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...
2025-10-14 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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For an entire year within the time dilation field at the Roving Seed Base, Xavier felt confident suspending his instruction of his students to pursue his goal of mastering—at least to a degree—Pocket Time Stream.
This was the only period in which Xavier stopped participating in their shared meals. Gaining proficiency for himself would only help him guide the others toward gaining the same, and they didn’t resent nor mind that he would essentially be in seclusion for this time. The...
2025-10-14 18:00:09 +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...
2025-10-13 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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It was five years ago by RSD time that Xavier had experienced the A Grade Time mage’s memory and attained the spell pattern for Pocket Time Stream.
It had come as an absolute shock that the exact thing he needed to permanently learn the spell was in the Information Packet he’d received. It took a great deal of training and skill to be able to read the blueprint that was a spell pattern in one’s own mind, let alone in another’s. Xavier, having taught eight people besides hi...
2025-10-13 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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As always, I get really excited for one of my books to hit Amazon!
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Xavier ended up spending at least three hours each with Michael, Rebecca, Rose, Kelly, Miranda, Howard, Siobhan, and Justin on their final day in the Roving Seed Base—a day that ended up being much longer than twenty-four-hours by the end of it.
As always, he was thoroughly impressed with each of their abilities. While all eight of them had the same class and much of the same advantages, none of their fighting styles were all that alike, nor were the majority of the spells they chose ...
2025-10-09 18:00:06 +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 ...
2025-10-09 18:00:06 +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...
2025-10-08 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Xavier sat on one of the couches inside his massive library. The main room of his house inside the Roving Seed Base was three times larger than it had been when it had first been grown. He snapped the book he’d just finished reading closed and gazed out at the shelves.
Every single one of the shelves lining the walls was packed so full of books that he’d had to stack them horizontally atop the ones shelved vertically. Xavier liked to keep his physical books sorted by genre and subje...
2025-10-08 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
2025-10-07 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Ten years?” Xavier asked.
“At minimum,” Howard replied. “We think it would be enough time for us all to gain a strong foundation and push through to high D Grade like you are now, at least for us three.” He nodded at Siobhan and Justin. “Especially when you move this base to other worlds and expand the time dilation field to cover training grounds filled with beasts and high-level dungeons, as we know you intend.”
Xavier intended to do a lot more than that. ...
2025-10-07 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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For Xavier, another year had gone by since his cores had been shattered.
This year had been different to the others. Different to any he’d had his entire life. Because he hadn’t spent the time alone.
Living at home with his mother, before he’d left and found his own place when he’d went to university, he’d never felt like he was a part of a family. Never felt like he had a home. In the evenings, if he ate dinner with his mother, it was often in silence. If it wasn’t in...
2025-10-06 18:00:10 +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...
2025-10-06 18:00:09 +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...
2025-10-02 19:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Days, weeks, and months rolled by as Xavier trained his old party members inside the Roving Seed Base.
It didn’t take long for Howard and Siobhan to gain the ability to split their minds, though to Xavier it felt like a long time. Two weeks went by until Siobhan gained the skill. Two weeks after that, Howard gained it too. They had a theory about why that might be—Howard had been an unenhanced, mortal human for far longer than the other three. The neural pathways in his mind, and th...
2025-10-02 19:00:05 +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...
2025-10-01 19:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Xavier’s old party members stepped into the clearing that had just formed in the forest, staring around at the structures that had sprouted from the ground—the four three-bedroom houses on the left and the large tavern-like building on the right.
“Whoa.” Justin looked about. “This is much nicer than the last clearing you trained in, I have to say.”
“Is this a Seed Sanctuary, like Collinsville?” Siobhan frowned as she looked at the edges of the clearing. “There ar...
2025-10-01 19:00:07 +0000 UTC
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In a dark tavern a mere few minutes before dawn’s kiss would bless Collinsville with its golden light, Justin sat at the edge of his seat.
Xavier still had that same foolish grin on his face. He raised his chin and summoned a mug of coffee from his Storage Ring. Steam wafted from the mug, and he took a small, casual sip.
“So, what did you find out?” Justin asked. “Come on, man! The suspense is killing me!” He looked as though he would jump right out of his chair.
X...
2025-09-30 19:00:07 +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 ...
2025-09-30 19:00:07 +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...
2025-09-29 19:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Another System!?” Justin had been sipping tea and did a spit take. He wiped his mouth after his outburst. “Wait… So… You’re telling me you advanced in another System? What… What does that even mean?”
Siobhan, wide-eyed, shook her head. “That’s insane, Xavier. Like, a totally new level of insane for you.” Her voice sounded calm, but Xavier sensed the amount of control she was forcing on it.
“How the hell...
2025-09-29 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Sitting in the corner table in Collinsville’s main tavern, Xavier considered the best way to answer Siobhan’s question.
Before he replied, Justin raised an eyebrow at the redheaded woman. “The man just got back here. Who knows how many months he spent inside that time dilation field. Maybe the questions can wait a few minutes?”
Siobhan blinked, shook her head, looking a little sheepish at the young swordsman’s sudden admonishment. “Right, sorry.” She smiled again. ...
2025-09-25 19:00:06 +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...
2025-09-25 19:00:05 +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...
2025-09-24 19:00:06 +0000 UTC
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This notification has been translated from a competing System Version.
You have discovered your Reality Core.
You have gained a new energy source: Reality Energy.
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Translating related information…
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You have already partially adapted to the new energies inside of you when you underwent the proces...
2025-09-24 19:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2025-09-23 19:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Xavier stared at the strange notification with a blank look on his face.
He had seen System Errors before, but he’d never seen anything like this. Universe Iteration? He imagined that referred to his universe, though which universe that was had been redacted—which was something he’d definitely not seen before.
And… System Version?
He’d never supposed that there would be different versions of the System, but now he realised he was foolish ...
2025-09-23 19:00:05 +0000 UTC
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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 had told him The Collector was a fearful man.
Now, Xavier had felt just how fearful the man was.
...
2025-09-22 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Eleven years.
Xavier had aged eleven years since the System had been integrated, yet only a fraction of that time had actually passed.
After the time dilation field had abruptly shut down, Xavier drew another Time Alteration spell pattern and sat, cross-legged in the middle of the clearing with his eyes closed.
He hadn’t intended to spend so much time experiencing the changes his body had gone through before looking inward. He was still blown away by what had happened—by...
2025-09-22 19:00:07 +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...
2025-09-18 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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