UnwillingEldritchHorrorofFortune

Chapter 143: A Subtle Entrance

The gates to the inner chamber opened and the four of us were greeted with the sight of a conclave of old aliens dressed in plain robes. There were seven of them, all seated on high chairs slightly raised from where we stood by the entrance. The c...

Chapter 142: The Theocracy of Fate

“Good morning!” I said cheerily to the gatekeepers blocking our path, “We are here to seek entrance to your beautiful city. We are mercenaries and soldiers for hire.”

The two men (women? Like I said, I still had no idea how to tell t...

Chapter 141: Subtle Arrival

Once the last of us stepped through Q’s portal, the old Admin quickly closed the hole in reality and shoved us into a smaller wormhole so we’d be as far away from our entrance point as possible. The theory was that even if our entrance couldn�...

Interlude: Prophecies of Destruction

Inspira awoke with a jolt, her eyes swirling with sights and events of things to come, sweat pouring down her frame as the prophetic visions and maddening shouts assaulted every sense she had. She had never experienced something so intense before,...

Chapter 140: Journey to Uncharted Planes

It had taken the better time of an entire day to get everything sorted out and for Xalla to contact all the right people, but we were all set up to go on the following morning. Molly informed us that Big Bob had to leave earlier to meet up with so...

Chapter 139: Q

Q’s workspace could be called chaotic if you wanted to be generous. In reality, it was just a mess of various half-finished pieces of tech and spilled diagrams and blueprints. Various half-eaten containers of food and drinks were scattered every...

Chapter 138: Meeting Molly

It wasn’t until the four of us left Central’s trial grounds that Molly had the opportunity to properly introduce herself. She had explained to me that getting out of her doll form should only be done on a more stable dimension and away from th...

Chapter 137: The Final Member

“Good morning, Dr. Walter,” Molly greeted me, she looked out toward the rising sun and furrowed her brows, “I still can’t get used to how bright things are in this dimension. Why would the people here risk exposing themselves to so much ra...

Chapter 136: Final Preperations

“Well,” I answered the woman with a grin, “It’s always good to have more allies in the future, and perhaps we can discuss how we can mutually assist each other in the future, but there is something that you can help us out with right now.�...

Chapter 135: Central's Facade

It took every persuasion technique in the books to get the old woman listening, and while I would love to say that convincing her to join our cause was all due to my suave communication skills, that would be a bald-faced lie. Rather, I had Big Bob...

Chapter 134: Common Enemies

Xalla, Bob, and I stayed just outside of the threshold as we prepared ourselves to save the Restus in case something went wrong. Well, perhaps save wasn’t the right word for things, since our goal was to have them all killed, so we were all gear...

Chapter 133: Secret Enemies?

“Hey, Walter,” Xalla whispered by my side, “Don’t you think things are going a little too well?”

I had to agree with her there. I looked around and saw that my impromptu Restus army was making its way into the inner sanctums of the...

Chapter 132: Troubles in Site 1100 (Site 1100 POV)

The buzzing and ringing of alarms woke Ed up from his intoxication. He could feel the uncomfortable dampness from all the spilled booze, sweat, and various other bodily fluids from the prior night’s activities stick to his body, and he was not h...

Chapter 131: Rabble Rousing

“That was a splendid fight, Bakren,” I projected from my seat up in the rafters, “You have learned from your prior mistake and have become a warrior worthy of respect. It was not a mistake to give you a second chance.”

Bakren bowed e...

Chapter 130: Seeds of Rebellion

I swapped back into my Xollon form - the full version that I experienced with the Preview Tickets before, I didn’t have to worry about my old limitations right now - and greeted my peons. I chose to visit the first group of Restus that I encount...

Chapter 129: New Plan for the Restus

The three of us stepped right outside Site 1100’s boundaries and strategized. Well, maybe calling it strategizing might be stretching it a bit since none of us tried very hard to think up even the semblance of a plan. Generally speaking, individ...

Chapter 128: The Origin of Truth

Tismon here again, just a reminder that I will be taking the Weekends off from now on, just to get some proper rest and time in to plan and structure this new volume. Thank you everyone!

“Do you remember what happen...

Chapter 127: Next Steps

Big Bob and Xalla rejoined me soon after, followed by the trio of clean Aspirants. It was time to wrap up everything I needed here and move on to all the other pressing matters. My schedule would be busy for the next while, but at least I had some...

Chapter 126: Fun with Friends

Half an hour later and I was left with three humans - yes, there were still three individuals, Big Bob was able to take the brain-goop from the poor man and somehow put him back together - that were much more amiable to sharing information. <...

Chapter 125: Meeting the Aspirants

There was a pair of guards blocking my way to the inner sanctum of Ryan’s guild as I walked towards the building. Normally I would just ignore these two men and force my way through, but Noe did have a point. Making too much noise, no matter how...

Chapter 124: Lord Arbiter Walter (Start of Volume 3)

Tismon is back from his break!! Let the new Volume begin!

I took a deep breath in and just enjoyed the feel of the sun on my body. I was free to roam around after swapping spots back with the Director, and I couldn’t help but take s...

Epilogue: The Return of the Arbiter

Jordan felt a chill down her spine when she saw the Arbiter emerge from the transference. W seemed… different somehow, more confident, more dangerous. She wasn’t sure what it was, but that unease quickly left her body as if it never existed in...

End of Volume Updates

Hello everyone, and thank you all for choosing to support me in this project of mine! The second volume is more or less complete at this point, with just an Epilogue chapter to tie some loose ends tomorrow. I'm pretty happy with this volume, and I...

Chapter 123: Partial Awakening and Revelations

Noe was the first being to greet me, just as she was the last one to see me off to sleep. Her form was hazy, with just the outline visible of the construct that I had created so, so long ago. She was still incomplete, but the fact that she could m...

Chapter 122: Dusk Approaches

I watched on with utter disbelief as Myra, Alina, and Bishop charged into the enemies. I’ll give them some credit, they did take out one of the huge creatures almost immediately with a carefully aimed headshot with Myra’s laser bullet. They al...

Chapter 121: Fracturing Will

We had gathered on top of a nearby rooftop overlooking the last obstacle in this stage of the training. All that was left to do was to enter an unassuming door guarded by a half dozen of those giant creatures. They seemed to be on high alert for a...

Chapter 120: Coordination and Chaos

The volley of frenzied fire did its job at whittling down the first wave of enemies, but the mutants that inhabited the inner circle of the city were much more tenacious than the ones in the outskirts. They kept coming at us despite the heavy loss...

Chapter 119: Guiding the Guests

Tismon Notes: Hey everyone, just wanted to let everyone know that I'm in a really busy period in my day job right now, so releases might be a little slow for the next few days. I'll still try to get them out on time, but no promises! Thanks fo...