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Fly in. Set things on fire. Refuse to elaborate. Leave.
Well, politically speaking NSLICE-00P probably should hang around and guide the aftermath of all this into her favor or at least explain why she did all this…but oh well! She doesn’t care about all that! And neither do I! Bye bye Corvanus, it’s time for a new arc!
Anyways!
Can 00P find and terminate the hostiles? Can Consul Hiberius prevent the Northern Court f...
2023-04-08 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Author’s Note:
Just in case it’s not clear, Colleöne == Personal System Manager, Shialnor == Dungeon System Manager.
What's that?
I just copied Tolkien?
You're absolutely right.
I mean, come on! I'm not going to top the Ainur and Valinor! Plus, the Eru - Ainur - Valinor setup works well for a LitRPG world in my opinion (as it should given the whole Tolkien inventing modern fantasy deals), and, you know, aren't as much of jerks as the Greco-R...
2023-04-07 20:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Note: Terminate the Other World Chapter will drop a bit later, around the normal-ish timing.
Hey Everyone, I am pleased the announce that:
One minute after the scene depicted by the cover: Elise wins the 'find Commander Bob' training exercise and commences an organic refueling session with Commander Bob. Kiyosuke wins the participation award of extra tr...
2023-04-07 18:02:37 +0000 UTC
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Hostiles, terminated! Mostly! Herald of Rain, better lock your doors at night! And hope that 00P can't find you because locks don't bother her.
And guess what guys? Ateia is about to be significantly more useful! She can probably do things now! And at a reasonably high efficiency! Probably!
I'm sure the lazy system manager voluntarily reporting something is nothing to be concerned about!
Anyways!
Will the Herald of Rain escape term...
2023-04-06 20:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note:
...so I submitted the Faceless Minion Volume 2 to Amazon under the assumption it might take a few days, given what happened with the first one. It took 8 hours. So, um, volume 2 is live now apparently? Well, I'm not enrolling it in Kindle Unlimited until April 7th as promised, so I'll make the official announcement then as well, but the ebook's live for purchase now lol.
Well, back to this story!
And so 00P escaped from Eternal Night, no probl...
2023-04-05 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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So, as bob barker wondered, how am I going to conceive and describe a truly alien Realm of Cha...err Obliv...err...'Mana', you ask? Easy! I just picked a Realm that you can't see in the first place!
Anyways!
Can NSLICE-00P find a way out of this location? Are her organic components correct about the threat to the friendlies? If so, can NSLICE-00P prevent their termination? Tune in next time, to find out!
2023-04-04 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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...yes, um, this is going very well...um...not to worry 00P can still deal with this right?
What's that?
Oh.
Um.
This...could be bad.
Anyways.
Can anyone stop the Heralds of the New Dawn now? Or will the boundaries of the Material Plane be torn asunder...at the cost of Ateia's life? Tune in next time, to find out.
2023-04-03 20:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Author’s Note:
Well…um…this is going well. This…um…could be bad, huh?
Anyways.
What happened to NSLICE-00P and Ateia? Can Agedia overcome a Herald of the New Dawn? Can Estrith and Taog escape their predicament? Tune in next time, to find out.
2023-04-01 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: Time for the spinoff of the spinoff?
“Good beginning of your regularly scheduled leisure period, all you denizens of the Multiverse! This is MNN and I’m your host, He Who Proclaims! Welcome back to Beautiful Butterflies, where we analyze the smallest possible decision that could change your life forever!”
“And for our lucky contestant this time…it’s Lilussees! The…Sleepy Dungeon Master? Well that’s a girl who knows what she wants out...
2023-04-01 18:25:58 +0000 UTC
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Author’s Note:
Is that a plot I detect? Eh, well whatever. The Legion got it covered, so I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about!
Anyways!
Can the Legion hold the line against the sudden wave of corrupted dungeons? Will the Northern Court be forced to rely on the Queen of the Dobhar? Will NSLICE-00P accept Consul Noxisius’s apology? Tune in next time, to find out!
2023-03-31 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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So many interludes this arc, huh? But I guess that's what happens when we have a million side characters and enter a politics arc haha.
Anyways!
Can Estrith figure out the ways of the Empire? Can Consul Noxisius salvage this situation? What does Princess Caecila think of the Queen of the Dobhar's territory? Tune in next time, to find out!
