Far away, an alien world was slowly drawing closer to Earth, pulled through space and time by the System just as Earth was. Much like Earth, this world was home to a people being integrated by the ...
2022-12-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSakura and I threw ourselves into battle. The creature interrupting our personal time was a giant rat, and I killed it quickly enough. But that wasn’t enough to push Sakura to level 10. We needed...
2022-12-05 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Not for the view,” Sakura replied. “I came for you. Mind if I join you?”
I gestured to the ledge I was sitting on, legs dangling off the side of the building. We were three stories u...
2022-12-03 15:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostI had promised to heal up a little before seeing Bridget, but I wanted to check in on her. Caleb and Marcus’ backup shelter was unimpressive, to say the least. It was little more than a pile of s...
2022-11-30 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe followed the roar and soon found what was left of Craig’s remaining people. They’d broken and scattered, but the bulk of them had gathered here.
Gathered and then promptly slaughtered....
2022-11-28 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAlright guys, I'm finishing up the plot line for Paladin 4. I think things have largely come together for me already, but there are a few setting and character elements that I can tweak while writi...
2022-11-26 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Who the hell do you think you are, coming in here and killing people who belong to me?” Craig demanded.
Craig - Bandit Gunslinger (Level 16)
For a moment, I was ab...
2022-11-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGrowing up, every kid thinks they're special. Not me. Normal parents, normal school, normal life. Overall, I was as normal as they come. But my childhood best friend was anything but normal.
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2022-11-24 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI ruthlessly eliminated Craig’s guards, one after another. They finally realized something was going on after I killed the sixth one guarding the doors, which was further than I thought I would g...
2022-11-23 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI received several new abilities with my new class, and they popped up before me, one after another.
You are now a Scholar of Forbidden Knowledge. This title is equipped, and it will ...
2022-11-21 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMyrina was wearing a white cloth dress, sort of like a toga. It looked somewhere between ancient Greek clothes and gym wear. Her hair was also done up behind her head in an unusual style. I wasn’...
2022-11-19 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFourth rewrite of the first chapter!
My parents died when I was off at college. I guess that’s better than having them die when you’re a child, but it still suck...
2022-11-18 17:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostI rallied the spare Mana to cast Mana Bolt and take out one of the zombies awakening above me. Sure enough, the kill didn't push me to level 10. The curse was real, and it was standing between me a...
2022-11-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I'm asking this question a few chapters early for you guys since I'm a bit ahead of you all right now, but this is one of those things that I can't really wait for you all to catch up bef...
2022-11-14 20:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostMost of the places where bathtubs and VR headsets should have sat were empty. These slots represented the newly-formed tether between the humans of Earth and the System. Its arrival had replaced wh...
2022-11-14 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostCraig’s forces were herding the defenders from outside through the door and into the office, where all the other bodies lay on the ground.
Craig activated a skill. His back straightened as ...
2022-11-12 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Give up, Carter. You can’t win. Might as well let me make this quick,” Craig chuckled. He stalked his way through the halls, and I wove through the door to the adjacent office as quietly as ...
2022-11-09 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostI’d been keeping myself nearly full of mana and avoided going all-out, so I was ready to join Ben and the others at a moment’s notice. But the signal had never come. So where was he...
2022-11-07 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe glowing eyes in the alley soon resolved themselves into hundreds of scurrying cockroaches. I turned to Marcus and the other gunners. This would be their best chance to gain levels.
"Open ...
2022-11-05 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post"Murder?" I asked.
It hadn't even been a full day, and we'd gone from a society of law and order to plotting the death of a fellow human. I would've liked to say it was wrong, but...
2022-11-02 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI recovered quicker than Sakura did, and the people in the clinic were kind enough to let us use their decontamination shower. It wasn’t a request either, since the two of them were paranoid abou...
2022-10-31 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostNote: After fixing a stat point error you guys pointed out, I accidentally re-uploaded the wrong chapter to Patreon. That was chapter 15. I've fixed it and this is the proper chapter 11...
2022-10-29 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy team ran past zombies as fast as possible, smashing them apart with whatever they could lay their hands on. The violence echoed throughout the grocery store, making the place feel li...
2022-10-26 17:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostHopefully just two or three hours!
I edited chapter 10 on my laptop which only has like 64 gigs of storage, so I keep everything in the cloud. That has worked just fine for years, but today i...
2022-10-26 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostCraig’s dramatic entrance, speech, and exit caught everyone’s eyes. Even those who had no interest in his offer were talking about him.
“Wasn’t that the building’s security guy?” ...
2022-10-24 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I was playing with more AI art , mostly to help visualize a few of the characters in the current chapters of Amazon Apocalypse and to have good references in case I ever need to have art drawn of t...
2022-10-23 16:34:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we returned to the third floor, Damian was alone. Everyone else in the office had picked up their things and left. He scowled at us as we walked by, and I shook my head. If he wanted to die fo...
2022-10-22 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSakura’s company owned the building, so she was naturally a familiar face to the law office. She was the one that collected their rent, after all. Sakura wasn’t exactly friends with everyone he...
2022-10-21 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostYou have led your party to victory against a fellow party leader! As a result, you have been awarded the title Raid Captain.
When leading a party, your stats receive ...
2022-10-19 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Everyone, form a line! We’ll hold them here!” I yelled.
Some froze. Others shakily took a few steps forward.
“Move it! One line in front, one in behind,” I yelled.
I fe...
2022-10-17 15:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post