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Chapter 325 - True Paths

When Ankh’aris had said he intended to test the others, Nate had thought they would at least be given a chance to settle in. Instead, the moment they had literally flown the Solaris in through the gaping maw of the mountain building, Ankh had told them all to get out.

Nate wanted to ask Ankh about what to do now that his Vessel had reached its capacity and refused to grow any further, but he was patient enough to wait his turn. Instead, he sat off to the side and continued to use 2026-01-04 19:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 324 - Carved in Stone

Nate studied the creature that Ankh had pulled from the fractured space surrounding them. At first the creature, with skin as dark as the night, had squirmed in a futile attempt to escape. The moment it had realised the futility it had gone limp. The creatures face had two slits for a nose and eyes that shone like stars, with elongated arms and legs that ended in three toes or fingers respectively. From the creature's eyes Nate could sense a Skill along with a Concept. The most pervasive Conc...

Chapter 323 - That’s a Dragon

Nate stared at the growing darkness that ate away at Reality. Behind him the sirens of the Golden Tide continued to scream. The Greater Divine that had responded to Nate’s own portal seemed at a loss for what to do and Nate couldn’t blame him. The sphere of darkness gave off a heavy sense of Destruction and Nate was almost certain he knew what, or should he say who, was coming through. He just hadn’t expected such a quick response to his message.

Around him everyone except for Kir...

Chapter 322 - Freedom at Last

Nate remained conscious as the world blurred around him. All of his mental focus was on the pressure from Reciprocity as it demanded its due. The nascent spatial spirit was tucked away in his Created World and his agreement with Arikanvil told him to deliver it as promised. So he fought. Fought against the pressure from Reciprocity as it eroded his body and soul. Nate knew he was dying and, though it would shorten the time he could hold on, he needed to come up with a solutio...

Chapter 321 - Freedoms Price

Remdeyr, True Divine and Patriarch of the Severing Blade Sect, sat quietly in his cultivation chamber. The walls were decorated with swords and the things they had cut, severed, and separated. For that was the heart of Severing. To cut and separate. There were other facets of this Concept. Facets that Remdeyr hoped were lying to him. But he already knew the truth. He knew it before Yendyr, his Greater Divine Disciple, entered unbidden. He’d known it the moment it happened. Felt the connecti...

Chapter 320 - Inner Bound

Nate took a single step forward. That single act of moving was enough to take him from the outside world into Worldhammer’s Inner World. The aperture closed behind him immediately but Nate wasn’t worried. The Greater Divine had sworn on The System and Reciprocity would demand its due if Worldhammer violated his word. Instead, he saw the action of closing off the Inner World for what it was. An act of personal security.

Worldhammer had taken Nate to ...

Chapter 319 - Rewards for Success

Nate watched as the timer ticked down on the World Reaping event. 

World Reaping End: 00:05:31

Almost five minutes to go and he would finally be done with this particular leg of their journey in the Heartlands. The World Reaping had lasted for another sixty-three days after the battle of Molten Fall. That was what the other teams had apparently taken to calling the ambush and subsequent deaths of five Seeds of the major factions. 

Head Merchant Wu To’sam...

Chapter 318 - Zone of Destruction

The anger in Nate’s heart was both mirrored and juxtaposed by the environment that he had created. The molten stone spewed forth from the volcano was burning away everything in the vicinity, the air itself being superheated to the point where breathing normally was an impossibility. Nate remained unaffected inside his barrier, his Regalia keeping him at a normal temperature and the barrier runes surrounding him bottling up the clean air he was producing from a secondary rune. 

Hi...

Chapter 317 - Cannons and Chaos

Kiri dodged to the side as Divine Energy flowed through her body and soul. Pink hair flashed through where Kiri had been a moment before and dirt went flying from the sudden impact of feet moving so fast that even the mythic tier ground couldn’t handle the force. Another step, another slash, more of the forest destroyed.

Kiri smirked to taunt her opponent as she gave ground before Perenthia’s onslaught. Kiri could see that the coldness that had lingered in the elf’s eyes every tim...

Chapter 316 - Molten Anger

Nate spread his senses throughout the area around the base of the volcano. His plans for this ambush had always been multifaceted. Using the molten lava from the volcano had more than one purpose and the second was finally coming into play. The many spears of lava launched by his runes buried in the volcano's crust had released enough smoke and detritus into the air to make normal sight completely useless. For over a hundred metres there was nothing but smoke, ash and other small particles ci...

