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Posting 7 chapters of Overpowered Wizard today! Enjoy!

You're getting seven chapters coming your way. Enjoy!

We're 30 chapters ahead, Overpowered Wizard hits RoyalRoad on Monday

Huzzah!

Took a lot of work, and a lot of writing, but we're now 30 chapters ahead.

I'm looking at dumping 7 chapters Monday on Royal Road, and then do 1 chapter a day for a while. Here's the good news, the Patreon will get 7 chapters as well. I'll see if I can add 2 chapters a day to the Patreon until we finally get 50+ chapters ahead of free release.

Thanks for all of your support and I hope you're enjoying Zarian and friends crazy adventure.

Oh, and if you can leave ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch30: Gnoll-Slaying Heroes

Zarian knew the basic doctrines of warfare. He had to since he’d spent time as an infantryman in the Marines, even if it was for a short stint.

He hadn’t seen live combat as a Marine Infantryman. Still, he’d done enough studying and training to get the gist of how war fighters – the Marines especially – should establish dominance in the theater of war.

A fighting force needed to either have overwhelming firepower that others would consider overkill. Or the fighting force...

Overpowered Wizard Ch29: Lawkeep Aura Cuffs

Things weren’t looking good. Roland was a do-gooder idiot, and this world or continent didn’t have black people.

Zarian wondered when the killing would begin, but held back for a little longer. He wanted to believe his party could help him in these hard social interactions.

It would get boring if he answered all of his problems with only violence. The violence would feel less special.

“Roland, we don’t have time to debate this. We must head back to Bramblevale on the...

Overpowered Wizard Ch28: Meet the Locals

Let’s play this carefully, Zarian thought, as his party put two and two together after he declared it was Bianca’s time to shine.

Before anyone could voice their dissent, Zarian slunk backward. He turned off his skeleton spell, leaving Para to gather up all the piles of bones.

Then Zarian made himself look a little smaller, a little more feeble, and a little more like his old self. He returned to the version of himself who had begged or did the most menial of labors f...

Overpowered Wizard Ch27: Earnings and Dungeons

“Wow, I think I’ve misjudged you, Big Bro.” Ariana turned away. “I will contemplate on your words for they are grand and inspiring. Thank you for sharing them with me. We shall talk again another time when I’m able.”

“Whoa, whoa, where are you going?” Zarian questioned. “We just linked up again! And you have a lot more to explain!”

“I know! I’m sorry! But I must go.” Ariana crashed into him and gave him a tight hug with her short, four-year-old arms. “C...

Overpowered Wizard Ch26: Narcissist

Zarian’s party had scaled rabbit on a campfire near the corpse of the lost knight. The scaled rabbit was called a ragon, and it could breathe a puff of fire like a little fuzzy dragon.

The meat tasted surprisingly good, with a little spicy kick that was natural, no seasoning needed.

The best part was the size of the ragon. It was as large as a turkey and provided plenty of meat for everyone.

Zarian chewed on his portion while sitting against the lost knight’s leg. Naomi ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch25: Burial Service

This was a dangerous fight, and Zarian was a little nervous. Several members of his party were still too weak for his liking.

Hannah, Gilbert, and Bianca were only Level 15. Naomi was better off at Level 23. And Zarian was Level 27 while unable to Identify the Stone Knight.

Worse yet, Zarian left Straight Darkness +1 in his beta skill section, weakening it considerably instead of swapping it into the alpha skill section. This was not a smart gamble, but he wanted to try anyway. 2024-07-10 20:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Overpowered Wizard Ch24: Castles and Caverns

Weeks after crawling the White Spider Dungeon, Zarian and his party saw daylight for the first time since coming to Infinita. They were following the bend of a tunnel when a crack of light illuminated a rock wall in front of them.

The entire party stopped to stare at the light. Bianca barely held back a sob.

Zarian let out a disagreeable growl. He fled back into the dark embrace of the tunnel, almost like a vampire.

Bianca tried to coax him out into the accursed light. Progr...

Overpowered Wizard Ch23: Dungeon Reruns

Zarian acted with a more relaxed attitude at the start of the next dungeon run. He made sure everyone stuck together this time around. After the craziness of the last day, he gave the party a chance to settle into a slower but more thorough groove.

This was a temporary state, because there was a maddening degree of new things to play with. There were Hannah’s new runic abilities and Bianca’s flashy new powers. Naomi had become a psionic kickboxer, which was interesting to incorporat...

Announcement about "OPW" Royal Road Launch

Hey everyone, it looks like I'll hit Royal Road next week Monday.

