Jakob H. Greif

Museum Core Chapter 13: Alpha

“Elias, we’ve got a bigger version of the rippers incoming,” Thomas said.

“Rippers?” the fairy responded, sounding disinterested.

“The monsters that just invaded!?”

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Museum Core Chapter 12: Unfriendly Visitors

“I have a confession to make …”

Thomas immediately stiffened up as he heard Elias speak. An opening like that was never followed by something pleasant. Well, almost never. Mayb...

Museum Core Chapter 11: The Ultimate Underdog

“In essence, the Anima Pugilist Class grants you the ability to fight as your chosen animal does. As such, it is vital to choose one that reflects your position. Going into a jungle filled with c...

Museum Core Chapter 10: Shopping for Superpowers

Owens looked like death warmed over as he stumbled into the parking lot, and it wasn’t even 10 am yet. Jaclyn winced. Poor guy.

She could imagine what kinds of calls he had to be dealing wi...

Musem Core Chapter 9: The Nature of Power

Eventually, Elias stopped laughing, though that twinkle in his eyes told Thomas he’d be hearing about this for a loooooong time.

But he’d been able to absorb some of the greenery...

Museum Core Chapter 8: First Champion

“So, what do I do now?” Thomas asked after he’d finished resummoning everything and fixing the wall.

“You look into the monster pattern, and find its cores. There should be one that�...

Museum Core Chapter 7: An Invasion Most Foul

Dungeons were weird, anyone who’d ever truly interacted with one knew that.

As they grew, they gained more and more quirks, from collecting certain kinds of stones to only giving out left s...

Museum Core Chapter 6: The New World

“Yeah, that’s it, I’m done,” Jaclyn said.

Or at least, that was what she wished she could say now, then throw up her hands in consternation and just … leave.

It was an impulse...

Museum Core Chapter 5: Zoological Expansion

Expanding his power out into the hallway was just as easy as everything else had been, once he figured it out.

Despite that, however, Thomas could tell that he was rapidly approaching the lim...

Museum Core Chapter 4: The Change

12 hours Earlier

It wasn’t a question of if your kid said “I hate you”, or even how often they said it was about how long they meant it for.

In Jaclyn’s experience, waking up a ...

Museum Core Chapter 3: Building the Citadel

“Shortest possible explanation of how Dungeons work: absorb stuff and gain the ability to recreate it.

“With that stuff, you make structures and reinforce them with mana to the point wher...

Museum Core Chapter 2: Chomp!

The being stood around two meters tall, its head brushing the top of the entrance, but it was clearly larger considering it was walking in a constant slump.

Its head was that of a Komodo Drag...

Museum Core Chapter 1: Wakey, Wakey

The world was a sea of light, bright light, in every color under the sun, and more he’d never seen before, swirling around him, reflecting off what might have been glass, metal railings, and othe...

Epilog: Infinite Possibilities

Terraformed Mars, Olympus Mons, 2072

“You’re bored, aren’t you?” Elena asked, stepping up next to Isaac on the balcony.

“No?” he asked, confused. He was still wearing the be...

Chapter 324: Ten Years Later

“Ok, why the fuck do I have to walk up that stupid staircase every day?” Tanja loudly complained as she stomped out of the space colloquially known as the “walk of shame”.

It really w...

Chapter 323: New Heights

Level 200. The big one.

Well, technically, Isaac had just reached Level 190 after six months of playing around with his new gear, and then, the Level boost for having made a decisive differen...

Chapter 322: Gear Revolution

Handing over several billion euros worth of materials to Stagmer had almost resulted in him fainting. Being in a position to hand over such wealth had been gratifying.

And getting th...

Chapter 321: Premature Yet Deserved Party

There were a lot of people who could not be here today.

Thankfully, Isaac’s most immediate circle had largely escaped damage, though it had been a close thing in Karl’s case. He, along wi...

Chapter 320: What Now?

“… And the recipient of the World Item should have been decided via committee, taking and immediately wasting it was irresponsible in the extreme, and disrespectful to those who died, I …”<...

Chapter 319: Interlude Unsung Heroes

Day 1

“Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, how about we calm down,” Jason called out to the angry mob. It didn’t work, obviously, but keeping his [Aura] going at full blast was thankf...

Chapter 318: Rewards for a Job Well Done

Congratulations, Planet Earth! The World Boss “The Leviathan” has been slain by the hand of countless people. The matter of the final blow was therefore random and immaterial.

All those w...

Chapter 317: Final Round

Four days. Four bloody days. That was how long they’d been at this.

Isaac stumbled, planting Balmung’s tip in the ship’s deck and leaning on its hilt to keep standing. He was dead on hi...

Chapter 316: Round 2

A titanic spike of earth and ice rose from the ocean, but it was far deeper than what was visible, extending all the way to the bottom and two kilometers into the bedrock beneath that, with reinfor...

Chapter 315: Round 1

The snake surged forward, jaws wide open, its head having been raised so high out of the air allowing it to reach incredible speeds as it lunged, crossing the fifty kilometers that separat...

Chapter 314: Devil Snake

For an entire week, [Final Defiance] had been pulsing away in the back of his mind, to the point where he’d feared it was having a deleterious effect on his sanity, and as it turned out, it parti...

Chapter 313: Rage, rage against the dying of the light

But first, someone needed to clean up here.

Isaac kicked himself skywards, flames gathering around his hands as he glared at the General of Cocytus. It looked like absolute shit, cracked and ...

Chapter 312: Do not go gently into that good night

Furfur fell back to Earth behind Isaac, down a wing, burned, and covered in smoking acid.

He was still alive, and would be even after he hit the ground, but that wouldn’t last once everyone...

Chapter 311: Naval Battle

The shield that had already been teetering on the edge of collapse was the first to go, rapidly followed by the hull collapsing inwards, metal and glass being pulled towards a single point. The bri...

Chapter 310: Interlude Naval Battle

Stone grinned briefly as he saw the General of Cocytus vanish along with the Flying Dutchman. If Jones managed to survive that duel and the [Skill] lasted for a quarter of an hour, they might even ...

Chapter 309: Interlude Naval Battle

Gabriel Stone had been in the Royal Navy since his eighteenth birthday. Literally to the day, he’d slept outside the recruiting office and been the first one in the door.

And he’d seem so...