Xavier blinked. Now she was talking nonsense. He was sure about it. “What do you mean, too strong?” He didn’t think it would be possible to become too strong. Besides, he was still only E Grade.
What the hell was she getting at?
“The System tries to give new ...
2024-05-10 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few weeks after that went by faster than he thought they could. Xavier quickly found that it wasn’t leftover invaders that he needed to deal with. More often than not, it was people from Earth making trouble for other people from Earth.
Just like it had been for thousands of year...
2024-05-09 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTime seemed to speed up after the statements Xavier had made to the Silver River sector. Earth was officially off-limits.
And while not everyone had listened, the vast majority of the invaders who’d come to Earth had left.
Those who remained regretted their actions, paying for...
2024-05-08 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe new arrival turned out to be a woman from the other side of the world. All the way from Australia. Apparently she was from a city called Canberra. Though she insisted it was the capital of the country, Xavier had never heard of it. Besides, he figured it was a little too late to learn the wor...
2024-05-07 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Xavier and the others returned to camp, Xavier decided it was about time he have a nap. He honestly wasn’t sure when the last time he’d slept was, and though sleeping wasn’t something that was strictly necessary for him anymore, it was still something he very much liked to do.
Be...
2024-05-03 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman before him did not look afraid. She had a glint in her eye, a slight twist of her mouth at the side. She thought she had won this.
And she was enjoying it.
Xavier looked from the woman to the people in the cell. More than once, he had contemplated what might happen if he had...
2024-05-02 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy soul is damaged.
Xavier put a hand to his chest. There wasn’t time for him to think on what that might mean. Not until they got Justin and returned back to Earth.
There are other things that must be done. My soul is the least of my worries.
He looked at th...
2024-05-01 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier pulled out the rods for his Subspace Communications Area Blackout Array. He slammed them down into the stone, creating a semi-circle just outside the door of the tower. He had yet to see any Denizens entering or exiting the building. If he had, maybe he could have done this all a bit more ...
2024-04-30 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman waited outside of the cell. Clearly visible. Leaning against the cold stone. Though she wasn’t visible to the person within the cell. He’d heard her footsteps disappear but hadn’t heard them come back. She was quiet enough to be confident he wasn’t aware of her presence.
S...
2024-04-26 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFirst Lieutenant Firenz Altena stood guard by his portal on the planet Nasrien. He had a halberd in his hand, gripped tight, though the wood was slick where he held it from the sweat on his palms. He looked over at the other guards by the other portals.
Most days, the guards had barely both...
2024-04-25 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAlistair Reed didn’t want to die.
But after Commander Flinders had outlined his plan, he was having trouble thinking of a better way to do this.
He looked down at the two items in his hands. One, the device that would teleport him and whoever he was touching at the moment of his dea...
2024-04-24 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHoward took a step back and to the side as the woman came out of the dungeon. He now stood protectively in front of Siobhan.
Just in case this woman got any ideas.
She was wearing light leather armour and carried a wooden bow. She looked young. Maybe eighteen. Maybe younger. But her e...
2024-04-23 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe council sat around the table, each with their hands resting in front of them, each leaning slightly forward in their seats. There were ten of them, five men, five women. They were in charge of the entire Invasion Force Division on the planet Nasrien—a planet that controlled ten others withi...
2024-04-19 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood there for what felt like a very long moment as the woman’s words sunk in.
Justin has been captured by the enemy? He’s on another world?
The first emotion he felt was anger. Looking down at the woman, he wanted to take that anger out on her. Who was this woman...
2024-04-18 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sprinted across the stone floor of the basement hall that held the portal back to Earth. His steps echoed off the falls. Every stride brought him ever closer to the man who stood in front of that portal.
The tank, whom Xavier thought must be the leader of the D Grade parties that had...
2024-04-17 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe battlefield was once more a scene of utter chaos. The five parties of D Grades that had come had been turned into a scattered mess as the Spirit of Vengeance tore into them.
The massive ethereal dragon swooped down from on high and sunk its sword-long teeth into the body of a mage who...
2024-04-16 06:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood over the dead bodies of the final two D Grade party members. He felt… reinvigorated, and not just because of the levels, and the attributes along with them, that he’d gained from their deaths.
The tank had been tough to kill—not that he’d put up much of a fight, but rat...
2024-04-12 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier leapt to the left. He rolled hard on the ground. Behind him, a crater formed. The silver-robed man was still yelling at him, but now his words had become intelligible.
The once serene-looking man had let his emotions overcome him, rage twisting his face into something wholly unfamili...
2024-04-11 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostXavier rose up from the ground. The battlefield around him was littered with thousands of dead. People he’d slain. And the four D Grades who’d been sent after him were his price.
I took vengeance for what they did, and now they’ll take vengeance for what I did, and so the cycle wi...
2024-04-10 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostJustin looked around him.
The last thing he remembered was killing the leader of that invasion camp. He’d slammed his sword through her and she’d just… smiled, as though that had been her plan all along.
Then he’d been teleported straight out of that camp. Now, he was sitting ...
2024-04-09 05:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostXavier wasn’t stupid.
At least, he liked to think he wasn’t.
Facing down four D Grade Denizens when you were only E Grade—and low E Grade at that—made it seem as though he had an absolute death wish. And the more he thought about it, standing across from them, the mor...
2024-04-05 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the middle of a battlefield, surrounded by the corpses of his enemies, Xavier pinpointed the exact position of the remaining enemy.
A dozen mini portals hovered around him, arrows whistling through them. As best he could, he’d been ignoring these attacks, even as the arrowhead...
2024-04-04 05:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostXavier was surrounded by portals, an army amassed in front of him. He hadn’t moved from this one spot just outside the fortress of this alien world—this world of invaders who’d come to try and take Earth. Over a thousand of their soldiers lay dead on the ground from his initial attack, but ...
2024-04-03 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood at the top of a wide set of steps just outside of the fortress he’d left. He’d travelled through one of the invaders’ portals, coming to an alien world somewhere else in his sector.
Not long ago, he’d asked Adranial what he would need to do to make sure the entire secto...
2024-04-02 05:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood in his quarters, looking out through the expansive window in his room. Adranial stood by his side, the other members of her team were out scouting for a dungeon. They’d left just after the fight had finished, but Xavier had asked the woman if she could stay behind.
He hadn’...
2024-03-29 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostXavier found the elven leader of the invasion force within the fifteen-storey compound to be quite cooperative. Surprisingly cooperative, actually. The man could clearly see how strong Xavier was, and didn’t try to challenge him in any way. At first, Xavier thought that was rather cowardly, the...
2024-03-28 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAllegra Dellacorte breathed hard and fast. Her eyes were wide. Her face numb, as though the blood had run from it. She must be white as a sheet.
She was staring at the spot where Justin had just been. The man had been invisible, of course, so she hadn’t been able to see where he ...
2024-03-28 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJustin soared over the enemy camp. They were difficult to see through the thick canopy of branches, but when he hovered close above them, he could easily make out the soldiers and tents. He flew through a gap in the trees and perched himself high up in one of them, retracting his large white wing...
2024-03-27 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostJustin, sword drawn, was about to head to the enemy camp when he heard a noise behind him, like the sound of a stick snapping beneath someone’s foot.
He froze. He didn’t turn around. Not right away. He pushed out his senses, using his Aura Sight. As far as his Aura Sight was concerned, ...
2024-03-26 05:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostRamith Sain materialised outside of a large base that looked as though it had been grown, rather than built.
Someone established a Seed Sanctuary this soon after the world’s integration? Impressive, if a little overly ambitious.
He bent his neck to the side, making a satisf...
2024-03-22 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post