Once Xavier had successfully drawn and initiated the Willpower Infusion spell pattern, he felt like a new man.
After all the pain he’d gone through getting back to this point, after finding every part of him shattered, having to rebuild himself from a starting point that was less than zero, it was invigorating to discover not ev...
2025-07-28 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter six months inside that forest clearing near Collinsville, the breakthrough Xavier had been chasing finally came.
It was not earth-shattering. The clouds above did not part to allow the sun to bathe him in its warmth and light. The System did not suddenly announce he had achieved a great thing by providing him with a title for his eff...
2025-07-24 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHovering above the Bright City of Aethisa, Xavier gazed upward into the sky, shaking his head, in awe at what he’d just done.
Using the Untethered gravity spell he’d learnt with Recursive Analysis, he had sent a large section of the Bright City’s battlements into orbit, killing every one of the dwarves that had been standing on it. 2025-07-24 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The energy seeped out of Xavier’s body almost the moment it had entered. When he’d felt it flow into him, he’d opened his eyes and smiled, reflexively pulling his hands from Justin’s to pump his fists.
The elation he felt was intense, far stronger than he’d expected, but the action rocked him out of his calm, focused state, allow...
2025-07-23 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHovering above the Bright City of Aethisa, wings flapping lazily, Xavier watched the ballistae bolt as it shot toward him. Phoexians scattered after the force field powered by the massive subterranean crystal had pushed them high into the air.
The bolt moved slow enough for him to perceive its arc in the air. He shifted the Lost Bone of a ...
2025-07-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostXavier’s mind was chaos.
Sitting on that boulder in the clearing a few miles from Collinsville, his old party lost in meditation and cultivation nearby, the elf spirit Rhaalir silent beside him, Xavier delved deep inside himself.
Before his cores had been shattered, his mind had been an ordered place. Not perfectly ordered, but it ...
2025-07-22 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“I assume you have some sort of plan?” Siobhan asked.
Xavier would have run, would have flown, back to the portal to Earth if he wasn’t mindful of the others having to keep up. As it was, he was walking so swiftly they each had to jog just to match his pace.
Walking back through the city of Mareketh was a completely di...
2025-07-21 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMareketh was exactly as he remembered it. The time that had passed since his last visit hadn’t changed the place at all. The streets were as bustling as ever, the people just as varied.
It was strange walking through the markets without his Farscope ability. As unnatural as the ability to see everything around him sounded, it ha...
2025-07-17 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe notification loomed in front of Xavier’s vision as he stood a few feet from the Tower of Champions’ tavern doors.
I don’t meet the requirements to remain within the tower?
Xavier didn’t even know the tower had requirements he needed to meet for him to remain. Though through all he’d been through, he’...
2025-07-16 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostYour cores are shattered.
Xavier sat on the floor of the Staging Room in the Tower of Champions, his legs crossed beneath him, hands on knees, eyes closed.
Everything was black.
Which would have been perfectly normal, considering his eyes were closed. But it wasn’t normal. Xavier had a Farscope. A red lens i...
2025-07-15 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBolts of brilliant white lightning sprang to life from the Soul Strike spell pattern, filling the chamber with their glow before shifting and materialising into ten thousand soul apparitions that launched themselves toward the Arakashinai Queen.
The soul apparitions were stopped at the edge of Xavier’s time dilation field.
Xavier p...
2025-07-14 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier hovered over the alien Arakashinai city, his black wings flapping lazily as he stared at the notification before him.
21,802 Kill Notifications Counted.
The number was absolutely absurd. He knew he could kill these Arak drones with ease, but… A single soul infused into Soul Strike would kill for...
2025-07-10 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTime once more lost all meaning to Xavier.
When he’d worried the Arakashinai Queen would be able to notice what he’d done to its drones even with time moving at the slowest crawl he could manage outside his time dilation field, he’d rushed to her chamber.
That sense of urgency had left him when he’d realised the queen itself ...
2025-07-09 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier flew through the different underground tunnels of the Arakashinai home world, moving across hundreds of miles, flying over one vast stone city after the next with skyscrapers taller than any back on Earth. Cities filled with nothing but mindless drones—or, at least, fragile minded drones without their own will or personality. 2025-07-08 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Controlling the Willpower Infusion spell pattern with enough precision to enter an Arak drone’s mind was still only the first step toward what Xavier had wished to accomplish with these minds.
