Malaklein

New Fiction I'm writing called Welcome to the Mainframe

A litrpg reader is thrown into a system apocalypse.

Unfortunately, its not as fun as the books make it out to be.

Chapter 206 Inevitable

I saw Chin amongst those corpses. I saw Medin, the girls, Nai, Cai. 

I saw the people I cared for and what would happen if I failed them. I looked up at the World-Kings and wondered what they felt. What did they see? 

I didn’t expect them to notice me or say anything and for a while they didn’t. 

For a while the ship just floated in an empty patch of chaos, breathing after the battle. 

Then the corpses were gathered. 

Wang Hou lo...

Chapter 205 Carrion Men

The Carrion Men were a group of cultivators that lived near the Sea of Death. 

It was said that long ago, the body of God-Imperium came near them and one of them in their dying hunger, ate it.

No one should have been able to digest it or much less feed off of it. But this body had been so thoroughly destroyed that even lesser beings could harm it. 

And this they became known as the Dead and Dying. 

“What are the Carrion Men?” Wang Hou asked.  2025-08-18 02:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 204 Choices

The world held still, time refused to pass and in that instant. 

We had stopped moving, but it felt like the world had suddenly decided to hold perfectly still.

“Senior?” Wang Hou asked. 

Why was he coming to me for assurance? I wasn’t his older brother. Then the ship spoke, or rather communicated to us its intention. 

We were stopping for the harvest. It was on the ship’s path log and we would be perfectly safe. 

I watched from the hu...

Chapter 203 The Abyss

The world was funny sometimes. Sometimes you could stare at the mountain or a forest and be lost in its beauty, and then, that same forest could consume you whole and teach you a new terror. You could fall off that mountain and meet a tumbling end. 

I was now in the forest, cursing myself for thinking it looked great at this very moment. 

Eldritch entities were the worst thing to have ever been. 

Well, maybe not the worst, but close enough. 

I didn�...

Chapter 202 The Dao of Cooking

AN: Im healed and fully operational. Here are the chapters I owe you. About five dropping today.

I looked up at the stars as I remembered what Drean was doing. 

I was here, in the village, helping Medin knead some dough. 

She was practicing her cooking and cultivating at the same time. Rin had let it slip that she could do both and so, here she was, desperately trying to refine her dao of cooking. And she was succeeding. 

The doug...

Chapter 201 On the Hull 

Wang Hou and I boarded the ship, each paying for our own fair. 

It felt like I was entering a realm, something separate but all its own. And that wouldn’t be a misinterpretation of that either. The ship was layered, in both space and time. Technically, I could walk all over the ship, but what I observed was just one side of the ship. There was more dimensionality to this place than just what I observed. 

It worked like my forest in a way. 

I was here, segreg...

Hello everybody.

Sorry for only posting two chapters this week. Right when I was about to focus on this fiction, I got the flu. I haven't really written much for the past 4 days or so. But next week, I'll be sure to drop six chapters to make up for it.

Sorry for the delays.

Chapter 200 The Dark Delver Part 2

There stood about four creatures for the interview. One of them was an automaton, skin steel grey and bulging metal eyes. Its face was there, somewhat human. You could see its eyes and ears and mouth, all present as various metal bumps and dives. 

They meant nothing, though I suppose that familiarity would seem nice to a mortal. 

“Hello,” it said, speaking with aura and qi, a language all cultivators understood. 

“Where would you be going?”

“Th...

AIR Chapter 199 The Dark Delver Part 1

The ship was alive. 

Well, alive was a word but not an accurate description. 

The ship was an automaton, a sort of living being not capable of cultivation. It wasn’t alive in the sense that a human or a beast was. They had no true soul. 

Rather they swapped out their parts over the eons, changing the parts of them they had outgrown and inputting an entirely new part all together. 

They were a mimicry of life. They lived like we did, acted like we ...

Chapter 198 Atlantis Part 3

Ships were not ships.

