Mister Vii

SL: Chapter 574 – Day 5,049 (Part 3) – A Meta-Point

The crystalline monster kept up its dance through the sky. One step after another. It was aggravating how long the fight was taking, but I couldn’t risk speeding things up. If I rushed things, I could create an opening. That was why I needed to keep at range and keep pressuring the monster.

Michelle was rapidly burning through summons, but the attrition damage was adding up. It was just a matter of time until the battle was won. Each attempt to escape was cut off. Each attempt to hide...

SL: Chapter LXXVIII – Operational Time Efficiency Tracker: 352,942,984 – The Hunted

My danger sense activated in an unusual way. I paused from killing another monster while assessing my surroundings. No hostile targets nearby. Calculating probable sources of threat. Long range observation most likely.

I quickly began to change my current location. The sense of being observed persisted. Location could not be determined. It was a general observation, that was using the energy of the Controller, but not the Controller. There was hostility present, a high level of hostilit...

CC: Chapter 52 – Demonic Blood Sect Outpost

Whatever technique was being used to track me, clearly wasn’t working. The senior cultivators did their technique, but nothing happened. They repeated it again, but nothing happened a second time. No one whispered or commented.

I was in the back of the group and had to look between others. While I was quite small there were other smallish cultivators in the group. That was the thing about demonic cultivation, you could advance quickly in the lower stages by killing people and using th...

CC: Chapter 51 – Beast Tide

I was killing a beast every half minute or so, and that time was decreasing as more beasts rushed into the area. I had lost track of the pursuing cultivators, but I wasn’t about to just leave the area. I had no doubt that my pursuers were attempting to surround me and would attack the moment I attempted to leave the area.

That was why I needed to circle around more to lose any type of pursuit. A large amount of clouds had swept in across the sky as well, blocking any attempts I had at...

SL: Chapter 573 – Day 5,049 (Part 2) – Aerial Dance of Attrition

An intense lance of fire targeted the air ship. The summoned monsters in the way were instantly dusted and the airship was hit. It took damage, and quickly maneuvered out of the way as the monster moved to intercept it, while I was right behind.

As I closed in on the monster, it stopped and turned around. Force barriers sprung up in my path, which I maneuvered around using Air Burst. It was tempting to try and hit the monster with an annihilation attack, but I knew better than ...

CC: Chapter 50 – Hostages

“No,” Elder Zedong said and shook his head.

“There is no way?” I asked and he let out a sigh and gave me a tired look.

“We were defeated once. If you want people to help you, hire a sect, but even then, they would refuse. No one, not even the first child of an Immortal would be worth the price or the risk,” he explained. I bowed my head at that. “I understand she is family, but the risk is too high. For now, we are safe, since we won’t be attacked again by the demo...

SL: Chapter LXXVII – Operational Time Efficiency Tracker: 352,513,642 – The Hunt

Target located, engaging. I spun through the air and launched myself at the target in front of me. It dodged. I countered with fire beams. Target suffered minor damage. It has self-healing ability. Still retreating, overall combat ability judged to be low, move in for close engagement.

My combat motivator was quickly calculating all the probabilities. I adjusted my body positioning for optimal movement as I rapidly moved forward. I analyzed the energy around the target in use to prepare...

SL: Chapter LXXVI – Operational Time Efficiency Tracker: 352,081,233 – Communication Attempt

I grabbed onto the summoned being. A single digit quickly pierced its body. The energy within it was quickly taken over by me. The link back to the physical being, attempted to be cut. But I was ready for such an eventuality.

As the tether was closed off, my own energy created a tether right behind it. The cancelation of the tether allowed me to reach the summoner with a tether and bypass all their defenses. I then activated a secondary skill.

The target was disabled as my tether ...

SL: Chapter LXXV – Operational Time Efficiency Tracker: 351,861,429 – Sword Of Ascalon Round 8

“Monster, you shall be slain! Your evil will be no more!” My primary motivator processed the physical words. My combat motivator determined there was no use in taunting a weaker opponent that would soon be dead. Local stored knowledge, indicated a response was appropriate in this context. Also, it was important to expand my combat options when confronting this situation for the fifth time.

“Look in a mirror and you will see a monster.” The target was caught off guard by...

CC: Chapter 49 – A Surprise Visit

I felt the ground shake, just as I was digging up my 91stchannel. I knew everything about my chamber and the environment I had been stuck in for such a long time. That was why the ground shaking was so surprising. That had never happened before and the mountain the Cloudy Moon Sect was built on was quite stable.

There was no hidden volcano or other such local formation that I needed to worry about. The only thing that could shake the ground like this was a battle between two cultivators...

