Jack stood over a field of broken corpses. Ant corpses. He raised his gaze, going from their drying yellow blood to the dirt mound that dominated the distance. He tightened his fist.
After the pent-up frustrations of getting cheated and chased by the Animal Kingdom, letting loose was nice. ...
2023-03-09 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate on my personal ant war: I have squashed the living shit out of them. I believe they are overrun by fear, lack of supplies, and heavy casualties. Their numbers have dwindled drastically -- I only saw one ant today, which I promptly splattered.
The war effort is going brilliantly. And,...
2023-03-08 17:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday, I was writing about ants, and today, my house was invaded by those annoying tiny brown ants. How the turn tables.
But I'm on the lookout. I leave no food in the open. I kill them everywhere I see them. I will genocide them before they can multiply. I am at war.
Jack's fight...
2023-03-07 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragonfly shot at Jack like an arrow the size of an adult human. He turned around as fast as he could, but not fast enough. A set of sharp mandibles snapped at his arm, ripping off a good chunk of skin on the way.
“Holy shit!” Jack shouted, both in pain and surprise. He tried to gra...
2023-03-06 17:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Oof,” Jack said, panting. He and Brock had just climbed down a staircase that felt like it reached from the heavens to the earth. He didn’t even know how many miles down they’d traveled. Maybe a hundred.
Even for an E-Grade cultivator with almost two hundred Physical, it had not be...
2023-03-04 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostStars flew by Jack. There were hundreds of them, thousands. He saw galaxies swirling in the distance, their spires barely discernible even with his new senses. He saw something flashing periodically in the distance, and he saw a column of light stretching up and down from the center of a far-off ...
2023-03-03 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe people of Amethyst Mountain were stony, composed individuals. When immortals started fighting near their planet, leading to an explosion of fireworks, they only looked up to admire the view.
However, when a space shuttle barreled through the planet’s atmosphere, heading directly for t...
2023-03-02 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
Just a heads-up that I've changed my chapter-by-tier scheme. Before, it used to be 5-10-32(+1) chapters at the 3-5-10$ tiers respectively.
Now, it is 7-15-32(+1). Which means that you guys at the 5$ tier can now binge the entire final battle like the 10$ people did a few week...
2023-03-02 13:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Dordok faced the three Hounds in space. A blue and green planet hovered behind them, humongous beyond imagination. Dordok himself was only framed by stars and the Trampling Ram.
“We have no Jack on board,” he said furiously. He really was angry, but he was playing it up even mor...
2023-03-01 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post“In the name of the Animal Kingdom, surrender Jack Rust!”
The voice echoed through the starship, commanding authority and arrogance. But who could blame them? There were three immortals hovering before the Trampling Ram. Three!
Inside the starship, everyone swiveled to look at Jac...
2023-02-28 17:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostSpace cracked as the Trampling Ram pierced through it, sinking between its folds. Jack’s helmet pulled him along. The crocodile’s teeth snapped at nothing, and the tentacles of lower-level space monsters flailed ineffectively.
A frustrated roar was the last thing Jack heard before the d...
2023-02-27 17:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Trampling Ram flew forward as the three defenders stood on top of it. Bomn, Achilles, and Vashter stared down a horde of space monsters. To the side, Captain Dordok was desperately fighting to prevent the D-Grade monster from approaching the ship.
As they needed to stay close to the fig...
2023-02-25 17:37:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Horde?” Jack asked, starting to get worried. “What’s that?”
The captain didn’t reply. His eye increasingly wide, he rushed to the bridge, slamming the door open and not bothering to close it. Jack got a good look for the first time.
A ram-headed rod occupied the middle of...
2023-02-24 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Captain?” Jack said, knocking on the door. As the captain had only called him, he’d left Brock behind. “It’s Jared.”
“I know. Come in.”
Jack pulled the handle, opening the door. The captain’s cabin was a tidy mess of color. The walls were built to resemble polished ...
2023-02-23 17:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostJack made himself comfortable. He patted the floor before he sat, straightened his pants, shook his upper body once. There was great urgency, yes; but a few seconds of calmness before the storm could mean the world.
Beside him, Brock gave him a supportive pat on the back. Jack nodded. He c...
