Jacob and Vyrrak walk in a restricted part of the Academy, with guards every other step.
The walls here are bare and the torches burn blue.
Vyrrak’s steps are heavy and his tail sways in short irritated arcs.
“Jacob,” Vyrrak says. “I do not think you understand what you just did.”
Jacob keeps walking and k...
2025-12-21 21:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSince I wasn't feeling well, consider this a catch-up chapter. The next comes out following the usual schedule which is at 9PM UTC of the 21st (today in most of the planet). That's roughly 14 hours from now if my math isn't wrong. That's the usual time you should expect the chapter at.
Professor Kharzun turns fully...
2025-12-21 07:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostNothing special, just feeling under the weather today as well. I had a brief fever yesterday night. I’ll take it easy today and come back tomorrow.
2025-12-20 10:12:49 +0000 UTC View PostFeeling a bit under the weather today. I’ll see if I can recoup today’s chapter with a double update tomorrow.
Nothing serious, btw. Just some tiredness and brain fog.
2025-12-19 08:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostJacob and Vyrrak walk side by side through the upper corridors of the Academy.
This part of the building feels older.
It is, actually, older.
It’s one of the building where mostly last year courses are held. Where the fifth-years are refining their last Skills before adventuring out in the world.
Some Knights deci...
2025-12-18 12:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostJacob follows Guinevere in silence to her house.
The “house” is one of the small Academy units near the outer wall. The doorframe forces him to duck. The ceiling is low and the corridor is narrow.
He notices it at once. It is a very small house. The whole place feels like student housing with a better table. There is a sing...
2025-12-17 13:26:11 +0000 UTC View PostI think we're officially 25 chapters ahead of RoyalRoad now. The last chapter on RoyalRoad is 161 and this is 186. 186-161, as Google told me, is 25. Finally! So happy about this. And there'll be what, 28? 29 chapters ahead by the time it's the 19th in whatever timezone you're reading this? pats himself on the back I'm happy I'm...
2025-12-16 09:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostVyrrak folds his arms over his chest.
“This is a plot from Father,” Vyrrak says. “He is obsessed with the idea that I must become a Breaker. He pushes it every time he breathes. I refuse. My true essence is that of a Dagger, Syrraxia. I’ve told you not to meddle.”
Syrraxia’s eyes narrow and Guinevere stiffens.
So far, Vyrrak’s emotions have been less intense than one might expect, given that he has been effectively forced to attend a Class he clearly despises.
Yet, the moment this woman, Guinevere—his wife—entered the classroom, everything changes.
Vyrrak walks up to her in disbelief. I can see a plethora of emotions among whic...
2025-12-14 04:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostVyrrak’s large Dragonkin frame shakes with visible anger as he walks toward his next Class. Rivulets of smoke come out of his nostril—something shameful and impolite for a Dragonkin.
“Why am I being dragged into this every other day?” he mutters to himself.
The reason he’s so mad is that he’s heading toward Pr...
2025-12-13 04:29:48 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back from my vacation. It was quite relaxing, honestly. As a reminder, RoyalRoad is still on break until the 19th and there's going to be one chapter a day or more until then. After, business as usual: daily uploads.
Someone also asked if the book was ending because of King Baalrek's arc. The answer i...
2025-12-12 12:06:59 +0000 UTC View PostNimirea’s eyes snap open.
The red haze and cracked stone of the secret floor are gone. Instead she sees the familiar walls of the first floor of the Celestial Tower. Jacob sits a few steps away. He is just sitting up and smiling at her.
For a moment she thinks this is another illusion. Then her head throbs and her ribs ache and she...
2025-12-11 21:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSuddenly, King Baalrek spreads large bat wings from his back with a sharp crack. They’re made of membranes of deep crimson that stretches between long, jointed bones.
Jacob takes a few steps back because of the gale of wind summoned by them. Another blast of air hits Jacob in the chest. He loses his footing and falls on his a...
2025-12-09 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSome time ago, after the Auction where Jacob bought the sword
King Baalrek observes Jacob sitting on the dorm bed with his head in his hands from his soul. The new, broken sword lies across his knees. It’s just a large hilt and a little fragment of a blade.
This is the sword he just spent so much money 2025-12-07 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jacob observes as a much larger puzzle is created in front of his eyes.
It’s a veritable palace of Madness, red and pulsating.
“You’ll have to enter this,” the Mad King says, “in order to complete it. And Madness shall catch you, Cloud. You will enter and forever lose your mind. But if you don’t I’ll first kill th...
2025-12-05 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I think I’m done.”
King Baalrek says nothing at first.
