Xavier stood at the bottom of the steps that lead to The Collector’s broken throne.
Dozens of Denizens were gathered not far from him, their gazes locked on him, all but frozen in time. Palini stood two feet to his right. Much of the man’s armour had been repaired and was clean of blood from the battle, the wounds beneath healed. His greatest wounds—his amputated arms—were only a tenth of the way through regenerating. The man stared warily upward, his right stump moving down, no...
2025-12-04 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The Staging Room looked exactly the same as he’d left it. Stepping inside he took a moment to breath. Out of all the places he’d ever been, the Staging Room—without a party—was where he had the most privacy, especially when inside his time dilation field. There was a System Shop terminal on one side of the room and the door to the tower floors at the back of the room, plus a whole bunch of different training equipment.
Xavier released a long sigh and felt a surge of excitement r...
2025-12-04 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Xavier and Adranial looked through the different sections in the Empire Building Menu for several hours, maybe even several days. He lost track of time easily when he was talking to her. Xavier discovered a lot of interesting things as he went through the different sections. He wasn’t really sure what to expect when looking at the Empire Building Menu. He didn’t know much about how The Collector had run the Ventorin sector, only that he’d run it with an iron fist.
The first thing ...
2025-12-03 18:00:14 +0000 UTC
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“The day has come for a new order in the Ventorin sector.” Xavier’s voice echoed off the walls of the grand hall. The throne room had perfect acoustics—because of course it did. The gathered Denizens stood at attention, backs straight, arms folded behind them, gazes locked on him. A little too stiff, a little too formal. But that was to be expected. Xavier lowered his gaze to the marble floor, his forehead creasing in thought.
This moment was one he’d been conte...
2025-12-03 18:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Xavier entered Adranial’s mind for the first time.
Unlike when he entered Nalthair’s mind, he wasn’t there to confuse her, wasn’t there to learn her secrets, even though she’d laid it all bare for him to see, inviting him in.
This wasn’t the first time Xavier had swept through someone else’s mind with permission. He’d done it several times back when he was training his found family inside the Roving Seed Base. It had been good practice. Back then, he hadn’t been ...
2025-12-02 18:00:33 +0000 UTC
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Xavier raised an eyebrow at Palini after the man had just called him a stubborn bastard.
[Where, exactly, are you going with this?]
They were standing in what was formerly The Collector’s grand throne room. The B Grade ruler lay dead, his body cut in half from neck to shoulder by Xavier’s scythe. A Void Being in the form of a naked dragonkin—who, for the most part, looked exactly like Xavier—was trapped in a slower time stream in the air above them, its anger and ...
2025-12-02 18:00:31 +0000 UTC
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What?
The elven spirit appeared in front of Xavier with his arms crossed. The connection Xavier shared with the spirit allowed it to hear him and travel to him from just about anywhere in this universe. These days, he always came when Xavier called.
But he wasn’t always happy about it.
Xavier had reflexively stretched his time dilation field to encompass the spirit. He looked Rhaalir up and down. You’ve become more corporeal.
It was someth...
2025-12-01 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
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“Bring me into the fold?” Adranial asked.
The tavern at the bottom of the Tower of Champion was silent. Xavier sat across from Adranial, the two of them inside their own personal time dilation field, not another soul in the place able to move. The candle on their table was the only one flickering, the rest were suspended in time.
Xavier, elbows on the table, leant forward, the wood creaking under his weight. “You were sent here to watch me. Befriend me. Make an ally of me. N...
2025-12-01 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Xavier appeared in the same hallway he always appeared in when taken to the Tower of Champions. There weren’t many Denizens here. He spotted one or two other Champions of Earth, but they were far down the hall and not paying him any mind.
To his left was the door to his room here. It was closed, locked. He touched a hand to it, ran his fingers along the solid wood, and took a breath.
He’d lived countless lifetimes since the last time he’d set foot in this place. He’d deliv...
2025-11-27 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier’s spiritual sense lit up like there was a star exploding. It had felt something. Something powerful.
A disturbance the likes of which he’d never known.
Everything had been going dark. He’d been teetering on the edge of unconsciousness. A moment so similar to that of the one he’d experienced back in the Arakashinai Queen’s chamber. A moment he hadn’t known if he could fight.
