You have marked [Devouring Gestalt] for death.
Will’s initial assessment of the gestalt came through Sen. With his familiar, Will now had a much better idea of what he was going against than he had at any time back on the surface.
The gestalt’s most advanced skill was already high gold. Devour enabled it to grow ...
2024-05-20 10:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the imminent round two of challenge three coming towards him—and wasn’t that a mouthful—Will didn’t end his ritual. Knowing that he would be up against the gestalt was frustrating, but there was no better way to prepare than going into the Beyond.
Will had half a mind to try using his new Envoy of Mercy title to force-telep...
2024-05-19 08:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostAtaraxis igniting the hidden power in the artifact seemed to prompt the rest of the cultists to leave. Sen had been reduced to just over half of its power, but there were still enough eyes to blanket a chunk of the asteroid, revealing that they had vanished alongside the pillars. Corruption lingered where they’d placed the pyramids, obscuring ...
2024-05-18 09:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostNynn clearly wasn’t nearly as capable of using the full potential of the Prince-rank scythe he wielded now. Will guessed this was either because the former Dread Executor was saving the remaining charges in a weapon he couldn’t recharge or because Nynn’s body was getting used to being sealed from his original King rank down to gold.
...
2024-05-16 09:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s right,” Nathan said, smiling with obvious relief. “Thank god there’s someone who actually gets my references around here. Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for this?”
“Not long enough to not threaten me with death, apparently.”
The smile dropped off the gold-rank’s face quickly. “You should have pic...
2024-05-14 10:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostProgress towards [Eternal Throne]: [1/1000].
You have defeated [Fan Yang].
You have won your first duel.
Fortunately, the arena didn’t immediately force him out, giving Will the time to loot the body.
Using Destructive Synthesis on the limiter item had been too easy. He...
2024-05-13 09:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe first session that Ayla and Will had together was less fruitful than he’d hoped it would be, but he knew by now that establishing strong fundamentals was incredibly important when it came to magic. Having a good baseline for his abilities in the Beyond would pay dividends in the future, especially compared to making a grasp for short-term ...
2024-05-12 09:15:50 +0000 UTC View PostSpatial magic was quickly growing to become a friend of Will’s. He’d been teleported so many times, his Space attribute allowing him to adapt to the rigors of teleportation with even more ease.
That familiarity was exactly what told him that whatever this transportation was, it had nothing to do with the spatial mana Will knew. As far ...
2024-05-10 08:59:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Wow,” Will said. “Y’know, the Hunger was a lot more intimidating than you, and that guy was kind of a soulless, petty piece of shit.”
He wasn’t sure how long he’d been in the Crown’s space now, but this god wasn’t even using the almighty soul-crushing power that the Hunger had.
“Besides,” Will continued, “You...
2024-05-09 08:43:02 +0000 UTC View PostKadael was not having a good day.
Item: [Elixir of the Seventy-Seventh Heaven]
Legendary, Emperor
Once every sixteen years, the repurposed ruins of Planet Ryas-5, current alias “Seventy-Seventh Heaven,” align with its twin suns and the 16 other planets in its pocket dimensi...
2024-05-08 07:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostWill was growing familiar with the trial’s teleportation, enough to make out the microscopic differences in the magic of it. Though this transportation wasn’t as obviously wrong as the one that had taken them into the sentience check, it was clear that the heavy corruption in the area that Will was being teleported out of negatively affected...
2024-05-06 06:25:16 +0000 UTC View PostSince the tutorial, Will had been fighting above his rank, but it was growing increasingly clear with every major advancement that the difference in power between each rank was greater than the last. Unformed to bronze had been seemingly insurmountable until Will had made use of the plentiful equipment in his tutorial. Bronze to silver had been ...
2024-05-02 06:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostWill had been separated from the rest of his party at some point during the transit between Main Challenge 1 and this library-like space he now found himself in. The same had happened to everyone else, so he wasn’t too concerned about it, but it was yet another oddity that he had to add onto the list of anomalies that had plagued the trial so ...
2024-04-30 05:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Something is very wrong,” Will said.
“You managed to talk to a stranger without anyone dying,” Caiyeri replied. “That’s signal enough for me.”
“Very funny. That man is not from this world.”
“Neither is she,” Hua said, pointing at Caiyeri. “Her planet hit ours like a month ago.”
“Earth and Arca...
2024-04-29 08:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostWill wished he had a lie detection skill of some kind. He’d been through enough life and death battles with Caiyeri to trust her implicitly, but Hua? Not so much.
The Chinese-Australian girl had understood, having been on the bad end of too many failed alliances herself. Hua was one of the most rational people that Will had dealt w...
