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Tier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 60 - Bearded Menace
Howard gripped the haft of his double-bearded axe. The weight of it felt perfect in his hand. When he’d purchased it, he’d gone right ahead and gotten the Axe Mastery skill, using one of the two skill points he’d received from the loot box after the fifth floor.
Previously, he’d been training with a sword, but the sword had never felt right to him. Never felt natural. Not like he knew it must feel for Justin. Perhaps it was simply seeing that boy wield his own sword with such sk...
2023-12-22 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 59 - Anointed Robes
Xavier stood in the Staging Room, a hand on the glowing crystal atop the pedestal that was the System Shop’s terminal. Charon’s Scythe appeared in his hand in an instant.
“Whoa.”
The change was miraculous. The second the scythe staff was within his hand, two of his attribute’s reached new thresholds of power. His willpower and his spirit. They were already his two most powerful attributes, powering his two most powerful spells… To have them reach a new height of power ...
2023-12-21 06:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 58 - Charon
One of the Lord of the Endless Horde’s Storage Rings had broken, and all of its contents had been destroyed. Xavier ran a hand through his hair. He couldn’t begin to imagine how much wealth must have been stored in that one little ring. How many items. How many spirit coins.
And now it was all simply… gone.
“What happened?” Howard asked. The man had a raised eyebrow. Must have heard Xavier swear.
“I took six Storage Rings from the Lord of the Endless Horde.” 2023-12-20 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Tier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 57 - Portal Stones
Xavier threw open the lid on the loot box.
You have gained +2 Skill Points.
You have gained 1 Mastery Point (E Grade).
You have gained 100,000 Lesser Spirit Coins.
You have received 2 Portal Stones.
Xavier tried to hold back his sigh. Two skill points wasn’t bad. He’d long ago found out how helpful his skills could be, so that actually gladdened him.
The single Mastery Point had momenta...
2023-12-19 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 56 - Soul Puppet
[Author's note: I'm not intentionally trying to frustrate you guys with cliffs, or "filler" chapters or anything like that. I'm going to post the rest of the chapters for this week early, which means you won't get another chapter until Tuesday after this one. I hope this helps.
I just want to entertain you all and excite you for what happens next.]
Xavier found he was equally curious about each of his new spells. He looked at the first ...
2023-12-14 06:29:48 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 55 - Otherworldly Reaper
[Author's note: I'm not intentionally trying to frustrate you guys with cliffs, or "filler" chapters or anything like that. I'm going to post the rest of the chapters for this week early, which means you won't get another chapter until Tuesday after Chapter 56. I hope this helps.
I just want to entertain you all and excite you for what happens next.]
Xavier sat, cross-legged in the Staging Room of the Tower of Champions. The ...
2023-12-14 06:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 54 - Insidious
Xavier shifted where he sat, fidgety and giddy with excitement. After all the carnage he’d inflicted upon his enemies, perhaps his mood should have been a bit more sombre.
I did what I did because I needed to, he thought. And I saved Queen Alastea from a fate she didn’t deserve, even if I didn’t get to see her in the end.
And he accomplished something no one else ever had. He was proud of what he’d done, and excited for what it could mean. He could only i...
2023-12-14 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 53 - Usurper
Someone slammed into Xavier the moment he appeared in the Staging Room.
Siobhan wrapped him in a tight, but brief, embrace. “You’re alive!” She stepped back, cleared her throat. “We… we thought you might die out there.”
“We saw you leap through that portal,” Howard said. “What on Earth were you thinking?”
Xavier rubbed the back of his head. “Well, I wasn’t on Earth at the time.” He smirked, but his weak joke only got a groan from Justin and...
2023-12-13 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 52 - The System Is Watching
Xavier went for the man’s neck.
The Lord of the Endless Horde lay upon a ground of rubble. It wasn’t just the metal and glass of these strange skyscrapers, stone and wood and dust and splinters had poured out of the innards when the building had fallen.
The D Grade Denizen had been weakened. Once, he had been the most powerful being in the entire sector. Now, all three of his cores had burned right through, then his health had come next.
Still, Xavier hadn’t known if h...
2023-12-12 05:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 51 - Burn, You Bastard, Burn!
At the prow of the last remaining flying ship above the floating Lord of the Endless Horde, Xavier steeled himself and stood his ground. A strong wind blew in, flapping the sleeves of his robes, pulling the dark hood back to rest on his upper back.
