Armaments of the soul was an incredible skill, limited only by Arthur's inability to use it properly. That didn’t matter much when he shot his crude soul spear at seven times the speed of sound via water shot. It was on a direct collision course with the largest Bloodbeast a seven-and-a-half-foot behemoth that was bounding towards him at a speed nearing three hundred Km/h. Its running technique was the mirror image of what you’d see in an Olympic ad and o...
2024-03-07 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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The fight had been going so well. Arthur had deployed his skills and began the process of steadily whittling down Henderson, the man with the greatest potential as a blood beast. Had he been given his full twenty seconds of predicted time to work with, he was certain he could have killed the monster before it became a threat. Unfortunately for him, things rarely went according to plan and as he was blasted through a second wall, Arthur began to wonder where things had gone so wrong today.
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2024-03-05 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Ayesha Murker ran through the street as fast as she could, her best friend and trusted seer Iris dogging her footsteps. She discarded her shoes the moment she’d exited the car, luxury high-heels that quite literally fell apart because of how quickly she’d removed them. Right now, however, she was cursing her choice of footwear as she stepped on her thirtieth stone in half as many seconds. Whilst her constitution was high enough that she didn’t risk injury from the sharp...
2024-02-29 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Arthur was surprised he wasn’t reacting more strongly from the crowd of rude people hammering at his door- judging by the number of voices he could hear, there was certainly more than one. After facing down a hydra and jumping down its gullet, this drama, whatever it was, just felt so tedious.
He took his time going down the stairs, first heading to the kitchen to get his food out of the air fryer. The people outside certainly didn’t like how long he was taking given how loudly they...
2024-02-27 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Arthur’s trek back to civilization took a little over two hours. As opposed to the blistering speed he’d travelled at to first get to the locus, he returned home at a slow walk. The outskirts of the city had changed a lot since the system’s arrival. Too far from the city proper, many of the buildings he saw had been abandoned, the power of ether enhanced plantlife meaning nature had claimed them already.
A two-hour walk was a perfect way to clear his head, and every step he’d ta...
2024-02-22 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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The once silent forest exploded into motion. The man with the rocket launcher dropped his weapon- it had proved useless already- and instead raised his hands to cast some magic. A female Lorak rushed at Arthur, carved dagger clenched in her hands, she was moving fast, with a grace that belied her amphibian nature, more surefooted than any forest ranger he’d seen.
400 agility? No, she's closer to 500.
Unfortunately for her, Arthur was quite literally twice as fast. Surro...
2024-02-20 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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It turned out that Arthur had gotten a little mixed up on the details. Understandable really when someone decided it was a good idea to hit him with a rocket launcher of all things just as he was reading his friend's warning note. The weapon was magically enhanced in one way or the other, certainly with a stealth effect of some kind. He would have noticed it coming a mile away otherwise.
The rocket had been aimed at his chest, and the explosion caused shrapnel to fly in all directions. ...
2024-02-15 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Issania and Arthur sat at a small table with a teapot between them, all items the elf had summoned from her storage device. It was, in her words, a graduation dinner of sorts, even though the locus prevented her from retrieving any of the high-level cuts of meat from her ring. They were apparently too high a tier or something and so they’d been forced to make do with a beverage Issania couldn’t even remember picking up.
Ilshtur’s brew, it was called. Whoever the m...
2024-02-13 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Water offered little protection against electricity, so when Issania sent a literal bolt of lightning at Arthur’s chest, she expected him to be down for the count. Understandable really. No one could fault her thought process. Unfortunately for her, Arthur had long transcended the limits of rationality, and his body alone was sturdy enough to weather the fiercest of storms, irrespective of whether or not they were backed by the concepts of pain and sharpness.
The added defence this wa...
2024-02-08 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Don't worry, guys. Arthur will be exiting the locus very soon. This fight will be finished in the next chapter.
Chapter begin->
“In all my years of teaching across dozens of worlds, single lessons and long apprenticeships, I can say, Mr Ward, that you rank amongst the highest of that number,” Issania declared, bowing to him. “It was a pleasure to teach you. Truly.”
Despite the fact that he’d been thrashed and the numerous wounds covering hi...
