Chapter 397
Matt felt like he was walking on air as they exited the rift, and even Luna’s appearance while looking them up and down and circling them did nothing to ruin his mood.
Sending her a recording of their boss fight, Matt enjoyed the brief micro expressions that slipped through her control.
Aster laughed ou...
2025-02-07 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostI just want to state that I hear the comments about the delving feeling like it's more lack of progress. That's not what I intended but if it's coming across that way it's good to know. I wanted to show some delving since we didn’t do so for so long but with the feedback in mind this will be the last delving we have for a while as the out of r...
2025-02-03 19:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 395
Palustris, being a Tier 27 world, wasn’t exactly ideal to delve at with their abilities. But if they didn’t delve it while they were Tier 26 or Tier 27, they wouldn't get to delve it at all, so it was very much a now or never situation.
The planet did have Tier 28 rifts, but only a few, as any rift that was...
2025-01-31 19:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 394
They had been gone for a little more than a year and work had piled up, all of which needed to be cleared out before they could dive back into delving. The moment they arrived home, they all split up, having decided to dedicate a month to catching up before going back to advancing.
The first thing he and Liz di...
2025-01-27 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostTier 1 paterons read this: I’ve been sick all week and so I’ll be taking monday off to catch up on all the writing I didn’t get done. Sorry about this but I didn’t want to just not put out a chapter with no warning so taking monday off and burning a backlog chapter for today. I’m starting to feel better so it should only be a single mi...
2025-01-24 19:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 392
Matt frowned as he watched the ongoing scene below the surface with his spiritual power.
The Empire's people were almost uniformly going in the wrong direction. If he was a more cynical man, he would have suspected that someone was messing with them. But even the Corporation people seemed to be heading in the w...
2025-01-20 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post6.5k chapter today. Enjoy.
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Chapter 391
Having settled on an initial method of settling the ownership of the planet, Matt did something he didn’t think he’d ever end up actually doing.
Leaning into his Ascender status.
They needed a lot of people to contend with the masses of Corporations mercenari...
2025-01-17 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 390
Head down, they delved for another five years.
They wanted to delve more to advance further, but they were called up by the army.
A Tier 15 world had drifted between Corporations territory and Empire territory, and both sides were claiming it.
They, being the highest combat prowess Ascenders availab...
2025-01-13 19:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 389
Aster's capital world was… interesting.
That was the best word Matt could describe it with, no matter how many times he visited.
When he and Liz had been slated a fire aspected world, Aster had been dreaming of an ice version, but that was so improbable it may as well be impossible given that there were...
2025-01-10 19:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 388
When Matt arrived back at Palustris he was immediately greeted by Liz, who hugged him before they shared a long kiss just enjoying being back near each other.
They didn’t give themselves the time they would have liked to enjoy each other's presence, however, and Liz got right to business just a moment later. ...
2025-01-06 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 387
The Dobrescu duchy was a two month jaunt across the Empire, but that was only because Matt was able to use a real space crossing they controlled to cover most of the distance. A border duchy between Rusty’s and Harper’s respective kingdoms, they were in a strategic economic zone for goods that came from the b...
2025-01-03 19:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 386
The following week passed far too slowly for Matt’s liking, but he understood it was a hectic one for his lawyers.
He hadn’t seen a single one of them drop below their maximum perception speed for even a second while they got the guild ready for the metaphorical war they were about to enter.
And war i...
2024-12-23 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 385
Matt stood amongst the flames of another burned out thieves guild and pondered just what exactly he had been finding.
This was his tenth raid on those who had hit the cargo ships, but so far, each of them had only been fed details on one of the aura potion shipments, with no information about the supplier or th...
2024-12-20 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 384
Hearing that over a dozen of their aura shipments had been hit immediately set alarm bells ringing, and Matt flew down to their floating island that was currently pretending to be a more standard island on one of Palustris’ seas as it was being renovated.
Liz was already there and waiting for him, which meant...
2024-12-16 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 383
While Ra’thala was being questioned and interrogated by the people Matt had assigned to work on the tentatively named ‘Skills for All’ task force, Matt had other things to work on at the guild.
He would much rather help with the skills project than essentially slam his head against the wall, but he so rar...
2024-12-13 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostAlso fyi this book is about to start speeding up but wanted to slow roll the new guy but this arc is going to start kicking into gear.
