Now it was time to find out what he could do at the rank of Instinct of Toxin.
As he swallowed the poison pill, the start of his minute was called and he leapt up onto the neck of the monster. Using the newfound control over Movement Boost, he focused the full effect into only his arms and ...
2024-12-27 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Fifty one seconds!” Michael exclaimed excitedly. Heath pulled Eik’s arm over his shoulder as Sonja looked on with a smile.
“Solid strategy, Eiky,” she said.
“Yeah, that was nuts. He pummeled you good at the end though. What a treat,” Heath laughed good-naturedly.
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2024-12-26 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, guys! Here's a Christmas chapter (not really)
Just like how it had been set up down at F-rank, the E-rank endurance test consisted of an Awakened specializing in close quarters physical combat paired with a support type debuffer who would cast enfeebling magic on the...
2024-12-24 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Where’s Heath?” Michael asked, feet up on Eik’s kitchen table with Mis lounging lazily in his lap. She had an uncanny ability to ingratiate herself with literally anybody she met and recently had even managed to recruit an alien named Mikla into her army of loyal cat worshippers.
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2024-12-23 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Rumors?” Heath asked.
It was hot. Almost unbearably so. Heath seemed completely unaffected by the temperature that had caused Eik’s entire body to become drenched in sweat within a few minutes. And the noise too was deafening and constant. Perhaps excitement and anticipation of his n...
2024-12-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“No.”
For a number of seconds, Robert simply stared. Then he swallowed hard and looked back down to a note in his hand and repeated his message. “It is with the greatest pleasure that we inform Eik Magnasen of his reappointment as liaison of Earth as it relates to the dealings with th...
2024-12-19 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“How’s it coming along?”
Eik smiled brightly as Olivia walked into the new Eik’s Excellent Elixirs. Ever since she’d recovered she’d been spoiled by all of her friends, and she was enjoying it immensely.
For the first few days after waking up from the coma she had taken it...
2024-12-17 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOlivia’s face was a bruised and bloody mess. If not for her hair, Eik wasn’t sure he’d have been able to recognize her. He couldn’t draw breath. Everything stood still. Why? Why did she look like that? Why?
Eik just stared, blood draining from his face as his brain tried to comprehe...
2024-12-16 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNone of the manticores seemed to pay Eik any mind as he ran along the edge of the clearing. Many of the weaker monsters did but with the effects of Potion of Mighty Strength, Noxious Invigoration, and Movement Boost stacked, they didn’t have a chance of catching up with him.
Unlike at F-r...
2024-12-13 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe other B-ranker, a man in heavy plate armor, was already present in Travis’ office when Eik arrived. He didn’t carry any weapon that Eik would have expected from such an outfit. In fact, he didn’t seem to carry a weapon at all.
Travis was tightening a pair of vambraces. “Good, th...
2024-12-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe building was small. Eik had specifically asked for that. The property, however, was quite large and pretty centrally located. This small place was all he really needed right now and he could always build extensions if the operation grew beyond capacity.
He circled the building. It was a...
2024-12-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe flimsy wooden box rattled and creaked under Eik’s weight as he gazed out over the crowd.
“What the hell is this guy doing now?” Heath groaned from his place in line at a stall that sold grilled skewers of meat.
Eik stood in the middle of the busiest street of Forest’s larg...
2024-12-09 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Worldbreaker, huh?” Heath said, lips pouting as he digested Eik’s story. “I mean, that sounds absolutely awesome but why are you so worried about it?”
“Didn’t you hear me, dude?” Eik said, throwing his hands in the air with exasperation. “If a strong force, like a nation ...
2024-12-06 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“What the—…” Eik whispered as the barrier moved up, down, and from side to side in response to his will. Was this a new aspect of his ability brought about the evolution to Instinct of Toxin?
“What the heck is that?” Michael yelled from the side line.
“I don’t know eit...
2024-12-05 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post[Reached threshold: Evolution to ??? possible]
[Evolve?]
Hands trembling, Eik initiated the evolution while his cat honed her claws on his shirt as his eye lids began to grow heavy. The last thing he saw before the world went black was his cat...