It was a step he hadn’t even known he’d needed to take toward this goal, but one he was glad he’d taken.
A new realm of possibilities ...
2025-07-07 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDamnit.
Hovering inside that massive chamber on the Arakashinai home world, Xavier shut his eyes and sighed. The Arak flier, the builder drone that he’d been delving into the memories of, had just had its mind crushed by his “brilliant” new idea.
Xavier had thought his idea was perfect. In theory, it made a hell of a l...
2025-07-03 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier emerged from the portal, his time dilation field still wrapped around him. Not for the first time, he had to thank Yarien for prompting him to learn how to push it through a portal in the first place. It was an invaluable skill.
He’d imagined using it in this way, to sneak through a portal to an enemy world, but he hadn’t known ...
2025-07-02 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostYou have gained the spell: Territory Defence
Territory Defence – Rank 150
Warning: Territory Defence is one of the two main spells in the Defender line of classes. When used in conjunction with Unity Defence, the spells will severely hinder the procurement of Mastery Points at the cost ...
2025-07-01 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier smiled at the description of his newly acquired temporary spell.
He froze the world around him, stepping back farther along the battlements of Eldaarn’s last remaining stronghold. He took in the long, clear space around him, free of defenders, as none were in reserve. As he did, he had an intense feeling of déjà vu. The first ti...
2025-06-30 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps it would be prudent to first learn the strength of one’s enemy before vowing to kill them, Bones said in Xavier’s mind.
Xavier smirked at the soul bound weapon’s words. Bones had been silent, up until that moment when, atop the Kingdom of Eldaarn’s castle battlements, Xavier had proclaimed to King Elric tha...
2025-06-26 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe king lowered his head. “We ventured to a new world. We were not looking to conquer. The universe is far larger than we could have imagined. There must be places we could go. Our world was riddled with beasts. They almost destroyed us. Surely, there were worlds where that happened. Beasts, I have no qualm clearing out to make way f...
2025-06-25 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood on the battlements on the one-hundred-and-fifty-fourth floor of the Tower of Champions, speaking to the King of Eldaarn, prompting the man to tell him more of what had happened to his world.
The man blinked, raised his head, looked Xavier in the eye. He seemed to see something, then, and nodded to himself.
King Elric beg...
2025-06-24 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier soon got into a rhythm with the tower floors again.
His approach to them wasn’t altogether different to what it had been before. He still spent as little time on each floor as he could manage, quickly getting the lay of the land before moving on—with the exception of ranking up Recursive Analysis, as he wanted to get it to Rank ...
2025-06-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Xavier returned to the Staging Room, he didn’t instantly head toward the next tower floor. Instead, he took a moment to think.
Well, maybe a little more than a moment.
He cast Time Alteration and sat on his comfortable armchair within the time dilation field, thinking through the different things he wanted to achieve. The new ...
2025-06-19 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostNothing happened.
Xavier was not struck down by a lightning bolt from nowhere, nor was he teleported into a volcano, or thrown into a sun. The Voice of the System didn’t materialise in front of him. A notification didn’t appear. The air in the room didn’t so much as shimmer.
He sat, sunk back in the armchair, coffee mug still c...
2025-06-18 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostYou have completed this floor faster than any other Champion before you. However, as the parameters of the floor were changed, and the challenge you completed was different to that of other Champions in your universe, you will not be given the top spot in the leaderboard.
Xavier sat on the floor of the Staging Room, going ...
2025-06-17 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostYou have gained the spell: Untethered
Xavier sighed in relief. When the pattern of runes he’d drawn with Celestial Energy had solidified within his mind, he’d been confident things had worked exactly as planned.
But he hadn’t been sure. Not until he read that notification.
It was like a weight lifted from...
2025-06-16 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier’s physical body sat, cross-legged on the Bright City of Aethisa’s battlements, the world frozen around him, both sides of the conflict on the hundred-and-twenty-first floor now aiming all their efforts toward killing him.
Xavier’s mental apparition, however, stood in a room within his mind, not giving what was happening in the...
2025-06-12 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostXavier frowned.
The dwarves and the Phoexians banded together, throwing everything they had at him. Streams of fire poured forth from the closest Phoexian flights. Ballistae bolts arced toward him from the dwarven battlements. Spells were cast by every mage along the walls.
The leaders, too, joined the fight. Which was something Xavi...
2025-06-11 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post