Xavier had a plan. But if he was strong—if the plan failed—he would die in the next second.
He didn’t know if what he was about to attempt would work. He’d never tried something like it before. And the only reason he thought it ...
2023-12-09 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 50 - The Time for Games Is Over
On the Lord of the Endless Horde’s home world, Xavier leapt.
Behind him, a building was falling. In front of him, a powerful D Grade Denizen stood. The man’s mind was captured. In control. The crack in his mental defences, after being hit by a five-hundred infused Spirit Break, had become large enough for Xavier’s control to slip in.
Willpower Infusion has reached Rank 51!
…
Willpower Infusion has reached Rank 60! 2023-12-08 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Tier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 49 - Always Mind Your Surroundings
The next few minutes were a whirlwind of pain.
The Lord of the Endless Horde’s smile grew more and more sinister as the fight went on. Xavier continued to cast spells at the golden barrier, hoping that his Magical Damage skill would rank up, but nothing at all was coming from it. The barrier flickered, more and more, but Xavier quickly realised the damage he was inflicting upon it wasn’t enough.
And because he wasn’t damaging the Lord himself, it didn’t help him r...
2023-12-07 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 48 - Death by a Thousand Cuts
Several notifications popped up in Xavier’s vision at once, all while he stood across from the Lord of the Endless Horde, speaking taunts at the most powerful Denizen he’d ever faced.
Unidentified Material categorised as Elemental Hydra Fang!
Biological impurities of Elemental Hydra Fang have been further assimilated into muscular structure.
Tier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 47 - At Least I Made the Bastard Flinch
Xavier burst into action before the Lord of the Endless Horde could make the first move. His soulkeeping reserve was full with almost two thousand souls, but there was no one around him that he could easily kill—the alleyway was deserted.
Part of him wanted to drop a fully infused Soul Strike at his D Grade enemy, but if that wasn’t enough he wouldn’t be able to use Soul Block.
Several things happened all at once.
Xavier sprinted to the left, straight toward the wall o...
2023-12-05 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 46 - Advancement Complete
Xavier opened his eyes in a flash.
He was lying on the cold, hard stone of the alleyway he’d ran to. He felt no pain anymore. It looked as though his body hadn’t been attacked while he’d been unconscious.
His body, mind, and soul was whole again.
The impurities the System had detected, everything that he’d assimilated into his body to gain more power, more attributes. The things that had been changing him… How had it all affected his advancement?
There is...
2023-12-02 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 45 - Advancement Completion Imminent
Xavier floated in darkness. Or stood in it. Honestly, he wasn’t really sure. This feeling was a familiar one, however. It reminded him of the room he’d been taken to when the System had begun integrating Earth. Black. Formless. Unending.
Initiating advancement of Denizen XAVIER COLLINS from F Grade to E Grade.
Checking attributes…
Denizen’s attributes deemed as: Exceptional
Xavier blinked, staring at the notifi...
2023-12-01 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 44 - Little Anomaly’s Death
Title Unlocked!
Level 100: This is a common title that everyone receives when they reach Level 100.
You have received +20 to all stats!
Title Unlocked!
First to Level 100: You are the first person from your world to reach Level 100.
You have received +100 to all stats!
That’s insane, Xavier thought. All just for gaining Level 100?
...
2023-11-30 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 43 - An Absolute Massacre
Corpses littered the ground around Xavier. In minutes, he’d killed several hundred thousand enemies. His levels had ticked up, and up, and up with every strike. At first, he gained three levels per Soul Strike, then two, until finally each strike garnered him only one.
Only.
The very thought of a single spell “only” gaining him one level almost made him chuckle, but chuckling in this specific situation would probably make him look somewhat insane.
He was more ...
2023-11-29 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 42 - I Have Become Death
Congratulations, you have reached level 75!
Your health has been regenerated by 70%!
Your Spirit Energy limit has increased by 200!
You have received +2 Strength, +2 Toughness, +2 speed, +3 Intelligence, +3 Willpower, and +8 Spirit!
You have received +20 free stat points!
All your spells have refreshed and are no longer on cooldown!
Several things happened ...
