Mister Vii

SL: Chapter 704 – Day Unknown – Size Matters

I continued staring at the massive super fortress in front of us. I had no sense of time in this place, but at least a day had passed. I kept trying to come up with a way to go about this fight, where I wouldn’t be immediately put at a disadvantage. Clarissa and her two minions didn’t have any good ideas, this was all on me.

“We go big,” I finally said. Clarissa looked at me.

“Big?” she asked.

“Big. Buy thousands upon thousands of Magnite plates with interlocki...

CC: Chapter 90 – The Truth?

It had taken centuries and I was an old man now. My joints hurt, and my senses were going dim. Life was a struggle, but I refused to give up. I was going to reach the center of this bubble no matter what.

Forests, mountains, oceans, super creatures, nothing slowed me down. I was going to live no matter what, even as my flesh began to sag, and my eyesight dimmed. I was getting closer to the answer.

There was a void of blackness. This was the purpose of the bubble, to focus energy i...

SL: Chapter XCV – Decoy Phase – Countered

The monsters were attacking again. They were only going after my decoy. And they had brought a focus for the calculator. That would disrupt the protections I had put in place to hide my presence. It was time to prepare for a retreat to another area while slowly continuing to heal.

The mass expenditure of energy would hide my presence for quite a while. Long enough that the calculator would not be able to target me. The monsters had dealt serious damage to my decoy. But it only possessed...

SL: Chapter 703 – Day 5,791 – Portal

“We breach the barrier, by creating dissonance between the various rings of the astrolabe. Once formed we stabilize the portal by locking the rings into place. Unfortunately the enchantments burn out within a minute,” Clarissa explained.

“And finding the sphere beyond?” I asked.

“We look through to see if we spot anything.” I nodded at this answer. “After that, well, we activate the helmets and go in. You would take point, then Gregor and Conner, followed by myself,�...

CC: Chapter 89 – Dangerous Geometry

After five days of traveling, we stopped, since there was no end to the red cylinder so far. Yang Heng had lost quite a bit of energy and going any further would be a risk. I needed a break as well.

“Why a cylinder?” I asked.

“Hmm, you mean the object we are following? Why do you think?” Yang Heng asked.

“Geometric shapes grant stability and easier to use concepts for energy,” I responded. There was speculation that energy went through Chaos monsters before bubbl...

SL: Chapter LXXXVIII – Recovery Phase – Backdoor

Oh, what a helpful monster, creating a backdoor for me. It drew on some of my energy, but that was fine. It would distract the calculator from my current location and allow me to spread my energy out some more.

With the local monsters knowing where I was located, it was time to move. I didn’t doubt that they would try something horrible with my body if they could, like shoving me into one of their orifices. Nasty thing orifices. Let’s create a decoy with a localized domain field. Hm...

SL: Chapter 702 – Day 5,790 – Secret Base

“You are a madwoman, building under the darklands. Doesn’t the base itself go pitch black at night?” I asked.

“Not if you are deep enough. The night time darkness effects only go so deep,” Clarissa answered as we approached a large angled opening in the ground. The airship in front of us entered and we followed behind them.

“It isn’t hidden,” I pointed out.

“This is obscure corner and we have observation posts. Normally airships would leave and arrive from ...

CC: Chapter 88 – High Level Conflict

Once Yang Heng pulled the doors apart and we entered, there was grass and plants beyond the threshold of the ripped open doorway. He waved his hand and I could feel the metal floor beneath me shake slightly but that was it.

“What do you see?” he asked me.

“Grass, trees, but it is very dark,” I replied, and he frowned. “Is it an illusion?”

“I am not sure,” I could hear a touch of concern in Yang Heng’s voice. The only other time he had seemed off kilter when...

SL: Chapter LXXXVII – Seeking Phase – Discovery And Calamity

I scanned another location. No viable material resources detected for long term growth. It did not matter how long it took, only that I found a location that met the minimum requirements for growth. Flying through the Astral Plane, I would eventually run into something.

Sending out another ping, I registered a highly dense source of energy. It was almost impossibly dense, but that was not a concern. No matter what existed there or controlled that energy, it would not be able to withstan...

SL: Chapter 701 – Day 5,786 (Part 2) – Melancholy

“You are leaving?” Young Michael asked me.

“Yes. You are better off continuing with Hendricks and working to improve over time on your own. The difference in our skill sets is to great. I doubt you want to pick up crystals forever,” I said with a smile.

“No. But, I learned a lot from you,” Young Michael replied.

“It is nice to hear that. But I don’t know if I will return. It isn’t going to be an easy fight unfortunately,” I replied.

“Who are you f...

