The Divine Empress stared at me. Looking far less imposing in a gray gown than in her usual attire. I could tell that she knew if she took one more step forward I would shut the door no matter what. Her next move was to act.
We waited there, staring at each other in silence as the pressure ...
2023-03-02 23:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostAcid Shot. I used the skill over and over while rushing up to the top. This time the golems were cube shaped. The towers sure did love their geometrical shapes. After wiping out the ten golems, I looked in the distance and saw the Divine Empress closing in.
I entered the initial ch...
2023-03-02 23:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I used Air Burst to quickly clear the swamp North of Heaven, the Divine Empress had a similar skill, probably a barrier skill that she used to kick off of, to keep up with me. So I didn’t gain any time and she was still closing in.
I had been hopeful, but she was clearly ma...
2023-03-02 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI threw another punch and this time she dodged. She kicked out and I moved in closer. The Divine Empress swung up her stump to strike me, but it was a stump, not a hand. I delivered a massive blow to her gut she wasn’t ready for.
That was the bad part about getting crisped and being disor...
2023-03-02 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI quickly purchased a restoration. I leveraged myself up and backwards, over the pillar doing a spectacular flip. I landed on the ground and faced my nightmare.
“Divine Empress,” I said trying to draw her attention to me while Doctor Katz ran for it. His guards were already dead and whi...
2023-03-01 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRuth
I tossed another crystal into my pack after killing the monster in front of me. I had escaped that hell and now I was stuck in the wilderness. It had taken me a long time, but I had recovered quite a few points. The current war was perfect for slipping in and out of ci...
2023-03-01 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“You…Champion Michael, let me put it bluntly. It probably won’t work,” Doctor Katz said while we talked in a building in East Bastion. I had checked his worksite, but he had gone into the city, so I had managed to intercept him here. It had taken six days to clear four dungeons and get he...
2023-02-28 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe small bunker we were in shook as impact after impact rumbled through the ground. I was absolutely quiet as dust and debris rained down from the ceiling. I absolutely did not want to fight the Divine Empress right now.
The ground shook and I heard more smashing above us. The carved out b...
2023-02-28 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy eyes went wide. I had just gotten a restoration. Just minutes ago, and now there was something wrong with my gut that quickly? Even if I was the most stressed out, neurotic person, with mental issues, and everything else, there was no possible way this made sense.
I knew a restoration fi...
2023-02-27 00:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSix hard days and eight more dungeons. I had done a loop out to the West of Esperanza and then to the South. I was headed for Neo Brasilia to resupply and then I would poke the Bulwark Shields to the South and looking for the roaming boss and upgrade my skills some more.
I wanted to find a ...
2023-02-26 23:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two chapters are delayed. I know I hate when other authors release non-story posts. But I know many people wait on the release. I apologize.
Right now the ending to volume 8 is very complex. After tossing away the original arc, I have been spending the last several days working thi...
2023-02-26 00:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostI had cleared two more dungeons, fully upgrading Air Burst with gestureless and picking power as the first upgrade for Force Wave. The cost of Air Burst was now 800, which made me wince, but I considered the tradeoff more than worthwhile. I needed my skills to be silent...
2023-02-24 23:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken three days to clear six dungeons after I had left the tower, looping to the South of the Free City of Hong Kong. Which I felt was very good progress. I only needed one more upgrade to max out Air Burst. I had picked persistence, silent, speed, size, prep and hold, and persis...
2023-02-24 23:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter some consideration I decided to circle the tower first checking the other sides. Out of each door came ten golems and I wiped out each group or unit once my energy was recovered from the previous group.
Again, I was taking this slow and cautiously. I wanted to get a sense of these tow...
2023-02-24 00:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostI had cleared five dungeons in level 3 zones in the last couple of days. Some of them had been a pain, searching for their exact position in the zone. Especially the last one, which was at the end of an intrusion or crack from the adjacent void zone.
It was one of the last places I had look...
