“I was right,” Nalthair said after he’d delved through Xavier’s memories, having free rein. “You are insane.”
The elf stood a few feet from Xavier in the middle of the arena, sweat dotting his brow, heart thudding—the mask he...
2025-11-10 18:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe walls to The Collector’s city were absurdly large. Xavier craned his neck all the way back and peered up at the top. The battlements above were so high he couldn’t see them with his Farscope lens.
Xavier’s spiritual sense washed ov...
2025-11-10 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe arena was dead silent.
Xavier stood at the centre, staring at the body of the elf. The elf—Nalthair—lay on his back, eyes open, mouth agape, face slack. Pale as a corpse, he looked like he’d slipped into the afterlife. The only hin...
2025-11-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m not leaving this house!”
The woman’s words shook the very walls they were so loud.
“Three hundred years I’ve been in this house. Made it just perfect. Raised several generations of Damascus here. Stil...
2025-11-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe mental construct was silent for a time. I’ve also told you that I will only provide you with information that I think will actually help you.
Xavier sighed. The mental construct had been cagey about providing ...
2025-11-05 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe vast grey throne room inside the Sovereign’s Satellite Fortress fell eerily silent for one long, stretched out moment following Xavier’s request.
“You want Damascus as your boon?” Sovereign Rewke Fouran raised his chin, turned hi...
2025-11-05 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier inclined his head as he felt the depths of the man’s power. He was stronger than The Collector—but not by as much as Xavier had suspected. In fact, that little “trick” The Collector had had up his sleeve with the void portal and the...
2025-11-04 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSovereign Fouran didn’t utter a single word as they passed the gulf between them. The True B Grade ruler folded his hands in front of him and waited with a silent patience until the two men stood before him.
Sovereign Rewke Fouran looked e...
2025-11-04 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“You look confused.”
Palini heard the voice behind him. Fear shot through his body like lightning. Every hair stood on end. There hadn’t even been a perceptible shift in the air to alert him of someone’s presence.
He turned. Sl...
2025-11-03 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostYou have 24 hours to lay claim to the fallen ruler’s capital world.
Laying claim to the fallen ruler’s capital world will initiate a world-wide System notification allowing anyone on the world to challenge your c...
2025-11-03 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostPalini Damascus was a strike or two away from incapacitating the infuriating B Grade dragonkin that was proving to be far more of a nuisance than he’d imagined when his opponent disappeared again. His sword would have cut off the Denizen’s han...
2025-10-30 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostPalini didn’t understand.
Xavier Collins, the young, brave, and incredibly idealistic dragonkin he’d chosen to follow had always been more powerful and more skilled than he should be, but something fundamental had changed. And it wasn’...
2025-10-30 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe way Xavier saw the space in front of him shifted instantly. A faint glow only he could perceive fell over Palini. That wasn’t the only thing that changed. It was as though there were another dozen Palinis standing in the exact same ...
2025-10-29 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier had never moved faster in his life.
The instant he arrived inside the Roving Seed Base, he was able to cast all his spells again. Teleportation and Time Alteration were the first ones he’d cast, and he’d had Pocket Time Stream act...
2025-10-29 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhat in all hells!?
One moment, Palini had been inside Containment Room 238B, the next he was rolling on the grass under a grey sky that looked startlingly like the containment room’s ceiling, except several hundred times larger.<...
2025-10-28 18:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostRoln smiled. “Honestly, I haven’t figured that part out yet.” The mental construct ran a hand through his hair. He looked over at Palini. “Though, I’ve got a few ideas…”
Xavier bit his lip. Having chosen to believe this man was...
2025-10-28 18:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re dead? So, you are a ghost.”
Inside The Collector’s former throne room, Xavier stood across from the man who’d invaded his mind.
“No. I suffered a true death. The death of not just my body or my Liv...
2025-10-27 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sat on a very uncomfortable chair and drummed his fingers on the steel table in the middle of the interrogation room. His heavy, reinforced bones and hardened skin, coupled with the increase to the gravity in the room, made each impact soun...
2025-10-27 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostPalini narrowed his eyes.
Something had changed. Something small, but he was trained to notice such things. The person he was observing—a mere low-level D Grade swordsman—shifted almost imperceptibly. It wasn’t the first strange thing ...
2025-10-23 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Xavier had told those in the throne room his plan, he’d recast Time Alteration. With the help of the other time mages in the room, he’d managed to do it with less than a split-second passing in the rest of the universe.
He could hav...
2025-10-23 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostReinitiating advancement to C Grade.
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Checking spells…
Denizen’s spells deemed as: Unmatched
Checking skills… 2025-10-22 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Xavier stepped out of the portal he’d created into a bustling city. His time dilation field was still wrapped around him, altered so time outside of it moved as slow as he could manage.
The marketplace he now stood within was filled with t...
2025-10-22 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostYou are no longer classed as an anomaly. Your actions and their consequences are being assimilated into the System Governed Rules.
The eye of the System remains fixed on you.
The fear and panic, the ut...
2025-10-21 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood outside the Roving Seed Base. Gathered behind him were his old party, Howard, Siobhan, and Justin, along with the members of their family. All people he considered family now.
He raised his chin as he stared at the base...
2025-10-21 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe blue-robed man smiled. “Ye—” He frowned at the ceiling. “Technically, no. You are not my father. But Xavier Collins is my father. Honestly, I’m surprised you came to that on your own. You’re not always that fast....
2025-10-20 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTo the gathered Denizens who had newly sworn their allegiance to Xavier Collins, time had completely stopped. Even the B Grades among them with the greatest perception speeds were unable to discern what had happened from one fraction of a second t...
2025-10-20 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI held three hundred spell patterns all active at once, Xavier said in response to the blue-robed spirit.
And the spell patterns would have been glowing, as energy was primed and ready to enter each of them. This is akin to ...
2025-10-16 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHaroln Abdicas Vandeerink ran.
Though “ran” perhaps wasn’t the right word when speaking of moving through different planes of existence, realities, and universes—it would be more accurate to say he fled. As fast as he ever had. He sl...
2025-10-16 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIn the frozen pocket of time, experiencing the Universal Pressure of holding the spell pattern for Pocket Time Stream active, Xavier stared across at a serious-looking man in blue robes that had eyes that could pierce solid stone.
The spirit...
2025-10-15 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPalini Damascus bore witness.
The man had heard of Void Beings before, but only in passing. Spirits, the Otherworld, souls… These were things he’d known existed, but not once had he delved deep into those realms. They were, he’d though...
2025-10-15 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post