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302: Scratches in the Wall

[Author note: Patreon now 16 chapters ahead! I'm hoping within a couple months I'll be able to get it up to 20 ^^]

The crowd roared and chanted, and for once everyone in it seemed happy. Those from Shenra cried out Xuejing’s name, and those from Earth bellowed Nicolai’s. Both fel...

301: Wonderful

After a couple minutes slipping from rock to rock, Nicolai was in position behind the Cultivator’s fortification. He was using a method he’d come up with himself to observe.

By pushing his Soul Sense through the rock between him and them, and having just the tiniest dot of it emerge fro...

300: Moving Up In The World

Zixiao and the others peered down at the valley below. Lush greenery packed between thick orange walls, and on either end a tide of blood-red mist squeezing ever tighter.

‘Still down there, right below,’ muttered Maodan, the oldster standing beside him and leaning over so far that it’...

299: Friendly Faces

There were definitely more hiding in this valley. He anticipated they were all lurking in bushes and by the walls. Apart from him, Jex, and the Nara Cultivator, the Modules estimated between ten and fifteen others.

Nicolai wasn’t concerned about them. Ultimately, he had to assault that po...

298: The Valley

‘That is him, isn’t it?’ spoke Hanwei.

Jian started slightly, surprised. Hanwei had been silent for some time, ignoring his father’s attempts at small talk as he focused on his sister’s performance.

His father glanced at the screens, then nodded, face widening in a genial sm...

297: Red Mist

Nicolai settled into the very same position Pal had occupied, up until the moment he’d popped his Burst Shield with one spiritual palm strike from his bionic arm, then finished him with a stab from the bionic’s built-in talon.

He really needed to get himself a shield-penetrating Artifac...

296: Mindgames

The barbarian was striding forward, a grimace of focus on his malformed, half-metal features. Those arms were tough. Xuejing’s Artifact Blades were capable of cutting through iron when active, and she’d had some success against some barbarian tools and weapons. Others, like this, were made fr...

295: Storyteller

In the high-up, quickly-made fortress, questions and accusations were being thrown around. Zixiao stood in the middle of it all, weathering them with a wide, calm smile.

‘This ruins everything,’ grumbled Luo, frowning heavily at him. ‘What was the point in me building all of this? We ...

294: Battle Royale

'What the hell is that?' said Pal, staring at the distant movement—the shifting and rising of earth, and the odd motion of a waterfall.

Zooming in with his bionic eye, Nicolai saw faint signs of Cultivators over there, though they were swiftly being covered. He noted the fleeing Cultivato...

293: Tracking

Zixiao chuckled, gazing around at the frowns now adorning the brows of those around. While he did so, Xuejing watched him. Him, and all the rest. Fellow Shenrans all, but not allies, not outside of this moment.

A scattering from various clans and minor Sects, lone Cultivators, perhaps even ...

292: Campers

‘Tracks,’ said Pal in a low voice.

Nicolai nodded. Footprints and disturbed undergrowth showed the direction the group of Cultivators had headed. Based on the scale there had been quite a few. No less than ten, no more than fifteen.

One wrapped in a shimmer poncho, the other activ...

291: Jungle Warfare

The arena was different to last time. Rather than an empty city, Nicolai appeared in an exceedingly mountainous patch of jungle.

He was on a grassy bank before a large pool, in an area made secluded by the cliffs rising all around. A waterfall poured down the cliff ahead, churning the pool....

290: An Offer

The stands were already filling. Just as last time, they were full of Cultivators and cyborgs together, all excited about the tournament to come. Many were here to gamble on the results, others to see further examples of how technology and cultivation compared, the strategies used.

Though t...

289: Nara Clan

The scam was simple, which was important. Based on what the Person in the hole had said, and Nicolai’s understanding of the rules, this wouldn’t be considered using some tricky loophole. It was simply… good business.

Nicolai took up position amongst the crowd of Earthborn. He put the ...

