Yorick
Yorick was the youngest competitor for the next head of the Quintessence Merchant Union, and this put him at a disadvantage. First, most of the normal powers which liked to influence the competition had already chosen who to back, greatly lowering the wealth he could access. More important, however, he was the only one yet to meet Perival.
In most other forces, Yorick would have been able to train hard and make use of his superior cultivation talent to make a difference, bu...
2023-09-24 16:14:50 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
“Right this way, Ma’am.”
Dressed in a beautiful emerald green gown, Krysta followed the auction house employee to one of the more expensive boxes of the Inexhaustible Heat Auction House, the largest auction venue on the main planet of one of their universe’s unaligned gods, the Lord of Sand and Sun.
As a weaker god, his main planet was only B rank, but the auction house venue was just as grand as any other Krysta had seen, if not more so, with the...
2023-09-24 13:01:18 +0000 UTC
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Bellessia
Bellessia looked down at all the undead flowing out of the roughly 500 kilometer wide portal on the border of the A rank planet’s main continent, and she couldn’t help but sigh, feeling sad as she looked down at all the mortals dying every second in the constant fight against the Undead Universe’s never ending invasion.
This was where her husband had grown, coming to the Endless Battle as a C rank and eventually rising up to A rank on his own, then gai...
2023-09-16 12:41:23 +0000 UTC
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Mila
When Mila woke up, the first thing she noticed was that she wasn’t in the main room of the abandoned villa, instead exposed to the elements up on a mountain lying on a large flat rock. Then a quick look through her sensory domain showed it was Mount Ossa in Tasmania, and she was lying right in the same spot she’d left Aalam when they’d first arrived back on Earth. Only Aalam hadn’t been nice enough to put a tent around her, having moved a rock to the same posit...
2023-09-10 12:24:37 +0000 UTC
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Francis
Francis heard his wife’s scream and, only wearing a pair of shorts with shaving cream still covering half his jaw, he ran into their bedroom to find Lord Aalam pacing back and forth in the room with a terrified expression on his face, his hands and sometimes his entire body involuntarily twitching. And this in turn terrified Francis, as anything which could scare their sovereign was almost certainly something neither he nor Sally could deal with.
“Aalam,...
2023-09-03 12:25:06 +0000 UTC
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Mila
As Mila and Aalam stopped for a few seconds, lying back on the large Persian carpet in the center of the main room of the abandoned villa, Mila couldn’t help but let out a sigh of contentment, still feeling pleasure throughout her body.
Sure, Aalam couldn’t flirt to save his life, so he’d never been great at the emotional aspect of sex, but, back when they’d been dating, one of his strong points had always been his mechanics. Unlike every other man she’...
2023-08-27 12:43:15 +0000 UTC
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Mila
When Mila woke, Aalam was sitting in the center of an array in the corner of the crafting hall, building something in the air in front of him while absorbing primal energy from a few hundred large primal energy stones at once, a series of array formation disks used for spreading Territory, likely for use in a few decades when Earth’s portal to another universe would fully form. But these were complicated high grade array formation disks Aalam wouldn’t have been able to make bef...
2023-08-20 19:01:07 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam woke up and the first thing he did was use his sensory domain to check his own appearance, a part of him afraid he’d changed to look like an actual soul lord, huge, gaunt, and creepy. Thankfully, however, he looked mostly the same.
Sure, his almost orange eyes were now truly orange, and would glow with soul light to any magical senses. And, sure, his shoulder-length dark blue hair had become semi-translucent like Krysta’s. But his body shape and face w...
2023-08-20 12:53:33 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila waited inside the B rank force’s secret vault for five hours, spreading out quite a few explosives and Aalam’s latest non-spreading biological weapons throughout the large underground room while following Aalam’s directions to undo the protective arrays around everything of value.
Then, when everything was ready, she triggered the vault’s silent alarm.
In just under fifteen seconds, the three C ranks in charge of the planet she’d infiltrated,...
2023-08-13 14:10:07 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Skinwalker Princess had three main effects. First, it increased Mila’s Vitality stat by 100%. Second, it greatly increased the power of disguise category skills. And, third, it allowed Mila to form a facade over her own soul using the soul of someone who’d died in her presence, a facade which kept the used soul’s soul signature, accumulated karmic merit and sin, and even the soul’s karmic bonds, including those based on existing contracts.
