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Chapter 388

Randidly didn’t receive further news until 8 AM the next morning. Stan had continued to sleep, long after the Sleeping Powder wore off, simply laying there. After briefly examining him, Randidly realized that something was changing about the Soul Skill, even while Stan’s consciousness was dormant. The creature in the cage was producing increasing amounts of mist, that billowed outward.

Soon, the entirety of the cage would be masked by the mist’s presence. Which was one type ...

Chapter 387

In the darkness of the area outside of his soul space, Randidly felt oddly cold, and oddly exposed as he shaped Aether. But there really wasn’t anything out here, either to help or hinder. There was just a strange sluggishness to the Aether, and a resistance to be shaped, as it wanted to expand and fill the area given to it.

But not today. What is needed is a much sharper hold of the Aether to resist it, a higher Control, and a very distinguished Skill. And those Randidly could ...

Chapter 386

So sleepy. I'll post the other two I owe tomorrow.

After that grudging explanation, Thea hurried away, leaving the people behind her with bemused smiles, except Randidly, who was just blinking and staring wordlessly after her.

She had based… her combat Skill… on him…?

Honestly, the fact it had only become a Rare level Skill was the bit of information that Randidly latched onto. It had taken away his opportunity, that his anxiety stated would b...

Chapter 385

When he saw the description of the Skill, Randidly’s eyebrows rose. On the one hand it reminded him a lot of Simon’s Skill, in terms of flexibility. It did not present the same ability to form an Astral projection that Simon’s skill did, but Simon was limited in only being able to explore the world in a linear manner, slowly spreading his influence out over a zone. And he could only focus on one portion at a time.

Meanwhile, this Skill seemed like it was more possible to already know wha...

Chapter 384

Even those part of his attention was focused on the woman, most of Randidly’s attention was on the Cathedral around her. Immediately after walking in here, he had felt it, the thick layers of Mana Engraving through the entire building, the funneled ambient Aether down towards that resting space.

Even now, with the Aether slowly being drained, there was a thick layer there. No wonder this was the building that allowed people to reclass; it had such a high cost, and a powerful upk...

Status

No chaps tonight.

Going back and forth on how the next few scenes should play out. 

Apologies~

Chapter 383

When the knock sounded on her door, Thea looked up. “I’m coming.”

Thea swiftly dressed herself, petted Chrysanthemum seven times for good luck, then walked out of her room into the hallway. With her typical, lumbering gate, Chrysanthemum followed. Thea wasn’t sure if she could have gone through with this without her support.

Not that she was ever really apart from her, due to their bond, but still…

Mrs. Hamilton stood there with Donny, a small smile on her fa...

Chapter 382

Randidly followed after the young man that Daniel had sent over, still musing over the flows of Aether in his mind. It was strange, the more he learned, the less it seemed like learning to handle Aether, but more just… remembering.

For a while, this strange sensation had Randidly deeply disturbed. Could it possibly be a side effect of the strange apparatus that was at the center of his soul skill? How deeply did the Creature’s game run? Even now, as it had sealed itself up ins...

Schedule

Tough week. Nothing today.

2 Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hopefully 2 Thursday, although this is less certain.

3 Saturday and Sunday.

Chapter 381

Randidly was quite pleased with the way things had turned out with his stand. Although business was slow at first, after that rabbit had come through, everyone had wandered over. And once that group of people had tasted his food, word of mouth spread news of it even faster.

Soon, dozens of people were swarming around his stall, and his Cooking Skill could be displayed to the fullest. It was a very satisfying night, and exactly what he needed to get his mind off of the nonsense of ...

Chapter 380

Razor didn’t think this man would murder him in the public like this, but surely there was something hidden here. With a sick sensation in Razor’s stomach, he examine the pile of meat, which seemed to suddenly take on a sinister color. With a man of ill repute like this, it was hard to know what sort of sources this meat could have come from…

Perhaps… even a low level sheep…

Shivering, Razor crossed himself, hoping against hope that the meat that this man was peddl...

Chapter 379

In a surprisingly short manner, Randidly looked at everything and selected the winners, ordering them cleanly and in a manner that Sam could find no fault with. Second place ended up going to a pair of eyeglasses that increased Mana Regeneration, Perception, and Reaction. Compared to them, the Ghosthound didn't put so much stock into the powerful weapons that were entered into the top 10. He gave the rewards to those that added bonus functions through the ritual of production, rather th...

Chapter 378

Alana sat upright slowly, controlling the movement. With a yawn she wiped the sleep from her eyes and then focused on what her senses were telling her. It was about an hour before dawn, her internal clock told her primly, almost reprimanding her for sleeping in for so long.

Snorting, Alana stood. Although her high stats meant she didn't require sleep, it was still something that she preferred, even if just for an hour a night. It always gave her a little bit of an edge that she co...

Chapter 377

Only 5 tonight. I haven't posted it yet, but put the Path entries on Chapter 332 on Royalroad. I will post it after I post these 5.

After an hour of tests, Randidly looked away from his Status screen and realized he hadn’t finished his Path yet. The strange branching path portion had taken his attention for so long that he had simply forgotten about it. Plus there was the stress of the consolidated Skills..

Although he hadn’t tested them extensively, ...

