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Chapter 458

“Does it really need to be like this?” Ajax asked as looked on at all the gathered nobles in the imperial throne room.

“It’s a big power move for the emperor.” Anna explained. “Because the Empire can only openly trade with Gryndor and for a lot of those trade products we are only acting as intermediaries they have to spend large amounts of gold. The addition of this much gold into their market is a show of strength that dilutes the buying power of all the other no...

Chapter 457

“You want us to help out?” The leader of the squad asked the prince.

The dungeon started spitting out all sorts of aquatic monsters at that moment. “No need, they are prepared for it.” the prince said as he eyed the elite fighters that were all around them.

This was the most dangerous time for them. Being so close to the dungeon they were limited to only one of the three squads that came with them. Not only that but the chaos of a dungeon break of thi...

Chapter 456

“Take care of yourself.” Lexi hugged Ajax one more time before they got ready to leave the dungeon.

“I’ll only be here for a few hours.” Ajax tried to reassure her “It's not like I am clearing any of these floors.

The team spent a bit longer than intended on the previous floor but Ajax insisted on it since it was the best chance for him to experiment with alchemy on the gold he collected that he couldn’t take outside. The results of those experi...

Chapter 455

The group continued to head towards the temple. On the way there they encountered a lot more patrols. Ajax was careful to contain any of their empowered casters while Lexi, Anna, Xavier and Oliver each got their own. 

“They are all using the same chant. Not sure if it is specific to the animal heart involved or if that is the only spell they know.” Lexi said as she had examined the spell. “It also seems to work by empowering the knife not themselves.” 

Chapter 454

“Are they beastkin?” Lexi asked a little confused as she saw the Aztec warriors with war paint and feathered helmets charge down the street towards them. 

“No.” Ajax said before he sprung into action, level fifty combatants barely qualified as a threat to Lexi, Anna and Xavier so Ajax had no issue wiping out the small patrol.

“This has to be the weirdest sword design I have ever seen.” Xavier said as he picked up the macuahuitl, “Or is it a...

Chapter 453

“Don’t say it.” Lexi warned Ajax as soon as they entered the dungeon. 

“What… but…” Ajax was left speechless. 

“I know it’s been a long time for you since you entered a dungeon. But for most people it's normal to spend a few months without delving.” Lexi sighed. 

Ajax knew Lexi was right. The only people who delved as often as he did during the academy were adventurers that were freelancing to multiple noble...

Chapter 452

“How did you know they would be able to learn how to use their mana?” Xavier asked Ajax as they approached the capital.

While almost all beastkin could learn to use their mana, getting the skill was a different matter. That both of the slaves Ajax bought had managed to gain [Sense Mana] in a week under his and Lexi’s guidance was something very important to question. 

“Desperation.” Ajax explained. “You most often gain skills when you are und...

Chapter 451

Emperor P.O.V.

“So Xavier is finally coming back and he is bringing what amounts to an army?.” My grandson said as we all ate dinner around the table. 

“Best make sure you don’t challenge him again.” His sister Denisa teased him.

“I know better than that now.” Despite how humiliating it was to lose to someone who was two years younger, that loss to Xavier did Sandor a lot of good. 

“I’m more intere...

Chapter 450

Ajax had returned to his room alone leaving everyone else worried for him. He didn’t know how to handle seeing the darker side of his actions and needed time to process it. 

“What’s wrong with your prodigy?” Solderon asked. 

“He’s just coming to terms with the realities of the world.” While the prince’s words sounded cold he had full trust in Ajax not being affected too much by this. 

In his room, now that he ha...

Chapter 449

The group’s reception as they crossed the border was not something Ajax had expected. There had to be at least fifty other carriages, each of them had their door open and a beautiful woman waiting and looking in their direction. 

“I know you warned me about this, but I can’t be that much in demand.” Ajax said with a gulp as he swallowed down the dread of their remaining journey to the Empire’s capital. 

“It’s not just you.” Oliver to...

