As we leave, I wonder if I’ll see that shameless guy again. At this point, I wouldn’t mind, even if it was only to observe his primordial energy. Even now, there are so many things that make me curious about him, and what his primordial energy might do. My best guess is that the multicolored ...
2025-06-22 08:42:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Moar art! This time it is Tess - I really like this one, the artist did amazing job, and Izzy with Noodle - from the same artist that did Nat, Minion and Myrra cooking art.
I hope you like them as much as I do.
*Pls no spoilers
POV Talon
Of course, that crazy bastard walks into the exact room I’m in, out of tens of thousands in this godforsaken city full of greedy assholes.
I had hoped not to see him again, especially after we left him behind. I still think it was the most reasonable thing...
2025-06-19 08:46:33 +0000 UTC View PostI look at the man, and he looks at me. He stands there with arms crossed, eyes sharp but lazy at the same time, like he’s sizing me up but can’t be bothered to care too much.
“Man, took you a while to get your ass over here, but also lucky me to be here just as you came around. Or unl...
2025-06-18 08:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostI know nothing is ever free, but the way everyone asks for shards in exchange for sharing some information is as annoying as it is funny in some twisted way. The worst is that I am getting used to it.
Sooner or later, the places will swap, and it will be me scamming people for shards.
There are guild rankings of Beyond, the ones that update once a year. They are more or less similar to the last time I checked them, with the exception of two guilds swapping places.
Guild Rankings
1. Bloodline
2. Frontier
3. Crimson ...
2025-06-16 08:44:27 +0000 UTC View PostAfter going through it all, I gathered 130 usable items out of what I estimate to be 231 bodies. There are a few more items, but they are mostly broken. Armors, weapons, pendants, and similar things got wrecked by the arrows. But even those, I immediately sold to the system shop, though only for ...
2025-06-15 08:44:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn the small surviving group, there is no healer. Once again, it shows how rare they are. But beyond the lack of healers, everyone here seems to have some weaker way to regenerate their wounds, whether it’s passive, a trait, maybe an active skill that allows weak self-healing, or an item with e...
2025-06-12 08:55:36 +0000 UTC View Posthey! book 5 (chapters 385 - 469) will be launching on amazon on July 9th
that means I will (because of amazon's exclusivity clause) have to stub the chapters about 2 weeks before the book launches - so sometime around June 24th or 25th. even from patreon
Side note: If you are subscri...
Most of the people here are C rank, same as me. When the raid party, expedition, or whatever they call it is put together, the rank is one of the things they check. D ranks are straight-up rejected, even though it's very rare for someone of that rank to get this deep.
The color for the C ra...
2025-06-11 08:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Duncan
It’s been months since I last saw Noname, and like every time I meet him, he looks even stronger now.
I watch him walk alone between groups gathered for the raid. Unlike many of them, he has no skill visibly activated, and I can’t sense any mana from hi...
2025-06-10 08:42:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis time I didn’t meet my handler. I just straight up appeared near the sphere. My best guess is that she either didn’t want to or couldn’t meet me. Part of me understands. Probably nothing good would have come from it anyway.
Now that I’m here, my 30 days in Beyond are about to st...
2025-06-09 08:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostAnother week later, both Tess and Lily seem to be doing better, with only the burns on their bodies as a reminder of what happened. Sophie still remains in the same state. There are no wounds on her body at all, but according to Izzy, her mind is broken and scattered.
In some way, it could ...
2025-06-08 08:43:25 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Maya Jones
It is all one huge mess. Izzy keeps standing over her sister and holds on to her. The more she learns about her state through her ability, the worse her sobs become. Not once have I seen her like this. She was always so cheery and so mature for her age, yet n...
2025-06-05 08:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostI appear seated on one of the stone benches arranged around the sphere at the center of the cave, where the water swirls endlessly in unpredictable motion. Tess, Sophie, and Lily are nearby.
