Derek's gaze swept over Jonah with the practiced assessment of someone who'd sized up threats for a living. The scan lingered on details, the steel short sword instead of scrap iron, the leather armor that actually fit, the relaxed stance of someone who knew how to use their equipment.
Most telling: Jonah hadn't asked permission to speak. Hadn't positioned himself as a supplicant or an equal negotiator.
He'd simply stated terms.
Derek's expression shifted. The aggressive pos...
2026-01-23 21:11:43 +0000 UTC
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The seventy-two hours passed in a controlled blur of violence and instruction.
Jonah drove them hard. Dawn drills focusing on footwork until their legs shook. Goblin hunts structured around specific tactical scenarios. Ambush response, fighting retreat, coordinated strikes. Evening sessions dedicated to System mechanics, explaining stat allocation, skill synergy, the mathematics of survival.
They thought he was being cruel. He was being merciful.
The tutorial zone offered co...
2026-01-23 21:02:35 +0000 UTC
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The first goblin appeared at the stream's edge exactly when Jonah predicted.
Small, green-skinned, hunched over the water with its stone axe discarded on the bank. Completely exposed. The creature cupped water to its mouth with clawed hands, yellow eyes half-closed in something approaching contentment.
Perfect.
Jonah raised his fist, the signal to hold. His team froze—Martinez and Sarah with spears raised, John gripping his shield, the others tense behind them. Good discip...
2026-01-23 20:59:49 +0000 UTC
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The world snapped into focus with jarring clarity.
Jonah's boots hit packed earth. The blue screens vanished, leaving afterimages burned across his retinas. Around him, reality had been replaced wholesale—concrete and rust traded for rolling grassland and a sky that hung too close, painted in shades of violet-grey that Earth had never produced.
The tutorial zone.
His body felt different. The exhaustion that had dragged at him seconds ago was gone, scrubbed away by System i...
2026-01-23 20:57:23 +0000 UTC
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Jonah's lungs burned. His thighs screamed. Every impact of foot against pavement sent jolts through joints that remembered enhanced durability but possessed none.
Three miles in, his body threatened mutiny.
He forced it forward.
The warehouse district materialized through his sweat-blurred vision. Industrial buildings squatted against the skyline, most abandoned when the manufacturing jobs dried up. Chain-link fences. Cracked parking lots. The kind of place people avoided af...
2026-01-23 20:55:04 +0000 UTC
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Return of the ArchMage |
Greatest ArchMage in Human History fell to the claws of a Juvenile WyrmKin.
That was the story of mankind as they climbed the tower. Dead and extinct by level 34 of over 400 levels. At the hands of a race far older and more advanced magically.
Except the Greatest Archmage in Human History refused to end it that way.
He wakes up regressed back to the very beginning. Hours before the system first initialized. With a new chance ...
2026-01-23 20:53:35 +0000 UTC
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Mark followed in their footsteps as he hurried away from the narrowed eyed Pilous.
He felt the same feeling as when he first entered the dungeon when he went through the ink like fog before he was thrown out into the second floor.
The system pinged him with a notification of his successful arrival.
Welcome to the Tower of the Undead Ancients - Floor 2!
Smith and Commander Malor were standing at the edges of the cliff and looking down at the...
2025-10-18 03:26:58 +0000 UTC
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“Were you violated?”
Mark couldn’t form any thoughts or words other than a single thing.
What?!
The Commander’s serious face cracked slowly into a boisterous laugh that had him slapping his thigh.
No one else joined him.
Mark’s long face searched the faces of all the other Royal Knights. What was he supposed to say? What was he supposed to do? Should he try to respond? Or was staying quiet the better choice? None of t...
2025-10-15 21:04:19 +0000 UTC
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Mark woke up to the clinking of metal boots and a headache that should have split his head in half.
The world spun back and forth even with his eyes closed. Opening them only made it worse in ways he couldn’t quite explain.
Yet, that did not matter to him.
It didn’t matter that he was buck naked on the solid ground. It didn’t matter that his brain was screaming to turn around and face the group that were approaching him while he was day dreaming. It d...
2025-10-15 21:02:42 +0000 UTC
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Smith grunted as his feet touched the warped stone at the bottom of the hole they had found.
Heat blasted back at him the second he had broken through whatever barrier was preventing its escape. Something massive had happened here.