SL: Chapter 700 – Day 5,786 – Another Emergency

I had just finished another 100 day grind session. Hendricks and Young Michael were worn out from the intense and brutal pace I set. While there were two of them, they didn’t split up the tasks, both pushing themselves. I guess neither of them wanted me to complain about them not earning the massive number of points I had paid them.

300,000 (+0); Mind-165,000 (+22,000x3); Spirit-300,000 (+0); Perception-60,000 (+0); Aura-60,000 (0); Regeneration-60,000 (+0); Endurance-60,000 (+0); Abs...

SL: Chapter 699 – Day 5,681 – Teaching Spar

“You sure this is a good idea?” Hendricks asked.

“I can control my Body stat well enough. Learning to fight in melee is incredibly important and he has an interest,” I replied. Young Michael stood ready a short distance away. “No skills or external energy manipulation.”

“You said that already, let’s start,” he replied impatiently. Hendricks backed away and I took a stance.

“You can attack whenever you want,” I said. Young Michael kicked off the ground. ...

CC: Chapter 87 – Reverse Questioning

“Explain why implants are counter to cultivation,” Yang Heng said. The immortal cultivator had apparently been amused, probably annoyed, that he was questioning me to make sure I understood the concepts he had explained. Right now, we were covering alternatives to cultivation since I was concerned I wouldn’t get enough energy to reach the second breakthrough.

“I can think of two reasons. The first is that they are tools. Most tools cannot gain cultivation. Once they are made, th...

SL: Chapter 698 – Day 5,677 – Teenagers And Mistakes

I got out of the shower just as Hendricks and Young Michael returned. My namesake looked like he was dying. “Rough day?” I asked. They both gave me a look that promised pain and I chuckled.

“I couldn’t breathe, my chest felt like it was being sat on. The energy and the monster’s screaming in the distance hurts my head,” Young Michael complained.

“It isn’t that bad. You had enough stats to survive,” I said.

“Barely,” he complained.

“Well, time to...

SL: Chapter 697 – Day 5,674 (Part 2) – Departure

“Can I join you?” Young Michael asked as I finished my meal and the conversation slowed down. He was just a teenager. I noted Hendricks had tensed up at that question as well. But it just showed how immature he was. You don’t ask to join another team while your current teammate is sitting right next to you.

On a practical level he had the stats for it. If he died under my watch, I don’t think I would be able to brush if off easily. It was different if someone I knew died in fron...

SL: Chapter 696 – Day 5,674 – Check-In On Purgatory

“You really want to go back?” I let out a sigh as I looked at Dylan and asked him the same question again.

“Yes. I appreciate everything you have done for me, but I can’t keep going like this,” he said. He was weak. Grinding was life, there was nothing else. We were flying back to Purgatory at the moment. I was curious to see how the city was doing. We had stocked up in New Delhi and New Kochi, but there were no new messages left for me even after all this time.

Clarissa...

SL: Chapter 695 – Day 5,622 – A Final Trap

“Dinner is ready. We have tacos,” Dylan said.

“Really?” I asked in surprise.

“We have the right spice, bread, and chopped up chicken. No ground beef unfortunately,” he told me. I had been sitting at the front of the airship looking over everything that had been handed over. I packed it all back up in the chest and went inside the cabin to have dinner.

I had spent all day reviewing everything that was left behind and it was frustrating for a couple of reasons. The...

SL: Chapter 694 – Day 5,621 – Shamelessness

300,000 (+0); Mind-60,000 (+0); Spirit-300,000 (+26,000x3); Perception-60,000 (+0); Aura-60,000 (0); Regeneration-60,000 (+0); Endurance-60,000 (+0); Absorption-60,000 (+0); Sense-60,000 (+0); Channel-60,000 (+0) for a total of 360,000 total stat upgrades, or 1,080,000 after my meta-point.

I looked at my stats after I finished cashing in hundred days’ worth of points. I had more than enough energy now to send out several massive attacks in quick succession, which was what I wanted. Ar...

SL: Chapter 693 – Day 5,515 – Viewpoints 62

Clarissa

I slowly set down the message that had been delivered to me. It passed through several hands, but it had originated in New Kochi. Michael had killed Qi Ji Long. That changed everything and nothing at the same time.

It was time to begin a massive expansion of my food empire. Any finished food product would be produced and controlled by me. Anyone who resisted would be killed. Not the way I used to do things in business, but the time for half measures had l...

CC: Chapter 86 – Traveling Onwards

I looked at the giant floating metal orbs in the distance. Their surface was reflective, which made looking at them a blinding experience. I had to squint to view the floating spheres in the distance, just casually drifting along.

I heard movement behind me and saw Yang Heng slowly waking up. I had left the door open between the cockpit and the cabin. “Good morning senior,” I said politely.

He shook himself and then came to the cockpit looking out in the distance. “We should...