Chapter 448

Ajax took full advantage of the trip to find out what the others nobles were thinking of doing as a reaction to him being named duke. Between everybody that was there they had plenty of informants and a good idea of the situation.

“There’s no need to be too worried.” Lexi said as she saw him tense up when he heard about the more violent intentions some nobles were panning for in an effort to gain a few favours. “My father has already sent some letters to enquire about...

Chapter 447

One of the big differences from the group set up compared to five years ago was that Oliver was no longer the second strongest of the group. While he wasn’t an easy fight for anyone other than Ajax; Lexi, Anna, and Xavier could all win the fight. His level was still higher than all of theirs but nothing that could make up for the stat difference from dungeons.

“This reminds me of Deepwood.” Ajax mentioned on the third day of the trip. 

“High spee...

Chapter 446

A/N : New year new chapter!

“So, are we planning to use this information to harm other kingdoms?” the oldest prince asked once everybody left and he was left alone with his father and younger brother. “Ajax is still young and a little too idealistic to even suggest something like this around.”

“It’s definitely something worth considering but at the same time it’s also risky.” the crown prince answered. “We know that the ascended races ...

Chapter 445

A/N : Last chapter of the year coming a bit early, have a Happy New Year everyone and thank you all for your support!

“That leaves the question, what do we do with this information?” Archduke Silvertongue asked.

Ajax was surprised. “What do you mean?” he asked. “I suggest we stay away from the dwelling of any ascended being while expanding. No reason to risk it.” 

“That’s not what I meant.” the archduke ass...

Chapter 444

“One week, you couldn’t hold out for one week!” The crown prince sounded exasperated as he made his way into Ajax’s lab followed by his laughing brother.

Ajax had tried his best in his meetings with his fellow nobles, for about two days. For every noble that was willing to try and work out something mutually beneficial there were five that were looking to trick the new young Duke into a very one sided agreement. 

In their defense Ajax wasn’t ab...

Chapter 443

A/N: Merry Christmas!

The royal court was a trying experience for Ajax, unlike previous appearances he had to stay until the court cleared at dusk, throughout that time he met with at least a representative of almost all noble families in Gryndor, he was glad for his high Mental stats or he wouldn’t have been able to recall who was who two hours in.

“Is it always that bad?” Ajax asked Tom as they sat in the carriage taking them to their mansion. 2024-12-26 04:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 442

Tom P.O.V.

Watching Ajax kneel in front of the king as he accepted his title as Duke had me feeling a mixture of feelings. The clothes he was wearing now were worth more than our entire house back in the village. He was always so driven and he pulled us all along with him. 

For the past few years I had unconsciously been building up resentment for him, with every meeting where I was dismissed and every duty I picked up for our family while he trained and...

Chapter 441

The meeting began with a quick recount of Ajax’s exploits during his trip, his gaining two Legendary affinities drew a lot of attention and from the composed look Duke Manashaper wore Lexi had already told him about that beforehand. More than that however what draws their attention is the amount of dungeon floors Ajax has cleared.

“There have been a handful who have cleared one hundred dungeon floors, so we know that there is no Achievement but what about one hundred and ...

Chapter 440

The trip back to Gryndor started as a much needed break and than turned into a slow return to his regular on the road training for Ajax. It was now the seventh week and Ajax was starting to get a little stir-crazy, they had entered Gryndor a couple of days ago and were only now approaching the capital.

“We’ll have to see about getting you some flying transportation.” Xavier said as he picked up on Ajax’s state.

“It can wait until after our territory...

Chapter 439

Ajax was surprised how tired he had felt for the first week where he stopped his training. He spent most of the day sleeping as his body recovered, with Lexi, Anna, Xavier and Benedict doing much the same. Harold had only needed a couple of days to recover but he was older and more experienced with such things as he had spent time at the border with the Wild lands. 

Once he had finally recovered, his mother and Alana decided it was time to bring him up to speed on what h...

