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Chapter 519

They had basically reached Randidly’s fake home when he realized that it wasn’t a coincidence that she was following him. Feeling largely awkward that he hadn’t acknowledged her before now, Randidly turned around and regarded Tatiana. Truly, she looked extremely out of place in a steel working town like this. He supposed that it made sense for her to hang around Washington D.C., where she would need to interact with the nation’s elite, but the System had made a farce of her pres...

Chapter 518

Tatiana had been doing her best to ask soft questions to this young woman, Adrea, when this pompous ass had sidled up. Although she hadn’t seen the girl in a while, she knew of her; it was the girl who had raised a stink about her brother’s disappearance in one of the Eastern cities a few weeks ago.

To see her now wearing a habit of one of Father Foster’s followers made Tatiana extremely frosty. Truly, that fucking cult would use any weakness to worm their way into the lives...

Chapter 517

Ultimately, Randidly believed the best decision was to reform his old As the Sun Stills Skill. The physical power was something that he was currently lacking and would do a lot to increase his chances against the monsters that he expected to be coming towards him.

Acri had raised the power of his weapons by a whole level, giving him an increased amount of damage. However, that felt insufficient. The Kata of the Ashen Spear was his first Skill Set and the one that had earned him th...

Birthday

Heya friends, today is my actual birthday and my girlfriend threw me a party.

So no chapters tonight but I will make them up tomorrow. Also, a reminder that I am taking an actual break from the 23-27th of this month, where I won't release chapters.

Chapter 516

Oh, I'd also like to encourage everyone to join the discord server to talk about current releases. In addition, I'll be hosting a Q and A there next Sunday. I'll let you know the time later in the week!

For years Hank had wondered what his father was talking about, but fighting against Paolo, it snapped into place. And as it did so, several other mysteries shifted, forming a clear picture that Hank could easily read.

He had wondered how these people had s...

Chapter 515

Hank’s mouth was pressed into a thin line as he watched Ezekiel get humiliated by the strange teen before the cheering and hooting groups of miners. This teen simply was too fast, too graceful, and his body seemed to twist and shift into a very real monster during battle; in all areas, Ezekiel couldn’t keep up.

His unconscious body slammed to the ground without much suspense. What was perhaps the most impressive was that the whole while, the teen named Vandal Leviathan never s...

Chapter 514

Hank’s group was walking on ground that was slowly sloping downward and then came to a lip of a wide gorge or ravine, the details masked by the fog. But what they could see were that there were about 50 men and women below, working with picks to crack off pieces of ice that covered the ground. Above them, and only a few meters below the lip on which they stood, about a dozen men with huge paper fans were sweeping their objects back and forth, knocking the mist rising from th...

Chapter 513

"If you hadn't intervened..." Then Tatiana paused. She smiled shyly at Randidly. "...well, mostly your actions were extremely effective at diffusing the danger of the situation. If things had escalated, and you two weren't there... I suspect some of my girls would have been injured. So again, I am in your debt."

Sonya was snoozing quietly, leaning against the wall. Next to her, Gregory was slowly nodding off. Their lowered Vitalities were finally overwhelmed by the drink they had ...

Chapter 512

Tatiana’s eyes shot open, then they narrowed. This was a yell she recognized, one she had heard far too many times in the past to mistake. The man Tooya was standing above Kari, glaring down at the fallen women. There was a fresh red mark on the side of her face where he had struck her.

Then things began to happen very quickly.

Her hands clenched into fists. There was a hand in hers, but it had slipped from her mind in the heat of the moment. Abruptly, she felt a flash of ...

Chapter 511

Randidly paused, considering what a fortune of his might reveal. If it was an actual Skill she was using, it might be troublesome. But then again it might also give him some warning of what was to come. Perhaps the Creature had a trap ready and was waiting for him this whole time. Wouldn’t knowing be better?

“Yes!” Sonya blurted out, the desperation clear in her eyes. The beautiful woman smiled sweetly, then looked over their shoulders to scan the party. Randidly noticed how...

