It had taken until the Thirtieth Descent for Xavier to find enemies worthy of grinding for his own levels.
He had gained a title for the first twenty-nine descents of the Hell Moon Thazamar, and his theory about how the percentages would accumulate had been correct. He now had a +14.5 perce...
2025-03-19 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe notification that popped into Xavier’s vision was a title.
When Xavier’s companions had cleared the First Descent, even though Xavier had cast Time Alteration, he hadn’t actually dealt any damage to any of the Bladed Crawler demons, meaning he hadn’t gotten the title then. Time ...
2025-03-18 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“This is not how I prefer to fight, Xavier.” Romalda held her chin high as he stared at him. “I need to be able to cast my spells. Reanimate these corpses. Build my army.”
The E Grade necromancer was breathing heavily. Her staff was covered in demon blood, and she had ...
2025-03-17 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier, Volkarin, Rhaalir, and Romalda entered the First Descent of the Hell Moon Thazamar.
Thazamar was the first of the Hell Moons of Demonica, three dungeon-like moons that lay on the other side of the universe to Earth.
The moons inhabited one of the first sectors to have ever bee...
2025-03-13 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier felt energised.
More than he had in a while.
He had returned to Collinsville only briefly, to inform those that were there that he wouldn’t be close enough to contact for the foreseeable future.
Guardian would be more than strong enough to protect Collinsville, and thos...
2025-03-12 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier returned to Earth. He hadn’t wanted to, but he knew he needed to come up with a plan. He couldn’t simply step through any random portal he wished and hope he would end up somewhere that could make him stronger.
He’d also been through the different hunting grounds the gnome info...
2025-03-11 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Class Grafting process was a painful one, though Xavier had endured worse.
Empress Larona did not explain the procedure as she performed it—apparently, she’d ended up requiring more focus than she’d initially expected. Xavier’s frequent and obsessive use of the spell Soul Harden...
2025-03-10 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe door Empress Larona stepped through opened onto a long hallway filled with doors on either side. She stepped swiftly down the hallway with a graceful stride. Xavier followed behind, glancing at the different doors as they passed them.
None of the doors had any markings on them, saying w...
2025-03-06 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Only one?” Xavier asked, sitting across from the most powerful Denizen in the sector. A Denizen that had seen glimpses of the future—a future with him at the centre.
And he was in space. The back room of that bookstore was through a portal to space.
Whenever h...
2025-03-05 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sat across from the woman who claimed to be Elitsa Flian, a humble bookstore owner in the city of Mareketh, and a Level 102 Inscriber.
He sat in a plush chair, on the opposite side of her desk, in a luxurious office that suddenly didn’t feel right. He almost clutched the armrests t...
2025-03-04 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood in front of the portal to the frozen world. The necromancer he’d freed from the dungeon blinked at him, tilting her head to one side in slight confusion.
She narrowed her eyes. “I’m not sure what kind of game you’re playing, Xavier Collins.” Romalda raised her chin. ...
2025-03-03 18:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostNight had fallen in the dark wood. Shadows from the nearby trees encroached on the clearing, the light of the silver moon hanging in the sky only falling about the area in small slivers. The elf spirit Rhaalir raised his translucent hand, examining it as a moonbeam cut straight through it.
...
2025-02-27 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the middle of a large, frozen landscape, an army surrounding him at his back, front, and both flanks, Xavier watched as two portals on either side of him appeared—portals big enough that not a single one of his enemies ranged attacks would get through.
The attacks slipped stra...
2025-02-26 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostInside the mausoleum, in the Deathly Dungeon, with undead breaking out of their crypts all around Xaiver, the young dragon Volkarin burst from the Companion Cube.
The dragon expanded his wings and sniffed the air.
“Where are your enemies? What happened?” Volkarin hadn’t been sum...
2025-02-25 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostClass Grafting was more sinister than Xavier expected it to be, though he supposed it was all in the name.
It required two things—a skilled Inscriber, and the corpse of someone whom you wished to “become.”
At the first instance, Xavier couldn’t help but be repulsed by the idea...