Chapter 376

Randidly had… a lot of emotions. Sure, these things seemed amazing, and an improvement, but…

Did he really need to fucking have 19 Skills become 4?!?!? And these were Skills that he used all the time too! Most of them were near 100 in level, and would likely continue to grow, independent of each other, fueling his Path craze… but he supposed if he was switching to the Class track anyways….

It was still frustrating. But Randidly could only sigh, and turn to the most r...

Chapter 375

“What do you plan to do with him?” Lucretia asked Randidly. He didn’t turn to look at her, just so he didn’t see her face.

Not that you could even see inside the Soulspace, not really, but Lucretia’s amusement was clear, just from her tone. And how could she not be? It seemed that somehow, Randidly had triggered the use of one of her Skills that allowed her to manipulate a target, give them three gifts, and then consume them.

And he didn’t know whether it was the...

Chapter 374

Only 3, but... I think you will see why I didn't have time for the fourth chapter after you read these 3.

To pass the time, Randidly studied the shattered remnants of his 2nd Self Created Skill in the Ashen Spear Skillset. Randidly had done his best to ignore the thing, as it reminded him of the deep wound that he struggled against for several months. Even now, after everything else was more or less dealt with, and the quality of his inner world was much higher...

Schedule and Announcements

Tuesday was date night, Wednesday is improv classes, so I have been unproductive.

Thursday I'm going to do a 4-er, because I will come home straight from work and slave away like a zombie.

Friday... well...

Saturday and Sunday 3 each is the goal.

Okay! Now first some announcements that I've been puttering around with since Christmas. The first is that this is the start of another contest!

This will be a Path Contest! Similar rules to the character conte...

Chapter 373

The Assessment on the afternoon of the 1st day was System Knowledge, and it had just as many, if not more, people attending as the combat Assessment had. Perhaps because this was open to all people, and while not everyone had any wish to participate in combat, Donnyton’s almost 4,000 strong population all thought they knew a thing or two about the System.

Because almost 800 people wanted to participate in this, in order to test them all in an efficient manner, Daniel had done hi...

Chapter 372

After Paolo’s silent transformation, the Ghosthound said nothing, but returned to the crowd. Donny could see that those of his volunteer honor guard that were part of Paolo's crew were particularly reverent in their gaze, while Kayle's crew seemed somewhat displeased.

But the other match ended in a surprise; to finish Kayle off, Tina summoned a Flame Tiger, which stayed in a fixed position, but threw constant fireballs towards Kayle. Using her remaining Mana, Tina controlled Kay...

Chapter 371

Luckily, most of the participants didn't need much sleep, so everyone was present at dawn, when the fighting began. It was single elimination to stay in the winners bracket, but the top two individual from the losers bracket, who would be put in battle royal after battle royal until they reached the top 6, would finish out the top 8.

Even then, after the top 8 were determined, fights would continue, because they wanted to determine not only finish in the tournament, but also, the ...

Chapter 370

Imagine me, sitting at a bar, shivering, borrowing a friends laptop, only to realize there is no internet. So I write these two on time, I just couldn't upload them...

For the next week, Randidly isolated himself, turning his attention inward. The actual administration was being taken care of by others, and during that time, he could finally focus and work on the problems that loomed most prominently in Donnyton’s future.

Randidly had not been idle for ...

Friday Bests me Again.

I was naive.

But I should be good for 3 tomorrow and Sunday, because the weather means I won't be traveling.

Chapter 369

Donny breathed in and out, looking out over the sea of faces packed into the quarry. He didn’t know Donnyton had this many people. Hell, in some part of his mind, he probably didn’t even know that this many people were still alive, after the System arrived. It was strangely reassuring, in a way, to see them all arrayed him, looking up at him with serious expressions.

Next to him came Dozer, Mrs. Hamilton, Regina, Sam, Glendel, Daniel, and Clarissa. Their expressions had varyin...

Chapter 368

Stan Culcart was in love with Raina, that much he was certain about. Well… mostly certain. He scratched his beard awkwardly, trying to keep her in sight, so the organizers wouldn’t be mad at him, but trying not to watch too closely while she limbered up by stretching. They were in the small preparation tent behind the performance area, with just them remaining to go out in front of the crowd.

“Are you nervous?” Stan asked the air about 2 meters to Raina’s left. The woman...

Chapter 367

Mrs. Hamilton leaned back in her chair. “You are morally against this, I assume?”

Randidly sighed. “I just… can this really be considered a prize?”

“You...are too used to your own life. Let me paint you a picture.” Mrs. Hamilton leaned back, her face becoming shrouded in darkness. But from the shadows, her eyes still gleamed. Randidly, slowly, forced himself to relax as he listened. “You are not a brave person. You do not have an aberrant Skill, and you ask a...

Chapter 366

Only one tonight, but I finally found the last piece of this arc I was looking for. I'm very satisfied.

Also, I didn't post yesterday because my date, which was supposed to be Thursday, was moved to Tuesday. So expect 3 tomorrow.

“You made a gym?”

Donny looked up, the voice that grabbed his attention clearly amused. Randidly Ghosthound stood there, in the underground wooden training area that Donny had made for himself, pouring most of ...

Week Schedule

Nothing today, Monday.

Tuesday: 3

Wednesday: 2

Thursday: 1

Friday (I should be visiting my parents, so I think I'll actually be productive on Friday): 3

Saturday: 1

Sunday: 3