“You want me to train you in everything?” Liana sputtered. She’d jumped up from her comfortable armchair in the small salt-cavern when he’d asked the question. “That is not what I agreed to, Xavier Collins. You saved my life, and I’m grateful. Honour requires that I’m in your debt, and teaching you how to properly utilise your Time Alteration spell more than covers that d...
2024-08-14 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostXavier’s mind worked swiftly.
He was high up in the air, mid-leap, his consciousness expanding through the insidious dark substance that had just tried to take over his mind.
He had taken over its mind in kind, but his control over the strange, interconnected entity was not full. Not complete. If the entity discovered him, his control would snap like a twig underfoot.
... 2024-08-13 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier landed on the ground in a crouch, the dead Infected Stag nearby, the dark oozing substance still flooding out of it, crawling across the ground toward him with a life of its own. It wasn’t crawling very fast, but Xavier found he had to take a few steps backward lest it reach him.
He didn’t want more of whatever that was trying to infect him.
He tried to use ...
2024-08-09 07:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I am thrilled to announce the second book in my Rise of the Last Summoner series comes out on Amazon today!
I’ve already given patrons access to this book a few days ago, and unfortunately if you signed up after I did that post I’m unable to do it again due to Kindle Unlimited exclusivity.
I hope you all enjoy this book! It’s a very different vibe to Accide...
2024-08-08 07:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe barkeep smiled. She made a motion with her hand, interacting with something Xavier couldn’t see, though he had an idea of what it must be. It was the first time Xavier had seen anyone interact with the System in that way—he wondered if, perhaps, she had a different interface than he did, as she appeared to work for the System.
If my destiny plays out as I plan it...
2024-08-08 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the forest clearing on the hundredth floor of the Tower of Champions, Xavier breathed deeply and looked at the description for the spell he was about to cast.
Otherworldly Communion – Rank 1
Otherworldly Communion is a legendary spell specific to the Otherworldly line of classes.
Otherworld...
2024-08-07 07:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostYou have defeated a Level 280 Magma Bull!
You have gained 2,000 Mastery Points (E Grade).
Congratulations!
You have completed your first Hunt Quest on the hundredth floor of the Tower of Champions. Return to Hunter’s Home to claim your reward and start on your next Hunt Quest! 2024-08-06 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Rise of the Last Summoner 2 is finished!
The book will be published to Amazon on the 8th (this Thursday), but as you're all my patrons you can download it right now over on Bookfunnel.
To get the book, just log in to the BookFunnel app or my.bookfunnel.com using the email address you signed up to my...
2024-08-05 06:45:55 +0000 UTC View PostXavier, standing on the surface of the volcano, only a few feet away from a pool of lava, observed the battle between the Spirit of Vengeance and the Magma Bull.
It was beautifully brutal.
The Spirit of Vengeance swept through the air like lightning striking sideways. The Magma Bull, despite being caught by surprise at the dragon’s presence, had managed to braze itself for the att...
2024-08-02 07:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostXavier’s eyes widened in panic.
Standing on the surface of the volcano, a bubble of time around him, he had thought he was safe. At least until he decided to deactivate the Time Alteration spell himself—but there were things he hadn’t known about the spell.
Things he couldn’t have known from testing it himself, for he hadn’t faced an opponent like this before.
The Ma...
2024-08-01 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sped through the forest. Instead of stopping to fight the beasts he came upon, he ran right past them. He could hear them pursuing him—or trying to. The beasts didn’t seem to want to get too far away from their respective territories, and he didn’t want to deal with them right now.
He wanted to finish this beasty off and move onto finding the Denizen who could help him with h...
2024-07-31 07:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostXavier fought a little more than half a dozen more beasts on his way back to Hunter’s Home.
In the part of the forest that he was in, the beasts he kept encountering were the wolven packs and the Whiptailed Boars. He fought another pack and one more boar.
The fights had been rough. He’d been focusing heavily on using his new melee attack. Out of the seven beasts he’d killed af...
2024-07-30 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Spell Quest Unlocked: Telekinetic Enhanced Strike
To unlock Telekinetic Enhanced Strike, you must:
1. Enhance a melee strike with Heavy Telekinesis and use it for 100 killing blows against enemies of a higher level than yourself.
Progress: 0/100
Xavier grinned.
A spontaneo...
2024-07-26 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
You have defeated a Level 230 Whiptailed Boar!
You have gained 400 Mastery Points (E Grade).
Level 230? 400 Mastery Points?
Xavier blinked. He couldn’t help being a bit disappointed by how many Mastery Points he’d received. And, considering how much energy he’d just put into that fight,...
2024-07-25 07:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood across from the giant boar, staring it down through the trees. Two of Xavier’s most powerful spells had had no effect on the giant boar, but there were five wolven puppets that had yet to even enter the fight.
Sick em, boys, Xavier willed to the souls controlling the puppets.
The five dead wolven surged forward. They didn’t howl, growl, snarl, or other...