2024-02-06 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Issania stood before her student and took in his blurred form. With the system's obfuscation in place, Ward’s race remained unknown. Having humanoid proportions did little to narrow down such an expansive list. Nonetheless, the observations she’d made over the past four and a half hours meant she could make an educated guess.
His regeneration rate was definitely S-rank. The question was, how much of that came from invested stats and what innate abilities did his race possess that al...
2024-02-01 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Arthur closed his eyes, trying to ignore the twitching in his limbs as he thrust his spear for what felt like the thousandth time. It probably was. The pain in his muscles felt like an electric current was constantly running through them and half his focus was spent making sure an involuntary spasm didn’t ruin his form.
A quick dose of healing would get rid of all his troubles but Issania, the demoness, had expressly forbidden him from doing so. Apparently, she didn’t trust his heal...
2024-01-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Ten years later, in his retelling of today's events, Arthur would love to say he’d taken the knight's proclamations in his stride, that he’d moved forwards like monsters talking to him was just another Tuesday. Unfortunately, reality painted a far less flattering picture, and Arthur stood there, mouth open like a fish out of water, his mind blank.
A monster had just talked to him and she had a name! It made him question everything he’d done whilst in the locus. No, that wouldn’t...
2024-01-25 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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The final wave of the test of endurance was different to its predecessors in that it consisted of only a single enemy, the Archon knight at level 201, a full 21 levels higher than any of the previous beasts he had faced. He wasn't sure if he was remembering things correctly, but most monsters tended to undergo a significant evolution at the 200th level, much like unlocking a class for a sapient.
If he was right, then the monster he was about to face would be a force to be reckoned with....
2024-01-23 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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It was an impulsive decision. Arthur didn’t walk into the fight aiming to catch a massive two-handed war-axe going for his throat. It sort of just happened. The reasonable choice would have been a single step backwards which would have allowed the blade of decapitation to swing by harmlessly; except with a half-metre hunk of steel looming in his vision, Arthur for some reason, raised a single hand, appearing to any observer like a fool who thought he could command the force.
Except wh...
2024-01-11 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Arthur stretched as he waited the final sixty seconds before the final floor started. His body felt far more limber than it ever had before, courtesy of the reforging the Dragons Will had put his body through. He was almost certain he could give a contortionist a run for their money right now which was definitely unfair when all his abilities came out of a bottle.
Arthur set himself some ground rules. As much as he wanted to rush into the next layer, guns akimbo and new...
2024-01-09 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Arthur paced around the Tree of Life, rolling a golden apple pit in his hand. It started dissolving into motes of light, mirroring the degradation process that was taking place on the tree it had come from. It turned out that the reward for this floor was the fruit on the tree, and they'd gotten a perfect score of ten for retrieving all of them in perfect condition.
Golden apples of Hesperides (Elite) [Imitation]- A reflection of the real fruit, this imitation possesses a fracti...
2024-01-04 23:42:13 +0000 UTC
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This was it, the moment that would dictate the course his life would take. It was the first true step onto the path of power, the beginning of the journey that would take him to the top or leave him forgotten in the fields of mediocrity. Well, with my current status, I guess no one will ever be able to call me mediocre regardless of my class.
His only example of an epic-classer was currently the alverin woman beside him, but he was pretty sure he already had her beat and that w...
2024-01-02 23:23:28 +0000 UTC
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Arthur looked up from the system notification to see Alyssia staring expectantly at him. “So, did it work? Is your soul fixed?” She asked the questions so fast his brain struggled to decode the sound waves that reached him. With her aura-reading skills, Arthur was certain she already knew the answer to that question but it never hurt to confirm things. Arthur grinned and nodded his head. “Yep, my soul healed completely. Better than ever, honestly. The system’s not telling me much, but...
2023-12-28 22:36:25 +0000 UTC
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The dragon's core shone with golden luminescence, so bright it was like someone had plucked the sun out of the sky and placed it in his hands. It was also extremely hot to touch, enough that Alyssia had retreated backwards to avoid getting burnt. With his recent upgrades in vitality and the rest of his attributes, he had no such problem dealing with the orb. His clothes- the little he’d managed to put on post-hydra fight- however, did, and so he’d had to generate some water to soak them i...
