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Aster Plushie Launch!

Mid break surprise!

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Patreon pause effective tomorrow.

Okay I’m going to take a month break.

I’m not quitting or anything, I just need a bit more than a week off (what I realistically get when I take a normal break and accounting for pre and post prep) after going strong for the last four years.

I want to make sure the next chapters/arc lives up to everyone's imaginations an...

Chapter 483

Sorry about the sudden notice but I’m going to pause the Patreon for a month and take a bit of a longer break before we get into the upcoming arc. The story will continue but I acknowledge that I need a longer break and the best way to do so with the Pateron model is to pause payment for a month, so that’s what I’m going to do.

I’l...

Chapter 482

Chapter 482

Mathew flinched away, confused before he saw the message Matt was now very glad he’d sent. From there, his motion reversed as he pulled Matt into a hug.

When they pulled apart, they simply swapped and Matt gave Melinda a hard squeeze as well before letting go and stepping back.

“Fancy seeing you guys down...

Chapter 481

Chapter 481

It didn’t take long for the first wave of explorers to return to their home stations once they reached settled space. Even the oldest immortals wanted to return home after more than five hundred years of absence, but it still took time for them to travel. Instead of rushing, they decided to wait, and the moment they go...

Chapter 480

Chapter 480

Matt felt unending gratitude to the Emperor when he teleported them to a border world instead of directly back into his office. That gave him a chance to look up additional information about Icliz before seeing his loved ones, who no doubt expected him to come back in a triumphant mood rather than his current jumble of e...

Chapter 479

I really need to take more time off this break next year. I never get anything done during the break I say I will. I hope everyone had a good holiday season. 

Anywho, 9k chapter. Enjoy.

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Chapter 479

“Can I assume he's providing said mana against his will?”

JR nodded without hesitation. “Most def...

Chapter 478

10k chapter. I'll see everyone on the 2nd, enjoy.

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Chapter 478

Emmanuel exited his final rift with a sense of anticipation he hadn’t felt since he took the throne. They were done, and he could finally escape this prison. 

With a wave, he obliterated the Tier 48 rift, officially ending his delving.

T...

Chapter 477

Chapter 477

After a decade of campaigning Matt, Liz, Aster, Allie, Zack, the contingent of dukes, various CEO’s, guild leaders, and lower ranking nobles slowly but surely climbed up the palace's stairs in sync with sunrise. They were following customs older than the Empire itself, but that didn’t make them any less important. Wi...

Chapter 476

Chapter 476

Stepping through a [Portal] to the suite they were using as a base after his final interview, Matt arrived to find several of his co-conspirators lounging around the common area. Not that they weren’t working, rather, they were busy communicating with one of the many concerned parties after his latest round of intervie...

Chapter 475

Chapter 475

After agreeing to work together, Matt and Liz spent a few days preparing before they grabbed a few of their people and joined the nobles on their way to the Capital.

One of those preparations was Matt trying to get Aster to join them. However, she was mid-experiment trying to formulate a stable Level five ‘Space ...

Chapter 474

Chapter 474

Opening a [Portal] for Liz, the two of them stepped through his second [Portal], arriving next to the luxury yacht that was now orbiting Palustris.

Through their physical contact, Liz privately commented, “Well, aren’t they the definition inconspicuous.”

Knowing what Liz really meant, he replied the sam...

Chapter 473

Chapter 473

Upon coming back from their exploration, Matt experienced time in a way he hadn't before.

The ten years they spent taking over for their seneschal's was as easy as continuing the tasks already underway. While he and Liz had their own thoughts and plans, they needed their own breaks. As such, they implemented things...

Chapter 472

Enjoy.

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Chapter 472

Having dealt with their ship based obligations, Matt observed the planet burning beneath him. That was good, and seeing it himself finally removed the small nagging voice that had started whispering in his ear any moment that became too quiet, after seeing people fighting over the Crystal aspected ...

Chapter 471

Chapter 471

Allie groaned as she slumped in her chair, panting heavily. Sure, fanning herself with Aster's tail was pure theatrics but Matt still made a note to make her a nice basket of pastries in a few months when things died down. She deserved it after her efforts in teleporting them and their items around.

From their chat...

Chapter 470

Chapter 470

Tim gasped as he came up for air and consciousness flooded back to him.

Spluttering, he found himself in a tub full of ice, melted to the point it felt like slush.

