For a time, Xavier simply watched the people stream through the mass portals, heading for a safer world. Though Xavier knew they wouldn’t be able to run forever. He wondered how long it would take for the entity to consume the entire galaxy… That was how big the Silver River sector was, after...
2025-05-06 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note: Here's a bonus chapter because the last one was late!]
Xavier stared at the rune that was etched into the stairwell wall between the Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth Descent of the Hell Moon Thazamar.
He ran his palm along the wall. After having chiselled off ...
2025-05-06 06:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostFive hulking demons loomed over Xavier.
The demons were reminiscent of the Bladed Crawlers from the first floor, only these ones were twice as large and had twenty legs. Each of those legs was bladed like the crawlers had been, but the demons had a ranged attack that the crawlers h...
2025-05-06 06:17:36 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note: Here's a bonus chapter because the last one was late!]
Xavier stood in the middle of the square, a time dilation field around him, thousands of people outside of it fleeing toward the massive portals, trying to escape the Earth.
This Xavier only reac...
2025-05-06 06:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stared at the notification in slight shock.
The world you stand upon is in danger. A powerful entity is making its way here.
Here. To Earth. To his world.
An entity that will destroy the Earth…
Xavier looked up at the muted stars...
2025-05-06 06:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapters will roll out really soon. I usually schedule them on (my) Monday, but I had an ADHD assessment that day and totally forgot, only remembering now.
Oh, and apparently I do have ADHD...
I saw a comment saying they hope I'm well, and wanted to reassure that I am! Just f...
2025-05-06 05:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt 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...
2025-05-01 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostStepping onto the twentieth floor was an eerie, strange experience.
He’d never imagined that he would go backward through the tower floors. There was a part of him that wondered if this was an acute waste of time, but he wouldn’t have been sent here by the System if it was, wou...
2025-05-01 19:00:04 +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 ...
2025-04-30 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier always felt like there was more to do than he had time for.
Which was funny, considering he could practically stop time entirely. He would have killed to have an ability like that back before the System integrated Earth.
He remembered having that fantasy, more than once—oh, t...
2025-04-30 19:00:07 +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 a str...
2025-04-29 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier arrived in the hallway just outside of his quarters. It felt a little strange, being back here, after all he’d done while he was gone. It felt like he’d been away from the Tower of Champions for far longer than four months—and he supposed, as he used his time dilation field so heavil...
2025-04-29 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stepped out of the portal onto a different world. He stood in Ravni, the capital city of Laracon. It was nighttime here, though the light of the city made it as bright as the major cities back on Earth used to be when the sun went down.
The buildings to his left and right were built ...
2025-04-28 19:00:17 +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...
2025-04-28 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stared at the notification with a furious expression. His eyes glazed over, he swore, seemingly at nothing.
He stood in the middle of a large clearing filled with demonic, plant-like beasts that he’d finished slaughtering a moment ago. The plant-beasts bled an odd, green ooze which...
2025-04-24 19:00:12 +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...
2025-04-24 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Where to next?” Volkarin had asked.
Xavier stood, looking out at Volkarin, Rhaalir, and Romalda on the Twentieth Descent of the Hell Moon Thazamar, wondering just that.
One of the other Hell Moons was the most logical choice. He still had two months before he would be returned to...
2025-04-23 19:00:17 +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...
2025-04-23 19:00:14 +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...
2025-04-22 19:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostA demonic mimic?
Standing on the steps leading down to the Fiftieth Descent on the Hell Moon Thazamar, Xavier listened as Yarien explained the threat that lay ahead.
Yarien: [The Fiftieth Descent is the first of what is known as the Boss Descents, or Challenge Descents de...
2025-04-22 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sat, cross-legged on one of the steps in a stairwell of the Hell Moon Thazamar.
It was the stairwell between the Forty-Ninth and the Fiftieth Descents.
He was examining one of the spells within his mind—his Portal spell. It had taken him some time, and just about every ounce ...
2025-04-21 19:00:10 +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...
2025-04-21 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post[Author note: bonus chapter]
“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 ...
2025-04-21 00:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post[Author note: bonus chapter]
The Demon of the Depths glowed in a brilliant light. The light remained steady, static, as Xavier was inside of his time dilation field. He peered at the tower—the one filled with mist that would return him to the Hell Moon Thazamar. Though he...
2025-04-20 23:46:19 +0000 UTC View PostA fraction of a second before the Demon of the Depths broke through the ice, Xavier flew straight upward, toward the clouds he knew would take him out of the tentacle-mouth’s range. He didn’t want to engage with the enemy until he had access to his cores once more.
Those damned tentacle...
2025-04-17 19:00:09 +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...
2025-04-17 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stared at the weapon in his hands.
He was standing on the smooth stairs of the stairwell between the Thirty-First and Thirty-Second Descents of the Hell Moon Thazamar, and a voice he’d never heard had just sounded in his mind—in the same way that spirits he summoned spoke to him....
2025-04-16 19:00:08 +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. ...
2025-04-16 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier watched as the spirit disappeared back to the Otherworld. He could feel the connection to the Otherworld snap back out of existence, leaving an empty space as though it had never been there before.
He released a long sigh and sat on the steps once more. The Lost Bone of a Dead God st...
2025-04-15 19:00:22 +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.
...
2025-04-15 19:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post