SL: Chapter 572 – Day 5,049 – Tracking A Donkey

“There you are,” I muttered while staring intently at the map in the newly purchased Regional Map building. I was spending quite a bit in various cities as this was the fifth such building with upgrades that had been purchased. Millions of points to locate the monster.

We had been engaged in a game of cat and mouse. I was the cat in this fight. The real trick had been observing the monster for the last couple of days across multiple cities. There had been a lot of flying back and fo...

Announcement: Heart Failiure

First let me apologize for my unannounced absence. I am sorry. The short explanation is I suffered serious heart issues compounded by other health issues. I will be getting back to posting regularly going forward, but everything is a mess. Still the most important thing is writing more, which is why I am posting right away. The next couple of days will see me on Discord and in chat sorting things out. It is like deal with the aftermath of a natural disaster with how much of a mess everything ...

CC: Chapter 48 – Cultivating The Third Stage

I sat in the force chamber. I could almost taste the energy in the air as it pressed down on me. I had just woken up after a nap, from cultivating my ninth channel and meridian pair. I had the process down for the most part.

It had been slow and frustrating the first time, but the next eight times had given me enough confidence and experience to go quickly and efficiently. The trick was to not hesitate while carving out my channels. If you went too slow then then one’s astral soul har...

CC: Chapter 47 – A Moment Of Peace

I continued kneeling in front of the grave. My mother had passed away, from what was most likely a stroke. There were no autopsies done in cultivation land. But based on the description, she collapsed and began seizing. She passed shortly after that. That had happened two years ago while I had been at the Floating Island of Death.

Lighting the incense in front of the grave at the family compound, I knelt there quietly thinking about my choices in this life. I had started on the path of ...

CC: Chapter 46 – Interception

“Wen Xue, we have people chasing us,” I said as I looked over my shoulder. Down the road. We were twenty days out of Imperial City and passed the boarder of the Imperial Sect.

“How many?” he asked.

“Five people. Four at the fourth stage, and one at the fifth,” I said with a heavy heart. It was a large force that was coming to intercept us.

“Can you win?” he asked me. That was a good question. I might be able to outrun the lower ranked cultivators, but there w...

CC: Chapter 45 – A Dark Book

“Finally, we are here,” I said with a relieved sigh. Wen Xue and I had made it to Imperial City. After formalities and fees at the outer gate. We entered the city and I then had us switch over to a carriage pulled by a cultivator. We had to circle around the outer wall to get to one of the outer towns that was our destination.

I had already talked with Wen Xue about what we were going to do once we got here. That was meeting with the elder Ping from the Cloudy Moon Sect who was over...

SL: Chapter 571 – Day 5,046 (Part 2) – Trials And Tribulations

“Let’s let the good doctor rest. He is exhausted. We can question him later. Captain Francis, take us to max altitude,” I ordered once the initial greetings were over.

“Yes, sir,” he replied and worked the controls. The airship began to ascend. It would remain tilted and rotating, but I wanted more height if the monster was down there. We could hold off on anything else until Doctor Katz recovered and I could speak to him.

“Doctor, you can have the single room. Get som...

SL: Chapter 570 – Day 5,046 – Unexpected Reunion

“Spot anything?” Captain Francis asked me as I looked out over the landscape quickly moving underneath us. The light source had come up just as we entered no man’s land. It was timed quite well, with Captain Francis showing his strong understanding of the situation and the airship’s speed.

“Still no people. Nothing that could be that monster either. I have no idea how it can have such a large range,” I replied. It was something that had been bugging me for a while.

“...

SL: Chapter 569 – Day 5,045 – New Airship

“Only four beds and an exposed front,” I said with a sigh.

“We will have to sleep in shifts,” Captain Francis replied while we looked over our newest airship.

It had only taken two days to get to a level 5 zone, another two days to kill the monsters, and then another two days back. This was why I wanted an airship. The travel times without one were incredibly frustrating. Especially when there were no roads.

Thankfully the Leader or his people didn’t become difficu...

SL: Chapter 568 – Day 5,040 – Viewpoints 51

The Leader, Hamid

“A disaster! The heathens killed one of our own, we have to respond.”

“You saw their power! We have no chance against that monster in human flesh. His stats are immense. And the number of cities he has, is too large.”

“Appeasement? Bah! Fight, fight to the death, I say.”

“We don’t even know where his cities are? We would have to fight him directly. If you want to do that, go right ahead.”

“If we can’t easil...

CC: Chapter 44 – The Greed Of Mortal Men

“The zombies don’t have much on them. Even the armor and clothing isn’t that good,” Wen Xue muttered quietly.

