Chapter 568: Surge
Before, the soldiers all wore stern, battle-ready faces. Now, each and every one of them looked scared out of their minds. That was for good reason. In the time it took for Wri to crawl over to his severed leg and yell for help from the healer, the healer had already lost his life. There was no Dying State when you were split vertically down the middle, after all.
Jace, in his frenzy, didn’t pull any punches this time. Even during his fight with the Gua...
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[A/N: Won't be here tomorrow, so making this available to first tier tonight.]
Chapter 567: Wri
Wri dashed forward with his razor-like claws and swiped at Jace’s midsection with a speed barely visible to those watching. Jace, however, was able to see it just fine, and brought a kukri down to block both claws. After that, Jace let out a kick and pushed himself off and away from the angry, charging lizardman.
“Is that all you got?” Jace asked mockingly. “If that...
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Chapter 566: Expectations Vs. Reality
Derek put his communication crystal away and smiled as Braxton and Avery made their way back up to the top of the wall after their battle.
“That was too easy!” Braxton said once he made it to the top. “Could have just sent me or Avery. Didn’t need both of us.”
“It would have been better for you if you hadn’t gone,” Natalie said.
“Oh?” Braxton turned and looked at the small woman. “And why is that?”
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Chapter 565: You Are Evil
Braxton and Avery finally crossed the boundary of the Stronghold. They were minutes, if not seconds, away from being within range of the invading army. “Are you ready for this, little man?” Braxton asked Avery as the figure of the army grew larger and larger.
“Did you… just call me ‘little man’?” Avery looked down at Braxton and frowned.
“You are scrawny,” Braxton said. “Need some more meat on your bones. Some brew and a d...
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Chapter 564: A Little Fun
Things were quiet over the next five days. Derek had returned to Savannah and told everyone what happened at the teleportation array. After his fight with ‘The Indomitable,’ Derek was feeling a little better about everything. Sure, the centaur was lower on the Champions list, but Derek was almost certain that Avery would have been able to beat him in a one-on-one fight. Then again, Avery just happened to be a good match for someone with ‘The Indomitable...
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Chapter 563: All But Secured
During the same time that Derek and Jace were fighting their respective battles, Darvin, Amelia, and a large group of high-level soldiers marched on after being forced to evacuate their teleportation array and the protective circle around it.
“Has anyone been able to get in touch with Awery?!” Darvin shouted at the people surrounding him. They had individuals constantly keeping an eye on the System Invasion status sheet and had known the instant th...
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Edit because Silvi mad that Patreon spoils with post preview and I'm too dumb to figure out exactly what else to do other than add a different pic to beginning of post.
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Chapter 562: The Indomitable
Earlier…
Derek appeared just in front of the horse-like man. Instead of widening in shock, the centaur’s eyes narrowed, and a pair...
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Chapter 561: Me? I'm Jace
Vendra blurred, and in the next instant, she was ten feet away from the man. Not even a second later, Aria appeared behind him and stabbed out with her daggers. Unsurprisingly, to Vendra, she watched with a gloating expression as her sister’s magical daggers found their way into the weak points of the man’s armor. She almost laughed as her sister pulled them out and saw the explosion of blood that came with them.
“Ow!” the man half-shouted....
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Chapter 560: The Invasion Has Begun
The countdown struck zero, and all the arrays throughout the kingdom brightened so much that even Derek wanted to take his eyes away from the sight. He didn’t, however, take his eyes off the arrays. He wanted to see if he could learn anything about them at all.
Surprisingly, he did. One of the arrays didn’t light up as much as the others. I bet that fewer people were sent to that one, he thought. I wonder if that is just ...
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[A/N: I'm also going to try to do at least three chapters a week for the next few weeks as long as my brain can keep up. I really need to take a seminar hosted by Actus or Zogarth about how to output like them without burning out.]
Chapter 559: Countdown
Derek put the communication crystal away after speaking with Osian. He sighed, then looked up at everyone.
“Well?” Avery asked.
“Osian and Edgar have already been in contact,” Derek said. “Edgar and Va...