288: Tea

Nicolai led Wu—and the drone following her—to the Trade Link, and there they both made several cheap purchases. He’d discussed what they needed, both for losing her tail, and the plan to come. After that, he checked the drone hadn’t followed them inside, then they both entered their porta...

287: Market Quest

Nicolai opted to pause and break in some of his new Symbiotes before continuing to the Market. He did so back in his base, and there also discovered a benefit of the Infiltrator. The Modules within it were able to break-in Symbiotes, though quite slowly.

He gave Aiming the Stone-Shell and I...

Note - edited latest chapter just now, if you read it in the first 3 hours after it was released, check again ^^

Gio made a very good point, he should've gone Slayers Guild first lol. I decided I can just shuffle stuff around and fix that rn. So if you read chapter 285: Auction right when it came out, and you didn't see him go Slayers Guild, then read again cuz I've fixed it so he does!

285-6: Profits + Auction

[Author note: this chapter ended up getting very long due to later edits, so I split it when posting to RR, thus the double chapter title]

Nicolai made a quick detour, opting to head to the Slayers Guild before the Auction. Arriving, he nodding to the same imposing guard who s...

284: Blood Hunted

The Information Guild was already busy, though most of that business was people entering or leaving. Three-eyed People simply appeared from the sides of the room, striding over to speak with any new arrivals looking to buy or sell.

As Nicolai entered, he and the Modules scanned the area hop...

283: War of the Houses

A flash of blue light announced Nicolai’s arrival, stepping through the portal. Sunlight poured down from a brilliantly blue, cloudless sky. Ripples caught at him, and Threat Analysis was quick to work, scanning and analysing them for anything of interest, while sending the drones attached to t...

Rewritten Chapters 268-282 (Everything--for new Patreons!)

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Rewritten Chapters 268-274 (Nicolai only--for people who already read the old version)

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Welcome Back

Hey everyone ^_^

Well, here we are, I'm happy to be back here and I hope you are too :) I'm pleased to say I have finished the rewrite, and also made a lot of progress writing the story forward.

Chapters resume posting on the regular M-W-F schedule tomorrow!

Als...

Announcement: 1 month break

Hey guys, so, here we are! As you know, the story will now be paused for 1 month from today (15th August), with posting resuming on the 15th of September.

I have paused the Patreon so your membership will be put on hold, though you’ll still have access, and the cycle resumes when it unpau...

282: Into the Dark

The Angelic Blade hummed to life, releasing a hungry pulse. He could feel it in his hands, against his spirit. The Blade sensed what surrounded it. Once it would have seen these beings as peers, but never would it have seen them as allies. Now, still possessing the same vicious, hungry personalit...

281: Reckoning

[Author Note: I have now decided on the route forward and will indeed be removing A3 in its current form. Actually, feeling very excited about the new plan ^_^! Anyway, I decided to remove mention of it from these two chapters, since it's a little weird to me to see stuff about it when I know, an...

280: The Vipers Nest

Nicolai moved to stand before the cave opening. A place where the ground rose up a little and turned stony, forming a small hill in which there was a large, dark opening. Gazing into it with his bionic eye set to thermal, he saw the shapes of Scale Vipers, hiding within.

He unshelled his So...

279: Burrow Symbiote

After getting far enough away that he’d left all disturbances behind, he checked out the Symbiote he’d seized from the Gorothune. It was a stumpy, translucent little bug that seemed like a cross between a beetle and a worm, with a cluster of wriggling feelers ringing its head. It crawled blin...

278: Big Game Hunter

The line of tracks led Nicolai to a cliff face.

A sharp rise of soil that formed an abrupt mesa. He gazed at it from afar. Odd in shape, at least by the standards of Earth. The earth rose in an almost vertical line to the top, which was flat. There was something up there, or rather somethin...

277: Tracker

A monstrous claw of silver energy sliced through the jungle. It sunk talons the size of swords into a tree and gripped tight, the bark erupting with snaps and cracks, chips of wood flying. The claw was connected to a long Soul Sense tendril that stretched through the air, a line of white though i...