SL: Chapter 692 – Day 5,511 (Part 3) – New Home

I looked at the airship in front of me. It wasn’t the smallest size, it was one step up. A larger engine, a single forward beam cannon, and two rooms. The smaller front room was the shower, sink, and toilet. The rear room was the sleeping area and kitchen.

It would be cozy like the last airship, but we would have more room to move about, and more space to store supplies. Normally there wouldn’t be a bathroom or a shower, just more beds, but there were only two of us that would be on...

SL: Chapter 691 – Day 5,511 (Part 2) – A Heavy Price

I looked down at the remains of the corpse as it melted away. The last traces of Qi Ji Long would be no more after today. I sent a burst attack up in the air. That was the signal that I had won. A few minutes later the recently purchase City Shield turned off, while I remained where I was, looking at the melted hole in the street.

That was a disappointing fight. I had expected more, but Qi Ji Long was weak in terms of direct combat. At least against me. With his stats, he would crush mo...

SL: Chapter LXXXVI – Day 5,511 – All Consuming Rage

“Just die already!” I sent another wave of monsters in, while repositioning the summoning monsters to make sure Michael didn’t locate them. My trump card was being held in reserve to distract him, and really put the pressure on him, once he was worn down enough.

I didn’t believe he was losing energy or was as seriously hurt as it appeared. Those were only flesh wounds and he had been grinding. Those points were going to be put into Spirit for more energy. I knew how he thought. ...

SL: Chapter 690 – Day 5,511 – You Don’t Surprise Me, I Surprise You

300,000 (+0); Mind-60,000 (+0); Spirit-222,000 (+12,000x3); Perception-60,000 (+0); Aura-60,000 (0); Regeneration-60,000 (+0); Endurance-60,000 (+0); Absorption-60,000 (+0); Sense-60,000 (+0); Channel-60,000 (+0) for a total of 334,000 total stat upgrades, or 1,002,000 after my meta-point.

I had purchased my stat points the day before we showed up in New Delhi, flying way out of the way to the West. There was another errand I needed to run and an important conversation I had with one of...

CC: Chapter 85 – Too Much Knowledge

“The patterns of energy that create formations draw upon higher sources of understand that have contaminated the energy or attuned it. That’s why there is a home field advantage, and how energy interacts with symbology,” Yang Heng explained the answer to another one of my questions without any hesitation.

As he explained, I wasn’t asking anything that was secret, merely knowledge that wasn’t spread about or understood. “My apologies senior, if I have gotten carried away,” ...

SL: Chapter 689 – Day 5,486 – Music

“Don don dooon.” I worked on some music during our day off while Dylan was carving out some wood. Since I could use energy to make sounds, I figured I might as well create a theme song for myself. I clearly had no talent for music. In fact, if it was possible to have negative talent, then I had that.

But it was fun to try and get the sounds just right. “Doon don booon.” I didn’t need it to be loud, I just needed to come up with a fast past action beat, that was also majestic, ...

SL: Chapter 688 – Day 5,460 (Part 2) – Plans Within Plans

“Emperor Michael?” I noted the high level person approaching before they spoke. Well high level compared to everyone else. They were around combat level 4 with their stats. So not a threat to me. I made sure to step to the side, so I wasn’t between my air boat and this new arrival. They had their hands up and to their sides.

“Yes,” I replied, while looking around.

“Message delivery,” the man said. A message. Someone had chosen to wait around in this hell.

“To...

SL: Chapter 687 – Day 5,460 – What Day Is It?

We landed in the plaza New Delhi once again to turn in the points during the day. “We need showers,” Dylan said as he began unloading the chests of points for me to cash in. There were some groups lingering around the edges of the plaza, but none of them came over as we began cashing in points.

“Back in my day, we didn’t have showers. We had shit rivers filled with monsters. And swamps, I had to fight in.”

“You avoided swamps,” Dylan countered. Drat, I shouldn’t ha...

SL: Chapter 686 – Day 5,408 (Part 2) – Same Strategy

We came to a stop for the night at our grinding spot and I began clearing out the flying and level 6 monsters nearby. My mind was focused on that last fight and if I should respond in any way and the implications of what just happened.

Once could be a coincidence, no matter how unlikely that the airship had been struck by a super attack at that precise point in time. I didn’t believe it was an accident, but I wasn’t about to get worked up when I didn’t know where the Sword was. 2024-03-09 20:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post

CC: Chapter 84 – Alien Sensibilities

Ek or one of the Ek, I still wasn’t sure led me to a large warehouse. “Prince. Super steel ingots listed.”

“I can’t read any of this,” I replied. The rodent like creature let out what appeared to be a grumble and then began to point out the items on the shelves and descriptions one at a time. I was able to pick up their numerical system after a bit of observation. It operated on a base eleven, which raised the question of why offer 500 super steel bars?

Maybe they knew...