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B4C19 - Surprising Faces

He snatched a few hours of sleep, but only after thoroughly searching the surroundings with his ghosts. The ravine was still relatively close to the rift, and therefore still highly active. Packs of kin roamed past regularly, on their way to the broken land to try and push through to his home realm. Luckily, very few wanted to pass through the ravine he had settled in, and those that did were handled by his undead without making too much noise.

When he awoke, blinking, for a mome...

Chapter 1376 - Something She Never Imagined

Morrelia gripped the hilts of her dual blades tight, but knew she wouldn’t get the opportunity to use them. Ants were watching her at all times, and she’d been instructed not to participate and throw off their carefully laid plans. The Colony moved with incredible efficiency, every member knowing where they needed to be at any given moment. On the surface, it looked like chaos, giant insects crawling all over each other, working here and there, carrying, moulding, enchanting, digging, but...

Chapter 1375 - Once More Into The Breach

It’s amazing how quickly a week can go by when you’re trying to make sure you haven’t jinxed your entire family. In a blink, we are back at the entrance to the fifth, waiting to descend back into the stratum. This time, we’ve scaled up the size of our exploratory team to double what it was before. A thousand wuffers, ten thousand ants, me and the crew, along with our Legion onlookers.

[Are you really sure you want to go down there?] I ask Morrelia. [It’s gross. And not in a ca...

Chapter 1374 - It’s a Little Weird

So… Morrelia is going to hang out with the Colony again. That’s… fine. It’s fine.

Though if her two fellow Legionaries could stop looking at me like I spat on their mother’s kitchen floor, I’d appreciate it.

I mean, I get it. They think that all the monsters they see around them are going to turn insane and submit to the will of the Ancients, thus turning against all non-monstrous life on Pangera. Every ant they see is a future enemy, so why would you b...

B4C18 - The Sight of Magic

Tyron slumped against the wall of the ravine, gasping for breath.

Holy fuck. That’d been close!

He raised a hand to brush the sweat from his eyes, only to find it shaking slightly. It wasn’t surprising. For a moment there, he’d truly felt that he would never see his home realm again.

Once again, he checked his minions, looked through the eyes of his watching ghosts, just to ensure that he was secure. When he’d confirmed there were no kin in the nearby...

Chapter 1373 - Brilliant Brilliant-ing

“Oh… oh, I don’t like the smell of that at all.”

Her antennae waggled furiously as she tried to waft away the stink of whatever sorcery had been performed here. Whoever had performed it had gone to great lengths to scrub the signs away, but they hadn’t expected someone with her level of intelligence coming onto the scene.

After all…

“I’M BRILLIANT!” she declared to the empty room, then cackled gleefully.

She had so many things to do, s...

Chapter 1369 - The Tribune Amongst the Colony

“Be careful, Tribune. The monster may attempt to manipulate your thoughts.”

Morrelia frowned.

“I’ve receive mental fortitude training and raised my Skills to the commander level,” she said evenly, “I will of course remain vigilant nevertheless. Thank you for your diligence, Legionary.”

[What’d he say?] Anthony’s voice echoed in her mind.

[They’re still worried you’ll manipulate me,] she sighed.

[I mean… is it possible to communicate...

B4C17 - Nagrythyn

Tyron and his ‘honour guard’ were the first to go through the rift. He wasn’t willing to send his skeletons into a fight he couldn’t see and risk losing many of them. Who knew what monstrosity could be awaiting him on the other side?

After holding his area of the defensive perimeter around the rift, he pushed forward and allowed the other slayer teams to cover the space behind him as he prepared himself to advance. It wouldn’t be the first time he’d crossed over a rif...

Chapter 1369 - Guess Who?

When people play sports and get together after a game, they’re all standing around drinking… sports juice… or whatever, talking about the game and clapping each other on the back, it’s always such a heartwarming scene, such an inviting feeling.

Not that I would know, I’ve never been a part of something like that in my entire life. In my human life, anyway.

However, this here, this must have been what that would have felt like. After our successful ef...

Chapter 1369 - Are They Really?

BACK!

The break was really nice, thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding. The family is (mostly) well. Some things just seem to want to linger forever, but on the whole, much better off over here! Thanks for all the kind words and wishes. What a lovely group of people you all are! :D

Morrelia was very grateful not to be on a boat any longer. She would serve no matter where the Legion chose to send her, but she much preferred...

Chapter 1369 - A Successful Test

Things are looking pretty decent down here. Well, by ‘things’, I don’t mean the environment, that’s for sure. It still sucks down here. Big time. But, the work of the Colony has been immensely successful. We’ve been able to maintain our foothold here in the fifth for two days, and I’ve spent the last few hours taking a break within the cleansed mana zone, poking the wuffers with my antennae.

Everytime I give them a prod, they wobble like sentient jelly, wiggling in delight a...

Dammit

It's that time of year again and I have caught the covid.

Whoo.

It's going around town and pretty much whole family is sick at the moment, so I'm going to go ahead and take a week off. I really don't want to do this on such short notice, patreon subs being what they are, but in this case, I think I need to take some time off to rest.

Hopefully people have been enjoying the much more regular schedule lately. I've felt a lot better about my productivity la...

Chapter 1368 - Invaders

Zluth could hardly believe what his eyestalks were seeing. Just to be certain, he extended them up from the pool of muca-sludge he’d currently flattened his body into a little further. The same sight met his gaze.

The ants from above… had descended?

And not just descended… they were… attempting to purify the fifth!

It was so absurd it almost made him want to laugh. It was so infuriating it almost caused his slug flesh to boil. How dare they? HOW ...

B4C16 - Unleash Undeath

Tyron stood, looking down once again on the Broken Lands. The rift at Cragwhistle was much too small to produce such an intense reality-warping effect, but here it was just as bad as he remembered. The realm itself seemed to twist and shudder as the rifts spewed a torrent of magickal energy forth in an endless stream of power. He was more sensitive to it now, the movement and flow of energy had been his study for the past several years during his Arcanist training, but here, standing so close...

Chapter 1367 - Clean Up In Isle Five

To purify the fifth’s mana is an absurd idea, a comical suggestion. It’s impossible, everyone knows it’s impossible, and not because we haven’t tried, or made half-hearted attempts. Hundreds and thousands have died, enough resources to bankrupt an empire have been spent, over several attempts, some by individual empires, some by conglomerates of several major powers.

All have been unsuccessful. Not only unsuccessful, but unmitigated disasters. Even when these...