Chapter 183
Michael felt the temperature increase by the second as his own body heat, brought by rising panic, was exchanged with the limited air in the small, confined space. The glass fogge...
2025-07-24 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 182
There were several seconds of utter stillness. The underground warehouse had been full of moving machines and noises, trucks with roaring engines, soldering bots welding parts tog...
2025-07-22 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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i have decided to be much more consistent with my releases. It will be hard, I have a full time job and family and friends, but I will try my best to publish chapters 3 times a w...
2025-07-20 15:30:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 181
The next few days passed at a glacial pace. Michael was slowly getting better, and when he didn't feel feverish and weak, he set out exploring.
He learned that while the cit...
2025-07-17 14:18:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 180
The car sped towards Michael, its faulty headlights flickering in the rain. It didn’t show signs of slowing down; instead, the roar of its engine pierced the sound of the rain, ...
2025-07-16 08:29:13 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 179
When Michael turned his gaze back towards where Infy had been standing, all he saw was the copse of trees and the sparse undergrowth of the clearing. The sun was high in the sky, ...
2025-07-12 13:42:27 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 178
“What promise are you talking about?” Michael asked the figure.
They had stopped before the portal, mostly because Michael was wary of following a strange figure wrought...
2025-07-11 14:18:59 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 177
Blackness.
A man floated in a sea of darkness, pitch black so deep that it swallowed everything.
It had even swallowed his body, for he had no limbs nor sensations com...
2025-07-10 13:39:37 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 176
“It's clear that this is not working.”
Michael paced around the laboratory, watching yet another experiment yield no result. The absence of magic, the nothingness where ...
2025-07-05 14:57:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 175
“Perhaps you should go back to the lab, where it’s safe.”
With a single sentence, Michael had been effectively thrown out of the loop. Of course he still had the undyi...
2025-07-05 14:38:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 174
“What?” Travis said while laughing, “you thought that we would–”
His words were cut off by a powerful hand lifting him and body-slamming him into the reinforced wa...
2025-07-05 14:30:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 173
Michael drifted in the empty space, watching the ruin of what had been the foundation of all his power grow smaller and smaller. All that he had built was gone, replaced by chaos ...
2025-07-05 14:26:51 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 172
After he was done catching up and doing the rounds with everyone, Michael rushed to the dungeon. It was a critical time, with a storm brewing at the horizon, but it was not on the...
2025-07-05 14:22:21 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 171
“With the bullshit out of the way,” Michael announced as soon as Trevor and Jennifer arrived. “Let’s actually start this strategic meeting. We have wasted more than enough...
2025-07-03 16:46:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 170
“That’s the big boss, huh?” a young man, perhaps in his late twenties, asked.
They were sweeping through the Site, as ordered.
“That’s him,” the leader of ...
2025-07-02 12:25:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 169
Ducking, Michael narrowly dodged a bullet that had been shot his way. It flew past him, breaking a window and smashing tableware in an empty apartment with a vista. Ignoring the d...
2025-06-30 17:21:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 168
Compared to the vastness of the Sanctum, the area affected by the detonation was minimal. It was a fraction of the huge, empty rock space that encompassed everything. What was mor...
2025-06-26 06:33:56 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 167
A small flicker of light was all Michael could see. A pinprick in the distance, white and blinding against the dark dome of sky above him. Getting up, he realized quickly that he ...
2025-06-24 16:44:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 166
Deep in the catacombs below the city of Rome, the tendril of energy that Michael had been following seemed to take on the form of a flowing river of magic. The flow was visible as...
2025-06-21 10:50:13 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 165
As soon as he was out of the oppressive shallow depths of the Roman catacombs, which he never would have guessed could be accessed via a random shop on the street, Travis began ba...
2025-06-19 17:29:49 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 164
The red lines were everywhere. They were like the logic pathways of a motherboard, all straight lines and sharp ninety-degree turns. They lined every single inch of the seemingly ...
2025-06-16 17:40:56 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 163
The airport runway sped past them as the plane accelerated and took flight. The moment of turbulence that followed lasted for longer than usual, and the passengers reacted to it i...
2025-06-16 12:48:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 162
“Will David grace us with his presence?” Travis asked.
Michael shook his head. “Nah. He’s running around the country all the time, doing his stuff.”
“I not...
2025-06-12 10:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 161
“I finally managed to gather all my old Uni friends,” Michael said with a nod aimed at his phone. “All it took was some rather… hands-on manipulation from Icarus to make i...
2025-06-10 13:21:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 159
Millions of the things. Tiny beings, little critters that were everywhere. Looking at them could render a person insane, or kill them. They lined the tunnel, they were on the wall...
2025-06-06 06:18:58 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 158
There was no standoff, nothing. The moment the younger David saw that Travis was about to attack him, he sprang into motion. Travis, who had realized who this younger man was and ...
2025-06-01 15:07:59 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 157
Michael’s fists pounded on the ground, cracking the strange concrete-like material and digging small craters.
“How dare you die on me!” he screamed.
David was a ...
2025-05-31 10:54:32 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 156
A girl sat, alone at night, staring at her computer screen. Her parents weren’t home. They never were these days, it seemed. They had better things to do than to spend time with...
2025-05-29 18:03:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 155
Michael jumped to the side, avoiding a projectile and then weaving out of the way of the vicious whipstrike that followed. He spun into the air, jumping several feet high thanks t...
2025-05-29 12:20:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 154
“That old fool,” Travis muttered.
Michael watched him idly. He would be surprised if the man hadn’t dug a trench in the concrete floor by the time David returned, with...
2025-05-25 16:16:32 +0000 UTC
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