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American Isekai - Chapter 272:

Edits: At the bottom, tacked onto the end.

November 2nd, 626

Larissa’s eyes flashed as the tanks before her went to full activation. Shields flared around them and the enchantments glowed with such strength that she felt her very blood tingle with mana saturation. 

She, John Cooper, and Umara Talerria stood behind the Command Tank. From its hatch poked the head of the General whose eyes were wide and dilated, a terse grin on his face. 

The Scourge wa...

American Isekai - Chapter 271

Over the course of several days, teams and soldiers from both Sawn Industries and Iron Legion were brought to the island. 

After sifting through the Mantle’s data more, I discovered their name for the landmass: the Island of Continuance. 

Umara had spent the preceding days taking the others to clear out Shades from all across the upper city. When the soldiers arrived with plenty of armament, including an outfit of tanks and aircraft, a base was established next ...

American Isekai - Chapter 270

October 2nd, 626

“What a pain in the fucking ass.”

I sighed and sat back into my seat, deploying the program I had just finished developing. 

The Mantle really knew how to piss a guy off. I understood why they were so careful with their systems, were so complex with their software, but it made my job that much harder. 

I had understood the breadth of their programming languages a while ago. The only thing I still couldn’t do was manufacture one of those...

American Isekai - Chapter 269

“SON OF A BITCH!”

I nearly screamed when I suddenly woke up, lucidity slamming into my body like a truck. So much pain shot through my brain that it felt like powdered glass had been sprinkled through my neurons. 

I could feel every thought, could sense that the pain was caused when certain memories and their neurons were triggered. I felt stinging along my spinal cord and burning in the back of my eyeballs, my ears feeling like they were ringing, so much stimulation runn...

Small reminder...

I've just paused billing once again, so there will be no charges for another month.

I still don't know my timeline but things are moving along and unless I get screwed, things will be going according to what was said in my prior update. I will keep everyone updated with the changes.

Until then, I plan to continue writing like normal. You all will be getting free chapters for the forseeable future, but just a reminder that this tuesday and thursday are technically the last two days...

American Isekai - Chapter 268

September 18th, 626

“Strap in, because this is the easy part.”

Aria inwardly sighed at Umara’s statement, Bloodsworn flourishing in her hands. 

How dreamy fighting at Iron Legion had seemed. She had begged the Tavera Patriarch to let her go fight with John when he was still in the Kingdom’s military as things started devolving at the Treehouse. She had been stuck, of course, but when John made the Iron Legion, she had taken every chance she got. 

She ...

American Isekai - Chapter 267

September 18th, 626

My eyes snapped open right as the screaming started. I was starting to anticipate it now. 

The silenced G18 appeared in my hand as the Shade crashed through the window of the room, spinning toward me. They always went for me. Always wanted my Psyka, my mind. 

It was chipping at my sanity. 

I aimed my arm over Umara, who slept next to me, pulling the trigger before her arm flashed with her mana organ’s activity. The rapid fire had a ...

American Isekai - Chapter 266

September 15th, 626

“Yeah, that’s it. Just a little more. Almost there…”

I muttered under my breath while adjusting the machines on my workbench, tuning the Psyka around an extra SEER Knife. 

It was modified by Umara and jury rigged to accept a hardline connection from a similarly modified portable database that I cut off of an extra undershirt. I slotted the Neural Gem onto that database, created some seals, limiters, and physical kill switches before connectin...

American Isekai - Chapter 265

I didn’t know for how long, but my mind was plunged into dark limbo after the battle. I remembered it in disturbingly perfect clarity. 

Every little nightmare that the brain plunged into my mind, every ounce of stabbing sense of danger, every drop of adrenaline that surged through my exhausted body as a result. 

I was never safe. 

I was amidst darkness, until I wasn’t. As soon as my body overcame its debilitating exhaustion and I was handed back some form ...

American Isekai - Chapter 264

Umara watched John torch the surrounding forest, steadily walking forward as the fire engulfed everything around him. The forest was trying to resist the flames, but like John’s Psyka, it too operated by the power of the mind. Whatever poisonous power it was, it was forced to meet John’s specialty head on. 

