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2025-09-24 02:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 1682 - Awakening
Coming out of an evolution is always a bit of a weird feeling. I mean, if a human went to sleep and woke up in an entirely new body, they’d feel pretty weird.
For me, it’s even stranger than that. Not only do I change size and shape, but my insides get reorganised as well! New things ge...
2025-09-24 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1681 - Slowly Waking
I don’t really dream while in torpor. Technically, torpor and sleep are different states, I get that, but still, not-dreaming is one of the few things that I haven’t really gotten used to in my new life.
This, though? This… listless… bodiless experience I’m having right now… it...
2025-09-23 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1680 - Border Escalation
Merchant built many financial institutions, but perhaps the most enduring is the Colony Bank. Despite the obvious drawback of being run by monsters, the bank thrived in unexpected ways.
In an odd way, people were more willing to entrust their savings to ants, rather than less. ...
2025-09-22 02:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 63 - Ascension
When the Unseen smiled a final time and flicked a finger towards him, Tyron felt knowledge slam into his mind as it never had before. In an instant, his head felt like it would burst out of his skull. Runes and sigils engraved themselves into his brain, as if seared there with a branding i...
2025-09-20 09:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1679 - Monetisation
The Colony didn’t, and in many ways still doesn’t, understand money. There is no trade within the family, no exchange of any kind, for most ants. Almost none of them will ever have any sort of interaction with currency. Their needs are provided for, and they labour for the Colony gladly, ...
2025-09-19 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1678 - Shake Your Money Maker pt 8
“Enid Ruther, as I live and breathe! I’m surprised to see you out and about.”
With a golden monocle, broad moustache, and heavy paunch, Riggurt looked every inch the wealthy merchant baron that he was. Leaning heavily on her walking stick, Enid smiled and leaned in for a soft hug, pat...
2025-09-18 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1677 - Shake Your Money Maker pt 7
[Persuasion, Negotiation and Empathy. These Skills will fuse at rank four and become the foundation on which all of your success will be built. We should also investigate ways you can become a better trader through evolution. There must be organs and mutations that will help. Keep in mind, we can...
2025-09-17 03:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 62- Unseen but not Unheard
For a time, Tyron drifted in a field of white. He expected visions to assail him, strange truths and esoteric knowledge, as they did when the Unseen granted him a mystery, yet there was nothing.
What was happening to him? He’d reached level eighty, but the status ritual still wasn’t com...
2025-09-16 03:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 61 - Beyond Golden
So far, Tyron had selected six of the ten abilities he would be able to take as an Imperator of the Endless Horde, which meant there were six options he’d seen but passed over still on the list. In addition, there would be eight more for him to choose from that he’d never seen before, ...
2025-09-15 07:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1675 - Shake Your Money Maker pt 5
Note: Misnumbered the chapters. My bad. You get two to cover the mistake.
The first loss-making venture was a lemonade stand. Although the hatchling was indeed very diligent with what she dubbed ‘market research’, interviewing humans, observing the most walked paths in ...
2025-09-15 02:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1676 - Shake Your Money Maker pt 6
The hatchling stared at the empty, wooden bottom of her money chest. How was it empty? This shouldn’t be possible… it wasn’t possible. She had predicted the market perfectly!
There was a huge gap for artisanal ant carvings, there was literally nobody in Renewal making them! T...
2025-09-15 02:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 60 - Ascension
Author note: Going to be some retcon and rewrites which isn’t something I like to do, but I feel is correct in this instance.
I was pushing for a few scenes I thought would be cool and believed I needed Tyron to stay Gold for that, but I actually don...
2025-09-12 07:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1674 - Shake Your Money Maker pt 4
Of all the champions born to the Colony, it would be difficult to say which was the most disruptive. Solant is obviously a strong contender, reshaping the way the family approached war and instilling a… particular focus and drive towards victory that hadn’t existed before.
...
2025-09-12 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1673 - Shake Your Money Maker pt 3
When Jasper awoke, he didn’t imagine there would be anything particularly special about this day. He lived alone in a small house on the outskirts of the city, cheap enough that he’d been able to buy it when land prices were still low. As a fully functioning town, Renewal hadn’t been around...
