“Let’s go straight to wherever the crop seeds are.” Cal was eager to see if this included crops beneficial for people with activated interfaces. He expected them since Seris mentioned the seeds were sent to the city. The guild wouldn’t bother to do so with mortal crops.
I was planning to convince the Overseer to give me crop seeds. I would love to avoid doing that.
“You don’t want to speak to the sailors? I bet they can tell you about the places they visited. ...
2024-05-16 03:08:52 +0000 UTC
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“I consider this my best piece, Initiate Cal. You won’t go wrong choosing this.”
Cal hummed noncommittally as he stared at massive strips of leather being offered to him. “I’m sure. Seris hasn’t led me wrong so far.”
The man beamed at the girl in question. “Our Seris has always been reliable.”
Our Seris? Is she the town mascot?
Cal glanced at her as he nodded. “Let’s go over this again. A leather strap that hangs across my shoulders which...
2024-05-13 11:57:09 +0000 UTC
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Cal woke to light shining directly into his eyes. The gaps in the tattered roof were perfectly placed to try and blind him.
He squinted and moved out of the way, hand already around the handle of the sledgehammer.
That was a surprisingly good night of sleep. As long as I ignore the interruption in the middle of the night.
Cal pushed himself up and kicked open the door with his foot, sledgehammer already on his shoulder.
I need to get a holder for this. May...
2024-05-11 13:51:09 +0000 UTC
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Cal entered the backyard to see Orrin wiping himself down while sitting down and giving himself a breather.
“Initiate Cal,” Orrin gave him a slight nod. “It’s still too early. I’ll need at least two hours to finish making the plow.”
“I’m not here for that. I’ll return tomorrow for the tools, so take your time,” Cal’s eyes moved to the various hammers on the rack. “Are any of those hammers for sale? I need one that is good for breaking up stones.”
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2024-05-08 19:35:35 +0000 UTC
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The Celestial Order’s territory was vast. To re
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“… Who are you?” Cal tilted his head curiously.
The man’s bravado faltered momentarily before coming back with full force. “You don’t deserve to know my name anymore, servant.”
… Was this how I acted? I refuse to believe it. This isn’t a man. He’s a man-child at best.
“If you say so,” Cal shrugged, his nonchalance infuriating the man-child even more. “I wish you luck in the guild… whoever you are.”
He’s l...
2024-04-26 03:20:20 +0000 UTC
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“Trainee Cal,” the Overseer greeted, “are you volunteering to go first?”
“Of course! It looks like everyone else is too scared to move. I should lead by example,” Cal made himself sound as pompous as possible. Changing character in front of Oleg was one thing, but doing so when all the Trainees—most of whom disliked him—was unwise.
The Overseer smirked and stepped aside to give him a straight path to the blood-red pillar. “Place your hand on the activation pillar...
2024-04-26 03:19:36 +0000 UTC
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“Was there something else you wished to speak about?”
Cal blinked sluggishly, wondering who this guy was… and where this place was.
He shouldn’t be wherever here was, but the problem was that he didn’t know why he had that feeling.
“Trainee, is there a problem?”
Trainee. Cal felt that should mean something to him. Something significant, judging by the excited jump of his heart.
“… I must be feeling under the weather,...
2024-04-26 03:17:50 +0000 UTC
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This battle was a lost cause, but Cal knew there would be no escape—not when nearly all the higher-ups had already been killed and the few that remained were too busy trying to save their own lives.
He wiped the blood around his eyes to prevent it from blocking his vision. That was the last thing he needed at this time, a preventable handicap when he was fighting for his life.
Cal stood in what used to be the best residence hall in the guild, where he had lived since j...
2024-04-26 03:17:07 +0000 UTC
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AN: I started this new story recently and have enjoyed writing it when I'm stuck with Transcending Dreams. I'll include the first 8-10 chapters before moving the story off to its own tier. So if this isn't to your taste, it won't show up in your email for long 🙏
Cal was the pride of his guild, the one that other Initiates looked up to. Then he died. So did his guild.
His understanding of the world shattered before his death. His guild wa...
2024-04-26 03:16:19 +0000 UTC
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AN: Sorry for the massive delay. I had to trash the previously written chapters since I wanted to take book 3 in a different direction. Anyway, onto the irregular chapter dumps.
William reread the passage to double-check that he understood. His last attempt to create the formation failed, and even though nobody witnessed it, he felt enough embarrassment for himself to make sure he followed it up with success.
It was a simple light-emitting formation that al...
2024-04-22 16:22:27 +0000 UTC
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“Already?” William asked with a braised brow. “It’s barely been an hour.”
“You’re sweating,” Shitou scrunched his tiny nose.
He looked down and saw his drenched robes. Indeed, he was. But he was no longer exhausted. The Lightning Qi must have restored his Stamina.
“It’s been hours, Wie Liang,” Kae corrected. “Congratulations on your ...
2024-03-14 20:57:57 +0000 UTC
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He looked away to check his stats, mainly his Spiritual Energy.
Spiritual Energy: 1037/1130 (20% per Hour)
Only a little over twenty minutes to recover all of it.
“Let’s set off in about half an hour,” William announced.
“Unless you know how to make the Greeter work faster, nobody is going anywhere for hours, let alone half,...
2024-03-14 20:56:16 +0000 UTC
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“… Your other self told me he was bored,” William commented as they shifted through the rubble. “Not sure how if this was what he was doing.”
Kae grunted in agreement, feeling the same as him. They continued for a few more minutes when William checked his status screen and saw what he was waiting for.
