Standing in the middle of a large, frozen landscape, an army surrounding him at his back, front, and both flanks, Xavier watched as two portals on either side of him appeared—portals big enough that not a single one of his enemies ranged attacks would get through.
The attacks slipped straight through the portal and fell back on those that had cast them. The twin portals to the ones he had created had materialised directly above the ranged attackers.
Dozens of kill notifications ...
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Xavier gritted his teeth, the beam slamming straight into him, overwhelming Saving Grace.
He cast Bulwark again, and again, and again. But it never lasted long enough—the beam kept breaking straight through. He used Shield Wall, but the same thing happened until both spells were exhausted and the beam was slamming straight into him.
He could not use Soul Block or Saving Grace again.
There was a further protection—Xavier’s Body Cultivation skill reinforcing his body. No...
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[Author note: Bonus Chapter]
Inside the mausoleum, in the Deathly Dungeon, with undead breaking out of their crypts all around Xaiver, the young dragon Volkarin burst from the Companion Cube.
The dragon expanded his wings and sniffed the air.
“Where are your enemies? What happened?” Volkarin hadn’t been summoned since before Xavier had been about to face the C Grade Elite Hunt Squad. The young dragon’s eyes were wide as he looked around the mau...
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[Author note: Bonus Chapter]
The Spirit of Protection is working its power through you. You have gained access to 5 limited use spells.
Bulwark - 6/6 uses remaining
A protective barrier against both physical and magical attacks that protects those within it.
Shield Wall - 6/6 uses remaining
A temporary barrier that will prevent enemy access. Typically used to...
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[Author note: Bonus Chapter]
Xavier’s wings slowly flapped as he stared down at the Demon of the Depths crawling out of the once-frozen river of ice.
The Thirty-First Descent was proving to be far more difficult than he’d imagined. The only exit—as far as he knew, it wasn’t as though he’d gotten a chance to test it—was inside of that tower. That was where he had seen the mist that had teleported him to this world.
He bit his lip. He could
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[Patch Note: Previously, I mistakenly said Xavier updated Farscope from 100-foot radius to 1,000-foot radius, while originally it had been 100-metre radius.
I’ve changed this to updated to 1,000-metre radius, which is what I had in my head. I’m Australian and I’m used to metric, I just accidentally put feet in there. Sorry about any confusion that might have caused!]
Xavier dodged the different tentacles of the C Grade, Level 399 Demon of th...
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Class Grafting was more sinister than Xavier expected it to be, though he supposed it was all in the name.
It required two things—a skilled Inscriber, and the corpse of someone whom you wished to “become.”
At the first instance, Xavier couldn’t help but be repulsed by the idea. He was no stranger to killing, but seeking someone out in such a way…
“There’s a black market for these sorts of things,” Alexic had told him, back when he’d been in the war room in ...
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Xavier had remained on the moon that held the hunting grounds until the Portal Block had been lifted. Another Portal Block did not come into effect.
He had worried that it would.
When he’d left the Chains that Bind and the Divine Helper alive, he’d thought it might be a huge mistake. If they lived, and reported back to their B Grade master, couldn’t they simply lock down the world for longer? Until reinforcements could arrive? They might not know his exact loca...
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Xavier made his way up the mountain on the Thirty-First Descent of the Hell Moon Thazamar, killing pack after pack of Amalgamons with his new tactic. As powerful as it was, however, he wasn’t going to use this tactic for all 1,000 clears of the floor.
It wasn’t because the tactic would get boring—though he knew that it might, after a while, he’d developed enough patience that he could see himself grinding in this way for as long as necessary, if need be—but because these Amalg...
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Check out that cover art--this is from roughly the end of book 4. I think you'll remember this scene.
I'm really excited for this book to hit Amazon. If you guys can, it would be amazing if you left a review or downloaded it on Kindle Unlimited. If you want to buy it, go for it. Or even just sharing that it's out on social media would be awesome!
Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRWCDK57
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Xavier stood on a frozen tundra beneath a massive, tall mountain.
Roars sounded in the distance. Roars he’d become familiar with.
