Bit of a shorter chapter today, hope you still enjoy.
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Lintong District, China
Magic was mysterious, magic’s return had been unexpected, no one could predict what magic would do. Mostly.
Because sometimes, it was abundantly obvious what would happen.
Such as when a world-famous collection of statu...
2025-01-18 21:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostA hurled chunk of rock bounced off my shoulder, a dull pain shooting through me, showing that [Diplomatic Immunity] had only taken the worst edge off. Meaning it hadn’t been outright lethal, and that I could tank a couple more hits with the Skill before it stopped working for a time.
I whirled around to see that another group of statues had risen from the ground, and was rapidly closing...
2025-01-17 13:39:49 +0000 UTC View PostOur treaty might not technically be binding just yet, as the senate was yet to vote to ratify it, however, both the export licenses and my being free and clear to teleport into the country for non-nefarious reasons had wound up being given not as a part of the treaty, but as part of a direct executive order.
Which meant that the treaty was just that much more likely to go through, since t...
2025-01-15 21:05:34 +0000 UTC View Post“I suppose that just means we have more enemies than we thought,” Charlemagne finally replied, once I was finished reporting what I’d learned. “I’m guessing you will head off to find more allies?”
I shrugged and made a so-so gesture with my hand.
“First, I’m going to find the blueprints for some modern defensive technologies, so we can incorporate them into the Unter...
2025-01-13 21:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostFionn, now
Fomorians.
Now, there was a term he hadn’t heard in a long time. It was an old story, much older than even himself. One that even he had believed to only exist in the realm of myth and legend, despite having lived in an age of wonders, and himself having been considered similarly fictional up until quite recently.
An idea so old, it had passed out of livi...
2025-01-10 15:18:23 +0000 UTC View PostSo, a bit of a random place and time to do this, but thank you. I write stuff as a writing for a living now, and that wouldn't be possible without you guys, I'd never have been noticed by a publisher without you guys and I likely wouldn't have the motivation to keep writing without your guys' feedback either.
Anywho, that's just me being a little sappy. Hope you enjoy ...
2025-01-08 22:34:42 +0000 UTC View PostSo ... I got good news and bad news.
The good news is that I will be writing Museum Core 3 once I'm finished with Outrage of the Ancients 2. Also, I don't like making announcements without content to along with them, so there is a chapter after this (as the title promises).
The bad news is that, well, I was in a bit of a slump in early December, so I am way behind on Oot...
2025-01-06 23:07:23 +0000 UTC View PostArthur, yesterday
As wonderous as this modern world was, and as much of a relief as it was to have Merlin back, he still had questions. Many questions.
Some could be answered simply through the research the internet made oh-so-easy, for others, he needed to find someone knowledgeable. He was currently in the process of doing the latter.
His mentor’s return had ...
2025-01-05 22:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostFionn
Things really were reaching the point where even he had trouble staying on top of things.
There was simply too much to do, too many things demanding his attention, and even among the topics he could directly find out about, it still took him a small amount of time and effort to reach that information. It all added up.
Finding issues that needed the help of the Fianna, di...
2025-01-03 20:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostI … I wasn’t sure why that sounded like, er, not quite a good thing. Perhaps … perhaps … maybe the issue was that he thought I was trying to change the terms of the agreement? Even go back on my word?
I mean, he was nowhere near angry, I’d barely even call him “mildly annoyed,” but even his “mild annoyance” could have dire consequences.
In the end, af...
2025-01-02 17:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostI have a discord where you can ask me any question you want (I'll also answer here, but I'll be faster there), and talk to others about the stories.
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2024-12-29 22:46:14 +0000 UTC View PostI already made this announcement on Discord, bu
2024-12-29 19:42:01 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
On one hand, Genghis Khan was a man who’d annihilated an empire for harming his emissaries. He should be a supporter of diplomatic immunity as long as the ambassador behaved, right?
Yes, he was a man who’d keep ambassadors safe, and insisted that killing ambassadors was very bad form.
But he was also a man who’d killed four million people to make th...
2024-12-26 17:49:33 +0000 UTC View PostMia
Her balance had long since reached the levels of what a professional athlete could achieve, practice and Dietrich’s training regimen, boosted by [Knowledge Sponge], had made sure of that. Especially after their duels on that damn log.
Then, she’d figured out how to use [Preternatural Periocognition] to watch where she was putting her feet, bringing her footwork to an entirel...
2024-12-26 09:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostThere were few jobs as conducive to being remembered long after one’s death as the office of the President of the United States of America.
Yet there were also few jobs as likely to put you in an early grave. Not only had over a sixth of the people to hold this office died while doing so, it was also extraordinarily stressful even in the most peaceful of times. No one left...
2024-12-23 18:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostI was sitting in the middle of a concrete box, crosslegged, while three small orbs of fire floated around me, flitting back and forth, until one came way too close to my sleeve. In an instant, the flames were flung away from me, acting like fish startled by a rock thrown at them.