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[A/N: I added one of the notifications below in bolded regular text in case Patreon's images don't show well on certain devices. Just note that the text should be in the Davenresh System text box--which is also added as an image below the bolded rules text. Sorry for the interruption.]
Chapter 558: Protocols
“You’ve got to be joking,” Natalie said with a grimace. Then, in almost a whisper, she said, “This is going to cost so much money.”
“We’ll see,” D...
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Chapter 557: Battle Instincts
Jace was sitting in his command tent, staring into space, while his squad’s blacksmith, Rodrick, gathered up his broken kukri and pieces of armor to see if anything was salvageable. Some time ago, he had declined the system’s request to become a Champion. So what if I miss out on a few rewards? he thought.
His Battle Instincts skill had never let him down before, and he was sure that it wasn’t going to now. The skill had taken ov...
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Chapter 556: Guardians & Champions
In a certain noble estate in the Kingdom of Draylanthi, two figures sat alone in a sitting room. One was a noble-looking older gentleman with short white hair and a stern expression on his face. The other person was short, wore a hooded robe from head to toe, and was kicked back in a very comfortable-looking chair. Just under the hood, one could see a slight grin forming on his face.
“Now, this is certainly an interesting thing to see durin...
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Chapter 555: Ascending Monarch
Derek smiled as he looked around the dinner table at everyone. Silvi cooking for everyone each night had become commonplace over the last couple of weeks. She always cooked every once in a while for everyone—but cooked constantly for herself—but lately, she’d been doing it more and more often. Derek would say that it was because she was enjoying seeing everyone eating her food more and more, but in reality, he knew that she was just using it a...
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Chapter 554: Too Important to Fail
Imagining how much more powerful the armor would have been if it didn’t have a cooldown, Derek shook his head and smiled. This is already overkill in so many ways, he thought. Having a two-hour cooldown is already much shorter than my Starfury Boots—which doesn’t even say how long the cooldown is on them. I can actually plan a bit around this armor if there comes a time when I’m stuck fighting for hours on end.
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Chapter 553: Void’s Embrace
“Void’s Embrace?” Shaemus asked. After a few moments, his smile grew wider, and he nodded his head. “Void’s Embrace… That is a grand name. It is fitting for such a set of armor.” The smith held his palm out, then stepped forward. “If you would please be still for a moment,” he said as he placed his hand on the chest of the armor. “This armor will forever be known as Void’s Embrace.”
An almost imperceptible shot of mana f...
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Chapter 552: Another
The next nine days went by in what felt like no time at all. Yes, nine whole days. Shaemus had given Derek an estimate of a few days, but, in reality, for some reason, it took over a week. In that time, Derek traveled around the continent, leveling his new resistance skills. Surprisingly, the Origin System shot Derek a notification when a skill leveled, so even though he couldn’t see them at all times, he at least knew when they leveled.
Of all the re...
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Chapter 551: Ways to Improve
King Darius wasn’t amused by Derek’s use of his Throne Room to teleport out of Stonehelm, but Braxton really seemed to get a kick out of it. It seemed like anything one brother could do to irritate the other was exactly the option that particular brother chose. Derek found it to be a pretty nice relationship between siblings. He also found himself liking Darius more than some… most… all the other kings he’d met—at least based on first ...
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Chapter 550: Attune
Darius nodded towards a dwarf standing close to him, and the man came forward and bowed to Derek. “If you would follow me, sir,” he said.
“Lead the way,” Derek said. He turned to Darius and nodded at the king. “I guess I’ll see you later.”
“Sure…” Darius said with a slight roll of his eyes, and Derek chuckled.
The next dozen or so minutes were spent with Derek following along behind the dwarf. The man led him out of the pa...
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Chapter 549: Downtime
It wasn’t lost on Derek that he had just called for a meeting with possibly the world’s strongest fighters—or at least those who held the most power on the continent—and they listened. He’d also dismissed them like he was in charge, and they’d obeyed. I guess that just reinforces the idea that might makes right… he thought as he watched everyone leave the room one by one.
