I turn to the last demon, the mage, and immediately resume my icicle barrage in order to give myself a little time and space.
Holy moly! I’m tired. That took a fair bit out of me, but so long as the Colony is close enough, I will never truly tire. Sure enough, as Will continues to flow through the Vestibule, my brains are soothed, my muscles restored and my stamina replenished.
This is the power of family! Gwheheheh!
With my siblings helping me, I need never fear a tier se...
2023-01-09 08:13:33 +0000 UTC
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“I suppose watching that graveyard wasn’t a completely moronic decision. I might owe that marshal an apology if I ever see him again.”
“Wait. You were watching a graveyard? Why? For me?”
“Yes, it was because of you. I was forced into a stupid stakeout, freezing my balls off in the middle of the night waiting for a Necromancer to show up and start shovelling graves.”
“It was way too dangerous for me to go to such an obvious place for materials back ...
2023-01-07 08:46:31 +0000 UTC
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When a monster reaches tier seven, and perhaps this is especially true for demons, they tend to get some fancy tricks up their sleeves. Grokus had that whole Biomass storage thing, which was a heck of a thing, if I’m being honest. War demons are in possession of a frightening frenzy aura, and grow even more powerful as they take damage, turning them into fearsome destruction engines when they’re on the verge of death.
If I were to take a guess, I think the Fatty has something relate...
2023-01-05 10:45:51 +0000 UTC
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Looking at all the demons slumped on the ground around me, it's a good feeling. A dangerous feeling!
The dark one is stirring… I can feel his hunger!
Yes! Kneel before me, you worms! Gweheheheheh! Hack! No… I must resist! I cannot allow the light to fall into the shadows. Not today, Dark Anthony! Your time will come, but it shall not be now!
I manage to push the glee I feel at seeing these weaker demons forced into the stone by my gravity domain to one side. T...
2023-01-04 08:24:34 +0000 UTC
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Took longer than expected!
The numbers were shocking in and of themselves. He’d known he’d done something unusual, risky, something admittedly more complex than what a Mage of his level should be attempting. He’d been proud of himself, for having succeeded, for having the inspiration to see the possibilities, and the daring to follow through.
Now he was just scared.
“D-Dove?” he stammered. “This doesn’t seem right. Something… something is wro...
2023-01-03 10:07:03 +0000 UTC
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BoD is coming tomorrow
Tangling with the big boys, wrestling with the top dogs, that’s my job as the strongest the Colony has to offer. The first time I went up against a tier seven demon, it was Grokus, and he very nearly had me for dinner. The last time I tried it, I absolutely annihilated the opponent so quickly they didn’t have time to pick their nose.
In fact, it was so fast I’m not even sure they had a nose…. In that instance, I had to go all out to ...
2023-01-01 03:45:53 +0000 UTC
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Aaaaaand we back!
I don't know what’s up with these demons, but they are seriously feeling themselves at the moment. Every now and again, we’ll be out on the plains and some tier five Stab Demon will come sprinting at me from out of nowhere, leap ten metres in the air and come crashing down like a spear from the heavens… only to bounce off my carapace without me noticing.
Where is your sense of self preservation, idiot?! Life is precious, a miracle of mana a...
2022-12-31 06:46:26 +0000 UTC
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People often ask me what Anthony looks like now and I don't really have a clear answer for them.
However, I was inspired to draw this scene of Anthony floating intimidatingly into battle using his new gravity based powers!
The pets look on, thoroughly impressed.
I shared this on discord previously, but I'll pop it up here as well. BEHOLD!
2022-12-28 03:06:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey there folks!
Here it is, the third volume, covering the story all the way up to chapter 400 and finishing the first major arc of the story.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BBWJ8X67?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_2&storeType=ebooks
We made it!
Huge thanks to everyone of you for supporting the story, re...
2022-12-28 00:28:44 +0000 UTC
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Just one? What nonsense! BWAHAHAHA. Have a great holiday everyone! :D
Before we departed our strange conveyance, Emilia handed each of us a small bracelet and urged us to put it on.
My escorts eyed the metal rather suspiciously, it was clearly enchanted, I could see the core set in the ornament with my own eyes. I couldn’t help but look upon their reluctance with a slight amount of exasperation, dear readers. Only a slight amount! The two gentlemen,...
