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Chapter 365

The Village inside the fortification was now neatly organized, which showed that when the reorganization happened, Mrs. Hamilton had a powerful influence in the way it turned out. The whole thing stunk of redundancies and planning. Randidly looked from Raina’s picture to the actual valley below.

She had done a great job of splitting the fortified area into the housing, the storage, the kept dungeon, and the market quarters. It was absolutely swarming with people in real life, bu...

Chapter 364

Thea’s hearing slowly faded out after Alana made her announcement, and began to split up the remaining people into groups for war games, giant team battles to simulate some of the actual challenges that the Squads of Donnyton would face.

Bear girl… that couldn’t be anyone but her, right…?

Tykes, who was apparently the man she had been facing, grunted and gave Thea a dirty look before walking away, the huge metal ball slung above his shoulder like it was nothing. He d...

Chapter 363

Might have one or two more later, depends on the weather =x.

“Alright switch.” Alana’s voice sounded out, and Thea fell to her knees, almost grateful. 

The person opposite her, a short woman with extremely powerful legs, lowered the huge shield that she used as a weapon. Her gaze scrutinized Thea carefully, absorbing every detail. But as she was turning away, all the woman said was, “you… can improve very quickly. Good luck.”

Thea w...

Chapter 362

Just one tonight. I swear to god, I can't write when it's cold. This single digits stuff is killing me.

Randidly tried his best to keep is face even. “Surely… this amount of… data is unnecessary, for our purposes.”

“Oh, I disagree,” Mrs. Hamilton said smoothly, her smile wide. “Surely, as the founder of Donnyton… taking the type to write out some concrete advice for this many people is just par for the course? And if you are to make intell...

Status

As most of my patron veterans know, Friday sometimes is a problem day for me xD.

BUT! I have a dinner tonight, and I will restrict my drinking and diligently come how and write for you.

So probably I'll have some chapters for you in 8 hours or so.

Chapter 361

“Hmph,” Paolo crossed his arms, his squad gathering up behind him. “As if a simple test of courage could cause I, the great leader of Squad III, to feel fear.”

“Hohoho… then why are so slow to agree? Any member of Squad II would gladly throw themselves in the line of danger. Your hesitation… is unbecoming. Perhaps in your age-” Kayle said, his tone teasing, his squad too gathering up, but he was interrupted.

“Choose quick. Boring.”

Dinesh tried not to tremble as...

Chapter 360

Two again today.

Donny swirled the wine in his cup, staring out the window into the darkness, looking extremely thoughtful. He was in his full armor, a carefully shaped bone created, with golden accents, giving him the look of a powerful and honorable knight. His helmet and shield were on the table, but still, with the armor, he felt that he looked profoundly capable.

Sam snorted, slamming his papers down on the desk in front of him. “You look like a co...

Chapter 359

This is it for tonight. Just 4.

As the Ghosthound nodded slowly to the name, Dozer folded his hands together. “Why examine her?”

The Ghosthound glanced at the other man, then back over towards Delilah. “My… Blessings formed a connection with the four people I gave them to. That gives them… certain benefits. And it seems...the connection split off, so there is a further connection, from me to Delilah, moving through Annie.”

Randidly tappe...

Chapter 358

Annie was holding her baby to her chest when Dozer came into their small home. The walls on either side of her were decorated very differently. On her left, the walls were covered with hanging claws and fangs, the natural weapons of beasts that Dozer had crushed. There was even a long, thin scorpion stinger hanging up there, a testament to the variety of creatures that he had killed.

On the right wall were skulls. And each skull had a small crack, a hole, that had been pierced by ...

Chapter 357

Alana felt on fire, moving and reacting, predicting and being predicted. The Ghosthound’s Style of fighting was not her own; where she relied on strength and breaking the opponent’s momentum, the Ghosthound seemed to steal the very momentum from her as she was moving.

Her spear flashed forward, aiming to inflict a strike on his shoulder, but he simply stepped forward and sideways, and his foot flashed upwards, catching her in the gut and sending her sprawling, the light about ...

Chapter 356

So sleepy...

