Armaments of the soul was an incredible skill, limited only by Arthur's inability to use it properly. That didn’t matter much when he shot his crude soul spear at seven times the speed of sound via water shot. It was on a direct collision course with the larges...
2024-03-07 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight had been going so well. Arthur had deployed his skills and began the process of steadily whittling down Henderson, the man with the greatest potential as a blood beast. Had he been given his full twenty seconds of predicted time to work with, he was certain he could have killed the mons...
2024-03-05 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostAyesha Murker ran through the street as fast as she could, her best friend and trusted seer Iris dogging her footsteps. She discarded her shoes the moment she’d exited the car, luxury high-heels that quite literally fell apart because of how quickly she’d removed them. Right now, however, she...
2024-02-29 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostArthur was surprised he wasn’t reacting more strongly from the crowd of rude people hammering at his door- judging by the number of voices he could hear, there was certainly more than one. After facing down a hydra and jumping down its gullet, this drama, whatever it was, just felt so tedious.<...
2024-02-27 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur’s trek back to civilization took a little over two hours. As opposed to the blistering speed he’d travelled at to first get to the locus, he returned home at a slow walk. The outskirts of the city had changed a lot since the system’s arrival. Too far from the city proper, many of the...
2024-02-22 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe once silent forest exploded into motion. The man with the rocket launcher dropped his weapon- it had proved useless already- and instead raised his hands to cast some magic. A female Lorak rushed at Arthur, carved dagger clenched in her hands, she was moving fast, with a grace that belied her...
2024-02-20 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that Arthur had gotten a little mixed up on the details. Understandable really when someone decided it was a good idea to hit him with a rocket launcher of all things just as he was reading his friend's warning note. The weapon was magically enhanced in one way or the other, certain...
2024-02-15 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostIssania and Arthur sat at a small table with a teapot between them, all items the elf had summoned from her storage device. It was, in her words, a graduation dinner of sorts, even though the locus prevented her from retrieving any of the high-level cuts of meat from her ring. They were apparentl...
2024-02-13 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWater offered little protection against electricity, so when Issania sent a literal bolt of lightning at Arthur’s chest, she expected him to be down for the count. Understandable really. No one could fault her thought process. Unfortunately for her, Arthur had long transcended the limits of rat...
2024-02-08 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostDon't worry, guys. Arthur will be exiting the locus very soon. This fight will be finished in the next chapter.
Chapter begin->
“In all my years of teaching across dozens of worlds, single lessons and long apprenticeships, I can say, Mr Ward, that you rank a...
2024-02-06 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIssania stood before her student and took in his blurred form. With the system's obfuscation in place, Ward’s race remained unknown. Having humanoid proportions did little to narrow down such an expansive list. Nonetheless, the observations she’d made over the past four and a half hours meant...
2024-02-01 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur closed his eyes, trying to ignore the twitching in his limbs as he thrust his spear for what felt like the thousandth time. It probably was. The pain in his muscles felt like an electric current was constantly running through them and half his focus was spent making sure an involuntary spa...
2024-01-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostTen years later, in his retelling of today's events, Arthur would love to say he’d taken the knight's proclamations in his stride, that he’d moved forwards like monsters talking to him was just another Tuesday. Unfortunately, reality painted a far less flattering picture, and Arthur stood the...
2024-01-25 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe final wave of the test of endurance was different to its predecessors in that it consisted of only a single enemy, the Archon knight at level 201, a full 21 levels higher than any of the previous beasts he had faced. He wasn't sure if he was remembering things correctly, but most monsters ten...
2024-01-23 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was an impulsive decision. Arthur didn’t walk into the fight aiming to catch a massive two-handed war-axe going for his throat. It sort of just happened. The reasonable choice would have been a single step backwards which would have allowed the blade of decapitation to swing by harmlessly; e...
2024-01-11 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur stretched as he waited the final sixty seconds before the final floor started. His body felt far more limber than it ever had before, courtesy of the reforging the Dragons Will had put his body through. He was almost certain he could give a contortionist a run for their mo...
2024-01-09 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur paced around the Tree of Life, rolling a golden apple pit in his hand. It started dissolving into motes of light, mirroring the degradation process that was taking place on the tree it had come from. It turned out that the reward for this floor was the fruit on the tree, and they'd gotten ...
2024-01-04 23:42:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis was it, the moment that would dictate the course his life would take. It was the first true step onto the path of power, the beginning of the journey that would take him to the top or leave him forgotten in the fields of mediocrity. Well, with my current status, I guess no one will ever ...
2024-01-02 23:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostArthur looked up from the system notification to see Alyssia staring expectantly at him. “So, did it work? Is your soul fixed?” She asked the questions so fast his brain struggled to decode the sound waves that reached him. With her aura-reading skills, Arthur was certain she already knew the...
2023-12-28 22:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon's core shone with golden luminescence, so bright it was like someone had plucked the sun out of the sky and placed it in his hands. It was also extremely hot to touch, enough that Alyssia had retreated backwards to avoid getting burnt. With his recent upgrades in vitality and the rest ...
2023-12-27 00:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostEating the Hydra’s core had changed Arthur almost as much as the enhancement of his previous ninety-four levels had. Consuming it had given him an upgraded affinity, his first epic skill and three new titles. Sure one of those represented a timer to his imminent demise, but it was still classed...
2023-12-26 00:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostArthur floated in limbo, a dull ache suffusing his entire body. He was wide awake, he’d never lost consciousness in the first place, but it was taking him a while to get himself moving. Trying to call out for water resulted in unintelligible grumbles you’d need an epic translation skill to un...
2023-12-20 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tree of Life was well... larger than life, an existence so large you’d have to stand a kilometre away just to observe it all. Contrary to its name though, it was a barren thing, with no leaves present on its thousand branches, free of any foliage and the usual critters that signalled the pr...
2023-12-16 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostMinor edits have been made to the requirements for grade boundaries in terms of stat totals. S rank has gone up from 3000 to 5000+.
Even through the numbing agent, Arthur could feel the massive influx in power killing the hydra had given him. It was without ...
2023-12-13 23:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is Saturdays chapter which was delayed a bit. Next Chap- Wednesday
The moments following Arthur's dangerous skill use were some of the strangest in his life. Something happened, he knew that but his low perception and intelligence...
2023-12-11 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostArthur was surrounded in darkness, walls of pulsating flesh surrounding him on each side. His skin bubbled and sizzled, stuck in a regenerative loop of decay and healing as his vitality battled against the caustic blood surrounding him. His blood was in constant motion, his hands cutting and ripp...
2023-12-07 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out the apocalypse beast at 30% strength was still a force to be reckoned with. The fight had started off well enough. A minute after the purple orb had formed, it had expanded rapidly to encompass the space the hydra had initially fled. Only Alyssia’s warnings had kept him from attac...
2023-12-01 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur was poised, ready to act. He stood on the edge of the greatest battle of his life waiting for Alyssia’s signal to come. He felt it, a small prod on the back of his head and he unleashed his magic. The shadow bomb exploded- the greatest one he’d ever created- in an entirely ordinary dis...
2023-11-28 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostOkay guys. I made a mistake in the order of chapter postings and I'm very sorry. This chapter was supposed to be released before the previous one so you'd all get a nice fight with no interruptions. Interludes in-between fights are one of my biggest pet-peeves. Unfortunately, because of my mis or...
2023-11-27 00:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostArthur glanced briefly at his status, going over the temporary additions it had received. First came the debuff he’d been placed under by close proximity to the lesser Hydra. Then came a small subsection denoting the stored healing affinity he’d placed there for himself and Alyssia last night...
2023-11-17 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post