Braxton and Edgar were the first two to leave. They were both hea...
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A/N: Let's do this meeting in one...
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Chapter 548: Where to Begin?
“How about you tell us how the armor and weapons are coming along? You said that the blacksmiths are hard at work already?” Derek asked.
“Yes,” Edgar replied with a nod. “Tyron, Shaemus, Braxton, and I paid a visit to Malorie and worked out what materials you had that would be useful. Avery also allowed them to go through ...
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Chapter 547: Leadership
With Silvi and his new temporary status sheet taken care of, Derek turned his attention to the final notification from the Origin System that he had waiting for him.
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Congratulations!
New Title Unlocked!
User cannot currently receive Titles.
Would you like to ascend to receive Title?
…
Derek snorted at the notificati...
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Chapter 546: Always
Okay… Derek thought. Let’s do this.
Oh… He shook his head. I guess Dave can control what the notifications say through the Davenresh System, then? Honestly, before his talks with Dave, Derek would have been taken aback, or at least very surprised by receiving a notification like the one he did. However, knowing more abo...
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Chapter 545: Error
Derek slowly opened his eyes and let out an enormous yawn. After all the time spent traveling through the deep part of the void, it had taken him no time to fall asleep. Even with all his stats, it still surprised him how much mental fatigue could drain him. He could go weeks, or even months, without a wink of sleep if he didn’t do anything taxing. While meditation could stave off a lot of the problems, sleep was still the only real way he had found to completely re...
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Chapter 544: The Other One
“Surely it is not as bad as you make it seem,” Darvin said to Kelvin.
“Darvin, if Derek Hunt is a part of that system, and whatever is happening requires us to face off with users of said system, then we are in trouble,” Kelvin said. “The man used maybe four skills to beat me… maybe… and he probably only needed two… if any. He is able to shift his body in a way that I was unable to notice… even while I had a grasp on his wrist.
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Chapter 543: You’re Kidding Me
Derek stood beside the crimson man, looking down on him as he watched the fire wielder recover. Slowly but surely, the man recovered enough to sit up on his own, then even managed to stand upright. Coming back from a Dying State was not pleasant, and Derek couldn’t help but wonder how many times the man before him had done so. Derek himself had to do so on more than one occasion back before getting trapped in the void. Fortunately, since landing...
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Chapter 542: I Wouldn’t Do That
“I wouldn’t do that,” Derek said as he looked down at the red hand clenching his wrist.
“I would rather not, as well,” Kelvin said. “But I was sent down here with a mission, and with my current position, I have been ordered to eliminate the threat.” He glanced at the bracelet on his hand, which Derek saw was flashing.
“This won’t end well for you,” Derek said. “And honestly, I was kind of starting to like you.”...
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Chapter 541: Boiled?
“What am I?” Derek asked back. He rubbed his chin as if he were in deep thought, then answered, “I’m Derek, but you seem to already know that.” Inwardly, he thought, I don’t know how this is going to play out. Does he know about the upcoming system clash?
“That is very obvious,” Kelvin said, narrowing his eyes. “That does not explain how you are here, why you are here, why the system doesn’t view you as a part of it, or why you alm...
2025-04-01 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 540: What. Are. You?
“Jace…” Earth Silvi muttered as a massive, visible shiver ran down her spine. “Yes… I’ve… heard from him. Though, not recently.”
“Oh?” Derek asked. He could understand the woman’s reaction completely. It wasn’t like Jace was the nicest guy to be around, though, Derek could never actually say that he was evil or anything. He’d met people on Cydaria that far outclassed Jace when it came to being vile. Yeah…&nbs...
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A/N: The surgery went... I want to say well. I'll know more after my one week post-op tomorrow. Definitely seeing better--about the same as I did with my glasses, maybe a little worse, but the vision is supposed to gradually get better over the next month or so.
Writing is still pretty tough. Mostly because I have to be so close to computer screens to do it. I have to take a long break with eye drops after about ten to fifteen minutes of writing to keep my eyes feeling okay. Just means...
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