Cyril Sarnath

Chapter 216: A Kind of Silence (Interlude)

This is extra chapter for you guys :)

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“A proposal.”

A proposal… of course. Mother hasn’t come for a chat. Vivena had known it from the moment she had learned of her mother’s arrival and yet it stung a little. However, with her high Mind attribu...

Chapter 215: Is this the end of an era? (Interlude)

First of all, the chapter got a little out of hand and I had to end it in a weird place. The next chapter will continue the conversation between Vivena and her mother as this is quite crucial (that is why I didn't want to rush it just to finish). If I have enough time I will try to get bonus chap...

Chapter 214: Formations

Keynes sighed. Exhaustion was catching up with him. It had been weeks since he started doing interviews. Things had gone smoothly, mostly. It turned out that not everybody had the same tolerance for risk as him or Kora. Some people panicked feeling trapped by the spacesuits, others didn’t want ...

Chapter 213 Milestone

Still waiting for the book to be released on Amazon ;/

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Willow Croft’s eyes gleamed with desire but his spiritual aura told Keynes a more profound story of what was going through the ex-World Government rift specialist’s head. An excitement of such magnitude that it made...

Chapter 212: Mana Storage

Hey everyone,

Regarding publication the first book, I stumbled into a wall. Amazon doesn't want to publish my book because I cannot give them proof I hold the publishing rights. Which is fucking bollocks and the worst part is I feel like I am talking to a literal wall.

All because som...

Chapter 211 Chain of Command

Permanent Mana Storage has been upgraded from 0 to 2050.

Keynes blinked, unsure if was seeing it correctly. Was that a System message about the spaceship’s upgrade?

“Wait, is the ship part of the System?” he asked, confused.

“Aren’t we all?” t...

Chapter 210 Visage

In the end, the egg issue was solved by Rell, and its simplicity made Keynes question his own intellect. Luckily, he wasn’t the only one.

Rell’s idea narrowed the scope of what they were trying to do with the tunnel. Instead of building a safe passage, it was easier, quicker and cheaper...

Chapter 209 Game-changer

Keynes had told them about the bond egg in the rift and his plans to move the egg to the shuttlecraft. The news was met with an awkward silence. Oh, boy, I messed up, didn’t I?

Even Alice didn’t comment on his internal thoughts.

Despite his earlier words, this wasn’t wh...

Chapter 208 Leadership

Hey, thanks for your patience. I got you the chapter! Also, I wanted to remind you that this arc is mostly focused on base building from very very scratch. Wars and such will follow.

Moreover, we are getting closer to a interlude involving several characters from Earth.

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Chapter 207 Egg

Hey everyone! One thing of note in today's chapter. Monsters have tags instead of details. This is a change I introduced while editing the first book.

Also, I would love to know what do you think about the new saga. I knew it just started, but I wonder how does it look from your perspective...

Chapter 206 Willow's Theory

Willow muttered to himself, nearly being overwhelmed by excitement. The absolutely, incredibly, fantastic technological marvel of the spaceship, dropship and spacesuits could only be rivalled by the thrill of exploring a new rift.

To stand inside an extraterrestrial rift made Willow beyond ...

Chapter 205 Settled Dilemma

Jedd put a glass of water away, making sure to not disturb the immaculate arrangement on his desk. In his mind, he thanked himself for the hundredth for his insightful thinking and picking up [Create Water] as his quarterly compensation as Keynes’s personal assistant.

It hadn’t been a r...

Chapter 204 Alien Effect

Killing the rock serpent didn’t clear the rift, which confirmed the obvious: there were more of them. Keynes considered bringing either Persephone or Natalia inside.

The risk factor for Natalia Kowalska and Persephone inside this rift is 0.

The AI informed ...

Chapter 203 Desire

Keynes tuned out the voices of his crew congratulating him. As much as he wished to participate in the celebration, his mission weighed on him. He thanked Jedd on the private channel and turned to the task at hand. Given the ridiculous cost of the mission and their dwindling supplies, they needed...

