Mana Garden? There were mana plants?
His head nearly spun as he tried to wrap his mind about the revelation. Mana was one of the most severe limiters in the System. What kinds of plants could he grow that provided mana? Would they fuel runes? Store mana? Produce it?
The initial excitement—almost—pushed him to absorb the Trait of Nature. He only restrained himself when h...
2023-09-29 19:29:07 +0000 UTC View PostMany thoughts rolled through Keynes's head as he considered the offer. Each time he glanced at the guardian, he wanted to ask if this was an elaborate joke. However, given the revelation about the Children of the Forest, that seemed unlikely.
What made him uneasy about the offer was the implication that the Father was acting against the System. Could that even happen?
The System...
2023-09-22 16:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post“There is no need for hostility,” Kora stepped next to Keynes, her voice unyielding, nothing like what Keynes remembered.
The guardian seemed unperturbed by her, though. Given what the Grand Druid had said, it was no wonder. If Kora or Keynes were to try to assault him, they would be killed. It sounded a little far-fetched to him, but there was no point in risking their lives and rewa...
2023-09-15 19:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostMy apologies for the delay but I had to rewrite the entire chapter as I really didn't like it. I am much more satisfied with this version
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A stunned silence followed the Grand Druid’s presentations. The spiritual auras were less restrictive and revealed a maelstrom of emotions coming from the contenders.
While Keynes kept his aura almost tightly controlled, ...
2023-09-11 20:56:29 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes and Kora had many questions on their minds but the guardian urged them to attend the meeting first. Apparently, there would be time for questions. He assured them they might even receive answers that would positively surprise them. Keynes wasn’t convinced but he understood that their timing wasn’t optimal and let the guardian lead them to the meeting.
Neither Keynes nor Kora ex...
2023-09-01 16:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! The roof is done. It was several tough days for me as I spent entire days working and was so exausted my brain didn't function.
Here's the chapter for the last Friday.
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Locating people without the vision of the future was extremely difficult. Shaper had to rely on other, more mundane methods he had set up just in case.
He was g...
2023-08-28 21:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I hoped to post two chapter this week but there are several developments that keep me occupied.
1. I started editing the first book with a professional editor and it is time consuming. Optimistically speaking, I see the first book finished by the end of September. You will have a chance to read it first before the chapters are uploded to RR.
2. A few unwelcome personal...
2023-08-18 16:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes slammed the guardian with spiritual energy. The guardian vanished and for a second Keynes thought he won but pain in the right side disabused him of this notion.
Keynes turned the fall into a roll and reoriented his body to face the guardian. But the guardian wasn’t nowhere to be seen.
Watch my back, he said.
But master, I cannot sense its spiritual energ...
2023-08-11 18:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I hope you're all well :)
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Kora got to her feet without saying a word. As she looked around and took in the damage done to the area, she wondered how it was that they were still alive. She still could sense Lem Solaris’s indignation permeating the air.
Then she felt Keynes’s emotion bursting out of him like a tide wave. Kora didn’t remember the last time...
2023-08-04 16:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe History of the Solar Empire is full of unsung heroes and their accomplishments that saved our civilization from collapse or pushed it forward. It is the battle prowess that often made figures like the Queen of Poisons, Sandman or Lord of Winters famous, while ignoring other important aspects of what can be considered power.
One of the best examples was Tay Tark. A young w...
2023-07-28 18:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostVivena woke up with a start and immediately knew everything was wrong. Her body didn’t feel right.
And she was handcuffed.
She looked around, slowly, as her vision swam any time she moved her head too quickly. She was lying in a hospital bed. Several thin cords connected her body to the medical equipment. Screens were turned away from her. A large mirror…a one-way window was on ...
2023-07-21 19:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I wonder if you'll pick up on one important detail in this chapter :)
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Keynes exhaled, then collapsed on his back. His health, stamina and mana were low but he didn’t care. He just killed twenty-third Heartwood but even that was second to his true goal. He was maxing his attributes again. Over the last three weeks he was combining snake tree...
2023-07-14 16:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes’s connection with the Greater System closed. He was granted knowledge about attaining personalised quests and what they meant to him. He whistled as some outcomes were straight out insane and akin to rewards granted for levelling as a Perfect State ascender.
Obviously, nothing was for free. If he wished to gain access to personalised quests, he had to enter a greater rift and fin...
2023-07-07 19:35:13 +0000 UTC View PostIMPORTANT:
I'm going to remove Human Essence Ascender (£1) as no one use it anyway.
I'm going to give Rift Essence Ascender (£2.50) access to all chapters.
I'm leaving Perfect State Ascender (£4.50) as it is but anyone who subscribe to it has my BIG thank you.
In the future I may do (£10) for those who don't mind supporting with extra disposable income but for ...
2023-06-30 18:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes activated the Orb of Grand Insight and the Trait of Spirituality. As the time stretched, he checked on his spiritual core, hoping to get the insight about its structure.
He didn’t know what to expect from the trait but with his new technique and the Orb of the Grand Insight, he was surely going to learn much.
Then the world exploded.
Everything vanished, only darkness...
2023-06-23 19:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes had gone through at least a hundred different plants when he felt something unusual and novel; an instinct, which he followed as he inspected plants with his spiritual aura.
