Robert Vlaho

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 100 - Don't Worry About the Eyes

For a while already, a Mark-shaped hole was present at every family meal at the Afronte dinner table. 

Throughout their time living in Starhold, Mark had been growing busier and busier with every passing day, barely finding the time for...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 99 - He Will Die

Freddy walked into his newly rented apartment and placed two large glass containers and a bag of groceries on the tiny table in the room. 

The new place he was renting was considerably smaller than the former apartment. It was only a si...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 98 - The Kraven Bloodline

Madame woke up from a nap with a jolt. She looked around her colorful office, looking for anything unusual. She was still in Pittersville, even five months after sealing her deal with the empress, and her preparations still wouldn’t be done for ...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 97 - Criminal

Once he spotted the lights, rather than rush out and introduce himself, the first thing Freddy did instead was turn back around and jog to his hideout. 

He prepared his ID, putting it in a pocket.

He cut off the ring finger on his...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 96 - Bloodshed's Secret

Freddy woke up with a jolt. As he did, he found himself in near-total darkness. For a long moment, he thought he was dead.

As he heard the rustling of the several leaves scattered on the grass below him and felt around, feeling both his body...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 95 - Asura

Freddy’s mind froze as he saw the scene. But he didn’t panic. 

He couldn’t afford to. 

Sophia’s head was in one piece; there was a good chance she could still be healed.

The scorpion-tailed woman slowly turned h...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 94 - Scramble

There was no time to think. Freddy jumped before Sophia as a barrage of arrows flew their way, most of them landing right on his skin and embedding, albeit rather shallowly, as his Thousand Wet Hells-tempered body resisted the projectiles, while t...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 93 - Red Barrier

Illya stood in a small clearing. 

Standing right beside one another, every remaining member was seemingly out in plain view—more than 50 cloaked people stood in the middle of an exposed clearing.

Yet, as another group of soldier...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 92 - Shackles

Illya chewed on her nails, eyes bloodshot as she stared at the bane of her existence. She hadn’t slept in days. The artifact—the massive, mummified arm of crimson skin and wicked nails—defied every attempt to even as much as mute its aura of...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 91 - Eidolon of Authority

The reasons to seal a passage were as numerous as the grains of sand in a desert. However, they all ultimately came down to the age-old rule of risk vs. profit. 

A wasteland with no valuables could one day release a monster, and with no...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 90 - Manhattan, Nova York

Madam looked herself over in the mirror, taking a closer look at the new foundation she had put on. 

She was located in a small room atop a tall building. Her surroundings were a plain, subdued grey, with nothing but a cupboard to her s...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 89 - Cohesion

Phillip couldn’t help but think that if a psychological researcher had the opportunity to observe their group throughout their time in the trap room, they would have learned quite a few exciting things.

While there was no doubt that some a...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 88 - A Job Well Done

Freddy spotted a creature fighting a gorel worker. The size difference between the two monsters was stark, with the small, dog-sized gorel looking minuscule compared to the massive, nearly horse-sized freaky camel monster—a nebber. 

T...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 87 - Disturbance

A small, isolated room lay deep within the Tomb of Harrkanna, down a meandering path and past a long line of corpses doused in black ooze. The only way to enter it was to pull on several hidden levers, and there was nothing of substance within.&nb...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 86 - The Advent of Bloodshed

[QUICK AUTHOR'S NOTE]
Sorry for the lack of a chapter last Friday; several things caught up with me, and I was stalled. Dropped the other story, which bummed me out, got hella sick, and had to go to the hospital three times; anyway, this chapte...

[DEVILICH] Important News

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 85 - The Final Preparations

Freddy felt profoundly itchy watching Sophia cradling the shiny ball. “Sophia…” he called cautiously.

“Oh, shut it!” she yelled. “I’m not gonna steal it, you—argh! I wish I killed a damn Lord by accident.”

“I wouldn...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 31 - Basic Education

After my agreement, the guards went away, returning to their duties. Martin stayed behind, expressing a certain degree of hesitance.

“Is something wrong?” I asked the man. 

He looked at me worriedly, a spark of reluctance danc...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 84 - The Three Items

The passage that Jacob’s and Jack’s parties, as well as the few strangers, were hiding in was also a hub for the dungeon they had delved just earlier that day. 

The passage that went into the dungeon wasn’t just open to the wilder...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 30 - Tying Loose Ends and Climbing Up the Rope

I needed to satisfy two requirements if I wanted my story to fly. So, without further ado, I started on the first. 

But to satisfy the requirement, the truth wouldn’t be good enough. Thus, I had to openly lie. “I did,” I spat, ans...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 29 - Interrogation

As Martin walked into the backyard, I kept calm, eyeing the man curiously. “What brought you back so soon?” I asked him, leaning slightly as if trying to see behind him. “And why are there so many guards with you?”

I had no reason to...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 83 - Indecision

At first, Freddy believed that getting used to his new body would be easy enough. After all, not even an hour after he started sparring with Sophia, he felt he was already 90 percent there to mastering himself. 

Unfortunately, that last...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 28 - Moral Compass

I didn’t have many redeeming qualities when I lived on Earth, but I did have some. One was that I was among the rare few people who truly enjoyed doing chores—physical ones, at least. 

It was for a simple reason—they didn’t requ...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 27 - Mystery

“So… You two are just gonna leave me alone in your house? Without any supervision?” I asked Martin and Amelia, who were both halfway out the door, leaving for work. 

“Why wouldn’t we?” asked Amelia. 

I was about t...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 82 - Carnage

Jack glanced across the battlefield, barely keeping himself calm. This wasn’t his first time finding himself in a gruesome life-or-death scenario. But he had never witnessed such a brutal slaughter. 

Still, for better or worse, the sa...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 26 - Demon Fodder

I had no idea what this magic ball would reveal about me. But if it revealed literally anything other than my good alignment, I didn’t want to touch it. 

From possibly outing me as a devilich to the likely outcome of exposing my divin...

[1% LIFESTEAL] Chapter 81 - Slaughter

[QUICK NOTE]
Sorry for the late chapter! This was a damn hard chapter to write, and I had a family emergency at the wrong time, which cut my work time in half the past few days.
Hope y'all enjoy!
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Not even a moment passed...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 25 - Temple

I was back in the guard’s—Martin’s—house, having waited through the night for the morning to arrive. I hadn’t slept since I did not need sleep.

After killing the kidnapper, I returned to the town and made a few rounds looking for a...

[DEVILICH] Chapter 24 - Agency

Standing in my incredibly tall, gangly form of a true devilich, I observed my symbiote.

I could feel the thoughts and smell the intent and desire of the cancer mass wrapped around my spinal column. All it wanted was survival. It held not eve...

No chapter today

Feeling quite terrible, and my flow hasn't been very good for the past few days. Instead of pushing myself to shit out a half-baked chapter, I'm going to lie down and rest for the weekend so I can pick things back up when I'm feeling better.
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