Mid break surprise!
We have Aster plushies and they look great so if you want to get one you can pick it and a Biscuit from Hell Difficulty Tutorial at https://www.makeship.com/products/...
2026-02-14 02:06:27 +0000 UTC View PostOkay I’m going to take a month break.
I’m not quitting or anything, I just need a bit more than a week off (what I realistically get when I take a normal break and accounting for pre and post prep) after going strong for the last four years.
I want to make sure the next chapters/arc lives up to everyone's imaginations and I’d rather delay slightly than write something...
2026-01-16 20:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about the sudden notice but I’m going to pause the Patreon for a month and take a bit of a longer break before we get into the upcoming arc. The story will continue but I acknowledge that I need a longer break and the best way to do so with the Pateron model is to pause payment for a month, so that’s what I’m going to do.
I’ll have more information about pausing at the end o...
2026-01-16 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 482
Mathew flinched away, confused before he saw the message Matt was now very glad he’d sent. From there, his motion reversed as he pulled Matt into a hug.
When they pulled apart, they simply swapped and Matt gave Melinda a hard squeeze as well before letting go and stepping back.
“Fancy seeing you guys down here.” Liz mirrored Melinda and Mathew’s earl...
2026-01-12 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 481
It didn’t take long for the first wave of explorers to return to their home stations once they reached settled space. Even the oldest immortals wanted to return home after more than five hundred years of absence, but it still took time for them to travel. Instead of rushing, they decided to wait, and the moment they got confirmation Lila had returned to her guild, All...
2026-01-09 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 480
Matt felt unending gratitude to the Emperor when he teleported them to a border world instead of directly back into his office. That gave him a chance to look up additional information about Icliz before seeing his loved ones, who no doubt expected him to come back in a triumphant mood rather than his current jumble of emotions. A small part of him wanted to find hints ...
2026-01-05 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostI really need to take more time off this break next year. I never get anything done during the break I say I will. I hope everyone had a good holiday season.
Anywho, 9k chapter. Enjoy.
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Chapter 479
“Can I assume he's providing said mana against his will?”
JR nodded without hesitation. “Most definitely."
Hearing that caused the kernel of ...
2026-01-02 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post10k chapter. I'll see everyone on the 2nd, enjoy.
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Chapter 478
Emmanuel exited his final rift with a sense of anticipation he hadn’t felt since he took the throne. They were done, and he could finally escape this prison.
With a wave, he obliterated the Tier 48 rift, officially ending his delving.
The only one who was already finished was Tobias, b...
2025-12-22 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 477
After a decade of campaigning Matt, Liz, Aster, Allie, Zack, the contingent of dukes, various CEO’s, guild leaders, and lower ranking nobles slowly but surely climbed up the palace's stairs in sync with sunrise. They were following customs older than the Empire itself, but that didn’t make them any less important. With not one, but two teams of Ascenders leading the...
2025-12-19 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 476
Stepping through a [Portal] to the suite they were using as a base after his final interview, Matt arrived to find several of his co-conspirators lounging around the common area. Not that they weren’t working, rather, they were busy communicating with one of the many concerned parties after his latest round of interviews.
They’d planned for three, but they’d...
2025-12-15 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 475
After agreeing to work together, Matt and Liz spent a few days preparing before they grabbed a few of their people and joined the nobles on their way to the Capital.
One of those preparations was Matt trying to get Aster to join them. However, she was mid-experiment trying to formulate a stable Level five ‘Space Ice’ mana, and didn’t want to waste the travel...
2025-12-12 19:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 474
Opening a [Portal] for Liz, the two of them stepped through his second [Portal], arriving next to the luxury yacht that was now orbiting Palustris.
Through their physical contact, Liz privately commented, “Well, aren’t they the definition inconspicuous.”
Knowing what Liz really meant, he replied the same way as a hatch opened up. “It's not forcing ou...
2025-12-08 19:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 473
Upon coming back from their exploration, Matt experienced time in a way he hadn't before.
The ten years they spent taking over for their seneschal's was as easy as continuing the tasks already underway. While he and Liz had their own thoughts and plans, they needed their own breaks. As such, they implemented things with their seneschal’s identities, not official...
2025-12-05 19:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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Chapter 472
Having dealt with their ship based obligations, Matt observed the planet burning beneath him. That was good, and seeing it himself finally removed the small nagging voice that had started whispering in his ear any moment that became too quiet, after seeing people fighting over the Crystal aspected world.
Allie didn’t immediately teleport a...
2025-12-01 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 471
Allie groaned as she slumped in her chair, panting heavily. Sure, fanning herself with Aster's tail was pure theatrics but Matt still made a note to make her a nice basket of pastries in a few months when things died down. She deserved it after her efforts in teleporting them and their items around.
From their chats in recent days they’d long since planned their...
2025-11-28 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 470
Tim gasped as he came up for air and consciousness flooded back to him.
