Tristan
[Sage of All, Archmage of History Lv. 83 -> Sage of All, Archmage of History Lv. 86]
[Skill Boost obtained]
[Skill gained: Unshackled Knowledge]
[Skill Boost obtained]
World Boss battles continued to be an excellent source of Levels, but for the first time...
2025-10-18 16:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostFYI, my laptop needs some repairs, I'll be taking it to the shop Wednesday, depending on how long that takes, there may be a longer gap in chapters.
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Joseph
Just as with the fire-based Nation Boss he...
2025-10-17 20:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostSundiata
They were right back here. In Africa, only a few hundred kilometers from the place where he had awoken, and a couple of thousand from the heart of the New Malian Empire.
And once again, Zerzura was planned to be right in the line of fire, the “glorious capital” reduced to...
2025-10-15 12:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
Suddenly having everyone fall out of the sky when the World Boss was killed while ninety percent of all fighters didn’t even have eyes on him had certainly been, er, something, but it wasn’t an unfixable “something.”
Between Merlin and Fionn, everyone got caug...
2025-10-14 09:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostDrake
A monster so big it showed up on radar … this was going to be a mess. A big one.
But at the same time, the way it stood out amidst the sea and sky, there was no way the missiles would fail to lock onto it. Assuming the monster’s air attribute didn’t interfere, at least. 2025-10-13 15:56:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Tristan
Twenty days. Almost three weeks. It could feel like an eternity, or it could go by at a truly glacial pace, depending on what was happening.
Under the circumstances we found ourselves laboring under, with another cataclysmic fight awaiting on the far side of that timespan ... ...
2025-10-05 19:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
The veil covering the sky overhead vanished like morning dew under a noonday sun, the light of the sun further illuminating the mess the battle had left behind.
For starters, it appeared the desert Cipactli had created was here to stay, though about half the place wasn’t a d...
2025-10-04 19:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostFionn
Cipactli, the Devourer of Creation, True Ruler of the Cosmic Ocean, Primordial of Earth (World Boss)
No level, no nod to where the System had found the template, no other frills or other description.
Just a name, a few titles, and the simple statement that this thing was m...
2025-10-02 14:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostSo, here's the thing. I was initally planning to write one chapter per World Boss fight, so I could post that as one part, but I'm not quite writing quickly enouhg to then keep up my usual rythm of putting out a chapter at least every three days.
Therefore, here's the question: would ...
2025-09-28 19:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostDietrich
Why was it always helicopters?
Well, they were a useful conveyance with a multitude of potential configurations and uses …it was the single most annoying vehicle he’d ever encountered, almost as though its inventor had been intending to create a sanity-breaking torture ma...
2025-09-24 20:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis certainly was a weird situation. Even though we had a massive sword of Damocles hanging over our heads in the form of the World Bosses, things were oddly peaceful for now. Almost as if the worst was past …
Although one of the first things Charlemagne had done was announce to the worl...
2025-09-23 11:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here. We. GO!
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Tristan
It had been obvious from the start, but the System had seriously driven the point home in a way nothing else possibly couild have: history was a horror show.
It wasn...
2025-09-20 21:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostNote: I put in a pronounciation note because a certain Welsh name is one you're not going to have the faintest idea how its supposed to sound.
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Temujin
The empire, long united, must divide; the e...
2025-09-20 17:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
The landscape of Romania flew past quickly beneath me, forests, fields, highways, towns … exactly what I’d expected.
Because, sadly, this was the real world. Just because I had a land surveying Skill in [Know The Land] didn’t mean I’d automatically find something previ...
2025-09-17 20:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostTristan, Nine Days Later
The fifth Challenge was just about every kind of hell combined. Lots and lots of monsters, as scattered as they would have been in the first four challenges, with my job as a living taxi transforming from being my occasional objective due to immediate need to never-...
2025-09-14 20:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostArthur
London had taken a lot of damage, but nowhere near as much as many other cities hit by the resurgent Nazis, for one simple reason.
London was big, and very, very spread out. It had been hit with more than enough bombs to flatten most other cities, true, but its sheer s...
2025-09-12 13:05:16 +0000 UTC View PostCharlemagne
It was always going to come down to this. Some would say he had planned this the entire time, but that phrasing implied that he had had a hand in things turning out the way they had.
And, to be perfectly honest, he might have done that if it had, in any way, shape, or form...
2025-09-08 14:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostJoseph
Up to this point, Prague had only been hit by the very first wave of monsters, and it showed.
Intact buildings, reasonably happy people, and a regular flow of traffic.
Not anymore.
Phantoms clad in heavy leather coats and wielding firearms had come and … well, the...
2025-09-06 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostPresident Lane
The fifth challenge had managed in an afternoon what the first four had failed to do in four months.
Completely crushed Europe.
Oh, there were still plenty of survivors, lots of infrastructure, and so on … but the capital cities of the continent had bee...
2025-09-03 10:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
The Tiger Panzer that drove straight at me was looking … strange. Fuzzy. Almost as though the black and gold stripes that “decorated” its outside were made from actual fur, rather than being a garish paint job the system had decided to slap on top of the massive war machine. 2025-09-03 10:34:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Drake
There are three kinds of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea.
An old truth, one that had proven true all too often in his day but been rendered largely false by modern communications capabilities. Even the radio had changed the para...
2025-09-03 10:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe second part of Outrage of the Ancients is coming out in a week, and therefore, here's the finished, fully edited copy for your perusal.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/oc9uy8k71o
2025-08-26 20:09:29 +0000 UTC View PostI actually recognized this guy. Not his face, even if the monster hadn’t been an indistinct phantom, the only actual Nazi I felt comfortable identifying based on their appearance was the head asshole himself, but I recognized the reference in the name.
Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestap...
2025-08-25 18:52:28 +0000 UTC View Post
What do you think of the cover for book 3?
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Ours had been a war with no front lines, no clear targets, no order or even the remotest semblance of the Geneva Convention.
Humans on one side, monsters on...
2025-08-24 11:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostOne year later, Kyoto, Japan
As per usual, no one had felt entirely comfortable with having a monster spawner only controlled by his own honor and conscience inside a capital city, so the Japanese had built the requested museum somewhere other than Tokyo. But Thomas didn’t mind, he’d ha...
2025-08-13 09:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Void Beast!” Elias growled, in a way that left Thomas unsure whether it was an identification of the problem or a curse. Probably both. Actually, now that he thought about it, definitely both.
These were the things that had given the former fairy’s former home its status as ...
2025-08-12 16:28:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe last few days until the second merge came and went in a flash, during which Thomas both did everything and felt as though he had achieved nothing.
His biggest “achievement” was moving the Belfast right next to the Natural History Museum via a newly-dug trench, just in case ...
2025-08-10 19:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe humanoid figure standing amidst the chaos of a rapidly disintegrating city only vaguely resembled a human being, angry red skin as though it had once been flayed alive stretched across a body that was just skin and bones, with topped with flaming red hair and actually flaming eyeballs that we...
2025-08-09 19:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostShe was going to kill Frye when she got back to Bristol.
Yes, every single one of her bonds was from the warmer climes, and perhaps being part reptile should have helped some.
And, technically, an expanse of ice and snow was also a desert, if you wanted to get down i...
2025-08-08 14:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostApparently, magic that actively altered the variables used in engineering calculations was prone to driving engineers a wee bit batty, to draw upon the delightful pool of British expressions that Thomas was only starting to learn.
Yes, technically, the Belfast’s newest power “j...
2025-08-07 09:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post