She dove straight into it.
“There’s too much to get into, some of which hasn’t been finalized, including final battle plans,” she said. She hesitated. “I’ll only let you know what’s relevant to you, for now—I’ll catch you u...
2025-11-18 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Scryer’s Guild had come through for him, leaving three letters behind—one from the Delver King’s Tower, one from the Thousand Seas Tribe, and the last from the World Tree. That last letter had Reina’s neat script on it, and it was seal...
2025-11-17 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHe felt the difference instantly. Every single cell in his body was awash with brilliant essence—and then, suddenly, it ceased.
If you inspected his physique in the Astral Plane, you’d still see them lit up bright; you could see the qual...
2025-11-16 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMore days went by, then weeks, each satisfyingly strenuous.
Zane spent his days stacking Z-Platinum all over his body. It wasn’t an even distribution, precisely. Part of that was due to what he was training. Dead hauls and deadlifts tended...
2025-11-13 02:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Quick note on the System Store!
Added in a note to previous chapters clarifying that System Store items can only be used by the purchaser—there’s an icon denoting that it’s a System Store item. The ...
2025-11-12 02:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Minor point, but in 591, Zane only eats steel until he's full, not enough steel for the next 'several days'!
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That last statement only worsened the Ghoul Doctor’s apprehensions. When the Master grew fixated l...
2025-11-11 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostZane had to grin. He always liked when the Sage got like this.
He felt it wasn’t just the Sage going on, either. He remembered the Sage saying something about being unreasonable earlier. It just seemed to be how the Sage had gotten this fa...
2025-11-10 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThat one he’d seen coming, honestly. He’d done a ton of legwork there fighting all that gravity… he must’ve gotten down nearly a thousand Red Giant steps in total. His quads were still burning. He had a feeling they would be for a little w...
2025-11-09 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Kaijuu looked confused at first, but then it gave a roar of fury. It seemed to think Zane was toying with it, which he wasn’t doing at all. He really did just want it to give him everything it could muster.
Then it squinted at him. Aft...
2025-11-06 02:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostHe was champing at the bit to get a feel for that Law again.
Just then the Kaijuu shrieked—this time, triumphantly. Zane felt it in its soul, too, even from this far out.
It wanted to tell him it was bigger. It was putting a stamp on...
2025-11-05 02:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne more heartbeat of silence. Then—
THUNK. THUNK. THUNK—
The surface of the core shivered a little more with each giant step.
And he knew the Kaijuu was coming.
He felt more curious than anything, though he wa...
2025-11-04 02:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf just loading Pure Size in would take ten to twenty years… Zane thought about it.
He and Reina had budgeted somewhere around twenty-five years, start to finish, for this Concept.
That’d be ideal—it’d give him enough time to b...
2025-11-03 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sage gave him a wave. “Take a look in the Astral Plane!”
When Zane did, he saw this translucent shining image shrouding the plate—an image of the plate, blown up a thousandfold. He saw the impact it made, the force it exerted, in h...
2025-11-02 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostZane was pleasantly surprised, actually. He was less wrecked than he thought he’d be. With what the Sage had said earlier, he’d been ready for the kitchen sink to be thrown at him. The Sage had a habit of being a bit optimistic as to what Zane...
2025-10-30 01:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe deadlift platform had an industrial feel to it. It looked like the kind of thing he might see around shipping containers. It was twenty feet thick and built of some of the highest-grade steels and runes in all of Boot Camp. It was clearly mean...
2025-10-29 01:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sage gave Zane a quick tour of all the most important stations in Boot Camp, starting with the planet-sized lunk of steel smack-dab in the middle. It was also the closest station to the teleporter.
“This here’s your go-to punch train...
2025-10-28 01:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostZane didn’t want to get ahead of himself, but he liked this Concept quite a bit already.
It sounded clear and straightforward, and it neatly explained the effects he’d seen on the Kaijuu. The Sage hitting much bigger than his fist should...
2025-10-27 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This chapter was accidentally posted yesterday. It was up for about 20 mins before I noticed the mistake, sorry for the confusion folks!
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The next morning, Zane set off for the Conclave.
Before he headed ...
2025-10-26 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: To those who got an extra notification, I accidentally published Oct 25's chapter a day early! Sorry for the confusion folks--it'll come out same time as usual
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Dya stood waiting at the gates, flanked by two of...
2025-10-23 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll see you out there,” said Reina, looking quite pleased.
“When will you join me?” he asked.
“Not at the start, since I’ll be needed in Dragonspire Command,” she said. “And if this goes as long as we’re projectin...
2025-10-22 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s the heart of the Galaxy, where the worst of the fighting will take place,” Reina continued. “It’s where you’re most needed this time, Zane. This won’t be like the last War.”
She pointed out a tiny dot on the frontier,...
2025-10-21 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostReina and Zane met them at the teleporter hub.
“Evan was just telling me how bad a matchup that Trial Champion was for Chomper,” said Reina. She glanced worriedly at the teleporters. “I hope he’s made it out alright…”
Not l...
2025-10-20 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver the weekend, Zane and Reina gave their best effort at maxing out her Minor God levels, which she was quite close to. It was difficult work, but they managed it with some persistence and dedication.
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Afterward Zane found himself...
2025-10-19 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThese days, he often didn’t get a System message explaining the backgrounds and uses of certain treasures. The steels he’d gotten back in the Ruins were a good example. Steels were pretty self-explanatory, he supposed, but he got the feeling i...
2025-10-16 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Added a brief section to last chapter where Malzareth talks about the Savage Sage title!
Zane Walker…
They were such weak, insignificant creatures. Yet he and that woman...
2025-10-15 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe lowest floor of the Superdungeon was a floor of nothingness, save for one thing: a cage at its very center. A cage made to hold the Superdungeon’s most dangerous prisoner.
The first thing one would notice, just looking at it, was the g...
2025-10-14 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHreinn twitched.
He wasn’t smiling so much now.
“That,” he hissed. “Is quite the story. And it might even hold up remarkably well, in this little telling! Except for one thing… this all presumes you had the abilit...
2025-10-13 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe young masters watched in silence as Jack finished off the Astrolith King. Fists clenched, wrenching back his chains. The very same he’d used to bring down the giant.
“He just keeps going!” said the Drawn Sword Sect young master, ey...
2025-10-12 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Edited in that the King is 500 feet tall!
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Kain had gotten him off to a good start. It’d be much easier to bring the King down now with it wobbled like this. Right now it couldn’t even...
2025-10-09 01:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe young masters watched from a safe distance as the three strongest powers in the Pure Yang Lands started walloping each other.
Because of the sheer blast radius of the landing, it was impossible to ambush the King Astrolith as it spawned....
2025-10-08 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post