A/N:
Changed Reina’s gift:
“Reina’s treasure was the strangest. It was a treasure that came in a comet just as bright as Zane’s, which got them curious—and sure enough, it turned out to be an Eart...
2024-06-26 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostLevel up!
Level up!
Level up!
Level up!
Essence Level 255 -> 259
So much essence rushed into Zane at ...
2024-06-25 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe super-tornado was picking up speed. And as it moved, it shook the world. Wrestling streams of souls straight out of the ground. Curving the flows of the very atmosphere, sinking sooty clouds, making all the other fiery tornadoes tilt toward it...
2024-06-24 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLan clenched his teeth. "It's been taken care of."
"How so?" said the Ancestor.
"Ideally she'll die in the dungeon," said Lan. "That remains the most likely possibility. If not I'll simply subdue her—just as I did the last Mistress. ...
2024-06-23 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe staircase spanned half the room. It led into a gloom of bruised purples and swirling blacks. Crackling streamed from deep within, the sounds of eager fire. Cavernous groanings. A relentless heat pounded from inside. There was a smell of brimst...
2024-06-22 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCLANG-CLANG!
Chain Combustion rocked the air, stringing up blast after blast—laying waste to the shell below. Chunks of heavy steels spewed off the thing, lit up Stormfire blue, little meteor showers racing into the gloom...
Sorry folks!
You may have noticed I haven’t been doing as many bonus chapters lately—that’s for the simple reason that they were burning me out pretty quickly. Wish I could keep up the pace, but it is what it is.
Daily chap...
2024-06-20 01:49:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn't just steel in there, though that was most of it. When they pocketed all the good stuff—enough to fill seven Interspatial Rings—they found stashes of essence treasure left behind too, packed up in crates.
Mostly vials of e...
2024-06-19 02:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostJust up the stairs—
You have entered: Section 3-2
Hall of the Ancients
They stood right outside the door of it—two pale walls. Giving away nothing. You couldn't see much beyond ei...
2024-06-18 00:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostA/N:
Inserted some upgrades for Bastion Bone last chapter!
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Avery wondered what they were even doing here. She thought maybe Integration was a way of conscripting tons and tons of people to help 'muck out...
2024-06-17 00:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostA/N:
Changed Super Savage Body -> Asura Body!
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There was a thick splotch of yellow on the mini-map on the other side of the island. It was a field of glowing soft-blue essence when they ar...
2024-06-16 00:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Excited to announce Book 2's up on Amazon! It's been professionally edited and covers everything from the start of VGI up until just before the opening of the Superdungeon/the Minotaur fight. If you're up for it, a rating to support the launch is ...
2024-06-15 15:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostHis Chains dropped heavy to the ground. Bare. Stretching on and on behind him. His thick breaths fogged the air. His heart hammered hot in his chest.
It would have to be a sprint from start to finish. With how much he had left… he ha...
2024-06-14 23:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostA/N:
Retconned out a line — Avery can't cast an entire army of simulacra
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Everything whited out. Went to static. Raw energy swallowing physical, releasing their shapes…
Slowly colors filtered ba...
2024-06-14 00:23:55 +0000 UTC View PostA/N:
Retconned out a line--Avery can't cast an army of simulacra, too much
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They got within a few dozen feet of the beach when Avery let out a yelp.
“Hey wait!” She ran up, grabbed the back of Zane...
2024-06-13 00:23:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe world erupted in frost. Thick patches of it raced across the waters, crackled across the air, gathering on nothing. Fat air bubbles rumbled up from below.
A Monster erupted. Broke the surface, howling a ghastly battle cry.
It...
2024-06-12 01:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostTo get to the final section—and to the second floor after that—they first needed to get past the Lake. And all the mists swirling all over it.
It went maybe a few dozen miles, Avery concluded, after squinting at it and running arou...
2024-06-11 01:27:17 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: No chapter 6/8! Will be back 6/9
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Val Arandor met his father in the Evergreen Grove, situated on the highest bough of the World Tree. The floors were thick wood branches, clustered tight. The ceilings a spray of...
2024-06-08 02:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostZane drank. And beads of Bloodline trickled down his throat one by one.
They slid through—scaldingly hot, startlingly dense, impossibly heavy for something so small. Something between liquid and solid. Teeming with godly power.
Skill unlocked!
Titan Rhinoceros Bloodline Manifestation
Burning Bloodline calls the souls of the ancients to the wielder’s aid. When the wielder fights, their lineage fights with them. Sharp...
2024-06-06 01:23:49 +0000 UTC View PostEvan was padding up a few dozen paces behind Zane, picking off the Imps whizzing above.
The heavy-duty stuff was all up to Zane.
He remembered the last time he found these Wardens. They had ambushed, cornered him and his friends—he h...
2024-06-05 01:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Let me take them,” said Zane. He felt as confident as he’d ever been. Reina put a hand on him, looked to him, a little hesitant, just thinking.
Then—“Alright.” She nodded.
He wanted to just charge up. Rush in, and show the...
2024-06-04 01:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostBeen a while since I did one of these...
This is installation #3 of the Monthly Q&A series! Here’s your chance to ask questions about the story, or to give any feedback you might have. Questions patrons have asked before include "Is th...
2024-06-03 03:25:17 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a statue of a Dwarf God up front. With a beard so long you could hardly see his face. Or body. One long knotty beard with gleaming rings and coins woven through it—they looked expensive, all precious metal. And they were scaled up to s...
2024-06-03 01:52:52 +0000 UTC View PostA silence. It stretched on and on. The Scout kept watching the High Priest's expression, but it betrayed nothing. Like staring at a cliff face.
“…Your holiness?” said the Scout nervously.
“How many know about this?” sai...
2024-06-02 02:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone knew Zane Walker could take a hell of a punch. Reporters had been saying since his fight with Eze—you had to kill him. And even then, he wouldn’t stay down.
Still—Reina couldn’t help but let out a gasp when he got hit. Four ...
2024-06-01 01:13:17 +0000 UTC View PostKILL ZANE WALKER.
When Zane felt this it came as a relief, weirdly.
He had been a little tense this whole time. When he saw the creatures start rounding on him, the first thing he started thinking about how he wo...
2024-05-31 01:32:05 +0000 UTC View PostZane smashed. And this time the tunnel shook.
Cracks rushed up the wall, spread partway up the ceiling, shaking loose big gouts of dust.
It was so simple. So nice. That feeling of his fist breaking stone, of all that dense ...
2024-05-30 01:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis process was playing out on other planets too.
The Thousand Seas tribe was another one of the Nine Great Factions. Most of its planets were, appropriately, dominated by seas, with little islands peppered here and there. Some of their pla...
2024-05-29 00:42:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N:
Spending some more time outlining + brainstorming to make sure I get the Superdungeon arc right, so just a heads up--no chapter on 5/27! Will resume 5/28
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Three days until the opening of the First...
2024-05-26 22:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post