“He’s alive,” said Jake. “It’s not over, but… hells.”
“It might as well be,” said Mox grimly.
They watched Zane laid out there—that mighty heart still beating, caught loud and clear in the scrying, but they could hear it struggling. Zane’s regeneration came from the heart. It was the font of his Vitality, and th...
2025-08-25 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Prince must’ve felt the massive amounts of Law hemming him in. He skidded to a halt mid-air and snarled at the nearest length of chain.
Then his eyes found Zane. Standing near the center.
And just like he’d done all fight, he lunged.
At the same time, Zane flexed.
That cage reversed direction.
From a great e...
2025-08-24 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Bonus chapter! Worked hard to get this one out for y'all
Also, housekeeping note:
changed phrasing last chapter; ‘an axe loaded with every last shred of Destruction he could muster -> loaded heavy with Destruction.’ Zane only had a split-second to load that Axe so this phrasing is more accurate.
... 2025-08-22 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few dozen exchanges, Zane felt he had a measure of the dragon.
The first thing he’d felt was the effect of his new Hide of the Ancients. That 125% Essence, Law, and Physical Resistance was most of what he relied on to halt that first charge. It’d still wiped out a good 15% Health, but he could manage that.
He took those p...
2025-08-21 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostHaxorax’s mouth was drawn like a wild animal’s, his breaths ragged.
“It’s the first look we’ve gotten at the Prince all week,” said Jake Land. “Though I’ve never seen him like this.”
“Something’s not right here—” was all Mox managed to growl.
They had no time to linger on it.
Haxorax’s head jer...
2025-08-20 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s been a testy lead-up to this point,” said Becca.
They did a quick recap of some of the drama of fight week.
First, there was a sculpture gallery opening where Reina and Princess Dya were both present—an exhibition by the Master Sculptor Sylas, whose works Reina sponsored. The papers widely covered it as a “royal scuff...
2025-08-19 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostOne week until the fight…
Zane had one last weekend back at the World Tree. Then it was crunch time all the way up until the fight.
Most of the work had been done by this point, and the work that was left he couldn’t really rush. So he didn’t mind a little time off.
First, he spent some quality time...
2025-08-18 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Patriarch stared down at him in silence.
Just when it seemed Haxorax might attack, he stumbled. Clutched at his head, teeth gritted. Lightning played around his skull in the astral plane.
“Master Lyxandor. Perhaps it is best if the Prince takes some rest,” suggested Sverrex. “Another Draught may yet serve him well...”
... 2025-08-17 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostBonus chapter!
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There was one thing Zane did want to ask. It’d been baffling him for a little while now.
“What’s that Patriarch fellow’s deal?”
“Lyxandor?” Noughtfire leaned back. “Where to begin… as it concerns you, disciple, he’s certainly using you as motivation for his son.” 2025-08-14 19:53:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Noughtfire’s study planet was just as Zane remembered. Chill, quiet as the dawn, and blanketed in a film of fog. He always felt like he was stepping into a painting when he came here. There was something a little mystical-feeling about those distant lines of mountains and their hints of pale color.
The few times he’d tried checking the...
2025-08-14 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe crucial physical upgrades had been made.
He’d mainly be relying on a few physical strengths in the fight. There was his heart of the Prime Rhinoceros, granting him that +300% regen. His newly upgraded Hide of the Ancients. The Buff of Ultimate Vigor, letting him extreme Limit-Break on top of its health and regen buffs. And fina...
2025-08-13 01:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post“That so?” said Zane. That got a grin out of him.
“Mhm.” She gave him a worried look. “I’m serious, Zane.”
“I know. It’s just now I’m wondering what he can do.”
Now she was giving him her ‘oh, Zane…’ look.
“So do we know anything, then?” he said. “Powers-wise.”
“Nothing...
2025-08-12 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostEvan and Avery were both quite eager to be there. Reina had a few reservations about the fight, but she was determined to be in the stands too.
In the meantime, she planned on hashing out a broadcasting deal with Elias.
The venue hadn’t even been officially announced yet. Work on the stadium had broken ground just a few days ago. I...
2025-08-11 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostA single scale on the Patriarch’s chest cracked.
That was as far as the Prince’s blow got. It shattered against the rest of the plate.
A white line scorched down the Patriarch’s chest. A line that ended on a single bloody wound.
With that, the Prince was the first creature in nearly ten thousand years to draw blood from t...
2025-08-10 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostEvan made tons of friends every time he saved a kingdom. His Power of Friendship boost had even skilled up. All that faith in him was giving him a pretty substantial buff. He went around with a little aura of joy in the Astral Plane.
