Taog heaved a sigh. Oh, he would have words for Ateia about impulsively signing what was clearly a magic contract with someone they know practically nothing about. But nothing more could be done at this point. They were committed, like it or not. He could only hope that this would end well.
Ateia, meanwhile, was all grins, hoisting her pack on her shoulders.
“Well then, let’s get going!”
“Request: Please wait one moment, scan...
2022-11-06 22:36:01 +0000 UTC
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Ateia and Taog shrieked and trembled as the wandering knight approached them.
“P-Please don’t hurt us…”
The armored girl had a heterochromatic eye that appeared to be made of metal. That eye began to glow. Ateia and Taog closed their eyes and hugged one another, gritting their teeth.
“Query: Do you possess any intel regarding the displayed persons of interest?”
Ateia and Taog froze. They gingerly opened their eyes.
Light was shining ...
2022-11-06 14:46:20 +0000 UTC
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It was early morning, before the sun had risen. Ateia and Taog stood over the dining room table, looking over their packs.
“Let’s check one more time.”
Ateia sighed but she opened up her pack.
“Healing potions?”
Ateia reached in and pulled out small bottle filled with red liquid.
“Check!’
“Antidotes?”
“Check!”
“Paralysis cure? Antisleep? Antiburn?”
“Check! Check! Check!”
“How ab...
2022-11-05 17:03:39 +0000 UTC
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NSLICE-00P lowered to the ground after defeating the Ursanus. Rattingtale and Lilussees exited the monster hanger and climbed to her shoulder.
“Wow. Like, good job, boss. There’s not like, any leftovers though, or something? Ah, too bad.”
Rattingtale’s ears were pressed flat against his head.
“Y-Yes yes, g-good job, boss-queen. T-This, um, most impressive. A-As expected of the one who defeated the Great-High King, yes yes.
...
2022-11-05 14:09:49 +0000 UTC
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Canus Sittius Dio groaned. He shivered as something wet and cold landed on his face for only the fiftieth time tonight. He turned over to the other side of his cot, only for a second drop to land on his face. He cursed and leaned out of bed. Looks like his armor would be warmer than his bed today, so he went ahead and got himself dressed. He swore once more as he saw the puddles pooling on the stone floors. Blasted roof hadn’t been repaired in a decade.
2022-11-05 02:42:56 +0000 UTC
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The forest was dead silent, neither bird nor insect willing to sing their songs. Even the trees seemed to sway and groan.
For the Ursanus Alpha was on patrol.
Its mighty paws struck the ground, as if to lay claim to the very land beneath it. Its shell glistened in the sunlight, as hard and tough as any armor forged by men. Its mana blared, a warning and a challenge to all that dared to brave its domain. It let out a low, rumbling growl, a strange scent on t...
2022-11-04 15:58:51 +0000 UTC
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And so NSLICE-00P traveled around the area, avoiding any large signatures and targeting the smaller dungeons. On Lilussees’s suggestion, she had begun aggressively upgrading her implants, as she discovered dungeon perk points were actually fairly abundant, and that upgrading her implants also improved her HP and Mana pools. And so the new and improved NSLICE-00P began a dungeon termination spree…
***
NSLICE-00P flew through the air above a large sw...
2022-11-03 12:45:49 +0000 UTC
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Rattingtale scratched his whiskers. His kept glancing at the spider-thing but it was making no move towards him. He shook his head and turned his attention back to the cyborg.
“Ok, so, let me help-assist you managing the dungeon, yes yes! Then then, I can keep an eye on things while you grow-train, yes yes?”
Lilussees tilted her head at that.
“Ehhhh, you’re, like, keeping this dungeon? I’m like, a new dungeon, in a place without any people, ...
2022-11-02 13:21:32 +0000 UTC
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[The spell Rock Throw is now level 6!]
[The skill Earth Magic is now level 3!]
[You have learned the spell Earth Wall!]
NSLICE-00P continued to practice the new magic school she had unlocked. She was somewhat unimpressed with Rock Throw spell, which could not compare at all with her conventional weaponry, but an elemental spell had provided an entirely different magic circle for her to study. Likewise, she knew f...
2022-11-01 23:52:41 +0000 UTC
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The dungeon was not much longer after the fight with the dirt golems. There were a handful of pitfall traps, but no further battles. As a result, NSLICE-00P had a chance to evaluate the Magic Missile upgrade options and made her choice.