At first he only recognised a distinct spiritual signature of each rarity but he didn’t stop there and tried to peer deeper into the spiritual structure that made the plants. This constant pushing followed th...
2023-06-16 19:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Solar Council’s conflict with Untainted Paradise was one of the strangest ones in the post-outbreak era. It has started with Untainted Paradise’s refusal to fulfil their end of bargain and open rifts for the members of the council.
Death of Syberius Sael and an argument over the first sub-boss dominion further deteriorated their relations but the true beginning of Unt...
2023-06-09 19:14:25 +0000 UTC View Post“We should have already reached the centre,” Keynes said as he flew above the forest. After the incident with attackers, he decided to stay higher in the air to give himself more time to react.
I agree, Alice said. There is something happening on the dominion level but I am unable to say what.
“I’ll have to land and regenerate mana for a while. Y...
2023-06-02 19:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes sat on a fallen log, listening to Wagner’s report. Keynes needed him to find Kora. He was torn by his loyalty and Lem Solaris’s stupid task.
“You have to find her.”
“We’ll,” Wagner assured him. “Once we finish cleaning up here.”
Keynes learned that the Solar Council had attacked their rift cluster and Emerald City following the destruction of their hea...
2023-05-26 17:36:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe kidnappers were only Level 4 and they stood no chance against Kora. She easily reached them but then her sense of danger fired up. Something was not right. The kidnappers came to halt, then dispersed in different directions, she followed the one with the Untainted Paradise executive on his shoulder. She briefly considered her next move but any weapon conjured by her might potentially harm P...
2023-05-19 12:51:40 +0000 UTC View PostNow, that I decresed the frequency of posts to 1 per week, I am thinking about changing tiers to one tier offering all the chapter for £3 and one for anywho wish to support me extra, let's say £5-10. What do you think?
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The Level 4 ascender stopped shivering then his eye snapped open. Keynes kept his spiritual aura at ready in case the man tried something. Kora stood behind K...
2023-05-12 15:08:34 +0000 UTC View PostUntainted Paradise’s space department’s first major breakthrough went unnoticed. Exactly the way they hoped for. They finally had unrestricted access to space without supervision of the Solar Council and the World Government. They understood that this wouldn’t last forever and eventually others would catch up and counter-measures would be developed. But Untainted Paradise didn’t bec...
2023-05-07 01:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostGuys, today's chapter will be posted tomorrow. My wrists are in pain today. I will publish the chapter as soon as it is finished/edited, which should be around midday tomorrow.
Also, I am thinking about changing the schedule to 1 chapter per week because while you guys support me and I appreciate it a lot. This is not enough to support me and there are a lot of duties piling up. There are...
2023-05-05 16:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes activated [Spiritual Wraith]. The monsters froze, disoriented. He didn’t bother with killing, instead, he used [Flight] and flew a few metres up above the ground. From there he watched Kora’s show. [Empower] was busted. End of story!
At full power, she could one-shot him. They judged that it scaled her strength to somewhere between Level 6 and 7. This also put into a p...
2023-05-01 19:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostKeynes turned to Kora as she suddenly exhaled in elation. His alarms quickly faded away, seeing her grin as she relaxed her pose. She had been doing these strange katas for a while now.
“Don’t tell me…”
“I did it.”
After a second of deliberation, he asked for clarification, “a stage or a technique?”
“Technique, of course. I told you I’m out of essence...
2023-04-28 19:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you want to stop?” Kora inquired with a timid smile as she stared at Keynes from above. They were training hard the last couple of days as they ventured back into the forest but were stalled by growing unease and Alice’s warnings. Something was up with the dominion’s debuff, though they couldn’t pinpoint it yet.
“It’s unfair,” Keynes replied, getting back to his feet, ...
2023-04-24 23:15:54 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay but I am still struggling with my health issues.
UPDATE:
I was so tired I wrote Lex Solaris instead of Lem Solaris. It's fixed.
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Many things happened simultaneously as Keynes reached the sealed rift with his Talent. A feeling of wrongness washed over Keynes. He remembered it…but then he didn’t. Suddenly his mind started falling. He heard Alice...
2023-04-23 19:27:53 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so it begins.
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Vivena breathed out in relief. The rift boss, huge deformed larvae, finally succumbed to her stack of poisons. Since she’d created her dominion, every rift inside it gained poison affinity. Most of the time, it benefited her as items, raw materials and skills often had poison affinity as well.
The issue was that as often the rift monsters had poison at...
2023-04-18 23:07:15 +0000 UTC View PostWagner and his top executives waited. After the encounter between Windsor Freeman, Keynes and Columbus, Wagner had called everyone into Emerald City for the meeting and confirmation of another outbreak.
Only several key people were missing like Andrew Gunnar who had become Untainted Paradise’s new CEO and moved to Geneva, a few heads who ran Wagner’s secret projects. He didn’t count...
2023-04-16 12:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, still one chapter behind the schedule. With CH160 a new arc starts.
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Lem Solaris’s request caught Keynes off guard. He had expected to easily come up with a list of spells he would need as a stealth mage. But as he had delved into his memory, he discovered only the very obvious stuff like [Invisibility] or class spells. He was certain that this...
2023-04-11 15:16:24 +0000 UTC View Post