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Chapter 280: Bullets, Bikes and Blood

Hiro flinched as a bullet shattered the back window of the car.

“Is anyone hit?” he asked, ducking down as he turned to check on Jason and Vermillion in the back. Vermillion was rubb...

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Chapter 279: Time to Rip Off the Band-Aid

“So, that’s the long and the short of it,” Jason said. “The EOA buy you out. Generously. I know it’s heavy-handed of me to take control of your affairs like this, but this is the only s...

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Chapter 278: Underworld Bargain

“I don’t recognise the auras,” Jason said.

“Engineers of Ascension,” Vermillion said. “Their alchemically-enhanced foot soldiers. This may not go well.”

“I can live with ...

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Chapter 277: A Knife in Its Sheath

Vermillion and Jason paused their conversation as the waitress brought their food, along with wine.

“Magic has always been a difficult and esoteric thing,” Vermillion explained after...

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Chapter 276: A Leather Coat and Tight, Black Pants

Days went past as Jason fell into a routine. In the mornings he would do strength training with the equipment in the townhouse, which was barely adequate for his bronze-rank might at maximum...

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New Tiers

I've just added some new tiers, and I want to be clear on one point: there is no extra content gated behind these tiers. Silver rank continues to be the final extra content point; the higher tiers ...

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Chapter 275: I Suggest You Be Very Polite

Jason was standing on the edge of the roof, atop a tall building in the Sydney CBD. Shade was beside him as they looked toward an adjacent building. To normal sight it was unremarkable, but ...

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Chapter 274: More Plausible Than the Reality

Hiro returned home to the apartment building he owned. His penthouse floor was only accessible by his private elevator or through the regular elevator by using an access key. He walked strai...

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Chapter 273: Boogie Man

Taika was driving Hiro’s large town car, with Hiro and Jason in the back.

“The advantage of being on the legitimate side of the business is that I can be more conspicuous about enjoy...

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Chapter 272: Not the Regular Sort of Dangerous

“How’d it go?” Taika asked as he drove Jason through the city. They were in one of the cars Hiro kept in a pool for his staff, a luxurious town car Taika had picked for the roomy interior...

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Chapter 271: It Would Be Weirder If Magic Wasn’t Responsible

Annabeth Tilden was woken by her phone.

“Damn it, Anna.”

So was her wife. Annabeth snatched the phone off the night stand and stumbled into bathroom, closing the door before turning o...

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Chapter 270: Some Secrets Change You Forever

Jason let Shade drive through the dark and the rain. The dark did not obscure his vision, but he trusted Shade more than himself to drive safely in the wet. He also didn’t want to drive dis...

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Chapter 269: The Single Greatest Thing on This Planet

In the otherworldly floating gazebo, Jason was reunited with his familiars. While he was pleased to see them, the revelation that Shade had known the nature of the World-Phoenix token was st...

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Chapter 268: Time to Front Up

Jason went back to the chair he had left by the broken window and sat down. The cool, clean air coming in as the rain continued to hammer down was a stark improvement over what had been seal...

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Chapter 267 (Volume II): A Better Pants Solution

Jason regained consciousness surrounded by a fiery, transcendent energy, which immediately vanished and dropped him to the floor. The feel of cold tile on his body told him that he was naked...

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PDF Bundle (Vol. I + interval chapters) and Volume II Schedule

I decided that I've done everything I wanted to do with the interval chapters, so there won't be one this week. I did intend to do a chapter focused on the Bertinelli brothers, but I never came up ...

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Chapter 266 (interval): Old Secrets

Dawn was a celestine. She had a startling beauty of a diamond-ranker, with alabaster skin and ruby hair, perfectly matched with her eyes. Her flowing robes were off-white, accented with mute...

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Chapter 265 (interval): A Time For Parting

When Isabella Pantero heard the bell on the door to her bakery jingle, she came from out back to behind the glass counter.

“Mr Asano!” she exclaimed. “I was told that you died!” View Post

Chapter 264: Beyond Our Ability to Control

The Adventure Society and the Magic Society had both sent people flooding into the astral space. For the Adventure Society, it was a precious chance to rapidly advance some of their more pro...

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Chapter 263: Show and Tell

DS Adam Cosgrove was thirty one years old and looked like a detective from a TV show. He wasn’t good looking enough for it to be an American show, but he had a dishevelled intelligence that...

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Chapter 262: Ducking Responsibility

Arabelle and Emir were talking as they made their way through the cloud palace.

“Are you sure about this?” Emir asked. “I like Sophie, but she’s a damaged girl, in more ways than o...

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Chapter 261: Recruitment


Both the seal and the rank-restriction on the astral space aperture had been removed by Jason’s team. Clive had turned the world engineers that were meant to invade their world into magical ba...

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Chapter 260: Lessons


Asano was dead but that did not have to be the end. The astral space had no god of death to guide the soul into the astral; it would have to slowly drift into the Reaper’s grasp on its own. Th...

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Chapter 259: Clive Takes Charge

Clive led the way through the portal, followed by Neil and then the familiars. Belinda and Sophie were atop Onslow, Sophie still unconscious and Belinda not much better off. Humphrey had ins...

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PDF bundle: Volume 1 (complete)

Here was have the final post for volume 1. The first intermission chapter will go up on Friday (USA time).

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The Taxman Cometh

As of June 1, some patrons (that don't already) will have an amount of sales tax on donations. Here is roughly what Patreon have told creators: Basically, laws have been passed that, varying by are...

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Volume 2 & new patron tiers

Volume 2 will begin on August 3 (USA time) for silver-rank and above patrons. Leading up to volume 2 will be weekly interval chapters, including epilogue content for volume 1 and lead-in content fo...

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Chapter 258: A War of Stolen Moments

Sophie was dashing through the camp like a spectre, swift, ghostly and untouchable. She ended up running along the inside of the wall and onto the top, sprinting along it to reach her maximu...

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Chapter 257: The Power of Friendship

Once again, the team’s pinpoint timing salvaged a very poor situation from what would otherwise have been a total disaster. Sophie used the last of her strength to throw out a bloody fist, ...

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Chapter 256: Outmatched

The walls of the encampment had become a prison to the monsters driven to panic by the Builder’s aura. They were stampeding with nowhere to stampede to, a wild crush that was catching up th...

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