[Magic Missile has been upgrade into Dense Magic Missile.]
Of all the options, a straightforward boost in effectiveness seemed the most efficient. Exploding seemed unnecessary when she already had anti-personnel m...
2022-11-01 19:31:45 +0000 UTC
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[The spell Magic Missile is now level 4!]
[The spell Magic Barrier is now level 2!]
[The skill Arcane Magic is now level 4!]
[The skill MP Regen is now level 3!]
NSLICE-00P continued to practice magic spells as she waited for her arm to regenerate. With the new mana barrier spell, she could start to compare the magic circles. Still, the two spells were very different, and so there wasn’t ...
2022-11-01 16:08:14 +0000 UTC
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NSLICE-00P stood still for quite a while as she conducted her calculations. Rattingtale had gone to sleep, in fact. Finally, after a long while, NSLICE-00P’s robotic eye stopped flickering. She had come to a decision.
There were simply too many variables and not enough data at the moment to determine an efficient path through the system. Even at this early stage, there were too many options on how to spend her perks. She could spend them on base attribute...
2022-11-01 13:38:57 +0000 UTC
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NSLICE-00P’s eye spun about and flickered rapidly, her processors calculating as quickly as she could.
Under no circumstances did she want to allow a foreign system access to any of her systems, least of all her weapon systems. But…she had since been freed of any protocols and primary directives. Technically speaking, there was no particular reason why she couldn’t do just that. It was simply cybersecurity best practices and records of her original proto...
2022-10-31 20:52:30 +0000 UTC
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Rattingtale heaved a sigh. He spoke and pleaded and bargained and threatened until his throat hurt. But the man-thing had made good on her final declaration, and had not responded to him since. It seemed she wouldn’t budge.
Which meant he could do nothing but wait, trapped in these wires and resting in the man-thing’s hand. And watch, as she somehow shot beams of pure mana from her free hand, vaporizing every slime she came across.
His ears pressed agai...
2022-10-31 17:15:21 +0000 UTC
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NSLICE-00P stared at the quivering ratkin.
[Rival Dungeon Master Rattingtale has offered to surrender. Accept?]
She ignored the notification from the foreign program and scanned her past records.
NSLICE-00P had only been the first cyborg the organization that created her had built. And, of course, eventually they had realized there was no reason they had to use a normal human as a base. They started building super-cyborgs out of superpowere...
2022-10-31 14:55:22 +0000 UTC
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“Observation: Neutral entity: slime detected. Proceeding with route…Hostile intent detected! Engaging termination protocols.”
[You have slain Slime (Level 2)!]
[Gained 2 XP!]
“Observation: Potential hostile entity: slime detected. Recommending caution. Proceeding with route…Hostile intent detected! Engaging termination protocols.”
[You have slain Slime (Level 4)!]
2022-10-31 13:27:54 +0000 UTC
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When there are wonderful days filled with joy and friendship, everyone hopes they will last forever. But all things eventually come to a close, the good and the bad, for part of the story is the end.
And so too did the tale of Aurora Legion.
Not because of a dramatic fight or a tragic failure, but from their own success. Aurora Legion had become one of the pillars of the ILS. They had been there from the very start, enduring world ending thr...
2022-10-30 12:05:59 +0000 UTC
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The world had changed. Aliens invading the planet, monsters and villains negotiating with the UN, the League of Superheroes leading humanity into the stars. These were perhaps the greatest and most dramatic changes humanity had ever experienced.
Yet, some things remained the same.
Such as the Mexican Drug trade.
The cartels had been quiet for a bit after the blow dealt to them by the ILS, but they never went away. The systemic problems...
2022-10-29 12:06:00 +0000 UTC
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With Bob’s return, the timeline resumed from where it had left off. For the majority of people the entire affair had been but an instant, a strange waking dream where they caught glimpses of another life. And so most of them shrugged and continued on, unaware their entire reality had been at stake. The event would be heavily discussed but at the end of the day it changed little for the average person.
Those present at the Battle of Time knew better, however. Af...
2022-10-28 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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The rest of the new timeline’s defenders returned to their reality with hanging heads, the Ancient Dragon and Xiong Huang watching over them.
