Chapter 82
The Discarded
(Luna Paraisthisi)
One thing that they never teach you in history class, is what happens to the displaced people after a city, or region of land falls.
Everyone knows that there are dead zones, land...
2026-01-07 10:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 384
Slander of the Highest Order
(Two Weeks Later)
(Maltese)
It felt odd being back home.
Not my true noted home, not the place I carved for myself out of the middle of a desert, in the middle of a wasteland s...
2026-01-06 06:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 81
Piercing The Veil
Sadly, it wasn’t until my third night while being dressed up as an embodiment of death that I truly saw past the glitz and glam of the stage.
Being my third day in a row, I began looking beyond just...
2026-01-04 18:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 80
Advanced Bartering
Isn’t it weird how you always feel more tired after a nap, than you did before the nap? That is my current state of being. After my Skill upgrades, I was shoved off to bed, so that I could rest for...
2026-01-03 17:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 79
Demons Among Us
“EEP!” The powerful expressive eep, and definitely not the panicked shriek of someone who just witnessed the impossible. Of someone who just witnessed the fact that their mentor’s face was coat...
2026-01-02 20:09:12 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude XXXI
(Larry Yo-Boy’s BiPrism News + Magical Supplies)
“Regionals? Am I right?” Larry asked, a semi-defeated tone filling his voice, only made more pathetic by the cast he was now sporting on stage. While he was at the c...
2026-01-01 16:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 78
Yaoguai Qūmóshī For Me
There was an issue with my training to advance my Skills. Well, looking back there were multiple issues, that ultimately got me to the wrong correct ending.
What do I mean? What is my main pro...
2025-12-31 17:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude V
Crime Scene Reconstruction
(Anastasia Bloom)
If Anastasia had to use two words to describe the process that the Minister of Intelligence’s approach to investigating an active breach, the terms would have to be S...
2025-12-30 08:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 383
A Sim-Ocracy
I could already tell whatever was going to happen would be trouble.
How did I know? Did any of my mystical powers related to danger flash to life? No, but I still knew it was trouble when seven of ...
2025-12-29 11:02:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 77
To Stay, or Continue
“Choices are always best made when made on a full stomach, let us eat lunch before you decide your future,” the ominous words of Mr. Yi. Words that haunted me from the moment we got to the Bloom Esta...
2025-12-28 14:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 76
We Need to Talk
“Vivienne?” Third Prince Theo Fiammata asked, a note of surprise and infatuation filling his gaze.
I was not the only one who saw the Third Prince’s lustful gaze upon Madame Voyou, as Mr. Karl had...
2025-12-27 11:14:24 +0000 UTC View Post<<<<Author's Note: Thank you all and hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I know I did, and now I'm back to work. >>>>
Chapter 75
B.O.S.S.
“Bestiary Originated System Su...
2025-12-26 14:58:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74
Evaluating the Rookie
(Vivienne Voyou)
(Ten Minutes Ago)
Vivienne Voyou knew that fighting was a young person’s game. That many people spent time going to the wastelands first, before even daring to tackle a ri...
2025-12-24 20:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
I hope you are all having a great holiday season.
This started off as a joke at my son's words, "I can't put my pants on." But with the power of AI the song turned out quite amazing. The song is titled "Seasonal Fear...
Chapter 73
ABCs: Actions Before Consequences
My feet slid on the ice. As I held my glowing blade straight in front of me.
Had the beast been slightly more aware, or slightly less engaged with whatever it was doing to Mr. Karl, it...
2025-12-23 11:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72
Murphy’s Law, and the Odds of Fighting Alone
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Shots echoed, as smoke and dust rose up from the pistols that Markan was firing his enhanced earth infused bullets from. Bullet...
2025-12-22 10:52:21 +0000 UTC View Post<<<Author's Note: I don't mean to end this on such a cliffhanger, and I apologize. I will try to finish this up later tonight, but it might have to wait a bit. Going to celebrate my Mom's birthday today! Time just got awa...
2025-12-21 14:55:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70
Eagle Eyed
Exploration.
Exploration and mud, those are the two words that I would use to describe the final process of clearing a rift. Or at least the final processes of clearing a marsh rift.
Apparently, the pr...
2025-12-21 10:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69
Red Versus Yellow Versus Blue
Size does matter.
Or at least the size of a monster does play a large part in whether we stop and harvest the core from a monster’s corpse or not. That is what I have learned thus far. 2025-12-19 11:29:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 68
Harvesting
What happened next was a nightmare class in why healers should avoid rifts.
Moving in a diamond formation, we began to explore the rift. Meaning I was in the exact center and theoretically one or two members...
2025-12-18 10:35:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 67
Adaptive Crystallization
Like a demonically possessed Christmas ornament, the dimly glowing core that Mr. Karl was holding began to flash to life and then glow excitedly as it absorbed the ambient healing energy from my ...
2025-12-16 11:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66
Three Main Types of Crystals
Thick slime.
That is the first thing I felt once I crawled out of the giant serpent’s maw. A sensation that seemed to be heightened by the minor breeze in the air. Ironically, th...
2025-12-15 12:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65
Skald-ing Cold Water
“Hiss!”
An annoyed angry cry of an enraged serpent cried out, as a giant lumbering form rose from the thick ground fog that had momentarily been pushed back to only encircle us.
...
2025-12-14 14:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 64
Entering A Rift
Fresh air.
The scent of ozone, and morning dew will forever be my first impression upon entering the rift. Particularly as my vision was momentarily darkened upon entering, leaving my mind to go wild as...
2025-12-13 14:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 382
A SIM-Tervention
(Penelope)
“There you go, how does that feel?” Penelope asked Ship and Pirate-Ulacrums, the Guinea pigs for her prototype soul bound space suits. These suits had the same pattern layout that Cass...
2025-12-12 11:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostPrelude II
(Third Prince Theo Fiammata)]
(The Royal Estate)
The third prince sat in his office, reading the report that Minister of Intelligence Goffard just handed him.
After reading the short report twice, Theo Fiammata p...
2025-12-11 09:54:05 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue
(Johny DiVoratore)
John paced the unseasonably cold marble hallways. Today was one of those days where his old bones awoke with a chill, something that he had not been affected by ever since his Skills first began to truly man...
2025-12-10 10:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post<<<Author's Note: This is the end for book 1, but don't worry the chapters will continue as I think we are just getting started. Thank you all for reading until this point and Book 2 will begin shortly>>>...
2025-12-09 10:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post<<<<Author's Note: Changed the average life expectancy from ~50 years to ~70 years as detailed below. This changes it so that Common Class owners can only expect to live to approximately 45 years old (50 years with a c...
2025-12-08 17:38:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 61
A Slight Miscalculation
A cocoon of unending darkness surrounded me.
For a moment, my mind flashed back to my vision from last night, one where I was swallowed whole by an apparent Death Eater. Yet unlike that time, th...
2025-12-07 15:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post