But it was able to resist. The fire burned without end yet John walked through it anyway. 

Umara scanned around, the platoon gathering behind her. 

Fei...

American Isekai - Chapter 263

September 11th, 626

Since the Fire Stabilizer was gone and the room we investigated was empty of all valuable material short of the report, we decided to camp out within and give ourselves a day of rest. Lord knows I needed it. 

The next morning we left the room, fought off some Shades that had filled the void we left from our slaughter, and retreated from the village. We couldn’t extract any of those Fire Crystals but it wasn’t like they hadn’t been here for sev...

UPDATE - Please read...

So I'm not sure how many have noticed but it's likely more than one since apparently Patreon shows a notification for it now. I've paused billing for the month. This post is to update everyone about why and what's going to happen in the future.

Currently I'm about to get neck deep in the process of pursuing my career. I've already been busy and I've already run through my backlogs, but soon enough, and I'm pretty sure this is set in stone, I'm not going to have any time for more writin...

American Isekai - Chapter 262

September 10th, 626

I glanced around, seeing everyone packing up their tents and supplies. 

I had been within the warehouse for two full days simply studying the robot and any other small devices the others thought I might find interesting. It was only now, as dawn spread its dim light on the island, that I decided I had gotten enough out of it. 

I squat next to the robot and a pile of scraps, unsheathing the SEER Knife and stabbing the robot’s torso. Moments lat...

American Isekai - Chapter 261

September 8th, 626

“Cargo is loaded and Overwatch is in the air, sir.”

“Thank you.”

I nodded to one of Sector 4’s Pale Horsemen, a checklist in front of him. I had the same checklist in my head and had already verified the place of every item on it personally. 

Unlike the first time, I wouldn’t be leaving such an important recon mission to anyone else, and I certainly won’t be losing anyone as a result.

I walked forward, into the transport plan...

American Isekai - Chapter 260

September 5th, 626

“So what do you think about them?”

My eyes remained on the spar beneath us. Umara pondered beside me, her gaze on the figures of Feiden and Tana slugging it out with Kwon and Song. The rest of the Desert Eagles were resting on the sidelines. 

Katta was coming down from a Vigor high, Shadowbane was stretching, which was catching Ponteck’s eye, Blackblood was reveling in frustration, and Aki was talking with Aria, Ilinca, and Jaya. 

Uma...

American Isekai - Chapter 259

August 26th, 626

Few people turned to glance at me when I walked into the Command Center of the Glass Desert, most focused on their tasks. The entire base was busy and people knew by now that I didn’t seek to interrupt with my presence. 

One man’s eyes found me and nodded. 

“Sir.”

“General Gaffney. How are our FOBs?”

“Perimeters have been established for both, but not without resistance. 1st, 2nd, and 4th Brigades are in battles every day....

American Isekai - Chapter 258

Edit: some grammar errors corrected.

July 14th, 626

“I call them Serums.”

“Why that name specifically?”

“Aki inspired me with the name, so I went with it. Anyway, you could say that they’re a kind of temporary Crown.”

Katta flourished a vial of green liquid, the end of it sporting a menacing needle. 

We had finally taken some time to go through her cargo and explain things. These Serums, the basis of her combat power, were a preci...

New Map

This is the new map for the newest addition to our lore. Not incredibly detailed but it's something. Hope you like it.

American Isekai - Chapter 257

Edit: Added Jaya's name to those introduced. Idk why I forgot about her.

July 12th, 626

“Nothing. But. A. Damn. Rat!”

Blackblood yelled in frustration as Feiden zipped away. I chuckled a bit, Umara lying against my chest and smoking my cigar. 

We were watching two sparring sessions. One was between Blackblood and Feiden, while the other was between Ponteck and Shadowbane. 

Blackblood was having a grand time trying to land hits on Feiden, who ...

American Isekai - Chapter 256

“So they killed a sizeable army, and quickly. Is that all that’s here?”

“Yes sir, that and the video. The only reason we got this much is because he allowed it though, and that’s with someone on the inside that he also signed off on.”

“Mm. 50 thousand in just 4 hours. They slaughtered them all and then made it back in time for dinner.”

