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Chapter 133

A few moments after upgrading his skill Ajax felt a wave of drowsiness overcome him and he fell asleep. He didn’t know it but his entire bedding was thrown around like a hurricane had passed through that night from all the twisting and turning he had been doing.

Ajax woke up the next morning with a shooting pain in his neck as he found himself lying sideways across the bed and his head dangling over the side. As he carefully got up he quickly sent a pulse of mana through his body to h...

Planned schedule

The most recent chapter is the one for Wednesday. I will be trying to keep a consistent M W F weekly upload and should anything change I will make sure to let you guys know in advance.

Chapter 132

Ajax laid in bed as he remembered a very specific time from his training with Hatchet.

Ajax P.O.V Two years ago

I heaved for every breath following the obstacle course. Course was a new addition meant to prepare me to run away should I ever be vastly outmatched. Knowing that Hatchet was a retired adventurer who retired because of having most of his team wiped out, it was clear what the motivation for this training was. Despite the guilt and self-loathing he someti...

Chapter 131

Chapter 131

As the team was preparing to exit the dungeon and return to the outside both Jaclyn and Devin approached Jones.

“We understand that Ajax's abilities are something the confidentiality covers from sharing with others but we would like a chance to offer him a position with a noble family.” Devin said.

While Jones couldn’t feel it, the young noble’s social skills affected the leader into giving up more information than he intended when answering.

“You...

My Apologies.

I want to say that I am very sorry for my absence these past two months. Quite a few things happened in my personal life one after another at the same time as my first instance of writers block. There is really no excuse however for me going radio silence on you and I can only ask for your forgiveness and promise that in the future, should a chapter not come out on time I will make sure that I will post let you know about it.

I would also like to wish all of you a delayed Hap...

Chapter 130

Much like the first time when he saw an obelisk activated on the first floor on his previous delve, Ajax could feel a mana pulse as soon as it was activated. This mana pulse was a lot stronger however, he had a random thought if he could syphon part of the pulse and only have half a dungeon come charging. It was a random idea and not one he would be testing much later, maybe when he was level thirty-five and on the first floor of the dungeon, at that point a ten level advantage for him should...

Chapter 129

The new skill was somehow different than any other skill Ajax had learned. So far skills have been broken up into two categories: active and passive. Active skills like his [Judge Threat], [Piercing Shot] and even [Mana Syphon] could be used on demand for a cost, be it stamina mana or just focus. Passive skills on the other hand just improved his ability to do something, be it [Sword] mana aspects or even [Berserker].

[Berserker Style] was inherently different in more than one ...

Chapter 128

For the next three days the team roamed the cave system clearing out and mapping the whole place. They ran into a lot more bats and kobold patrols but didn’t manage to find any other monster speciase on the entire floor. They also managed to locate where the den was on this floor. They also didn’t manage to locate the obelisk but according to the map they had they assumed it was in the den.

“I think it’s still best to just sneak our way to the obelisk and activate it.” Donny a...

I have internet again.

I am sorry for the delay in getting the last two chapters out. Had some people come over to Aerate my lawn for the first time. I didn't expect that they would cut the internet cable when doing so. Not only that but I didn't realize that was the problem for an entire day so it took a while to get someone out to fix it.

On the bright side not having internet for a few days did give a bit more writing time. Beside the three chapters that are planned for this week expect two more, my apolo...

Chapter 127

Ajax was happy with his fight against the kobold. Despite having to use [Mana Syphon] on a high (medium if you consider the ambient mana) consumption rate he managed to dispatch the caster quickly.

“Is a den or village exactly what it sounds like?” he asked Nelly.

“Pretty much, they also act like a tavern for bosses which makes them a pain to deal with.” she said happily.

“If that’s the case why do you sound so happy?” Ajax asked.

“Because they always c...

Chapter 126

Jaclyn P.O.V

The tunnel we were heading down was split off into two different pathways. We didn’t have any reason to rush but since both tunnels looked the same and they didn’t want to send off their scout more than a hundred feet they decided to just go right. Unlike the main tunnel we were coming from this was a lot tighter, not so much in its width but its height.

Whereas before all the ceiling really represented was protection from flying creatures now it stood two feet ab...

Chapter 125

Ajax made quick work of his cutting, his lumberjack skill getting some prolonged work for the first time in years. He had to admit he was rather curious about the two tag VIP’s they were escorting. According to their scout all three of the bosses in this area had spawned at their maximum level of thirty-seven.

Any decent adventurer would have no problem in dealing with a creature one or two levels above them by himself. The only reason that people didn’t attempt dungeons solo was th...

Chapter 124

A/N : sorry for the delay, but here is the Friday chapter from last week

The journey to the dungeon was moving slower than it did last time. Ajax soon learned that one of the things that buying a pass or a boost got you was a certain level of comfort. Despite being more than able to push through for two days without rest at a decent speed the trip there would take a full three days with them making stops for the night at the same places they did on their way ...

Chapter 123

Ajax P.O.V

That was definitely different, I didn’t read anything about there being anything out of the ordinary with this delve and yet there was a new person carrying a few of the porter bags and talking to Jones.

The woman in question looked a lot younger, at least compared to everyone else on the team she was definitely older than I was, maybe a year or two older than Tom. She was also on the tall side, reaching at least six feet with a solid wide build and rough features. 2022-10-15 08:13:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 122

The next morning was spent in a mixture of tracking and healing. Since Kate was going to get the basic framework for a Healing Union project started he was going to keep on training his healing magic. The problem came as he first tried to see what the limitations on healing bloodloss were.

To say that the test was initially a rather surprising failure would not be an understatement. Much like Kate had already told him, creating something from nothing took a lot of power. Both chanting a...