The air was somehow colder than the water, but as Tim tried to pull himself out, he quickly discovered whatever burst of strength had pulled him o...

Chapter 469

8k chapter part 2 Electric Boogaloo.

Enjoy.

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Chapter 469

Matt’s form changed as he responded to the newest incursion from what they were calling the Sword Sect.

That was to differentiate them from the Flying Sect, which was one of the two aerial-based teams still in the running. There had been a t...

Chapter 468

8k chapter!

Enjoy.

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Chapter 468

Entering the strange realm, Matt could have been convinced he was Tier 11 and back inside Minkalla.

After a moment, a pulse of light washed through the world and Matt found himself floating beside the rest of his team, but still unable to move or coordinate.

None of th...

Chapter 467

Note/reminder: We will be taking a break on the 26th and the 28th of December for my birthday. That means 478 will be the last chapter for the year on the 22nd, and we resume with 479 on January 2nd. After that there shouldn’t be any (planned) breaks after this for a while.

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Enjoy.

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Chapter 467

Hearin...

Chapter 466

Chapter 466

When they arrived at their target world they were immediately accosted.

In rapid-fire Guild, the Tier 34 started barking at them, “The Deathly Due’s guild is in command of this world and its strange realms. We are charging anyone who wants to use one of the strange realms. We—”

Hearing the shakedown s...

Chapter 465

Note/reminder: We will be taking a break on the 26th and the 28th of December for my birthday. That means 478 will be the last chapter for the year on the 22nd, and we resume with 479 on January 2nd. After that there shouldn’t be any (planned) breaks after this for a while.

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Chapter 465

Not willing to blow their cov...

Chapter 464

Chapter 464

After two weeks of ‘relaxation’ in the rift instance they were hiding in, everyone packed up their various workstations and prepared to blend in with the exploration groups outside.

Matt felt he’d made significant progress with his mana tests.

Taking inspiration from the same original strange realm mana...

Chapter 463

Chapter 463

Matt's only thought as they stepped into the barrier was that it felt far larger than it had any right to be. He didn’t think it was only a spatial expansion, but he was fairly sure there was a perception distortion making the moment stretch into taffy.

It was almost like entering an isolation chamber and, in the...

Chapter 462

(Old note)Because I forgot last chapter here it is. The gang’s hopefully spoiler free character sheets(Defined by what the reader/cast would know):  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rp7INBG0Fq82Mb0kA8iL4lAcj-5mNzh...

Chapter 461

Chapter 461

Matt’s anticipation of Aster’s reaction was spot on.

“How?! I was so fast. I broke out of every illusion as fast as possible. Or did you fail?”

Aster’s face fell in a burst of worry as she landed on the final possibility. The expression faded as quickly as it appeared when she inspected their bond, ...

Chapter 460

NOTE: At the end of this mini arc (for the the Tier 15 pats), 470 (Nov 17th), I intend to take a small break on the 21st and 24th of November. After that we should have no more breaks until my birthday/christmas/new-year break at the end of the year. 

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Chapter 460

The oddities in the breach bubble didn’t stop w...

Chapter 459

Enjoy the chapter!

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Chapter 459

Having been given a warning on such behavior, Matt didn’t immediately return to working on his mana project, no matter how much he wanted to. He still had plenty of ideas he wanted to test thanks to the information packs Titan’s Torch had been able to pass back to him during Allie�...

Chapter 458

NOTE: At the end of this mini arc (for the the Tier 15 pats), 470 (Nov 17th), I intend to take a small break on the 21st and 24th of November. After that we should have no more breaks until my birthday/christmas/new-year break at the end of the year. 

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(Old)Note, a slightly longer chapter to make up for the shorter intro.

Chapter 457

Chapter 457

Gervásio Mendes froze with everyone else in the pagoda as twelve new presences appeared in low orbit over the breachpoint. Ships had been arriving hourly and were mostly ignored unless they were Tier 35 or higher. A brief scan was normally all any group earned, but this was twelve people arriving where they shouldn’t ...

Chapter 456

I hope you guys had as much fun with this book as I did.

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Chapter 456

Emmanuel stood above the wreckage of a continent larger than most star systems, surrounded by clouds of silver mist that hemmed them in. The result of the boss trying to trap him, which continued despite its death. 

The boss of this Tier ...