2023-12-27 00:36:33 +0000 UTC
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Eating the Hydra’s core had changed Arthur almost as much as the enhancement of his previous ninety-four levels had. Consuming it had given him an upgraded affinity, his first epic skill and three new titles. Sure one of those represented a timer to his imminent demise, but it was still classed as a tier-4 title.
Calling up his status, Arthur took a look at his increased attributes.
Arthur Ward
Level 94
Unallocated stat point...
2023-12-26 00:05:41 +0000 UTC
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Arthur floated in limbo, a dull ache suffusing his entire body. He was wide awake, he’d never lost consciousness in the first place, but it was taking him a while to get himself moving. Trying to call out for water resulted in unintelligible grumbles you’d need an epic translation skill to understand.
He could feel someone, Alyssia, touching him on the hand which meant that he wasn’t spasming around anymore at least. It felt like he’d been put through a meat grinder and then put...
2023-12-20 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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The Tree of Life was well... larger than life, an existence so large you’d have to stand a kilometre away just to observe it all. Contrary to its name though, it was a barren thing, with no leaves present on its thousand branches, free of any foliage and the usual critters that signalled the presence of life.
The absence of any greenery, however, served to emphasise the presence of ten tiny objects distributed haphazardly across its expanse. They were the golden apples Arthur and Alys...
2023-12-16 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Minor edits have been made to the requirements for grade boundaries in terms of stat totals. S rank has gone up from 3000 to 5000+.
Even through the numbing agent, Arthur could feel the massive influx in power killing the hydra had given him. It was without a doubt the biggest windfall he’d received since the system's arrival, enough experience that it would have pushed him into the high sixties if he’d gotten it at level 1.
Congratulat...
2023-12-13 23:09:01 +0000 UTC
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This is Saturdays chapter which was delayed a bit. Next Chap- Wednesday
The moments following Arthur's dangerous skill use were some of the strangest in his life. Something happened, he knew that but his low perception and intelligence meant that the little he perceived made no sense to him. If he were asked to describe it, the best description he’d be able to give would land him in a mental asylum pre-system era.
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2023-12-11 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Arthur was surrounded in darkness, walls of pulsating flesh surrounding him on each side. His skin bubbled and sizzled, stuck in a regenerative loop of decay and healing as his vitality battled against the caustic blood surrounding him. His blood was in constant motion, his hands cutting and ripping through muscle and tissue as he searched for something vital.
It had been six minutes since the second round began. Things had gone well at first, or at least he’d thought they were. He’...
2023-12-07 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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It turned out the apocalypse beast at 30% strength was still a force to be reckoned with. The fight had started off well enough. A minute after the purple orb had formed, it had expanded rapidly to encompass the space the hydra had initially fled. Only Alyssia’s warnings had kept him from attacking it. Apparently, it was a barrier equivalent to 2,000 constitution, impossible for the current him to even scratch. It was unfortunate, but you couldn’t cheese boss fights in real life.
Th...
2023-12-01 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Arthur was poised, ready to act. He stood on the edge of the greatest battle of his life waiting for Alyssia’s signal to come. He felt it, a small prod on the back of his head and he unleashed his magic. The shadow bomb exploded- the greatest one he’d ever created- in an entirely ordinary display of power.
It was quiet, there was no devastating boom accompanying it. A silent explosion that signified the beginning of their fight. The results were deadly. He’d detonated it using the...
2023-11-28 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Okay guys. I made a mistake in the order of chapter postings and I'm very sorry. This chapter was supposed to be released before the previous one so you'd all get a nice fight with no interruptions. Interludes in-between fights are one of my biggest pet-peeves. Unfortunately, because of my mis ordering of chapters, You'll have to suffer for 48 hours till Tuesday when the next chapter will come out and start the fight proper. The only consolation is that the hydra fight hasn't truly begun yet....
2023-11-27 00:55:05 +0000 UTC
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Arthur glanced briefly at his status, going over the temporary additions it had received. First came the debuff he’d been placed under by close proximity to the lesser Hydra. Then came a small subsection denoting the stored healing affinity he’d placed there for himself and Alyssia last night.
Personally, it wouldn’t do much for him, a mere fraction of his total health pool. Perhaps enough to heal a broken bone or two, which on second thoughts could be the difference between life ...
2023-11-17 23:59:00 +0000 UTC
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