Chapter 202 (Landfall)

hey, I ended up rewriting the entire chapter and using only a few scraps here and there. I almost ended up committing the same mistake as I had done in the beginning of the story by making Keynes miserable. There is some truth that authors like their protagonists to suffer.

Not t...

I'm postponing chapter 202

I am not happy with the tone and level of detail of this chapter so I decided to spend more time on editing or rewriting it.

With the beginning of this arc, I made a decision to focus more on quality and not rush ahead.

Also, the first book has 32 chapters edited (out of 35) so soon y...

Chapter 201 (Interlude)

Several hours before the end of the second dominion

The surrounding area of the Inner Sanctuary swarmed with ascenders. Their overwhelming presence brought the dominion monsters to near extinction. Although the dominion monsters weren’t the reason why a million o...

Chapter 200

This was HARD as this is a kind of ending of Earth saga for Keynes. I will still write about Earth but through eyes of different people. Keynes's journey is now elsewhere :)

I know the encoutner with Vivena is different but there certain reason for that.

- rewrite already erased that ...

Chapter 199

Merry Christmas everyone. Chapter 200 will be the end of the current arc. From Chapter 201, things will escalate, pace and scope will increase. I will also do more skips.

After Chapter 200, I am going to taka a month of break to recharge my batteries and plan future arcs. 

I woul...

Chapter 198

Kora sighed with satisfaction as she finished replacing soil. It wasn’t the process itself that was exhausting but their circumstances. They were in the middle of ‘garden war’ and no matter how silly it sounded, it was anything but.

While these gardens here were simplified, Kora had s...

Chapter 197

Alice sensed change in the spiritual landscape. It was unlike anything she had felt since her ‘awakening’ in this place. A powerful spiritual impulse swept through the surroundings, briefly freezing the spiritual life.

The spiritual realm was nothing like the physical one. Though Alice ...

Chapter 196

Hey everyone, we are getting very close to the conclusion of the arc. My aim is two chapters but to do so, they would have to be long ones, so I am not sure it will happen, but on the other hand, I am planning a christmas break so I'm going to try hard to make it happen.

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Chapter 195

Congratulations!

You have acquired a Technique of Focus.

Keynes sighed, relieved. It was quite a ride and his brain felt wrung out, completely. At some point he had lost a track of time and followed the pattern that hardened his focus into laser-like ...

Chapter 194

Hey everyone, just a quick message. I am planning to soon wrap up this arc with 3-4 chapters and then I will take a month break. After the break I am beginning another arc but it is very different from what we had so far. 

More time skips.

We're leaving Earth.

Harter's fate...

Chapter 193

Without Keynes’s [Purify] and away from their house, cleaning was an ordeal Kora wasn’t going to bother with. Her wounds had closed up already, leaving an itching echo. She also replaced her clothes after her guardian had returned to her the dimensional bag and the ring. She couldn’t do any...

Chapter 192

Keynes and Kora exchanged the snake’s parts and the quest for two elixirs called the Touch of Sublime Nature. They were prohibitively expensive but their guardian advised them to do it. The elixirs would vastly improve their connection with the dream tree and their gardens.

The e...

Chapter 191

"We can't trust her," Kora whispered.

That much was a given, and Keynes was surprised Kora even felt the need to verbalise it. He kept his focus on Sophia, who was smiling cynically.

"So, what's it going to be? Are you in or out?"

"Okay," Keynes finally said, sensing tension ema...

Chapter 190

“Torvac.”

Keynes exhaled not being aware he was holding his breath. The same scenario happened to almost everyone but the green-haired woman and Torvac who stared at the space between his feet. It appeared that he had expected it.

Keynes saw the sharp look that Torvac’s partner ...

Chapter 189

Hey everyone, I planned to write a longer chapter (including the results) but I have been feeling unwell the last week, which affected my productivity.

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In the early years of the outbreaks, there was a lot of misunderstanding about what should be prioritis...