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Chapter 194- Making Waves

Need a little help from my readers. What's the name of the Galactic Empire that Earth falls under. I know I've mentioned it once or twice- I even remember getting a comment saying that the names weren't consistent between chapters- but I cannot for the life of me remember the name. I've searched through my book but haven't found it. If anyone remembers the name, or which chapter the empire's name is first mentioned in, please let me know.

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Chapter 193- Prisoners of Flesh

Disclaimer- The following chapter may be a little gorier than the usual. It's nothing too crazy but I thought it'd be best just to give you a heads up. If you think it's a little excessive and needs to be dialled back, feel free to let me know in the comments and I'll take your suggestions into consideration.

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Rosano adjusted the filters on his Ambion regulator mask, cursing the crude design and his lack of funds, which forced h...

Chapter 192- The Making of a Monster

The first step Arthur needed to take to fulfill his new goal was to obtain an official alchemy license. To create a soul splinter, Arthur required a lot of System credits- at least five million if he was being conservative, which was four more than he currently owned. As much as he might dislike it, that meant that he would need to become an alchemy factory until he accrued the necessary funds. Lacking an alchemy license would eat up his profits fast if he didn't get it out of the way first.<...

Chapter 191- Baby Steps

By the time Arthur was finishing up with his final set of ingredients, he'd managed to get the strength boost from 15% all the way up to 19%, a smidgen shy of raising the base elixir's standard effect by 100%. It was an incredible achievement and one he could attribute to his increasing skill with alchemy and familiarity with the recipe instead of laying all his success at the hands of his special blood.

His blood only improved what was already there, and he'd used the exact same ingred...

Chapter 190- Apocalyptik Alchemy

Ten minutes after creating his first elixir, Arthur was ready to start pulling his hair out in frustration. Putting a product on the System store for sale was proving far more difficult than buying something. For starters, he'd had to make a basic seller account, which cost a flat fee of 1,000 credits. That was easy enough. The mandatory questionnaire that followed wasn't. Why were his personal tastes and hobbies relevant to his seller profile in any way shape or form.

He'd had half a m...

Chapter 189- New Profession

Ever since Arthur had come to England, he'd had way too much free time and very little to do with it. Joining the Guild of Fringe Walkers didn't really change that. Unless things took a drastic change for the worse, Arthur was allowed to choose which hours he wanted to work or if he wanted to work at all, more freedom than he'd ever had at a job before.

Of course, no work meant no contribution points, which meant that he wasn't paid anything, but Arthur wasn't in a rush. He had enough m...

Chapter 188- Cool or Creepy?

"A Fringe Walker? What's that?" Arthur asked.

"Well, they're incredibly rare so I'm not surprised you haven't heard of them. People who enter invasion points are usually one of two types, fighters or supports, though, at the end of the day, their jobs are the same. They are the Defenders of the planet."

"Fringe Walkers on the other hand... Well, how should I put it? They invade the invaders. Warriors strong enough to take the fight to the fallen realm. It's i...

Chapter 187- Fringe Walker

Edward Agroth looked around at the people gathered in Noteworth Park. There were well over three hundred potential recruits, though half of them already had a mark of failure on their auras. He couldn't begrudge them for trying again; he would have done the same if he were in their position. His personal feelings wouldn't affect the results today, though. Re-takers had a less than five percent success rate.

There were quite a few extraordinary individuals in this batch, enough for him t...

Chapter 186- Looking For Work

Happy new year. Worked hard to get a chapter out today. Start the new year on a good foot.

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"Good morning," Arthur said.

He didn't know how many times he'd returned the greeting today, or what was particularly good about the morning, but it had become a habit at this point. Arthur's mask made him look like an average- albeit attractive- British man. He couldn't help being a little vain with his current mask desi...

Chapter 185- Terrible Weather

Chapter 1 of Book 5

Rain poured from the sky, cold heavy droplets that washed the world of joy, hope and all things pleasant. The sun shone brightly beyond the cloud cover, yet the frigid temperature mocked its attempts to warm the land. As far as British weather went, it was a perfectly ordinary autumn morning.

A small cottage sat at the top of a hill, surrounded by trees and foliage. It was a quaint building reminiscent of Victorian-style workmanship with a touch of more ...

Chapter 184- A Wanted Man

This is the final chapter of book 4.

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Iris' departure had left Arthur stranded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with no land in sight. He had no idea which direction to travel in and the fake land he was currently standing on was minutes away from dissolving away. It hadn't lasted anywhere near its predicted lifetime, which Arthur chalked up to the damage caused by the intense battle that had taken place.

Unfortunately, Frankenstein's corps...

Chapter 183- A Dying Realm

The realm is dying. The words hung in the air like a weighted blanket, stiffing further conversation. There was an element of unreality to it as if those specific words strung together didn't make any sense. Arthur didn't even know why he was reacting so strongly to the revelation. The realm had survived for seventeen thousand years. It would certainly survive for a few thousand more.

It's because I know I'll still be around. Arthur knew exactly how powerful he was and...

Chapter 182- The Myopan Realm

Arthur stared at the orc-shaped void in front of him with a complicated expression on his face. The world around it almost seemed less real... Fragile even. Iris' attack had met the tier-1 limits Arthur had once faced and then bulldozed through it as if it didn't exist. As durable as Arthur was, he wasn't confident lasting any longer against such an attack than Frankenstein.

