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Chapter 201: Monkey Business

AN: Chapter's a day late, but I still got it done!

Over the next few days, we continued doing jobs, making money, and charging up the Mana Batteries for the teleportation to the capital. Aliss and the rest of her crew ended up asking us to work together again, so most of what we did was teamed up with them. I wasn’t sure what ended up making Aliss change her mind—she’d originally said they would need a good reason to need the money enough to work together wit...

Chapter 200: Welcome to the Kingdom: Meeting

Jon Mourn sat at a desk in a calm, quiet room.

That peace was immediately interrupted when the door opened and one of his currently least favorite people walked through.

“Hello, miss Asmo,” Jon said as the woman walked in, back straight and silver-blonde hair falling down her spine.

“Greetings, Jon,” Asmo said. She stopped walking in the center of the room, facing him. The room was small and quaint, the office that was given to him within the royal castle. It was far...

Announcement: Short Break

Hello everyone,

I'm just putting this here to say that I'll be going on a short break. There will be no chapters from today through Wednesday of next week. Due to a mixture of me going out of town for that period, plus me still needing to do all of my schoolwork during that same time, I do not anticipate being able to find time to write on top of it all. Sorry if this is disappointing to any of you who were looking forward to the next chapters! I promise that I'll try to use any free ti...

Chapter 199: Welcome to Hell. Tell Me Something.

A Devil sat at a desk in a damp, dark room. This room was one he had spent the past while in. It’d been days—no, perhaps weeks, now. A month? He couldn’t keep track anymore. Especially with so much of his past time being spent going back and forth between Overworld and Underworld time, he had basically no innate sense of time passing anymore. And sitting in this room, almost completely unmoving, with nobody there to speak to, no routine to follow, he didn’t know the minutes from the d...

Chapter 198: Nighttime Activities

AN: This chapter is super extra long! It also may have been one of my favorite chapters to write. Stayed up until like 5 am working on it though, so let me know if you see any errors, as I am way too tired to spot them currently. Regardless, hope you enjoy :)

Erani and I sat in a tent out in the hills beyond town, near the Goblin forest. We’d found a nice, secluded spot to set up, simply lying inside to get away from the shade and keep ourselves hidden...

Chapter 197: Evening Escapades

We’re gonna be looking through your valuables. We probably won’t take much, though, so don’t be worried. Just window shopping, you know?”

Artil’s heart began racing when he heard the  word “robbery,” but be frowned when he heard the rest of the statement. What was the game here? He’d never heard of thieves going “window shopping” before, and certainly never heard of them helping their victims to the floor so that their abilities were less likely to cause harm. W...

Chapter 196: Afternoon Machinations

With the room cleared out, Erani and I were free to rifle through the documents as we pleased. We quickly located the correct metal drawer and looked through the contents until finding the stack of future job postings. They ranged from being slated to go up the next day—that was the majority of them—to some of them that were planned out in advance from people like nobles or business owners being planned to go up weeks from now. Those were for things like construction projects, pushing out...

Chapter 195: Noon Infiltration

Erani and I walked into the guild lobby. We’d come up with a general plan of action on our way into town, and now we just had to do it.

The lobby was bustling with activity—it typically became most populated around noon, when most adventurers came in to accept jobs or hand in the ones they’d already completed in the early morning. As such, there was a long line headed to the receptionist’s desk, leaving the poor woman to handle several dozen impatient fighters all waiting on her...

Chapter 194: Morning Connection

The next day, Erani and I left town to go meet up with Ainash in the early morning. I had something I needed to do, after all.

I’d looked at my Spell choices the night before, and while they were good, it simply didn’t compare to finally being able to bring others back in time with me—especially when I wasn’t actually giving anything up, just slightly delaying when I’d be able to get it.

I still hadn’t told Erani what, specifically, we were headed out of town to do. Pa...

Schedule Update

Hello everyone!

Since school's starting back up for me, I'll unfortunately no longer be able to do four chapters per week for Patreon, so I'll be moving back to what it was originally, at 3/week. I won't be able to post a chapter today since it's been so hectic getting everything set up (sorry for the late notice) but I'll still try my best to post additional chapters as often as I can! I'm hoping to get Patreon up to 40 chapters ahead eventually---maybe I can do some extra writing duri...

Chapter 193: Welcome to Hell. Wake up.

A Devil awoke on the stone of a damp, dark hole.

Where was he? What…what was going on? How long had it been?

The room was small. Or, no, it was actually quite large. It was just that the room had been filled to the brim with other Demons. The Devil himself was closer to the door, so he was actually touching the floor, but there were so many bodies piled up further in, tossed on top of each other, that a couple of the piles actually touched the ceiling of the square room. He had ...

