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OS - Chapter 284

Luna and Alice instantly appeared on the other side of the portal, and they looked at their new surroundings.

There were tall buildings all around, and people rushing down busy streets. All of them were asuras.

"The Blood Drop Primary World."

Luna mumbled. She obviously had intel on this place, and all the other significant celestial landmarks throughout the universe. Coming here was simple for her.

Then, she turned her head, looking at the building beside her.

"...

OS - Chapter 285

Nothing changed much after Luna and Alice appeared. For the next long while, Dream continued to lay back and ponder the universe.

In his concept of Physical Reality, Dream was constantly learning all he could from those around him. Vursoid gave the greatest amounts of information while Dream occasionally mined away with Kevin or steal some of Quanta's gadgets.

After some time, Dream quickly noticed an abnormality with the others though.

None of them attempted to comprehen...

Serum World Map

Hello all. I recently got a message from a patron that asked for Serum's world map, as my descriptions of the world weren't so easy to visualize. 

Now I've decided to just show everyone the map. I've used a website to make it, and it was originally for my own convenience and story planning. 

Now you can go and check it out if you want. I will warn you though, it does contain some spoilers. It details all of the important locations of the world, and I'll probably continua...

OS - Chapter 283

The last place Dream stopped was Kevin's mountain. At the base, he walked through the entrance of a mineshaft before descending through the eerily silent tunnels.

At first, Dream didn't think that this tunnel could descend very far. From the ground until the edge of this world, one could only descend 2 miles at most. Dream's metal tree rooted a bit over a mile deep before hitting the edge of the inverted world.

But Dream was easily able to tell when he went far deeper than what wa...

Serum: C108

Pandora was smart. Back on Earth, she took control of the entire criminal underworld, becoming a multi-national crime lord. And that was when she was driven crazy by the supersoldier program.

Now? She had the same smarts, but without the craziness. If you added her powers gained from the reincarnation and her power as a mage, along with her influence as the daughter of the Vampire Queen and princess of the Dark Kingdom, she was a tiger with wings. She couldn't be put in a better situati...

Serum: C107

Dirk turned to Navie. She also turned after watching the Alec and Helen leave, smiling at Dirk.

"So you're Dirk Strider? That was impressive, what you did with the Queen."

"It was an accident. I just got curious about the formation and tried to copy it."

"And you succeeded. I surely couldn't."

"So you're a dark mage?"

Dirk asked, though he already knew the answer. He could see dark mana swirling around and within Navie. It was a greater amount than his.

She...

Serum: C106

The next morning, the city was immediately lively. It only got more festive as the afternoon came.

Alec grabbed Dirk to wander the streets when the sun was high in the sky. When they did, they were surprised to see all kinds of little magic devices flying around above and between the buildings. They occasionally flashed with lights of various colors, looking like drones.

There was another thing Dirk noticed when he stepped out of the spire. He seemed... lighter.

It was th...

Serum: C105

All the honored guests were shown to their temporary residences.

Cecilia and Ryker, Dirk, Alec and his father, Duke Kyre, and four other delegates. 10 people who represented the Horizon Empire.

After being shown to their residences, it was everyone except Dirk, Cecilia, and Alec who left with General Salice. Since they were here, the envoys had no time to waste. Their discussions that would determine the outbreak of war took precedence over any kind of leisure activity or sightsee...

Serum: C104

1 week until the Advent of the Dark Dragon.

For the past two weeks, Dirk stuck to his schedule, and his skills improved in every way. He grew into the accumulated elemental comprehensions, bringing his power to another level.

His main focus though was on his muscle destruction. After two weeks, Dirk was able to completely destroy and refine his hip flexor.

He was not happy about that time frame.

"Too long. A single muscle took 2 weeks. I destroyed it every day."

...

Serum: C103

It was three weeks until the Advent of the Dark Dragon.

After creating his mana heart of fire and dark, Dirk spent some time furthering his comprehension of all the runes he'd traced from the original magic texts.

With an abundant supply of all his elements, Dirk was able to properly practice spells. He practiced void walking, a spell he used very often in the jungle of death. He pushed himself to understand the complex runes he traced in the void walking book even though it was s...

Serum: C102

Dirk returned while the capital city was shrouded by night. He wasn't in the best mood, but he decided to be satisfied with seeing Ava once before she left.

