Twenty S-Rankers stood ready to finish off the cult for good.
Davy Jones and Captain Nemo, nominally just independents with concerns about what might happen if the cult were allowed to remain...
2024-02-07 22:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostSo, i made a small mistake in the last chapter, Isaac's Level is 184 instead of 189.
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“What is that stench?” ...
2024-02-06 22:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostIsaac sat on an asteroid, gazing out at the inner system. There were countless other asteroids around him, plenty of them, but they were so far away that a normal person would barely have been able...
2024-02-05 19:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post“So, we just discovered one of the most heinous criminals of the decade, and it somehow took eight years,” Elenah commented, letting the statement hang in the middle of the room, “How on Eart...
2024-02-05 14:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostMmh, Salmon of Wisdom sushi. Isaac smiled as he took another piece of sashimi, with chopsticks, of course, dragged it through the soy sauce, and chomped down on it, the already massive grin widenin...
2024-02-04 00:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhy was it always warehouses? Why not a mansion, with some nice booze in the wine cabinet he could pilfer and drink while walking in on the bad guy, who’d obviously be in some kind of compromisin...
2024-02-03 11:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a nondescript warehouse on the outskirts of the city, simple from the outside, heavily fortified from the inside, with almost fifty armed mercenaries waiting for another chance to get at Cal...
2024-02-02 18:53:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe others were having fun at the moment, beating down [Raid Bosses]. First, it had just been Isaac and his team, but later, they’d started inviting other allies to help whenever there was an off...
2024-02-02 14:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor most of human history, there’d been two kinds of scientific discoveries.
The first was when people kept chipping away at a problem, envisioning the final result and continuing to work t...
2024-02-01 16:04:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs per usual, Isaac had pitted the twins against the most basic monster possible. The Slate Golems were almost perfect punching bags, especially for people who could fly.
Of course, Isaac als...
2024-02-01 12:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostIsaac grinned as he sat on the bench, gazing out across the seemingly endless ocean of the Arctic sanctuary. Every single sanctuary gained a central building from the boss, which, in this case, amo...
2024-01-18 13:43:38 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many, many depressing places in the world.
For example, mental wards, and hospitals, especially nowadays when the only people who had to stay at those places were the truly dire ca...
2024-01-16 22:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Isaac, we finally got approval, come to my office when you have the time.”
Oh, fucking finally.
Isaac grabbed the note from his desk, crumpled it up, and threw it in the trashcan b...
2024-01-14 23:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post“We got a big delivery,” Isaac announced as a literal metric ton of materials was dropped onto the square outside the building, “No one touches it until it’s been checked over.”
Jas...
2024-01-14 21:28:35 +0000 UTC View Post“You know things are bad that when the Bundeskanzlerin responds to a proposal by saying ‘if my grandson were here, he’d run over to the bookshelf, show me one of his dystopian novels, and tal...
2024-01-12 23:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, the world could behave, to a certain degree. And it had, for almost ten months. No big blowups, and only three errant [Raid Bosses], but they had been taken down by peopl...
2024-01-10 20:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostFinding people who would take part in a global conspiracy, willing to work to alter the entire world, was hard.
Finding people who should take part was a hell of a lot harder.
...
2024-01-10 20:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhat would the god of mischief find funny?
A whoopie cushion would probably get him to crack a smile or something, but Isaac had promised to do something that would be genuinely funny. In his...
2024-01-08 22:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostIsaac stared at the magical device at the center of the table like it was a delicate piece of artwork, or maybe a terrified small animal that might die of fright if he so much as gave it a stern lo...
2024-01-07 21:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs per usual, Isaac relegated himself to the corner of the room when magical items were being experimented on. He couldn’t meaningfully contribute, so he made sure to stay out of everyone’s way...
2024-01-06 18:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe oddly named Nebula Avatar wielded a combination of cloud, lightning, and space-based magic.
Its name was either a weird pun on part of the Dungeon, or the [System] had been smoking someth...
2024-01-04 20:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn hindsight, Isaac really should have expected this many people to want to join him despite the fact that he was going to the Twisted Palace. That Dungeon was almost universally thought of as bein...
2024-01-03 20:35:58 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, having an almost empty time pool to fuel [Continent Strider] meant that he had to walk. Li Mei got him close with a [Portal], but none of the other [Portal] users had been around to ...
2024-01-01 23:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostOrbital Mechanics were an absolute nightmare.
Finding golems falling through the atmosphere was easy. Aim for your target and fly straight at it. And finding one that was a little ou...
2023-12-31 22:36:24 +0000 UTC View PostAll around Isaac, there was nothing. Just an endless sea of blackness and, well, seawater. Oh, and there was the usual array of microscopic life suspended in the water, silt, sand particles, and th...
2023-12-28 23:51:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken most of the week to get the required Hydra Aspects, mostly due to how they’d had to wait for cooldown [Skills] to become available again, but they’d done it and now, Isaac wanted t...
2023-12-27 20:22:58 +0000 UTC View PostTwo years to get the necessary [Skill], three days to fully incorporate it into his fighting style, one week to wait for a certain [Archsage of Magic] to come back from outer friggin space...
2023-12-25 23:50:59 +0000 UTC View Post“So, Isaac’s now called ‘the Sage’, right? I was thinking we need epithets as well.”
“How about you go by ‘Duck’, Amy? After all, that, that tends to be everyone’s first rea...
2023-12-21 19:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post“What am I looking at?” Isaac asked, staring at a mess of rocks, a shattered civilian starship, and several the Golems floating in space.
“Earth-Moon Lagrange Point Three. It...
2023-12-19 22:39:52 +0000 UTC View PostThose of you who've been following this story for a while might, theoretically, possibly, have picked up on the fact that my upload scedule is a wee bit ... all over the bloody place.
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