2024-04-26 05:59:18 +0000 UTC View Post[Soul] has advanced to Silver 4!
[Perception] has advanced to Silver 1!
Main Challenge #1: Catching Water
Difficulty: Silver
- Capture a changeling. [4/1]
Remaining time: 61 hours, 3 minutes, 33 seconds
“I am not going in there,” Will said.
“Nor am I,” Caiyeri agreed.
Both of them had had enough experiences with underwater dungeons for a lifetime, and this wasn’t even a dungeon. Without the sigil of the Lady of the Lake, Will did not want to enter the native territory of monsters that were higher rank than him, espec...
2024-04-23 06:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Good to see you, Caiyeri.”
“Never thought I’d live to see the day those words came out of your mouth.”
The elf woman’s hair had been singed, her helmet not enough to protect it against whatever monsters she’d had to deal with. She was also dripping wet, a result of her group emerging straight from the ocean
“Yo...
2024-04-22 04:42:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Lily, you goddamn moron!” Will yelled. He had tried to send her a chat message alongside his shout, but apparently, being part of the same team did not automatically put them into a party. “You can’t fight that thing!”
Her character profile wasn’t open to him, but he’d seen enough of her with Pages of the Past to tell that s...
2024-04-21 07:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostFortress’ explanation was long-winded and dramatic. Will spent most of the explanation meditating, focusing on his senses to stay aware of the beach around him. A lot of the story was fluff, and though it was enjoyable enough to listen to, Will didn’t really need a full breakdown of how Fortress’ forefathers had horrible failed to prevent ...
2024-04-20 05:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe transition between spaces was nearly seamless this time. There was no extended wait time or sudden break in reality like there had been during the failed teleportation into challenge zero.
Will waved the system window away, taking stock of his surroundings once more.
More proof that whatever arcane transportation device they were...
2024-04-18 23:02:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe problem with monster cores, as Will understood it, was that they would corrupt his progression over time and force him to stall out at gold. Presumably, the same issues would apply to his items, but the nice thing about those was that Will could always get more. His growth items were all rare or lower, and he doubted that those were going to...
2024-04-17 04:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostWith it becoming increasingly clear that they were going to be waiting for a while for the second challenge to appear, Will took some time to explore the waiting area, keeping an eye on Caiyeri and Liam. The elf didn’t seem to care much for Will’s new… friend? Friend worked, but “temporary ally” was probably better given the circumstan...
2024-04-16 05:12:53 +0000 UTC View PostWill dashed from branch to branch, incapacitating spiders and other similar crystal beasts with his hunger aura and phantasm before dropping multi-target Mark for Deaths. Will played with his movement abilities, reveling in the massive increase to his mobility. With the airdash and the hunger phantasm, he added an entire new axis of movement to ...
2024-04-14 03:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere were four spiders creeping down the base of the crystal tree. Will had no idea how Liam fought, but he was itching to blood his new skills.
He leapt forward with silver-rank speed, marveling in how much smoother his movements were. His mind and body were in perfect sync, as if he was controlling an avatar rather than having to deal w...
2024-04-12 03:52:17 +0000 UTC View PostAdvancing to silver rank…
[Power] advanced from Bronze 8 to Silver 0.
[Speed] advanced from Bronze 9 to Silver 1.
[Affinity] advanced from Bronze 7 to Silver 0.
[Soul] advanced from Silver 2 to Silver 3.
[Resistance] advan...
2024-04-11 05:21:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe plan was simple, but simple didn’t mean easy. Technically, getting to space was simple: you just had to break past the escape velocity of Earth. That feat had taken humanity some ten thousand years to manage.
Then again, Will had already been to space, so maybe he was being a bit too hasty on that front.
Caiyeri: You tr...
2024-04-09 07:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostLysbeth Brooksoul was not the last scout sent towards the settlement termed by Levy Anderson as Survivor Hill, but she was the first and only one of the Brooksouls to enter it. Nymlera did not want to risk another one of her daughters, especially not the sigil holder, but she was willing to spend the lives of her footsoldiers and constructs with...
2024-04-09 05:45:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe reverbations of the accelerated timetable rippled throughout the surface of the planet. Every Arcadian civilization and the majority of the communities representing sigil-holders had planned around the best of their forces disappearing out of their lives for an unknown period of time starting nearly two months away. No amount of planning cou...
2024-04-07 06:18:55 +0000 UTC View Post“What did I tell you?”
Sadareth hid a smile, but she could not hide that from Kadael. She had never been a deceiver of her own kind. As far as gods went, she was as straightforward as they came.
“If one more being informs me that they made me aware of my current plight already,” he seethed, “I will break the planet myself....
2024-04-06 05:19:39 +0000 UTC View Post