Anthony Alves

Chapter 50

(Quick heads up – someone on RR pointed out Russians have patronyms as middle names, and the last name I was using for Maksim, Igorevna, means daughter of Igor.  I went back and fixed this.  His new name is Maksim Igorovich Zamotin or just Maksim Zamotin.)

Dan awoke with a start.  His dream about Geehel felt real.  It felt like ...

Chapter 49

Occasionally, something like this would happen.  Dan tried not to have a routine.  After so long, just as he was good at predicting what Asmodon would do, the demon was able to do the same. 

Like the old saying – everything looked like a nail to a hammer.  And Asmodon was definitely a hammer.  But a smart hammer.  He had managed to trap Dan a million times,...

Chapter 48

All my team besides Dan started using their allotted time in the Sanctuary of Revelations and began working on their Spirit Nexus. 

That whole building is surrounded by doors.  There’s never a wait to get in.  Participants just walk around until they find an open door.  As I said before, I have no idea what the inside looks like. 

Becky would bring her lit...

Chapter 47

(WARNING!!!: This chapter contains horrible sexual assault and other terrible atrocities you really may want to skip.  It’s safe to read up to where the term ‘blackout drunk’ is mentioned, then skip to the chapter break and change of PoV to Xotl/Acesso LaBlacky.  I’ll summarize what you missed at the bottom.)

Hector Monagas had one major ambitio...

Chapter 46

Oh, I should probably tell you that the last guy wanted for murder was dead.  I knew that, but none of the participants did. 

It’s not really important but since I’m catching up with events, that was an event.  He got slaughtered in the Trial of the Rapture, so don’t expect Dan to chase after or capture him.

Okay, now we’re going back to Ace and Leena.  I...

Chapter 45

That fat prick looked like he was in real trouble now!  I had no idea what the flower thing was, but it looked like it was shocking the shit out of him.  I saw it the last time Dan was there, but it was slow moving and hadn’t reached the battle before Dan cheated and portaled away.

Every time he was shocked, he’d convulse like a huge sissy.  And he was getting shocked o...

Chapter 44

Dan could just wait for the Sortilege monsters to disappear from the Crucible area.  He was still going back there though.  For a few reasons.

As he told Ace, he had started regulating, and he wouldn’t be done until every single traitor he knew of was dead. 

Max Zamotin and the monsters were there because of Dan, and he wouldn’t leave his mess for others to deal w...

Chapter 43

What’s the marriage situation like where you come from?

[What?  Why?]

Just wondering.  When I was still in my brood, marriage wasn’t even a thing in my layer.  Not really.  Everyone knows only the prudes get married, and we aren’t prudes.  Or most of us aren’t.  

It just wasn’t an issue.  We didn’t have any filthy marrieds at all....

Chapter 42

Dan’s vision in his one good eye kept blurring and threatening to stop working.  Things would get dark for a moment.  He’d think that was it, and he was blind, but then his eye would start working again.  Mostly.

Ever since he took that hit to the temple, he had felt really nauseous, shaky, and weak.  He couldn’t afford that.  His limbs were refusing to list...

Chapter 41

Yeah.  I have no idea how he broke out of that stun.  Pretty impressive though. 

Dan jumped to the side and rolled away, somehow managing to avoid most of what was coming at him, but he still lost his Block charges right there.

He jumped up.  A few invocations were still coming at him.  A couple were areas of effect, so he dove and rolled again, getting clos...

Chapter 40

Ha!  We had that fat idiot now!  By the stupid look of despair on his dumb face, I could tell he knew he was a dead man too. 

Bob and Az’ga bet me that he’d turn tail and run.  I knew he wouldn’t. 

But even if he did, everyone would follow him to the fourth area and there’d be a bigger fight.  That was the plan we last heard at least.  He w...

Chapter 39

Dan knew Lilith wasn’t in her true form.  She had taken on a form mortal men found irresistible.

This form was young and had perfect and radiant olive-colored skin.  Her eyes were an endless gray with specs of green and blue within.  Her plump lips were naturally red, and her face was far more impossibly beautiful than even that of the angel Aphariel.

Lilith was sca...

Chapter 38

Dan hoped he was making the right decisions.  Retraining his mind to his new reality would take some time. 

He had thought about only gaining one level and stopping at 21.  That would allow him to increase all his Orbments up to Second Rank and also summon Ashen Ruin at level 41. 

But with Dan at level 41, Jade tier, Ashen Ruin would now be summoned at level 61, ...

Chapter 37*

The next morning after the usual routine – exercise, meditation and reflection, and breakfast – the parties were reformed back to how they were originally. 

Dan told everyone to always stick together, to not take any shit from anyone, and if it came to fighting other participants, to not hold back because their enemies wouldn’t.

Then my whole team exited the tutorial area...

Chapter 36 *

When Dan got back, only Austin was dicking around.  Everyone else was doing something productive such as working together on tactics and performing mock battles. 

Dan had another shield he gave Carlos.  He wanted them to complete the Combat Trial on F.  To start off slowly and see how well they worked together.

Ace told Dan, “We already fought and killed four h...

