Hey guys! I wanted to mention that "Hell Difficulty Tutorial" will be stubbing Book 1 and will be published on Amazon on May 14th.
Book 1 will be taken down (Chapters 1-101) at the end of April.
I want to address the most important things in case there are some of you who don´t have experience with stubbed stories.
Does stubbing mean you will stop posting on Patreon?
Nope, I will continue to post on Patreon with the same schedule (5 chapters per...
The piece of metal I bought floats in the air in front of me, kept there by the mana that surrounds it. To do that, I'm even using my crown to increase my control.
At the same time, I'm releasing thermal energy and melting it, which allows me to mold it into the shape of a dagger. All things I have learned from Nevan.
I would like to use better materials or even kinetic energy to pummel the metal more or experiment with alloys, but it's all currently out of my reach. Things I will...
2024-04-11 07:49:52 +0000 UTC View Post“So, the events are Battle Royale, Tower Defense, Raid Bosses, Duels, and whatever the last event is,” Dennis declares confidently.
“You and your theories. Just wait a few hours, and the event will start,” Maya stretches, and we continue to walk between the buildings and the camps people have set up.
We have already found a house with a nice view for us, and there most of our things stay together with Aaron, Sophie, and Izzy. The rest of us have decided to look around and ...
2024-04-10 08:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: I'm sharing the chapter a bit earlier because I will be busy at the usual time. I hope you don't mind and enjoy the chapter!
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"So, as I said, I recommend buying a Detachment token and using it to remove your skill's upgrade. At least for your main skill." I say.
"That shit costs one thousand shards. I won't be paying that to weaken my skill," Maya looks up from the smartphone I bought only to complain.
Then, having said what she ...
2024-04-08 21:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we reach the common area, our group consists of a hundred or so people. Channeler is even more reliable than I thought and keeps people from annoying me. He either saw through my personality or is scared of people pissing off Tacita or me.
At one point, I hear a weird noise in the sky, and when I look up, I see a drone flying there.
The heck?
Without thinking, I push myself up and fly towards it, where I stop to observe it.
It's a drone from Earth, that muc...
2024-04-08 08:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostI decide not to fly further and after landing I just walk uphill towards where I saw a few buildings when I flew up. Tacita seemes to be amazed by my ability to fly and even claps for me when I land.
As we walk, she seems to become a bit more comfortable, neither of us talking at all. That makes me realize that I found my kindred spirit, an introvert. Both of us just enjoy the nice weather and the pretty forest we pass by. Even the sound of the birds is calming, reminding me of Earth. I...
2024-04-07 07:48:15 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Tess Hansen
Nat and everyone else stand around the crater his skills created. “A small accident”, he calls it.
With Kim and Lily following close behind, I notice that he seems to be a bit disappointed.
“I thought it would be a bigger explosion. Could a lot of mana be wasted? Or is it…” he mumbles under his nose.
Well, it's Nat, so I'm not even surprised as I observe the crater and remember the explosion and from how far we felt its effect...
2024-04-04 07:49:55 +0000 UTC View Post[Mana Manipulation] with [Perception]
This combination could create something akin to my Mana Wavelength Iris, so this is most likely a pass for now. It could be great, but I already have my trait, which is more than good enough for that.
[Mana Manipulation] with [Tether]
Sounds interesting, but I really like [Tether], and I still think I haven't explored it properly. So, this one is also a ...
2024-04-03 07:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post“No,” I answer to Maya, who is holding a damaged arcane axe.
“Come on, I will buy you something from the system shop worth 10 thousand shards.”
“Fifty thousand.”
“How the fuck would I even get fifty thousand shards? Ask in three-five more floors if I'm lucky.”
“Forty-nine thousand,” I poke.
To that, Maya just throws a small stone from the ground at me and smiles before returning to examining the axe.
I continue to pet Biscuit. Ever since...
2024-04-02 08:21:33 +0000 UTC View PostI observe as all of the inscriptions inside Vega's eye disappear one after another. All the work the duplicate put into it is gone, and his [Tether] as well.
Surprisingly, his eye stays. For a moment, a golden circle appears around her pupil before it disappears, leaving her eye bloody red again. Yet, I can sense that it's the eye of the duplicate, the one with a weakened trait.
The little half-demon senses the change as well, and for a moment, it looks like she's...
