Mister Vii

Chapter 400 – Day 827 – Entering The Tower

The Divine Empress stared at me. Looking far less imposing in a gray gown than in her usual attire. I could tell that she knew if she took one more step forward I would shut the door no matter what. Her next move was to act.

We waited there, staring at each other in silence as the pressure began to build up. Who would be the first to act? If I acted first then she could tell herself there was no chance to get inside. But if she acted first, then she would have to commit.

Standing ...

Chapter 399 – Day 825 – The Chase Ends

Acid Shot. I used the skill over and over while rushing up to the top. This time the golems were cube shaped. The towers sure did love their geometrical shapes. After wiping out the ten golems, I looked in the distance and saw the Divine Empress closing in.

I entered the initial chamber and looked down the tunnels they were quite dark. I moved until I was right next to the middle tunnel. One twitch of my foot or my hand and the doors should slam shut. I was going to take anothe...

Chapter 398 – Day 825 – Delaying Tactics

While I used Air Burst to quickly clear the swamp North of Heaven, the Divine Empress had a similar skill, probably a barrier skill that she used to kick off of, to keep up with me. So I didn’t gain any time and she was still closing in.

I had been hopeful, but she was clearly matching my energy use, since she was most likely evaluating our last fight and would bombard me with skills to wear me out. At least she wouldn’t be able to rush up easily and just blow me away anymo...

Chapter 397 – Day 824 (Part 5) – Victory?

I threw another punch and this time she dodged. She kicked out and I moved in closer. The Divine Empress swung up her stump to strike me, but it was a stump, not a hand. I delivered a massive blow to her gut she wasn’t ready for.

That was the bad part about getting crisped and being disoriented. High level combat required a person to counter impacts. If they missed an attack, it could be devastating. She staggered backwards, blood dripping out of her mouth.

I punched again towar...

Chapter 396 – Day 824 (Part 4) – A Dragon And A Tiger

I quickly purchased a restoration. I leveraged myself up and backwards, over the pillar doing a spectacular flip. I landed on the ground and faced my nightmare.

“Divine Empress,” I said trying to draw her attention to me while Doctor Katz ran for it. His guards were already dead and while she glanced at him, she didn’t pursue him. She was smiling slightly at me, but I could tell that her eyes were full of murder.

She slowly advanced while I backed up to keep the same distanc...

Chapter 395 – Day 824 (Part 3) – Viewpoints 38

Ruth

I tossed another crystal into my pack after killing the monster in front of me. I had escaped that hell and now I was stuck in the wilderness. It had taken me a long time, but I had recovered quite a few points. The current war was perfect for slipping in and out of cities to cash in my points.

The goal was to leave the Dragon Empire and return to the East and the lands of Purgatory. I am sure Michael had forgotten about me by now. Also, it would be easier to...

Chapter 394 – Day 824 – Surgical Plan

“You…Champion Michael, let me put it bluntly. It probably won’t work,” Doctor Katz said while we talked in a building in East Bastion. I had checked his worksite, but he had gone into the city, so I had managed to intercept him here. It had taken six days to clear four dungeons and get here.

I had finished upgrading Force Wave. It now cost 2,000 energy but it was silent and gestureless. I had gotten the next three upgrades for Aqua Sphere, power, size, and mino...

Chapter 393 – Day 818 (Part 3) – Digging Up Trouble

The small bunker we were in shook as impact after impact rumbled through the ground. I was absolutely quiet as dust and debris rained down from the ceiling. I absolutely did not want to fight the Divine Empress right now.

The ground shook and I heard more smashing above us. The carved out bunker was incredibly cramped and I noted in the darkness, that the sides and roof were made of wood with the initial hole in the ceiling going through a hole in the cart.

A minute passed by, and...

Chapter 392 – Day 818 (Part 2) – Stomach Pains

My eyes went wide. I had just gotten a restoration. Just minutes ago, and now there was something wrong with my gut that quickly? Even if I was the most stressed out, neurotic person, with mental issues, and everything else, there was no possible way this made sense.

I knew a restoration fixed the body except for curse damage. The twinge of pain could only mean that there was a living tumor or something inside of me. What the Astrologer had done to the Divine Empress, he had done to me ...

Chapter 391 – Day 818 – Getting Those Skills

Six hard days and eight more dungeons. I had done a loop out to the West of Esperanza and then to the South. I was headed for Neo Brasilia to resupply and then I would poke the Bulwark Shields to the South and looking for the roaming boss and upgrade my skills some more.

I wanted to find a roaming boss in a level 4 zone that had monsters that were easy to defeat. From my understanding of what the Astrologer had told me, was that the roaming bosses were based off the monsters in the zone...