In short, using...
2023-08-07 00:04:59 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Aalam,” Mila sent, trying to sound calm even as she felt her heart start to race due to a mix of fear and excitement, “please elaborate.”
“Oh.” Aalam was starting to sound a little less distracted, likely having begun devoting one of his minds fully to the conversation. “As I have a royal line uniqueness, which greatly increases my soul’s affinity for natural energy, I don’t think I can awaken to a uniqueness of t...
2023-08-06 14:18:17 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Even more important than the strength of gods to Aalam, however, at least judging by what Mila could sense him muttering under his breath, was how the various types of energy they’d been using since the integration were linked.
According to the Divine Compendium, mana was the base magical energy of the universe, while psyforce was mana converted through the consciousness of souls and qi was mana converted through some kind of metaphysical effect of life Mila co...
2023-07-30 12:45:48 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“So,” Mila sent to Aalam after spending several hours looking through everything herself, “here is the problem.”
Then she explained everything she’d already come up with.
“It’s not an issue of fairness. Everyone has already received far, far more than they would’ve had we not carried them to victory. But there are only 26 members of the army who I’ve felt haven’t given their all, and I don’t want to break the deal...
2023-07-23 20:29:13 +0000 UTC
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Mila
For the first time in a long while, Mila smiled while not putting on a show for anyone. Then she got back to work, first pulling up the individual rewards she had earned.
You have led your army to a complete and flawless victory in the War of the Chosen.
Competency is to be rewarded!
You have gained the following individual benefits:
+1 Uniq...
2023-07-23 12:53:02 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Congratulations!
Your army has won the final battle of the War of the Chosen. Calculating army point distribution.
By killing four enemy commanders you earned…
As she got up from her bed and walked to the window of her room in the main building of Earth’s enlightenment zone, Mila skimmed over the System’s complex calculation of her army point earnings.
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2023-07-16 11:21:01 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Like Aalam, Mila had learned two new skills since Diana’s death. First there was Advanced Angel’s Release, a powerful contract breaking skill which became more effective the more unbalanced a contract was, i.e. the more one party would want to break it. The skill wasn’t that useful for her given her uniqueness would already allow her to break almost any contract, but it was a required skill for her build and she could use it to break contracts entered into by oth...
2023-07-09 10:40:46 +0000 UTC
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Brom
Brom watched as Isaiah took a beating from the combined attacks of the enemy’s demigoddess and general through the screen above the portal to the forest battlefield, Javier and Irena having previously moved to be right in front of it, and he could tell Earth’s army was likely about to lose.
The enemy had already figured out Lord Aalam’s identity, probably through reasoning and not the ability to see through his disguise, and they seemed to be deliberately n...
2023-07-05 00:10:43 +0000 UTC
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Javier
“Seven!”
The member of the enemy army who’d just entered into the forest battlefield’s flesh and blood transformed into hellwater and exploded, Javier barely able to get out of range by moving back and slightly to the left with his maximum speed. And he probably would have died without Nitya’s immediate assistance, creating a wall of wind in front of him that mostly blocked off the hellwater from reaching his body.
Still, Javier didn’...
2023-07-05 00:10:23 +0000 UTC
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Daevic
“A female has entered the desert battlefield.” Now that combat had started, Teresa, speaking for the priests of Daevic’s mother under her, spoke over the telepathic channel built into their law armors to save time.
“Good.” Savan’s telepathic voice, as always, was calm and in control. “Given the timing, location, and composition of the enemy army, she should be Nitya Chakrabarti, Irena Krol, or, most likely, Li Mila. Whatever ...
2023-07-05 00:10:04 +0000 UTC
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Daevic
As the other commanders and Savan discussed strategy, Daevic Stormborn didn’t pay much attention, mostly because he was frustrated.
The War of the Chosen was supposed to have been challenging, the first real test in Daevic’s life. He was supposed to have been able to practice command as the general of an army, to face off against the most talented youngsters in the universe on battlefields where his own personal strength wouldn’t be enough to overpower ev...
2023-07-05 00:09:34 +0000 UTC
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Mila
After reading through the system prompt showing the rules of the War of the Chosen’s final round, Mila took a deep breath. Then she looked more closely at the giant metallic room her army had arrived in, and all the many, many windows, in every direction, showing outer space.