2025-09-11 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 1672 - Shake Your Money Maker pt 2
Jasper was used to seeing ants about the place; they were in Renewal every day, after all. On a few occasions, he’d even been asked questions by them, quite the remarkable occasion. They had an insatiable curiosity about tea and sweet things like cakes and biscuits, and he’d answered as best ...
2025-09-10 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1671 - Shake Your Money Maker
Hatchlings worked their way through the Antcademies believing that the Eldest had a plan in mind for all of the castes. The soldiers were intended to fight on the frontlines, with the thickest carapaces and the strongest mandibles, serving as the swords and shields of the Colony. Generals were in...
2025-09-09 02:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1670 - Politicking
“We are worried about your future.”
It was an odd day. Alice Erry had not expected to be seated across from a monster when she had woken up that morning, yet indeed, here she was. The room itself was opulent, which shouldn’t be too surprising, considering whose ship it was.
Neut...
2025-09-08 04:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 59 - Near Death Experience
Drifting in the black was something Tyron had gotten used to, over the years. He preferred the darkness to the other possibility, the darkness was constant, steady, predictable and cold. While he slept, he came here sometimes, his consciousness simply existing in an endless void.
To ...
2025-09-05 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 58 - The Three Way Battle
Note: Let me know how you feel about this one. I'm not especially satisfied with it.
When the magick descended, the sphere dissipated to reveal a more sizable undead horde within. Rather than stitched abominations, these were horrific, bat-like ghouls of varyi...
2025-09-05 04:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1669 - Security
Odren the Father of Monsters is both well known, as far as Ancients go, yet also shrouded in mystery. The Origin Cult who worship him aren’t particularly helpful in this regard. Ask two of them the same question and you are liable to get five different answers.
As far as we c...
2025-09-05 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1668 - Serve the Path
It has long been assumed amongst the cults that Braxxin is a type of monster known as a titan, though we have no idea where in the Dungeon they may originate. More accurately, if they are known to any amongst the cults, they have chosen not to share it with this author.
Due to ...
2025-09-04 02:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1667 - Border Tensions
Ruminominex is a creature of change and flux. The Shaper of Earth creates and destroys in a constant cycle, guided only by her own inexplicable design.
There are some who suspect the Ancient is an elemental of stone or earth, but the cultists who worship her do not believe so. ...
2025-09-03 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1666 - Shifts in the Sanctum Part 3
Alongside Carriflare, Kygar the Storm Bringer is agreed to most likely be an elemental that has reached the pinnacle of evolution. A creature of storm, lightning and wind, Kygar is a destructive entity by its nature, yet those who dream of the Ancient amongst the Cloud cult speak of the wisdo...
2025-09-02 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1665 - Shifts in the Sanctum Part 2
Many assume that Perrianon of Blood and Horgran the Butcher are more similar than they are. Horgran is, from what we know, a beast of unfathomable strength and appetite for death, a creature of endless violence. Perrianon is not obsessed with blood, or the spilling of it. Perrianon IS blood.&...
2025-09-01 03:44:16 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 57 - Deep Waters
The moment the battle started, Tyron knew he was out of his depth. While he might be considered powerful in his home realm, with an army of undead at his command and a great talent for magick, in this place, he was nothing.
He raised his hands and began to cast, words of power thunde...
2025-08-31 00:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostB5 Chapter 56 - Awaiting the Lords
A swift march across the dunes proved too difficult for Tyron to maintain, so he eventually relented and allowed his minions to carry him. Magick, he could easily supply, balance, not so much.
Dove shouted and harangued him the whole way, though Tyron largely tuned him out. Instead, he let ...
2025-08-29 06:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1664 - Shifts in the Sanctum Part 1
Far to the west of the lands claimed by the golgari, over the sunken ocean and beyond the Burning Islands, the vast area known as the Somnos
Legends say that Horgran the Butcher is sustained by slaughter, that the fields of death left in his wake are all that he needs to survive. The Ha...
2025-08-29 02:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPAX AUS PANEL AND SUCH
Hey there folks!
It's that time of year again, PAX AUS is kicking off the 10th and 12th of October and I will be making an appearance on the litrpg panel on the sunday!
They haven't finalised times yet, so that could change, and I'll post again when it does.
So if you want to co...
2025-08-28 05:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post