“This is different,” Gerling said. “I can feel it.”
Gerling and his team were in a city of graceful, narrow spires and islands floating in the air on beds of cloud. Bridges connected the floating islands to each other, while columns of light connected them to the ground, with elevat...
2021-04-22 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason was painted red, both from his own blood and that of his enemies. He ignored it for the moment as he pulled a clear crystal orb from his inventory.
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Item: [Genesis Reclamation Core] (transcendent rank, legendary)
A magic...
2021-04-21 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe lone female vampire was seemingly the one most feared by the other vampires. After she agreed to join Jason in his conquest of the transformation zone, the four males looked at her and went off by themselves to discuss. From their expressions, the discussion was forceful and unfriendly. In th...
2021-04-20 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“The necromancer was surprisingly easy to get on board,” Jason said. “It’s likely that the powers we’ve seen are the extent of his unlocked abilities.”
“Perhaps,” Mr North said. “Or perhaps he wasn't so much eager to join our side as to leave the one he was on. It takes an...
2021-04-19 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason and Mr North were in an air-conditioned building at the edge of Jason’s territory, watching the border where it met the claimed territory of persons yet unknown. It was one of the surface buildings of Jason’s city, chosen for the second-storey viewpoint through a large window. They were...
2021-04-16 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s latest territory finished transmuting.
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“This is the part where we go out and save the world,” Mr North said.
He and Jason were still in the mezzanine lounge.
“No,” Jason said. “This is the part where you stay here until I come back and get you.”
“You have something better to do?”
“Mr North, on...
2021-04-14 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMr North stepped from unclaimed territory into Jason’s spirit domain. He was in the bottom of a rocky canyon, with sulphurous vents letting out steam from the volcanic activity below. He scaled the canyon wall with the same adroitness his true spider form would have had and then walked to the t...
2021-04-13 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason ducked into one of Shade’s bodies and vanished, right before a huge gobbet of webbing splashing into the shadowy familiar. Despite Shade’s incorporeal form, the potent magic on the webbing sent him flying backwards and pinned his body to the wall of the vast cavern. The energy in the we...
2021-04-12 23:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostG'day all. Shirt here with the long-awaited volume 2 PDF bundles. My assistant and I have been working on these for some time, because these are the error-corrected versions based on all the comments left in the typos channel on discord. I wanted to get these out earlier but with the Amazon launc...
2021-04-12 07:09:02 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Jason expanded his spirit domain into a fourth territory, the enemies were growing truly dangerous. Although extremely weak for their rank, they were still gold-rank entities and with each territory Jason claimed, the attacking anomalies grew stronger. In the previous transformation z...
2021-04-09 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe astral space was a fog-filled realm of dilapidated manors and ruined castles, rising from a sea of mist. They were connected by crumbling stone bridges that spanned between them and Jason’s instincts told him that descending into the mist would be a Very Bad Idea. With poor visibility and m...
2021-04-08 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter arriving in France, Jason created a modest boat from his cloud flask on an isolated stretch of the river Furan. The plan was to get some proper rest and make plans before heading downriver to Saint-Étienne. It also gave Travis time to modify the nuke, as well as instruct Jason and Farrah o...
2021-04-07 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTravis skittered around to Farrah’s side of the table.
“Ohmygodthatwasterrifying.”
He warily glanced over at Ingrid.
“And weirdly kind of hot.”
Ingrid and Farrah both turned flat looks on him.
“What?” he asked them.
“I get it,” Jason said, app...
2021-04-06 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“There are offices in the back of the warehouse,” Ingrid said. “We can sit down and talk there.”
As acting head of security for the weapon stockpile facility, Ingrid directed her team to secure the warehouse now that Jason and Farrah were no longer the chief concern. Ingrid knew tha...
2021-04-05 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe two ancient vampires watched their small army of ghouls burning and rotting at the same time. The ghouls were eerily quiet as they burned and died without making noise beyond the crackle and pop of flames burning their flesh. It was the screams of the lesser and lower-ranked vampires caught a...
2021-04-02 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason had been through months of unrelenting pressure, fighting and walking the knife-edge between life and death. He'd even slipped off it, although at least he had come back, unlike Kaito, Greg and Asya.
Taking a day to spend time with friends and family was like opening a release valve. ...
2021-04-01 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason didn’t ask any more about Mr North’s cryptic clues. Unless he was willing to try and torture the information out of him he wouldn’t be forthcoming and Jason wasn’t ready to take that step. In any case, Mr North seemed to know more about spirit domains than Jason himself and had ente...
2021-03-31 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe ute pulled up a little way from the pagoda, due to the level of destruction around it. The gold-rankers trying to dig up any treasures had focused on the pagoda itself, the area around it looking less like an urban street than a motocross arena.
Vermillion continued his discontented mum...
2021-03-30 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe transport Helicopter carried eight passengers, descending into what had once been a grassy paddock, close to the Global Defence Network camp.
The helicopter landed and the passengers disembarked. Akari Asano was the first to step out, her eyes panning the landscape. She took in the past...
2021-03-29 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s spirit domain was a small city in western Slovakia. In the month since the dome around it came down, several gold-rankers had been exploring it, going in and searching, only to leave when the hostile effects applied to intruders grew dangerous. They would break into houses, smash their ...
2021-03-26 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason emerged from a node space portal, satisfied with the results. He opened a regular portal and returned to the cloud palace, still masquerading as desert ruins.
“How was it?” Farrah asked as they sat down, looking out over the desert.
“I’m pretty sure it’s going to work,...
2021-03-25 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason and Farrah were sitting in a cabin on the cloud boat, going over the gains from Jason’s adventures in the transformation zone. The biggest were two items he had looted from the vampirically-transformed gold-ranker, Tran. The first was a bracelet; a simple loop of marbled red and black sto...
2021-03-24 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostGold-rankers, silver-rankers and even a few bold bronze-rankers went storming into the dome as it broke down. Once it was entirely gone and the transformed area revealed for all to see, even more followed.
Gerling still stood patiently, observing. Usually, a transformation zone turned an ar...
2021-03-23 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason looked out at the swirling rainbow energy beyond the pagoda. A moment of desperation had led him to dive into it while in the star phoenix form following his latest resurrection. The energy that had passed through him in that unusual state had once more heightened his understanding of the a...
2021-03-22 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s star phoenix form was impervious to almost any form of attack, with transcendent damage being a critical exception. His aura could downgrade transcendent damage, but with a diamond-ranker suppressing his aura that would not come into effect. He chose, then, to risk diving into the storm...
2021-03-19 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostStanding on the balcony on the pagoda’s top floor, Jason surveyed his spirit domain, stretching off into the distance. He felt his connection to the vast territory, as if it were part of him.
“Stabilise the transformation zone.”
A tremor immediately rocked the pagoda and did not...
2021-03-18 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason continued to extend his spirit domain over the industrial wasteland city, seeking to master the battle trance as he fought hordes of anomalies. Although he had touched upon the trance once, it was not a state that he easily found his way into. In some fights, he managed it and others not. 2021-03-17 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jason kicked the zombie cyborg in the chest and it stumbled back off the edge of the roof, falling to the concrete below.
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“I don’t like this place,” J...
2021-03-16 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post