“Hey, I also exist!” cried Avery. She waved a chicken wing. “I did stuff too!”
This was a val...
2025-08-08 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfterward, he got the sense Reina was still more than a little embarrassed about the whole thing. She wasn’t usually one to let pride or ang
Afterward, he got the sense Reina was still more than a little embarrassed about the whole thing.
She wasn’t usually one to let pride or anger cloud her judgment. It felt a little out of cha...
2025-08-07 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey were back on the Barbarian Sage’s home planet at last. It was an unusually chilly afternoon. The Banshee Monkeys had given it a rest do
They were back on the Barbarian Sage’s home planet at last. It was an unusually chilly afternoon. The Banshee Monkeys had given it a rest down in those mist-steeped hills. There was still a backgr...
2025-08-06 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: housekeeping note—Haxorax will be spelled with one X going forward! There were two chapters where it was spelled with two X’s by mistake, that has been changed
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It was a technique that once belonged to a gaoler of the Superdungeon, an ancient elite Empyrean named the Faceless One. The Sage told him the leg...
2025-08-05 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sage started stuffing stacks of the stuff into a saddlebag.
“I had to eat enough Divine Profound steel to bankrupt a damned Great Faction just to get through the Fourth Form!” said the Sage. He wrinkled his nose. “You don’t want that kind of grind, lad. Trust me. Never thought I could bore myself powering up, but with the steel...
2025-08-04 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks!
Savage 6 (Chapters 428 -> 505) just launched, which means those chapters have to come down due to Kindle Unlimited rules. I've attached a PDF here instead for folks who'd like to revisit old chapters.
2025-08-03 02:13:14 +0000 UTC View PostZane always found that post-fight haze quite rewarding. Everything just felt brighter and warmer. He felt his heart slowing down at last and knew he got all the stuff he wanted to do done. The stuff being a great deal of smashing, of course.
The bones of the Founders lay scattered at his feet, smoking gently.
They must’ve been huma...
2025-08-03 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Bonus chapter!
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Six Giant Skeleton hands reared out of the ground and crushed the Barbarian Sage.
They hammered one on top of another—BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!
For a second the Sage’s growls could be heard through the cracks in the fingers, and some kind of Law shield—a flurry of steel—could...
2025-07-31 18:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostZane sank his gravity core deep into the formation and wrenched.
The stumble showed it worked. But it was the cracking in that shield that gave him heart, that made him take to it like a hound on a bone.
He knew he had the bite. He just had to work it through.
He gritted his teeth and threw the full heft of his soul into it, st...
2025-07-31 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Thundercrest Founder was down. A few good punches had brought down the Thousand Seas Tribe Founder too. He’d had to take three ice meteo
The Thundercrest Founder was down. A few good punches had brought down the Thousand Seas Tribe Founder too. He’d had to take three ice meteors to the back to finish off the Founder of the Constell...
2025-07-30 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sage charged Draegmir, which left Zane to take down the Founders of the Nine Great Factions.
These were giants in the history of Dragonspire. They’d made a legacy that stretched the ages.
These were legends he was pitting himself against.
Zane had battled Thalgrim before, in a way. Back at the Festival of Might, Thalgrim ...
2025-07-29 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat was the final resting place of the greatest of the First Ones.
Those knights had managed to lay some heavy damage on him. The deadliest of them wielded two hammers like meteors, trailing clouds of embers. There was a messy melee before three knights got on him at once, pinning him down for just a moment—enough for the hammer knight ...
2025-07-28 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThey were less than half a day out from human land.
“Heads up!” roared the Sage, but Zane was already on it.
Three dozen Emberboar came charging out of the treeline.
Emberboar (Monster King)
Essence Level 699
Emberboar (Monster King)
Essence Level ...
2025-07-27 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey floated down on clouds of silver essence.
First, a bunch of Skill tomes, as promised. They were chunk scrolls bound in hide. Rhinos tended toward scrolls instead of books, he’d noticed. Something about them being easier to roll open and shut for Rhinos.
Annihilation Charge [Common (P)]
He checked it out ...
2025-07-24 01:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the late chapter, folks!
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His rewards would be decided right here.
Nic thought he was doing pretty well so far. The Rhino said he was new to this Spirit Guide thing—he’d only gotten the job a few years before the Monsters invaded. That had been a very sad day for Nic. Then it had been a few...
2025-07-23 03:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostBy then, his Asura Titan’s body was on the edge of a Limit Break.
He switched out his weapons too. This time, he loaded up his hammers, stacking them heavy with Nuclear Fusion, just like he’d done with his axes.
He was eager to see how much damage a good crush could do.
He broke into an Annihilation Charge.
One step, ...
2025-07-22 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post