Thump, thump, thump.
Xavier felt his heartbeat. It was the only damned thing he could feel from his own body. Not that he knew how that could be possible.
He could also feel that it was slowing.
Thump… thump… thump…
He couldn’t access his health, not with his body unconscious. He couldn’t use any of his own spells. Couldn’t bring up any System notifications at all.
Xavier could still barely believe it. That the thing that was about t...
2023-11-11 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Xavier briefly glimpsed the notification that popped up in his vision. Willpower Infusion had ranked up by three the instant one part of his split consciousness had slammed into the thrall he was now controlling.
God, this is weird. Xavier had been through a lot of weird stuff since he’d been integrated into the System. He’d been yanked from his normal life. Taken to the void and judged. He’d killed countless enemies, reaped countless souls, and now he was contro...
2023-11-10 05:04:46 +0000 UTC
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First came the darkness. What had once been clear as day turned instantly to the blackest night. Then sound was muffled. The constant clash and rumble of the battlefield drifted away, like it was miles in the distance instead of a few feet above his head.
Though he could still hear low rumbled above him, the contrast made it feel like the deepest silence he’d ever experienced, after being in that battle for so long, wave after wave, for going on six weeks.
Dirt walloped him in t...
2023-11-09 06:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Xavier’s blade brought death all around him. Soultaker carved through armour and necks as though there was no resistance at all. It made him wonder what a stronger weapon would be able to do, for this blade could only do such things because it was infused with his Spirit Energy.
He barely felt the extra points in Strength that he’d gained. Twelve points didn’t make a wild enough difference when you already had over seven hundred.
But returning to the battlefield, facing that...
2023-11-08 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Attempting to assimilate Wolven Fang into muscular structure…
Pain stabbed at his stomach. But it was nowhere near as intense as the pain he’d felt when he’d first done this, as though that first time had eased the way for the second.
A minute or so passed until another notification appeared.
Assimilation in progress…
The material you are assimilating has various properties.
2023-11-07 02:09:34 +0000 UTC
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Rolland had no classes on the days of his apprenticeship, and Jolm sent him back to the academy early every day, which left him with a lot of spare time.
The first day he’d walked straight back to the academy and got some extra time in the library. But, after awhile, he started to get a little braver. He began wandering the streets of Ashrennon, trying to get a feel for the place he’d lived in all his life, but had been locked away from for the past five years of it.
At first,...
2023-11-06 06:10:39 +0000 UTC
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Xavier dumped the corpse of the Bear King onto the battlement’s stone floor. The massive beastman lay on its back, wings splayed, reaching from one wall to the other. Its armour was dented, bloodied, and had massive rents through it where Xavier’s blade had cut through.
Kiralla stared at the corpse, then raised an eyebrow at Xavier. “Why, pray tell, did you bring this specimen here?”
Xavier nudged the dead beastman with a foot. He faced Howard. “I know the three of you h...
2023-11-04 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Purple mist flowed from Xavier’s Soulblade and floated through the air. When it hit the fully-armoured, E Grade Winged Bear it just… dissipated. Xavier felt the barest of connections to the beastman’s mind. A connection that lasted no more than a split second.
What he felt was a mind built like a fortress. One completely impenetrable to his mind control.
The beastman smiled.
Now, Xavier had never seen a bear smile before. He didn’t think such an action was p...
2023-11-03 06:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Xavier leant back against the parapet, arms still crossed at his chest, and frowned at Siobhan. He’d tried so hard to get Assimilate Properties to work that he couldn’t help but suspect she must be wrong about this. He didn’t voice his doubts, however—that would have just been rude.
“What does he have to do?” Justin asked. The teenage duellist stood straight with a hand resting on the pommel of his sword. There was something different about him, as though he’d changed in t...
2023-11-02 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Xavier had to formulate a plan. Had to think outside the box the System had put him into.
During the break between waves, despite it being the longest break he’d had in a while, he’d struggled to make any actual progress. All he’d really done was look at his stats and realise his plan had been a foolish one.
If he sped his way straight to E Grade, he could be missing out on a grand opportunity.
But doing the math? He needed to gain thirty levels before he woul...
