CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
Penelope observed the others’ reactions with rapt attention.
Interesting.
It was immediately clear to her that nothing was clear. Put simply, she didn’t know what was going on. Though that was nothing new. She...
2025-01-06 18:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
“Huh?!”
The collective exclamation shocked Richard from his state of numb acceptance.
Huddled around the campfire, practically smothered by the combined attention of the tiny tireless terrors, naturally, all he’d w...
2025-01-06 18:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
Robin did her best to console the visibly distraught children, trying not to let her own anxiety show through as she did so.
Kneeling on the fresh turf—it having regrown rapidly after the boss fight, almost like magic, as if a timela...
2025-01-06 18:19:02 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY THREE
Piled high before him, stacked atop one another or standing in neat rows, sat a varied assortment of priceless treasures—consumables, each and every one of them.
From the items he was more familiar with—stacks of intricate golden ...
2025-01-06 18:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY TWO
An overcast sky reflects the orange light of a burning city.
The walls had long since fallen. The horde of monsters to descend in droves. It’s people lying dead in the streets by the thousands. Strewn about haphazardly like dismembere...
2025-01-06 18:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY ONE
“Uuugh…” Richard groaned.
Flopping over onto his back—a uniquely uncomfortable position inside the sloped bottom of the sphere—he took some time to simply sit with all his myriad aches and pains. Really let them soak ...
2025-01-06 18:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY
Richard held on for dear life.
Skipping across the sky with reckless abandon. Moving at suicidally high speeds without a care for his own hide. The earth-heaving tremors pounding away just behind, and rapidly gaining on him besides, the per...
2025-01-06 18:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER NINETEEN
Richard allowed himself ten seconds to come up with a suitably non-suicidal plan. Considering his opponent was a monster sat squarely in the middle of E grade, he likely could’ve done with a little more time in which to...
2025-01-06 18:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER EIGHTEEN
•-|—WAVE SEVENTY-SEVEN—|-•
•[Enemies Slain: 9450/11,200]•
Richard could only watch with growing outrage as the twice cursed Abominaball slunk its way off the battlefield like a guilty te...
2025-01-06 18:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER SEVENTEEN
•-|—WAVE SEVENTY-TWO—|-•
•[Enemies Slain: 0/9,600]•
Richard made it to the ramparts just as the countdown for the seventy second wave reached zero. Taking his customary place behind the...
2025-01-06 18:12:30 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER SIXTEEN
Richard was halfway to the city ramparts when he realized something was up. Glancing back from where he’d come, he immediately recognized the seeming tranquility for what it was. He checked the wave countdown just to be sure.
Fif...
2025-01-06 18:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FIFTEEN
It was a sad fact that, in his previous timeline, a great number of the major discoveries made on the system and how it operated, were only ever strung together in hindsight—long after the information would’ve been of use to anyone still liv...
2025-01-06 18:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTEEN
•-|—(You have slain an enemy: Plague-Touched Skirmisher [Lvl 3])—|-•
Experience Gained.
•-|—(You have slain an enemy: Plague-Touched Skirmisher [Lvl 2])—|-•
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
“I’m telling you there has to have been some sort of mistake!” exclaimed princess Caerinth.
“Uh… begging your pardon, your majesty?” Casandra Knightly tried.
“And I’m telling you that no s...
2025-01-06 18:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWELVE
Of course the first thing he tried was to use this infinite font of mana to fix his abysmal talent.
It didn’t work.
Whether this was because the creator of this workshop had anticipated someone would try this, or the mana in this te...
2025-01-06 18:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER ELEVEN
Septimus Preach missed his master terribly. This was not a particularly uncommon state of affairs. Ever since his master set off to explore the greater cosmos with that devious, conniving, master stealing harlot, he’d been left, all alone, to o...
2025-01-06 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (III)
No Matter What The Future May Bring
So it was decided then. There was no more use in denying it. She was a junior talent scout—at least in name, if not in function—it was about time she acted like one. And who better t...
2025-01-06 18:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TEN
**BE WARNED**
Any Path You Take Will Be Permanent. You Cannot Take It Back.
Now, Choose the Path You Seek to Walk & Remember to Choose Wisely.
A screen a...
2025-01-06 18:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER NINE
I would much rather they refrained from waking me up in this manner. For one thing, it really is rather jarring. And for another, who knows, I might just get used to it.
For the second time that day, Richard was dragged from his cult...
2025-01-06 18:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER EIGHT
They heard its approach well before they saw it.
THUMP. SCRAAAPE! THUMP. SCRAAAPE!
And they’d felt it’s heavy footfalls long before then.
THUMP. SCRAAAPE! THUMP. <...
2025-01-06 18:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (II)
A Change in Your Scheduled Program
Asha Na’Keer looked on, a pensive frown crinkling her snout.
Reflected in her eyes was an unremarkable scene. One mirrored, to one degree or another, in the hundred odd screens she...
2025-01-06 18:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER SEVEN
A bead of sweat trickled down Richard’s brow. It took every ounce of self control he possessed not to shift his gaze towards the looming purple creature. The very same that always seemed to hover just outside of his periphery. So close, its long...
2025-01-06 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (I)
A Maid Under Certain Circumstances
Asha Na’Keer remembered a time, not so long ago, when she’d thought her career was really headed somewhere. Of course, that’d been just before cold hard reality came a’knocking. Pro...
2025-01-06 17:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER SIX
What eventually shook him from his cultivation-trance turned out to be something not even a jaded veteran like himself could easily ignore.
The terrified screams of children.
Snapping his eyes wide, he was immediately greeted by a scene ...
2025-01-06 17:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FIVE
Denise was the first one to break the silence.
“Hahaha! You- you’ve gotta be florking kidding me! That’s what you’ve had us all practically shirting bricks over this whole time? Are you serious? What next? Is the big pur...
2025-01-06 17:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOUR
All it took for him to exit his soul palace was the general wish to be elsewhere. A twist of vertigo later and he was once more trapped within the body of a bald infant, exactly as he’d left it.
Said body currently in the process o...
2025-01-06 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THREE
As it so happens, the resources freely given to Super Easy Mode participants are surprisingly, almost infuriatingly, informative.
All it took was a mental request for “help,” and all manner of questions could be answered in a flash...
2025-01-06 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWO
+—|-CONGRATULATIONS-|—+
People of [Planetary Designation: PL-0017-D38]! Rejoice! For it is your turn to be assimilated into the multiversal fold!
Now, we, the friend...
2025-01-06 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER ONE
Tower of Champions – Twenty Seventh Floor
Richard Penn watched as, one after another, the best humanity had to offer were disciplined like disobedient dogs. Noses gleefully rubbed into the steaming piles of ...
2025-01-06 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTaking in the bowing figure before her, Lanyue’s perfect eyebrow quirked.
“A protector, you say?”
Rising from the deep curtsy to her full height—some six foot six, give or take a few inches, and most of it muscle—the imposing looking woman, with her hard eyes and chiseled ja...
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