Chapter 438

While Ajax was relaxing and taking a well deserved break the same could not be said about his brother. After finishing his term with the guard Tom had become a lot more politically savvy by necessity. Even now he was attending court in the royal palace as the representative of House Hearthbound. 

“Your Majesty, you must reconsider.” One of the newer Baron families cried out. “The training method for the youth should be refined by the nobility before it is spread th...

Chapter 437

Xavier chose to lean into his hybrid fighting style for his fight while depriving the ents of their own. The prince and Aranor had deforested a large area before Xavier started his fight with a ranged attack after which he retreated. 

Without any trees to use for their magic the ent fell back on its reliable fighting style, the only issue was that without the option of using trees the ent’s fighting style was fairly linear, this made it a child's play for Xavier to use...

Chapter 436

The third floor of the dungeon had a Plant and Earth mana dominance with the presence of humanoids, what Ajax hadn’t expected was that the humanoids would take the form of eight feet tall ents that could perfectly blend in with the jungle around them.

“This floor would be a death trap for anyone that has an appropriate level.” Anna said as she suppressed a shiver of delving into a floor like this without someone much higher level to watch over her. 

Book Launch Day

Ajax's Ascension : The Divine Witness is live starting today.

Reborn on Gryndor with the mythical trait [Divine Witness], Ajax swears to live a life of no regrets. This time, he will seize every opportunity, fight every monster, and plunder every treasure as he enjoys life to the fullest, while remaining wary of human nature he learnt about in his first life.

If only it were that easy. Humanoids are suppressed as one of the weakest sentient races by dragons, elementals among other...

Chapter 435

Both Arianwyn and Xavier kept a bit of a distance between themselves as they set off from the capital. Nobody had said anything to either of them it's just that without the social lubricant of alcohol they had a hard time figuring out how to approach one another. 

“You could help them, you know.” Ajax whispered to Benedict, he was self aware enough to know that he didn’t have the social skills to help. 

“I would, but this is actually for the...

Chapter 434

The elves couldn’t believe their luck, Ajax couldn’t either so he triple checked the arch but it was a Crystal mana arch. If they got lucky enough that even a single creature could be taken out of the dungeon they might have access to a massive amount of level one hundred and fifty mana crystals. 

“Good luck.” Aranor wished the ranger squad before he, Ajax and the prince all exited the dungeon. Both Aranor and the prince were skipping out on clearing the final fl...

Chapter 433

After Ajax finally got back up and he was counting the seconds before he could down a stamina regeneration potion. He had the potion as a counter to specific types of enemies who leeched Stamina but for him it was much better than a mana regeneration potion, not just because of the restriction he was under but because the regeneration potion increased one’s natural regeneration and Stamina regenerated about three times quicker in than mana in humanoids with equal Dexterity and Wisdom.

Chapter 432

Ajax was holding nothing back as he charged the mini boss, the ground shaped beneath their feet with Ajax barely able to keep up with the speed of the hellhound. More than that he could feel the beast charge up a flaming breath in its lungs and for one [Mana Syphon] wasn’t going to help him weaken it since he would be syphoning all that curse mana. 

Worse yet was that Ajax didn’t know which head was about to spew the cursed flames. One thing that did work however was...

Book is coming out Dec 9th

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you that celebrate it!

Books 1 of Ajax's Ascension is coming out December 9th along with the audiobook.

The chapter will be stubbed on Dec 8th on both Patreon and RR. As always Patreon will have access to the book in advance in the PDF format attached to this post.

I will be removing the PDF attachment from this post on Dec 8th as well but P...

Chapter 431

“What’s wrong?” the prince asked Ajax as they made camp for the final time in this dungeon.

“I will need to change.” Ajax said with a bit of disappointment as he looked down towards his gauntlet, already four of his germs had shattered and his other elements weren’t fat behind. “I appreciate how long you kept your silence regarding my gauntlet but once we return to Gryndor I will look into having some new more specific weapons commissioned.”

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