This place is enormous. I’m never going to find the others if I just search through rooms at random. We could wind up chasing each other’s tails for days without ever bumping into one another. I need a better plan.
Eventually, as Nick stared at the floorplan mounted to the wall...
2024-07-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody. I hope that your week is going well. Just a quick update. I'm changing the chapter format on RR for what should be the last time. The only change here is that the chapters will be listed as a single number instead of two. I tweaked the numbers of the first 9 chapters today, just wa...
2024-07-08 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment that Nick acknowledged the prompt, the base of the crystal projected a beam of light into the air beside him. To his surprise, it formed a three-dimensional hologram of a tall man wearing a white lab coat with a lanyard around his neck.
The detail was exquisite, to the extent tha...
2024-07-08 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostReady to leave this place behind him forever, Edge returned to the altar room. Before he climbed back to the surface, he needed to retrieve his pack and anything else of value.
The once solemn chamber looked more like a slaughterhouse floor than a place of worship. He cast his gaze around t...
2024-07-05 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the molecules comprising Nick’s body finished putting themselves back together, a process that felt like feathers were tickling every inch of his skin at the same time, he opened his eyes.
He raised his blade and started scanning his surroundings, ready to find out what strange place...
2024-07-05 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEdge picked up a lantern and walked out of the chamber. It was too hard to concentrate while staring at the remains of the reaver and the drying stains where it had eaten the jailbirds. He sat down with his back against the temple wall, letting the stone cool him off while he thought the matter t...
2024-07-04 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNick was thrilled to learn that being stuck with his survivor class for the first nine levels hadn’t hurt him in the long run, something that he’d been worried about for some time. Starting off with a basic class might even have been ideal, given the extreme conditions of his solo tutorial. 2024-07-04 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
When Edge woke up, a monster’s eyes were staring back into his own. Midnight orbs protruding from a feathered face that reeked of rotting meat. Only inches from his throat stretched a ragged yellow beak smeared with lurid gore.
Finding himself face-to-face with a mankiller while onl...
2024-07-03 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe last item on Nick’s checklist before he started getting ready to enter the tower was to check out the new knowledge point unlocks Kerry had added to his journal. Information that would undoubtedly prove useful during the trial to come.
He sat down on the bed and flipped it open, readi...
2024-07-03 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEdge’s chains reared back and struck, the metallic ripple of link against link reverberating across the stone chamber.
This time, they had to fight harder, struggling to work their way through the monster’s flesh before sliding below its skin.
The mysterious manifestations wormed ...
2024-07-02 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNow that upgrading his first spell was taken care of, it was time for Nick to decide how he wanted to spend the three free attribute points he’d acquired for defeating the river king and completing the first stage of ‘the fate of Earth’ quest chain.
When he was done, he wanted to chec...
2024-07-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe scraping grew louder by the heartbeat, as the shadowreaver climbed the stone terraces and started walking to the temple. Edge had less than a minute to come up with a plan and set it in motion.
The prospect of his imminent death sent his mind racing like never before, considering and di...
2024-07-01 17:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the message from the System appeared in front of his face, Edge felt his core shudder.
Skill-Eater flared to life of its own accord. It sent tendrils of power rippling throughout his body, driving all other thoughts from his head.
There was a sense of a threshold being cros...
2024-07-01 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHow he upgraded his mana darts wouldn’t just affect his combat capabilities in the present. It would influence his future development too, changing the course of his path to power.
Nick considered each option in that context before arriving at a decision, starting with boosting the dart...
2024-07-01 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBefore anything else could happen, the big man spasmed and then went still. Now that his body could no longer regenerate, blood began flowing from his torso like a bucket with no bottom. It let the sadistic bastard die at last, after the torture he’d endured.
When t...
2024-06-30 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe skill trapped in Edge’s mouth squirmed like a living creature. It darted from one side to the other in a frantic attempt to escape.
He could sense that it was still wild. Untamed. Unrefined. That if he wanted to claim it, make it part of himself, he was going to have to break it, then...
2024-06-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEdge snapped back into his body and opened his eyes.
For a second, he’d thought that he was standing somewhere else, talking to something… strange. He’d had a vision of his heart burning to ash, replaced by an incandescent organ wrapped in living chains.
I must be hallucinat...
2024-06-28 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ability Mastery System (AMS)
The ability mastery system becomes active at level 15, when an individual’s path to power begins to solidify, releasing a form of transformative energy known as essence.
When enough compatible essence ha...
2024-06-28 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Bastard,” the armless jailbird muttered. Anger warring with shock long enough to force the words past trembling lips.
“I never thought I’d see one, but that was a shadowreaver. It must have a lair nearby. It’s the only reason to leave us alive. It wants to keep our meat fre...
2024-06-27 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostExcited by the prospect of gearing up followed by sleeping in a real bed for a change, Nick looked around until he spotted a gleaming silver box resting by his boots. A container that hadn’t existed until he finished reading through his quest updates.
He reached down and cracked it open, ...
2024-06-27 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe hulking brute was eight feet tall, broad enough at the shoulders that it had to twist to fit through the door. Even after entering the room, it had to hunch over, or it would have been even taller.
The monster walked on two legs like a man, but there the resemblance to anything hu...
2024-06-26 17:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re no fun,” the big man whined. “You never let me finish anyone.”
“You can play later,” the tall man replied. “I’ve been wanting to test the output of my elemental blade ever since I ranked-up the skill. Now a perfect specimen has appeared before our eyes. If there’...
2024-06-26 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostDuring that moment of disorientation, recent events became jumbled.
The last thing that Nick could remember was racing for the tower with the colossal hound hot on his heels. His eyes snapped open, the whites showing all the way around as fear wrapped icy fingers around his spine and squeez...
2024-06-26 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEdge held the convict’s gaze without looking away. By now, he was certain that they were planning to kill him no matter what happened. But he needed to act like he still had hope. Pretend that he’d fallen for their ruse to buy as much time as he could.
It must have been the right move. ...
2024-06-25 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the prisoners stepped into the chamber, each carrying their own lantern, Edge knew that he was screwed. Both men radiated vitality and vigor. The aura of potency that binding a core bestowed.
The bigger man was deeply tanned and built like a bull. He was clearly a full power build, eve...
2024-06-25 17:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver the last two months, Nick had crossed the threshold of a wide variety of portals. Leapt though mysterious rings of light in every color of the rainbow.
Some of those journeys had been relatively short, brief jaunts from one star to its nearest neighbor, while others had taken him beyon...
2024-06-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Hi everybody, it’s Nick. I’m here with Sophia to give you a rundown on the events that took place during book two, just in case it’s been a while or you’re in need of a quick refresher. But before we get to that, Sophia, would you care to introduce yourself and say a few words? I know ...
2024-06-25 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t supposed to be like this.
Edge wasn’t supposed to be here.
Not really here, in the flesh, wearing a body that wasn’t his own.
Although, if what the System said was true, this was his body now.
He had never expected to find himself standing...
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