It was dark and hard to see, but even a blind person would have noticed the pockets of still red glowing stone and how the warping looked. All indicating it had been melted into volcanic lava, pooling around, and then solidified as the...
2025-10-09 23:30:17 +0000 UTC
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Mark stared as the two orbs slowly grew closer and closer. Lightning flashed between them, flashing his eyesight with pure bright white and blinding him in pulses.
Each orb was rumbling like thunder and shaking dangerously.
He came to a final conclusion before they touched one another, an obvious one that should have been clear to him the moment he thought of this ridiculous plan. Alas, he hadn’t had the forethought to consider that two supercharged, compressed, balls of h...
2025-10-09 22:01:49 +0000 UTC
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Nothing he did seemed to work in terms of making his attacks and the strength of his mana any weaker.
Without a shadow of a doubt, Mark would melt everything in the second dungeon if he stepped into it now. Maybe his mana negation would be able to shut down the undead skeletons, but he wasn't confident that it would be the only type of dungeon monster he would encounter. Or whether negation would actually work as you thought it would.
Mark was stuck where he was until ...
2025-10-08 10:35:36 +0000 UTC
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Smith looked around the unusually serene little spring they found themselves in.
Him and four other Royal Knights had come to the area after sensing a large disturbance. All under the purview of their Commander Malor.
What they hadn’t expected to find was nothing.
Absolutely nothing that was strange or out of the expectation.
They had been stationed within the local backwater town where all the villages and small communes would gather on this auspic...
2025-10-08 10:34:08 +0000 UTC
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Marks skills were all launched through a canon as he went through the system notifications one by one.
Each seemed almost unrecognizable compared to where it had been not that long ago.
Skills weren't meant to go up that quickly.
His fathers own skills, he had boasted, were all around seventy at the peak. With most sitting around the lower sixties and yet, Mark was more than half way there on his first day with his Golden Class.
This...
2025-10-08 10:33:21 +0000 UTC
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Mark was met with nothing but a deep black that even his enhanced vision could not pierce through.
It looked like a viscous tar.
No point in wasting anymore time.
He took a deep breath and pushed through, the world blinked for a moment before vision returned to him. Mark stumbled forward onto a ledge of more stone and into a massive cavern sprawled before him. Stairs of ancient rocks and carved out of the bed rock wound down from where he stood to ...
2025-10-08 10:32:28 +0000 UTC
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Mark shouted. “Stay back!”
He was only a son of a [Tanner], never having carried a sword or blade, and with zero experience with what it was like to fight for life and death.
There was no way he had any clue what to do in this moment.
Unbeknownst to him, his mana reacted to his fear and terror. The bubbling energy within his core came to life and surged through his body quicker than he could notice.
All the skeletons enclosed on him, chattering an...
2025-10-08 10:31:31 +0000 UTC
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Mark had done the dumbest thing he could have done on such an important day.
He went out into the forest surrounding his small industrial town to relax and find some way to ease the anxiety he was suffering.
Today was the day he would go to the village square, him and hundreds of people around his age. All to unlock their [Classes] and join the wider society. Become contributors and stable actors to keep life as they knew it going.
His father had made sure ...
2025-10-08 10:30:41 +0000 UTC
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Would you read this?
Endless Mage Supreme - Absolute Level
[Blurb -
Mark Stevens wants to become a tanner. His father is a tanner, uncle a tanner, grandfather a tanner, cousins, and everyone else in his family tree. It isn’t much, but it was stable. Make money, get married, have kids, and feed them until the day he died.
Yet, fate and destiny conspires against him.
On the day he is meant to unlock his [Tanner Class], he is given a rare f...
2025-10-04 22:34:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey. Ive paused billing.
I dont have the time currently to write as much as I would want to currently due to other responsibilities. Wouldnt be right to take your money without content to match.
Sorry.
2025-07-31 17:38:34 +0000 UTC
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Tao Zi broke through the thickets of the forest trees and bushes, finally making it back to the clearing where his cave rested. He saw the familiar boulder covering the entrance with no new scars of claw marks. The replacement stones on the ground, the extra large rocks that he would use as even bigger options for his cave once he needed them.
Yet, behind all that was the promised safety that was his cave. He could already imagine Su Da attempting to cultivate while Tigers rolled ...
