Back on the planet where the ninjas had settled, there was a pitch black house, seemingly wrapped in an omnipresent, shifting fog. Unlike the manor of the Golden Shadow, there were no traps leading to this house. There were no patrols. Nobody dared to approach, for risk of being added to the property’s eerie landscape of oddly shaped hedges. Inside …

The receptionist watched in disbelief as the hotel remained unchanged, glancing back towards the door. Pierce could see from her expression that she wanted to go out and tell everyone to seek shelter here, to use it as a refuge against the monster, but he shook his head. “You shouldn’t leave the building, or even open a door or window.” …

“All passengers, please disembark. We have landed on Oranii Seven.” The landing pod’s attendant spoke with a smile as she greeted the travelers. Oranii Seven was one of the fringe worlds of the Kione system, one of the last few to be colonized before the Hyperlane Network had been cut off. Understandably, there were not many travelers that would come …

Lena stretched her arms as she left the gaming chair. She didn’t have her own palace yet in Olympus, so Lifre had offered to let her stay in her room for now. “All done with the test?” Lifre asked, sitting on the bed and swinging her legs happily. “Yup! Just some basic stuff.” Lena nodded her head. “So, what now? …

Tsubaki sat within a sealed pod flying through space, leaning back with her eyes closed as she recounted her mission. She had taken this trial dozens of times already, each time ending in failure. This was the mission that had been set up together with Cici after reviewing the records of the ninja clan’s Trial of Shadows. In order to …

Accalia bounded from treetop to treetop, leading a group of her huntresses on a training exercise. It was difficult for them to properly stretch their legs in recent years, ever since the world outside of the Hyperlane Network became too chaotic to regularly travel. Before, people would place an order for some exotic creature material, such as the fangs of …

Once Tsubaki returned from her visit to the Admin Room, she immediately went to her room. From the look in her eyes, I could tell that she had found plenty of inspiration for her Trial of Shadows. Though I had no idea how long this particular trial would take her, she still left her Servant avatars working within Olympus to …

“Activating Void Broadcasting units.” “Beginning initial merge. Connection seed has been deployed.” “Detecting anomalies within two of the four energy cores.” The voices called out one after the other as numerous screens brought up the display, showing what appeared to be random pieces of landscape. These were deemed to be the most common locations to detect an anomaly that would …

As Lifre and Lena were off on their misadventures, and Tsubaki was performing perhaps the world’s most thorough background check, Dana was left to her own devices. She had finally completed her Sky Chariot project, so it was time to move on to her next big thing. Or so she would like to think. Instead, she found herself pacing back …

Tsubaki let out a small sigh of relief when she finished reviewing the records with Terra. Initially, she had been concerned that the felyn elder, Vespa, would cause problems for the Keeper. However, looking back through, she saw the truth, that the person that Vespa repeatedly asked to eliminate Lena was none other than Lena herself. After she learned that, …