The man sitting by the fire in the dark, dank cave on the nineteenth floor of the Tower of Champions smirked.
The man who was Xavier Collins but was not Xavier Collins.
“My version of the Tower of Champions has an old man sitting by a fire in this very cave, giving the quest to kill a monster.” He jutted his head through the tunnel. “Over in that underwater lair. I remember the floor clearly. I’ve also done all that I can to gain as much information about eve...
2024-06-27 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier materialised on the nineteenth floor of the Tower of Champions. He was standing in a dark cave. A fire was burning nearby, the flames making shadows dance on the jagged rock walls. The place smelled damp, and Xavier sensed that there was an open body of water somewhere nearby.
A man sat by the fire. He looked old. His face was deeply lined, the wrinkles cut into him as though by a knife, or like creases in a thin piece of paper.
“Champion,” the man said. He tilted his h...
2024-06-26 07:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Today is the day. Accidental Champion is finally releasing on Amazon!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CV64JCPC
Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Accidental-Champion-Audiobook/B0D79L7LNS
I have been anticipating this day for about a year now, and I'm really excited (...
2024-06-25 13:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Guardian stood atop the wall, on the battlements that surrounded Collinsville. His massive hands were folded behind him, and he stood tall. Taller than any of the humans around him, that was for sure.
He stood rather still, too. Guardian supposed he would understand if someone mistook him for a statue—though he was the farthest thing from a mere statue.
Guardian was a golem! A powerful one, in an extremely important role.
Though golem was a construct, he bore inte...
2024-06-25 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier let the others go their separate ways after they had no luck finding Adranial in the tavern. He returned to his room, somewhere he didn’t expect to spend a great deal of time, but was always a good place to come back to when he wanted some quiet.
He sat, cross-legged on the floor. Unlike when he had uncovered his Spirit Core, he wasn’t worried about burning through his core by accident. He was good at burning through cores, that was true.
But it was his enemies’
2024-06-21 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The woman scoffed. “I have no idea where you would get one. This one was given to me by my mother.” She paused, and it looked as though that hadn’t gained the reaction that she’d wanted from him. “My mother is A Grade.”
Xavier blinked. “Your mother is… A Grade. That’s… that’s quite something.” He didn’t ask how old Adranial’s mother was, though for someone taking the slower path to power—though perhaps slow wasn’t the right wor...
2024-06-20 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier and his party arrived in the Staging Room soon after the death of the Dark Lord Altruin. Once the dragon and its rider had been killed—in a single slash of Xavier’s scythe-staff—Xavier had stood at the top of the castle’s tallest tower and looked out on the city, waiting patiently for the floor to end as he read through the various notifications that had popped up in his vision.
His eyes had widened as he’d read through one of them. He had gotten a solo title for comple...
2024-06-19 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The bars rose up from the ground, making an awful grinding noise as they retracted into the ceiling. There was another loud rumbling as the earth shook once more.
Xavier let his body sway slightly from side to side, imagining as though he were a captain on a ship.
The reason for the earthquakes had nothing to do with the tectonics of the planet and everything to do with the assault that was currently going on against the Dark Lord’s city.
Xavier chuckled, remembering Justi...
2024-06-18 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier, Howard, Siobhan, and Justin spent a good deal of time talking with Adranial and the other members of her party about what strategy they should use for the Eleventh floor. Xavier wasn’t worried about the four of them usurping his party’s record clear, not after they’d spoken for a few minutes—there simply wasn’t any way for them to do it as efficiently.
When the conversation finally turned to the twelfth floor, Xavier’s interest was piqued. He leant forward in his cha...
2024-06-14 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier called an end to the sparring match, much to Howard and Justin’s apparent relief.
“I guess we should find Adranial. See about the next floor,” Siobhan said.
Justin was panting. “Yeah,” he said between breaths. “I’m ready.” He placed a hand on the Staging Room’s wall. “I’ll race you to the tavern.” The young man straightened. Closed his eyes. Took a moment to compose himself. Suddenly, his breathing became normal. “I do wish the woman had told us wh...
2024-06-13 07:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Xavier stood in the Staging Room after they’d all just opened their loot boxes following the clearing of the Eleventh Floor.