“Well?” Vlossana asked, jumping on a crate that lay by the side. Jack’s room, the currently unused cargo hold, didn’t have much in the way of furniture; just the hammock he’d made in the back, a chair and table that Vashter had brought him on the second day, and some old crates by the s...
2023-02-22 17:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
So, I have written today's chapter, but I discovered a significant plot hole literally five minutes ago. Jack has given everyone a fake name, but his species still shows as Human (Earth-387), and people should at least show curiosity about that planet -- either they know it, or they do...
2023-02-21 17:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostJack was in space. He was floating and covered in a thin film that protected him from the lack of pressure and heat, as well as the radiation. The Trampling Ram awaited behind him, several faces watching through the main room’s glass walls. The ship was standing still, of course; they’d stopp...
2023-02-20 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostJack felt space solidify around him. Another successful warp had just ended. With a deep breath of relief, he looked inside himself.
It had already been a week since he boarded the Trampling Ram. In that time, they had met no other starships, planets, or any sort of civilization. They were ...
2023-02-18 17:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostGan Salin understood the concept.
Yes, he’d fucked up. Yes, he had lost in single combat against Jack Rust, Vivi Eragorn, Li Xiang, and Edgar Allano. Yes, three of those fights had been broadcasted across Earth-387 and the Animal Kingdom home world. And yes, he had even been assaulted by ...
2023-02-17 17:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostNobody think we're going sci-fi, okay? This is the litrpg progression fantasy crew!
The majority of this Book 2 will be devoted to Trial Planet, which will be set in the litrpg-like settings we all know and love.
With that out of the way, enjoy the chapter!
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The Trampli...
2023-02-16 17:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Morningstar bar was precariously placed. Surrounded by five-hundred-foot falls on either side, it only had a flimsy fence protecting its patrons. Coupled with the cityscape stretching under it, it gave the impression of a bar in the sky—which it was, in a way.
In fact, the bar had com...
2023-02-15 17:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe docks reminded Jack of a rising waterdrop, like the ones that try to jump up when you throw a rock but don’t manage to dislodge themselves from the neck of water that ties them to the sea.
Jack thought it was close-by. It wasn’t. The building rose even higher than he had estimated, ...
2023-02-14 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe feshkur brandished his dagger, seeming eager to use it. “Did you hear me, brightskin?” he asked. “Credit card. Now.”
Jack blinked. Half an hour into the galaxy and I’m being robbed… He frowned. No, wait. Three hours, if we count the time I was unconscious.<...
2023-02-13 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostPretty chonky chapter. Have fun!
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Stars filled the sky, the ground, and everything in between. Brock was hurtling through space, feeling nothing but seeing everything. Meteors drifted by him, followed by long tails—but only when they were close to stars. Some meteors didn’t hav...
2023-02-11 17:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostJack Rust is back!!!
Hello again, everyone. My break was wonderful, and I am now back and stronger than ever! Prepare to tour the galaxy with the strongest, truest weapon -- the Fist.
Our release schedule will continue as is. Mon-Sat for Patreon, Mon-Fri for Royalroad (starting on Mon...
2023-02-10 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My first published series, Cultivator vs. System, is released as an omnibus, which clocks out at 37+ hours of pure fun for a single Audible credit. It can easily last you until Friday, when I expect to restart my normal publishing schedule for Road to Mastery. Have fun!
Aud...
2023-02-07 15:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostHere are three scenes I inserted into the book during the editing phase. You may have seen some of them, depending on when you started reading. Take this as the dessert after Book 1.
Thank you all for the kind comments on the previous chapter, and see you some time next week!
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<... 2023-02-04 17:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostJack ducked under a strike, then pivoted and smashed out his own. Rufus took it to the chest and whimpered, but his elbow came crashing down on Jack’s head, whose hair were now wet with blood. Jack barely pulled himself aside to evade the strike, right into a knee that crunched his nose further...
2023-02-03 17:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostJack smashed his fist into Rufus’s paw, then flickered to the side and ducked under a backhand swipe. The leonine stood in place, tall and proud, unleashing hits like an avalanche. He was a force of nature.
Jack met him hit for hit, but he was slowly pushed back. He was losing.
And ...
2023-02-03 17:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post