Alana sidestepped, letting Tykes’ huge iron ball fly past her and slam into the tree behind her.

“If you telegraph like that, even Dozer will seem like a ballerina fighting you,” Alana said as she snorted decisively and advanced towards Tykes. The boy was strong, sure, but he wasn’t strong enough for him to just rely on raw power, yet he repeatedly tried.

As the boy’s shit eating grin didn’t change, Alana realized there was ...

Chapter 355

After being rocked back and forth like a baby for about 10 minutes, Arbor had calmed down enough to let him back on his feet. Randidly brushed most of the ash off of him, and turned to Kiersty, who seemed content to just standby and watch the process. The men and women in robes behind her were just watching wide eyed, most of them aware of who he was now.

There was… something in their eyes. Worship. Randidly’s mentality had make great strides since the arrival of the System, b...

Chapter 354

I'm like trying to figure out everyone who should make a brief cameo in the upcoming series of chapters... I think I have most everyone thats important scheduled. Only 2 tonight.

Randidly wandered North from where he landed, struck by the strange feeling that he knew this area, this farm. There was no one around, which was slightly strange, but he supposed there had been some very physical repercussions to him dislodging the giant Aether construct that had hove...

Chapter 353

If you haven't reread the editing 352. There are a few details that I expanded upon that refocus things.

This will be the only chapter post tonight, so I apologize. Expanding is harder than straight writing.

The expression was just as beautiful as he remembered it, and for a moment, his heart trembled. But then it was gone, replaced by something else, something older, deeper, and more tired. “Now I have a question, Randidly, and this...

Chapter 352

When I wake up, I might read back through and repace the scene a bit. Hard to figure right now.

EDIT: Ended up splitting these two chapters in half, to expand on a few things.

After the world shifted, the first thing that Randidly became aware of was a thin, constant buzz in the air. The shock of light made it difficult for his eyes to adjust, but a high Perception and Vitality quickly overcame that. A scan around informed him that t...

Chapter 351

Thea didn’t know what sort of face she should be making for Simon as they said their goodbyes.

“I mean… I would go, but… Other- Denise just thinks… since we found each other, there’s no reason to tempt fate by going out in the world. Yea, the journey is just to Donnyton, but she was explaining about Raid Bosses, and how they are known to congregate around Donnyton and Franksburg…” Simon said to her, her tone clearly indicating his lukewarm belief in the subject mat...

Chapter 350

Randidly looked around, rather bemused.

Although the Executive Board of Star Crossing insisted they meet here, he couldn’t for the life of him figure out why. They were meeting in what appeared to be, i.e. had a sign out front, an old Bob Evans building. Sure, they had done away with the dumb employee dress, but it was still the same squat building, the same interior, the same smells.

What was new was the guards at the door, and the very professional and attractive waitsta...

Status Update

No updates yesterday and today, but I'll get up tomorrow morning and get you guys some. Gonna be some announcements tomorrow or the day after as well. 

So Wednesday: 3

Thursday: 2

Friday: 1

Saturday: 3

Sunday: 2

Chapter 349

“What.... how did he seem?” Sydney asked softly, her fingers tapping the wood of her desk. Although her voice did not quaiver, she had lost a sense of her question halfway through, which was not something that Drake was used to seeing. When it came to this Ghosthound character… it seemed everyone and everything went sideways, even the System.

Not that the man didn’t deserve it. From there two brief run-ins, the man had enough strength to warrant the attention. And yet he w...

Chapter 348

Merry Christmas!

Randidly learned 3 things in the ensuing conversations with Neveah and Lucretia.

Number one, the idea actually seemed real. Upon further discussion, and examination of Lucretia’s Class, because hers was the most easily accessible example, it really seemed like a Class was actually just a larger version of Skills. It was THE Skill, for a person’s body and internal world. While other Skills related to the ability to accomplish certain a...

Chapter 347

As the group set up camp nearby the Raid Dungeon, Randidly sat apart from them, in the darkness, far away from the campfire. His legs crossed beneath him, he Meditated and focused his attention inward, while the rain from the Weeping Cloud fell down on him.

“What are my options?” Randidly asked Lucretia.

