Author's Note: I'm definitely renaming this chapter in the future, but I couldn't be bothered to think of something better for now.
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“Christ almighty,” Rory sighed as he leaned back, sweat pouring from his forehead. “Why the hell was that such a hassle?”
Rory was, of course, referring to the glowing object floating in front of him, pulsing wit...
2025-07-18 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAs Zoey stared at the strange monster, she reached for her shield, only to pause as the monster seemed to focus not on her, but on the spot next to her. Curious, she watched it approach until it stopped directly beside her, turning to face the non-existent audience.
“Huh?”
Looking out into the empty theater, Zoey saw that the orange haze from outside began to fill the s...
2025-07-17 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was it that made a wizard?
No, not a mage, someone who could simply use magic, that wasn’t all that special in their universe of weird game mechanics and magic.
No, specifically, what made a wizard?
That was the question Rory was pondering, deep in contemplation with yet another wise founder.
Heh. Yeah right.
“I’m...
2025-07-16 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe two of them stared at the world spirit, who had changed once more, this time appearing as a living embodiment of a volcano. Her skin was dark as obsidian, assuming it wasn’t literally obsidian, with veins coursing with golden magma, and her hair was a twisting ashen grey topknot.
“Aelia,” Rory nodded to the world spirit. “It’s been some time,”
“Well over a de...
2025-07-15 13:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostFaced off against the wind eels, Rory reconjured his knives, flying through the air after the partially incorporeal summons. As fast as his knives were, the eels seemed to know precisely when to spin or twirl through the air to evade the knives. Had Rory had the room to focus entirely on the eels, they wouldn’t have been a problem, but the issue was that he was splitting his focus between lay...
2025-07-11 14:32:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you ready?” Rory asked the woman next to him, her smile contagious as he felt his lips tugging upward.
“I should be asking you that,” Zoey said with a wink as he rolled his eyes in response.
“I’ve been working on a little something, I’ll be fine.”
“Alright, if this big ape guy is as much of a bastard as you suggested, this won’t be an easy fight.” 2025-07-10 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As Rory suddenly found himself housing another person, some growing pains popped up, to say the least, growing pains that he’d never had to deal with in Ehkorrus.
“You’re really going to lock yourself inside all day?”
“Yes, now leave me alone.”
“But it’s a beautiful day, we could look for unknown areas?”
“First off, it’s a smoke and haze-filled day ...
2025-07-09 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing that surprised Rory the most when he awoke was the fact that he had woken up in the first place.
You know, what with the fact that he should probably have been dead.
“Anyone ever tell you that you’re way too fond of theatrics?” A voice spoke out as Rory’s eyes fluttered, brain rebooting.
“How long was I out?” Rory questione...
2025-07-08 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs Rory finally finished putting away his hammer, he looked around his workshop with a swell of pride.
Not bad.
It had come quite a long way from his first time in these ‘hollowed’ halls.
Heh. Hallowed. Hollowed. As in, I literally hollowed out - you know what, never mind.
No longer were they just simple caves; he had managed to add ar...
2025-07-07 12:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending the better part of several days resting from the relentless blood essence drain and literal bloodletting, Rory was ready to get back in the saddle and tackle his initial goal.
Which was all well and good, until another few days later, his hammer went flying through the air, cracking into the stone wall of his cave workshop.
“I just don’t get it!” Rory shouted, w...
2025-07-07 12:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Nasty stuff,” Rory muttered to himself, holding a vial up as he stirred the contents around. “Real nasty stuff.”
<... 2025-07-07 12:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostVestigial Magmatic Acid
Tier: Seven
Quality: Toxin
Effect: Exposure degrades conceptual and vestigial energies
As Rory held his guard, the ape stared him down.
That was until a moment later, Rory found himself tumbling through the air, the wind knocked out of him.
Shit!
Tumbling onto the snow, Rory momentarily felt a flash of heat until he balanced his self-aura once more.
Fast!
That ape was already barreling down on him once again, as fast as his fellow f...
2025-07-07 12:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post“This is the place,” Rory muttered to himself. Pressing his palm against the nondescript wall, he closed his eyes for a moment.
Odd. I can tell that there are monsters beyond this point, but I can’t sense anything aside from that. It's as if my senses are being deliberately blocked.
That was potentially alarming, but it was also potentially a signal of rewards beyond ...
2025-07-07 12:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostRory stared down at the elemental, palming his forehead after a moment.
Not what I meant to happen.
First off, it wasn’t meant to be anything fancier than a basic fire elemental, possibly a volcanic elemental if things went the extra mile. Instead, Rory had ended up creating an elemental of an element or affinity that he had never even heard of before, World Ichor or the ...
2025-07-07 12:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Easy….Easy!” Rory waved his hands at Eia, urging her to slow down.
“I am taking it easy,” The serpent literally hissed.
“Yeah, but that was some seriously delicate work,” Rory muttered as he stared at the serpent.
It was a good thing that Eia didn’t use her mouth to speak, as there was currently an oversized diamond of red glass prec...