Chapter 35

Just in case you’re wondering, I’ve been trying to think of a name for worlds making it the full cycle as Earth did, like I have for garbage and turd worlds.  I’d rather not use another word for excrement, but that’s all I can think of.  Any suggestions?

[I wasn’t wondering and no.]

Oh well.  Moving on.  XP cores can be stored in the belt for free. ...

Chapter 34

Dan asked my other team members, “What Trial did y’all want to do next?”

“Agility Trial,” quickly declared Leena.  “I know I can get SS.”

“Don’t feel pressure to dot hat.  F-rating is fine.  Not dying is the goal,” said Dan.

“Well, I know I can get SS,” replied Leena.

“Okay.  Just be careful, is all.”

Once they all ar...

Chapter 33

Amanda laughed and kissed Dan’s nose again.  “Daddy, you gotta dodge now.”

With regret, Dan forced himself back to reality and immediately dove out of the way of a lance beam. 

The False God usually followed that up with a targeted area of effect attack, then by three fast-flying orbs of a wasting disease that couldn’t be dodged.  The orbs had to be popped bef...

Chapter 32

Dan threw the corpses in the Trial when it opened.  To hide his foul deed from other participants.  Or maybe he was just tidy.

[It sounded like he wanted the men to attack him.  He provoked them.  He lied about having fragments in his bag, right?]

Correct and I agree.  He got the result he seemed to have wanted.

Bob, Az’ga, and I were ecstatic Dan wa...

Chapter 31

Dan had well over an hour to kill before meeting up with those two I told you about, Dotty and Andrew. 

He ended up running through the Trial of the Rapture again.  Then he meditated until it reset and ran it once more before heading to the Sanctuary of Revelations.  He unsummoned Ashen Ruin on the way.   No idea why.

Dotty and Andrew had five other particip...

Chapter 30

Did you notice it?

[What?]

The Limitless Trait.  Remember, I said Dan purchased Efficient with his token.

[I noticed.]

I’ve never heard of anything like that.  The channel’s Trait often upgrades, but it upgrades in the same way every time.  And it upgrades just the thing the Trait is about. 

I’ve never seen a new Trait just upgrade itself ...

Chapter 29*

(Warning: this chapter contains talk of self harm.)

“I told Marisol where I’d be for the night,” Dan told Millie.  “I stormed out.  She was freaking out at me the whole time I was leaving.  I even tried taking Amanda with me.  She told me I couldn’t.  There was no question if she knew I was gone or not.  She knew. 

“She to...

Chapter 28

I have a knack for remembering conversations.  I could do the accents and speak very much like these mortals do, but I would never stoop to such levels of depravity.  I articulate gonna as going to and fidna as fixing to.  I leave out if’n.  I’m not sure what it’s a contraction of.  If not?  If and?  If an?  Who knows?  Not Ace Blacky.

Th...

Chapter 27

Dan felt a little out of whack since he didn’t get the chance to really meditate and reflect on his revelation.  Leena ruined the time he always set aside for that.  Even Asmodon had let him meditate a little in the morning. 

He really wanted to spend some time in the Sanctuary of Revelations to achieve a 6-Star Soul, but if he was going to have any chance at all beating ...

Chapter 26

Since Dan only had a couple hours of sleep and got up without complaining, Ace, Chet, and Nick tried following his example. 

Becky sent Bonnie over to him with another flower.  The child wasn’t scared of him any longer.  It wasn’t clear why, but it’s well known that Karens are wishy-washy.

A full person would’ve easily been able to tell Dan wanted to exercise ...

Chapter 25

At the high-pantheon shrines, Dan didn’t even bother kneeling which is considered very disrespectful.

While standing, he said, “If what the Trial in the Boneyard says is true, it’s all y’all’s fault this is happening to my world.  I reckon y’all are as much my enemies as anyone else.  I ain’t never begged before and I ain’t starting now, especially not to likes o...

Chapter 24*

Dan was still wound up from thinking his brother and all the people in his tutorial area were killed by a third Sortilege.

And talking to that big group of people before that.  He knew he had come off foolishly.  What he had worked out inside his head to say and what ended up coming out of his mouth didn’t match up all that well. 

The whole time he stood in front of...

Chapter 23

Dan didn’t look around inside the Mausoleum of Bak’ung.  Not even at the giant ax in the middle of the antechamber, and that ax is super cool.  There’s a ton of cool shit in there.  I love it when participants try to steal it.  Some spend an inordinate amount of time trying to do so.  I admire their persistence. 

Dan walked right up to the door and ente...

Chapter 22

Dan didn’t leave the tutorial area right away.  At the exit, he used the Orbment-Effect Charm on SUMMON INFERNAL.  I’m always interested in seeing what those’ll do. 

Guess…never mind.  It changed it to SUMMON ASHEN RUIN. 

Ashen Ruin is the name of an Infernal Lord of the sixth layer.  It didn’t actually summon Ashen Ruin, of course, but it loo...

Price Change Notification and Refunds

When I created this I checked some of the biggest authors for pricing. One had two advanced chapters for $3 and the other had four or five for $10. I thought I was giving a good deal. Since, I've checked out some of the big authors on RR and learned my deal is not good at all. $5 for 10 chapters seems to be the standard.

I'm lowering the prices significantly. $2 for 5 and $4 for 10...