It's like those flames operate under a different set of laws to the rest of us. What were stats to ...

Chapter 181- Burning Reality

A cornered beast always proved the most dangerous. In their final moments, all limitations were removed as they were whittled down to the most basic desire of every living creature; the simple goal of survival. Whilst Arthur was no hunter, he was intimately familiar with the failure brought on by being too hasty; a counter strike when he'd thought he'd won the fight had put him on the canvas far too many times for him to make the same mistake today. Not when the stakes were so high.

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Chapter 180- Know Thy Enemy

Apologies for the chapter delay. I was extremely busy getting the second book ready for publication. As of now, it's been submitted to amazon for review and will hopefully be available for pre-order sometime in the next few days. The official release date is set for the 26th of December, the day after Christmas, when everyone needs a good read to wind down from the chaos of visiting family. Thank you everyone for making all of this possible.

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Chapter 179- Broken Promise

Arthur had promised himself that no one would die today. They had made ample preparations for this battle, every member had been hand-picked from across multiple worlds because of their unique abilities. They had not one, but two prodigies who'd gained legendary classes at level 100, one of them an incredible healer and the other a seer who could peer into the future. The odds had been stacked extensively in their favour, to the point of almost being unfair. Iris had said as much; all he'd ne...

Chapter 178- Transient Life

In the end, using the new technique Arthur had figured out, it took him a little over six thousand ether to completely heal Ursula's wounds instead of the sixty thousand he'd expected, a vast increase in efficiency at the cost of a little extra time. Healing the beastkin woman had taken him just under two minutes, and just as Iris had said, the attack force had been perfectly capable of keeping the Ghoulish Skinwalker engaged without his assistance.

They didn't fall apart like he'd fear...

Chapter 177- Concentrated Healing

It took Arthur an embarrassingly long time to get back to his feet. He couldn't be certain, but he'd compare Iris' less-than-perfect teleport ritual to a mundane soldier struck by a flash grenade. For a few seconds, Arthur had been seeing double and had trouble judging distances accurately. It had been as much blind luck as skill that had allowed him to strike Frankenstein with his aura attack.

As Arthur had feared, the self-inflicted damage he'd suffered due to imperfect technique was ...

Chapter 176- Piercing Aura

Iris’s plan had been simple: send their best scouter to track wherever Frankenstein had ended up on the newly created island. Just because Farrah had dimensionally locked the area, it didn’t mean the skinwalker couldn’t teleport within it. Benjamin and Ursula had been dispatched, the former because of his sound affinity and the latter because of her species' inherent trait that allowed far greater tracking in forested environments.

From there, it had just been a waiting game, tryi...

Chapter 175- A Dragon's Roar

Ursula crept over the not-land, grimacing at the strange texture she could feel on the pads of her feet. It felt like a mixture of rubber and rock, a material that practically screamed artificial, and its chemical smell only made things worse. The foliage Bonak had managed to magic into being using his strange technologies helped a little- it was a necessity for her passive skills to work- and the cover the freshly, grown trees provided was more than welcome, but Ursula was starting to think ...

Chapter 174- Don't Look At Me

Arthur had let things play out for a while to see what the ghoulish skinwalker would do. He was confident enough in his agility to save anyone if things got dangerous. With such potent magic at its disposal, Arthur was certain he completely dwarfed the creepy monster in terms of physicality. Magic-focused creatures tended to be weak in body. When the perverted monster looked like he was a second away from dropping his pants and rubbing one out, Arthur decided he’d waited long enough.

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Chapter 173- Watch Your Back

Sorry for the delay with posting. IRL issues that I don't want to disclose online have prevented me from working on my story online. These issues may persist for a while, perhaps up to a month and a half. I'm still up to date with writing my chapters on pen and paper, just having troubles typing it up.

Hovering twenty thousand feet above the Atlantic Ocean was perhaps the strangest gathering of races Earth had seen to date. Three humans, three elves, ...

Chapter 172- Team of Miscreants

Ether combined with technology was capable of some incredible things when professional magical engineering came into play. The aircraft Arthur was currently in was about as far from modern airliners as you could get, more akin to a spaceship from science fiction, shaped like a giant ball and yet it was somehow capable of rapid flight. 

It was a cross between a military chopper, a fighter jet and a commercial airliner, a single vehicle that could fulfil the purpose of all three. The...

Chapter 171- Plan of Attack

Now that Darkstar essence core’s effect had worn off, it was like the universe was bombarding him with the problems he’d managed to run away from for a short while, almost as if it was playing catch up. In the wake of Ayesha’s most recent revelation, he’d been caught up in a flurry of activity, becoming the latest member of the victim protection program Lady Sleyca had set up. Whatever qualms Arthur may have had with the noblewoman, he couldn’t deny that she was taking her job very ...

Chapter 170- Predatory Links

Arthur immediately understood why people were barred from gaining a second extra general skill slot. Of course, the rarity of a Transcendent item was certainly a factor, but more importantly, even as a soul mage with a significantly larger soul than most, he felt the uncomfortable sensation of something being added to his soul, though calling it the 'unlocking of his potential' seemed more accurate.

He didn't know if souls grew stronger over time- they had to in order to m...