Armaments of the soul was an incredible skill, limited only by Arthur's inability to use it properly. That didn’t matter much when he shot his crude soul spear at seven times the speed of sound via water shot. It was on a direct collision course with the largest Bloodbeast a seven-and-a-half-foot behemoth that was bounding towards him at a speed nearing three...
2024-03-07 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight had been going so well. Arthur had deployed his skills and began the process of steadily whittling down Henderson, the man with the greatest potential as a blood beast. Had he been given his full twenty seconds of predicted time to work with, he was certain he could have killed the monster before it became a threat. Unfortunately for him, things rarely went according to plan and as he...
2024-03-05 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostAyesha Murker ran through the street as fast as she could, her best friend and trusted seer Iris dogging her footsteps. She discarded her shoes the moment she’d exited the car, luxury high-heels that quite literally fell apart because of how quickly she’d removed them. Right now, however, she was cursing her choice of footwear as she stepped on her thirtieth stone in half as many seconds. W...
2024-02-29 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostArthur was surprised he wasn’t reacting more strongly from the crowd of rude people hammering at his door- judging by the number of voices he could hear, there was certainly more than one. After facing down a hydra and jumping down its gullet, this drama, whatever it was, just felt so tedious.
He took his time going down the stairs, first heading to the kitchen to get his food out of th...
2024-02-27 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur’s trek back to civilization took a little over two hours. As opposed to the blistering speed he’d travelled at to first get to the locus, he returned home at a slow walk. The outskirts of the city had changed a lot since the system’s arrival. Too far from the city proper, many of the buildings he saw had been abandoned, the power of ether enhanced plantlife meaning nature had claim...
2024-02-22 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe once silent forest exploded into motion. The man with the rocket launcher dropped his weapon- it had proved useless already- and instead raised his hands to cast some magic. A female Lorak rushed at Arthur, carved dagger clenched in her hands, she was moving fast, with a grace that belied her amphibian nature, more surefooted than any forest ranger he’d seen.
400 agility? No, sh...
2024-02-20 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that Arthur had gotten a little mixed up on the details. Understandable really when someone decided it was a good idea to hit him with a rocket launcher of all things just as he was reading his friend's warning note. The weapon was magically enhanced in one way or the other, certainly with a stealth effect of some kind. He would have noticed it coming a mile away otherwise.
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2024-02-15 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostIssania and Arthur sat at a small table with a teapot between them, all items the elf had summoned from her storage device. It was, in her words, a graduation dinner of sorts, even though the locus prevented her from retrieving any of the high-level cuts of meat from her ring. They were apparently too high a tier or something and so they’d been forced to make do with a beverage Issania couldn...
2024-02-13 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWater offered little protection against electricity, so when Issania sent a literal bolt of lightning at Arthur’s chest, she expected him to be down for the count. Understandable really. No one could fault her thought process. Unfortunately for her, Arthur had long transcended the limits of rationality, and his body alone was sturdy enough to weather the fiercest of storms, irrespective of wh...
2024-02-08 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostDon't worry, guys. Arthur will be exiting the locus very soon. This fight will be finished in the next chapter.
Chapter begin->
“In all my years of teaching across dozens of worlds, single lessons and long apprenticeships, I can say, Mr Ward, that you rank amongst the highest of that number,” Issania declared, bowing to him. “It was a pleasure to teach...
2024-02-06 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIssania stood before her student and took in his blurred form. With the system's obfuscation in place, Ward’s race remained unknown. Having humanoid proportions did little to narrow down such an expansive list. Nonetheless, the observations she’d made over the past four and a half hours meant she could make an educated guess.
His regeneration rate was definitely S-rank. The question w...
2024-02-01 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur closed his eyes, trying to ignore the twitching in his limbs as he thrust his spear for what felt like the thousandth time. It probably was. The pain in his muscles felt like an electric current was constantly running through them and half his focus was spent making sure an involuntary spasm didn’t ruin his form.
A quick dose of healing would get rid of all his troubles but Issan...
2024-01-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostTen years later, in his retelling of today's events, Arthur would love to say he’d taken the knight's proclamations in his stride, that he’d moved forwards like monsters talking to him was just another Tuesday. Unfortunately, reality painted a far less flattering picture, and Arthur stood there, mouth open like a fish out of water, his mind blank.
A monster had just talked to him and ...
2024-01-25 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe final wave of the test of endurance was different to its predecessors in that it consisted of only a single enemy, the Archon knight at level 201, a full 21 levels higher than any of the previous beasts he had faced. He wasn't sure if he was remembering things correctly, but most monsters tended to undergo a significant evolution at the 200th level, much like unlocking a class for a sapient...
2024-01-23 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was an impulsive decision. Arthur didn’t walk into the fight aiming to catch a massive two-handed war-axe going for his throat. It sort of just happened. The reasonable choice would have been a single step backwards which would have allowed the blade of decapitation to swing by harmlessly; except with a half-metre hunk of steel looming in his vision, Arthur for some reason, raised a single...
