Null Tower, New York City Wearing only a towel, Noriko Null opens her closet: she doesn’t have much choice between the pile of identical black T-shirts with the white Ø symbol and the row of green leather jackets. She undresses[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stockholm City Hall, Sweden The Nobel Prize banquet is excruciatingly boring, at least to Noriko Null. Despite being at the center of attention, her mind is literally light-years away. Because of this, she doesn’t notice the man sitting next to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stockholm City Hall, Sweden The Nobel Banquet is obviously a highly publicized event, but very rarely it can hold the interest of the general press. This year is different: there are very important scientists and diplomats in the Blue Hall,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years ago, when he was just a boy, Max Black saw his brother Alex die in his arms after he was shot. Now that he’s the hero Quantum, the sight of the bruised and battered body of Noriko Null, laying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Thoth appears at the center of the arena, the audience falls silent. There are several spectators that didn’t bother to show up during most of the matches: both Isis and Nephthys are watching from the Egyptian amphitheater, Circe has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It can be hard to figure out the time of the day on an alien planet, but the sun has just risen on the world where the arena of the Strongest Under The Heavens contest has been relocated. Max Black[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uruk Galaxy It feels like it’s been ages since the Vanguard gathered to discuss its strategy for the “Strongest Under The Heavens” tournament. Just yesterday they were at the top of their game, but things have surely changed now. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kari Zel has been a valuable member of the Vanguard for years now, and her teammates have a lot of respect for her abilities. But even they don’t believe their eyes: she was able to break free from the titanic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So much has happened on the arena of the “Strongest Under The Heavens” tournament that it feels months have passed since its beginning, but things are moving quickly: there’s no time to think about how badly Hermes lost to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As brutal as the fight between Persephone and Enyo had been, it was nothing in comparison to the battle between the Demon siblings Pain and Torn. The arena is filled with craters and gashes from their weapons, and the floor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