As for the rest of the new timeline’s inhabitants, they stood facing their counterparts. Bob stood at the ready by the original timeline, ready to return and heal the universe.
But before that he gave everyone else a chance for one final farewell…
***
Elise floated in the air above Serenia. ...
2022-10-27 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Flashes of yellow, golden, and pink light filled the air. Countless golden lines criss-crossed the flashes. The entire area was filled to the brim with magic circles of every type and effect.
It was a battle of the ages. Something out of mythology, gods colliding in the heavens above.
The Temporal Arbiter panted for breath, blood dripping from the wounds on his body.
Princess Aurélie grit her teeth, pushing her sword against his staff...
2022-10-26 20:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note:
Hello my loyal patrons! The Faceless Minion is nearing the end of the main storyline (before the end of the month in fact), so I've officially started work on the new novel, an Isekai LitRPG featuring our favorite cyborg! I am waiting for Royal Road's Writathon to go full force and still also hammering out a few details on the overall system, but I have the first chapter ready and am supposed to post any backlog before Writathon begins so here...
2022-10-26 14:01:54 +0000 UTC
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Arachnalich cried and soared through the air. One of the mutants had broken through the line and exploded right beside her.
Her arms and legs started to flake as the magic holding her body together reached its limit, disrupted by both the explosion and the electromagnetic effects of a nuclear blast.
She grit her teeth and focused as much magic power as she could on herself, her built-in computer running as fast as it could to calculate how to repair the damage. Pulling...
2022-10-25 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Xiong Huang leapt out of the vortex, entering into the next world.
One of her eyes was twitching.
The journey had been long.
And difficult.
And above all…extremely annoying.
Every single world she entered she forgot herself, her memories overwritten by those of her alter ego in that particular timeline. So in each of those, she had to go on with a different life until some sort of key moment ...
2022-10-24 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Author’s Note:
Oops I totally forgot to post this at the end of the Alternate Reality arc. Sorry all, here you go!
Hey all, for the most part I tried to keep the exploration of the alt-timeline restricted to the team and Captain Sildeth’s POVs, so figured there might be a few things that weren’t touched on that you might be interested in hearing. Or else you might want an overall view of how it all went down. As such, I’ve written down th...
2022-10-24 13:48:57 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note:
From now on, going to use [brackets] for System notifications on patreon.
***
“BOOOOBBBBB!!!”
The door slammed open once more. Bob heaved a sigh.
“Londibni, I get that you’re stressed, but could you consider knocking? Or at least opening the door normally? Look, the hinge is about to break.”
“Not this time Bob! This time we’re dead! &...
2022-10-23 12:05:59 +0000 UTC
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Wu Zhengkang grimaced. His qi leaked out of the scratches on his arms.
His opponent screeched at him, ignoring the blood dripping down her body.
He had panicked when confronted by the alternate of his former Mistress, but then he realized her cultivation was nowhere close to what it should be. And she had abandoned all skill and reason. He was actually more skilled than this version of his Mistress, as the numerous sword wounds on her body indicated.
...
2022-10-22 12:06:00 +0000 UTC
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Major General Tina stood with her Titans, guns blazing. To her back, Tesla Titan stood once more, lighting surging from his suit.
This was a battle across time. The people here were not so much physical bodies as representations of themselves from their timeline. So when they appeared, they arrived in their peak physical condition up to the present moment. Even those who had fallen in the past could appear once more, so long as they represented a difference betwe...
2022-10-21 20:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Beams of radioactive light collided with elemental blasts and magic spells. Super-serum empowered monsters tore at mutants with their claws and were slammed away by giant, green, radioactive fists. The ILS and AVS joined forces and went to war with the Atomic Cult, both sides fighting to the end to protect their reality. The battle quickly devolved into a chaotic brawl as the supers began to duel.
All around, mutants, monsters, villains, and heroes were crying out and ...
2022-10-20 20:16:00 +0000 UTC
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The team stood in silence after dispatching NSLICE-00P.
Voidspeaker broke the silence.
“So, um, how do we know if it worked…”
Just as he was speaking, everything went white. The team found themselves in a massive stream of light just as before.
“Answer: Like that.”
The teens began to scream, and clutch at their heads. All of them except Elise began to flicker. Wonder Knight and Pink Star kept...
2022-10-19 20:16:00 +0000 UTC
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