Not in the traditional sense. Ships were things that could voyage the void, things strong enough to move the masses through existence and keep everyone safe while doing so. 

We passed by things the size of continents, most already having one form of life or another. And since seeing that dragon, Wang and I had decided to lean more towards the less troublesome part of the beast.

But again, size was the wrong description. They were the size of contin...

Chapter 197 Atlantis Part 2

Atlantis was not like Lynoria. 

It was, in its truest form, connected to the Greek Pantheon and was at the base of Mount Olympus. It was also connected to the River Styx which went all the way down to the Sea of Death. 

It was also within the Elemental Domain of Water, a place that functioned similarly to the Sea of Death and The Cosmic Forest, a place full of water and water Celestials, and something that could be navigated all on its own.

But I wouldn’t be goin...

Chapter 196 Atlantis Part 1

Wang Hou had a smile on his face and a small snack in his hand. 

He was a large portly man, not just fat but big. Muscle was underneath the fat and his physical form carried weight and mass. 

From his aura, I could sense his nature. Abundance, reserves, endurance. 

His qi hummed with compacted power. His cultivation technique revolved around eating and storing the energies he consumed. He naturally had large qi reserves and his technique focused on making them...

AIR Lore

Since there are no Chapters this week, I'm doing a lore dump instead. I plan to incorporate these things into the main story along with many other ideas. I post these mainly on discord, but I will add them here as well for Patrons to enjoy.

Chapters Monday.

The Speakers of the Corruption

This is a celestial clan of the celestial sect of corruption. They're usually identified by the constant presence of their tongue. It is often times too large for their mout...

The next chapter dump is the coming Monday not the one before. July 24th.

I think some of you thought that the next chapters would be this Monday. Sorry if I phrased it badly. But yeah small week long break after that 30 chapter update. Expect anywhere from 3 to 5 chapters on Monday.
I've had a few people bring it up, so I thought I just clarify for the whole patreon.

Map of the Chaordic/Central Cosmos

A bit of a map for the upcoming arc. I made it in Paint but it took me like four hours to figure that thing out. Its crap, but it hopefully conveys the ideas well enough.

AIR Chapter 195

Chapter 195

The void was just as I left it, empty. 

I walked around carefully, making sure to check the area before fully manifesting. That wasn’t something that Bill did a lot but there was a hypervigilant side to him, the side that was ready for a fight at any moment, and that had been split between the both of us. 

I looked around, seeing the qi stream in the distance and seeing Lynoria shine brightly from afar. It was one out of the infinite stars, but it was...

AIR Chapter 194

Chapter 194

“Drean?” I asked. 

“Why do I have to be Drean?” He complained. 

“Well, because I’m Bill.”

“Says you,” I replied. 

He looked at me, then laughed. The splitting technique was successful and the part of me that had been split was different and yet the same. 

A lot of my wonder had gone to him, along with my desire to see the world and explore. That's what I needed after all, a split of me to go and gather mater...

AIR Chapter 193

Chapter 193

The trip back was…quiet. I saw the ship from Ah-Marin, the one with all the sects on it and I saw the hive marching past Ah-Marin and into the great void. 

The hive queen nodded at me again, and I nodded back. 

Bugs, who knew how they worked. 

I hid my presence, making sure no one saw me slid into the little marble world of Ah-Marin. 

Immediately, I became one. Bill had been talking to Medin about recipes and suddenly, the mind o...

AIR Chapter 192

Chapter 192

“Well, what will it be today?” A woman asked me.

“A splitting technique? Of what sort? What type? How potent? What for?” A man interrupted. 

“Has any gender changed now?” A small halfling asked. 

“Species?” A dwarf added. 

“Law adjustments? Distance of separation? Would you like one more combat focused or task focused? What’s your goal with this technique? What’s your desire?” A gruff sounding human added.

...

AIR Chapter 191

Chapter 191

One of the key rules of Lynoria was no violence. It was the biggest appeal to a lot of the people who traveled and traded here. But it wasn’t an absolute rule, you could request a duel or a spar. 