“Indeed. Short of a Sovereign entering a battlefield uncontested, that speed with that amount of troops is a historical rec...

American Isekai - Chapter 255

“Fuck babe! That shit’s almost as hot as you!”

Umara looked to the side to see John cackle after one of her spells detonated, a massive wave of fire erupting across entire hordes of monsters and cooking them alive. 

She was a few dozen meters away from him, eyes peeking from under her Witch hat. Silently with a smile, she put up two fingers, her hands glowing with Mana-saturated veins. Then she moved the two fingers over her mouth, tongue sticking out between them. ...

American Isekai - Chapter 254

July 4th, 626

I ignored the turbulence in the plane and looked to my side, at Feiden. He sat in the chair next to me, wearing a custom operator variant armor, the best Sawn Industries could design and enchant, his helmet off and on his lap. 

There was a hint of his Invocation around his neck. As for the Crown, the cosmetic changes were subtle, already golden hair now shimmering and giving him larger muscle mass, not quite all encompassing like it had for Umara. His...

American Isekai - Chapter 253

July 4th, 626

“We’ve broken even.”

I paused my reading and looked up at Sawn. 

“Financially, I mean. With the new contracts in effect, we’ve finally paid off all the upfront costs this endeavor has demanded.”

“...Impressive.”

I nodded, looking back down. 

Half a year after the fall of the Treehouse, and I was now sitting in a real command center, surrounded by Generals, a few Brigadiers, two Marshals, and a dozen other I...

American Isekai - Chapter 252

“April 16th. Replacement operation has succeeded without compromise. Gathering will proceed as normal.”

……

“April 23rd. The proving ground Camp Pheonix has reached a population of 31 thousand soldiers, primarily composed of those from the Whetted City. Brief glances at numbers estimate a distribution of 25% warlocks, 38% summoners, and 37% knights in combat roles. Summoners are given heavy emphasis in battlefield operations, much unlike standard Kingdom doctrine...

Renaming!

I will be renaming Cooper's PMC, as extensively discussed in the discord, but I wanted to drop a poll here as well since I know many aren't in the discord. I'll be filtering the options from the discord poll (there were simply a lot) and bring you all the most viable ones. I'd like to honor democracy but tbh I have my favorite. Still, I will listen to the wants of my people. It's not everyday that I open something like this up for public decision :)

The poll closes at 1AM PST, about 10....

American Isekai - Chapter 251

April 1st, 626

Chief Ironheart had seen many things in his long life. There was little that could impress or surprise a man like him, who stood at the top of the world. 

A few years ago when this large child had first visited his city, he hadn’t thought too much of it. Based on what little information there was about him, he was an orphan with no family to speak of. There were no records that anybody could follow to find his point of origin. He simply appeared in...

American Isekai - Chapter 250

“ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE!”

Tana grit her teeth as the screaming threatened to make her ears burst. 

She barely felt the blood dripping from her eyes and nose, her heart beating at over 250 bpm and climbing as adrenaline flooded her body. 

She ran and clawed her way to escape but she couldn’t seem to find it amid the razor spikes that filled the complex. 

“YOU WILL DIE! YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE YOU WILL DIE! I WILL HOLLOW OUT YOU...

American Isekai - Chapter 249

He had it in the bag. 

When the doors opened for intermission, all Umara could hear was shouting. She, like many of the other plus ones that had spent the first half of the day’s meeting sleeping, was supposed to enter during intermission but none of them could find it in them to take the first step forward. 

It was a madhouse. 

And Umara wasn’t very surprised to see her boyfriend at the center of it. 

“They cannot match the cargo efficiency o...

World Map

Since the story has progressed enough I'm finally able to post the full world map. It has labels, but its very rough and not to scale, so don't worry about numbers. I'm no geographer and I obviously didn't have a map built when I first started this story so liberties were taken down the road.

There may be some spoilers in it for the Seekers, and nothing much for Primordials. Nothing major and obviously there's far more necessary context for anything to be a real spoiler. Either way, wit...

Small update...

For those who weren't aware, Primordials have just received an additional two chapters to their advance pool, while Seekers have received one. This puts Primordials at 16 advance chapters, and Seekers at 6 advance chapters.

Enjoy!