Delay

The next two chapters are delayed. I know I hate when other authors release non-story posts. But I know many people wait on the release. I apologize.

Right now the ending to volume 8 is very complex. After tossing away the original arc, I have been spending the last several days working things out. I do not want to go back and retcon.

Volume 9 is planned and beyond but the ending I had envisioned for this volume isn’t possible, and does not make sense. That is why I haven’t be...

Chapter 390 – Day 812 – Checking In

I had cleared two more dungeons, fully upgrading Air Burst with gestureless and picking power as the first upgrade for Force Wave. The cost of Air Burst was now 800, which made me wince, but I considered the tradeoff more than worthwhile. I needed my skills to be silent and gestureless, otherwise they were just too slow in high level combat.

After a bit of thinking and getting annoyed at myself for mentally going in circles I had changed course. I was making m...

Chapter 389 – Day 810 – I Need A Portrait

It had taken three days to clear six dungeons after I had left the tower, looping to the South of the Free City of Hong Kong. Which I felt was very good progress. I only needed one more upgrade to max out Air Burst. I had picked persistence, silent, speed, size, prep and hold, and persistence as the next 6 upgrades.

The cost had gone up to 400 energy for each use of the skill, but that was a small price to pay in my mind for getting the silent upgrade back. I just needed one mo...

Chapter 388 – Day 806 (Part 2) – Poking A Monolith

After some consideration I decided to circle the tower first checking the other sides. Out of each door came ten golems and I wiped out each group or unit once my energy was recovered from the previous group.

Again, I was taking this slow and cautiously. I wanted to get a sense of these towers. They were clearly important structures and the fact that the Astrologer believed one could get a meta-point at the top of one was highly enticing.

It would allow me to level the battlefield...

Chapter 387 – Day 806 – To Tower Or Not To Tower?

I had cleared five dungeons in level 3 zones in the last couple of days. Some of them had been a pain, searching for their exact position in the zone. Especially the last one, which was at the end of an intrusion or crack from the adjacent void zone.

It was one of the last places I had looked and was quite annoying to find. The void zones were weird, and the Protector had no idea what they were. Best guesses included errors in the Almighty System’s layout, or past battles where the zo...

Chapter 386 – Day 803 (Part 2) – Viewpoints 37

The High Priestess

Curse that Michael and his foolishness. “Where to High Priestess?” Mohammad Hamidur Rahman asked me.

“Keep our heading East. We will retreat past Normandy to the Northeast of the city. It is remote and should be quiet until the Divine Empress is dead.” My cities had been destroyed by the Divine Empress. My people killed without hesitation.

I escaped before she should recapture me. I knew that Michael thought I would point ...

Chapter 385 – Day 803 – A Surprise Visit

I left the Free City of Hong Kong in the morning, reloaded on supplies and a fresh map. I had my route planned out. I would be heading to the East, just North of the last level 3 zone I had cleared and from there making a full loop around the city in the level 3 zones.

There were surprisingly only two void zones. One was to the Southeast and the other in the opposite Northwest corner. Going from zone to zone like that should net me 12 more zones but the Protector had informed me that on...

Chapter 384 – Day 802 (Part 2) – A Corrupted Gift

I couldn’t refuse the Protector. As much as I wanted to, refusing would hinder my own forces and efforts against the Divine Empress. Clarissa had told me man power was always an issue. Also if I won, I could sideline the Protector then.

He would be sent off to grind somewhere so the memory of him would fade. What a cunning and devious opponent. At least he wasn’t the type to try and get me killed directly or indirectly from what I could tell.

Strong people would naturally butt...

Chapter 383 – Day 802 – Discussing Political Realities

“So, what exactly are your boarders?” I asked Cai Fan the Protector.

“All the level 3 zones, around this city. Those are the official boarders in the past. But the West portion has been in contention for a while and we aren’t fully grinding level 3 zones yet. You are collecting skill points?” he asked.

“Yes. I was looking to upgrade some of my skills,” I replied and he nodded.

“Well we aren’t clearing the dungeons in level 3 zones. Level 4 monsters are too ...

Chapter 382 – Day 801 (Part 2) – The Protector

“I suspect energy manipulation knowledge. With her second one and what she could do, it is the most likely option. She has progressed to altering her skills much more fluidly and dynamically boosting them,” the Protector explained.

“What does that mean, dynamically boosting?” I asked.

“I suppose another word would be channel. She is no longer constrained by the amount of energy a skill requires, but can put as much as she desires. Massive blasts, wide area of effect.”<...

