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Past Life Hero 2, ch 50

Max walked into Amy's apartment with a grin. She gave him a hug and a quick kiss. "Any problems on the way over?" she asked.

"No, not at all." Max actually enjoyed the walk from the Summoner Academy to Amy's apartment. Both ways, he got an up-close view of the stable portal system that the Quartet workers used to get around. Every single time he saw the system, he came closer to some sort of new understanding of portals. So far, it was still eluding him, but he knew it was only a matter...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 49

Max stayed busy with a variety of activities. He visited group combat classes, engaged in self-study at the library, worked out, refined his mana body, and trained his martial arts students. With such a packed schedule, Max didn't have much free time to begin with. However, he somehow managed to fit in time for research and exploration in Lavinia's old laboratory.

At the end of one martial arts practice with his friends, Max was pleased to see that Lance had improved a lot. Lance was cu...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 48

The next day, Max got up and began his routine as usual, but he could already tell that something was different. Usually, Lavinia would greet him shortly after he came out of his bedroom. But so far, she hadn't said a single word to him.

It wasn't until Max was snacking on a muffin at a table in his bedroom, with the door open signifying that his spirits could interact with him in his room if they wanted, that she finally greeted him. The former Summoner manifested wearing the original ...

Sponsored Apoc 2, ch 4

At first, it was kind of awkward to explore the junkyard while being chaperoned by Randy, a stranger, who was obviously trying, and failing, to make small talk with me. Within a few minutes, I just began to ignore him, carefully looking in rubbish piles, inside cars, and even inside old trunks for any items that might trigger my ability, [Spirits of the Past].

I thought about what had just happened earlier—the old man Jim and his family.

The way I’d dealt with it kept running ...

Sponsored Apoc 2, ch 3

People had never truly asked me about all my strange gear before. I made a snap judgment–deciding not to ever tell the whole truth about it. Truth mixed with lies or misdirection would be best.  Before traveling with Aldina, I probably wouldn't have even thought about it, but now that I knew my abilities were so different from others, spilling my guts to strangers probably wasn't the smartest thing to do.

"I have a skill that might let me craft new armor and items in the future,"...

Sponsored Apoc 2, ch 2

The junkyard was across the street from an ancient, run-down strip mall that had already seen better days even before the end of the world. The windows of the salvage store in the strip mall and the next-door seafood supermarket had both been busted out, and judging from the debris outside, some folks had helped themselves at some point.

I shook my head, but I didn't feel like I had the moral superiority to look down on people who'd looted. After all, I'd gotten up to a little bit of th...

Sponsored Apoc 2, ch 1

My bravery about the new quest that I had received, and my dismissive attitude towards it, melted away the longer I walked. Even though I had grown a lot recently, I still had terrifying, crystal clear memories of the giant casually ripping the roof off of my rental house.

A bounty on the giant was…a lot to think about.  But I had to admit a part of me loved that I was being pushed to get revenge.

At one point, I had actually gotten the impatient idea to just head to town a...

Sponsored Apoc 2, Recap

Miles “Shrug” Lindstrom received a quest almost 2 years before the world ended.  He took the idea of an impending apocalypse seriously and prepared meticulously. When the countdown day finally arrived, it marked the end of his world as he knew it.

All of the equipment and provisions he had stockpiled vanished. In their place, he received advancement points to use with the mysterious new system that had been introduced to everyone on Earth.  However, Miles discovered that h...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 47

Max had his head propped up on one elbow as he talked to Amy, both of them lying in his bed. But for what felt like the third time that night, he was zoning out, his mind elsewhere. A lot had happened in just a few days.  He had learned a plethora of new things as well. So many things he’d discovered were important or unexpected enough, it was hard to wrap his mind around all the implications.

His past life, when he'd been Chassa de Milo, had been difficult....

Past Life Hero 2, ch 46

For days on end, Max threw himself into work, letting everything he'd seen and learned simmer in the back of his mind as he focused on creating beats, refining pills, fixing things, and making himself stronger.  He knew from experience that sometimes, when given new data, it was best for him to engage in other activities instead of fixating on whatever it was he was pondering.

He spent more time on the summoning circle with Lavinia. The breakthroughs they had one after t...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 45

I had my chapters seriously screwed up in google docs when I first wrote this.

It's fixed now!  It's just too bad Patreon has such a terrible UI.  I love sharing this stuff with you, but all these dumb changes Patreon keeps making for creators sucks the fun out of it sometimes.

Sorry in advance if Patreon screws up some of my italics. :/

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Other than the bare minimum of working out and practicing his mana exercises, Max spent all h...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 44

Altered consciousness was not Max’s specialty.

At first, Max wasn't sure it was a dream. In fact, he wasn't even aware of his own identity. The scene began to play out, and it was only after a few moments that Max caught himself, preventing himself from being totally engrossed in what was unfolding before him.

Once he had re-established his own sense of identity,  accepting that he was in a dream and that he couldn't do anything about it, he put two and two together. It wa...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 43

At martial arts practice, while the others were straggling in, Momo pulled Max aside. She did not beat around the bush. "I can smell another woman on you," she said softly. Max didn't feel a response was necessary and just continued to listen. "I wish for you to know that my decision has currently not not changed. You are still the only person in this place whose smell I enjoy. Other potential mates are inferior. However, I will admit that a few minutes ago, I was beginning to feel negatively...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 42

Max followed Amy past the counter of the restaurant.  The woman working there smiled at him again. Max reflexively smiled back. Amy led him into a small hallway where the public restrooms were, but she stopped in front of a different, unmarked door. The door was solid, appearing to be made of some sort of metal. Max had seen doors like this before and assumed they led to a cooler or something similar. As he watched, Amy touched what looked like a plain metal bulge to one side, and a seco...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 41

The day came for Max to meet Amy for lunch. From the moment he'd set out, Lavinia seemed grouchy about the entire situation. "What is it that you don't like about Amy?" asked Max. He walked along the pathway to the summoner at the gate, his four guarding golems following at a discreet distance.