2023-11-01 06:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Xavier surveyed the battlefield. His heart beating as hard and incessantly as the war drums that sounded at the start of each wave. His dark, Shrouded Robes were covered in the blood of his enemies to such a degree that they weighed him down as he walked, as though he’d jumped into a lake of the stuff.
He drew in a deep breath.
The battlefield was clear. For the first time in hours, the battlefield was clear. He’d managed to defeat all four of the E Grade bosses in a way he’...
2023-10-31 05:08:19 +0000 UTC
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Rolland, hood up and head down, stared at Advisor Jolm and Detector Jedri’s shoes. Following at the heels of men who knew their way made navigating the inner city’s bustling streets far easier than it had been earlier that morning.
Rolland trailed behind Adviser Jolm, who trailed behind Detector Jedri. Jolm seemed every bit the subservient adviser in Jedri’s presence, almost as if he were a different person. Rolland had hoped the relationship between adviser and advised would be m...
2023-10-31 04:48:50 +0000 UTC
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Siobhan gripped the parapet, her forehead deeply lined. She’d barely moved from that spot for the past few hours. She didn’t know how to.
They’d learnt so much in that damned library, and none of it would actually help Xavier. Not out there. Not right now.
All she could bloody well do was stand there and watch. Even if Xavier wanted her and the others in the fight, what possible difference would they be able to make now that he and the enemies were so far ahead of t...
2023-10-28 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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An immense pressure filled Xavier’s mind, a pressure that he’d never before experienced.
The strand of energy between himself and the E Grade boss he now controlled was more solid than any he’d used yet, but it came at a cost, one he hadn’t realised until the spell connected his mind to the beastman’s.
Energy streamed out of Xavier’s secondary core, and it wasn’t the cost of the spell he was feeling, for that had already been paid.
What the hell?
2023-10-27 06:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Skill upgrades? Xavier thought, quickly reading the two notifications that popped up. Though he was getting used to reading notifications while in the middle of battle, he wondered if a time would ever come when it felt normal.
When will any of this feel normal?
Aura-Control skill has been upgraded! Aura-Control now incorporates two cores.
Core Strength skill has been upgraded! Core Strength now incorporates two cores.
<...
2023-10-26 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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For the first time in five years, Rolland walked down the cobblestone streets of Ashrennon.
A gentle breeze tugged on his robes and he sighed. It was spring, the sun warmed his skin. A beautiful day.
He raised his head and wondered how he’d navigate the city looking at the ground the entire time. He settled for his head down, eyes up, as he walked out of the academy’s grounds. He ran the map of the city through his mind. The academy was in the centre of the inner city...
2023-10-26 04:11:14 +0000 UTC
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Four years later…
Finally. I get to set foot outside of this place.
Rolland had spent five years cooped up in the Dreamtouched Academy. Five years where he only saw the outside through a window, or from the roof of the tower. Now, at sixteen, he would be apprenticed to an adviser. For three days of the week, he would work at an experienced dreamtouched’s side.
Outside of the academy’s walls.
He didn’t know wh...
2023-10-25 06:22:11 +0000 UTC
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Author's note: I've unearthed an old manuscript that I've been wanting to polish off for a long time. I have a good portion of the first draft written, and have been thinking about going through and finishing the book on the side (with no particular deadline/posting schedule, so it won't interfere with Accidental Chapmion).
As I go through it, I'll post chapters here for people on Tier 2 and above to gauge interest in the story, and add it to the pinned table of...
2023-10-25 06:19:26 +0000 UTC
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Willpower Infusion – Rank 1
Upgrade Quest:
As you have now used this spell, you have begun your first step on the path to upgrading it to Rank 2.
Available paths:
1. Willpower Infusion (Defensive) – Infuse defensive Willpower Energy into armour and oneself to gain magical and mental resistance, physical and mental resilience, and confidence ...
2023-10-25 05:10:05 +0000 UTC
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Congratulations, you have completed your Spell Quest and gained the spell Willpower Infusion!
This spell is locked to your secondary core and cannot be forgotten.
As Xavier read the notification’s text, he sent a 300-infused Soul Strike all around him, clearing his immediate area, and gulped down another Lesser Health Potion. He would have to start doing that more often, and he would surely run out soon enough.
He then read the full descri...
