Chapter 64 – Shopping
“Well, now, Missy. You have been busy. Nineteen levels in less than a week?”
I chuckled as Kester One-Hand greeted us to his shop. “Well, if I told you the whole story, you wouldn’t believe it. We saw some impossible things in the depths, I promise you....
2025-03-07 23:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 126 – All Together Now
We only had to wait half an hour before things started. Web Mistress was the first to notice, obviously. “The lizards have noticed the British forces forming up around the shield perimeter. The push hasn’t started, yet, but they know it is coming.”
... 2025-03-06 22:32:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 170 – Tested
Having a dinner with the family wasn’t the only reason I’d come to visit my brother’s home, of course. Yes, there was his birthday present, and the more pointed gift for Genjo, but I had other business, as well. While the rest of the family had been tested, and ...
2025-03-06 03:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214 – Administration
With my ascension to Tier 3 complete, it was time to return to business. While I would have liked to get the opportunity to go find some monsters to fight, so I could test myself, and learn the nuances of my new skills, I didn’t have time for that. Ironic, c...
2025-03-05 01:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 372 – Nursery
After dinner, Lucia and Catalina went with me to visit the ‘nicer’ side of the Breeding Halls, what I called the Nurseries. After all, most monsters aren’t just born being instantly effective. Other than slimes, and other very simple creatures like that, monste...
2025-03-04 00:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: Upgrades
It took about six weeks to finalize everything. Not just getting the building, that only took a couple weeks. There was also the whole deal of moving in, changing the locks and the door codes, updating the security system and putting new profiles in the drones keeping w...
2025-03-01 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63 – Authority
We were quickly taken to the Guildmaster’s office. A party of level 40s, with word on the recent messages? Yes, that was going to get people’s attention in a hurry. But a guild hall still had to deal with normal business, so it wasn’t five minutes before we we...
2025-02-28 13:38:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 125 – On the Other Side
Web Mistress pulled us all into the virtual world, courtesy of the nearest cell phone. It happened to belong to Brittania, which probably explained the Union Jack theming in the digital space. I didn’t have much time to look around, before Web Mistress to...
2025-02-27 19:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 169 – Birthdays
Naturally, I was no trained marksman, at least with guns. I’d trained to an acceptable level with bows and crossbows, and even some siege weapons, but never guns. However, the enhanced physical abilities I possessed thanks to having trained with mana helped offse...
2025-02-27 00:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213 – Skill Selection
I had… a lot of available skills. A lot, a lot. Sure, I had forty points to spend, but I had way more than that available.
Right, first thing first, look through the skill list, and skip ones I had no interest in. Some skills were nice, and all, but d...
2025-02-25 13:18:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 371 – Relaxation
“Mommy!”
Catalina smiled as a red-skinned missile collided with her the moment she and her party entered the ‘living area’ of her Lord’s domain. Swooping the little girl up into a hug, she grinned, before transferring the girl into one arm. “How ...
2025-02-25 00:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: Settling Up
“The job is done, Mr. Tanaka.”
Twilight had just gotten back from her journey into the Matrix. Maybe an hour had passed, all told, since I put her on the couch. I figured she was taking her time, and going slow. Haste was the enemy when you tried to be stea...
2025-02-23 00:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 62 – Return to Magehallow
The trip back to Magehallow was an easy one, not that I expected any differently. After all, we were nearly twenty levels higher than we were when we made the trip out, just a couple days ago. If the area had changed enough that we were going to start see...
2025-02-21 22:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 124 – Ready
Of course, even though I said I was going to save points, that didn’t mean I wasn’t going to look over my abilities, and see if there wasn’t something I could do. My biggest weakness, at the moment, was a lack of long-range mobility. My various ice effects could ...
2025-02-20 20:51:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 168 – Range Time
“Hello again, your Majesty.”
I smiled at the pair of undead waiting for us at the entrance to one of the JSDF’s bases near Sakata, in the Yamagata prefecture. My disciples nodded politely as I greeted the two Heroes of Death. ...
2025-02-19 19:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 212 – Tier
I closed my eyes as the same silver mist I’d seen before rose up around me. I took a breath, to steady myself. I didn’t want to miss something by being too anxious, after all. When I opened my eyes, I saw the first of the expected System messages waiting for me.
... 2025-02-18 21:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue – Trade Chat
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2025-02-17 13:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: Morning After
“Have fun last night?”
I mostly ignored the acid tone in Twilight’s voice, and continued with my morning workout. Nothing too strenuous, just a series of katas that helped train my skill with blades. Well, I was working hard enough to build up a sweat, ...
2025-02-15 23:31:03 +0000 UTC View PostForgot to post this last weekend, so two chapters today!
Chapter 17: Clean Getaway
We didn’t do much looting of bodies. The gear was all standard corpsec issue, for the most part, and taking commlinks with us was a recipe for disaster, if one of the spiders decided to get sne...
2025-02-15 23:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 61 – Report
The teleport circle returned us to just outside the entrance of the dungeon in a flash of light. Checking the position of the sun, I could see that it was late in the afternoon, almost dusk. Too late to go heading back to Magehallow Town, then. We would need to stay th...
2025-02-14 21:19:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 123 – Details
It was well about two in the afternoon, local time, the next day when the call came that the weapon was ready for transport. Green Knight and his team teleported over to the base, so they could escort the convoy. Everyone else at the staging area started getting thei...
2025-02-13 23:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 167 – Visitors
“It is good to see you again, your Majesty,” Commandant Marius Tremblay said, as he bowed in my throne room. The French soldier had not come alone, of course. There were five others with him: two angels wearing modified French Army uniforms, two phoenixes, and a...
2025-02-13 00:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211 – Rapid Advance
People liked to think that intimidation was walking up to someone with a shotgun and informing them about what would happen to their kneecaps if they didn’t have your money. And, sure, that was one form of intimidation. A nice, easily understood threat, with ...
2025-02-11 23:17:36 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue – Restless Dead
“PUSH THEM BACK! DO NOT FALTER!”
Eluned the Grim, High Priestess and Archbishop of the Church of Eztar, called out to her fellow priests and paladins of the God of Death. Amongst their sacred duties was maintaining the wards and defenses of the graveyard...
2025-02-07 20:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 122 – Discussion
With the audience with the king done, I was suddenly free for a while. However, that didn’t mean I could just go off on my own, doing whatever. Well, I could, since no one would really be able to stop me if I chose to do that, but there wasn’t really anything ...
2025-02-06 23:29:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 166 – Training
Naya was breathing heavily, and her moves were getting sluggish. That much was understandable. She was only mortal, after all, and we had been sparring for almost an hour straight, at this point. In truth, the fact that she was only breathing heavily, and not outrig...
2025-02-05 22:08:07 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue – Trade Chat
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2025-02-04 20:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 370 – Grandpa
“So, here’s the lake,” Charity said, “and we’ve got our three pieces of the key. But what are we going to do about the guardian?”
As expected, there was a single magical torch on a post next to a rickety wooden pier. A wooden rowboat that look...
2025-02-04 01:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Corpsec
Two nights later, we were ready.
Iceblade casts Increase Reflexes (Force 3)
Iceblade’s Spellcasting test: 10d6 = 7 hits, 0 Miss
Increase Reflexes: +2 Initiative, +2 Initiative Passes
Resist Drain (3S): 13d6 = 4 hits, 3 misses (0 damage)
Ic...
2025-02-01 23:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue – Elsewhere
The gods did not live in the mortal realm. They couldn’t, for their nature was that of belief given form and ideas canonized into shape. Even when they descended to the mortal plane as an avatar, it was still only a manifestation, a fraction of their power.
Th...
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