2023-02-23 23:59:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe High Priestess
Curse that Michael and his foolishness. “Where to High Priestess?” Mohammad Hamidur Rahman asked me.
“Keep our heading East. We will retreat past Normandy to the Northeast of the city. It is remote and should be quiet until the Divine Empr...
2023-02-23 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI left the Free City of Hong Kong in the morning, reloaded on supplies and a fresh map. I had my route planned out. I would be heading to the East, just North of the last level 3 zone I had cleared and from there making a full loop around the city in the level 3 zones.
There were surprising...
2023-02-22 00:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t refuse the Protector. As much as I wanted to, refusing would hinder my own forces and efforts against the Divine Empress. Clarissa had told me man power was always an issue. Also if I won, I could sideline the Protector then.
He would be sent off to grind somewhere so the memor...
2023-02-21 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what exactly are your boarders?” I asked Cai Fan the Protector.
“All the level 3 zones, around this city. Those are the official boarders in the past. But the West portion has been in contention for a while and we aren’t fully grinding level 3 zones yet. You are collecting skil...
2023-02-21 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I suspect energy manipulation knowledge. With her second one and what she could do, it is the most likely option. She has progressed to altering her skills much more fluidly and dynamically boosting them,” the Protector explained.
“What does that mean, dynamically boosting?” I aske...
2023-02-20 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI finished clearing the floating island dungeon from the zone at coordinates (-2,4). I got my seventh upgrade for Acid Shot and went with size. The skills were nothing special or useful, Ice Lance, Summon: Battle Swordfish.
What was really interesting was if this zone was ...
2023-02-20 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI paused at the corner of the zone. There were darklands to the West of the zone I had just cleared with the ruined town dungeon. It was just after midnight, so they looked quite scary. Well Acid Shot had sixth upgrades and I wanted to see how bad the darklands were at night.
As I ...
2023-02-19 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI raced through the frostlands towards my neck dungeon and skill point. “Acid Shot,” I said and melted a dark blue centaur that created chains of ice out of the ground to try and trap me. Nice try, but that wasn’t going to happen.
If I got caught I would be in trouble, and wh...
2023-02-19 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Acid Shot,” x5. I melted another four-armed giant. They were about twice my height but they were incredibly annoying. After this next dungeon I would probably sleep in the mists. I had been going for quite a while and was starting to get tired.
I just needed to find this dunge...
2023-02-18 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI arrived to the Northwest of Normandy in a level 3 zone. It was mistlands. I began racing through it and knew where mental attacks were coming from. That was a nice upgrade after getting a thousand Mind stat to find the hidden monsters. “Acid Shot.”
Rabbits, big ones too. Abou...
2023-02-18 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“The report is as follows. The Divine Empress was spotted heading South from Wuhan. All forces in her path have been killed, but she is not seeking people out. Suspected destination is the Forbidden City. Estimated time of arrival day 796.”
“That is today,” I said.
“Yes, it ...
2023-02-17 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere were more void zones to the South of the two level 3 zones I had already cleared. I hesitated and then turned to my East. I wanted to check out another level 4 zone and to just check if there was another level 3 zone.
There could be a city hiding in the Northeast for all I knew. I rea...
2023-02-17 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI waited a distance aways for day to return looking at the mushroom terrain that was in constant flux. Mushrooms growing, changing colors, and then dying. The land itself seemed to shift up and down. It was just as trippy as I remembered from the first mushroom zone I had seen long ago.
The...
2023-02-16 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI easily completed three dungeons in level 2 zones, bringing my skills up to level 4. When upgrading to the next level I was offered the ability to adjust the skills slightly. I declined, since I was happy with how they all worked. Changing them would throw off my fighting style.
Once I too...
2023-02-16 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI walked through the plaza, surveying the melted buildings around me. There were no signs of life left that I could pick up on. Also, the crazy brain washed women had finally stopped rushing me. What an exhausting slog, but I considered it time well spent.
Going over to the store pillars, I...
2023-02-15 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post