Discord!

Okay, I finally created a discord. I'm pretty unfamiliar with the platform, so any input on how to improve on it would be appreciated.

Without further ado...

https://discord.gg/ykJ5K6Z 

I need to talk to my editor, because he would like to be there for the Q & A, but this means it will be coming up in the next week or two.

Chapter 510

I think maybe the problem is to have this next part from Tatiana's POV. I might work her out of the end of this chapter.

The grey-haired woman nodded at his words after she had schooled her face from the shock that was there previously. Apparently, she hadn’t considered that someone else was bold enough to open a random door and squirrel themselves away.

“Mr. Erickson. I’m surprised you let the factory long enough to attend this.” Sonya said, a to...

Chapter 509

I decided only two. I couldn't get the end of this party to come out right. I want a day to think about it.

Alan Howard believed in this remnant country, and also believed that he was the man most fit to lead it. Although it hadn’t been a close election, he still felt some lingering shreds of worry over the outlook for his second election. That, of course, wouldn’t be for two and a half years, but Alan was never a man to let go of the small details. He planned for pro...

Check-In

Unfortunately no chapters tonight. Got really caught up in the coding element.

I'll put out 3 tomorrow to make up for it.

Chapter 508

Satisfied with his knowledge within the forest, Randidly expanded his Plant Dominance to double its previous size. Then he doubled it again, and doubled it again. Finally, Randidly pushed with all he had, and for a brief moment, every plant in the Zone stood a little straighter, channeling his energy.

Letting out a long breath, Randidly felt the throbbing in his head that indicated that he had run out of Mana. Even with his enormous pool, it wasn’t enough to fuel a connection wi...

Chapter 507

The orange haired woman stood to thank her benefactor, shock in her eyes. She was a good 4 inches taller than him. The two flirted for quite some time, so much so that Randidly gave up on learning more about the creature, and walked back to the factory early, shaking his head. Besides, he had no interest in being pointlessly tangled up in more nonsense than he had to be.

He spent another week working, Extracting, Refining, and then mixing monster bones into the metals. It was rela...

Chapter 506

It was well within Randidly’s power to make a metal that was better than this Erickson Steel, as Foreman Davey called it. He explained to Randidly, privately, that once you had obtained preliminary citizenship you had access to an electronic market of sorts, and could put metals you created up directly for sale.

Currently, he was sending the test piece of Erickson Steel off to a lab for some testing but had already sold the other 7 ingots, to a friend of his. Based on the please...

Chapter 505

The first thing Randidly did was to rent a larger work area. This new area was in the west side of the factory, which was largely unused. Working with so much iron ore at once made it difficult to properly melt it all, so most people preferred to use the smaller workstations. It cost $5 a day, but you would work with 20x as much ore. Not that Randidly planned on using it for much; he basically only needed the blast furnace, to add the carbon.

Aside from renting the room, Randidly ...

Chapter 504

Randidly wasn’t able to learn the Illusion Skill that Simon provided for the Zone, as he originally pledged to a different Champion to receive the Soul Bond Skill. But he was determined, and he had a lot of Mana to work with. Although he had a lot of negative emotions towards Lyra, he did learn from her how one could learn Skills the hard way.

Unfortunately, Randidly was not Lyra. Fortunately, Bruya’s Skill with Illusions had progressed to the point that her illusions would pe...

Chapter 503

When Randidly arrived finally at his cabin, there were three "people" waiting for him. The first was Neveah, who was snoring quietly in the corner. The other two were his two new Soul Seed Investments after the previous two turned out so well.

The first was Acri, which was his spear. In its normal form, it was like a stick bug, with long wooden limbs. When Randidly arrived, it crawled happily towards him. When Randidly called, Acri would straighten his body completely out, connect...

Chapter 502

Here are some chapters to keep you guys alive. But I'm about to write some more.