He faced the direction the noise came from. Far ahead, he could see dark shapes on the pure snow. Drifts of white dust were kicked up by the many hooves of the stampeding Amalgamons that hurtled toward him as fast as their six legs could take them.
Xavier’s health was slowly ticking up. A little too slowly. At the speed which those demons were...
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Elspeth whirled around.
Elspeth: [Illuni? Where the hell did you go?]
Illuni: [I don’t know! But he’s coming back!]
Elspeth could feel the Divine Helper’s panic even through their party-connected Communication Stone. Illuni had always been prone to panicking, but never to this degree. She was, after all, a C Grade—and a very competent one at that, despite the way Elspeth thought about her.
Elspeth had felt her target, marked, jum...
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Xavier breathed heavily, his chest expanding and contracting. He stared at the man that was now in his control. The C Grade binding specialist.
I can’t believe that worked. The elf spirit, Rhaalir, was leaning forward, peering into the eyes of the binding specialist as he stood, a little slack jawed, stock-still, on the grass where the portal had taken them. Rhaalir waved a translucent hand in front of the man’s eyes and garnered no reaction—not that he was l...
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Xavier stood at the foot of the massive mountain that stretched high into the heavens of this cold, cold world. A tower loomed at one of the tallest peaks. He couldn’t help but wonder what might be up there.
He was on the Thirty-First Descent of the Hell Moon Thazamar, having been sent to an entirely different world to face these strange demonic foes.
Across from him, twenty feet away, stood a C Grade demon. A Level 370 Amalgamon with six legs, over a dozen tentacle-mouths that ...
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[Author note: Bonus Chapter]
“How long does this field of yours work for, anyway?”
The bored-sounding voice came from above Xavier. Xavier couldn’t respond. Couldn’t move. Couldn’t even blink his eyes.
The Chains that Bind stood over him, peering down at him as though waiting for a response that he surely knew wouldn’t be able to come.
Maybe you should have kept running, a voice sounded in his mind. Rhaalir appeared, s...
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[Author note: Here, have another bonus chapter.]
A grin flitted onto Xavier’s face as he soared above the snowy terrain, ascending the sides of the massive mountain toward the high peaks where he’d spotted the tower.
He vividly remembered the last time he flew above a snowy mountain—it was back on the hundredth floor, when he’d been facing the Skeletal Dragon and the Elemental Dragon.
I wonder what it would be like fighting those beasts now. Woul...
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[Author note: I hear you guys like bonus chapters.]
Thousands of Monstrosities lay dead around him and Yarien’s party. Their bodies were covered in black blood. The entire Thirtieth Descent looked like the set of some nightmarish horror movie.
Xavier didn’t intend to remain with the group for all the 1,000 clears of the Thirtieth Descent—he’d already gained that title. It was time for him to move on.
But he stayed for the first clear. He wanted to te...
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Xavier hovered in the air inside of his time dilation field, one dead enemy at his feet. It had taken him longer than he’d imagined to kill the Walking Shield, something he should have anticipated, but he’d whittled the man’s health down, slowly, methodically, after he’d broken through the tank’s barrier spells.
He hadn’t cast a single spell on the tank. He’d not wanted to waste any, as he had no cooldowns at his disposal.
Xavier couldn’t help but be a little disap...
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Xavier blinked at their question.
Yarien had asked him whether his Time Alteration spell could be used through a portal. Xavier had opened his mouth, then closed it abruptly, for he realised he… Didn’t know.
“I’ve never tried that. I’ve opened portals inside of a time dilation field, but I’ve never pushed a time dilation field through a portal before…”
His thoughts whirled and he wondered at the utility of being able to do something like that. H...
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Xavier lay on the ground, miles away from where he’d been fighting the C Grade Elite Hunt Squad.
Three arrows, invisible until they’d hit him, had made his right arm, right wing and both his legs completely immobile. Keeping his breathing steady was difficult, but he’d been through worse scrapes. Been in more danger. And he’d come out of it.
Hadn’t he?
Xavier pulled the remaining two arrows out of his legs. The skin had already healed around the wounds. Yanking the...
