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Chapter 130: Epecteos Ka’Dravone

Epecteos

Summoning his bastard sword into his spatial storage ring, Epecteos Ka’Dravone sighed. Then he waved his left hand over his head, emitting water element infused mana to clean his face and the ten horns his race had instead of hair, followed by taking a white T-shirt out of his spatial storage ring to wear over his purple and black patterned skin.

Epecteos was tired. He’d lived too long and almost every day had been spent training with his sword. But the passion wasn...

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Chapter 129: Sovereign of Earth

Diana

Standing in the outdoor garden of her new penthouse home in New York City, as Mila charmed and then questioned the latest assassin to try and kill her, Diana for a brief second wondered if it wouldn’t be better to let someone else become Sovereign of Earth. But then she remembered why she’d started on this path all those months ago after the end of the tutorial.

Walking around Australia, she’d seen how many of those first to enter F rank had started to use their power ...

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Chapter 128: The Alchemist of the Deep Woods

Mila

After guiding Aalam to his new home on the Greek island of Zakynthos, where he set up a formation she’d bought from the Trial Tower’s rewards to keep out any unwanted visitors from the enlightenment zone, Isaiah got to go hunt monsters in the Pacific while Mila was forced to do something a lot less pleasant. She had to lie to her oldest friend.

The requirements for the Legendary version of the Devil’s Contract skill at G rank had been one free skill slot, the Soul stat ...

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Chapter 127: Diana and Isaiah

Diana

Watching Aalam get so emotional about food, Diana didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. On the one hand, her little brother likely hadn’t physically eaten anything for a year and a half, so the fact he now realized he could was probably a huge burden off his shoulders. On the other hand, the fact he was so much happier at seeing a bag of chips than seeing her really pissed her off.

She should have expected it. From her brother’s perspective, he’d just been away for a ...

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Chapter 126: A Typical Sibling Reunion

Aalam

As Aalam woke up, the first thing he did was open his eyes and quickly check that all his extremities were still attached, which they thankfully were. Then he scanned the tent, noticing Mila, Isaiah, and his sister were all standing around his bed, Diana not seeming to have undergone any noticeable physical changes since the start of Earth’s integration.

“That was not fun.” He sat up and looked at Mila. “Did it work?”

“Yeah.” Mila handed him the Left Hand...

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Author Corner: 5-08-2022

Okay. This week has been quite fun.

For about five minutes last Sunday I thought I had 100 patrons, but it was Patreon's UI showing me the wrong number, so I made the story mechanics post I promised for 100 patrons but then made it only for the Insane Mentor Tier. Then we quickly got to a real 100 patrons very quickly and I changed the post to be for all patrons to read as promised!

Next, I decided to update the benefits of the Trolling Mentor tier to include the ability to help n...

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Chapter 125: Listening in on Conversations

Mila

Earth had been a lot simpler to conquer than Hira and there were several reasons for that. First, while Earth would eventually be an E rank planet, it was still undergoing the integration. The ease of sensing Laws, the power of the monsters born from the loose primal energy in the atmospheric mana, etc., everything related to the planet itself was about the same, and would be for the next couple years at least.

Second, the invasion forces were of about the same strength. Eart...

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Chapter 124: Announcement

Nitya

Nitya Chakrabarti didn’t know how she felt about Diana taking the mysterious Heavenly Spark Soul King as her overlord, but she had to admit the trade off so far had been totally worth it. Diana alone had completely wiped out the Psionics in just a few days, followed almost immediately by the lizardmen who’d taken over more than half of Mongolia, and it seemed the reason was getting 100% of the rewards from destroying the Ice Giants, allowing her to gain a Legendary grade skill...

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Chapter 123: Irena Krol

Irena

Irena Krol, the head of the Krol Family of Europe’s Five Family Alliance, was widely considered one of the top five humans on Earth despite having been in her late sixties when the integration started. The key to her success? Knowing how to pace herself.

According to her clan’s ancient records, Law comprehension more than anything laid the foundation for becoming a powerhouse, and the key to Law comprehension was the right state of mind.

To this end, every morning,...

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Chapter 122: A lot of Work in the Future

Diana

Diana looked down at Sydney from the top floor conference room and took a second to marvel at human engineering. Most of the animals on Earth had either died or begun to change upon the integration starting, becoming monsters and absorbing primal energy from the universe to rise from G to F rank, yet almost all major cities on Earth still had their skyscrapers and other large buildings.

Granted, Earth’s monster population was apparently quite low compared to other worlds w...