Chapter 121

The biggest problem Ajax now faced was how was he going to try and adapt the healing magic he analyzed, unlike the other forms of magic he used before this one was a lot easier to mess up and had a much bigger impact than just lighting himself on fire briefly.

Any actual application would have to wait a while for his mana to regenerate as he was down to one hundred after recharging the mana crystal that final time. Kate on the other hand was very happy with having had three times the ma...

Chapter 120

A/N : Thanks for the understanding, my fever broke and I am feeling much better. This is Wednesday's chapter.

Kate caught the small crystal Ajax lightly tossed to her. Despite this all being planned out she didn’t have to fake the look on her face as she looked at the crystal. It was small and took up less than half her palm but light shone brilliantly off its polished edges. She knew that the amount, transference rate and anything else a mana crystal might do was tie...

Slight Delays

I have caught a cold. I did check and it's not covid just a run of the mill cold. Because of this however chapters might be delayed a bit but I will chat up on them.

Chapter 119

Alana P.O.V

This night has taken a turn I hadn’t really expected it to. Everyone was starting to worry with Ajax and the Collectors taking an extra two days to return. The only hope we held onto was that they planned on only going to the first floor and that the team was highly overqualified. Meaning their delay was most likely just something extra they had to do and not bad news.

Judy was my best friend and partner so I ended up spending a lot of time with her family and she wi...

Chapter 118

After getting through the gate and sharing the loot Jones dismissed the group as he said he could do the report to the guild in person. Apparently while skimming on taxes was not only a tried and true practice all delves were to be reported to the guild. Ajax didn’t know why that was and everyone was in too much of a hurry for him to ask them now.

As he made his way towards his brother’s place Ajax thought that he should probably get his own room in the city as he was going to be st...

Chapter 117

Nelly P.O.V

As we started traveling back towards the city all of us started to loosen up again. It may not be easy to see from the outside but all of us go on edge every time we head towards the dungeon. This time it was to a much lesser extent on the way there as the initial plan had been to stick to the first floor. I hope Tristan and Rob haven't been too worried that we extended the trip by a few days.

The carefree and competitive attitude of the Reavers also went a long way to...

Chapter 116

As the entire team stepped through the arch to exit. Unlike the smooth travel to enter the dungeon, exiting was a much different story. The split second in which he traveled back to the outside felt like an entire theme park ride back on Earth condensed. That wasn’t the worst part however, changing from a low mana density to a high one might be hard on the magic senses until they get used to it but it has no effect on his body. Going from a high density to a low one made him feel like he wa...

Chapter 115

AN : Sorry for the delay, getting it to upload was a bit of a pain. 

The discussion had left Ajax with a lot to think about. Up until now he had always seen the fear most common people had for nobles but had only gotten a view of the sense of superiority some nobles had. This was the first time he heard of first hand accounts of nobles actually acting in such a way.

Following his discussion about the assassin Ajax also asked some more questions about it, most...

Chapter 114

Pearls were specials. Unlike other gems they weren’t tied to only being able to channel a specific type of mana through them. Ajax was very much interested in observing the pearl and comparing it to the feeling he got from running his mana through the glove he always wore.

He knew the glove was something of much higher quality that anything else he had gotten the chance to see in action, afterall not only was it made by a dragon but it also seemed to have the ability to adapt his gem ...

Chapter 113

Despite not intending to enter the next floor through the gate Ajax still felt a small desire to go through it. He quickly crushed it down, it was only eight stat points in total and it wasn’t like he was losing them he would have plenty of time, until he reached level fifty or maybe even fifty-one to enter the next floor and still get the bonus.

As the team departed they started cutting a straight line through the desert with the rock formation at their back. It didn’t take them lo...

Chapter 112

As he woke up Ajax was already looking forward to a day of delving. Having already gained twenty thousand experience in such a short amount of time was really pushing him forward. He knew it wasn’t something sustainable, as his skills grew the amount of experience would lessen, not only that but with every delve he would have more experience and be just that much stronger so the experience would turn to a slow trickle. This was why most commoners never really got into the forties throughout...

Chapter 111

After confirming that there was nothing in the cave and that there was only one entrance the team set up a sentry watch inside the big cavern and turned the obelisk room into their sleeping quarters.

Ajax laid down exhausted. The first day on the first floor wasn’t hard and while clearing out the remaining of the floor was somewhat dangerous in that they could be overrun it was still easy to do safely.  With the cavern covering them they didn’t bother pulling out tents and just...

Chapter 110

Looting the corcs was a speedy affair. Their core was housed at the base of their skull. It was hard to get to if you tried reaching from above, the closest point of approach. But certainly much easier to get to from below. Ajax learned that the reason they were so confident in taking out the group with only the melee members as well as support from Jones was because they knew the exact variant. This variant also had a weak underbelly making extracting the three cores easy.

Taking the t...

Chapter 109

The wood was tough and harder to handle than he would have expected, despite his massive jump in stats this wood was harder for him to handle than basic wood had been during his training with Hatchet. Said training had already taught him how to make his own arrows in case he ever ran out so that wasn’t a problem.

He did wonder if using [Mana Syphon] would make it easier to handle but he didn’t know what the result would be from using mana syphon on an object besides the arch. Thinki...

Chapter 108

As one everyone dropped their conversations as they formed up in what seemed to be a practiced formation. Ajax noticed it was different from the one they moved in through the forest but that made sense seeing as they were not in a different biome and facing flying enemies.

He also caught sight of the vultures and used [Judge Threat] on them. To his surprise they were actually a lot weaker than the bear and fish had been. He didn’t know the reason why but he suspected that them being a...