The Patreon will have 30 chapters by this Friday. It'll stay 30 chapters ahead of the Royal Road release through out next week. Then after that, I'll build the Patreon up until it's 50 chapters ahead.

Thanks for all the support! Today I'll release 1 chapter. Tomorrow I'll have 3 chapters out for you.

Overpowered Wizard Ch22: Some Good Gains

After facing Naomi’s anger, Zarian had Para guide everyone to a bathroom with a working sink, toilet, and shower. They washed their hands, cleaned off their faces, and picked off pieces of flesh and chitin from their bodies.

Then they dove into the food and drinks in the banquet room. The food was cold, but it tasted good after having bug-meat for a long while. It was nothing like Foodie’s cooking, of course.

Bianca burst into tears and made an oath to become stronger just so ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch21: Naomi’s Anger

Naomi felt like she was having a strange and secret affair with a man-spider while he twirled her around and gave her pointers on her ballroom dancing. She couldn’t help but wonder how they’d went from teaching her stylish walking to this fancy fantasy tango.

Naomi figured this was the price she had to pay to support Zarian and her party’s main quest, overcoming the Grimrock Warlock and securing the legendary critical asset, Foodie. 

Sacrifices had to be made.

The...

Overpowered Wizard Ch20: Dance of Death

Zarian found himself in a more extravagant atrium that hyped up the themes of the White Spider Dungeon. There was no doorway behind him. It was as if he was repositioned by magic the moment he’d stepped into the boss’s room.

Thankfully, his Parasite Cloak and the goblin skeletons were with him.

The concave ceiling was higher. It was covered in a glistening array of crystal webs that shone mainly white with tiny hints of other vibrate hues. It was like an entire universe shaped...

Overpowered Wizard Ch19: Self-Lobotomy

“Hit me with the raaaaaah! Ahhhhhhhh! Yaaaaaah!” Zarian shouted, followed by other nearly unintelligible phrases as he slowly split his mental bandwidth to channel two spells at the same time.

The human mind, at least at his level, wasn’t made for this. Not without the System’s help.

The System allowed for multiple skills to function at the same time. It didn’t assist much with Zarian’s multi-spell attempts.

Zarian didn’t care and kept risking permanent brain d...

Overpowered Wizard Ch18: Fight And Strut

Gilbert wondered how long this dungeon journey would last until Zarian was satisfied. Then he shook that thought out of his head before looking up to see Loner gesturing for them to follow again.

A few minutes later, Gilbert saw two red dots on the mini-map.

One spider rushed them from the start.

Loner dashed forward and landed a single punch that sent the spider skittering back like a bull rammed into it. The goblin skeleton didn’t let up on the bony fist-pummeling until ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch17: White Spider Dungeon

Gilbert wanted to believe that all of this madness was part of God’s plan, the one from the original world who started with a capital G. He believed this desperately. But damn did it feel like joining up with Zarian and taking his orders was letting a horse run buck wild in a small diner.

Sometimes Gilbert had to catch himself from acting as a proper twenty-nine-year-old man with the urge to wrangle a young twenty-one-year-old knucklehead. Who wouldn’t want to while listening to Zar...

Overpowered Wizard Ch16: Hater

There were fuzzy spiders the size of Zarian’s head that had Level 1 in their profile info. Most of them would crawl away when the party walked near them. They were harmless. Bianca stifled a scream each time she saw them.

Zarian found more interest in the living slimes that rolled across the ground at a snail’s pace. Those things were also Level 1.

Zarian, Bianca, Hannah, and even Gilbert watched the slime roll around. The slime picked up small rotten scraps of a dead critter ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch15: A Devilish Deal

<You’ve survived a meeting with the legendary Slave Cook. A Main Quest has been given. You can abort at any time if you choose to stray away from the quest completely. Do note, aborting will look unfavorable under the eyes of certain deities.>

<Main Quest (Rare): Defeat the Grimrock Warlock. Decide the fate of the Legendary Slave Cook.>

“Why does it say decide the fate of the Slave Cook?” Bianca asked, looking up. They all were. ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch14: He’s Powerful

As Zarian and Naomi wandered around the kitchen, Gilbert, Bianca, and Hannah spoke in hushed murmurs. Zarian didn’t bother to strain his hearing to listen in on them.

He imagined they were more religious. Hearing all of that stuff about gods and goddesses, champions and heroes who were practically demigods, and some slumbering jerk called the First Destroyer Evil King whatever, well, all of that was probably a lot for their old world sensibilities. 

Zarian stopped by the st...

