Immortality, fire resistance, endurance … once upon a time, the phoenix had seemed like a great idea.
Lukas Henderson had once heard the saying “the tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut” and learned that it applied to the Royal Marines as well, albeit in the form of “if you...
2025-08-05 18:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post“So this is what it’s been all about …” Frye said, looking at the photograph Thomas had just handed him. “You said the next merge is going to be in twenty-four days. Do you know how … involved it’s going to be?”
Thomas shrugged. “I know when it’ll happen, but no...
2025-08-03 15:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostJaclyn was aware of the fact that, right at this moment, she was utterly disgusting.
As it turned out, fighting underwater didn’t mean you automatically got clean as you retreated, and the blood and guts presently covering her were starting to stink to high heaven, to the point w...
2025-08-02 19:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostOf course, Thomas had prepared for this eventuality, and the plan was quite an elegant one, in his own mind.
It was, well, … run like hell while screaming for help.
Or just, you know, telepathically inform Elias that Thomas temporarily needed someone else to play matador be...
2025-07-31 18:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter looking at my current and planned projects, I realized that I can actually give some proper information on when the AR sqeul series will be released, and what it will involve.
Apocalypse Continuum is going to be released once Museum Core and Outrage of the Ancients are done, which sh...
2025-07-31 16:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe plan was both simple, and ridiculously complicated. And had far too many points of failure. If they fell short, at all, anywhere, everything beyond that would devolve into dogpiling the kaiju and praying they’d already done enough damage to win.
And the two of them had the ...
2025-07-29 13:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostThalassophobia was absolutely bloody awful; that was something she could say with absolute certainty.
And yet, for this fight, she’d been given something that largely removed it as an issue, through one simple trick.
Pocket Depthfinder (C-Rank, common)
A simple enchanted conta...
2025-07-26 07:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostI think it's been a while since I posted the link for the discord (https://discord.gg/b6MrYKtj4T).
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Thomas was in the middle of yet anoth...
2025-07-24 19:32:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter kinda got away from me, and as such, I've decided to split it up, the second part (which actually has no real reason for being a part of this one) should be done tomorrow.
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Jaclyn was doi...
2025-07-23 18:35:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Audiobook for Outrage of the Ancients is finally done and has been released on Audible!
As for the book, I'll be continuing with book 3 once I'm done with Museum Core 4, which will be soon-ish.
In many ways, the real world was like quicksand. No matter what she did to escape the messiness of reality, she’d always wind up right back here, walking into this building, with the weight of the world on her shoulders. And while she didn’t always feel it there, right now, after spending the...
2025-07-20 21:02:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis … this was perhaps not the best way of earning those final ten percent of progression needed to hit the peak of his current rank.
Actually, it was guaranteed to not be the best, considering the sheer insanity of picking this fight.
But as the system kept telling him, t...
2025-07-19 19:50:38 +0000 UTC View PostSergeant Kim felt fat as he descended back down into the ocean, his new wetsuit bulging all over from countless pieces of gear he was now allowed to wield as his mission was now to just kill monsters, rather than going out “into the wilderness” with a knife and hunting down a beast.<...
2025-07-18 20:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostBTW, if any of you are Dungeon Crawler Carl fans, it got adapted into a webtoon that releases in a few hours.
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One might say there was an element of insanity to what he was about to do. One would be wrong....
2025-07-17 19:55:24 +0000 UTC View PostIf he was being entirely honest with himself, Thomas could admit that he was probably doing this far too late for it to have any chance of making a difference.
Granted, he hadn’t had everything ready for the longest time, and it wasn’t like there weren’t other issues, too. Mostly psyc...
2025-07-16 15:25:44 +0000 UTC View PostOne of these days, Thomas seriously needed to find his way into the company text chains, proverbially speaking.
Because by the time he learned about what had gone down in the US, it had already been over for nearly half a day.
Of course, at the same time, that delay didn’t mean he c...
2025-07-14 21:42:12 +0000 UTC View PostOne minute earlier
Flinging himself out of an airplane while dripping wet so that he could use his magical power of close-range hydrokinesis to slow down his fall to something less than lethal was hardly how Colones James Hunter, USMC, had planned to spend the day. But that was how it went....
2025-07-12 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHer journey to the plane hadn’t quite been “abducted off the street by an unmarked car” levels of abrupt, but it had been a near-run thing.
Frye had passed along the alert along with a whole bevy of orders and five minutes later, Jacyln had found herself sitting in the cramped confine...
2025-07-11 21:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe day now referred to as “the merge” had thrown a whole lot of things out of whack.
For Major General Alexander Fuller, that thing had been his retirement, but all things considered, he considered himself to have gotten off lightly. Especially compared to the people who’d been in th...
2025-07-09 18:21:21 +0000 UTC View PostSurprisingly enough, there were basically no issues getting his hands on the buoy. He had Jan hitch a ride with the next truck to leave the jungle, hop off once it reached the border checkpoint, run over to the commander’s office, and ask to be connected to the BPA via the secure landline he kn...
2025-07-08 17:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a common refrain that humanity knew more about the surface of the moon than the depths of the Earth’s oceans. Thomas wasn’t entirely certain how true that was, or if there was perhaps a specific viewpoint/framing that was required to make that happen, but looking out across the seeming...
2025-07-07 19:02:23 +0000 UTC View PostThomas looked around the newly expanded arena that he’d modified purely for this purpose, creating what, at the end of the day, was effectively a fishbowl the size of a football stadium.
As per usual, he’d overdone things by a truly ludicrous margin, creating it entirely out of D-Rank s...
2025-07-04 10:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhat in God’s name was going on? That System certainly was showing a lot of personality, but everything else was both strange and concerning.
Yet the System window also gave her quite a bit of information.
The guardian was likely the anchor beast; the System could be accessed merely...
2025-06-30 20:03:18 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days into her passage on the Royal Navy destroyer Dauntless, Jaclyn was being shown around the ship, shown the adaptations made as a response to the new realities.
It had taken a while, but she’d finally managed to badger the destroyer’s captain into having someone explain ...
2025-06-29 20:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostAquatic monsters … now, how exactly would he create them?
It generally hadn’t been a big concern of his. For starters, everyone hated water levels; putting too many water-heavy areas into his dungeon would negatively affect visitation.
And there were limits as to how much...
2025-06-26 20:12:09 +0000 UTC View PostSix days ago
Waiting for someone to come and yell at you was not a fun feeling.
Waiting for someone to come and yell at you for a situation for which they were decidedly at fault, it was enough to make one contemplate murder, all the while being tormented with the knowledge t...
2025-06-25 15:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostNow that she’d fixed herself, Jaclyn pulled a separate bracelet from her wrist and held it up.
Robber Baron’s Loot Sack (C-Rank, legendary, consumable)
The stomach of a Void Wolf, empowered with the abilities of that same supernatural predator and infused with a dungeon core’s i...
2025-06-23 20:07:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo ... word to the wise, if your spellcheck is missing very obvious typos, you've probably whitelisted them by accident at some point in the half. Hopefully, after clearing out the "do not highlight" list, the spelling should be better going forward.
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2025-06-21 20:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 100!
I think I mentioned this before, but I've decided to write this book to the end, then start writing Outrage of the Ancients 3.
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Daedalus really had thrown open the doors to the armo...
2025-06-18 13:03:26 +0000 UTC View PostThomas’ next stop was the HMS Belfast, reanimated by his power into a mechanical champion of his dungeon. A mobile champion, that could be sent anywhere in the world and spawn monsters there, as long as she hadn’t been boarded, of course.
But the original Belfast 2025-06-16 21:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post