Upon arriving, he rode his horse back into the stable. Cecilia was there waiting for him. She saw that he didn't look happy, but it was good that he wasn't that angry either.

"I'm sorry, honey."

"...It's fine. She wants her family. I'm not going to insist otherwise."

"Mm. It's not easy, but there's always the futur...

Serum: C101

Their residence, Ava's house, was completely empty. It was a bit alarming, but not in the sense of a life threatening crisis. Ava wasn't in trouble.

But Dirk really wanted to see her. There were very few important people in his life, and she was one of them. So he went to find her after getting the address for the house. As for Cecilia, she went to go find Alec who probably knew her whereabouts.

It wasn't long before Dirk arrived. Since his father said it was barren, he decided to...

Serum: C100

It was three days after Dirk was given the condensed bone marrow from the Emperor.

At this moment, nobody was in the room with Dirk. He had yet to wake up. But suddenly, he started coughing.

It was soft at first, but then, each cough let out streams of blood. Spyte watched as Dirk turned the bed red.

After a while though, the red turned clear. He started coughing up a water like substance. It was potion.

A large amount of potion was coughed up. In fact, it was all ...

Serum: C99

"Our son is back. City of Calaba."

Ryker saw a single message on his transmission device. Unlike Cecilia who had scoured the entire empire, he was back home working on sorting through intelligence. He had taken on the role of a detective for his wife, and piles of paper had stacked themselves on his desks.

Of course, that was all swept away by that one message. Without even thinking, Ryker activated his magic in order to fly to the city his wife spoke of.

He was a literal...

Serum: C98

Cecilia couldn't seem to move. She felt like she wanted to dive to her son, embracing him right then and there.

But then she remembered what had happened. Dirk had spent two and a half years at Asura's mountain. She had already heard of the hell he had gone through. Getting whipped every single day, so much so that they used the level 10 whip on him. He was constantly tormented, Asura constantly trying to break him. Asura planted hate in people's minds, using that to control them. She k...

Serum: C97

Dirk ran for another two days.

The first day got a bit easier. Dirk actually didn't use up the rest of his potion. Thanks to his elemental sonar, his dark mana vision, his improving stealth, his pistol Stigma, and his sharpening reflexes, he was able to avoid more death and injury.

Not only that, but he remembered another ability he had gained upon completing blood destruction. He could use Aura, a power that gave his fists vast destructive power.

Dirk didn't find too much u...

Serum: C96

Dirk was able to sleep for 6 hours, which was an amount of time he was more than satisfied with.

When he woke, he continued running in a single direction. Dirk made sure he didn't turn or run in zigzags so as to get out of the jungle as fast as possible.

Because the longer he stayed in the jungle, the higher the chances of him being killed were.

*Shing!*

Dirk swung his knife, slicing a snake in half. While he ran, it had suddenly jumped off a tree, shooting at him ...

Serum: C95

Dirk knew that spending his time killing people would increase the risk of getting caught. Maybe he would find an enemy he couldn't fight and get captured. Maybe Asura was still scouting the place for him and would see the bodies he left, finding his trail.

But when Dirk saw those search parties and remembered the past two and a half years, he felt immeasurable bloodlust cloud his mind.

He had fought through so much pain to get to this point. Now that he could look beyond just e...

Serum: C94

It has been two and a half years since Dirk was taken by Asura and thrown into this hell.

Far from the 13 year old boy he was, Dirk was now 16 years old. His body had grown a lot in the past couple of years, putting him at a whopping 6 feet tall. Dirk himself was a little surprised at his growth, but when he remembered his past life, he shrugged his shoulders. Dirk had been a few inches taller back then, and he had also only been 18 at the time. Dirk would likely grow a bit more than no...

Serum: C93

Dirk called for his Profile.

|Profile|

Name: Dirk Strider

Species: Human

Tier: III-

Rank: IV-

Attributes: Fire - ???% (Lightning - ???%), Earth - ???% (Metal - ???%), Dark - ???%

Traits: Cybernetic Enhancement, Adaptable Genes, Pure Soul

Skills: A.I. Interface (Grade 7), Mana Resonance (Grade 5), Mana Lungs (Grade 5)

Stigma: Black Cat of Calamity

"The hell?"