2023-03-30 20:29:11 +0000 UTC
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Political scheme, terminated!
So at first, I wanted 00P to sweat a bit more. I was hoping to have Estrith get provoked and get in trouble for acting violently (with the dirty guards onsite conveniently ‘forgetting’ to mention the whole trafficked pup situation), Balbus would have her arrested and try to turn opinion in the Senate against ‘the violent barbarians attacking innocent merchants’ as a result, while 00P would struggle to figure o...
2023-03-29 19:50:55 +0000 UTC
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Sidonia, are you sure it’s a good idea to give NSLICE-00P access to restricted elemental magic? I thought you were reporting on her, you know you’ll have to report all this now too? And more importantly, you’re going to make the author have to think of more spells! xist10 on Royal Road did the math and concluded NSLICE-00P already has 2205 possible magic circle combinations from her current attributes, shapes, and modifiers! How exactly do you wan...
2023-03-28 20:48:42 +0000 UTC
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Author’s Note:
Lifehack: A flamethrower gives +5 to CHAR in every situation! That’s why NSLICE-00P can get away with anything with that dang smile of hers. How could we say no to that face (and the promise of an extremely violent death)?
Anyways!
Can Magister Ausonius ‘advise’ his boss? Will anyone end up testing the dragon? What is Senator Balbus planning? Tune in next time, to find out!
2023-03-27 21:14:11 +0000 UTC
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Well that was easy. Barely an inconvenience. But like, I thought about trying to drag it out, but then I thought, nah. NSLICE-00P's kinda got this, got the hard counter and everything. Well, if they wanted NSLICE-00P to actually have an interesting challenge, maybe they shouldn’t have made their demon vines so flammable!
What’s that?
They thought they accounted for that? She was supposed to run out of mana by like, the third floor at bes...
2023-03-25 20:13:14 +0000 UTC
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Author’s Note:
So I have an announcement for the Faceless Minion! Volume 2 editing is coming along, to the point that I’m setting a tentative release date. I am aiming to release it on April 7th. As such, this is the two week stub warning for Royal Road and Scribblehub. If you want to read Volume 2 for free, please do so sooner rather than later. The relevant chapters are Chapter 50 through Chapter 93.6, also including Interlue 109.3 and Variant Story Chapters 2 and...
2023-03-24 20:58:25 +0000 UTC
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Ah yes. The answer to having tons of side characters that may or may not be competing for screentime already? Introducing moar characters, muahahahahaha!
Sidonia, don’t you dare become a part of the gang. Agedia’s already fulfilling the quota for powerful mentor types!
Anyways!
Can NSLICE-00P convince Magister Cnaeus to help? Can the Legion’s reinforcements possibly deal with a corrupted dungeon? Will Sidonia remain in her intend...
2023-03-23 20:10:39 +0000 UTC
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Thank Taog, template politician’s relative! He saved you from having your ability to cause harm terminated!
I mean, to be fair it’s not like they can just lock up an Imperial Friend, but it’s the thought that counts, Taog. You tried your best to be helpful! You saved Seero...maybe a couple minutes. Maybe an hour or so if the guards wanted to be sticklers for policy and didn't know how to handle an Imperial Friend off the top of their head.
2023-03-22 21:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Thank you for your patience, regular programming will resume…tomorrow as it turns out I wrote a chapter’s worth of side character stuff so we starting off with an interlude. Whoops lol. But I had to address Lommel’s question on the monster hangar after 00B’s evolution. To which I say…oops I didn’t think of that and now I have to resolve the plot hole of 00P not immediately fixing the issue.
Now for democracy. The polls are in, let’s ...
2023-03-21 21:28:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey All,
Sorry for the late notice, but I'm going to take a break tomorrow (3/20), so no chapter then. I'd like some time to consider how exactly the rest of this arc (and the next) is going to play out, as I'm currently a bit conflicted on how to proceed.
Because it ain't an Icalos novel if I don't get conflicted about something and turn the decision over to democracy to absolve myself of responsibility...err...to ensure the novel delivers on the expectations of my loyal readers!...
2023-03-19 22:48:08 +0000 UTC
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Ah yes, the template noble messenger. I am certain we will all act reasonably and in a manner that does not result in any sort of termination.