"It's not that I don't like her," said Lavinia. "It's that I think you're wasting your time.”

“What do you mean by that?" asked Max.

"Well, you are not on your world right now. Yo...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 40

When Max realized where Lavinia was leading him, he ruefully shook his head. Figures, he thought. Presently he stood in front of the door to the common area that he used to shower in. Max tried the door. It was open. Once inside, he checked the door to his old room out of curiosity. It was open as well.  But what he saw inside made him raise his eyebrows. At some point, somebody had ransacked the place. Everything was in disarray: the closet was opened, and drawers were pulled o...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 39

Max stared at the ceiling, thinking about the meeting with the headmasters he had earlier that night. It felt like there was suddenly a lot going on in his world.

Part of him wondered if he wouldn't be better off just graduating as a Summoner and leaving the Summoner academy. Supposedly, when he got back to his own world, there would not be any correlation to the time he spent in the Quartet and the time passed on Earth. But Max still wasn't sure if there was a soft limit to how far he ...

Past Life Hero 2, Chapter 38

Max placed the tablet back on his wrist, his mood pensive. He had just finished having a messenger conversation with Amy, the store clerk. He had wanted to thank her for the cookies she sent, but she hadn't been working the previous day or the day before that. This was the first time he had gotten a response from her after messaging the Blade and Bow store tablet.

They’d made plans.  Apparently, they were going to meet for lunch in the Quartet central area in a few days. His conv...

Past Life Hero 2, chapter 37

About a week had passed since Max had gotten used to the small additions to his routine. During that time, he had produced a good number of mana pills, and he had received praise in a letter from Mong Hao Han.  How the Summoner Headmaster knew that Max was getting stronger, he had no idea.  At least the man didn’t know what Max had pulled with the Shadow Sun Rising.  None of the Headmasters would probably ever imagine that he would give away such a precious weapon.

He w...

Past Life Hero 2, Chapter 36

Before his friends left, Max and Lance had a serious discussion about his new sword, and they decided to leave it at Max's for now, until Lance was stronger. The reality was that such a powerful weapon would be enough for Lance to protect himself if he had only the scantest bit of power himself, but unfortunately, he wasn't quite there yet. Despite Lance's earlier decision to take and finish his basic combat class before learning anything more advanced, he'd agreed to do private martial arts ...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 35

There was a flurry of activity as the group passed through the summoner gates. It seemed that the guards weren't there just for show or only to scan students. As Max watched, one of them manifested ectoplasmic, bladed arms growing out of his shoulders.  Another one held up a hand and flaming skull appeared above her palm.

Neither guard had reason to actually attack, but Max thought the show of force was a nice gesture. The real deterrent against the ambushers were the golems at the...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 34

Max had had a surprisingly fun time in the central area, but he was glad to be heading back to Summoner Academy now. All of the packages he'd bought were still wrapped.  Opening them all and flashing that amount of wealth in public probably would not have been a smart idea.

After he’d met up with Lance again, his friend had made a fuss over how much Max had bought. Belle had done a good job hiding it, but Max could see a tiny flash of jealousy in her eyes. He still wasn't sure ho...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 33

Max got distracted checking out a couple of bookstores and had to remind himself that his friends were waiting on him. Then he began searching in earnest for the last item he'd come to the Quartet for. The first two stores had magical gear but not what Max was looking for. He began to wonder if he'd imagined seeing what he'd thought he'd seen in the Quartet before. At his third store, he found what he’d seen before.  He hadn't imagined it.  However, the device was different than h...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 32

Buying weapons ended up taking longer than Max had anticipated.  He’d actually been expecting more people to be curious about the golems following them, slow the group down that way.  Luckily,  almost nobody actually even seemed to have noticed.  That was great.   But actually finding what he was looking for had proven difficult and time-consuming.

The biggest problem was finding the throwing knives for Momo and rapier for Eolas. He hadn't told Momo that ...

Past Life Hero 2, chapter 31

Max met Lance outside the cafeteria before heading to the central area. "Are you ready?"

"Of course," said Max.  He gave Lance a weird look.  His friend had been acting a little strange about their planned double date and dating in general.  This was ironic considering Max still didn’t really feel too excited about any of this and Lance was the one trying to have a social life lately. Max hadn't had enough time to really ask his friend what was up, and it’d been the w...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 30

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That night, Max suddenly felt a tugging on his elbow. He woke up from a deep sleep and troubled dreams of his childhood on Earth.

In the dream, he had been a relationship counselor trying to help his parents reconcile so they wouldn't get divorced. The dream was one he’d had before, but not for a long time.

His thoughts slowly sped up and he remembered he was going to the central area in the morning.  What had woken him up?  He wasn’t s...

Past Life Hero 2, ch 29

For the next two days, Max killed time as productively as possible. He did all the things he normally would do with a few things added in.  The additions were a bit more time spent researching magic and more intensive reading in the library. But he also made time to meet up with Lance in person, and he was somewhat surprised to find himself having dinner with Momo again. He genuinely found stories of her home life and her home world very interesting.

Max told himself the glimpse in...

Chapter 28

I think you guys will like this one. :)


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When Max was finally heading to the cafeteria from his dorm for dinner, Lavinia's voice sounded mentally in his head. Now that you're going to see Momo, isn't Lance going to be pissed again that you didn't tell him that you were back in the Quartet and okay?

Max answered mentally, No, I let him know as soon as I got back to the Quartet. And once I actually started going through the messages on my tablet, I...