2023-10-24 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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No, he thought. It can’t be. Not yet!
Had the wave come faster than the others? Had… had the System changed the rules on him?
Xavier gripped his scythe-staff tightly in both hands as he clenched his jaw, struggling to believe what was happening.
It couldn’t already be the next wave! He still had perhaps a quarter of this wave left. Had the enemies really grown that much stronger that he’d slowed down that much?
Or wa...
2023-10-21 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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As Xavier tore through one foe after another, fighting wave one-thousand-and-one of the Endless Horde on the fifth floor of the Tower of Champions, he fell into a deep meditative state. Meditation was possible while fighting—it helped him to gain new insights into battle strategy—but at the same time it tended to slow his effectiveness.
It was difficult for him to split his mind too many ways, and no matter how much combat he’d experienced these weeks since Earth’s integration, ...
2023-10-20 06:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Xavier took a step back and swallowed. The werewolf-beast didn’t seem phased by the strike he’d just landed on its neck. The gash already looked fully healed. The green glow about the beast from what must have been a Speed Infusion was still present—if anything, it seemed to glow brighter than before. But maybe that was his imagination.
I need to act. Need to kill this thing. Fast.
Xavier didn’t have a timer telling him when the next wave would come, but he knew i...
2023-10-19 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The thousandth wave boss looked like something from a nightmare.
It stood maybe twelve feet tall, nowhere near as large at the Giant Wolven, but terrifying nonetheless.
God, it looks like a bloody werewolf.And, considering Xavier wasn’t able to scan the damned thing, for all he knew it could be a werewolf. Xavier glanced up at the dark sky. Only one of this world’s two moons were full. Would a werewolf need them both?
He shook his head.
I can...
2023-10-18 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hundreds of level 90 Giant Wolven leapt at Xavier. The beasts were each the size of buses and seemed to be carved almost entirely from muscle. Their fur was dark grey and spiked. Their eyes glowed a fierce red. Even when darkness fell upon this world, as it had now, those eyes were visible. As the waves of the Endless Horde had become progressively stronger over those first few days, Xavier had wondered if they would just continue to grow larger and larger. He’d had this absurd image of Wol...
2023-10-17 06:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Sitting on the flagstone floor of the castle’s battlements, deep in concentration, Xavier sharpened his focus to a point and aimed it toward what he’d just sensed.
As he’d followed the Spirit Lines within him that led to his primary core, he’d noticed a discrepancy. The energy he could sense all around him, the energy that entered his body and flowed through the Spirit Lines all the way to his Spirit Core, was Celestial Energy. A pure energy that could theoretically be put towar...
2023-10-14 06:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Wave one thousand,” Adviser Kalren said. The man sat at a small table on the battlements, one that had been brought up from the inn weeks ago. He held a quill in his hand, poised over a long scroll. It was an odd sight, like seeing an accountant working next to a battlefield.
“What?” Xavier asked, sure he couldn’t have heard that right. “Wave… that’s the thousandth wave?”
Kalren pointed toward a number on the left-hand side of the scroll, hovering his q...
2023-10-13 04:48:51 +0000 UTC
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Hi all!
As you can see, I'm back from my hiatus and have posted a chapter. I'll be posting another chapter or two this week, and should be back to my normal schedule next week. I'm easing back into the story and will surely gain a rhythm again soon.
I just wanted to thank you all for your continued support!
2023-10-12 22:54:26 +0000 UTC
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Two weeks had passed since Xavier, Howard, Siobhan and Justin had entered the fifth floor of the Tower of Champions.
Xavier, sitting upon the cold stone of the battlements, opened his mind to the world. To the universe. Sinking into a deep meditative state, he opened himself up to everything. Whenever he did this, the power of the millions of auras outside the walls—those limitless waves of the Endless Horde—threatened to overwhelm his mind.
But it was easy...
2023-10-12 05:01:39 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
I've just uploaded Surgecaller 9 to the bookfunnel website, and added all of your emails (people on tier 2 and above) for access.
To get your book, just log into the BookFunnel app or my.bookfunnel.com using the email address you used to sign-up to my Patreon.
Let me know if you have any issues, and I'll send it a different way!
I'll be taking down the chapters for Creation over the next few...
2023-09-27 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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