2022-12-24 06:35:44 +0000 UTC
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Happy holidays and merry Christmas folks! A little Tolly to tide you over!
Hello, dear readers! Once again, it is I, your friend Travelling Tolly, writing to you of my adventures in the lands of the Colony!
And such a grand adventure it has been. From the charming city of Renewal, to the wonders of Anthome and the incredible things these industrious monsters have created, I must say I have been positively delighted with my experience.
A...
2022-12-24 05:10:31 +0000 UTC
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Laurel bent to touch the earth, trailing her fingers through the grass. Her father had trained her to track starting when she could walk. He was a hunter by trade and by Class, his ability to find game was enhanced by the Unseen in numerous ways. She’d marvelled at this skill as a child, scarcely able to believe he could smell a deer a kilometre away, or read the size and health of a herd from the tracks they left in the mud.
That admiration had faded over the years. Even without the ...
2022-12-22 09:46:16 +0000 UTC
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Marvel. Wonder. Architectural triumph. One of the great achievements of the age. The Twin Cities have been described in such glowing terms for over a Millenia and truly they are deserving of their reputation.
Situated on the same mountain, Mt Atraem, they can be seen many kilometres away, glittering like matched jewels in the distance.
Dressed in peerless Soul Silver, the lower city gleams like the finest polished swords. Home to several million citizens, the...
2022-12-21 11:35:25 +0000 UTC
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It needed to be tested at some point, and what better time than now? I’ve increased Gravity Magic to the second rank thanks to all my stuffing about with Gravity Fields, and the bomb was always going to be on the list of things that I want to see how the Altar interacts with.
As it turns out, quite well.
As the spell is unleashed and I activate the Altar of Self, I’m rather startled to feel all of the gathered energy drain out of it.
All.
Not a sin...
2022-12-20 11:33:17 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes a horde just gets out of control. It can happen to anyone, who am I to judge? Call in the professional barber service, give a little snip here, a little snip there, and voila! Your rampaging army of feral demons is suddenly that much more manageable.
We’ve cycled through assaults on the horde four times now, and it’s honestly a bit of a laugh. There’s no coordination amongst them, and they aren’t quick enough to catch us when we try to run, especially not when I drop a...
2022-12-18 12:31:24 +0000 UTC
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Tyron came awake with a start. He tried to pull himself up off his back only to twinge his gut and let out a groan, lowering himself back down to the hard wooden bed of the cart. Eyes closed, he reached down with one hand and pressed his palm into the throbbing wound on his belly.
There was heat there, and the flesh was tender, but no worse than it had been the last time he remembered checking. There may be some level of infection, which meant he’d better seek some treatment, but it w...
2022-12-18 05:29:40 +0000 UTC
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No more mucking around. I want to power up my allies, and we’ve been dithering around on the plains and in the tunnels. Why bother?! There’s an enormous feast of experience just waiting for us to go and claim it!
I’m of course talking about the rampaging demon army.
We rush down into the caverns below Roklu, heading deeper and smashing everything in our way. Tiny is hopping up and down like a kid on Christmas morning, anticipating the fight to come. When we break down to the...
2022-12-17 05:34:46 +0000 UTC
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I have to say, the demons are acting more… vigorous, as the wave approaches.
[It’s a combination of the rising mana level, and the growing influence of Arconidem,] Al informs me. [As our access to mana grows it feeds our obsessions, making them stronger. Look over there.]
I can already see where the demon is pointing, but I turn anyway, facing down a narrow path in Roklu toward a cluster of buildings. At first, I’m not sure what I’m meant to be seeing, but after a few seco...
2022-12-16 10:45:00 +0000 UTC
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The covid streak is ended and now I'm huddling in the back room of my house trying not to get the whole family sick. Haven't felt up to doing much the past few days, but I'm feeling better now and will try and get done what I can.
Cheers folks!
2022-12-16 04:47:49 +0000 UTC
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This is a bit late and a bit short, apologies for that. After an excellent streak, my luck has finally run out and I have caught the Covid. It sucks. Will get through updates as much as I can when I'm feeling up to it. stay healthy out there everyone!
“It’s… disturbing to look at.”
“There exists a certain charm in the way he moves.”
“Charm? Charm!? You’re as twisted as I am, woman. He looks like a zombie fucking another zombie, excep...