2025-07-22 05:48:00 +0000 UTC
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Tao Zi cringed as he stepped on another branch. The forest seemed silent, as though everything was trying to be as quiet as possible. It was a strange feeling he had not felt before. You hear the birds sing, the insects scuttle about under the forest brush, and small animals squeaking and fighting amongst each other, but it wasn't right. It all sounded fake. Almost as if he was in a theater play with actors and century old acoustic machines attempting to mimic real life sounds and real life f...
2025-07-21 07:47:05 +0000 UTC
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“Please! Oh, please! Can’t I come with you? I swear I won’t make you any trouble,” Su Da said as she held her robe with tight fists. “I finished all my physical training for the day too! All of them. Everything I promise! A-and even got half way done with my Qi circulation exercises!”
Tao Zi did not even turn around as he wrapped a long piece of cloth around his waist. “You only did twelve sets of sprints. I counted.”
Her eyes widened comically. She tried to ...
2025-07-19 04:59:25 +0000 UTC
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There was a limit to how much he could help Su Da develop before she reached a major bottle cap and needed an equally major breakthrough. He had been giving her Concentrated Qi Pills for the past week. Leveling her up until the very peak of the mortal stages and could no longer advance. Instead, the Qi seemed to vanish into the ether.
Wasting dozens of Qi experience.
It hurt Tao Zi’s heart to see them turn into motes of nothingness without any advancement. He considered...
2025-07-17 22:40:35 +0000 UTC
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First Disciple Su Da -
Gender - Female
Age - 8 Yrs
System Access -
Limited to Master (Cultivator Tao Zi)
Clan/Sect Affiliation -
Dragon Emperor’s Sect
Cultivation -
Mortal Stage 0
Cultivation Progress -
▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ 0%
Body Cultivation -
2025-07-16 21:54:38 +0000 UTC
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Su Da stared at the man before her. A hard face filled with struggle and fighting against fate. Perfect posture in an ornate seat only the rich could possibly afford. Robes and an attire she could place on a certain type of people that she utterly feared.
A real, living, breathing cultivator sat before her.
Reading what could only be a cultivation manual filled with the secrets of the world and how they channeled its essence into becoming catastrophes walking ...
2025-07-15 04:36:06 +0000 UTC
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It took a few hours before the girl finally woke up with the aid of all the passive boosts and healing functions of the kitten shaped bed. Her small wounds healed up well and the large cut on the back of her head knitted just enough to stop bleeding.
Tao Zi was sure there was a lot more work done on her because he ended up using one of his lower ranked Spiritual Medicine Pills too and it had not completely healed her. Most likely head trauma and a rattled brain being the ...
2025-07-14 06:39:43 +0000 UTC
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It was a risky decision to make, but one that Tao Zi had to do simply because Tiger refused otherwise. He feared the orange bastard would snap its neck with how hard it was fighting against the stone boulder that dwarfed it.
He grabbed onto it and nearly pushed it out of the way.
Tao Zi did not have the time to marvel at his new found power and how easily the boulder moved. It proved that if Zarfu or any monster at the Journeyman Stage with opposable thumbs sh...
2025-07-14 03:58:57 +0000 UTC
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Tao Zi received an additional couple of notifications for cultivating his first true technique and surviving the process without interruptions or anything killing him. Earning him a whopping 90 Qi Exp and 22 Body Tempering Exp. Both of which he refused to use on the Basic Shop System even if the burning desire to run the risk of getting another good skill was nearly overwhelming.
His primary goal had to remain his development and stabilizing his foundati...
2025-07-14 01:31:15 +0000 UTC
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Azure Flames of the Dragon Ancestor was a strange cultivation technique that Tao Zi struggled with. It was very much unlike what he expected from normal manuals and circulating Qi into his core. Rather it was required its users to cultivate a flame within them.
Tao Zi kept his eyes closed as he circulated through the indicated meridians. It took a while to clear the blocked and unused ones in preparation for the entire process before he could truly cultivate and test its ...
2025-07-13 22:03:15 +0000 UTC
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Reward Shop Sign-in Commencing…
792 experience provided…
Unlocked an A+ Grade Skill -
Avatar of The Phoenix Risen
Tao Zi stared at his new system notification, rereading the skill over and over again. An avatar? That sounded like a powerful ability that could fight for him. Would it summon a literal Phoenix? Crash the entire battlefield with a wave of flames from a legendary creature that was touching upon the Fou...
2025-07-13 22:02:35 +0000 UTC
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