Justin grinned—still looking like a kid on Christmas. He took a step back. “This is a situation where it’s better I show you, rather than tell you.”
The young man’s wings sprang from his back. Though Xavier had seen them plenty of times, he still stared at them a little awestruck. The ability to fly. It was one that he coveted. One that he could ...
2024-06-12 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Arriving back in the Staging Room felt like some weird déjà vu.
They had completed the eleventh floor incredibly quickly, and on their first run through.
Despite what Xavier had said to the others, he was a little annoyed he’d lost out on the solo title, but he wasn’t about to hold it against them.
He was impressed with what they had managed to do. It wasn’t that he thought Romalda deserved to have that town. In a just universe, the townsfolk—however ...
2024-06-11 07:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Xavier stared blankly at the notification in front of him.
Congratulations! You have cleared the Eleventh Floor of the Tower of Champions.
Party Member Contribution:
Xavier: 0/0 Kills.
Howard: 0/0 Kills.
Justin: 0/0 Kills.
Siobhan: 0/0 Kills.
Attributions will be shared equally on this floor.
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2024-06-07 07:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Connor Drier did not want to be moved. The rage that split his face was like nothing Xavier had ever seen. He straightened, standing almost as tall as Xavier, and tried to look down his nose at him.
Xavier sighed and cast Willpower Infusion.
On the entire town.
Purple mist flowed from Xavier’s scythe-staff. The crowd of people standing in front of him barely had a split second to widen their eyes. They certainly didn’t have time to take a step back.
And no one got ...
2024-06-06 07:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Xavier, Howard, Siobhan, and Justin materialised in the middle of a small wood, exactly where Adranial had said they would. He gazed up at the trees. The leaves were orange, red. Autumn colours. Though who knew if autumn existed on this world. He didn’t really know how seasons on other planets worked.
A breeze rolled in, scattering the leaves on the forest floor, and setting the branches to slightly sway. The breeze was cool, but not cold. The air was clean.
“Nice day for it,...
2024-06-05 07:00:18 +0000 UTC
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The two parties parted ways after their conversation. Xavier was deep in thought, his forehead creased, as he made his way up the stairs.
Adranial, Domical, Elsie, and Larson had told them everything they knew about the eleventh floor. They’d sat down at a table near the bar. Sam’s eyes had widened at the sight of Adranial and the other members of her party. He hadn’t asked where they’d come from, or how they’d gotten here, but Xavier could tell the man was having a small inte...
2024-06-04 06:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Xavier Collins materialised in the middle of a long hallway, one that stretched farther than even his eye could see. The longer he looked down the hall, the more it looked like some sort of unlimited mirror illusion.
Though he was used to be being teleported by the System by now, and even travelled through his fair share of portals, it was still a little disorientating to be back here after all his time on Earth. He wasn’t unsteady on his feet, but he put his hand to the wall anyway.<...
2024-05-31 07:00:09 +0000 UTC
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[Author note: This is the end of book 3. Chapter 1 of book 4 will be posted tomorrow.]
A man was tied to a chair in the middle of a dank basement. He was unconscious, hanging limp, his head lolling to one side. The only thing that kept him from falling to the floor was the enchanted rope that curled around him like a snake eager to crush his body.
Alexic Kalcav paced, from one side of the basement to the other, waiting. The unconscious man was covered in blood. Fo...
2024-05-30 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It turned out there was a way to store memories.
In fact, there were several ways, but Adranial only wished to use the one. Though they now had a way to use the System Shop in Collinsville—God, it still felt a little strange naming this place Collinsville—Adranial didn’t trust herself to keep the memories in her own storage. And she didn’t want to entrust them to an item.
“There’s a chance I could lose them,” Adranial had said. “An item… it’s not safe....
2024-05-29 07:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The world was in order.
Xavier Collins walked through the streets of his base and could barely believe his eyes. The place had been transformed. The first and most obvious difference about his Seed Sanctuary was the fact that it had grown tremendously.
Guardian walked by Xavier’s side. The golem had its massive hands folded neatly behind its back. The image was somewhat comical. It didn’t look as though such a gesture fit on such a massive construct.
“Guardian is impre...
2024-05-28 07:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Time passed.
John looked down at his body.
