Fic Update thread 52 (the _really_ secret stuff)

[Mamorien]

Beware of Chicken (Interlude focused mostly on Yin, but also that rogue SMS elder begins to move.)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-99236663

I don't know that I'd call Zang Zeng a rogue elder until
(a) we get a better sense of who he is when there's not a blood artist pouring poison in his ear, and

Spoiler

(b) the sect finishes working out what it means to be "loyal" to the Shrouded Mountain now that neither the mountain nor the misdeeds are shrouded.

Anyway, you can also find it at Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39408/...f-purpouse

Then, it's time for a trip into the ancient history of a world built On the shoulders of Titans, and the first of three rounds in a Grand Tournament!

For as long as life has existed, life has tested itself. Mankind is foolish for thinking itself the inventor of the blood-soaked arena.

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Notes:
“Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does; when the Colosseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54083542