Chapter 96
Upon returning, Michael found himself swamped with work. His sister had rushed to him, telling him that Old Dave had gone into an anomaly and that she was worried about him. When s...
2024-10-02 19:00:34 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 95
“David Chestermill wishes to notify you that he is about to enter an anomalous building at Redbud Ridge,” a robotic voice said. It had features that made it somewhat human, but...
2024-10-01 10:28:29 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 94
While Michael and Travis were away, people worked hard to keep Site 00 going. One such person was David, who had been asked—kindly, but with not much room to wiggle himself out o...
2024-09-30 10:16:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 93
“Think you can replicate it?” Travis asked on the way out. They crossed the shield again, causing some tingling in their skin but nothing more, a sign of a clear escape. Now th...
2024-09-28 16:38:41 +0000 UTC
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No chapter today, sorry, and possibly even tomorrow. Will resume almost-daily chapters afterwards for sure 👍🏻
2024-09-26 15:38:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 92
The black SUV slowly approached the compound, under the careful watch of armed guards. There were two checkpoints on the dusty road leading in and out, while barren brown soil surr...
2024-09-24 14:06:53 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 91
“You skipped the last two sessions together, is everything okay?” Stephan’s voice was strange over the phone. The man had an old model that barely qualified as a smartphone, ...
2024-09-22 13:40:40 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 90
They continued sending teams and men into the dungeon until there were none left. The pace at which they sent people in, which had been frenetic at first, soon became dictated by t...
2024-09-21 15:08:02 +0000 UTC
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“The Elements?” asked Michael. “What do you mean?”
“Unlike higher forms of energy, the Elements appear to need less structure to convey meaning. My preliminary tests with Elemental ...
2024-09-20 14:23:11 +0000 UTC
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Here right now, chilling a little bit today and tomorrow. See you this weekend with more chapters!
2024-09-18 16:09:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 88
After spending the morning with his sister, Michael returned to the Valley. The road was finally completed, and going to and from the dungeon was finally smooth enough to make it e...
2024-09-17 10:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 87
Site 00 never slept.
Travis could confidently say that this place was quickly becoming a sight to behold. Behemoths of concrete, rebar and steel were being born of the earth,...
2024-09-16 09:12:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 86
Jennifer sat at her desk, back held upright despite the uncomfortableness of her simple chair in the middle of the spartan room she worked from. This was just a temporary accommoda...
2024-09-13 23:48:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 85
Michael stood in the middle of a storm of magic. Arcane energies swirled in a vortex around him, mana and Qi and Intent clawing at each other in the air like hungry beasts fighting...
2024-09-12 16:14:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 84
“Tell me about aura masking again,” Michael said as he and Johanne approached the threshold leading into the dungeon. There was work to be done, and time inside the dungeon had...
2024-09-11 13:49:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 83
As he lay flat on the ground, feeling the stones embedded in the soft earth beneath the yellowing moss poke at him in uncomfortable ways, Michael thought back to the chain of event...
2024-09-10 16:11:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 82
The morning was a blur of activity at Site 00. Some of it was normal administration by now, construction crews and occasional feats of magic bent towards raising the many buildings...
2024-09-09 12:07:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 81
Family for Michael had always been a difficult thing. Ever since his father, and then his mother soon after, threw him out he felt as if he had no ties with them anymore. The only ...
2024-09-08 15:24:16 +0000 UTC
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I decided to release my full backlog on Patreon, one chapter every day until I run out. Of course, I also aim to write one chapter a day so in theory i should never run out. We shall see.....
2024-09-07 14:32:47 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 79
“Get in the car!” yelled Josh, shoving the shivering woman in the back of the vehicle. “And shut your damn mouth!”
He raised his hand, ready to deliver yet another sl...
2024-09-06 17:25:46 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 78
Six people and a monster emerged from the dungeon: the team at its full. Drullkrin was wearing a glamour, magic that was nothing more than a little trick of the Fae that made it so...
2024-09-06 10:12:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 77
“I have to ask,” Trevor said as they walked their way through the icy tunnels of the glacier. “Why don’t you just hoard all the skills? All the useful ones, at least.”
2024-09-04 13:01:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 76
Trevor checked his own skill list for the last time before approaching the staircase leading back to the first floor of the dungeon. He had two common skills that were of the more ...
2024-09-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 75
“The laptop?” Michael said with a chuckle, “I had Bob help me bring a setup down here. Yep, he was given access to this floor before you all did.”
He took momentary p...
2024-08-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 74
They stood at the threshold of a doorway leading down into a dark, foreboding staircase. The steps were carved stone, but they were so uniform in their making that it was like they...
2024-08-28 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 73
It felt good to be back in the dungeon. Michael felt like he was more at home in here than outside, nowadays. He had slept more times in his treehouse in the Misty Valley, the form...
2024-08-26 17:22:53 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 72
Travis was walking from the new prefab building attached to the temporary HQ to his car to grab a quick bite, feeling like he was back at the beginning of his career, when he sudde...
2024-08-24 13:35:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 71
Michael took careful steps inside the large cavern. In the middle of the room, the Throne of the Ice King was like a shining beacon of azure, blue and white energies bright enough ...
2024-08-22 20:27:55 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 70
Michael struggled to keep his aura under control, feeling its edges begin to flay and fracture after absorbing way too much mana from the air and the coins. He couldn’t do anythi...
2024-08-21 08:10:55 +0000 UTC
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Oops, i seem to have posted an empty chapter. Pretend it never happened
Chapter 69
Michael studied the man who was shouting obscenities at him. Suddenly the realization struck him like ...
2024-08-18 15:28:04 +0000 UTC
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