Everything about it had changed. He was leaner, stronger. When he clenched his fists, he felt more power. The Fire Wolf inside his dimensional space had strengthened too, levelling up alongside him.
Beast and man had bounded forward in levels—but not just levels. Titles. Stats. Skills. Everything about John was more powerful. More fierce.
Everything about Melissa and Allegra was too.
An entire week had gone by...
2024-05-24 07:00:07 +0000 UTC
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John Hammond’s hands were shaking, which meant his staff was shaking too. He tried to control it, but his emotions were running too hot.
He felt a bit foolish, being here. He was the lowest level out of the lot of them at Level 20. He should be higher level than that by now. He wanted to be. But he didn’t head outside the base’s walls as much as he should have.
Since the moment John had been saved from the invaders by Xavier, he’d been wanting to be useful. H...
2024-05-23 07:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Xavier gathered Allegra, Melissa, and John together, speaking to them as a group, telling them of his plans. While Xavier, his normal party, and all the other Champions of Earth were back in the Tower of Champions, Earth would need some protectors.
After a good amount of thought, Xavier found there were other good reasons for having Allegra be a part of the group. Unlike John and Melissa, she had thorough knowledge of the sector. She’d been born to the System, something no one on Eart...
2024-05-22 07:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Howard, Justin, and Siobhan took Xavier’s plan rather well. On the surface, his plan to powerlevel others from Earth looked almost like he was cutting his friends out of getting first-clear dungeon titles. And, in a way, that’s exactly what he was doing.
But they didn’t seem to feel as strongly about it as he’d suspected.
“We have enough titles,” Howard said. “Though I’m not trying to speak for Justin and Siobhan. Like you said, Xavier, the people here need to be s...
2024-05-21 06:31:13 +0000 UTC
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Xavier savoured the moment, breathing in deeply of the fresh air outside of his base. He wasn’t quite sure how he’d managed it, but he’d avoided being teleported by that Death Trap—the same item that had gotten Justin stuck on another world.
He didn’t have any proof as to which world had tried to do this to him, though as he made his way back to his chambers, it made him wonder about what Adranial had said. She had warned him about this, or else something like it...
2024-05-17 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier did not know if what he wanted to do was possible, and there wasn’t time enough to think about whether or not it was. There were only two options.
Either he succeeded, or he fell into the clutches of someone more powerful than himself. And if that were to happen, he couldn’t see any other outcome other than death, because the last thing he ever wanted to do was put himself under someone else’s control.
So Xavier fought against the tug of the teleportation. He’d stop...
2024-05-16 07:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Here's a link to the Amazon release! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D46SP5XT
For those of you who read the free version I posted about a couple of days ago, please feel free to leave an Amazon review! Or tell your friends. (Good things, I hope.) :)
(For any Patrons that signed up after I posted the free version, unfortunately you won't be able to access it. Now that it's on Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program,...
2024-05-16 01:04:58 +0000 UTC
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Alistair Reed clung to a branch high in the trees. The canopy was thick and dense here, but as high as he was, he could see over it. The tower stood in the centre of the base. Even from this distance, he could make out the man inside.
Xavier Collins.
That bastard had ruined several of Alistair’s plans. He was far stronger than he ever imagined he could be, and there didn’t appear to be a way for Alistair to catch up to him.
But he wouldn’t have to catch up if the man e...
2024-05-15 07:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
I've got a little surprise for you all. I've been working on a book behind the scenes, and the first book in this new series is now complete.
For various reasons, I've decided this book will be going straight to Amazon instead of through Royal Road first.
(I won't get too deep into it, but suffice to say I haven't had an Amazon release in a little while, and it's heavily affecting my income. Also I have a baby on the way, and writing is my full time gig, so inco...
2024-05-14 07:33:26 +0000 UTC
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Xavier watched as Adranial shifted in her seat. He couldn’t help but see every movement she made as an admission of guilt. But he was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt unless he had a good reason not to. She’d come to him, warned him, after all.
“This is not part of my plan, Xavier Collins.” Her voice was laced with steel. Then, in something barely above a whisper, she said, “Your life may be too important to risk.”
Xavier’s forehead creased....
2024-05-14 07:00:08 +0000 UTC
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