On one side of the room were five large screens showing five different environments—a desert, a glacier, a forest, a city filled with high rises, and a flaming hellscape—and under each...
2023-07-05 00:09:14 +0000 UTC
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Wolfram
Earth was a very unique planet.
First, as a future A rank world undergoing integration, while its training environment wasn’t yet at the A rank level, it was close, and, due to Mila’s purchases during the Universal Auction, it was going to be an A rank world with nine natural wonders, almost at the same level as the planets ruled by higher gods like the Divine Child. And this wasn’t even mentioning how the three other planets with life in Earth’s new s...
2023-07-05 00:08:53 +0000 UTC
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Reginald
“Storm Lord’s Gale!”
Immediately upon hearing Nitya’s order, Reginald felt all the mana, qi, and psyforce of their 432 soldiers pour into him, something only possible due to the law armors they were all wearing. Then all that power was converted to the elements of wind and lightning through the influence of everyone’s Laws and he swung out his oversized axe.
A large storm wall blasted out from his weapon, pushing back all the enemies ...
2023-07-05 00:08:32 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
“Insane mother, insane child, huh?” Parvorax looked over at Bellessia as he leaned back in his seat once Krysta finished answering the last of the Lady of Hellwater’s questions, his legs up on the table. “Still, I have to say you made a nice little monster. I can count the number of E ranks who personally slew full power B ranks on one hand. Do you think at C rank he might kill you?”
Bellessia ignored him and turned to look at her sister.
The La...
2023-07-05 00:08:11 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
Krysta was practicing with her magic in one of the Forest Cauldron’s training rooms, sending out spatial slice after spatial slice to the point of exhaustion. Meanwhile, she was also using her sensory skill to watch as Henrietta was repeatedly beaten in a rotation of fights by a group of weak E ranks. Both she and Henrietta were long since well past their limits, but, every half hour, her mother, who was standing in a corner of the room, would activate the room’s heali...
2023-07-05 00:07:49 +0000 UTC
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Sally
Appearing much younger than her age, with Western European features, brown hair, and brown eyes, Sally Davies looked up from her notes to meet the gaze of the abnormally handsome young man across from her. “So, correct me if I’m wrong, but the things you think we should talk about in future sessions are as follows: your mother abandoning your family when you were a baby; your father dying in a car accident when you were a child; your experiences in foster care wit...
2023-07-05 00:07:28 +0000 UTC
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Francis
“Okay.” Mr. Li, Ms. Li’s grandfather, spoke up in the stunned silence. “Mr. Alvaro is suitably awe inspiring. But can we go back to the matter of our continued survival? I don’t know about everyone else, but the idea of being on the enemy list for a whole bunch of gods seems terrifying.
“Am I missing something, or are we just going after a desperate chance of survival?”
Ms. Li looked at her grandfather for a few seconds, her face and aura u...
2023-07-05 00:07:09 +0000 UTC
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Francis
Ms. Li was lying about the Yin Yang Sage’s husband being the common ancestor of everyone on Earth, but her words were honest about everything else, at least according to Francis’s Truthsense skill, and it was pretty easy to guess why. Right now, Earth was more united than at any time before the integration, and the knowledge that only a fraction of the population would be on the chopping block of multiple gods if they were found could easily create division.
...
2023-07-05 00:06:47 +0000 UTC
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Francis
Francis Davies, the President of Earth, felt something was wrong as he waited for the next meeting of Earth’s congress to start in their usual location in the large conference room on the top floor of a New York City skyscraper.
The source wasn’t the usual attendees, the dozens of leaders of Earth’s administrative departments and the heads of Earth’s political factions. Nor was it from the two giant bronze-scaled lizard men sitting next to his daughter...
2023-07-05 00:06:18 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila and Aalam moved to his crafting hall, a large geodesic marble and glass dome, flying up to the roof where they sat and looked out over the planet’s new sun setting over the horizon.
Then, before Mila could say anything, Aalam started first, his face looking concerned. “How are you doing, Mila?”
“I’m—” Mila considered lying for a second, but then decided against it, taking a deep breath. “I’m kind of falling apart.”
“Why?” ...
2023-07-05 00:05:30 +0000 UTC
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