That light illuminated the darkness. It jolted him into an abrupt and incredible
2025-11-27 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier materialised back in the throne room. The System teleport hadn’t broken his Time Alteration spell, so his field was still active around him. The second he arrived in The Collector’s former throne room—into his throne room—a notification appeared.
You will be teleported to the Tower of Champions in 1 minute.
Xavier altered his time dilation field in an instant. He was going to stretch that minute for as much as it was worth.
Another no...
2025-11-26 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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From the confines of his starship, countless light-years away from his point of observation, the Old Man saw what he suspected were the last moments of the life of Xavier Collins.
Now, he told himself, his fists clenched so tightly his bones fragmented and healed in a continuous cycle. If I am to act, it is now.
The Old Man opened his hands and activated a spell—one that would bend space and allow him to cut a line from where he stood to where Xavier hovered. T...
2025-11-26 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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You… survived.
Xavier hovered in space, a planet looming below him with buildings so tall some stretched out of its atmosphere. His gaze settled on the top of the tallest tower and the glass dome that was its roof.
The third unfolding had just concluded. The Spirit of Time’s voice was filled with awe. The beautiful woman stared at him in a way he hadn’t seen before. Lips parted, eyes wide.
Xavier inclined his head. I did. He sighed in...
2025-11-25 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Roln had been right. Xavier could have done this a dozen different ways.
He stood, fingers wrapped around the hilt of Bones in the form of a sword, breathing in and out easily. A weight pulled him down—the universal pressure of having used all those spell patterns—but otherwise his entire body and mind was relaxed.
The sovereign was powerful, but as time had passed Xavier had pushed his spiritual sense more than he ever had, breaking through the man’s veil to get at true gli...
2025-11-25 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Sovereign Rewke Fouran, standing at the edge of the mountain’s peak atop the vast arena, being watched by thousands of sector rulers—many of whom ruled sectors more powerful than his own—drew in a deep breath.
He felt… invincible. This puny dragonkin was no match for him. Though he had to admit, the powers the boy had drawn upon had been considerable. More than he’d anticipated. Far more.
Yet they did nothing at all to harm me.
For the first time ...
2025-11-24 18:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Indescribable pain ripped outward from his heart and tore through every inch of him. The wave of destruction was unrelenting. Not a single drop of the Soul Energy was contained or slowed. Nothing Xavier did prevented it from consuming his entire body.
The agony of death was somehow everlasting and yet passed in a mere fraction of a second.
Xavier was returned to the frozen moment in time, hovering beside the beautiful spirit from the Otherworld. His face paled, eyes wide in terror...
2025-11-24 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Anhelina had seen much in her time. Few knew how truly old she was. She was one of the Seven most powerful spirits who ruled over the Otherworld—not that ruling over the Otherworld really gave her what she truly wanted.
Still, it is something…
She was around when the System was young. Notifications were different, back then. Things were far more rudimentary. Of course, her universe had been born with the System—and she herself had been born with it, too.
Even ...
2025-11-20 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Danil Thald gazed down at the spectacle before him.
The strange patterns of runes shimmered in the air, each one of them glowing when this Xavier Collins, or when of his drones, finished working on them.
Danil had never seen anything like this before. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, the movement so imperceptible he was sure the man below wouldn’t notice he was unaffected by his time dilation field.
Danil had remained watching not because he’d cared about what happe...
2025-11-20 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Xavier hovered in the silence of space, peering at Gregori The Collector, fighting his urge to make the man suffer.
He’d brought The Collector here to put him down as swiftly as possible. Without the time dilation field from one of his B Grade time mages, the man was at a severe disadvantage.
One more strike like the one he’d performed to break through The Collector’s defences might be enough to take him down.
And yet Xavier found himself toying with Gregori. Found him...
2025-11-19 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Sovereign Rewke Fouran disappeared in a flash of speed.
At least, he tried to disappear in a flash of speed. The instant Xavier had seen the man arrive he’d altered his time dilation field. It would be obvious to Fouran and anyone else watching in the seats that he had such a field around him—there was no hiding the time distortions from people this powerful—but Fouran clearly didn’t know how fast that field actually was.
One thing that Roln had helped Xa...
