The great forest on the hundredth floor of the Tower of Champions became eerily quiet as he entered the area on the mini-map where Gimble had told him the C Grade beast held its territory.
The birds in the trees that usually flittered from one branch to another were nowhere to be seen. No c...
2024-11-04 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGimble looked more than pleased with himself as he leant back in his chair and looked over at Xavier. He had him on the hook, knowing how much Xavier wanted the information.
And so that was when Xavier asked, “Something tells me you want something in return for the information about the C...
2024-10-31 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few weeks, Gimble, the Raid Leader of their instance of the one hundred floor of the Tower of Champions, held a record number of raids against C Grade beasts.
They went after the weakest of the C Grade beasts, for—according to Gimble—it would be suicide on a mass scale to ...
2024-10-30 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier watched in idle fascination as the claws cut through every single defence he had.
The Iron Wolf cut down the Bulwark spell.
It cut through the Shield Walls.
It destroyed every single one of the Floating Shields.
In the fraction of a second that he had to respond to ...
2024-10-29 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGimble sat on the ground. He did not look like he was in the pain that he should be in. He crossed his legs and lay his warhammer on top of them, then shut his eyes. Heals came from other Champions within the time dilation field as they realised what was going on, and it wasn’t long before the ...
2024-10-28 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood, fuming. He was struggling to contain his frustration.
Rhaalir, the elf spirit, was giving him a strange look. Why so much anger, young Denizen?
Gimble put me in the Support group.
Gimble, the Raid Leader, had assigned all the Champio...
2024-10-24 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostXavier was high in the sky. He’d leapt to the greatest height his Strength could take him, and was observing the oncoming stampede with an impassive look on his face.
Seeing the Rhinoceros Monkeys stirred his blood, made the bestial part of him—a part that was growing—fill with antici...
2024-10-23 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier took a step back as the beast—the spirit from the Otherworld which he’d summoned through the bridge using Soul Sacrifice—emerged into the Mortal Realm.
A sinuous, scaled body came through the rift between planes at an almost unimaginable speed. There was a roar that shuddered t...
2024-10-22 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe symbol of power—the Conduit—looked grotesque and… oddly beautiful at the same time. There was a logic to the shapes, the way they connected together, that Xavier could almost intuit.
Should I really be attempting this ritual? Xavier asked Rhaalir, the elven spirit fr...
2024-10-21 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out there was a lot more to soul energy than the spirit had first implied.
As it wished to make a deal with him, it was compelled to answer his questions regarding everything to do with the deal—literally compelled. When Xavier asked about the spirit’s honesty o...
Felicia stood behind the bar. She looked to be casually polishing the long wooden countertop without a care in the world, and certainly without caring about what was happening around her. Yet she watched the clientele like a hawk. It was easy not to make her observations obvious—she had a skill...
2024-10-16 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stared back at Liana, sitting in the grove within the bubble of time. “There’s someone you wish to save?”
The woman bit her lip and turned away. “My husband.”
Xavier’s eyes widened. “You have a husband?” he said, surprised.
Liana glared at him. “Of cours...
2024-10-15 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note: Is this a better posting time for you guys?]
Xavier punched his clawed hand straight into the wolven’s chest. He tore through muscle and sinew, cut through fat and bone, until he reached what he was after, grabbed hold of it, and ripped.
He grasped a c...
2024-10-14 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note:
I've been able to write at a better pace these last few days, and I wanted to give my biggest supporters--you guys--a bonus chapter.
I don't really talk about it much, but having this Patreon has really, really helped my financia...
2024-10-14 15:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostSnaaaaaaap!
Xavier’s eyes widened in shock.
In the tug of war between himself and the Alpha Rhinoceros Monkey, his Midnight Scythe had snapped clean in half.
Shock was written on the alpha’s face just the same. It was strange seeing shock after so much rage had been...
2024-10-11 06:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stared at his fingernails. Once they’d gone back to normal, they didn’t change back again.
The fight… it had brought something out in him. It had altered his thoughts, his emotions, even his body… because of how he had been changing it.
Xavier couldn’t help but rememb...
2024-10-10 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier gripped the Rhinoceros Monkey horn in his hand.
Dismantle has reached Rank 21!
Dismantle has reached rank 22!
He grinned. The horns were sharp. Sharp enough that he could use them to cut through the beasts. He wa...
2024-10-09 06:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier swallowed at the sight of thousands of beasts trampling through the forest, destroying everything they touched, trying to get to him.
And he had trapped his Midnight Scythe—the only weapon he had—with the damned Alpha Rhinoceros Monkey.
The weapon offered him much—higher ...
2024-10-08 06:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Author note: I didn't think I'd manage a fourth chapter this week, but I stayed up until 4am writing while watching over the baby. So, here it is! I should try and nap...]
Xavier stared at the notification he had just received.
You have trespasse...
2024-10-04 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post[Author note:
At this rate, I won't be able to publish 4 chapters this week. Despite doing my best to carve out writing time, sleep deprivation has made it difficult to stay awake while at the keyboard, which has significantly dropped my rate of production....
2024-10-03 06:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostFelicia drummed her fingers on the bar. Despite the hunger that still lingered in her eyes from learning that Xavier was only E Grade on a floor that an E Grade shouldn’t be able to survive on, he could sense that there was still a hint of general disbelief lingering in her about him, and the t...
2024-10-02 07:15:38 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note:
[Hello, all! I'm back!
It has been a lot harder to get back into things now that we have a newborn than I had first anticipated. This chapter is only just coming out on schedule (okay, it's a few minutes late), and I...
2024-10-01 07:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
I just wanted to announce that book 2 of Accidental Champion is out today! It's, so far, doing better than any of my books ever have!
Here's a link to the Amazon page: 2024-09-26 01:36:58 +0000 UTC
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My daughter has just been born!
I am excited, and want to spend as much time as I can with our new baby! And because of this, I am going to be pausing my chapter releases for the next month (I will also be pausing billing, as I don't want to be charging you guys while I'm ...
You have defeated a Level 280 Stone Bear!
You have gained 2,000 Mastery Points (E Grade).
Congratulations!
You have completed your second Hunt Quest on the hundredth floor of the Tower of Ch...
2024-08-23 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Spirit of Protection is working its power through you. You have gained access to 5 limited use spells.
Bulwark - 3/3 uses remaining
A protective barrier against both physical and magical attacks that protects those within it. 2024-08-22 07:14:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Once, when Xavier was young, he and his mother were staying at their cousin’s farmhouse out of state. The room they stayed in was detached from the main house—an old, renovated shed—and it didn’t have a bathroom.
He distinctly remembered a time when the power had been out, and he co...
2024-08-21 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier launched himself through one breakthrough after another, performing feats of the body and mind he hadn’t known he was capable of before—performing feats he hadn’t been capable of before.
In all his time levelling up, gaining titles, getting powerful, he hadn’t r...
2024-08-20 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stopped running, skidding to a halt in the middle of the forest glade, right in front of the armchair the pale-skinned, darkhaired Liana lazed back on, reading one of her seemingly infinite number of books.
“I’ve done it!” Xavier announced.
If Xavier were honest, there ha...
2024-08-16 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTime in the forest grove passed more swiftly than it did perhaps anywhere else in the Greater Universe.
Slowly, Xavier’s ability to be patient grew with each use of his spell. The longer the Time Alteration spell remained active, the more he saw that time truly did move outside of it. If ...
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