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245: Staking

‘This would be a stake-type duel,’ Nicolai added. ‘I would put up the Yin-Yang Rotation Symbiote as my stake, and you would put up something I want, in turn.’

This was something he’...

244: Crafty Old Men

‘What the fuck! What the fuuuuckk!!!!!’ howled the spindly Cultivator beside the hulking Cyborg. ‘This is bullshit! He cheated! That scum, that barbarian scum! What was that?! He burned his f...

243: Gregory's Intuition

[Author Note: You'll see that there is a Hao clan in this chapter. I just wanted to say, they are no relations of Hao, the Tier 2 who Nicolai faced in the Inheritance section. Hao was his first nam...

242: First Rounds

After the blue orbs had taken him and the others up to float above the arena, in view of the spectators, he found himself transported somewhere near.

It was a plain room for preparing, with a...

241: The Silver Net

Hao Jian strode through the streets of the arena. In his left hand he held the full Tier 1 Silver Net, formed of a total of six Symbiotes within his hand and fingers, assisted by Kinetic-type enfor...

240: Free For All

Nicolai appeared in a place that looked almost like a city from Earth. Not from the modern day, though. From long ago. Buildings of brick and mortar. He stood in some kind of alleyway, trash and fi...

239: Wheeling and Dealing

The Market was a big open square, fairly busy but not excessively so. He didn’t see many People or undead, but there were a lot of humans, Cultivators and Earthborn in equal measure. As at the st...

238: Competitive

The Slayers Guild was a gigantic building, made from what looked like very, very large rib bones. Attached to these rib-bone-walls were the heads of many large, dangerous looking creatures. Many we...

237: Race Traitor

[Note: One of you said that the Cyberpunk people could have more cyberpunky slang/lingo, and after playing some Cyberpunk 2077 I feel the same way, decided that going forward I want to try and lean...

235+236 The Black Gift

[Quick Note: Sorry if I got your hopes up, this is just 1 chapter as usual lol. I split one of the chapters that on here was 1 chapter, into 2 for the Royal Road release. It was the one where I end...

234: Answers

[Author Note: Things have been kinda quiet regarding the dark, decided that since he's not got the Blade with him for the first time, it'd probably start pushing a little wherever it can. I just ad...

233: Information Guild

Buildings rose around them, streets disappeared away. Hulking undead beings with huge arms and legs, but no heads, lumbered slowly through the area.

Nicolai took it in all in through cameras ...

232: The Phantom City

The Earthborn laughed incredulously. He glanced around, realising he and the Cultivator standing across from him were increasingly the centre of attention. Nicolai saw a flash of pridefulness on th...

231: Assembler

Nicolai looked the Assembler over carefully. It came packed with raw materials, all of its vats and bins full, and was thus able to create a huge variety of items.

He looked at the crack in t...

230: Cultivator's Grotto

In the side of a gigantic tree, a person-sized divot had been carved out—a little cubby, just big enough for Nicolai to sit within. The trees branches, heavy with leaves, formed a screen around i...

229: Looting

[Author Note: just a quick note, I realised I should've been using Clan, not Sect, earlier when talking about Hao's people ;o I've changed those references now, but just for you to keep in mind - h...

228: Hunted

Nicolai dodged frantically to the side, a lance of green energy crackling past him and blowing a hole in a tree with an eruption of splinters and chunks of wood.

A Silver Arrow streaked at hi...

227: Game Over

[Author Note: Hope you enjoyed the RTS stuff, I'm afraid it ends here cuz I need to focus on writing the rest of the story lol. I didn't expect ppl would enjoy it so much, so originally didn't writ...

226: Busy Busy

Session end. Game state will be paused, and players are given a chance to rest.

Nicolai’s podium gained a new option. It read: Enter rest area. He tapped it, and the groun...

Author Note/Retcon Alert!

Don't forget to read new chapter, which released a minute ago below this ^_^

Note/Link:

Today is the day that the final Chapter of Book 1 has gone live on Royal Road.

If yo...

225: Forever War

[Author note:

Normally, I write chapter literally months ahead of the time they are released. But in this case, I wrote this entire chapter yesterday because you guys seem so excited by the C...

224: First Round

Nicolai sent out his healthy Defender, sending it towards the rightmost neighbour. Jinxiao had started building a new Defender the moment she’d realised hers was going to die, whereas this man ha...

223: Play Time

Nicolai considered his opponents, and how he wanted to approach this game. He was mostly interested in learning and surviving. He knew that the Cultivators would join together against him and attem...

222: Studying the Game

‘Of course we’re friends.’ Hao gave Nicolai a strained and irritable smile.

‘What do we do now?’ asked Nicolai, rising to his feet, smiling at his new “friend” hopefully.

...

221: Mork the Moron

Nicolai appeared alongside the other Cultivators. They all shied away from him and him from them, gaining a safer amount of space.

But his worry quickly faded. His Mark was quick to inform hi...

220: Why Run, When I Can Win?

Do you wish to enter?

Yes, thought Nicolai.

Preparing to enter… time left: 4:59

He frowned. Five minutes? This was trouble. Or was it? The text said c...

219: Inheritance

Nicolai streaked over the ground, widening the gap between him and the Cultivators. While he fled, he worked to corral and cut back the infection, but his efforts were stymied. He was only able to ...

218: Pursuit

Nicolai swung his anti-material rifle into position and squeezed the trigger. The process was effortless, the result of a merging between him and the Aiming Module. Though he aimed and fired with c...

217: Meeting the Neighbours

The jungle was an endless expanse of vicious life, teeming with Spirit Beasts and monsters. Everywhere a site of conflict, as plants and trees wrestled with one another in a slow, gruelling war for...

Book 2 notice

Note:

If you haven't read the final chapter, 216: Treasure Binge, then go down and read it first then come back here.

Hey ^_^

So, that concludes book 1. You really c...