was here that those first few founded the Neptune Pack and it was that root where they came from.And the flithly leeches had the nerve ti make this sacred ground their own? It was as close to holy that the Neptune Pack could get to if it became widespread knowledge, it would be bloodshed. The pack would never stamp for it.Even Ro, the bitch that she was, growled when she caught the scent in the Old Den. Sometimes it seemed that Ro had no interest in the pack or the life of the lycan, but she bared her teeth with the rest of them.This was unforgivable. This was war."Blood sucking parasites," Ro spit, glaring down at the compound.Aaron was reasonable when h

(With any luck, this will be my last preview for awhile haha)Chapter XXX: Chance encounterWhisper nodded. "It should take a few days to get the old maps imported. Let's say... Next Wednesday?"If that was the quickest he could do it, then we'd have to wait. It worked out well for us in the long run. Wednesday was a half day and after school, we could head straight over to Joyful Flourish. That was the plan, and after we confirmed it with our families, we agreed to eight solid, uninterrupted hours of play. That was the most we could work out and my friends had to lie and say it was a study group. At times I was glad my mom was out of the country.We could go in blindly, but we weren't here to map out the dungeon. We were there to slay the dungeon boss before anyone else. So we had to open the dungeon wasn't opened up before we had the old map data and we were ready to enter. That was out of our hands. It was completely up to the developers at this point.Before we could start the dun

Louise IEmpress Louise was not a patient person by nature. The only person she had even been patient with was Francois, and that was not by choice. He was the only one with a higher station than her in the whole empire, so she couldn't command him to do anything.Everyone but Francois's children and that other bitch he took to bed was fair game though. Which was why the artist being late was unacceptable. Her time was more valuable than his, frankly, and the longer she was made to wait, the more irritable she became.As a Prussian artist in Aquroya, he should be down worshiping at her feet for the patronage she's shown him. The Great War was still fresh in the people's minds and the Aquitese hadn't forgiven Prussia for what they did. If it wasn't for her, he would have to go back to Vienna.Of course, being a Prussian in Vienna was hardly better than being a Prussian in Aquitaine. Prussia had led Vienna to defeat in the Great War, and the Austro-Hungarian-Reimanian empire had barely