Jakob H. Greif

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Hey everyone, Apocalypse Redux is coming out on October 29th, alongside its audiobook, and here's a download link for anyone who wants to get a proper copy:

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Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 30: Last Chance

10 am, the Day Before The Third Challenge Begins, the Untersberg

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll likely never stop saying it.

My. Life. Is. A. Fever. Dream.

And my current surroundings, the throne room of the Untersberg fortress certainly didn’t help things. Between the original, old-fashioned architecture, the magical map and model of the mountain mad...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 29: Buried Evil (Alternative Title: Diabolus ex Machina) (Book 2 Start)

The 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...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 28: A New World

The past five days had been a whirlwind of activity, but somehow also perfectly calm compared to everything that had happened previously.

No more Nation Bosses had risen, all the little fuckers had spawned in the first second of the Challenge and were slowly being ground to dust by military or armed citizens, and there was enough spare man- and firepower available to come down on the occa...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 27: Lessons Learned

Walking through a warzone hit differently when that warzone used to be people’s homes. And apparently, Ogier had touted me as being capable of fixing everything, which was definitely a teensy bit of a stretch. [Restoration of the Old] was strong, and only got stronger when applied to something as ancient as the Untersberg fortress, but it wasn’t this strong.

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 26: Legendary Deed

Charlemagne

A second nexus had been destroyed. But once again, it hadn’t been human power tearing deep enough into their foe to destroy the source of the beast’s power; it had been the beast’s own power breaking it to protect itself from being crippled.

They needed to find out how to hurt the Forgotten more reliably. The British king was mere minutes from being able to enter t...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 25: True Boss

Tristan

Bones of the Forgotten (raised ossuary), Level 35 Nation Boss

Well, that was gonna be a problem. I shivered as I slowly pulled my nose back

It was “just” Level 35, which seemed to be the limit for the second Challenge, but it wasn’t weak. Definitely not.

This beast that had risen from the famous catacombs of Paris, no, it was them, th...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 24: Learning Lessons

Yesterday, and the day before that, had sucked. It had been an awful combination of depressing, disgusting, and exhausting that would likely stay with me until the day I died.

This morning, I’d woken up feeling terrible, tired and with a headache, hungover without ever having touched a drop of booze. Not that I was generally a big drinker, I was perfectly able to come up with plenty of ...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 23: Aftermath

Today had been a new day, and that did not make a lick of difference to my mood. Actually, no, that was a lie. I felt worse. Yesterday had been a matter of alternating between using Skills, watching and waiting with bated breath as the matters outside went on, and praying to a deity I was pretty sure I didn’t even believe in.

Today, I’d been vital for about five seconds, when I’d us...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 22: Arthur/Fionn/Joseph

Arthur

This was the grand Second Challenge, the countless monsters that were supposed to be able to crush the strongest this modern world had to offer?

A few thousand simple undead that the company of soldiers he’d been assigned would have been able to mow them down with ease. All on their own.

The whole thing was less a story of “one mythical warrior against...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 21: Boss Fights

Ogier

“There are undead in the caves.”

Oh, that … that was bad.

Ogier didn’t even bother holding back on the swearing as he stormed out of his previous assigned position, a so-called “pillbox” on the far side of the mountain from the throne room. There were multiple caves in the Untersberg, ones that weren’t connected to the fortress. But if they were filled with...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 20: The Siege

Dietrich’s fist met the revolting tentacle as it passed through an arrowslit and he triggered [Titan Strike], the magic now inherent to him overriding the normal rules of nature and how such an action would normally have gone.

A field of force wrapped around his gauntlet, gripping the flesh around the site of the impact, allowing him to shove the entirety of the invading limb back as on...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 19: Army of the Dead

Tristan

The Second Challenge, [The Breaking of Graves], has now begun, raising the dead and occasionally forming them into new shapes.

The First Challenge, [The Beasts of Legend], has concluded, and no new monsters will be created, nor will animals be mutated. However, existing monsters will remain until slain.

The Third Challenge, [The Waking of the Unliving], will begin in t...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 18: Temujin

The Second Challenge, [The Breaking of Graves], will begin today.

Time remaining: 0:0:0:27

A force of unprecedented power and was about to impact the world, forever reshaping the course of its history.

And Temujin was leading the simultaneously strongest and strangest horde he’d ever led. Horses ran alongside cars, trucks drove next to tanks, and overhead, machines he could ...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 17: Drake

The Second Challenge, [The Breaking of Graves], will begin today.

Time remaining: 0:0:1:01

Little over one minute to go, then all hell would break loose, potentially even in the literal sense. Because it could mean almost anything.

A gate to the underworld, anything that was once dead stirring back to life, or simply every burial ground since the dawn of time explodin...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 16: Final Preparations

The main chamber, or rather, the throne room, was thankfully mostly empty. Well, not completely, and the table we’d eaten at this morning had been turned into the center of all strategic planning, but it wasn’t overrun.

