Aarav had never been so satisfied in his life. No, never in both lives! He currently sat on the cart that had brought the food and was now empty, all of the contents currently sitting comfortably in his body. Well, about eighty per cent of it at least. The other two had eaten some of it after all.
“By, Ursa, you can put it away!” Haemish exclaimed after a minute of nothing but watching the Slime endlessly devour morsel after morsel. Through his food coma, Aarav could see the look on...
2022-01-08 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Kundir Doroga, merchant extraordinaire, walked through the gates of Karuler’s capital, Tanachen. It always paid to show the commoners that you could walk as they did. The gates stood wide open to the most fantastic city on the continent of Fryst, at least by Kundir standard, and that was the only one that mattered really.
The desert lay for hundreds of miles in all directions. There was nothing close to this in the entire country for one excellent reason: Water. The most sacred commod...
2022-01-06 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Food will be with us shortly. Eh, what happened?” Haemish walked back into the room to the calculating stares of Aarav and Marasa.
She seemed to be weighing Haemish in a new light. Aarav was drooling and staring when Haemish walked in because he carried a croissant slathered in honey in one hand with steam rising from it.
“Care to share that delicious treat?” Aarav pointedly looked at the baked item in his hand, and Haemish took a bite just to tease the Slime.
“Mo...
2022-01-04 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Marasa laughed at that. It was the first time she laughed since she entered and saw Aarav. With that simple act, she cut through the tension in her heart. “It is very nice to meet you, Resh. Haemish, you were right. It is fascinating meeting a new member of the court. I assume you are a member of the court?”
“I suppose I am, aren’t I Haemish?” Aarav asked the rotund man, who consented. “Though I am sure you will hear of the circumstances, the result is all that seems to matt...
2022-01-02 09:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Aarav had managed to pull himself over to his initial potion experiment and looked at how best to proceed.
Aarav began funnelling Mana into the water, trying to combine it with the liquid before he poured it into the glass that held the sand and herbs, and it just kept rolling off. He pushed harder, trying to bond the Mana to the water and get it to mingle, but the Mana kept passing through this time. It was like trying to attach steam to oil, and it just kept...
2021-12-30 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Marasa, I would very much like you to meet someone. A new apprentice, if you will.” Haemish said to the young woman standing in front of him. He had scoured the palace in search of her, not that he would tell her that. It wasn’t becoming letting a woman know how much you wanted to see her. It was purely for academic purposes, but then they would hold all the power in the relationship going forward.
“Haemish, I am a little busy at the moment. Can it wait?” Marasa said, turning...
2021-12-28 15:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“Well, nothing I can do, maybe it will be like when I finally got all five primary senses and then gained something for the collective.” It had to be; otherwise, he had just wasted his time, and this world rewarded all effort.
Should he finish the skull now? He had been secluded here for ten hours already, so a short break would not go amiss. But then again, the head was small and would be quick with the new upgrade to Greater Consume, now Supreme Consume. Who ...
2021-12-26 15:00:23 +0000 UTC
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Haemish’s question was pragmatic, and if Aarav had not been so excited to try out his new body, he might have considered it before wasting the last hour trying to stand up and walk.
“I hadn’t considered that! I am going to go.” I should have considered it myself. Adding a torso and skull to the mix will change my centre of gravity, and I would have to relearn walking all over again. But damn it, I was so excited to be able to get on my two feet again!
Just before ...
2021-12-24 18:39:38 +0000 UTC
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Your Skill Greater Consume has increased to Level 36!
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Your Skill Greater Consume has increased to Level 40!
You have Assimilated 1 Human Leg (Skeleton Only, Right) and improved the ability Leg of Bone Level 1. Congratulations! Your back r...
2021-12-22 18:20:15 +0000 UTC
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Deep breath, in and out, you’ve practised and trained for this, bud, you can do it. Haren’s little pep talk was not going great. His palms were sweating, his forehead creased and smoothed repeatedly, and he could not remember his underwear had felt so restricting, and it seemed to want to crawl into a place it had no right to be.
Just relax, buddy. They didn’t tell you what to expect, but it is probably something combat-related; I mean, it is the Royal Guard! What els...
