Chapter 289
The blinded giant, chained by his neck to the very bottom of this accursed labyrinth, was half submerged in his magma pit. Yet even despite this the creature was so large that he could reach all but the highest of levels on the labyrinth, and his charred, gnarled fingers eternally groped blindly for prey to feed on while his large nostrils flared. Sharp intakes of breath through his nose were interrupted only by his crazed roars of ple...
2024-07-22 02:31:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 288
“So what exactly is an archdemon, anyway? Now that I have not one, but three of you bound to me - I figure now is as good a time as any to really consider what it means.” Riven asked as Fay pulled him along with his arm in hers. “Because it strikes me as odd that F-grade demons can become archdemons when there are many E, D, or C grade demons that haven’t become such. So it can’t be a power or level thing.”
Fay ...
2024-07-16 03:53:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 287
The sudden sound of the crowds around the miles-wide arena came into earshot when the illusions of the perimeter’s barrier vanished, and it was utterly deafening. Applause for a good fight, no doubt, but Riven was utterly spent.
Even as the system’s own spells rapidly reworked his body, repaired his equipment, cleared the battlefield’s devastation and resurrected the team mates he’d just killed - his soul was exhausted from the...
2024-07-13 20:22:31 +0000 UTC
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Been on call at the hospital after hours all week, I intend to try to do at least 2 chapters a week from here on out until I leave this job on August 30th. At that time the writing will drastically pick up, thank you to all those who continue to support this series, I hope you're all doing well :)
-Trent
Chapter 286
Crashing to the ground, Athela groaned clutching her head when all eight of her enormous white spider legs sank into the...
2024-07-07 21:46:03 +0000 UTC
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Been on call at the hospital after hours all week, I intend to try to do at least 2 chapters a week from here on out until I leave this job on August 30th. At that time the writing will drastically pick up, thank you to all those who continue to support this series, I hope you're all doing well :)
-Trent
Chapter 285
Riven’s body exploded backwards as Blessing of the Crow engulfed him, wrapping him in a shroud of black and red wisps akin to a bl...
2024-07-07 21:45:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 284
*Note - I’m going to delete the Chalgathi scene in previous chapters about how he sees the cracks in Elysium. Will be done sometime this weekend.
*Note#2 - I am changing Pride to Wrath concerning previous comments in the chapter when Gluttony goes to talk to his friend in the abyssal prison. Will be done sometime this weekend.
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2024-06-30 01:03:28 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 283
*I am considering rewriting a couple of the previous chapters so that he finishes the events in The Abyssal Descent before introducing other things: like his mother’s situation and/or the cracks forming on Elysium’s shell. Those events would still happen, but just immediately after he finishes getting through with the descent. I might also remove the part about Chalgathi seeing the cracks. Let me know if you think...
2024-06-24 05:23:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 282
A large fissure appeared, far larger than any of the others, and its conjuration led to a shudder that the entire multiverse felt. Each universe was washed in the spark of creation as pieces of Elysium fell from the beyond; and a new presence began to seep into the deep, dark places of space.
[Multiversal System Notice: To all creatures across Elysium, let it be known that the return of the Sins and Commandments is a...
2024-06-20 05:40:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 281
The canyon complex and sprawling tent city was full of dead-end trenches dug into the greater cliff faces beneath the swarms of flying monsters, giving the more prominent factions of the descent on floor 2 areas of relative security to hunker down in. The Deadman's Featherfall Trading Guild, a notorious mafia enterprise known for its exorbitant prices and unyielding dedication to quality, had claimed one of these particular trenches as its own a...
2024-06-16 02:35:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 280
The stairway piercing through the darkness for miles down was lit aflame, with bodies of strange, black, carnivorous manta-ray-like void beasts each the size of a small whale called “Gliffards” covering the innumerable steps in all directions. The raging ball of hellfire Riven summoned overhead sprouted trails of liquid heat that washed over the enemies by the hundreds, and the spell would be on cooldown for another week because of it.