They were sitting on top of a mountain in his Soul Skill. Underneath them, the secret research base of the Spriggits toiled, developing giant suits of metal to fight aga...

Chapter 345

Only gonna post two tonight. I need to tinker a bit with this. 

To his credit, the Skeleton Knight moved instantly, hopping back to his feet, reaching behind and shedding his already shredded armor. This he used as a projectile, but Randidly easily moved around it and continued to approach. 

Hissing, the Skeleton Knight gripped his desperate and wildly squirming sword and stood, blatantly challenging Randidly. Honestly, his size was somewhat intimidating, ev...

Chapter 344

Randidly’s eyes were narrowed as he considered the Skeleton Knight, who was rushing towards him. Truly, this bastard was strong. More so than anyone he had fought but Drak. True, Randidly had grown a lot since his fight against Drak, but…

Drak had let him seize the momentum. Something told Randidly that the Skeleton Knight wouldn’t do the same.

That huge sword of his flashed out, traveling faster than a weapon of that size had any right to. Luckily or unluckily, Randid...

Writing Schedule and Christmas Prep

Only 1 chapter today, and it sorta ended like a filler chapter, but... well, I have my reasons.

Wednesday: 3

Thursday: 1

Friday: 1

Saturday: 3

Sunday: 3

Also! There will be... 3 big announcements coming on Christmas? Unfortunately, don't expect extra chapters, those are going to RR. I have no buffer chapters for you. But I think you'll like some of the things I have to announce.

I've been pretty bad about keeping up with the promises at the upper ...

Chapter 343

 Randidly blinked, thinking furiously. He couldn’t think up a good reason why NOT to, which exactly why he was hesitating. But maybe that was what the Creature wanted-

“Arrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Randidly bellowed, throwing his hands up to the sky. A spear advanced, that was it. All of this double thinking… it was useless. He had a weapon against the Creature now, maybe, thanks to Lucretia. They had found Rhaidon, who appeared to be in no immediate danger.

That was positive....

Chapter 342

Randidly was sure that there was some plot a foot here that he wasn’t seeing, arranged by the Creature. But he still couldn’t figure out what it was. Which only made him more worried.

Because the only reason that it hadn’t intervened was that things were going exactly how it wanted them to. There were some… hasty steps that Randidly could take, to forcibly shift the game, and perhaps force the Creature to show itself… but Randidly had no end game after that. He still had...

Chapter 341

“Orders are to pull back a little,” Decklan said casually, stepping effortlessly around the first strike of the skeleton captain and shattering its spine with the hilt of his dagger. “Keep them in sight, but stop engaging them so seriously.”

Dozer just grunted, leveling 8 skeletons with a single swing, then stepped forward and did it again. But based on the time they had spent together, Decklan could sense that there was more of a questioning lean to this grunt. 

Chapter 340

Dinesh, captain of the 23rd Squad of Donnyton, folded his arms, a headache already forming between his eyes. Of all the people to be assigned with, why did have to end up with these two…?

Kayle, who was the current leader of Squad II, holding his dual long knives, raised his voice to carry over the battlefield. “We will hit em fast and escape clean, men. We need surgical precision, and a willingness to cut our losses if we get drawn in too deep. They do not tire, and we do-”...

Chapter 339

“Your mother is a cunt.” The flame skull spat out at them, rolling on the ground.

“Cunt! Cunt!” Neveah said happily, rolling around around Randidly, who stood over the skull, which very quickly caused the skull to stop its rolling. One accidental roll and it would be crushed beneath the huge bone wurm.

Sure, he was a skull right now, but he was animated by an unholy fire that could reform his body, should he have access to enough unclaimed bones. If that fire was ext...

Chapter 338

Sydney and Ace crouched in the shadow of a fallen building, doing their best to keep their breathing even. The shuffling and sniffing of the wolves was one of the loudest things that either of them had ever heard. To his surprise, Sydney had a death grip on Ace’s hand, slowly squeezing the life and blood out of it.

But he didn’t really mind. After all, it was one of the rare moments that he had ever seen her care about something. Aside from Randidly, of course. 2017-12-17 19:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post