2022-12-14 08:04:59 +0000 UTC
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The Church of the Path is founded on the belief that all things born of the Dungeon belong to the Old Races. The resources that are found there, the territory and space, the mana and, perhaps most importantly of all, the monsters.
Monsters give experience when killed, allowing the slayer to grow stronger. They also contain valuable materials, their cores, primarily, but also the precious substances that make up their bodies, things that often cannot be found any other way.<...
2022-12-12 03:10:52 +0000 UTC
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It took an embarrassing amount of time to get myself out from under all the rocks and I apologised to the others profusely. I’m taking away from their precious training time with my idiocy, after all!
We push down to the next layer, bypass the demon city there and the three pets continue their hunting activities on the plains while I focus on using the greater space to run my tests with a little more safely.
Turns out my dash Skill needs a minimum of a hundred metres ro...
2022-12-11 11:54:57 +0000 UTC
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Farming aside, I’ve got other things to worry about, namely trying to work out exactly how the Altar of Self actually works. I mean, I have the basic idea, it’s not that complicated; the Will of the Colony flows through the Vestibule, is amplified by the Nave, feeds into the Altar and is consumed to help fuel my Skills.
Simple in concept, but there’s a lot of variables I need to take into account. Which Skills use the most energy? How much do they use? How quickly does it replenis...
2022-12-10 11:25:16 +0000 UTC
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“Did you hear something?” Tyron asked, coming alert suddenly.
“Uh… no? Obviously, I didn’t fucking hear anything. My hearing isn’t exactly the best it’s ever been right now.”
“Shut up for a second.”
The skull grumbled quietly to himself but fell silent a few moments later as Tyron continued to survey the grassland around them. For two days, they had continued their slow way south, trying to get lost in the winding trails amongst the foothills. It appeared...
2022-12-09 01:25:15 +0000 UTC
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Moar delays, sorry folks. Been working on Volume 3 of Chrysalis which is in decent shape now, so I'll be working on the chaps for this week now.
2022-12-07 22:44:46 +0000 UTC
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Hanging out on the third stratum is uncomfortable, that much has been established. While I’m here, I may as well get something out of my time, but as a tier seven, there isn’t a whole lot I can do to gain experience. I get a bit of Biomass, obviously, but the most important thing to mutate is my Altar, and I’m still not entirely clear on how the thing works.
As the mana level gradually rises, Tiny, Crinis, Invidia and myself stick to Colony territory, hunting and grinding as the C...
2022-12-05 10:23:06 +0000 UTC
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The Mother Tree had a name. At least, she’d had a name. The memory was there, vague and distant, tucked in the recesses of her mind. She could recall that she’d had feet, and hands, and eaten food, though such memories were so faint that she couldn’t really recall what it was like.
She’d done it, certainly, but how it had actually felt. That, she could no longer recall.
Birth, or rebirth, on Pangera, now that she could recall. The cold a...
2022-12-04 12:16:03 +0000 UTC
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Grey tried to suppress his growl of frustration, holding his wolf-like features in an expression of quiet contemplation. Despite his best efforts, his hands twisted as if wringing the neck of his guest.
“That seems quite unfortunate,” he said.
Sitting opposite, across a low table that held two cups of steaming tea, a fellow member of the Folk sat, a wolf, same as Grey. Red shrugged, causing the blade, still in its sheath, on his lap to clink as it shifted.
“Di...
2022-12-03 11:36:36 +0000 UTC
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The Blademasters of the Folk are renowned for their extraordinary skill with their weapons of choice. Their reputation is such that it exceeds that of even the golgari Stoneswords, whose techniques were forged in the Dungeon during the Rending.
Their extraordinary methods are beheld with some trepidation, as the tension between the Old and New races is such that none can ever be comfortable with the achievements of the other. Not monsters, though originating in the Dungeon,...
2022-12-02 10:30:27 +0000 UTC
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Made some changes to the end of chapter 27 because I wasn't quite happy with the choices and how it all panned out. I've included the new text here.
Let me know what you think.
Air of Menace - Surround oneself in a dread aura.
Pain - Inflict the target with severe pain.
Invasive Persuasion - Open a weakness to manipulation in a suppressed mind.
Fear Implant - Leave an impression of fear within a sup...
2022-11-30 10:44:55 +0000 UTC
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