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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 34 - Compartmentalization is My Friend

The naïve part of me that stubbornly persisted even after experiencing the apocalypse twice was disappointed when the four men attacked. As soon as they realized their charges were no longer in th...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 33 - Rotten to the Core

We barely had time to recognize our surroundings as the central village of the fifth floor before the dungeon moved us to a new location. I was a little disappointed we didn’t get to take advanta...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 32 - A Clean Exit

“How familiar are you with agreements like the one Chao signed?” I asked Zavira during dinner a little more than a year after the start of the war.

The Force Smith looked up from her plat...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 31 - Adapting to War

A/N: Emie goes through a bit of a perception shift in this chapter. There's quite a bit of a time skip involved. Two, actually. I hope it's not too rough.

Also, someo...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 30 - To War

“Are you ready for the war?” I asked Zavira as I entered her apartment for once.

We’d both gotten messages from our mentors the week prior letting us know about the limited all...

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PftA Book 3 - Interlude 2 - Limited Alliances

A/N: Edited 6/13/24 to support book 2 changes.

“So it’s decided?” Matriarch Potestetiam asked expectantly as she looked at the other patriarchs, matriarchs, and sect re...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 29 - A Hands-Off Interrogation

I repeated my interrogation several times, approaching the young Springheart in a variety of different ways to gauge his response. He was always bound and mostly stripped, so there was little risk ...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 28 - The Folly of Youth

A/N: I really enjoyed writing this chapter. I hope you like reading it.

It took me several minutes to calm down after I arrived in my apartment. Once I got over the initial a...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 27 - Beast Waves and Threats

A/N 6/13/24: The book 2 changes voted on have not been fully applied to book 3 chapters. I will be working on that shortly. If something stands out, please let me know! Thanks to all who vo...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 26 - Spa Secrets

Of all the creatures I had to fight in the Realm Dungeon thus far, the crabs in the playroom were by far what I would consider the most ‘normal.’ Aside from having four claws instead of two, th...

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Book Two Cover

I'm tentatively going with 'The Approach of Dawn: Primer for the Apocalypse Book Two' as the title for the second book. Of course, I'll have to change the character's name in the early chapters of ...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 25 - Mimicked Cruises

There was a lot more preparation needed before entering the underwater zone than there was for the others. The most important was ensuring the ability to breathe underwater since, even at Tier Four...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 24 - Signs of Impending Change

Upon arrival, I immediately extended Spatial Sense, focusing primarily on our immediate surroundings. I made sure to look for anything strange, like gaps in my perception, but the only thi...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 23 - Surprises and Upgrades

I sat back in relief as I finished the last of the talismans I planned to get done for the night. I stuck with the design I’d already proven worked against Spatial Locks, though ...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 22 - A Crafty Reaction

“Do you think it will work this time?” Zavira asked as I stepped out of my apartment a couple of weeks after my near-death experience.

I’d told her what happened with the locusmander, a...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 21 - A Brush with Death

I entered Zavira’s apartment three days later and was unsurprised to find she was still busy working on new projects with the ore we’d collected.

The workshop she’d set up in the spare ...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 20 - Iron Hunters and Connoisseurs

A/N: I often use dinosaur naming conventions (AKA a mix of Greek and Latin) when naming creatures. Ferruvenator roughly translates to Iron Hunter (Ferrum= Iron and venator= Hunter.) Just a ...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 19 - When the Boss Says You Need a Friend

Unlike the rest of the Alliance, sects did not dress primarily based on their affinity. Instead, they dressed based on their sect colors, using their affinity colors as accents. Usually, it amounte...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 18 - The Fourth Floor

Welcome to the 4th Floor of the Realm Dungeon!

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 17 - Leaving the Third Floor

“Alright, I guess this is goodbye, for now,” I told Aiden after I finished selling the Tier Three items that I no longer had a use for.

I’d already defeated each of the zone bosses once...

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PftA Book 3 - Interlude 1 - Outside Perspectives

The Patriarch of the Epikairos Sect watched as his first personal disciple in nearly five centuries methodically killed the group of bandits who’d dared attack her. She’d given them two opportu...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 16 - Repercussions

I felt conflicted about my reward.

I’d gone through each of the Trial’s variations before picking one and practicing it a few times. I went with the first path I’d tried only because it...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 15 - The First Dungeon Trial

We decided to wait a couple of months to challenge the Trial, mostly to allow Faith to gain a couple of levels and assign her points somewhere other than Intelligence. After being knocked out with ...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 14 - Ever the Professional

“You know, I totally forgot you were mostly an Enchanter in the game,” Faith commented after our second encounter in the frozen zone. Like my previous fights, I relied heavily on enchanted acce...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 13 - Expanded Responsibility

Adding something to the kiosk to sell was simple – especially when it registered as a book. It seemed I was not the first challenger to want to publish a book of some sort, and the dungeon alread...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 12 – Some Hard Truths

My timeless moment was interrupted as the reverberations of an [Interdiction] rippled by. I could feel the echoes in the nearby mana from Time magic being forcibly countered, and I immediately winc...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 11 – A Glitch in Time

Without a variety of enchantments, the swamp zone would have been miserable. I had little doubt that the residents of the floor would have completely ignored the zone if doing so wouldn’t have le...

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 10 - A Long Soak

A/N: Anita was right. 

It took three weeks to find the hot springs. I’d started to think it might be in a different zone by that point, so I was surprised and pleased ...

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PftA Book 2 - Interlude 6 - Paradise Lost

A/N: This interlude would go after chapter 45 and answers some of the questions posed by commenters. Specifically, it addresses what happened to the stalker - Xavier. 

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PftA Book 3 - Chapter 9 – Messages and More

Having finished the first prototype of Jackle’s prosthetic during my time in the ‘wilds,’ I decided to go to the central village instead of Trinity when the external message exchange drew nea...

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