2021-12-20 16:24:30 +0000 UTC
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“I am afraid I cannot answer that for you now. Powers far greater than mine have sealed my lips. You may learn the reason in time but for now, let it be. That is the most I can say.” Aarav was not surprised that he would not learn the reason, and the question had needed asking. No, what had surprised him was that Haemish had given any answer at all.
Aarav realised that his mouth was open, and he quickly shut it.Hmm, curious old man, you have layers like an onion. I am eager to k...
2021-12-18 18:40:50 +0000 UTC
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“So I need to ask you a few questions about Skills and Talents and all the other good stuff.” Aarav started once they were out of the room and on their way back to the lab, the Slime cradled in the Potion Master’s hands.
“Hmm, what would you like to know?” Haemish replied.
“Okay, I notice that there is something that changes with Skills when they get to level ten, and then I am assuming that it happens again at subsequent levels as well?” Aarav aske...
2021-12-16 12:35:46 +0000 UTC
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Aarav groaned as he woke and stretched. Except there was nothing to move. “What’s going on? Where are my arms and legs!” After a moment of panic, the memories started filtering back.
Wow, that dream of that first meeting with Mrs Carva had been so vivid. He had felt like he was there at that fated moment. Aarav shuddered; she had seemed so lovely that meeting except for the single look, and Ami had felt safe for the first time in so long.
Stop thinking about her! Th...
2021-12-14 10:09:27 +0000 UTC
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Sorry about the irregular posts, just getting to the editting and after 12,000 errors...I am a mistake prone writer, I have got it down to 3,000 and future chapters...should be...more or less error free. Fingers crossed. Also I had this chapter posted and ready to go but for some reason forgot to press the publish button! Sorry! Also Garva's back!
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Boren continued to sprint along corridor after c...
2021-12-13 06:28:32 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 100, a milestone chapter for sure so extra-long, over 4000 words. Also, this is another flashback chapter to Aarav's human life so feel free to skip if you're not up for the gruesome details. I have summarised it at the end.
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Aarav scratched at his face in a very human-like gesture. The two men staring at him was incredibly embarrassing. There was nothing he could do about it. He just sat there mentally recovering fr...
2021-12-10 08:47:33 +0000 UTC
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Aarav’s final option was to stop using Consume Blorenar and save the Mana when he started Assimilating the leg. The difficulty was that he did not know when Consuming Blorenar’s +10% Assimilation chance activated. Was it instant, or did it only active once the full boost had been reached, 100 minutes after activation? It was simple enough to mitigate the issue by activating the World Talent two hours before Assimilating, so he needed enough
2021-12-08 05:45:50 +0000 UTC
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“Haemish, do you have another skeleton!?” he yelled out after having just kicked them all out of his Consumption room. “I need to know if you can at least get another.”
“Why?” the thick slab of wood between them muffled Haemish’s reply. “You have everything you need there. Two arms, well, one left now, and two legs and everything else, right?”
“Ye-yeah, of course, yeah, you’re right! It’s fine!” then belatedly, “thanks! Wait! I need a Mana Poti...
2021-12-06 11:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Safira Aeris awoke from what felt like an age of sleep. Looking around, she was in a cave of some sort. The ruffians of the Renfay were assaulting her the last she recalled. Safira was not oblivious. She had been a walking target. The wealth displayed something rarely seen in Darf and never in that part of Pravwell. Then she had blacked out and when she woke up here. Where is here?
Abruptly, she remembered the creature that she had seen stalking the rooftops and leaping down at...
2021-12-04 11:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Now that he had some time to himself, hopefully without interruptions. He could streamline things a little. He didn’t fully understand how the rest of the population Managed their interfaces. But, it was becoming a little too cluttered. It was nice to know when Skills were going to level and stuff, but he didn’t need to know that all the time. Even the descriptions were unnecessary once he knew what the Skills did. The effect might be nice to keep, though, as, at a glance, he cou...
2021-12-02 11:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Sorry about the release I promised on the 29th, didn't have my laptop with me to couldn't but have uploaded two today instead. Thanks so much much all of you for your support, just started a writing course to try and get better at this. lol. In the meantime I will be releasing chapters every other day from the 2nd of December and as always welcome any feedback you guys have for me!
