The blackness that he was in changed as text appeared in his vision.
Congratulations! You have successfully completed the Explosive Growth Trial.
Tom found he didn’t care. “Adam what happened to them?” he yelled out.
Apologies as per agreements that bind me this is an automated presentation and is limited in the answers it may give.
<... 2024-10-28 00:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostAG. First of Two.
With the dragon spear in his hands, Tom jogged at the boss. The geography of the coming fight was simple. The entrance way the four of them had come through was just a gap in a waist height fence, well… shoulder height for them. A circular paddock that was about three hundred metres across and filled with the same green, yellow grass as always.<...
2024-10-27 23:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostThey held their position for an hour while Tom recovered from skill exhaustion. It was not difficult as they only attacked one at a time with an average time between each assault of around four minutes. It was enough to restore himself, but barely.
In his nightly training sessions between healing Briana, he had tested his limits. Providing there were less than two uses of Intangible P...
2024-10-25 21:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe others were not recovered from whatever the monster had done. They sat on the couch’s their heads in their hands for a few more minutes. They didn’t look miserable or anything like that, but more like they hadn’t fully woken up.
Kang eventually stirred, looked up groggily, and seemed to recoil slightly as he registered his surroundings. “Where am I?” he squinted at To...
2024-10-24 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTom took over thirty minutes to put himself back together. The entire time, with the exception of a small break in the middle to work on Briana, he focused on himself. His physical state was in a far worse condition than he had expected. The explosion that had propelled him through the air had done massive amounts of internal bruising and one of his kidneys had actually ruptured.
Luckily,...
2024-10-22 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJust got a head cold. Makes it hard to sit down and do hours of creative stuff
2024-10-21 03:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he flipped the page, Tom was not at all surprised to see that he had received another child specific title.
He hadn’t been sure if the Fateful Reposition acquisition was going to upgrade his existing title or go into the new one. It seemed like the system leant heavily on the importance of earned skills versus standard ones.
Title: Underage...
2024-10-18 21:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAG. Second of Two
The petrification energy made the injury analogous to someone having received multiple stab wounds on earth. Once they were stitched up, you were unlikely to die, but it was still be a painful couple of weeks. In Briana’s case that day, one discomfort would extend until they got out of the trial. It wasn’t ever going to heal either naturally or magic...
2024-10-17 21:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostAG. First of Two
They continued their clearing activities and had hit the milestone of fifty percent of monsters killed, but they had not explored anywhere near that amount of floor space.
They were going through a tunnel to a fourth room when Danger Sense suddenly exploded. From the ceiling, six different gemstones fell and transformed i...
2024-10-17 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKang only grimaced at his weak joke.
Tom regarded him with concern. The other man’s eyes had a permanent strained look to them and given what he was going though he didn’t blame him.
“Just have to keep going.” With a helpless shrug, Kang pulled off his tattered and broken armour and pointed at the middle section. “Adam, is it possible to get more reinforcement in the chest...
2024-10-15 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of them gathered outside the closed doors. The chains that had once sealed it were long since gone, but it looked ominous. They were all dressed in their full armour, or at least what their rank and age could sustain. It was only a light mixed chain link and leather jerkin along with a helmet to protect their torso and head, respectively. It wasn’t much, but it was all the weight the...
2024-10-14 21:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOver twenty minutes passed before the other three agreed that they were healthy enough to return. The long walk back to their living area was silent. It was clear the aftereffects of whatever mind stun that they had been inflicted with was significant and persistent. Their complaints aside, the trip back was pleasant and not a single monster waylaid them. The corridors were empty just like Adam...
2024-10-11 21:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhile waiting for his next free cast of Touch Heal to become available, Tom kept an eagle eye out for any monsters, but none turned up. Midway through he had felt the skill stress lesson enough to allow an extra cast of Power Strike so after that he hadn’t felt as exposed. It was still a relief when the full six minutes ticked over and he was able to get K...
2024-10-10 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThey continued with their slow exploration of the myriad of tunnels, or at least their circle around the exit. The monsters they had quickly discovered were not all the same. They had either suffered some form of spooky convergent evolution or had originated from the same ecosystem. It was almost certainly the second. Each of the various types had hardened circulatory systems with shut-off valv...
2024-10-08 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe two reincarnators spent every moment in a haze of frenetic activity. They understood the looming threat and knew the benefits of preparation. Every second moment was thrown into training. Teaching the girls was the simplest part of the day. An exercise in frustration for sure, they were six and attempting to apply military level discipline was a struggle but the girls were trying and that w...
2024-10-07 21:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThey got to work with Kang taking the lead. The group exercises had the singular focus of training the girls to listen and be aware of their environment. Teaching them to react in the right way to stay alive was what every session was directed toward. There were three rooms that could be used for that purpose.
The one they were currently in was a wide-open space with padded walls and a si...
2024-10-01 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean?” Eloise demanded immediately. “To use fate like a sledgehammer. That makes no sense.”
“He means,” Kang told her, “That we’re going to use our racial ability to help prepare us.”
Suddenly, a feeling of dread shot through Tom as he considered the nature of the trial. It was designed to be a death trap. “Kang, shut up.” he snapped.
“Why!...
2024-09-30 22:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostAG. This is tomorrow's chapter brought forward. Ch 104 and 105 should really be a single chapter but it was getting way to long for that so I split it.
Chapter 105 – The Darkhole Trial
Tom sighed. He knew why she asked and why she would think that way. “It’s not that simple Bri. It’s not that we don’t trust you. It’s just that the enemy can read your min...
2024-09-25 22:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment he had been in the emptiness between Existentia and the trial, and then abruptly he was cast back to the familiar orphanage corridor. As far as he could tell, no time had passed. Kang remained a step behind him and Briana was ten metres in front of him and still running. Because he had stopped in response to the trial appearing directly in front of him, she was gaining ground on him ...
2024-09-25 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTom stood silently in his system room and struggled to get his bodily reactions under control. His mind was spinning in response to what had happened. A thousand different thoughts were all shooting off simultaneously, crowding his brain with their clamour.
Each of the thoughts flared, often overlapping each other.
Briana was safe. &nbs...
2024-09-23 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of things in my notes were excluded from the chapter by accident when I wrote it. I think I was rushing too much.
AUDIO file will not be updated because I physically don't have the lines available to do it in the software I use to generate chapters.
First the following is included when DUX asks him what compensation he wants.
“Share your thou...
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