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Chapter 121: Chaos Human

Mila

With Diana accepting Aalam as her overlord, Mila had access to Diana’s status, and it brought up a lot of questions.


Name: Diana Alvaro

Level: 18

Race: Chaos Human (F-Heroic)

Bloodline: Primordial Titan (Empyrean)

Abilities

Omniglot Reader (Legendary)

Silver Soul (Legendary)

Nascent Energy Convert...

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Game Mechanics

Below are copies of some of my own notes for how certain game mechanics work in Shadow of the Soul King.

1) The names of the grades for skills, classes, races, and the like

inferior, common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary, heroic, fabled, mythic, empyrean, divine, supreme

2) Level ranges for each rank

0: G rank

1 - 36: F rank (36 levels)

37 - 108: E rank (72 levels)

109 - 216: D rank (108 levels)

217 - 360: C r...

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Author Corner: 5-01-2022

This last week has been a very exciting one as I've started to see both the benefits and downsides of this story getting more successful.

Viewership numbers are way up, Shadow of the Soul King even reaching the second page of the Popular This Week list on royalroad. Chapter 104 when posted for free started a whole conversation between several of the readers there which was really fun to read. And there are now so many more of you beautiful people providing me the funds to potentially ma...

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Author Corner: 4-24-2022

This week's been fun.

I actually managed to write 6 chapters instead of 5, getting a chapter ahead, so you might be getting to read 20 chapters ahead in the future rather than 15.

I tried using the advertisement feature on royalroad.com and that proved pretty much useless, so I won't be doing that again any time soon. But it was a good learning experience.

In the story, I'm getting to some of the parts I've been excited about for a while, such as finally introducing Diana in...

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Author Corner: 4-17-2022

This week I got my first Trolling Mentor patron and that felt really good.

That person also messaged me saying it might be good business to offer more rewards for my patrons and that got me thinking.

You're currently getting my chapters as soon as I'm done with my edit pass on them, so I have no chapters to give, but I've been thinking for a while about allowing those patrons who've given a cumulative $45 the chance to name a character.

In chapter 109, I had to name a charac...

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Author Corner: 4-10-2022

This was a week of great highs and some lows I'm getting better at dealing with.

On royalroad I got two half star ratings and one half star review, which bothered me for a bit, but then I realized I was gaining patrons faster than I ever had before and I realized I should probably focus more on the fact you wonderful people are paying me to do what I love rather than on internet trolls.

Thanks so much, everyone! Your support really means a lot.

On another positive note, I go...

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Author Corner: 4-03-2022

My viewership numbers have gone up quite a bit on RoyalRoad this week, which has made me quite happy.

More important, though, the number of new patrons this last week has gone up quite a bit as well, netting me a bit more money than my food costs last month. At this rate, I might even be able to afford rent in a few months. That would be so awesome!

Thanks so much everyone and I hope you like the cliffhanger I left for my Insane Crafter tier patrons this week!

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Author Corner: 3-27-2022

Got a bit ahead on my writing this week, even with moving across the country, which is pretty awesome. And I made it to rank 26 on royalroad again before someone gave me a half star review to drop me again. (Starting to think this might just be a thing that always happens)

I've also been thinking a lot about the title of my story this week, as I think the current title sets the wrong expectations.

Alternative titles I'm thinking of are as follows:

Game of Gods: Tales of a Be...

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Author Corner: 3-20-2022

Hello everyone,

I just thought you might be interested in some of the things I learned as a writer and a human being this week, so I decided to write this. This has no connection to the story, but will be more of a little blog post, so feel free to ignore it if you're only interested in the story.

First, I really love comments as they often make me think about my story and how I can improve it, or sometimes just help me understand the parts I can't control. Case in point, I got so...

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Patreon Only Side Chapter 2: Third Challenge Rewards

Diana


Diana took a deep breath and checked the System notifications.


Challenge over. Calculating rewards.


Base Trial Points: 144


12,873 G Rank Monsters Killed

Base Trial Points + 12,873


694 F Rank Monster Killed

Base Trial Points + 2,776


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Patreon Only Side Chapter 1: First Meeting

Mila

The author closed the book on the pedestal in the campus church. “And that’s the end of the excerpt from my next novel. I guess it’s time for questions.”

Mila leaned back in her seat. Ever since she’d come to the US, she’d gotten into fantasy stories as a form of escapism. There could be action, adventure, and romance, but with the introduction of magic it was all removed enough from her real life to make it enjoyable.

Bradley Hunter was one of her favorites...

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