Karl der Große was there, discussing something with a man in a uniform I assumed to belong to the Technisches Hilfswerk. Ogier was there too, along with a few other p...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 15: Perfected Beings

The Irish Embassy looked pretty similar to the British one, a building design that I’d have described as “traditional”, though I didn’t need [Innate Etiquette] to remind me that that almost certainly wasn’t the correct, official, term. But still, it had charm, and the building’s outside was painted in that yellowy beige whose variants seemed ubiquitous in the historical areas of cen...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 14: Temujin/Fionn

Temujin

At least someone was being polite about contacting him. No premature threats, no insults, just an ambassador walking up to a Mongolian Embassy and politely asking for a meeting with the lord of the house, so to speak.

Then, they’d had a conversation like reasonable men, and decided that the System was a far more pressing issue than just about everything else....

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 13: Spreading the Word

I looked up from my phone at the sound of Mia running over to me, grinning from ear to ear, a System window in front of her, bobbing up and down as she moved. Therefore, I couldn’t read any of that, it was bouncing around too much, but at least it was pretty obvious what had gotten her excited.

Then she stopped in front of me, and I also realized that I couldn’t read it since the tran...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 12: Mia

Learning from Dietrich von Bern was an intimidating prospect.

With most of Mia’s teachers, they might have been far beyond her when she started, but she had swiftly learned from them, mastered the basics, and grown from there until she’d eventually hit the point of diminishing returns, where measurable progress only occurred over a period of months or years. Give it a decade, decade a...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 11: Ogier Danske

You know, this would have been a lot more fun with that modern music. It was like the most exhilarating part of the trumpets calling one to battle, extended across an entire song, and there seemed to be a near-infinite number of songs out there.

Though chances were the emperor would ban it from the fortress in a few days. For now, it was interesting, but in due time, it would get on his n...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 10: Where there’s Smoke, there’s Fire

Somehow, I woke up perfectly refreshed, and I even had a plan for everything. At least that was what it felt like. Boundless energy filled me, and I was raring to go … that wasn’t right. Couldn’t be right. I’d slept terribly, so why was I feeling so good?

“System, can you show me everything that’s influencing me?” I asked. There should be something like that available, right...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 9: Francis Drake/Temujin

Never in all his years on the sea had he had such a terrible headache, and quite frankly, his current state went well beyond even the hangover after every post-raid celebration he’d ever had put together.

But honestly, Francis Drake did not regret a single thing. Because now, he was fully ready to act his rank in the modern world, though he’d still have to recover from shoving so much...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 8: Ancient Fortress

“So, how do we get this open?” Dietrich asked, rapping his knuckles against the massive stone gate. It sounded like he’d just smacked solid rock, without any hollows or non-stone materials underneath. Just a massive slab that looked impossible to move. Dietrich could probably break it, but that couldn’t possibly be the intended method of entry, could it?

“Let me try something,�...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 7: On the Road

Somehow, I only got my reward for the events at Ravenna once we were well-clear of the city, but I did get it.

[Legend’s Guide Lv. 5 -> Legend’s Guide Lv. 7]

[Skill Boost Gained]

[Skill gained: Arcane Core]

I sighed. If I hadn’t known how to access proper descriptions, I would have been at a complete loss of what to do with that.

But since I did know how t...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 6: Resting … Not

It was late at night by the time we reached Ravena. The drive had been far and it sure as shit hadn’t been helped by having to stop seven times to kill monsters. Well, for Dietrich to kill monsters, me and Mia weren’t quite at a Level where we could.

Checking into our hotel was thankfully easy, even this late, since we’d pre-booked. We’d also looked up a nearby shop ...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 5: Natural Overreaction

I froze for a second, then took two steps back into the gloom to grab my phone, activating a live stream on YouTube.

“What’s wrong?” Dietrich asked as I did that, having stopped when I did.

“Local law enforcement,” I said. “I’m hoping that showing this to the world is going to keep them honest.”

Dietrich nodded. Clearly, he was deferring to my expertise on the ...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 4: Arthur/Joseph/Temudjin

Another monster fell beneath his blade, and after briefly checking to make sure it didn’t magically return to life, Arthur marched off.

There were other places to me, more monsters to fight, more things to do.

“Sir, there are reports of a giant monster in the New Forest National Park.”

Arthur turned to see a man in a green uniform giving a gesture he recognized as one of...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 3: “Graverobbing”

Apparently, even legendary heroes got car sick.

Dietrich and I had been in the back, discussing what information I should give him once [Knowledge Transfer] came off cooldown. He’d wanted to know about modern weaponry while I’d argued that I didn’t actually know all that much about guns and tanks and missiles, and what I did know, I’d gained from probably unrealistic movies and TV...

Outrage of the Ancients Chapter 2: Fionn Mac Cumail/Charlemagne/Francis Drake

The march to Dublin had been a bloody affair, though that was likely due to how Fionn had chosen his path, dragging the Fianna through as many monster-infested areas as possible.

It had achieved its primary purpose, allowing them to stop some of the biggest problems before they actually impacted the people of Ireland.

It had also left everyone tired, dirty, and while he’d normally...