2023-11-28 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 41 - Focus, You Idiot
Xavier took ten more hits after he’d landed on the stone ground. Arrows slammed into his shoulder, back, legs. Fireballs exploded in his face and lightning bolts made his entire body shudder. His Soul Block should have been enough to stop the strikes around him, but the massive number of attacks that had come his way burned right through it, and he wasn’t able to cast another until the cooldown ended.
His health regeneration was absolutely massive, which was the only reason he was s...
2023-11-25 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 40 - That’s Not Cowardice
Heavy rain pelted down from the sky. Lightning flashed and thunder boomed. The storm was violent and all encompassing, yet still the noise of the Endless Horde overpowered it.
Xavier whipped his head left and right, eyeing the different portals in the area. He couldn’t see the portals behind the castle. Didn’t know exactly how many there were. At the far back ranks of the Endless Horde, in a circle that encompassed Queen Alastea’s castle, he’d counted hundreds of portals.
...
2023-11-24 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 39 - A Price Worth Paying
Xavier quickly realised that what he had on his hands was a damned math problem.
At the rate he was gaining Mastery Points, he would need to kill over nine hundred E Grade enemies. It might even be more, though that was difficult to know. Though each level he gained needed more Mastery Points than the last, he usually gained more Mastery Points from each new E Grade he faced, as they tended to be higher level than the previous wave bosses—he hoped it would balance out.
Else he w...
2023-11-23 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 38 - This Choice Has Consequences
Title Unlocked!
All 1,000: This is a common title that everyone receives when they have reached 1,000 stat points in all 6 attributes.
You have received +20 to all stats!
Title Unlocked!
First All 1,000: You are the first person from your world to reach 1,000 stat points in all 6 attributes.
You have received +40 to all stats!
Xavier grinned, reading the no...
2023-11-22 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 37 - Too Good to Be True
Xavier had thought he’d been pushing himself as hard as he could go. He’d thought he’d been testing and stretching his limits more than perhaps anyone else ever had.
He’d been wrong.
With each new wave that came, Xavier made more and more progress.
Though he received no notifications for Tissue Regeneration, as it did not appear to be a skill, he could feel it at work. Xavier would have thought that Toughness, given its ability to heal, would make a trait li...
2023-11-21 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 36 - Several Plans
Clouds drifted in front of the moon, further dimming the darkness of the night. Xavier held one of the Elemental Hydra’s fangs between his thumb and forefinger. Moving it left and right in the torch’s light. He didn’t need the torchlight to see—he saw plenty well in the dark these days. But it did help him see the details.
The fang was whiter than he’d imagined it would be. He hadn’t even needed to clean it. He would have thought a beast like that would have yellowed teeth, ...
2023-11-18 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 35 - Battle Mind
“Xavier!” Hands shook his shoulders. He barely registered them. Barely registered his name being called. “Xavier! The wave has started!”
All Xavier could do was stare at the notification he’d just received.
F Grade Denizen’s muscular structure considered volatile.
He stared at the countdown timer. It kept ticking down, and down, and down.
Degeneration Countdown Timer: 47 hours 59 minutes and 41 seconds.
Degenerati...
2023-11-17 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 34 - Override Not Recommended
Xavier released a grunt of pain as the hydra fang shard slid down his throat. Far stronger than the Wolven Fang and Wolven Claw, the shard easily sliced him up, leaving blood pouring from the cuts.
He swallowed several times, knowing the wounds shouldn’t take long to heal, briefly wondering if the damned Elemental Hydra had been venomous on top of everything else.
It wouldn’t have been venomous. It was an elementalbeast.
Besides, he hadn’t seen any ve...
2023-11-16 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 33 - Here Goes Nothing
Running has reached Rank 13!
Running has reached Rank 14!
Running has reached Rank 15!
Biological impurities of Wolven Fang have been further assimilated into muscular structure.
You have gained +2 Strength!
…
You have gained +2 Strength!
…
You have gained +...
2023-11-15 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 32 - Just Following Orders
For a moment, Xavier thought he might be hallucinating.
The first enemy he saw as he climbed out of that hole in the ground was a soldier with a scraggly beard smoking… a pipe? The man was backing away, eyes wide, the pipe sagging from his mouth.
The man had a spear resting on his shoulder. He shrugged it up, spinning it until the blade faced Xavier.
Xavier sighed. He tried not to think about the individual soldiers in the mess of the Endless Horde. Tried not to think abou...
2023-11-14 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post