2025-11-19 18:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Gregori The Collector was frozen in fear.
For the first time in several thousand years, it was a fear he couldn’t control. A fear that controlled him.
Gregori hadn’t needed to use fear to protect himself in a long, long time. When he’d risen to power, he’d picked his battles carefully. He’d plotted. Planned. Killed in anyway necessary. By proxy from afar. With an army at his back. Or all on his own, up close and personal.
Through every one of those fights, he’d b...
2025-11-18 18:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Xavier was transported back to that same, dark space as he had been before. The strange System-constructed space that allowed him to choose from the different arenas available.
It felt like a lifetime since he’d stood here, though only a day had passed in reality.
It’s been several lifetimes…
He still hadn’t looked at his status screen. Still hadn’t done the math. There was a part of him that, for whatever reason, didn’t want to see how much tim...
2025-11-18 18:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The broadcast was shown to every single one of the over ten billion worlds in the Ventorin sector. It was impossible for them not to see it, though at the same time it was impossible for every part of the broadcast to be seen.
Over the skies of all those worlds, images of all the men and women Xavier had executed were shown. Massive holograms that couldn’t be ignored. Xavier’s voice was heard, too, describing to the people what they were seeing.
“Murder. Rape. Enslavement. T...
2025-11-17 18:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The back of Xavier’s head smashed into the marble floor with a massive crack. Something in his skull caved in.
Pain shot through not only his head but every inch of his entire body. With that pain came something else: Fear.
He shuddered with complete and utter terror.
You have been afflicted with Shock Terror. This will interrupt your ability to think until you recover.
The notification seared into his eyeballs. He was dizzy. Lighth...
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Xavier watched the twenty-five B Grade Denizens amongst The Collector’s guards. He’d already marked each of them with a separate part of his mind. They were easy to spot with the two time dilation fields at play in the throne room.
They were the ones that were still moving—even if they weren’t moving fast.
To Xavier, they moved in slow motion, at roughly a tenth of his own speed. A strong advantage, but more was needed to even the playing field—especially if he didn’t ...
2025-11-13 18:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Xavier didn’t know how long he spent travelling from one world to the next. Over ten billion worlds… It had been something close to impossible for him to imagine before.
Now, he was familiar with each and every single one.
Despite how swiftly Xavier moved, he knew what he’d just done must have taken many decades…
No, many hundreds of years…
Time really had no meaning to him anymore.
He could do the math. Could look at his status screen and see the new a...
2025-11-13 18:00:12 +0000 UTC
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[Author Note: Sorry for the late chapter guys! Nothing more than a simple mistake.]
The grand throne room was silent. Stars twinkled through the glass dome above. Xavier idly wondered if he could see Sol, the star at the centre of Earth’s solar system, through that ceiling.
Xavier had felt the fear coming from the throne room long before he’d made it here. Fear was something he’d felt the moment he’d stepped out of the portal and into this world. Palini ha...
2025-11-12 23:03:16 +0000 UTC
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[Author Note: Sorry for the late chapter guys! Nothing more than a simple mistake.]
The intricate web of different spell patterns and the countless runes they composed of lit up so bright Xavier’s vision needed to adapt to the light—even if that only took a fraction of a second. The power that emanated from each of those patterns was palpable.
Xavier breathed it all in.
All the different spell patterns activated. A large portal appeared directly in front...
2025-11-12 23:02:20 +0000 UTC
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Palini snapped to attention in a way Xavier hadn’t yet seen. He stood sharply, staring at the hologram—the sparks of energy had frozen the moment Xavier had placed his more powerful time dilation field around the space—and spoke rapidly. “I’ve deployed half the assets in this room, including the two time mages, to the most effected worlds.” He waved his hand. The hologram shifted. Instead of showing one world, it several dozen. “The harshest conflicts on these worlds are being p...
2025-11-11 18:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Gregori sat on a large couch beside his throne, his bare, muscular arms draped around women either side of him, their hands drifting up and down his chest as he listened to a report from one of his agents.
The women, like the agent, were a part of his collection. The former had been chosen for their unusual level of beauty, and the soothing qualities of their individual support classes. The latter had been chosen for his unique ability to ferret out difficult to find information and tra...
2025-11-11 18:00:18 +0000 UTC
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