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Chapter 382
Ra’thala couldn't help but look to where Ascender Shadow, Allie, had vanished. He and Ascender Titan, Matt, were dozens, if not hundreds of planets away at the Ascen...
2024-12-09 19:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 381
Matt had to rein himself in after their spar with Ra’thala, and he could tell that everyone else felt the same way.
The fight had been so… different, they all wanted to go another round or five.
Ra’thala’s spells felt unique, and each cast carried with it a surprise as their patterns...
2024-12-06 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 380
Rusty watched as a dozen people filed into his throne room. Next to him were Frederic and Tur'stal to round out the meeting. Now that the Emperor had stated this was his final offer to the Knight revival program, they were either going to move forward or the effort would die here.
It had taken almost fifty year...
2024-12-02 19:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 379
Ra’thala had never minded fights, spars, battles, or even death feuds where only one side could walk away. They were a part of gathering power and influence. Friendly fights could also be a good way to learn about someone, and these Ascenders seemed interesting.
If he was understanding the bits and pieces of ...
2024-11-29 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 378
Matt couldn't help but look at the ascender in awe as Manny talked to him. It was just so strange to think of someone ascending into their Realm.
They didn’t get many people from lower Realms, as there weren’t any Tier 25 Realms directly connected to this Realm, but they still tended to pop up every few gen...
2024-11-25 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostFYI to all readers. My birthday break is coming up and this will be the schedule.
20th: Chapter
23rd: Chapter
27th: No Chapter
30th: No Chapter
3rd: Chapter
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Chapter 377
Ra’thala swallowed as he listened to headman Tiu’ja talking to the other village elders. There was an uneasy feeling ling...
2024-11-11 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 376
Emmanuel stood up from his desk and stepped through space to arrive in one of the palace's personal gardens. It wasn’t one of his or Carissa's favorite ones but it was empty and he needed to think.
The Empire’s economy was… not great.
Fighting a war nearly alone against three opponents was not easy,...
2024-11-08 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostFYI to all readers. My birthday break is coming up and this will be the schedule.
20th: Chapter
23rd: Chapter
27th: No Chapter
30th: No Chapter
3rd: Chapter
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Chapter 375
Returning back to Palustris, Matt immediately went to Liz and discussed Frederic’s request. In the end, they decided that i...
2024-11-04 19:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 374
“Liz, I don't like this. It looks… dumb.”
Matt gestured at the mockup of their floating island.
In front of them lay a fully decentralized layout that looked more like an opulent estate than a proper governmental administrative center, which is what their floating island would end up needing to be.<...
2024-11-01 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostFYI to all readers. My birthday break is coming up and this will be the schedule.
20th: Chapter
23rd: Chapter
27th: No Chapter
30th: No Chapter
3rd: Chapter
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Chapter 373
Matt and Liz moved to meet the two Ascenders in space, but Wun Miloan skipped on golden air and arrived down at the front doo...
2024-10-28 18:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 372
With the sects properly cowed, Matt turned to where Cui Ming and Lang Ru were convalescing.
With a step across folded space, he and Liz appeared next to them, and as the medic tending to the pair gave them space, Matt added the duo to his Concept’s whitelist. He felt Liz chortle on his shoulder at their react...
2024-10-25 18:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostFYI to all readers. My birthday break is coming up and this will be the schedule.
20th: Chapter
23rd: Chapter
27th: No Chapter
30th: No Chapter
3rd: Chapter
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Chapter 371
The Rage Within sect and Dancing Flames sect leaders floated in the middle of the valley a dozen feet from each other....
2024-10-21 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 370
Matt whistled as he and Liz watched chaotic space swirl past them, letting his hand idly run through her hair as she leaned into him on the couch as they watched chaotic space pass by with their spiritual senses.
They were both in excellent moods, the ducal meeting having gone exceptionally well, contrary to th...
2024-10-18 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 369
Leon split into two and took Matt a short distance away from Liz.
At first, Matt felt profoundly awkward about talking to Leon about the Soerilia incident. If he hadn’t come in spells blazing, Matt might have felt a little better about talking to his father-in-law as an understanding ear. But the seriou...
2024-10-14 18:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 368
Stepping out of the portal, Matt let out a deep breath.
That was less than ideal. They— no, he— had fucked up, but the only thing he could do was to try not to do it again.
Checking his calendar, Matt found that Cato had cleared some of his more immediate tasks, which gave him a few days before he and...
2024-10-11 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post