The deepest part of a being’s magical core was normally meant to be filled with a swirling mess of orbs of power, one for each rank, with the more simple components of one’s power flowing throu...
2024-06-09 17:16:55 +0000 UTC
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Well, that just happened. But at least he had a new dragon pattern.
Thomas spent a few minutes reinforcing his dungeon just in case there was immediate retaliation, then summoned the creature...
2024-06-08 15:16:09 +0000 UTC
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“Either that thing is lying, or … or one of the nastiest beings in existence just returned from the dead,” Elias said slowly. There had been no need for Thomas to relay the dragon’s pronoun...
2024-06-05 15:31:23 +0000 UTC
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Apocalypse Redux 6 is being released in two weeks and the book has been fully edited and formatted.
I'd greatly appreciate anyone who left a good review on Amazon when it does come out, but ...
2024-06-03 18:08:13 +0000 UTC
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“Elias, System’s glitched again!” Thomas called out, but by the time the fairy showed up, he was laughing hysterically.
“What’s so funny?” Elias frowned.
“Oh, you wouldn...
2024-06-02 22:01:13 +0000 UTC
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Cameron Jones normally wasn’t one for computers. They were fragile, finicky, and you practically needed to be a rocket scientist to use even their simplest functions.
But this “System” ...
2024-05-30 21:00:51 +0000 UTC
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Ewart Jones had been in the service of his country in one way or another since he’d graduated college, though most of that had been spent as a part of MI5.
The world might have changed, his...
2024-05-22 17:49:07 +0000 UTC
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The human body was weird. In fact, in some respects, it could be downright schizophrenic.
Particularly when it came to taking damage.
Humans had fallen from airplanes and survived, and ...
2024-05-22 17:08:13 +0000 UTC
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“Do we look for the village?” Smith asked.
“Absolutely,” Jaclyn said. “We know Fields isn’t there right now, and he might attack us on sight if he sees us snooping around.”
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2024-05-22 16:23:00 +0000 UTC
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Name: Jaclyn Abrams
Race: Human
Class: Anima Monk
F-Rank, Level 10 -> 16/20
Class Abilities
Spirit Bond: Honey Badger (F-Rank)
Statistics (0 poi...
2024-05-22 10:14:06 +0000 UTC
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Jaclyn sighed as they began to advance into the corridor. She’d lost her gun, dropped while she’d been flung around like a ragdoll, and they hadn’t found it even after an exhaustive search. C...
2024-05-20 17:52:29 +0000 UTC
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“How do you think they’re doing out there?” Smith asked, once again driving the car.
“Might be going well, might be going horrible,” Jaclyn shrugged.
“The kid seemed pretty ...
2024-05-18 19:06:39 +0000 UTC
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It was at this point that the Landwyrm finally began to move towards the Dungeon. It was just as big as the first of its kind to enter the Dungeon, but it was completely free of any of the injuries...
2024-05-15 18:57:26 +0000 UTC
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Dinosaurs had an undeniable coolness factor, they were big and powerful beasts of ancient times that inspired fear and awe millions of years after their deaths.
Even so, they weren’t nearly...
2024-05-14 22:18:20 +0000 UTC
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Thomas had thought the jungle was insane before, but that had mostly been due to the fact that it had held a lot of big and nasty creatures. Lesser dragons, both in the sky and on the ground, magic...
2024-05-13 20:11:02 +0000 UTC
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“Do you really think we could have taken out that sabertooth with a rocket launcher?” Jaclyn asked.
“We could have probably killed it, but it’d have been a terrible idea. I mean, we c...
2024-05-11 18:51:11 +0000 UTC
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“That cop was a cultivator, wasn’t she?” Thomas finally asked once everyone was out of the Dungeon. “Crazy physical strength, but no obvious magical powers.”
“Cultivators don’t ...
2024-05-08 19:48:57 +0000 UTC
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Their armored personnel carriers spread out before the car in a semi-circle, half the guns aimed out at the jungle, the other half pointing up towards the museum’s roof.
Then, Jaclyn’s bo...
2024-05-08 12:01:24 +0000 UTC
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Getting up in the morning was rarely fun.
Getting a six-year-old to get up was a nightmare … under normal circumstances. And the current circumstances were a mess.
… Which was why J...
2024-05-02 18:14:42 +0000 UTC
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“Morning!” Teddy called out when he caught sight of Elias at the cafe’s entrance. Apparently, he was a bit of a morning person.
And judging by how she was eyeing a nearby coffee cup, se...
2024-04-29 21:14:45 +0000 UTC
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Kids were living paradoxes. Anytime they wanted you to do something, by the time you got around to doing it, they wanted the exact opposite.
Most recently, that had manifested in Eve literall...
2024-04-26 19:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Naturally, the first thing Thomas did was replace most of his defenders, though he didn’t re-summon the insane number of boomslangs all over the place.
And immediately after that, he increa...
2024-04-23 19:26:53 +0000 UTC
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The first thing to do had been to have all his creatures get into positions that couldn’t be seen from the door to ensure the wyrm couldn’t just snipe everyone without even going inside.
...
2024-04-21 14:49:31 +0000 UTC
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As it turned out, making hot coffee was damn hard. So hard, in fact, that Thomas would up setting a jaguar on fire.
The idea had been simple, heat up coffee in an appropriate contain...
2024-04-18 19:06:43 +0000 UTC
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Leaving the jungle felt almost as surreal as entering it had been as much of the noise normally associated with civilization returned with a vengeance.
Shouting, demands and pleas for help, c...
2024-04-17 14:48:26 +0000 UTC
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The woman, who’d introduced herself as Bethany Miller, wound up spinning a rather terrifying tale of a cataclysmic disaster.
Thomas hadn’t been awake for any of that, but she and her daug...
2024-04-14 21:08:34 +0000 UTC
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“I need an avatar to talk to people directly, right?” Thomas asked. Having Elias share all his knowledge meant he should have theoretically gotten all the information he possibly could have nee...
2024-04-12 19:48:08 +0000 UTC
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Jaclyn was already moving before she’d even noticed the incoming attack, twisting to the side as she brought her gun around to aim at the thing that tried to flay open her back with its ...
2024-04-10 17:41:09 +0000 UTC
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London’s city center should have been a ghost town. In many ways, that would have been less terrifying than the reality of the situation.
No one knew how the city had been turned into a jun...
2024-04-09 13:04:02 +0000 UTC
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“Pick the wall-climbing power,” Elias said immediately. “That increases the number of spots they can attack from and gives them a chance to reach spots they normally wouldn’t be able to. Hi...
2024-04-07 19:36:51 +0000 UTC
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