Before Will left the UK, he sat down for a somewhat awkward cup of tea with Michael, Natalie, Caiyeri, and Jessie. It was mostly only awkward because they a) couldn’t figure out how to fit Jessie in a tea room and b) Jessie appeared to like the taste of tea, but regular teacups didn’t work fo...
2024-10-09 23:29:30 +0000 UTC View PostSen was going to have to put in a lot of work here, but it seemed that Henry was at least somewhat aware of Will’s familiar. While his city-wide influence wasn’t on the same level of Cross’, the Blizzard Arcanist had a skill that reduced parts of the city to a temperature so low that Sen’...
2024-10-03 03:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostWill hadn’t read up much on Henry, but information on him was apparently scarce. He hadn’t been anyone important before the apocalypse had hit, just like Will. What little they did know about the Blizzard Arcanist wasn’t even enough to pick him out in a lineup, though it did confirm that in...
2024-09-29 06:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostWill ended up staying an extra three hours, but Natalie didn’t mind after he told her exactly why he was going to be so delayed. During that time, he made some arrangements with Regina. She wasn’t exactly happy that he was practically giving orders to the nation, but she’d acknowledged that...
2024-09-26 07:29:02 +0000 UTC View PostWill reabsorbed the bulk of the corruption he’d thrust outwards, focusing it around him and using his demonic eye to spot and kill the worst of the ash-plague that was everywhere in here. His passive mana expenditure was even higher in here than it had been when Equilibrium Mantle had been work...
2024-09-21 07:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostLance was a slippery piece of shit.
Granted, Will had expected that to be the case. Killing Cross had been—well, easy was the wrong term for it, because he’d still needed to push himself to the limit to chase the Necromancer through all of his constant teleports as well as...
2024-09-18 23:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostCross had been Xavier Jenkins once, but that man had been weak. Willing to compromise. He had been forged in the crucible of another world, and now he had strength. The years away had been long but fruitful.
When he had come back, he had curled his lip at what he saw. The world had ended. I...
2024-09-17 02:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Nynn could fully recover from the effect of the stolen Peace skill, Will called Aza, drawing the familiar to his side, and teleported as far away as he physically could, which meant all the way to the few of Sen’s eyes he’d stored in Australia.
Aza, sensing a connection to the Dr...
2024-09-08 23:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostWill’s ability to stay in the Beyond was limited only by his soul. He was suddenly very grateful for his repeated insistence on torturing himself, which was becoming a disturbing trend. Thanks to the amount of stress he’d put himself through, he had enough capacity to remain in here for a whi...
2024-09-05 05:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post[Instant Death selected.]
Zero teleported even as Caiyeri’s bullet burst from the gun, flying off into the deep abyss.
“You don’t have to tell your friend to back off,” the template said. “That might make this fair.”
“I don’t need ‘fair,’” ...
2024-09-01 20:58:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t the sum total of Peace’s efforts. Will could practically feel it in the air. The goddess was blatantly violating plausibility, spending her own reserves to do this—but it didn’t feel like a final effort. Peace was possibly the only deity that Will had had a conversation with w...
2024-08-29 18:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostTitle: [Heretic]
Very rare
A title awarded to those who dare to defy gods time and time again. There’s more of you than you might think. There’s also fewer of you that survive than you might hope.
Increases ...
2024-08-25 22:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of minutes earlier, Will had stepped into the Beyond.
At first, it had been simple enough. Nynn was no current Dread Executor, but he was familiar enough with the Beyond to advise Will on it, at least. Ayla had made a brief appearance, detecting a significant presence there, but sh...
2024-08-23 04:51:23 +0000 UTC View PostRequisitioning a plane proved to be more complicated than Will had hoped it would be. Now that his point of contact with the ESNA had been bumped up from Commander Charlie to Supreme Comander Regina, he’d been a little warier of requesting stuff from them. He asked anyway, but it looked l...
2024-08-21 05:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re taking this better than last time,” Ayla said.
“I’m getting used to it,” Will replied. He sighed. “Please don’t tell me this is going to be a get-this-done-now-or-the-world-ends thing again? I mean, it’s fine if it is, but I don’t like the pattern this has been f...