2024-01-11 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur stretched as he waited the final sixty seconds before the final floor started. His body felt far more limber than it ever had before, courtesy of the reforging the Dragons Will had put his body through. He was almost certain he could give a contortionist a run for their money right now which was definitely unfair when all his abilities came out of a bottle.
Arthur ...
2024-01-09 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur paced around the Tree of Life, rolling a golden apple pit in his hand. It started dissolving into motes of light, mirroring the degradation process that was taking place on the tree it had come from. It turned out that the reward for this floor was the fruit on the tree, and they'd gotten a perfect score of ten for retrieving all of them in perfect condition.
Golden apples ...
2024-01-04 23:42:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis was it, the moment that would dictate the course his life would take. It was the first true step onto the path of power, the beginning of the journey that would take him to the top or leave him forgotten in the fields of mediocrity. Well, with my current status, I guess no one will ever be able to call me mediocre regardless of my class.
His only example of an epic-classer w...
2024-01-02 23:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostArthur looked up from the system notification to see Alyssia staring expectantly at him. “So, did it work? Is your soul fixed?” She asked the questions so fast his brain struggled to decode the sound waves that reached him. With her aura-reading skills, Arthur was certain she already knew the answer to that question but it never hurt to confirm things. Arthur grinned and nodded his head. ...
2023-12-28 22:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon's core shone with golden luminescence, so bright it was like someone had plucked the sun out of the sky and placed it in his hands. It was also extremely hot to touch, enough that Alyssia had retreated backwards to avoid getting burnt. With his recent upgrades in vitality and the rest of his attributes, he had no such problem dealing with the orb. His clothes- the little he’d manag...
2023-12-27 00:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostEating the Hydra’s core had changed Arthur almost as much as the enhancement of his previous ninety-four levels had. Consuming it had given him an upgraded affinity, his first epic skill and three new titles. Sure one of those represented a timer to his imminent demise, but it was still classed as a tier-4 title.
Calling up his status, Arthur took a look at his increased attributes.
... 2023-12-26 00:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostArthur floated in limbo, a dull ache suffusing his entire body. He was wide awake, he’d never lost consciousness in the first place, but it was taking him a while to get himself moving. Trying to call out for water resulted in unintelligible grumbles you’d need an epic translation skill to understand.
He could feel someone, Alyssia, touching him on the hand which meant that he wasn’...
2023-12-20 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tree of Life was well... larger than life, an existence so large you’d have to stand a kilometre away just to observe it all. Contrary to its name though, it was a barren thing, with no leaves present on its thousand branches, free of any foliage and the usual critters that signalled the presence of life.
The absence of any greenery, however, served to emphasise the presence of ten ...
2023-12-16 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostMinor edits have been made to the requirements for grade boundaries in terms of stat totals. S rank has gone up from 3000 to 5000+.
Even through the numbing agent, Arthur could feel the massive influx in power killing the hydra had given him. It was without a doubt the biggest windfall he’d received since the system's arrival, enough experience that it w...
2023-12-13 23:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is Saturdays chapter which was delayed a bit. Next Chap- Wednesday
The moments following Arthur's dangerous skill use were some of the strangest in his life. Something happened, he knew that but his low perception and intelligence meant that the little he perceived made no sense to him. If he were asked to describe it, ...
2023-12-11 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostArthur was surrounded in darkness, walls of pulsating flesh surrounding him on each side. His skin bubbled and sizzled, stuck in a regenerative loop of decay and healing as his vitality battled against the caustic blood surrounding him. His blood was in constant motion, his hands cutting and ripping through muscle and tissue as he searched for something vital.
It had been six minutes sinc...
2023-12-07 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out the apocalypse beast at 30% strength was still a force to be reckoned with. The fight had started off well enough. A minute after the purple orb had formed, it had expanded rapidly to encompass the space the hydra had initially fled. Only Alyssia’s warnings had kept him from attacking it. Apparently, it was a barrier equivalent to 2,000 constitution, impossible for the current h...
2023-12-01 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostArthur was poised, ready to act. He stood on the edge of the greatest battle of his life waiting for Alyssia’s signal to come. He felt it, a small prod on the back of his head and he unleashed his magic. The shadow bomb exploded- the greatest one he’d ever created- in an entirely ordinary display of power.
It was quiet, there was no devastating boom accompanying it. A silent explosion...
2023-11-28 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostOkay guys. I made a mistake in the order of chapter postings and I'm very sorry. This chapter was supposed to be released before the previous one so you'd all get a nice fight with no interruptions. Interludes in-between fights are one of my biggest pet-peeves. Unfortunately, because of my mis ordering of chapters, You'll have to suffer for 48 hours till Tuesday when the next chapter will come ...
2023-11-27 00:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostArthur glanced briefly at his status, going over the temporary additions it had received. First came the debuff he’d been placed under by close proximity to the lesser Hydra. Then came a small subsection denoting the stored healing affinity he’d placed there for himself and Alyssia last night.
Personally, it wouldn’t do much for him, a mere fraction of his total health pool. Perhaps...
2023-11-17 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post