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Chapter 339: I Need Time

Jason heard Hiro, Ken and Farrah having a discussion as he trudged through his houseboat toward the bar lounge.

“…point of setting it up this way is so that it can be modified as magical ...

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Chapter 338: Options

“I told you before we went on our helicopter ride that you were a tricky one to find a combination for,” Jason told Amy. They were in her kitchen, along with Farrah, while Kaito watched the gir...

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Chapter 337: We Were All Monsters

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Farrah said as she and Jason drove to Kaito and Amy’s house. Given the short distance, they didn’t portal over so Jason had it ready in case of emergency...

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Chapter 336: The Dangers of What I Do

“I have some mixed feeling about this essence,” Jason said, turning the translucent cube over in his hands.

They were still in the ritual room. Hiro's essences had been done and they had ...

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Chapter 335: The Direction We Want Them to Go

“You can’t just go around killing people,” Erika said.

She stood next to Farrah as Jason stepped off the surface of the water, rainbow smoke rising up behind him.

“If you’re g...

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Chapter 334: What You Have to Do

“Well,” Jason said, sitting around a table with three women. “This is complicated.”

“I may be getting used to being the most ignorant person in the room,” Erika said, “but that ...

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Chapter 333: Decision

As everyone packed up to go home, Greg found Jason in the kitchen.

“This was really great,” Greg told Jason. “Most of our old friends left for university and never came back, and I’ve...

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Chapter 332: Not Ready to Leave

Despite their outward dismissiveness, Jason and Farrah had no trouble finding challenge from silver rank monsters, although in very different ways. Farrah was all about frontloading damage, making ...

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Chapter 331: Flemish Baroque

In the office at her restaurant, Erika was talking to Jason through an incarnation of Shade. After weeks of such communication, it was starting to feel normal which, when she thought about, was rat...

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Chapter 330: Moving Forward

On the top deck of the houseboat, Asya, Farrah and Jason were enjoying lunch as they looked over the final version of the agreement with the Network.

“While we have the agreement documented...

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Chapter 329: Pitch Meetings

The film crew set up next to the Surf Club, with a crowd on onlookers gathered around. The kitchen set was put out, with the fridge and oven hooked up.

“Today we have a special guest,” Er...

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Chapter 328: A Lot of Anomalies

While Farrah and Jason fought the silver-rank monsters, Cotsworth looked on through the monitor displaying what the camera drone above the fight recorded. Although the transmission was occasionally...

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Chapter 327: The Blood and Death Guy

Three black, oversized dirt bikes roared across the red landscape. One had an uncertain-looking woman, another a shadow figure and the third a man in a robe trailing a cloak of darkness and starlig...

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Chapter 326: Ideal Circumstances

Jason ignored the sound and motion of the transport helicopter as he read from the book in his hands.

“Is that Pashto?” Aram asked loudly over the helicopter, peering at the open pages. View Post

Chapter 325: Mercy

“That’s a neat bit of work,” Farrah said, taking in the Network’s Sydney branch with her magical senses. Standing outside the building, she observed the magical array shielding the upper le...

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Chapter 324: I Came Back to Show You Wonders

Shade informed the family members who were variously preparing dinner, looking after infants or watching recordings that Jason was about to emerge and they should gather in the bar lounge. As such,...

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Chapter 323: The King of Everyone

Jason’s spirit vault had undergone considerable change, which he discovered on his first entry since accepting the World-Phoenix’s power. Fusing the physical and spiritual aspects of his being ...

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Chapter 322: A Wizard Did It

Amy and Kaito watched Farrah go back into her cabin.

“Do we know who that was?” Kaito asked. “She seemed kind of familiar.”

“It was hard to tell with the Japanese horror movie...

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Chapter 321: Full Houseboat

Jason had his own unfortunate experiences with how essence users dealt with extreme trauma following periods of captivity. In the time he had spent recovering, he had learned a lot from the priest ...

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Chapter 320: Quite the Year

Farrah felt a freakishly strong aura from above and looked up to see a sight that stirred a strong memory. A man was slowly descending through the air using a cloak made of star-filled darkness. He...

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Chapter 319: Foiled Plans

The pair monitoring the aperture from inside the astral space weren’t even iron-rankers. Two of Shade’s bodies shot out from Jason’s shadow as he emerged from the aperture and used mana-drain...

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Chapter 318: A Moment For Drastic Measures

The aperture was in a tent that had been set up around it, with a makeshift military camp assembled around that. The story was the usual terrorism readiness exercise. The tent was almost of circus ...

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Chapter 317: The Long Game

In the time it took Jason’s plane to arrive in France, circumstances on the ground had gone through significant changes. The Sydney Network team was met by a driver who took them in the dir...

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Chapter 316: Technical Issue

The transport helicopter touched down at a small airstrip in Sri Lanka. It was small and set amongst an expanse of grassland. The air was hot, thick and heavy with a tang of fuel, although the heli...

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Chapter 315: The Time For Bold, Decisive Men

“Twelve hundred kilometres is the best you can do?” Miranda complained. “And you have to wait an hour between portals? That’s pathetic.”

“Pathetic?” Ramon asked incredulously. ...

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Chapter 314: The price of Transgression

Jason had just dropped lightly down to the lower deck as the boat rolled under his feet on the open ocean. The three men were startled as the object of the search they just ordered alighted ...

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Chapter 313: Of Course It's Him

Jason came to his senses, which were an incoherent storm of sensations as he tumbled wildly through the air. His head was ringing, wind roaring over his body and through his ears. All the co...

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Chapter 312: Visually Distinctive Henchman

After deliberating, Jason decided to only leave one of Shade’s bodies behind, in order to keep tabs on things in his absence. He had no idea what he would face in France but when things ine...

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Chapter 311: My Turn

In the houseboat, Erika pulled up Jason’s number on her phone.

“I would recommend against calling Mr Asano at this moment,” Shade’s voice came from behind her, making her jump.

...

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Chapter 310: Old Testament Power

Erika stormed upstairs and threw open the door to her daughter’s bedroom. Standing in front of a monitor, Jason and Emi were holding plastic guitars and playing a rhythm game. Taika was sit...

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