2021-11-30 10:37:12 +0000 UTC
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Haemish’s enthusiasm was unabashed as he looked at Aarav in excitement. “Okay.” He said with what Aarav thought was quite a lot of restraint.
After which, he immediately pulled an entire human skeleton from god knows where. Aarav gaped in stupefaction at this incredible development. He has a whole bloody skeletal frame on him!? Taler was surprised but intensely interested in what Haemish planned to do with the thing. Rion just looked bored. As if the man had done far stra...
2021-11-30 10:31:43 +0000 UTC
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Aarav had been at it for over an hour and made frustratingly slow progress. Aarav knew what he wanted to do and was ready to go. The difficulty wasn’t so much in the mixing or portions. It was in the actual mechanical movement of his limbs. With these annoying paws, he couldn’t hold anything properly. Even with four of them, it was excruciatingly slow.
If only I have actual hands, damn it! “Taler, hey, could you come over here? I just need a little help.” Aarav raised h...
2021-11-30 10:30:42 +0000 UTC
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Rubbing his eyes again as he turned away from the odd little creature that was using its paws to sandwich the pestle to be able to powder the herbs, it was going to be hard work with paws. I will speak to Resh about those paws later, how did he acquire such an addition? The paws themselves look so odd on the Slime’s body that it looked like that had been stuck on. The texture, colour and structure were completely different. The paws actually looked like they had bones, tendons and ...
2021-11-28 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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What Aarav really wanted was to try loads and loads of different things, he had hardly experienced anything of what this world had to offer and if he had less than forty years here, he was going to make them count and enjoy himself. Exploring what this game-like world had to offer. Maybe something truly substantial would come out of it…
Now with full Mana and full Stamina again Aarav was ready to tackle the next challenge, which came in the form of Haemish attempting to teach him poti...
2021-11-27 09:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Thanks so much all of you for your support! I hope that I can keep making it worth your while! Let me know in the comments what you think of the story so far and if any of you can leave me a review on royalroad or any of the other platforms I would be even more eternally grateful to you all!
2021-11-27 05:37:34 +0000 UTC
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The frustration of no stamina was real as Aarav slunk along on his belly. The upside to doing that was that he could Consume the dirt as he went, the floor was coated in a layer of mana like wax so it was protected from the elements and hungry Slimes. Oh well, the dirt is fine for now. He was alone in the passageway between rooms. It was time to try something else he had wanted to do.
Pulling up his Camouflage menu he chose the Skinoption that he had acquired when the ...
2021-11-26 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Aarav couldn’t take his eyes off the King, the man was an enigma. The light show he had just been dazzled with was even grander than the palace around them. The Oath having just settled on him was not as weighty as he though it would be. But it did feel like there was a second membrane over his existing skin. Like a very snug pair of tights, over his whole body. An odd and very claustrophobic sensation but it didn’t trigger his phobia because he was getting out of the box.
At first ...
2021-11-25 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“The nature of the Soul is strange, the four churches have different explanations for it but essentially what it boils down to is this. It is where your Stats, Skills, Talents and Magic is all anchored. The internal space, the churches call it Soul so we use the same term but it is just a word, a metaphysical space in each of us which strengthens with our bodies and minds. Or maybe the soul is what strengthens the body and mind. There are many schools of thought.”
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2021-11-24 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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If Aarav had eyebrows he would have raised them. This was turning into a very interesting conversation already and the Queen was already hiding things from him that appeared to be common knowledge, the five-feet under man would not have lapse so epically unless there was nothing that he would normally hide. Also, isn’t she being a little undignified for a Queen?
“Please attend his Majesty!” his voice seemed to change to that of a cryer, this dude has some lungs on him...
2021-11-23 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Aarav liked to think that he managed the whole transition with a great deal of dignity and earned the respect of all people around him, like a monarch humouring his subjects and being carried aloft on the shoulders of titans. The reality left much to be desired...
“Hey! Hey! Where are we going? Where are you taking me! I have a right to know! I know my rights! Hey, put me down, damn it!” Aarav was trying to look everywhere at once, then realised what he was doing in his flustered st...
2021-11-22 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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