2024-08-17 03:38:22 +0000 UTC View Post[Power] advanced from Silver 2 to Silver 5.
[Speed] advanced from Silver 7 to Silver 8.
[Affinity] advanced from Silver 5 to Silver 7
[Soul] advanced from Silver 6 to Silver 9.
[Perception] advance...
2024-08-13 09:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post“For a goddess of Peace, this piece of shit is really good at being violent,” Will complained.
“Gods become what they are through violence,” Yui replied, glaring at the burnt remains of what had been a hotel before several tons of TNT had been teleported into it.
Natha...
2024-08-10 03:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostAll remaining instances of [Blessed] and [Purified] have been consumed to restore the life force consumed by [Ravenous Feast].
Will kept a careful thousand eyes out for the people teleporting back in. There had been a couple of fatalities, though none had been people who po...
2024-08-07 20:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: Sorry for delay. Jet lag has gotten me REALLY bad. Almost recovered, though. Hope this is the last delay.
Will, of course, had not missed anything. Just like with the Beyond, the time he’d spent in Desecrated Bond didn’t accurately reflect the amount that...
2024-08-04 07:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostOne upside of getting tossed into the constant mess of bullshit that gods were getting Will into was that he was not caught off guard at all by the suddenness with which his soul was transported into a space that wasn’t this world.
This wasn’t exactly the same as Vyx, Sadareth, or Kadae...
2024-07-28 07:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: I misnumbered a chapter like 18 chapters ago and just noticed. It's been fixed now, so this is actually c112, not c111. Enjoy!
Caiyeri, Nynn, and Wisteria had been in the superdungeon for under an hour and had already almost died five times.
Almost dyin...
2024-07-22 14:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostProgress to [Eternal Throne]: [76/100]
Will wondered if word was getting around about the failed assassination attempts or if it was just his aura being weird again. The odd looks from everyone he passed by was pretty par for the course, he was pretty sure, but it was start...
2024-07-21 15:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostElsewhere, a certain elf was quietly bemoaning the cold when she became aware of two presences approaching her.
“This is not where I would have expected to find you,” Nynn said, amused.
“You can blame Australia for that,” Caiyeri said, her jacket glowing lightly with the mana ...
2024-07-18 10:42:23 +0000 UTC View PostSpeaking with gods exhausted the soul, Will had learned from experience. He usually overwhelmed that exhaustion by simply experiencing crushing amounts of pain through his regularly scheduled torture sessions that were what amounted to soul training for him.
Now that he was on one of the ra...
2024-07-16 08:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostThat new hero in town is back. Do not cross her. Do not speak to her. If you see her, run for your life. She’s goddamn fucking insane.
- Internal communications recovered from West Lafayette villain Pine, 2024
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It was strange how only a few days could change a place ...
2024-07-15 10:06:12 +0000 UTC View PostAza got the memo. His wings spread immediately, covering Will in golden light even as a cornucopia of explosives tumbled out of the portal that had opened right above his head.
If there was any time to start burning through his mana reserves, it was now. As Sen’s eyes saw the combination ...
2024-07-13 08:39:23 +0000 UTC View PostNot one day into the summit and Will was already getting a headache. After system integration, he had learned that he was exceptionally good at killing things and fighting against individuals that were far greater than him. What he was significantly less skilled at was dealing with fucking po...
2024-07-11 15:09:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe city of Geneva had gone relatively untouched by the dungeons populating the world thanks to a combination of a lucky draw with only low-rank dungeons spawning in the area, a relative lack of Arcadian infrastructure clashing with the existing city, and a heavy high-rank presence in the city br...
2024-07-10 03:52:23 +0000 UTC View PostYou have advanced to Silver 6! 2 attribute points gained.
A number of system messages scrolled past Will’s eyes, some of them less comprehensible than the others, but his language skill slowly translated them.
Not for the first time, he wondered how much Omnilingual...
2024-07-08 14:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostWill wasn’t entirely sure how he felt about leaving the gestalt alone in a dubiously populated area, but neither his aura senses nor Sen had detected people in the area. He figured that the sudden and brutal death of a good chunk of their leadership would keep the life elves from wanting to int...
2024-07-07 05:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post