Chapter 192: Dusk Discovery

Aliss walked with Boy to a run-down stone-and-wood building located on the edges of town. It was dirty and in need of repairs, with a couple broken windows that’d just been boarded up for now, and some clearly rotting planks on the walls that definitely needed to be replaced. Aliss could see Boy deflate when he walked up to it, gazing at its exterior.

“Think we have enough to fix the windows, at least?” Aliss asked. “They probably let in a bad draft in the winter.”

Boy p...

Chapter 191: Twilight Determination

After we finished resting, we all headed back into town, bringing one of the Dragon’s teeth with us to verify we’d completed the job. The tooth was a little too big for us to fit it in any equipment packs we had, so instead I just had to carry it in my hands on the way back.

I decided against telling Ainash and Erani about the Tribute thing Index had told me about just yet, since we were still surrounded by our companion party, and I didn’t want to accidentally cause a dramatic re...

Chapter 190: The Dragon’s Aftermath

When I awoke, my first thought was why in the hells I thought that was a good idea.

I was alive, sure, and got away from the whole thing with just some bruises and burns. But good gods did it hurt. The entire side of my body I landed on—and, honestly, most of the part that I didn’t land on—ached so horribly I was surprised I was still able to move.

I took a few breaths before forcing myself to sit up, looking around. Behind me was the carcass of the Dragon, lying in...

Chapter 189: The Dragon’s Fall

The Young Dragon carried me far, far into the sky, the flames on its back causing enough pain to distract it from me, gripping tightly onto its leg. Or maybe it did know I was there, and it just planned on taking me up high enough that it could drop me back down and kill me with the fall. But I had a plan for that.

Once we’d gotten so high I could barely see the ground below us, I made sure my grip was secure enough, and then cast Ethereal Armor, swapping over to Light Plate for the d...

Chapter 188: The Dragon’s Ascent

AN: Extra-long chapter!

Step one was to blow up the building.

Erani was the one in charge of that. We circled around the Goblins’ base, using Index to find the spot with the easiest path through to the Young Dragon’s lair, and then once we found it, we all got into position, and Erani struck.

Erani’s Explosive Firebolts tore through the logs making up the flimsy palisades. They tore the outer wall to shrapnel, then through the room conn...

Chapter 187: The Dragon's Assembly

“We’re going to be killing a what?!” Sylvie leaned forward, hands gripping the table between us, when she heard me describe the job.

We were currently sitting in the living room of Boy’s house, a quaint little place housed in an out-of-the-way neighborhood. I sat with Erani on a dusty couch while Entismo, Aliss, and Sylvie each sat in chairs they’d brought over so we were all around the central wooden table. Boy, once we’d arrived, soon wandered over into his kitche...

Chapter 186: The Dragon's Convergence

The four Classers stood in front of me, waiting for an answer. The pale woman with the black hair stared at me. “We’re looking for Annor Ton. The foreigner. Is that you?”

My breath caught in my throat. Had they seriously caught onto my identity already? Maybe I was wrong to trust Bon. I thought I’d cleared things up with him—and left behind a nice intimidating impression even if they still didn’t believe me—but maybe I was totally wrong.

Either way, I wasn’t sure i...

Chapter 185: Exertion and Encounter

Once I was on the road, heading back for town, I decided now was as good a time as any to practice Gravity Well. It was still at Rank 10 while my Soft Cap was Rank 11, which meant I could easily push it up by one more.

So, as I walked, I decided to go ahead and do that. Gravity Well required a target, and there was nothing else around to hit, so I just used it on myself.

The moment I toggled the Spell on, a wave of disorientation hit me. I’d used the Spell on myself in the past,...

Chapter 184: Caution and Crisis

AN: Long chapter!

I spent the rest of the night by the guard outpost, making sure they never decided to turn me in. I listened for any sign of them waking up and talking, and Index also watched and listened, itself, which was especially useful during the times I dozed off throughout the long, dark night.

I had to wake up and move around semi-frequently due to wandering Gloomspurs threatening to damage me with their toxic breath, but that annoyance ...

Chapter 183: Conscience and Conviction

AN: Very extra-long chapter here! I really enjoyed writing this one, hope you like reading it :)

Before the time reached midnight, I went ahead and absorbed the Spell Crystal for myself and used Time Loop to reset, pushing my final Arcane Spell to its first Upgrade.

Threshold reached. Gravity Well XP has reached 355.

Gravity Well Rank...