Spiritual Energy: 1130/1130 (20% per Hour)
2024-03-14 20:54:22 +0000 UTC
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William winced as he shielded his eyes from the bright light. He couldn’t see the light's source, but it felt as if stage lights were shining directly at him.
This was the opposite extreme of darkness, which might be even worse. It felt like something was scanning the surface of his body repeatedly. Thankfully, it didn’t last too long.
The extreme light and t...
2024-03-14 20:52:59 +0000 UTC
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The darkness melted away as William approached, his eyes able to pick up more details the closer he got. He turned to glance behind, and as expected, he could see nothing past fifty feet.
It was a little unsettling.
It was the egg that gave him confidence. Too much confidence in something that he didn’t really know the capabilities of.
He glanced at his S...
2024-03-14 20:51:30 +0000 UTC
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[+42088 XP]
[Level Up! | 10 Stat Points Added] x2
He felt a sense of accomplishment he had almost forgotten about. It had been way too long since he had leveled up. More important than his feelings, he gained twenty unused attribute points. It was timely.
William delayed studying his stats to deal with the Sto...
2024-03-14 20:49:48 +0000 UTC
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A little over fifteen minutes had passed.
Fifteen more before the penalty for [Force Multiplier] is no longer in play. A crucial point so he could use the skill without getting crippled by the penalty. Getting the penalty wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it would involve ingesting pills to keep himself alive.
It was not a situation he wanted to be in this ...
2024-03-14 20:48:14 +0000 UTC
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“You! Stop—”
A fist glowing a harsh blue shattered the so-called Lord Paddlington’s body like glass in the middle of his sentence. William grunted when the floor cracked beneath the broken turtle as his fist broke the floor far too easily.
This was strength at another level. It felt like he could take on the world.
“What a shame.”
William ...
2024-03-14 20:46:36 +0000 UTC
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“… Who’s your master?” William stalled for time. He wasn’t sure what the hell was going on. As far as he knew, having an avatar meant the spirit beast or cultivator had ascended.
Lord Paddlington clearly had not… right? It also didn’t escape William that the turtle before him had no basic status floating above him.
It just made everyt...
2024-03-14 20:45:08 +0000 UTC
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Walking through the gate was miserable. It was no wonder the teleportation door had replaced it.
The gate made it feel like he was passing through a space that combined all the worst extremes of the world: searing heat, burning cold, the emptiness of the void, and much, much more.
William was thankful that it only lasted long enough for him to ...
2024-03-10 21:59:51 +0000 UTC
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“Interesting,” Lord Paddlington said, moving to hover before William’s face. "I don’t see a great love for the sect other than being uncomfortable about some deaths.”
He shrugged and stored the egg in the spatial stone. He sensed relief from the egg because of the safety of its new surroundings.
“Ha! You accepted mostly because you’re bored!” the ...
2024-03-10 21:58:08 +0000 UTC
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“You learned a new trick,” Lord Paddlington’s much smaller body floated before him.
William blinked in surprise at the sudden change from having a mountain-sized turtle to one slightly bigger than his palm.
“Wait! Where’s—Oh.” Kae was snoozing next to his egg.
“He should wake in a few minutes,” Lord Paddlington glided close to the egg. “...
2024-03-10 21:56:35 +0000 UTC
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William’s eyes widened in shock at the size of the spirit beast when it reached the shore, and even more at what it was.
“So our hopes rest on its goodwill,” Kae sounded resigned.
“… I think we’ll be just fine,” William’s voice sounded faint, even to himself.
[Lord Paddlington: Do you know how long I have been waiting f...
2024-03-10 21:54:53 +0000 UTC
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William felt the wind rush past his ears as gravity pulled him down. He could feel his body wanting to tumble, but that was one thing he could control. It wasn’t possible for him to fly yet, but at least he wouldn’t look like a flailing mortal as he fell to the beach below.
He ignored everything but the cliff wall in front of him as the speed at which he fell slowly...
2024-03-07 05:40:27 +0000 UTC
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It wasn’t long before William was well within the gap. They jumped smoothly over the massive rubble that previously formed a mountain.
He had been checking the spirit beasts that had been released behind them, and nothing could have been more evident that this was all intentional when the beasts stopped bothering to ‘chase’ them.
“Do we keep going?” Kae ...
2024-03-07 05:38:51 +0000 UTC
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The increase in level was impressive in a vacuum, but when throwing that together with the nauseating amount of spirit beast flesh that had been consumed, it was a little underwhelming. Especially since almost all the spirit beasts had been at level ninety-nine themselves.
It could be that diminishing returns are coming into play, or the fact that the spi...
2024-03-07 05:37:10 +0000 UTC
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William waited for a few minutes, keeping his vigilance while straining his ears to try and form a picture of what was happening with the egg.
It was honestly disgusting. The wind speeds he could hear pointed to a vortex forming, just like what he had sensed in the spatial stone. That was where the similarities stopped.
The… deconstructed spirit beasts made soun...
2024-03-04 03:30:20 +0000 UTC
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He gave the gap in the mountain range frequent glances. The place where the spirit beast mob came from, and more importantly, where the massive eye of the appeared briefly.
Kae was still chasing after the few stragglers left alive from the previously massive beast mob, but all of that was basically a distraction. The only thing the mob could have accomplished was to tir...
2024-03-04 03:28:42 +0000 UTC
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“What the hell was that eye?” He asked tensely as he stared at the approaching mob.
“I don’t know.” Kae didn’t sound as calm as before.
“I felt something like that before,” William clenched his fist. “It is far, far beyond us.”
“… I know.”
“And that is more than a hundred beasts, Kae,” Wil...
2024-03-04 03:27:11 +0000 UTC
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