Chapter 381 – Day 801 – Free City Of Hong Kong

I finished clearing the floating island dungeon from the zone at coordinates (-2,4). I got my seventh upgrade for Acid Shot and went with size. The skills were nothing special or useful, Ice Lance, Summon: Battle Swordfish.

What was really interesting was if this zone was a level 3 zone, that meant there was a city to my West. I set off. It was probably this Free City of Hong Kong. They had been staying out of everything and were supposedly neutral. It would be interes...

Chapter 380 – Day 800 – Clearing Dungeons Part 4

I paused at the corner of the zone. There were darklands to the West of the zone I had just cleared with the ruined town dungeon. It was just after midnight, so they looked quite scary. Well Acid Shot had sixth upgrades and I wanted to see how bad the darklands were at night.

As I approached them, they were dark. Even with my Perception stat being at 5,000 it was very hard to make out anything. I entered the darklands and looked around for the monster. Danger! I leapt backwards...

Chapter 379 – Day 799 – Clearing Dungeons Part 3

I raced through the frostlands towards my neck dungeon and skill point. “Acid Shot,” I said and melted a dark blue centaur that created chains of ice out of the ground to try and trap me. Nice try, but that wasn’t going to happen.

If I got caught I would be in trouble, and while the skills by the monster were quick, it was too slow like other trap skills if you were paying attention. They didn’t trigger my danger sense which was good to know. I had initially written off...

Chapter 378 – Day 798 – Clearing Dungeons Part 2

“Acid Shot,” x5. I melted another four-armed giant. They were about twice my height but they were incredibly annoying. After this next dungeon I would probably sleep in the mists. I had been going for quite a while and was starting to get tired.

I just needed to find this dungeon and I hated mistlands when I had to look around. I could work out my direction by jumping and checking the light source, but overall, they were quite annoying. Still stonelands were worse.

Ou...

Chapter 377 – Day 797 – Clearing Dungeons Part 1

I arrived to the Northwest of Normandy in a level 3 zone. It was mistlands. I began racing through it and knew where mental attacks were coming from. That was a nice upgrade after getting a thousand Mind stat to find the hidden monsters. “Acid Shot.”

Rabbits, big ones too. About the size of a large cat or small dog that ate way too much. Well, I would take the mistlands over the swamp I had to go through. At least I didn’t have pants anymore, just shorts. I even took off ...

Chapter 376 – Day 796 – News Of The Divine Empress

“The report is as follows. The Divine Empress was spotted heading South from Wuhan. All forces in her path have been killed, but she is not seeking people out. Suspected destination is the Forbidden City. Estimated time of arrival day 796.”

“That is today,” I said.

“Yes, it is. We just got word a few hours ago. So we are just packing and resupplying before all units split off into the various zones around the city. I have been afforded operational command of the Normandy...

Chapter 375 – Day 795 – Beefing Up The Skills

There were more void zones to the South of the two level 3 zones I had already cleared. I hesitated and then turned to my East. I wanted to check out another level 4 zone and to just check if there was another level 3 zone.

There could be a city hiding in the Northeast for all I knew. I reached some darklands in front of me. It was mid-day and I was a bit tired, but I could take a look at the monster. I entered the darklands and floating clear pyramids floated at me point first.

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Chapter 374 – Day 794 – Mushrooms Are Trippy

I waited a distance aways for day to return looking at the mushroom terrain that was in constant flux. Mushrooms growing, changing colors, and then dying. The land itself seemed to shift up and down. It was just as trippy as I remembered from the first mushroom zone I had seen long ago.

The light source finally began to come up over the horizon and I stretched and steadied my breathing. Time to take a plunge. I walked towards the mushrooms, ready to activate my skills in a split second,...

Chapter 373 – Day 793 – Acid Shot Plus

I easily completed three dungeons in level 2 zones, bringing my skills up to level 4. When upgrading to the next level I was offered the ability to adjust the skills slightly. I declined, since I was happy with how they all worked. Changing them would throw off my fighting style.

Once I took the time to fix all my skills and redo them, then I would look into different skills. I had run across Null Refraction which dispersed energy in an area. It sounded quite good, but I didn�...

Chapter 372 – Day 791 (Part 2) – A Pile Of Rubble

I walked through the plaza, surveying the melted buildings around me. There were no signs of life left that I could pick up on. Also, the crazy brain washed women had finally stopped rushing me. What an exhausting slog, but I considered it time well spent.

Going over to the store pillars, I purchased a restoration. The stomach issues I had been having went away. The screaming and pleas were getting to me, and I needed some food. I purchased a tray, some cucumbers, salt, water, and a kni...