Overpowered Wizard Ch13: Morning Feast

Zarian woke up from a dreamless sleep and kept his eyes closed. He didn’t move much at first, enjoying the luxury of being alive, warm, and not starving.

He slowly wriggled his fingers and toes, and he shifted around bit by bit. Some of his pains remained, like the bullet lodged into his back right shoulder, and other chronic problems.

He hadn’t received any healing from Gilbert. Not yet, at least. And Bloody Lifesteal didn’t help further than needed, leaving scars and aches...

Overpowered Wizard Ch12: Let Her Cook

<Congrats! You’ve completed an Uncommon Side Quest: Water of the Slave Cook!>

Zarian had a mug of water filled with ice cubes tipped to his mouth. He chugged away while looking up at the group notification.

His personal level went up to 24. Naomi gained a level. Bianca, Hannah, and Gilbert gained two levels, drawing them closer to choosing classes.

Hannah was the closest at Level 9. The side quest she’d received for her enchanting pushed her up the...

Overpowered Wizard Ch11: Slave Cook

Zarian handed the medallion to Naomi, the item shining under the faint sconce lights. Its seven gems and intricate engravings drew the eye. Its solid weight meant it was real and worth more than anyone could imagine.

It was a divine item, after all.

“Have it joined with your soul,” Zarian ordered. “With this, you get a second shot. Once a week.”

Naomi looked hard into Zarian’s eyes. “Sir, no.”

“Naomi, you’re my friend and the closest to me other than ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch10: Skeleton Parade

“Well, that’s just interesting,” Zarian said, raising five out of six goblin skeletons. He’d prepared for an eighty to sixty percent failure rate since skeletons were harder to raise than fleshy undead.

Instead of a high failure chance, he had a high success rate.

His reanimated goblin skeletons rose and stripped off their flesh like throwing aside their clothes. Skin, muscle, tendons, organs, everything sloughed off like goopy, melted ice cream.

Whatever still clung...

Overpowered Wizard Ch9: Necromancy Study

Gilbert would’ve been permanently dead if he hadn’t arrived in the Infinita Star System with an Uncommon trait: Extra Life.

It only extended his life a little longer after death. So even when he was technically dead, his life energy persisted for a time.

He remained conscious inside his dead body, unable to move, breathe, blink, or do anything. It would’ve been a nightmare if he didn’t have access to Basic Healing, which was harder to use in this state.

Pressing that...

Overpowered Wizard Ch8: Stand on Business

Zarian felt his heart thumping as he studied the grimoire for a new spell.

The geometric symbols were stamping themselves into his brain. The runic text was telling a story about the first necromancers and the use of bones, which was vividly illustrated in his imagination. 

Once Zarian reached a threshold for learning a new spell, the grimoire was more than eager to dump the knowledge on him.

Apparently, there were different schools of necromancy. His grimoire preferred...

Overpowered Wizard Ch7: Parasite Lifesteal

Zarian armed everyone with dark swords except himself. For the sake of simplicity, each sword was the same copy. They were long enough for added reach without being detrimental in tunnels and enclosed spaces.

Zarian figured everyone had to be more careful with the potential fights to come. Wally’s death kept them all grounded about the reality of their situation.

Para was their best problem-solver right now. She was a good meat shield. She could scout. She acted quickly, could s...

Overpowered Wizard Ch6: Corrupt and Die

Things were in working order because of Sergeant Washington handling the group with an iron grip. Or was she a Staff Sergeant now?

It had been a while since he’d last seen her.

She still intimidated Zarian a little with her no nonsense personality.

At least she looked great and was still the same gung-ho woman who always had his back. She’d helped him get into the Marines despite his issues, after all.

I’m definitely power-leveling her first. Zarian was ...

Overpowered Wizard Ch5: More Gains

<You’ve defeated Kenneth Smith, Outsider, Level 1.>

A new gold notification popped into Zarian’s awareness. Before he digested what it meant fully, shouts and screams sounded off from the group.

They were all standing close in a circle while looking down. At their feet was a police officer. He wasn’t moving anymore.

Oh, uh, I didn’t expect him to die from a blunt strike.

Then again, Zarian had officially become overpowered.

Overpowered Wizard Ch4: Title Drop

Why do I have so many class options? Zarian was barely conscious of what was happening. He was on his feet because of his Willpower.

He felt like he was about to fall over and kick the bucket soon. He stayed up because the people he’d yanked into this cavernous room would die if he didn’t take responsibility.

It didn’t take him long to believe it was his duty to protect them. Even the police who had shot him. He had no hard feelings toward them, really.

He’d...