Dirk was confused, primarily at his attributes. All the affinity perce...

I'm doing it...

I'm going to be posting the new Tier. It's happening. Sometimes I question it, but I'm making the decision now. I'm committing. 

The new Tier, called Primordial, will be launched on March 31st, in two days. It should happen alongside my chapter posts. And because I'm launching it, I'll be posting the advance chapters for it. You'll probably be seeing the locked chapters as a consequence. 

The Tier will be $12. For those $12, you will get 30 advance Serum chapters alongsi...

OS - Chapter 282

A month after Dream officially spread his business, word spread like wildfire.

Dream knew it would take a while for publicity to reach him. In truth, he had actually expected a month to be all he needed for his business to explode. And sure enough, it happened exactly as he thought.

Dream's bots were too useful. They were manufactured power, something unseen in the wider universe. Dream didn't know of any others, god or otherwise, that could make use of physical energy and arcane ...

Serum: C92

More time passed.

For Dirk, the first month after losing his sight was the most difficult. It was like learning how to walk again. His balance was thrown off, his coordination was all over the place, and he was constantly beaten up when he ran into people. Of course, he tried to fight back, but it was many times more difficult. He had to resort to grabbing people and grappling.

Then there was the construction he was forced to do. Of course, he wasn't the only one who was rebuildin...

OS - Chapter 281

Orin nodded at Dream.

"Very well. Your services are welcome. We fight a great many battles with Hell, and these disposable soldiers will help us mitigate losses. Of course, you will be properly compensated. What do you wish for?"

"Well, first and foremost, I have a sister who needs training. You see, she's an asura who happened to inherit the so called Blood Drop Stance. I'd like her to receive tutelage."

"I understand. How about I take her as a disciple?"

"I like that...

Serum: C91

After Dirk was dragged back to the town, Deliha truly did have her fun.

For an entire half an hour, Dirk was repeatedly whipped and healed. There were dark healers on rotation that kept him alive and awake.

For Dirk, that was the most exhausting half an hour of his life. By the end, he couldn't so much as speak. Right when the healing stopped and Dirk was no longer kept awake, he fell into a small coma.

It was only two days later when he woke up. After that, he went back to ...

Serum: C90

After that day, Dirk no longer fought against the suffering.

He no longer avoided it. He accepted it as a fact of his life.

But he did fight. He fought against the people and things that brought him suffering. Through that adversity, he would become better. He would reach higher and higher until the problems of today couldn't hurt him.

Suffer now so you can suffer better later. Gray told him that, and Dirk began to truly understand that statement.

He had to fight now, ...

OS - Chapter 280

The Red Eye clan was exceptionally busy. At the moment, they were making final preparations. Many just stayed in their homes as they were instructed, while people from all over the planet returned to their roots. Like that, everything associated with the Red Eye clan concentrated on their cities.

Patriarch Star sat in the capital city. Dream had told them to gather in a select few cities and wait. He also gave them a deadline. At that time, he would move them all, though he didn't say h...

Tier update...

I'm getting rid of the Specialist Tier by the end of the month. I believe I have a single specialist, so this message is for you. (Plus a small update for my Seekers)

Tomorrow, Tuesday, I'm going to unlock the remaining chapters for the month. It'll be 4 chapters total, and from then on, you'll have until March 30th to read them all. I will delete the Tier on March 31st, the day before the new month. Just in case, be prepared to end your Specialist subscription manually if it doesn't do...

Serum: C89

Upon waking from his deep sleep, Dirk immediately headed to his class that was starting soon after.

By now, walking right out of the medical room and to his classes had become normal. Dirk would take all the time he could to sleep and recover, and classes took up half the day, so there wasn't a lot of room for free time.

Now though, Dirk had a small smile. He sat down in class with a bit more energy than before, and he absorbed what was taught with a bit more enthusiasm. While the...

OS - Chapter 279

After a few hours, Dream was able to get a hold of the situation.

Everyone in Dream's immediate family was marked, their souls taking on this symbol of the ascendency. They also gained titles, but since they weren't Dream's children, their titles were special. His parents had a title displaying their position above Dream and his siblings received a title reflecting their position beside him. Of course, they didn't suddenly gain power equal or above his, or any authority.

But surpr...