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Xavier was beginning to grow fond of the party he’d encountered.
They moved through the different descents of the Hell Moon Thazamar with an efficiency he’d never experienced before.
At first, Xavier had been humbled by their power—admittedly, he still was humbled by the power. They were his betters. Stronger than him in every way, and it was something he needed to never let himself forget.
But he felt something else as he watched them fight.
Eagerness.<...
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Sometime ago…
The entity was fiercely intelligent, yet scarcely aware of itself. Emotions had not been relevant to its evolution, and so it had never had any need for them.
It had knowledge of emotions. It knew what they were, even if it had little way of understanding them. It had knowledge of a great many things, for the entity consumed everything it came into contact with.
Everything.
As it consumed, it adapted. It grew abilities based upon the th...
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Xavier flew through the air above the clearing with the party of C Grades sent to capture him, a portal he’d summoned hovering between him and his enemies to act as a shield.
The Archer of Fortune’s arrow that had sailed through the portal slammed straight into the Chains that Bind. The man hadn’t been swift enough to dodge it. It hit him square in his exposed chest. Though the archer was clearly a damage dealer, the effect of the arrow seemed to be a crippling one. Despite the fa...
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Xavier was glad a fight didn’t end up happening with the party he’d encountered at the entrance to the Hell Moon Thazamar, and not only because their sponsor, Jhanku, was one of the most powerful Denizens in the entire universe.
These people were insanely powerful.
“Your turn, Yarien.” Maricus grinned.
They were on the Tenth Descent and moving through them incredibly fast. They’d already gained the 1,000 clear title for the first Nine Descents, and every time Xavie...
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Xavier stood, surrounded by a myriad of D Grade Great Shell corpses in an ancient forest on a moon somewhere in the Silver River sector. His Spirt Golem was back inside of his inventory. The young dragon that was his beast companion, Volkarin, was safe inside of his Comapanion Cube.
A C Grade Elite Hunt Squad comprising of four party members sent by Gregori, the B Grade from a neighbouring sector that was Alexic Kalcav’s former master, was currently searching for him.
Xavier was...
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Xavier intended to maintain an illusion of being a swordsman, just one that could control time. He didn’t bother hiding his wings. He wouldn’t be the only dragonkin in the universe capable of time manipulation, he was sure of that.
And who would be looking for him out here? Pretending to only wield a sword would be enough. Though he wondered if he should simply reveal his mastery of other weapons, too. It wasn’t as though that was in any information packet, considering he’d only...
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The Old One stood on the observation deck of his starship as it slowly moved through the different sectors of the Greater Universe.
The Old One didn’t marvel at what he’d seen, for he had seen much in the time that he’d been alive. Still, he couldn’t help but stare out of the clear window at the sights before him.
In all his tiame being alive, he hadn’t ventured this far from his sector before. Once, there was a time that he had gone to the very edges of space, where the...
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Xavier couldn’t answer all the questions that were swirling in his head after discovering those runes in the stairwell and casting Otherworldly Communion.
So he returned to the Thirtieth Descent, carving his time dilation field down the stairwell.
Still, the questions had stayed with him.
What was most worrying to him was the fact that the spirit he’d conjured through Otherworldly Communion—the demonic goat-thing—hadn’t known anything more about the woman than that...
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Xavier stared at the rune that was etched into the stairwell wall between the Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth Descent of the Hell Moon Thazamar.
He ran his palm along the wall. After having chiselled off the first layer of rock, the rune had been revealed. Just like the rune he’d drawn in the air to conjure a cool breeze, he could feel this one’s connection to wherever it drew its power from.
Touching a hand to the rune didn’t improve his perception of that connection, but it did...
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[Author note: Sorry about the delay. I didn't realise I scheduled this at 5PM my time instead of 5AM. Caught it only 11 hours after it was supposed to go out...]
Five hulking demons loomed over Xavier.
The demons were reminiscent of the Bladed Crawlers from the first floor, only these ones were twice as large and had twenty legs. Each of those legs was bladed like the crawlers had been, but the demons had a ranged attack that the crawlers had lacked ...
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