2025-02-24 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostXavier had remained on the moon that held the hunting grounds until the Portal Block had been lifted. Another Portal Block did not come into effect.
He had worried that it would.
When he’d left the Chains that Bind and the Divine Helper alive, he’d thought it might be a huge mista...
2025-02-20 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElspeth whirled around.
Elspeth: [Illuni? Where the hell did you go?]
Illuni: [I don’t know! But he’s coming back!]
Elspeth could feel the Divine Helper’s panic even through their party-connected Communication Stone. Illuni had always been prone to panick...
2025-02-19 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier breathed heavily, his chest expanding and contracting. He stared at the man that was now in his control. The C Grade binding specialist.
I can’t believe that worked. The elf spirit, Rhaalir, was leaning forward, peering into the eyes of the binding specialist ...
2025-02-18 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“How long does this field of yours work for, anyway?”
The bored-sounding voice came from above Xavier. Xavier couldn’t respond. Couldn’t move. Couldn’t even blink his eyes.
The Chains that Bind stood over him, peering down at him as though waiting for a response that he sure...
2025-02-17 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier hovered in the air inside of his time dilation field, one dead enemy at his feet. It had taken him longer than he’d imagined to kill the Walking Shield, something he should have anticipated, but he’d whittled the man’s health down, slowly, methodically, after he’d broken through th...
2025-02-13 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier lay on the ground, miles away from where he’d been fighting the C Grade Elite Hunt Squad.
Three arrows, invisible until they’d hit him, had made his right arm, right wing and both his legs completely immobile. Keeping his breathing steady was difficult, but he’d been through wo...
2025-02-12 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier flew through the air above the clearing with the party of C Grades sent to capture him, a portal he’d summoned hovering between him and his enemies to act as a shield.
The Archer of Fortune’s arrow that had sailed through the portal slammed straight into the Chains that Bind. The...
2025-02-11 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood, surrounded by a myriad of D Grade Great Shell corpses in an ancient forest on a moon somewhere in the Silver River sector. His Spirt Golem was back inside of his inventory. The young dragon that was his beast companion, Volkarin, was safe inside of his Comapanion Cube.
A C Gra...
2025-02-10 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Spirit Golem rose in ranks incredibly fast.
Those first levels came a lot faster than the ones after. Xavier was now convinced that both the dragon and the Spirit Golem had actually gotten some sort of boost to the number of Mastery Points they received for their first kil...
2025-02-06 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostVolkarin wasn’t the only reason Xavier had come to these hunting grounds.
He had a Spirit Golem to train up.
According to Rhaalir, the Spirit Golem, unlike a Denizen or a beast, could be powerlevelled effectively.
A Spirit Golem didn’t gain skills and spells in the same way....
2025-02-05 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stared in mild shock at the scene before him.
He had just stepped through the portal back from his quarters in Collinsville, returning to the moon where he’d left Volkarin. The D Grade Great Shell that he had prepped so the dragon could kill was dead, and the baby dragon that Xavie...
2025-02-04 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe plan was a simple one.
Xavier would lower the health of the Great Shell while it was still under his control, then he would leave the planet using his Portal Stones.
The Portal Stone pair that he intended to use was sector-restricted. The connecting Portal Stone was back on Earth,...
2025-02-03 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostXavier and Famarial stepped out of the portal and arrived at the hunting grounds he’d selected. Xavier had paid for Famarial’s fee. The elf had been useful to him, and he didn’t mind having him around. He certainly wouldn’t be able to become party member material—he was far too low leve...
2025-01-30 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sat in the Stone Ways tavern, a warm mug of coffee rested in front of him along with a plate of food with something that approximated bacon. The book he was reading lay open on the table. He was already halfway through. Part of Xavier was absolutely thrilled that he now possessed the abili...
2025-01-29 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier walked through one of the main marketplaces in the middle of Mareketh Proper. Famarial walked beside him, having to rush a little to keep pace with him.
Xavier had thought to summon Volkarin. It would have been nice to have the dragon trotting by his side. It didn’t seem as though ...
2025-01-28 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post