Chapter 315 - Chaos Rains

Kiri lashed out with her armoured fist, the speed of her movement causing a blast of air to ripple out from the attack. Even with Divine Energy empowering her, it wasn’t enough. Perenthia, similarly empowered, was already moving and the retaliatory cut from her sword sliced Kiri’s leg in half. The artifact didn’t seem to be able to do more than scratch the surface of Kiri’s Regalia but the Concept of Severing didn’t seem to have any issues with passing right through her armour and o...

Chapter 314 - Predator or Prey

Nate could sense the tenseness in his comrades as they waited on the slopes of the volcano. Off in the distance, beyond the jungle of the southern continent, their enemies were gathering. Nate could see that seven teams had already arrived, their groups delineated by faction. His Conceptual Sight roved over the teams, identifying the factions, and where possible the Seeds involved. There were three from the Dynasty of the Heavenly Serpent, easily identifiable by the elves in ...

Chapter 313 - Final Preparations

Nate sat on a chair carved from the stony ground, the volcano rising up behind him. The heat was palpable and the few times he had dropped the barrier rune to keep the air fresh he’d caught the scent of burnt metal and sulfur. This was definitely not his idea of a holiday location, but then, he wasn’t on holiday was he? The thought flitted through his mind and was discarded. Even after he finished this World Reaping and obtained the Lesser Divine Spatial Spirit from Worldhammer’s vault,...

Chapter 312 - The Unknown

Perenthia rocked back and forth in an effort not to reach for her hair. She’d run out of alchemicals for growing it back already and making herself bald wouldn’t endear Nate to her. After all, he had said he liked her hair. If only he hadn’t then fled. It wasn’t her fault, she knew that. It wasn’t his fault either. He may be able to manipulate Reality like her but he couldn’t read the lines of probability. He couldn’t see how perfect they were for each other. All he could see wa...

Chapter 311 - Give Nothing

Nate drifted through the spatial aperture, eyes closed as he basked in the sensation of space twisting around him in what could only be described as a loving embrace. The sensation felt like a parent ruffling his hair gently or when Kiri wrapped an arm around him. The spatial ripples drifted over him and he knew that if he wanted to, he could take some of what was around him and absorb it into himself.

The feeling only lasted a few seconds and Nate managed to maintain his self control a...

Chapter 310 - Created Space

Nate looked over his handiwork. The lines snaked like the roots of a tree as they wove through the wood of the Solaris, shining in his Conceptual Sight like filaments of light.

When Frick had told Nate he wanted to be bound to the Solaris, at first Nate had taken that to mean stashing his anchor within the bowels of the ship. But a quick discussion with the little Goblin Spirit had put that idea to bed. Frick didn’t want to be housed in the ship. He wanted to be the s...

Chapter 309 - Split Desires

Nate sat at the table enjoying his breakfast. He’d managed to get the details of The Severing Blade out of Fili the night before, after his little reveal about being stalked by Perenthia. What Fili had been able to share was the story of a True Divine powerful enough to threaten other True Divines. Where factions like the Dynasty of the Heavenly Serpent or the Golden Tide focused on a wide array of members from a large number of worlds, the Severing Blade Sect focused on individuals and onl...

Chapter 308 - Found Friends

Nate guided the Solaris towards the confrontation happening in the forest below. Kiri had already made her way to the front of the flying ship and was getting ready to leap off as soon as they were close enough. Just in case, Nate created a Sound and Target rune on his Regalia so that he could hear the conversation taking place between Hrung’Jak’s team and their opposition. The words filtered into his ears a moment later.

“We’re willing to give up this Mid-Grade artifact as an o...

Chapter 307 - Night Skies

Nate sat at the meeting table below deck on the Solaris. Wulfgar and Kiri stared at him intently waiting for Nate to reveal the outcome of his meeting with the Starbreaking Guild.

Nate glanced at the polished wooden door that led above deck to where Frick guided them through the skies on the heading that Nate had given everyone the moment he appeared back on board.

“We need more crew,” he commented absently.

“What? What’s that got to do with the meeting you had?” a...