Though in this case, the being startled was me. [Ember] might not have been a particularly power...
2024-12-22 22:08:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Everyone, please head upstairs,” Fionn directed the various individuals he’d managed to find with magical potential.
There couldn’t be more than twenty, which was … honestly nothing. Compared to the sheer number of people in the world, it was a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent. And even just contrasted against the number of people he’d met personally, it was ...
2024-12-20 15:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostDouble Chapter since I wrote these in the wrong order
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Dietrich
After underground vaults, long-sealed monsters and weapons that had somehow slipped outside of the very world itself, finding the treasure of the Niebelungs felt almost mundane.
Simple and easy.
Tons, literal tons, of valuables ...
2024-12-17 10:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
The camp of the Fianna seemed to change even more rapidly than the Unterberg did, and that was considering how comparatively mundane it was.
“Mundane” in the sense that the place itself lacked inherent magic, not in the sense that it was ordinary, which it decidedly wasn’t.
It was just that the Untersberg was flooded with magical energy and supernatural effects, ...
2024-12-17 10:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostFionn liked cars, he finally decided. It had taken him a while to reach this place, but despite everything, they were clearly the superior method of transportation.
Sure, unlike the constant but steady up-and-down of being in a horse’s saddle, when riding in a car, you felt each and every bump and unevenness in the ground beneath the tires. However, cars didn’t get tired...
2024-12-04 19:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostA pretty frequent request on r/litrpg is that authors add summaries of previous books in the series at the start of new books. Now, I haven't done that for any of my previous books (honestly, that's mostly down to laziness, I can admit that), but I figured a sequel series released with quite a bit more of a delay did deserve (require, actually) a propper summary (which i wound up doing instead ...
2024-11-27 14:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostI’d been out of my room for almost a full minute by the time I realized that I was still wearing my pajamas and flip-flops. I came to a stop and stood there in the middle of the corridor for a couple of seconds before shrugging and taking off again while using [Modern Makeover] to make myself presentable.
Considering how thin my clothing was, I didn’t have much material to work with, ...
2024-11-27 14:35:29 +0000 UTC View PostApparently, even though I hadn’t done much other than play taxi, the System considered my contribution as having been considerable.
[Myth(ical) Mediator Lv. 25 -> Myth(ical) Mediator Lv. 27]
[Skill Boost gained]
[Skill gained: Traceless Communion]
I still couldn’t tell how gaining Levels was supposed to work. What did and did not count. How did all this fit togeth...
2024-11-21 10:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
So, Fionn had found an immortal vampire buried in the ground and the fucker was apparently impossible to kill. I hadn’t even needed him to pass on his opponent’s name, I’d figured it out the moment I’d heard the terms “buried,” “blood magic,” and “short.”
It was Abhartach, quite possibly the oldest vampire. Definitely among the oldest beings that wasn’t...
2024-11-17 19:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostFionn
The modern world had a lot of sayings, metaphors, idioms, and quotes that nearly everyone seemed to know, often without being aware of who had originated them, or thinking someone other than their original creator had come up with them.
Right now, there was one specific sentence that perfectly summed up his current circumstances.
“When it rains, it pours.”
Oh, ...
2024-11-15 15:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostBTW, the next book of Dungeon Crawler Carl come out today.
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Joseph
There were many things in this new world that were strange to him, things that had changed, things that seemed outright wrong.
The various machines, for one. Not to mention the System and the Skills it provided, though ...
2024-11-12 09:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostFionn
The trick of disintegrating the floor would obviously not work this time around. Not with his enemy transforming the area like that. Even if all it had done was make the ground metal, which was a lot less vulnerable to vibrations, his spell would fail.
But it was quite clear that the liquid currently masquerading as “beer” was doing far more than that, slowly...
2024-11-09 18:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostReally, really sorry for taking so long to update. I don't really have an excuse. Didn't really feel particularly inspired for a while, then got distracted by several things in quick succession, including the release of Apocalypse Redux 7 (the last one), writing the bonus chapter to go along with that, Minecraft, Thanksgiving, and so on.
All I can really promise is that...
2024-11-04 22:55:11 +0000 UTC View PostNormally, Temujin was not a fan of intricate or overly complicated plans. The more moving parts a stratagem had, the more likely it was that something unexpected would be enough to disrupt it, and the easier it was for someone else to stuff it up.
Simple plans were the way to go, plans that would be effective if they worked but ones whose consequences for failure were minimal.
Defea...
2024-10-24 20:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Challenge, [The Waking of the Unliving], has now begun, giving life to objects that never should have had it.
The Second Challenge, [The Breaking of Graves], has concluded, and the dead will no longer rise. However, existing undead will continue to exist until they are slain.
The Fourth Challenge, [The Wrath of Natural World], will begin in fifty days.
Time remaining...
2024-10-19 08:58:31 +0000 UTC View Post