We had been searching the city for two weeks now. Carefully moving between buildings. We had found several rank 3 treasures and a few rank 4 treasures. Weapons, equipment, unknown tools, all quite valuable but not what I needed. There was even a rank 5 sword that we found that was on par with the one my first master Yi Rong had given me.

“We need to go the centra...

SL: Chapter 567 – Day 5,039 (Part 4) – Total Victory

I looked at the map in front of me. We had finished our meal and were gathered in the map room. “By the way, what is your name? I can’t keep calling you Leader,” I said and there was silence at that.

“You may call me Hamid,” the man said. I nodded at that, it was a common middle eastern name. I then turned my attention back to the map. There was a clear lack of anything to the Northwest. That was the first thing that caught my attention.

“Only level 4 and 5 zones?” I...

SL: Chapter 566 – Day 5,039 (Part 3) – A Dark History

“Come, let’s go some place else, to eat,” the Leader suggested. I nodded at this. The conference room was a bit of a mess. We all got up and made our way to another conference room, taking our seats again. I noted people taking the time to get cleaned off from the blood splatter while giving me nervous looks.

I was surprised they didn’t all start attacking. It would have given me an excuse to wipe them out, not that I needed one. One of the main reasons why I was giving this Lea...

CC: Chapter 43 – Zombies, Curses, And Traps

The wind was rushing too fast too talk as we were carried up to the Floating Island of Death. A flying sword was clearly not designed with safety or seatbelts in mind, but it was surprisingly stable. It didn’t rock or tilt in the slightest.

Old Hengar kept one hand behind him on my shoulder and another hand in front of him on Wen Xue’s shoulder. He kept a firm grip on both of us while the air rushed by. It was too noisy to easily move. We had been flying through the night and most o...

SL: Chapter 565 – Day 5,039 (Part 2) – An Understanding

The Leader leaned back in his chair, giving me a tired look. He knew he couldn’t win against me and was probably thinking how he could turn the tables. Unfortunately for him, there was nothing he could do. That was why the meeting had progressed so quickly. Starting a fight just wasn’t worthwhile.

Unlike the Divine Empress, or other crazy people, he didn’t want to fight to the death over control of cities, and I didn’t want his cities. Still, the temptation was there to kill him...

CC: Chapter 42 – Getting To The Floating Island Of Death

“Grilled fish with rice, and lime water,” the server said, putting food down in front of Wen Xue and myself.

“Thank you,” I told the server and they gave a nod before leaving.

“Anything else for you and your son sir?” she asked Wen Xue.

“No,” he replied. I had to contain my chuckle at the face he was making.

“I don’t like this,” Wen Xue said, while cutting his fish up.

“Pretending to be mortals?” I asked him.

“Yes, this feels ins...

SL: Chapter 564 – Day 5,039 – The Leader

“Welcome to the city of New Mecca,” Hasad said as the city came into view. We had stopped for the night and in the morning, I saw grinders hard at work quickly clearing the monsters. They looked tired but had clean clothes that were colored gray. From the store clearly. No one would wear gray clothes otherwise.

Looking at the walls, there were towers and cannons. So, this city was clearly developed. There were lots of stares from both the grinders, and soldiers as we passed them. I ...

SL: Chapter 563 – Day 5,038 – Culture Shock

We reached a level 2 zone, where the road turned to the West instead of still going Northwest. There were several carts on the road, and I noticed there was another road going North to South. I slowed my approach, clearly seeing the different uniforms from the rags the other people wore around the Indian Sultanate.

They were light brown colors, with white turbans. Their stats were fairly high as well. I would put them at just below the elites of the Indian Sultanate. So basically, no re...

SL: Chapter 562 – Day 5,036 (Part 5) – Viewpoints 50

Raji Gupta

Everyone was shouting and accusing each other. I was sitting and staring at the body of Rurik. He had been part of this city for a long time. I had a good idea of what his stats were as well. To just casually kill him in one slap meant Emperor Michael was the same as Gregorovich. I felt a massive headache forming at that.

Servants were already coming in to dispose of the corpse, but it didn’t matter much. Dead was dead. What mattered was the future. I...

SL: Chapter 561 – Day 5,036 (Part 4) – Team Tensions

We stopped on the road outside of Meech as it was getting dark for a break. While I was fine to keep traveling, other people in my team needed a bit of rest.

“They won’t welcome us back,” Fiyaz finally got the courage to speak up. I let out a sigh. It would be all too easy to yell at him and get upset about him making a comment on my decisions, but he was addressing the comment to me not mumbling. Since he wasn’t complaining, off to the side I could respect that.

“They a...