I walked through the center of Lynoria, the gathering grounds of existence. The place reeked of both demons and angels, righteous cultivators and those that walked the demonic path. This was all within a realm, all within physical space. 

Floating above the ...

AIR Chapter 190

Chapter 190

It had been two centuries since I had been in Lynoria, and seemingly, nothing had changed. 

It was a celestial realm, which meant that it was infinite in almost every way. There were infinite realms, infinite places, and infinite stuff. 

But that was all meaningless. What mattered was the main realms and the amount of beings within Lynoria as a whole. There were a lot here, some unimaginable number, but of those, a good number weren’t immortals, but r...

AIR Chapter 189

Chapter 189

The qi streams carried me throughout the void, shortening the distance I’d have to traverse without it. 

A good voidwalker technique did two things, one was protecting you from the void and the other was helping you traverse it. The qi stream did one of those. It naturally pulled in ambient qi and created a flow path that could be used to interconnect different realms.

You normally saw people below the fourteenth or fifteenth rank using these streams, some...

AIR Chapter 188

Chapter 188

A couple of days later, I was ready. I had everything worked out with the reflection technique. It still wasn’t a true splitting technique, but it was the difference between a war axe and a large lumberjack’s axe, one was better depending on the job but both could still cut properly. 

I gave one last look to my other self and waved awkwardly. It felt like putting your hands on two sock puppets and pretending they were different people. 

I changed my...

AIR Chapter 187

Chapter 187

A baby ran around the fields on the outskirts of the village, and to some people’s horror, that baby had a plow attached to it. 

Chin and I watched in strange silence as Nai ran across every bit of farmland, lugging the large piece of iron behind her. 

“I thought we already farmed enough land during chore day?”

“We did,” Chin replied. “But a lot of it got ruined by the traffic and people coming in and out the village, and its been some...

AIR Chapter 186

Chapter 186

Mo Whe drank his tea in silent thought. 

He was back home now, and he was lost in thought. 

He contemplated the fight, and more than that, he contemplated the outcome. The results had surprised him. He had seen fights before and he had seen mismatched battles start and finish. 

He had seen immortals strike mortals down for daring to raise their head in their presence and he had even witnessed a mortal strike an immortal in rage. 

T...

AIR Chapter 185

Chapter 185

Tai Lui looked at the man known as Bill. His new group, while having given him some confidence, seemed to have fallen to pieces almost immediately. 

Wolf, the man who had scared Tai Lui the most with his accuracy and prowess, had been killed first. 

He had died a violent death, but then he watched again as the man known as the Owl was finished off right after him. 

He looked towards the man named Bill. His face was sad, disappointed even.&nbs...

AIR Chapter 184

Chapter 184

Yai Mien did not wake up thinking she would reach immortality. She had asked Mister Bill for help and he had agreed to do so. 

And just three days later, she stood facing her tribulation. 

And the best part was that she had won. She had  defeated the thunder and lightning. She had been tested and stood firm against it all.

Though the three days before had been extranouse and tiresome. Mister Bill had put her through a number of arrays, each f...

AIR Chapter 183

Chapter 183

Gai Jin was ready. 

He had a dao and very recently, he had a law. 

He was a man of mercey, of kindness, and of power. 

But there was something disgusting about this man. He was filled with violence and his very presence seemed to reek of bloodlust.

“I was hoping I’d get you,” the man called Bear commented. “I hate monks.”

“I try not to hate, but I do find your existence to be pitiful.”

That seemed to be the wro...

AIR Chapter 182

Chapter 182

From the distance came four men. 

Qi had a taste to it, a flavor. It was like food in that way. It tasted like a recipe, like something that was prepared with intent. 

Rin Wi tasted the evil of their qi. She frowned at it. 

It was a mixture of death, bloodlust, truth, and pride. The last one she recognized. 

She looked towards Mister Bill who just shook his head in disappointment. 

“You can lead a horse to water but yo...