2024-04-01 07:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostWhile down in the closed-off bunker, I walk from room to room, controlling air filtration systems I power up with my mana through anchors I placed near them.
Making them work wasn't that difficult, just a bit annoying since the core here is broken and the room with it is buried by stone.
So even though this place is cut off from outside, all over, my thermal orbs float, letting out a light that is bright but soft to the eyes. The filtration system hums gently, and otherwise, it's ...
2024-03-31 08:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe epic item, Titan's Backbone tattoo activates, and one out of its three uses disappears. My eyes activate as well, and with this, I absorb the black mana orb I have prepared.
Immediately, the world slows down, my mind quicker than before. Even with all this information I'm taking in there is barely any pressure on me.
I activate traps I have placed here a few days ago, and from all sides, a dozen extremely compressed javelins shoot, right towards the duplicate, each of the jave...
2024-03-28 09:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Master?”
“Yes, Vega?”
“Now we are more similar!” my minion smiles at me.
Her left eye was replaced by my duplicate's, and he now sits nearby, his eyelids closed, using the passive to recreate it and heal the wound.
Meanwhile, both of Vega's eyes are still red. Even after the duplicate gave her his gray eye, it stayed like that only shortly, and then it turned back to Vega’s beautiful red. There is only a hint of golden circle around the pupil.
I wo...
2024-03-27 08:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe plan the duplicate came up with is to give Vega one of his eyes, which will most likely give her a weaker version of the Mana Wavelength Iris. Of course, that's not the entire plan.
The duplicate did practice inscribing and stuff more than me and came to the conclusion that trying to inscribe his eye and give it to Vega might be the best plan. Unlike inscribing a mana stone or material, it might work better, and we also have a lot of experience with creating constructs.
Of cou...
2024-03-26 09:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Nina
One after another, our lines break down. Hundreds of veilshriekers push through, even at the cost of their lives. Every time one dies, two more climb over its body, shrieking with hate that makes guards shudder.
It reaches the point where we stop on the clearing in front of the iron door into the Sanctuary.
(Housekeeper, how long? We are in trouble here! The moment the first veilshrieker sees the door into the Sanctuary, he will send a signal to...
2024-03-25 08:34:19 +0000 UTC View PostNoticing a presence coming closer, I take my eyes off the melted chunk of metal hovering in front of me and look towards the door.
"What?" I ask, quite a bit annoyed; it just started getting interesting!
The butler returns my gaze and, after looking around the room, he sighs, "Mister Gwyn, I would like to ask you again to please reduce the amount of damage you cause to the rooms to a minimum."
What is he even talking about? It's just some melted stone and metal plates becaus...
2024-03-24 09:06:32 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly, we are let in.
Unsurprisingly, they seem to be pissed off.
Unsurprisingly, the duplicate doesn't care.
With amusement, I watch as he bathes in the looks the Butler gives him, as well as the Housekeeper´s who has joined up.
Both of us are escorted through the Bastion the shortest way towards the room where we did meet the two of them for the first time. Getting there, we still find it in ruins, a result of my and the Housekeeper's short clash.
The...
2024-03-21 08:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostSset (Hell, group 4) - most of us are already in the Bastion.
Tess tries to say more but most of it is filtered. The system doesn't let the message pass. Nothing about it being safe for the last two weeks, nothing about two weeks.
We can't even mention to the WhiteWing that the floor isn't only 2 weeks long, but 5 weeks if they decide to stay.
But they should be able to realize it. They can estimate when we left the 4th floor and then realize that w...
2024-03-20 08:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostArcanite Alloy (Arcane) Arcanite Alloy is a meticulously engineered blend of a dozen metals, each chosen for its unique resonance with arcane energies. This alloy was designed to amplify magical powers. Despite the complexity of its creation, items forged from Arcanite Alloy will be durable and capable of channeling immense magical forces.
Flamebearer (Arcane, Damaged) Flamebearer held dominion over fire, with a mere swing capable of igniti...
2024-03-19 08:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post1,050 shards, that's how much I get from selling some stuff from the research center. Obviously, I keep the best and some data as well. Even then, that gets my shards just a bit over 27 thousand. That's when I also decide to buy another epic passive.
Sure, I could save up some shards and go with my plan of building rare passives and trying to learn a thing or two, but with what's happening around me, it might not be a good idea.
The Veil Guardians are sniffing around, the Veil its...