2024-06-10 05:01:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 279
Riven had been abnormally silent since the encounter with his mother’s vision, to the point where others had started to notice. Still, he’d done a good job at keeping his emotions under wraps even despite this - and was quick to reel in any outward signs of his internal turmoil.
Feeding in the shadow of a towering skyscraper, his heart pounded in his chest - and Gluttony’s instinctual desire to feed slowly began to fade. Hi...
2024-06-08 20:56:53 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 278
The Gambler’s body was scattered, in shambles after the eradication of the underground temples in The Abyssal Descent. The black crystal that’d been hoarded there for eons was now gone, rejoined to its original wielder, and even now as he swept through the darkness into the deeper recesses of the abyss - he could feel the presence of Lillith growing.
His arch nemesis had gotten the better of him… this time.
Still. He ...
2024-06-02 03:06:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 277
Elder Thune’s white ponytail trailed down his back as his crimson eyes darted over the tome in his hands. Pale candle light illuminated the crypt, and an ancient, shriveled vampire in front of him rested inside an open coffin.
“The fallen god has been found, master… Our rise back to power beckons us from the outer reach.” Elder Thune whispered, his black robes shifting slightly from a mana breeze that was only barely there afte...
2024-05-29 05:23:26 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 276
The path of Red and Black called to him while the air shattered, and his specialty Blood Pillar - Profane Cyclone - was building in power as more and more of the creatures around him died like flies. The sky was split with arcs of black lightning that roared around him as he moved in harmony with Gluttony’s own predatory instincts, smashing through enemies in explosive detonations with the original sin’s full might and amplifying it with...
2024-05-26 06:58:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 275
The city rumbled as The Gambler’s body tore through the black earth and soared towards the abyssal heavens. The hive mind creature roiled and surged, exploding in volume by the second while thousands of demons - none of which were pushovers - all made a mad rush from various spots of hiding. They came from the nearby buildings, from up in the darkened sky, and from across the central portal vortex as the creatures of Greed tore forwa...
2024-05-21 06:03:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 274
Riven sent out another pulse, using his mana as a kind of echo-location tactic just like he’d been taught to do by Lillith over the past months.
It worked like a charm.
He’d picked up on a number of stealthed individuals already, though he was sure that there were some he’d probably missed given the insider information from the priest of The Scythe that Allie had talked to. Individuals like Fimrindle in the reaper casts wou...
2024-05-18 19:45:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 273
4 Months Later…
They ate, breathed, cultivated, trained, and fought in the arena events to test their progress.
Then they slept and repeated - with only a few exceptions to spare.
Each of their soul lattices were slowly building up, but the descent down through the abyss had still been on standby. Despite Gluttony’s urge to find Purity’s Reincarnation, the so-called Seventh Wing, Greed’s...
2024-05-18 19:44:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 272
This chapter may need a bit more editing, will pursue the editing tonight
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The inside of the compound was a lot fancier and far more colorful than Riven would have thought, considering the dark and dreary outside that was so commonplace here in the descent.
Brilliantly colored paintings of scenes from other worlds hung from the walls, platinum trimming lined polished white marble hallways, colorful plants that obvi...
2024-05-12 21:48:58 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 271
The small, private practice room was illuminated with only faintly glowing mana stones embedded into the walls.
Lillith nodded, hands clasped behind her back. “Change stance.”
Riven’s shirtless body shifted in a wave of crimson, and to the observers it looked like that he was reforming himself from the blood around him in an instant - rather than actually moving his limbs.
“Change stance.” She repeated.
Agai...
2024-05-11 22:01:36 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 270
[ This is the new chapter 270. The Prior Chapter 270 will be made into Chapter 272 or 273 and pushed forward to fill in the time gap after recent feedback! :) ]
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6 weeks since arriving in The Abyssal Descent…
The training regimens were brutal for everyone, but most of all - Fay continued to have the hardest time. They pushed her the most because she was, abov...
2024-05-06 01:58:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 270
4 Months Later…
They ate, breathed, cultivated, trained, and fought in the arena events to test their progress.