Spluttering, he found himself in a tub full of ice, melted to the point it felt like slush.
The air was somehow colder than the water, but as Tim tried to pull himself out, he quickly discovered whatever burst of strength had pulled him out of his fugue had been as ephemeral as his memor...
2025-11-17 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post8k chapter part 2 Electric Boogaloo.
Enjoy.
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Chapter 469
Matt’s form changed as he responded to the newest incursion from what they were calling the Sword Sect.
That was to differentiate them from the Flying Sect, which was one of the two aerial-based teams still in the running. There had been a third from the Clans, but they made the mistake of ...
2025-11-14 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post8k chapter!
Enjoy.
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Chapter 468
Entering the strange realm, Matt could have been convinced he was Tier 11 and back inside Minkalla.
After a moment, a pulse of light washed through the world and Matt found himself floating beside the rest of his team, but still unable to move or coordinate.
None of them had bodies but he could feel each of their mind...
2025-11-10 19:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostNote/reminder: We will be taking a break on the 26th and the 28th of December for my birthday. That means 478 will be the last chapter for the year on the 22nd, and we resume with 479 on January 2nd. After that there shouldn’t be any (planned) breaks after this for a while.
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Chapter 467
Hearing that people might fight and ruin an aspected wor...
2025-11-07 19:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 466
When they arrived at their target world they were immediately accosted.
In rapid-fire Guild, the Tier 34 started barking at them, “The Deathly Due’s guild is in command of this world and its strange realms. We are charging anyone who wants to use one of the strange realms. We—”
Hearing the shakedown start to really get going, Matt tuned the man out, ...
2025-11-03 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostNote/reminder: We will be taking a break on the 26th and the 28th of December for my birthday. That means 478 will be the last chapter for the year on the 22nd, and we resume with 479 on January 2nd. After that there shouldn’t be any (planned) breaks after this for a while.
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Chapter 465
Not willing to blow their covers for a single person out of a group, they allow...
2025-10-31 18:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 464
After two weeks of ‘relaxation’ in the rift instance they were hiding in, everyone packed up their various workstations and prepared to blend in with the exploration groups outside.
Matt felt he’d made significant progress with his mana tests.
Taking inspiration from the same original strange realm mana storage gems that caught his eye, the researchers...
2025-10-27 18:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 463
Matt's only thought as they stepped into the barrier was that it felt far larger than it had any right to be. He didn’t think it was only a spatial expansion, but he was fairly sure there was a perception distortion making the moment stretch into taffy.
It was almost like entering an isolation chamber and, in the emptiness, becoming hyper aware of oneself.
(Old note)Because I forgot last chapter here it is. The gang’s hopefully spoiler free character sheets(Defined by what the reader/cast would know): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rp7INBG0Fq82Mb0kA8iL4lAcj-5mNzhHcLWzn3_fVx4
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Chapter 462
Chapter 461
Matt’s anticipation of Aster’s reaction was spot on.
“How?! I was so fast. I broke out of every illusion as fast as possible. Or did you fail?”
Aster’s face fell in a burst of worry as she landed on the final possibility. The expression faded as quickly as it appeared when she inspected their bond, her eyes narrowing.
Seeing that, she went ri...
2025-10-17 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: At the end of this mini arc (for the the Tier 15 pats), 470 (Nov 17th), I intend to take a small break on the 21st and 24th of November. After that we should have no more breaks until my birthday/christmas/new-year break at the end of the year.
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Chapter 460
The oddities in the breach bubble didn’t stop when they reached their next world.
Not becau...
2025-10-13 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy the chapter!
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Chapter 459
Having been given a warning on such behavior, Matt didn’t immediately return to working on his mana project, no matter how much he wanted to. He still had plenty of ideas he wanted to test thanks to the information packs Titan’s Torch had been able to pass back to him during Allie’s trips back to settled space.
He would hav...
2025-10-10 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: At the end of this mini arc (for the the Tier 15 pats), 470 (Nov 17th), I intend to take a small break on the 21st and 24th of November. After that we should have no more breaks until my birthday/christmas/new-year break at the end of the year.
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(Old)Note, a slightly longer chapter to make up for the shorter intro.
Enjoy.
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Chapter 458
Chapter 457
Gervásio Mendes froze with everyone else in the pagoda as twelve new presences appeared in low orbit over the breachpoint. Ships had been arriving hourly and were mostly ignored unless they were Tier 35 or higher. A brief scan was normally all any group earned, but this was twelve people arriving where they shouldn’t have been. And as such, they got extra scrutiny. 2025-10-03 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope you guys had as much fun with this book as I did.
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Chapter 456
Emmanuel stood above the wreckage of a continent larger than most star systems, surrounded by clouds of silver mist that hemmed them in. The result of the boss trying to trap him, which continued despite its death.
The boss of this Tier 47 rift wasn’t in and of itself impressive, but ...
2025-09-22 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post