Xavier stood on a tall platform in the middle of Garster’s capital city, Mareketh. The platform floated high up in the air. When Xavier looked over the side of the railing, he wasn’t able to see anything holding the platform up.
The platform was huge, a few miles long. There were thousands of different portals on the platform, with humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, lizardmen, and all manner of different races stepping in and out of them.
As Famarial was an elf, Xavier had expected...
2025-01-27 18:00:12 +0000 UTC
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You have learnt the skill Health Seer!
Health Seer - Rank 1
Health Seer gives the user the ability to see the health of other beings within their range to varying degrees. The user can see the health of a different being of up to their own level plus the rank of this spell unless that health is being masked.
The stronger the skill’s rank, the clearer the health that is visible.
Xavi...
2025-01-23 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Xavier soared over a large forest dotted with trees of all manner of colour. He wasn’t exactly sure what he was looking for, but he figured he would know it when he found it.
The worlds flora and fauna had been completely transformed when the System had integrated Earth into the Greater Universe. The last time Xavier was on Earth he’d mainly focused on trying to clear as many dungeons as he possibly could—at least after he had secured Earth from enemy invasion.
That meant he...
2025-01-22 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier stared at the sleek form of the Spirit Golem standing in the middle of his quarters back in Collinsville. He’d finally opened the loot box the System had given him for completing the Elemental Dragon’s Hunt Quest.
The description had been interesting. He could bind the golem to his soul, much as his new beast companion, Volkarin, had been bound. He could control it by infusing Spirit Energy into it…
Or he could put a spirit directly into it.
He’d...
2025-01-21 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Xaiver had three different portals open in front of him. He stood a few feet away from the tent.
There were several ways that he could do this. He could mind control the kidnapper and make them disarm the traps, but that could go wrong. As fast as Xavier was, his enemy might detonate the traps the instant he saw the purple mist heading toward him. That wasn’t something Xavier could afford.
Right now, his enemy was in a time prison, standing outside of the tent. Xavier didn’t k...
2025-01-20 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier sat in the middle of the Staging Room. Volkarin was back inside his Companion Cube. The dragon had practically eaten his weight in meat back down in the tavern. Sam had to keep bringing back more and more plates, setting them on the floor with a frown.
Howard, Siobhan, and Justin had taken the news of Xavier’s plans well. They were back on a floor of the tower, grinding hard to gain more levels and power. It was clear they took their role as Earth’s protectors just as serious...
2025-01-16 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“Xavier!” Justin was practically jumping up and down with excitement. He pointed, blatantly, at Xavier’s wings. “You have wings?! Since when do you have wings?” He leapt up into the air and suddenly his own wings sprouted from his back. “You gained the Winged Flight spell too? How did you manage that?”
The tavern’s ceiling was high enough that Justin was able to fly around in here. Sam, momentarily distracted from Xavier’s news, frowned up at one of his patron...
2025-01-15 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Xavier stepped into Hunter’s Home with a spring in his step, the Companion Cube swaying on his belt as he moved. He strode past the different Champions from different worlds and sectors and strode straight to the bar.
Felicia placed a mug of coffee in front of him as he reached her. The barkeep looked him up and down. “Still alive, I see?”
Xavier smiled. “Indeed.” He grabbed the mug gratefully and took a sip. “I defeated the Elemental Dragon.”
Felicia blinked, ...
2025-01-14 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier stood on the ground of the dragons’ den’s chamber, the newly hatched baby dragon across from him.
The hatchling looked different to its mother, the Elemental Dragon. Its scales were aquamarine and shimmered in the flickering light of the surrounding flames, but it also had bone spurs that protruded from different parts of its body. They didn’t look sharp, but something told Xavier that would change in the future as the dragon grew. Most of the spurs were along its spine, bu...
2025-01-13 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Xavier hovered inside of the Elemental Dragon’s den, resting a hand upon the massive dragon egg that it had left behind. The egg that was now Xavier’s prize.
The ritual he was performing was going ahead perfectly.
The connection to the Otherworld had been established, and now so had the bridge.
It was time to call forth the dragon spirit, Volkarin.
The last he’d seen of the spirit, it had been injured in battle and forced to return to the Otherworld. It had fough...