Then they slept and repeated - with only a few exceptions to spare.
Each of their soul lattices were slowly building up, but the descent down through the abyss had still been on standby. Despite Gluttony’s urge to find Purity’s Reincarnation, the so-called Seventh Wing, G...
2024-05-04 05:15:46 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 269
>Thoughts for revising prior chapters: I’m considering adding more chapters into the training areas for Riven to make it less choppy as other people have described, because I was kinda feeling the same way. Cultivation / training / insights training etc, so that it doesn’t seem like I’m quickly hopping from one topic to the next so quickly. Just a heads up, and will notify you if/when I do so.
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2024-04-29 06:20:57 +0000 UTC
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Firstly, if you've not already noticed - Chapter 268 was just posted!
Anyways on to the topic at hand. I'd like to formally apologize for the obvious lack of material over the last month or so. As I've already stated in some other posts here or there, I do intend to pick up my writing eventually but I currently work 80-90 hour weeks in what has become something of a slave labor camp for me at my current job. Until my contract ends in 4 months, I'll try my ...
2024-04-26 05:37:51 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 268
Riven moved through the steps that’d been drilled into him over the past month, shifting his body while simultaneously using his mana to enhance his reflexes even outside the realm of his speed buff Blessing of the Crow.
When the draconic man Jerakie slashed out at him with his flaming green claws and tried to enter close combat, Riven would kite him with a ceaseless barrage of roaring black and red. When he wasn’t able to riftwalk...
2024-04-26 05:32:13 +0000 UTC
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4 Months until I have a job change, then I'll be able to write a lot more frequently. Thanks for reading :)
Chapter 267
Commander Redgar of the human alliance watched in awe as Jorgi the Destroyer and this unknown archdemon laid waste to the underground in sector B12. Through camera footage, he and a good amount of the officers under his leadership were staring at a few screens on different angles where the titanic monsters crashed into eac...
2024-04-21 20:10:56 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 266
[Riven’s Quest #6 of The Altars of Despair and Hope: This is a minion-based quest. Only Athela can complete this quest as a representative of you. Assisting Athela will result in a loss of 20 points and no reward.
A Race to Steal the Orb: Other participants hailing from both Cultist and Non-Cultist groups in The Altars of Despair and Hope event have been tasked with killing the defending...
2024-04-20 07:02:14 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 265
“OH GODS!” Athela cried, dramatically flopping onto the floor with a splat - as the blood she was covered in made a woman-sized smudge on the floor around her. “I WANT TO DIE! A PRINCESS SHOULD NOT BE SUBJECT TO THIS KIND OF BRUTAL TORTURE! PHYSICAL LABOR IS FOR PEASANTS, NOT A PRINCESS SUCH AS I!”
Lillith for her part, stepped over Athela’s prone form and quickly joined Riven at the ornate round table of food whe...
2024-04-16 01:32:53 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 264
Days passed them by, and then days turned into weeks.
Riven was predominantly thrown into five different types of public events, and he lost a little more than half of them on average. They were one on one duels, team battles, survival courses where 20 people had a free for all in an ever-changing and violent environment that was constantly trying to kill them, sensory deprivation fights where sight and sound were removed, and finally ...
2024-04-13 18:52:13 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 263
Metal boots and greaves were secured and tight. Messenger snapped on like a second skin and Jackal flashed into his hand as the crowds roared, and he tossed the spare spatial sack he’d borrowed off to the side just before the high priest called for the fight to start.
Barriers all around the arena went up and the drums echoed around them.
Despite being here to improve himself and follow up on his shortcomings, there was certain...
2024-04-08 04:34:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 262
The main arena of the central sanctuary was, in one word, enormous. Numerous platforms, steps, balconies and seats ranging in size from small to huge were located all around the stadium in a non-uniform manner. A mile high and a mile wide, this place had been carved out of the very bedrock of whatever dark metals were native to this strange abyssal realm, with an enormous statue of Gluttony’s maw standing as a monument on one end.
It ...
2024-04-06 17:44:22 +0000 UTC
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