2025-07-07 12:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostRory fell over a mile before he crashed back upon the hard ground of the volcano; the shockwave of Dragon’s Fall had launched him further from the mountain than he had intended to leap.
“Ow,” Rory groaned, choosing to remain still on the hard ground for a moment, an oversized serpent sprawled atop his body.
Recovering some, Rory sat upright, examining Eia. Now that he had time...
2025-07-07 12:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostTime continued to march on as Rory spent his days working on expanding his volcanic base or hunting monsters. It was a routine that Rory fell into without push back, rarely exploring far beyond the volcano he had claimed. Much like he had in Ehkorrus, infrastructure was built to streamline his expansion through the mountain, modern equipment that relied on his most up-to-date understanding and ...
2025-07-07 12:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs the world finally stopped shaking, Rory found himself lying flat on the ground, chewing on a mouthful of ash and dirt.
“Bleh,” Rory sputtered as he spat out the ash. Momentarily dazed, Rory rose to his feet, taking stock of what had happened. After his Dragon’s Fall had impacted the monster, it was as if a bomb, and not a particularly small one either, had exploded. Rory had been...
2025-07-07 12:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostSo, not going to be a long post, just wanted to throw this up real quick to cover some stuff.
Tomorrow 2 main things are happening.
1. Every tier will be getting a chapter deluge. They will be listed under the True Immortal Tier at first, but I will be sorting them once I'm awake in the morning. 4 chapters per tier, so 4/8/12/16.
2. The True Immortal Tier is launching. ...
2025-07-07 04:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: So, today is the day I officially announce I'm going on a 4 or 5 day release per week schedule on RR! That means, expect next week that their will be a LOT more content dropping instantly to get you all ahead where you need to be. TBH, I'm going to use this weekend to decide if it will be monday-friday or tuesday-friday, but just thought I' keep you all up to date!
Spending his working days toiling away, the fledgling workshop quickly began to take form. Leaving only to stock up on more bones occasionally, changes rapidly appeared. First, the grate covering the magma whirlpool was completed, allowing Rory to step over the golden magma with an abundance of caution. Once that had been completed, next up was a ‘chain’ of bones that he could suspend a cag...
2025-07-02 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: So, today is the day I officially announce I'm going on a 4 or 5 day release per week schedule on RR! That means, expect next week that their will be a LOT more content dropping instantly to get you all ahead where you need to be. TBH, I'm going to use this weekend to decide if it will be monday-friday or tuesday-friday, but just thought I' keep you all up to date!
When Rory had first been plunked onto Aelia decades ago, he had barely been more than a child, a measly twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.
How have I forgotten how old I was when I first arrived?
At the time, it had been a constant struggle of discovery and fighting against a world that seemed designed to push him into a corner, his specialty as a crafter making it extre...
2025-06-25 13:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: So, today is the day I officially announce I'm going on a 4 or 5 day release per week schedule on RR! That means, expect next week that their will be a LOT more content dropping instantly to get you all ahead where you need to be. TBH, I'm going to use this weekend to decide if it will be monday-friday or tuesday-friday, but just thought I' keep you all up to date!
Author's Note: Surprise chapter! I've built a 13 chapter lead so far over where RR is, meaning by the time we hit chapter 100 on RR, I should comfortably have enough chapters written that the transition to every day chapters will be seamless, with no breaks necessary. While writing, their was something I wanted to touch on that really wasn't long enough to be its own proper ch...
2025-06-19 17:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostZoey was annoyed.
Very annoyed. And she had been annoyed for some time now.
“It’s bullshit,” She muttered as she stared at the broken item that she had come to rely on extensively over the years. A Horizon Mirror. It had been her reward for conquering a rather treacherous delve, five floors of monsters that had started at low tier six before maxing out with a mid-tier...
2025-06-18 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWell, it's finally here, Universe's End's first birthday!
Well it was actually yesterday but w/e.
I made a bit of a note on this on the most recent Totality tier chapter (chapter 100) but, I wanted to start off by saying thanks to all of you. Universe's End was never meant to be my main series, in fact it was something I started writing on the side as a bit of a challenge to myself ...
2025-06-15 19:16:49 +0000 UTC View PostIn the past, when Rory had stepped through the Null Window to travel to the Maw, the journey had always been instant, one step and boom.
This time, things had changed. Rory found himself as an incorporeal comet rushing through a darkness filled with streaks of blinding white light. Only a few feet away, he could feel a shell of conceptual energy protecting him as the streaks of white ligh...
2025-06-13 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostVermillion Beryl Scale-mail Hauberk
Quality: Rare
Fashioned from increasingly exotic materials with equally demanding crafting requirements. Due to the echoes of the potent concepts and affinities intermingling within the armor, those with insubstantial personal significance will suffer varying degrees of adverse effects.
“H...
2025-06-11 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we have the final Monday of note drops relating to the current most prominent crafting skills! I may actually do a bonus drop next Monday relating to the Sovereign System as I was looking through those notes recently and in the process updated them to be more easily understandable (Which also resulted in a minor retcon to when it was introduced as I had said Rory had 2 Decrees available but...
2025-06-09 15:38:39 +0000 UTC View Post