2025-01-09 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The third book is finally out on Amazon!
I know everyone here has already read the third book, but if you have Kindle Unlimited it would be amazing if you grabbed it there--that would help my ranking in the Kindle store, which will help the series do better!
You can also drop a rating or review over on Amazon, too, if you want! That would be amazing and really help the launch!
And, if you want to go the extra mile, tell your friends haha.
Here are the amazon and audibl...
2025-01-09 00:47:55 +0000 UTC
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Xavier watched in mute fascination as the Elemental Dragon slipped out of existence. He reached out as though to claw the beast back into this world, but there was nothing left to grab onto.
That dragon had been close to death after his use of Soul Strike. He couldn’t see the enemy beast’s health, but he was sure of it.
Not only that, it had been mere seconds from death before that Void Being had come from literally nowhere and slipped straight into the dragon’...
2025-01-08 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The void stretched out before Xkarian, and in that void lay an infinite number of universes.
Cracks.
He could feel the cracks. There were more of them than there were universes, for the walls between universes were always cracking.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Over the countless millions of years that he’d spent inside the void, Xkarian had a sixth sense for them. As did most Void Beings. He swam through the Infinite Passage. Searching. Ever searching. He passed oth...
2025-01-07 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The Skeletal Dragon’s skull exploded.
Shards of bone shot in every direction like shrapnel from a dirty bomb.
The shards were as sharp as a C Grade’s sword, but Xavier had been expecting this. It would be impossible for even someone as fast as him to dodge that many shards of bones shooting outward at him, but in the instant he struck he cast Soul Block, infusing enough souls into the spell to eat up the damage he would have taken, leaving him unscathed.
A kill notificat...
2025-01-06 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The Elemental Dragon was a fraction of a second away from joining the fight. This was a critical moment. One that, Xavier knew, if he messed up, would spell his demise.
Xavier had learnt multiple ways to kill the Skeletal Dragon, and the way that he had killed it to keep himself fresh when the other dragon entered the fight the first time—when he’d been frozen in the air, forced to use his Portal spell to carve away the ice around him—wasn’t the way he was about to kill this bea...
2025-01-02 18:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Xavier floated high in the air in a frozen pocket of time at the top of the mountain where the two C Grade beasts—the Skeletal Dragon and the Elemental Dragon—called home.
He looked over at the Spirit of Time and nodded to her. Thank you for your help once more.
The Spirit of Time inclined her head in a short bow. You are most welcome, Xavier Collins. She looked out at the Skeletal Dragon, then down at the cave entrance. I hope to see you...
2025-01-01 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Once again, a version of Xavier defeated the Skeletal Dragon.
Once again, he became trapped by the Elemental Dragon’s iceberg spell.
He’d tried to avoid it, this time knowing it was coming, but he simply wasn’t fast enough.
He cast Time Alteration the instant he was trapped within the iceberg—he’d tried to cast the spell first, so that he wouldn’t be trapped by it at all, but that wasn’t something he’d been fast enough to do after the d...
2024-12-31 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Ten unfoldings had passed before a version of Xavier was able to defeat the Skeletal Dragon.
Each new version of him that fought against the Skeletal Dragon was aware of what had happened to the previous version, and with that knowledge came power—came the ability to fight their enemy with renewed strength.
But even with that strength, killing this thing was a tall order to fill.
Finally, when the tenth version of him that emerged had defeated the Skeletal Dragon, it had b...
2024-12-30 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier could no longer feel anything from the other version of himself, but he knew that version of himself would currently be panicking.
He knew that, because he was panicking.
Xavier had never heard of a spell that ejected one’s spirit from their body! How in the world was he supposed to deal with something like that?
Apparently, the other version of himself already knew. While Xavier, as the observer, was panicking, this other version had act...
2024-12-26 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier’s mind raced.
He stood at the topmost peak of the Elemental Dragon’s mountain, at the threshold of the beast’s cave. Inside, he knew he would find what he was after—the dragon’s egg. An egg that would serve as a vessel for the dragon spirit Volkarin.
He would finally be able to summon the beast into this world.
But there was something about the C Grade Elemental Dragon that the Hunt Quest notice, along with anyone he’d ever spoken to on this ...