2024-07-24 07:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHe sped up time around him and him alone, creating a bubble the same size as the one he had back in the Staging Room. He hadn’t practiced with the spell, so he didn’t know yet how much he could manipulate the time bubble—whether he could make it smaller or larger with repeated use. The spell, unlike others, didn’t appear to have a specific path to choose from.
Technically, he need...
2024-07-23 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter reading through all the notifications showing him the rank ups he’d received to his skills and spells from his first battle on the hundredth floor, Xavier read through the kill notifications.
There, he was very curious about.
The first five wolven turned out to all be the same level, something he supposed wasn’t too surprising.
You have defeated ...
2024-07-19 07:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostXavier cast Willpower Infusion on the wolven, with only seven seconds until the Buffer ability stopped working.
Purple mist shot from his staff and made its way to the beast. It didn’t need to cover much distance, what with how close the wolven was. Either the beast didn’t have a chance to teleport away, or it was too enraged to realise the threat.
The spell hit it dead on, purp...
2024-07-18 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood in the middle of a clearing on the hundredth floor of the Tower of Champions. D Grade wolven were howling all around him. He counted at least five different howls. He gripped his Midnight Scythe tightly.
Facing the first wolven, he’d been holding back. He hadn’t cast his most powerful spell, Soul Strike.
But there was a reason he’d been holding back from using tha...
2024-07-17 06:35:40 +0000 UTC View PostXavier spent more time than he would like to admit staring at the different beasts on the notice boards. Though the notices had information on the beasts, they didn’t actually say what level they were, only what grade they were. That made it difficult for him to decide what an “easy” monster for him to go after would be.
This feels more than a little humiliating. On the lower fl...
2024-07-16 07:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostXavier blinked, gripped his new Midnight Scythe tightly, and looked around the place that the System had taken him.
The one hundredth floor of the Tower of Champions.
A frown lined his forehead as his gaze trailed over the room.
Xavier was standing inside a tavern. It wasn’t as large, nor as clean, as the tavern at the bottom of the Tower of Champions where Sam was the barke...
2024-07-12 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stepped back into the Staging Room.
It felt empty without the other members of his party. It was bigger, too. It had expanded, becoming even larger than it had when they’d returned to the tower. It seemed absurd that it would be this large just for him.
He slowly walked toward the door to the next floor. Then he stopped, turned, and stared at the pedestal that would let him...
2024-07-11 06:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostXavier walked over to the wall of the Staging Room. He leant his back heavily against it, then he slid down to the ground. There were more notifications after the first one, but he was taking his time absorbing the first.
The System has transported you forward through the tower.
Your next floor will now be the 100th floor of the Tower of Champio...
2024-07-10 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood in the large cavern on the nineteenth floor of the Tower of Champions. The kraken had been slain with ease, and its corpse had floated to the top of the water.
Now, it was frozen in time, as everything else in the cave was.
But it hadn’t been Xavier who had frozen it.
If this notification was to be believed, it had been the System itself.
Xavier took a stu...
2024-07-09 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post[Author note: Here is the missing chapter from last week. This week's chapters should come out as normal. Sorry about the delay!]
Adranial frowned at him. “What do you mean, is there anything strange about the old man?”
Xavier shrugged. “I just felt like he might be hiding something.”
“Hiding something?” Adranial asked. “Wh...
2024-07-08 06:16:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
I've just recently moved house, and though I'd written over a week of backlog chapters things have been really chaotic. I'm also expecting a baby next month so there has been a lot of things going on with that, too.
Unfortunately that means I haven't been able to write much for the past week or so. I plan to post 5 chapters next week to make up for the missing one this week...
2024-07-04 08:29:14 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the Staging Room, his party before him, Xavier cast his new Time Alteration spell.
The others were looking on with interest. He hadn’t even given them a chance to ask what the spell did. Though he supposed it was all in the name, so they would have had a strong idea.
However, Xavier, if he were honest, wasn’t one hundred percent sure what the spell would do ...
2024-07-04 07:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post“You…” Justin’s face fell. He looked more disappointed than Xavier had ever seen him. Xavier hadn’t realised the young man would feel like that at all—but, had he thought about it for a moment, he would have known that he would. Justin sat down on his currently empty loot box, the chest bearing his weight easily. “You completed the floor without us?”
Xavier shook his head....
2024-07-03 07:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe other Xavier didn’t say much after that. Apparently, that was all he had gone to all this trouble to tell him—that the universe was ending, and he was responsible for saving it.
He wouldn’t answer any of Xavier’s other question. About the future. About his friends. About his abilities. About the other places in the sector he might be able to go.
Nothing.
He had sim...
2024-07-02 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sat in front of the flickering fire, the flames playing with the shadows on the older man’s face across from him. The older man who wouldn’t tell him what had happened to bring him here.
Xavier wanted to argue, but a part of him saw the futility in that. There didn’t seem to be much point in arguing with himself. And if this man was as old as Xavier thought, that meant he was...
2024-06-28 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post