The completed, now calm cube hangs in the air in perfect order. The last lines of red lightning keep humming along its edges, and the glow makes the cracks in his bones shine.
Jacob stands there with his hands in his pockets.
Nimirea stares at...
2025-12-03 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe air thickens when King Baalrek lifts his hand.
The same red lightning that had killed the Boss in the Ninth Floor now fills this place, recoiling from his fingers and drawing back into the ceiling, creating a dome of death around them.
Mana compresses so hard that Nimirea feels her ribs creak.
Then a Skill Crystal appears a...
2025-12-01 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Nimirea enters the portal, the first thing that she notices is that the red hue that fills the place is much stronger than in any other floor. It makes sense, since the connection to the Secret Room is supposed to be on this floor, but then…
Where’s the Boss?
Nimirea sees many tendrils of red lightning bursting arou...
2025-11-29 21:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post[Welcome to the Fifth Floor of the Celestial Tower.]
Nimirea hears the words and raises an eyebrow.
This means there must be particular requirements to be fulfilled in order to go to the next floor.
[In order to open the portal for the sixth floor, you must release the five pillars in this room.]
[To release a pi...
2025-11-27 21:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I'm officially going on vacation.
To recoup the RoyalRoad chapters, instead of stopping on both RoyalRoad and Patreon, as I had announced already in a comment, I'll continue posting on Patreon. The only difference is that instead of daily chapters, there will be a chapter every other day until December 11th.
Nimirea suddenly falls speechless to the revelation.
“Y—you what?! Why do you bring nonsense romance into this?!” She suddenly is shouting.
Jacob, however, starts shouting too.
“Romance?! Who talked about romance?! As a friend!” He screams back. “Have you lost your mind?!”
“Oh,” Nimirea now look...
2025-11-26 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs Nimirea predicted it, Jacob is finally struggling.
He’s taking damage and risking his life.
Now, the Demonic Insectoid monsters have become Armored Demonic Insectoids and are much stronger and sturdier, roughly at Intermediate Diamond Rank, which is straining the limits of Jacob fighting abilities.
He might be fatally ...
2025-11-25 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe monsters stand packed shoulder to shoulder. Their chitin looks rough and dark like scorched bone. Their eyes glow with a dull red that never blinks. Their arms end in hooked blades that jut out like broken scythes. Their mandibles click as they breathe, and the sound fills the whole room like grinding stones. Their legs bend the wrong way, a...
2025-11-25 02:53:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a mishandling in the scheduling and Chapter 170 was posted twice. Your messages did not reach me because I hired someone to schedule my chapters across Patreon and RR and they made a mistake. I entered today to check how many chapters I'm ahead to make sure to cover the two-week vacation I'm about to take.
I'll tell them to chec...
2025-11-24 04:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so, two days pass just like this, with Nimirea waiting for her plan to come together.
She had come to the Academy with the only purpose of infiltrating Jacob Cloud’s group of Champions. She had wanted to get close to him by letting him play the hero and save her in order for him not to have any suspicion of who she really wa...
2025-11-21 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Headmaster led me into his office, and I read the letter without a word.
“Dear Jacob,” it begins in my mother’s handwriting. “The Celestial Tower has opened, but the Crown Prince of Verdia—one of the largest Elven kingdoms—has already reserved every available spot. I managed to secure two for you, yet the Prince demanded th...
2025-11-20 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“What did you just say?!” Professor Halvern becomes red like a tomato. “You dare call me a scammer?! On what basis?!”
“You’re just stealing Mana loops from students and recompiling them thanks to your Skill. Your Skill is not meant to make people improve—you use it to create a carbon copy of what every student is doing....
2025-11-14 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostProfessor Halvern watches smugly as Jacob finishes up his Runic Notation. He can tell that the kid is just a poor arrogant bastard. Clearly, there’s nothing of substance in the work that he just produced. If there was, Professor Halvern would go hide in a forest.
He’s just making a bunch of scribbles. And that’s supposed to be Ru...
2025-11-13 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"The rules of this match are pretty simple. Runic Notation consists in recording the best way to use a Skill in a standardized way. What matters is not only the knowledge of the individual regarding one Skill, but also the quality of their Runic Notation. With time, everyone develops variants of the standard Runic Notation that can be more or le...
2025-11-12 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJacob cannot believe how shameless Professor Halvern is. He doesn't know how someone could possibly be this shameless and act so high and mighty. It almost makes no sense to him.
[Grimoire Analysis: Map of the Stars — True Diamond — Four Flaws Found.]
[Map of the Stars: Use your knowledge of Vein paths from other skills to deciph...
2025-11-11 21:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post