2024-12-25 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier sat at the table in Gimble’s quarters for a long while examining the key.
A Universal Travel Key.
In his hand lay something that could get him anywhere in the entire universe. Well, the local universe—whichever one he happened to be at the time.
He supposed that he could use this Universal Travel Key right now if he wished. He didn’t know much of anything about the universe that he was currently in, other than the fact that time worked differently ...
2024-12-24 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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After receiving his spell, Xavier left the Hunter’s Home tavern immediately. He created a portal just outside the door and disappeared through it, returning to one of the isolated groves he liked to think of as his training retreats.
In the time that he’d spent back at Hunter’s Home, his Time Alteration spell had met the end of its cooldown. He summoned a mug of fresh coffee Felicia had given him on his way out, then he sat cross-legged on the grass, taking a moment to look throug...
2024-12-23 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Xavier headed for the bar after the Liana and her husband Ardon had left the hundredth floor of the Tower of Champions, wondering what their life would be like now.
He still held the Communication Stone the woman had given him. He looked at it for a moment before depositing it into his Storage Ring.
I’ll meet the two of them again.
He just didn’t know when.
“You really are something,” Felicia said, placing a mug of hot coffee in front of him.
Xav...
2024-12-19 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Xavier was the last to step through the portal to Hunter’s Home. He’d scoured the battlefield, looking for some kind of proof that he’d killed The Nightmare. Some remnant of the demon’s body. But when he had commanded it to die, it had destroyed the thing rather thoroughly.
Hopefully saving these people will be proof enough, he thought.
The System should recognise that he had completed the Hunt Quest without some sort of trophy to bring back to the barkeep. I...
2024-12-18 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier hovered inside his time dilation field, the black ooze on his hand, crawling up his skin.
He could feel the mind of The Nightmare. The demonic beast that he had spent so much time decimating upon the Dark Mountains. Hastening the speed within the time dilation field had been more than enough to cut the bit of black ooze off from the demon’s main mind.
Xavier was more careful with his mental barriers this time, and with his different split mind. He’d never realised that ...
2024-12-17 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier watched in absolute awe as The Nightmare became one with all of the black ooze that remained on the entire mountain.
Its grotesque, stitched-together body began to shift and change. The demon became taller, broader. It had already been massive. Soon it looked as though it would rival the size of the very mountain itself.
I’ve really pissed this thing off now.
Perhaps Xavier should have been afraid. This was the most dangerous entity he had ever faced. But f...
2024-12-16 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Xavier hovered in the air above the Dark Mountains, his body thrumming with the power of Soul Energy as it cycled through his different channels, bolstering his power.
The Body Cultivation spell was still new to him, but now he could sense that with this energy it would be even more powerful than it had been before.
Thousands upon thousands of infected beasts were streaming toward him. Xavier dodged the long-ranged attacks in the air easily enough. He was far faster than these thi...
2024-12-12 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Xavier’s body didn’t respond to his will.
He was covered almost entirely in the black ooze that was The Nightmare. He didn’t know if there was an inch of his skin still free from the vile stuff.
The C Grade demonic beast’s mind was invading his own. Not fully. It didn’t have control over him. It was simply slamming so hard at his mental barriers that it was all Xavier could do to keep from being controlled by it. Every ounce of his energy was going toward keeping his wal...
2024-12-11 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Xavier hovered in the air above the battlefield on the side of the Dark Mountains. Below him, thousands of infected beasts swarmed toward their position. Hundreds of his soul puppets were putting up an admirable defence. Volkarin swooped beside them, launching a stream of fire and ice from his massive maw down at the infected beasts.
Xavier’s attention was on the grotesque demonic beast that was The Nightmare. Its stitched together wings beat hard as it kept up that massive body, the ...
2024-12-10 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It came from the sky.
Xavier looked up. What he saw looked like it came from the darkest nightmares humankind ever had. He’d never seen something like this before—never laid eyes on a demon.
The beast was larger than the dragon Volkarin.
Its bulk blotted out the moon and a vast number of the stars above. If it weren’t for Xavier’s superior eyesight and night vision, he likely only would have seen a black shape outlined in the sky.
The demonic beast had wings th...
2024-12-09 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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