2024-03-18 08:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostEach one of us gets another pendant. We put on the chest plates made of silver-like metal with streaks of copper color. Nevan even quickly makes a pretty one for Vega, and since then, she becomes much friendlier towards him.
My minion might be really weak to gifts and shows of goodwill.
I watch as she spins around, looking at her reflection in one of the steel panels on the wall of the facility.
Even Nevan has a soft smile on his face, watching the little half-demon girl bei...
2024-03-17 08:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostDave looks at me; it's still disturbing how easily he can recognize who the duplicate is. Then he looks at my duplicate and then at Vega, who looks up at him with interest. Having two of us by her side, she doesn’t seem to be worried at all.
“Master, how should I call this man?” she asks.
I look at the man we even now call Dave, and he doesn’t even bother answering and just turns around, heading back to his provisional workshop.
Indeed, how to call him? The duplicate...
2024-03-14 08:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostJust a bit over two days have passed, and I sit outside of the bunker on one of the bigger trees.
Unlike before, the monsters almost do not attack me, the place marked as my territory after my short expeditions to level up. To hunt, I have to go further and further, but I do it once in a while.
In the past two days, I also worked with a few more upper rare unfinished items, turning them into epic ones. That has gained me 5,600 more shards after selling them to the shop. Then I sol...
2024-03-13 08:50:51 +0000 UTC View Post“You spend half a day ruining a dozen perfectly prepared items and you crafted that?” the weird three-question mark man stops near me, plenty of rods in his arms.
“It ended up quite good,” I defend myself.
The look he gives me tells me he probably doesn’t think that, and then he asks, “Did you send the weapon away through your skill? It felt different from before.”
I just shrug. There is no sense in explaining; the system will censor it all and make the man go ...
2024-03-12 08:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhat lies inside the huge hidden section are shelves full of items. There are dozens, hundreds of mana stones. There are big crates with food. A massive tanker with water. There are rooms with beds and other utility facilities.
Clothes, weapons, armor, a lot of things that would make it possible to survive just here for probably years. But these rooms are empty, everything perfectly stored and never used.
Then there is another panel and a mana crystal two times my height, most lik...
2024-03-11 08:30:35 +0000 UTC View PostBack in our bunker, the Clonthaniel immediately takes some of the inscribed mana stones and starts examining them. Unlike the bunker we left, the pressure here is much lower, and it feels like a ton of weight was lifted off us; only now do I realize how taxing it was.
I check the anchor I left behind there, and it seems to be fine, with the only difference being that it is dissolving quicker than usual anchors. Even then, we have plenty of time before it disappears.
"We have aroun...
2024-03-10 08:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostI stare at the spot where the skyscraper-tall and bus-wide mana crystal used to be and then turn to my duplicate. “So it disappeared.”
“Yup,” he answers.
“It just disappeared while leaving behind traces as if someone used the skill called [Tether].”
“Yup,” he repeats.
Well, it looks like someone is cooking. Be it for our confrontation or something else. But it's not like I'm not doing the same, so I don't mind that much. No, actually I'...
2024-03-07 08:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostBoth of us reappear back in the summer house. The Housekeeper and Butler are gone, and only the Gardener sits there. His expression is anything but nice, and it sours even more as he notices the beating heart in my duplicate's hand. The one my duplicate is keeping beating with kinetic energy and careful manipulation of his mana.
“This will be the third time I have to talk with you guys, so how about you call the other two and the Armorer here.”
The Gardener is quick to underst...
2024-03-06 08:53:47 +0000 UTC View Post“I think we might have a complicated situation on our hands,” the Housekeeper moves a strand of hair off her face.
Does she have a body that tough? Is she strengthening it? Does she have healing? I don’t think she will answer me if I ask, and what the heck is that weird skill of hers? It has some disruptive properties, but there is something else as well.
Should I get angry at my duplicate for ruining my learning opportunity?
“There is nothing complicated about this,...
2024-03-05 08:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe Bastion in front of us feels different from before, and I only need to activate my eyes for a split second to notice that.
“These assholes,” the Duplicaniel next to me complains.
I agree.
The field around the city is different now and feels much more threatening. Still, I decide to give them a chance, and, gesturing to the copy of the handsome young man next to me, we teleport to the gate.
Getting closer, the detection catches us and sends a signal and a barrie...
2024-03-04 08:01:18 +0000 UTC View Post