Chapter 306 - Avarice

Nate flew in from the lowlands on a flying sword as he spotted the market of the Starbreaking Guild in the distance. Wrapped around him were layers upon layers of protections and illusions. A requirement laid down by Kiri if Nate was to be the one to go instead of her. That had been a long debate, with Kiri putting forward that the risk to her was lower than him as out of the two of them she maintained she was the one more likely to survive if discovered.

Nate had to acknowledge, she di...

Chapter 305 - Bubbling Up

Nate approached the bubbling lake of blood at the heart of the forest.

Kiri hooted as Nate felt her sense the size of the creature that had decided to make the lake its home. Wulfgar beside her swallowed, knowing what was coming.

“Are you sure I need to do it alone?” asked the old warrior.

The look of worry on his face was clear.

“You can manage it,” reassured Nate.

Kiri snorted in response.

“If it was our master he’d have stripped you of all yo...

Chapter 304 - Webs Unwoven

Nate’s Conceptual Sight took in the cocoon of mana webs they had found themselves in even as battle raged around him. Not just him though. The combatants seemed to be taking pains not to interfere with him or Perenthia who still sat across from him. With his sight that let him see the mana woven clearly throughout the room he could tell as the pink-haired scion of the Severing Blade Sect tugged on one thread after another. 

With every tug on those mana threads, s...

Chapter 303 - All Paths Align

Nate moved like a dancer learning a new routine as he stuttered his way through the Physical Test forty-six. The Stats were enough but Nate wasn’t used to actually controlling his body and while the vast increase in Stats was making up for the shortfall, it was obvious to Nate the wide gap in experience. He could just imagine the fluidity as Kiri completed the same course. Then again, he could also imagine how clumsy she would’ve appeared in the Magical Tests.

As he landed with thre...

Chapter 302 - Conceptually Balanced

Nate stood at the prow of the Solaris as the flying ship made its descent towards a meadow in the huge forest of trees below. They had crossed into the red expanse, the leaves of the towering trees shaped like droplets of blood, over four hours ago. During that time, Nate had found that his sensory ability couldn’t penetrate the canopy. Each time he had tried he’d felt like there was blood trying to push into his body through the ability and so he had withdrawn it.

The same was true...

Chapter 301 - How We Feel

Nate stood on the deck of the Solaris, easel in front of him as he painted two paintings simultaneously. The first was taking shape on the canvas before him. The second was being shaped slowly within his Regalia as he created replacements for the self-portraits he had been forced to destroy as he transferred his injuries to them to make himself whole.

Kiri flopped down next to him, sunbathing on a deck chair he had shaped for her as they both took a moment to relax. Behind them, at the ...

Chapter 300 - Leading from the Front

Nate floated in the purple sky of the Fifth Hell as a golden-blue rune the size of a warehouse swirled above him. The Concepts of Joy and Love permeated the air, driving back the sense of blood and violence that was the namesake of the layer of Hell dedicated to Wrath. The calm lasted barely a second. 

Hulking, obsidian skinned, with huge draconic wings stretching behind him, the Demon Lord Hast’durin’koth, Keeper of the Endless Fury and Greater Divine of the Fifth Hell, unleas...

Chapter 299 - A Step Beyond

Nate watched as a second wave of demons began charging down the hill, carelessly stomping over their fallen brethren. The processed mana that swirled in the air was miniscule, reduced just like The System Challenge had explained. Still, what little there was Nate drew to himself and into mana gems prepared for it. As the processed mana gems filled, Nate sensed Wulfgar and Frick join him atop the Rune Fort.

“What can we do?” asked Wulfgar, looking at the oncoming forces with worry wr...

Chapter 298 - Runic Reality

A/N: And we're back! Enjoy!

Paint continued to swirl around Nate in complex geometric patterns interspersed with Sigils as he refined the structure for his newest ability. The Sigil for Shape was the most prevalent but Nate had included both Creation and Destruction as well with his Intent forcing them to lean towards the idea of Change. Finally there were Stat-based Sigils throughout. These were the weakest points in the existing runic structure and the first ones he woul...

Book 4 out on Amazon and Audible!

Hey everyone!

We will be back to our regularly scheduled release schedule on Monday, but that isn't what today is about!

In case the title and the image wasn't enough to tell you, Book 4 has released on Amazon and Audible.

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October Holiday

And I am on 'holiday'. See everyone on the 3rd of November. Love you all!

PS: I will still be writing while I am off and getting a backlog going again as well as recovering from being sick.

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