Other than us, there are only two more people. A feylith woman and a thylarin man with four arms. 2025-06-04 08:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post
[You have defeated Spineback Ape - lvl 319]
[You have defeated Spineback Ape - lvl 315]
[You have defeated Spineback Ape - lvl 330]
[You have defeated Spineback Ape - lvl 301]
…
I ...
2025-06-03 08:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Kim Min-Jae
Even after the reset, the portals to the 9th floor remain where we stood when the quest was completed. They didn’t reset with the loop. Mine is near the Library, where I head. As I reach it, it stands there with jagged edges, revealing a view into a comple...
2025-06-02 08:48:46 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean by that, Assistant Professor Gwyn?”
“Exactly what I said. I do not think you are a Candidate, Ari.” I say. More than anything, I think Ari would be killing many more people if she were a Candidate. Only Examiners are restricted to Candidates if they don't want to d...
2025-06-01 08:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe 11th day comes, and all of us decide to join the trip. Some of us, being students, just go, while the Assistant Professors either request to join it as well or simply quit their jobs and go, while, of course, planning to pay the fine later.
Tess and Maya, being guards, have a bit more d...
2025-05-29 08:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe loop resets just a few days later. It seems like it happened because Sophie got close to locating the Candidate by taking over dozens of students and creating some sort of quasi-hive mind, and also going through their memories.
Just the fact that she was able to do it here in the Academ...
2025-05-28 08:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe loop resets, and just a few minutes later, it resets again.
It then repeats ten times in a row before we finally stay in one loop for longer than a few minutes. Even then, while already separated, we expect yet another reset.
Only after a full day passes does everyone start to bel...
2025-05-27 08:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostI think demons as a race are a bit... well, weird. Not in a racist way! Unlike our paladin of Justice, Gareth, who probably wouldn’t mind annihilating an entire city of demons, I hold no such opinions.
It’s just that they’re weird. My minion has a human part and isn’t a full demon, ...
2025-05-26 08:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostMy plans for this loop are fairly normal, so before that normal thing happens, I have to do some other normal stuff. It’s because that normal thing will... incapacitate me a bit and make some tasks more difficult. But it is very normal, so it’s okay.
I’m the normal one here, after all...
2025-05-25 08:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn this loop, the Champion Dion doesn’t die. Or at least, they do not find his body. The usual day when he dies passes, and there is no information on it, no panic spreading through the Academy. Everything continues as if nothing happened.
Such a change of schedule can be caused by the Ex...
2025-05-22 08:45:16 +0000 UTC View PostEarly in the morning, I enter Craft Zone, and passing between all this machinery, forges, people, and students, I reach the hall that leads to a single door at the end. This hall has a ceiling full of hundreds of lamps, each of them very different. Some are smaller than my fist, others are bigger...
2025-05-21 08:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs I was told, the Professor I am getting lessons from this time is an old man. Possibly the oldest one I have seen here, looking like he is in his late seventies. All gray-haired, with a mustache that looks like he could hide snacks in it, and a slight belly.
The signs I usually look for w...
2025-05-20 08:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostMy opinion of the Absolute of this world goes down more and more by the day. That guy is way too unhinged. What kind of asshole would work with the Ruler to allow part of their world to be recorded and used like this, even throwing in random ideas just for shits and giggles?
That almost mak...
2025-05-19 08:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostRight away, I open the status menu, select three skill combination tokens, and use them.
Congratulations, you have successfully combined [Ley Line], [Perception], and [Mana Manipulation]! A new skill has been created.
You have acquired [Mana Relay] 2025-05-18 08:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
From the first time I saw him, I knew he was just like every other demon I had met: a maniac like the rest, only better at hiding it.
That is what confused me. His heart, the look in his eyes, both told me he is ready to attack at any moment. To fight with that typical joy and aggressivenes...
2025-05-15 08:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostI look around what used to be my room. All the furniture, all my belongings, even some personal items, are gone. Before I can start to miss them, I remind myself they should be back at the reset and shrug it off.
A variation of an alarm rings, the molten rock glows orange, and heat fills a ...
2025-05-14 08:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post