More importantly, magic loot get!
…Princess Caecila has no idea what she’s done. As far as the Empire is concerned, NSLICE-00P is just a really good mage. The Grimoire of Arofinas Leolar contains all sorts of knowledge and spells, but manually applying that to one’s practical spellcasting would ...
2023-03-18 20:41:27 +0000 UTC
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The adjusted cover is here!
Again, there does seem to be some feedback on various details but we'll call it here before we end up redrawing the whole thing...for now! As such, I will let you all make your voices heard! Will I replace the Royal Road cover with one of the new ones? Or will this be bonus, patron-only concept art? Vote now, to find out!
Poll lasts...idk whenever. Lets say Monday or something?
Option 1: The NEW New Cover!
2023-03-18 06:50:42 +0000 UTC
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Is that enough spell list expansion for now? I thought about just not specifying what she got but eh, that ends up with her trip to the Library becoming a Batman utility belt of convenience.
And while I do love convenience, I figure NSLICE-00P is OP enough that she should be able to make things work with what she got without a Bat-Shark Repellent. Although, I suppose if she had a Bat-Bear Repellent when she arrived that might have helped.
No...
2023-03-17 20:42:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi all, the feedback on the cover primarily by Voral but upvoted by a few more of you seems to indicate that while the new cover is artistically sound, it gives a significantly different vibe from the original cover that doesn't gel with how we imagine Seero. I've spoken with the author and we have some revisions proposed here:
Please vote to confirm if these changes will match Seero's personal...
2023-03-17 05:57:34 +0000 UTC
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Hm, I didn’t expect this to be an interlude, but it turned out I have a lot of side-characters to touch up on while NSLICE-00P runs through her new spells. It’s almost like someone just added a bunch of characters haphazardly without figuring out how to devote adequate screentime to them all.
Whoever did that, I will have words with them! Something like that would almost be as bad as giving a LitRPG character two ever growing status tables tha...
2023-03-16 20:55:15 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Just a little bonus for you while I work on today's chapter. In the spirit of cybernetic-organic cooperation, I had an organic take a look at the AI artwork we had before and lend their expertise. An organic with actual artistic abilities (kazex423 on fiverr to be precise)! And now we have a new cover for our favorite cyborg!
I'm letting you all take a look at it first, since it was funded by your support!
And that's it! Stay tuned for today's chapter, which will be...
2023-03-16 19:08:25 +0000 UTC
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At first I was gonna have her do this at the Academy so a bunch of mages could bust aneurysms but eh, this is just the way the cards fell. Congratulations, everyone at the Imperial Mages’ Academy! You get to keep your egos intact…for now!
...the spell list we terminated is about to explode again, isn't it? Oh no...
In other news, I started playing Terra Invicta, and then suddenly it was bedtime. It’s like XCOM only you’re playing as ...
2023-03-15 21:21:56 +0000 UTC
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Just when the politicians were making their move, random unrelated dungeons and monsters came swooping in to take the lead! Who will get themselves terminated first? Will the champion Ursanus make an appearance? The race is on!
Anyways!
Where is Ateia’s father and what is he doing? What is this threat he’s facing and can Ateia grow strong enough to join the fight? Who will end up being terminated first this arc? Tune in next time, to fin...
2023-03-14 20:26:26 +0000 UTC
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Spatial magic is hard. I’d explain why it’s hard, but I’d need an in-depth understanding of physics to do that. And physics is hard.
I mean, physics isn’t hard for NSLICE-00P I guess, but they’re hard for the magic circles, so the magic circles are complicated. Like, super complicated. Like super super complicated.
I mean, she’s super good at magic, but she’s only really used basic elements and shapes so far, so like, can you j...
2023-03-13 21:14:29 +0000 UTC
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Author’s Note:
And so it begins.
Oh well! NSLICE-00P is busy with her totally, definitely theoretical thought experiments!
I debated whether to call this a chapter or an interlude. EDIT: Popular demand has stated it is an interlude, so an interlude it is.
Anyways!
Can Faustus find proof of the existence of other Material Planes? Can Consul Noxisius ‘guide’ the newcomers on the ways of the Empire? Can Magister Verrucosis bring a new asset un...
2023-03-11 20:37:44 +0000 UTC
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