2024-12-03 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as the reinforced door clicked shot and the locks began to slide into place, Eik leapt to the door and took the handle, hoping they had done it correctly as he pulled on the door. With a quiet sound, it opened. The golden strings of Bind still held the lock firmly in place.
“Alrig...
2024-12-02 16:08:53 +0000 UTC View PostThey woke up at the crack of dawn and headed for the prison to try to get their hands on information about Menka’s final sentence.
Eik’s evolution from Acolyte of Toxin still didn’t seem to have finished “estimating” and he was beginning to think it would never happen. If this was...
2024-11-29 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHeath and Sonja continued fighting for another forty seconds before the effects of the potion began to wane — first from Sonja, despite having consumed the drug slightly later, and then from Heath shortly after.
“Holy crap, that was absolutely insane!” Heath exclaimed as he jumped dow...
2024-11-28 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for reading! <3
As if it had been waiting for his call, like a little horse waiting to be let out to gallop on a field of flowers, Profound Toxin rushed through his system with anger. It tore through the purple miasma like a chainsaw annihilating a stick of warm ...
2024-11-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEik flew to his feet with a sharp gasp. His heart was racing away like a hammer as he frantically scanned the room. It was quiet. It was dry. This was not the lake in that strange world. He was back in his apartment in headquarters.
Allowing himself several deep breaths, he let the smoky wh...
2024-11-25 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs Eik sat there he hoped that the attacks by the snakes made of Profound Toxin had stopped. At least for long enough for him to try this.
To help him visualize the attempt he put his hands on his chest and felt around for the two opposing forces. They were aligned across from each other, k...
2024-11-22 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEik waded through the murky, knee-deep swamp water from the coffin to the bank where he stamped off the worst of the foul sludge. This really was the same place he’d woken up when he had been offered the Acolyte of Toxin alternative evolutionary path.
An enormous mountain towered in the c...
2024-11-21 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“You want to walk?” Mikla asked with a raised eyebrow. “You do know that it’s almost a four and a half hour walk back to your apartments?”
“You shouldn’t have to open portals for us all the time like this. We know that it’s very taxing on you, yeah?” Heath said with a smil...
2024-11-19 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostInside was a tiny room, no more than four meters by four meters, even at a generous estimate. Besides the door they had come through, there were two other doors. One seemed even more heavily reinforced than the previous one while the other, of regular smooth wood with a metal lever handle and a s...
2024-11-18 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostShe held his gaze firmly. “We need to know for certain, Eik. We need to know if she’s actually going to die this time.”
“I know.”
“It’s dangerous to snoop around. Very dangerous. But if Menka wasn’t properly dealt with… she’s not going t...
2024-11-15 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostNo… it couldn’t be, could it? After all of that effort, it was his most jaded and apathetic attempt yet that finally hooked something? Only he who is willing to tear his gaze away from the goal on the horizon will have the awareness to see the next step at his feet. Was that how it w...
2024-11-14 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“And these dried bas’akar’ar leaves are the best in this side of town. And I’ll throw the roots in for half off if you buy all of this now,” the plant breeder of Leafy Sundries with the graying shoulder-length hair said as he counted out everything on his counter that Eik had chosen.
“And how does it do that?”
The plant breeder, who was an older man with gray hair falling lightly around his shoulders, tapped his gloved fingers on the fleshy leaves of the plant Eik had asked about. “Do you see these tiny black dots here, sir?” he asked Eik.
“Yeah.”
<... 2024-11-11 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a—”
“bag of holding!” Eik exclaimed before Atla could tell him. “That’s a bag of holding, isn’t it?”
“It is, yes. Good eye,” she said with a smile. “This particular one is not that big on the inside, but it should be able to carry this cauldron as well...
2024-11-08 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Now, who wants to see the rewards? Two times compensation and the reward for the rescue mission!” Atla said and clapped her hands.
“Wait,” Eik began. “Atla, I know you didn’t make the decision to release her back then, but this shit was not okay,” he said somber...
2024-11-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post