Randidly was a bit troubled by Ezekiel's explanation of the goings on in Zone 1, but not too much. Based on what he said, he would required Citizenship in order to proceed into any place with powerful people, and gaining that was not easy, not without getting a Class from one of the approved villages. That made Randidly wonder whether there were "unapproved" Villages out there in Z...

Status

I have four chapters written, but I've been working at my girlfriend's new house. She has no wifi.

Expect these tomorrow to be released when I get access to wifi, and another release of 3 later tomorrow.

These are another bunch of chapters I'm having a lot of fun with.

Chapter 501

Only one tonight as well, but I'll also release chapters tomorrow, because I should be staying home and being a bum. 

Also, to answer my release schedule, its generally Tues,Wed,Thurs,Sat, Sun. If I don't release those days, I'll try and put a post up around midnight Eastern time saying so.

As the two figures approached each other, Hank eyed them both carefully. Ezekiel because of the information he had just revealed to him, and the young ma...

Check In, Chapter 500 Edition

Wow.

I just want to say thank you for everyone's support to get all the way up to 500. That is (and feels like) a lot of chapters. It took a year and three months, but I got here. I am, of course, continuing. I think I tentatively projected that LoRG (Part 1, but I'll get to that a bit later in this) would be 700-800 chapters, which means we are over halfway.

Or somewhere there abouts. I believe we are into the deep meat, and now things need to unfold.

Announcements first, then som...

Chapter 500

I'll post a bit of an author's note after this~

Ezekiel Ghosthound was a man who was haunted by the choices he didn’t make in his life. He made the decision to accept a modest financial aid package to a middle tier school, and graduated with honors. Although he likely could have pushed for higher honors, or a place in his University’s executive board, or done a more ambitious thesis project, he didn’t

In his mind, that phrase hung heavy and dense. 2018-05-03 04:53:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 499

The air was hot here, and heavy. Hank very clearly felt the shape of his tongue in his mouth as he attempted to shape the words.

"I won't deny that killing may... become necessary," Hank said slowly. This was a mission for his country, and he had to accomplish it, regardless of the misshapen tools he was given. That was his burden to bear. "But if I find out you killed someone just to feed your Class... the next person to die will be you."

"That would be a relief," Ezekiel b...

Chapter 498

500 will likely come out alone tomorrow, along with some goal-for-May announcements. Woo, how did I end up here, eh guys?

The group fell silent, everyone’s attention fixed on the two men sitting across the first from one another, Hank and Dinesh. Hank looked around with an easy smile on his face. Dinesh smiled back, surprised how easily the expression came. Apparently, it was not only Nathan that was playing the fool tonight. Truly, there was more to this Han...

Chapter 497

However, the more Ptolemy thought about it, the more he wondered how having access to such an easy tool would affect the growth of people. He didn’t want to leap to any conclusions from only a simple spar, but from the fact that they hadn’t been able to completely kill the ram, only fatally wound it, made Ptolemy wonder about their capabilities.

It seemed that they were at a comparable Level to him and Tykes, yet…

Ptolemy’s eyes glowed knowingly. It must be Skill Lev...

Chapter 496

The kid was so direct that the whole group couldn’t help but smile. Afterall, what would a 10-year-old know of the decisions that adults needed to make?

Hank grinned and squatted down next to the kid. Whereas the orange haired teen was constantly badgering him, Hank was much more pleased by this relatively reserved boy who stood by and watched the adults talked. It reminded him of Jane.

"Heya partner," Hank extended his hand. "It might be dumb, but sometimes you need to sa...

Chapter 495

Hoping that this was the end of the incident and they could brush it off, Hank turned to Ezekiel, but he stopped short. The man's entire eyes had turned a crimson color, and there was a strange, sulfurous smell in the air.

"Mine... mine... mine... MINE!" What started as mutters transformed into a bellow, and Ezekiel waved his hands wildly. "Acid Maelstrom!"

Globs of green liquid appeared around Ezekiel and in the air above him. First a dozen, then a hundred, but soon a thous...