They had reasons to celebrate. The results were better than Zarian had hoped, which had him smiling.
He lost his smile when he realized his hand was gripping one half of Naomi’s very well-rounded rear. How had that happened? He could’ve sworn he was keeping his hands on the armrests.
My body … it’s betraying me.
She didn’t jump out of his lap despite the ris...
2024-12-18 02:18:57 +0000 UTC View PostZarian and Para felt an immense amount of aura drain away faster than ever before. The wizard clenched his jaw and endured as he held tight to Morphs and Aura Slayer.
Para let out a soft squeal, forced to drop the Arcane Artillery Platform. The six overlapping runic diagrams of multicolored, multi-element magic winked away from around them.
Para put all of her focus on maintaining V...
2024-12-17 03:31:10 +0000 UTC View PostIf it wasn’t for Zarian’s free evil +5 and the pressure of causality turning against him, he wouldn’t have brainstormed with Para to do something extra devious. They’d plotted to stack the effects of his incomplete gravity spell, Crucifying Storm Tower, Arcane Artillery Platform, Void Domain, and an extra surprise that the wizard was saving for the end to fuck over the monster wave.
... 2024-12-14 18:15:42 +0000 UTC View PostYou’re still the POV Character, Zarian sent to Naomi’s mind. We’re splitting the power of the Lion Prince, which makes it a little weaker than usual after I, uh, screwed up. So be careful! And if push comes to shove, we’ll have to make a tactical retreat like the System suggests.
The odds were that bad, huh?
It is what it is. Naomi figured she...
2024-12-13 18:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostNaomi used another trait of hers, Truly A Savage.
If Barehanded Sage was a trait that made her a grandmaster in high fantasy super Kung Fu while buffing her best stats, then Truly A Savage was a trait that buffed her most willful abilities when she acted like a primal beast of a woman. This was perfect for another new skill she’d gotten from combining Tranquil Mind +3 and Earth-Sky Medi...
2024-12-12 20:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostZarian asserted his claim as the mightiest by facing the wraith at the center of his Void Domain. His claim became greater by partnering Overpowered Times Two with Grand War Mage Body Furnace and his other physical buffs.
Para helped the most as his biggest physicality reinforcer, keeping his body mighty. Floridian Mindset did its divine Thematic Law thing, of course, making Para even gre...
2024-12-12 19:21:59 +0000 UTC View Post<Devourer of Secrets and Stories (Legendary): With aura and Willpower, your mind can feast on profiles, languages, qualities, memories, ancient knowledge, puzzles, complexities, themes, fables, and the dark depths of the Infinita Star System itself. This trait also comes with +25% to Willpower and a high dose of studious madness.>
Zarian and Para weren’t linked li...
2024-12-11 17:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostBlocky clouds and grasping mists blurred past the two hellbent and aerial Marines.
Beneath them, the castle mountains crumbled into irrelevance. The massive titans of fabled geography shrank downward into the earth until they were mere fortress foothills.
Then the last traces of the Grimrock Castle Mountains disappeared. The land of stone forts and wild gardens merged with brackish ...
2024-12-11 17:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostZarian invited Bianca over with a simple swivel of his hips, a graceful flutter of his cloak, and a flick of his lion’s tail. Then the statuesque, amber-haired, amber-eyed woman appeared through a darkened wrinkle in the air.
With a flashy smile, she wiped away the non-rankers’ fears and had them eating out of the palm of her hands.
“She’s going to be insufferable when she b...
2024-12-10 13:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe early morning shifted toward late morning. More blocky clouds appeared in the sky above the bombed out and devastated basin where Castle Grimrock had once stood.
A thousand men and women milled about nervously as two overtly powerful Master Rankers prowled among them. The leaders, a Level 70 Storm Blaster named Dawson and a Level 75 Blessed Cleric named Gisella, were the only two capa...
2024-12-10 13:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Star System paused at the appropriate time.
Everyone was lost for thought.
That was … a lot of achievements.
Zarian came out with so many. His total number of achievements jumped from thirty to forty now.
Hannah had also gained ten achievements. The others followed suit, with Bianca having nine, Naomi grabbing up eight, and Gilbert coming in last with seven, which ...
2024-12-10 12:15:17 +0000 UTC View PostOther than his lower back flaring with intense pain, Zarian knew things were especially wrong when the Star System sent notifications in a panicked tone: <What is happening to him? This is not how his class reselection is supposed to go.>
<Something interrupted the sub-parameters for his Second Class Advancement.>
<Is he going...
2024-12-10 11:37:38 +0000 UTC View PostZarian felt a little guilty that he had it easier compared to Naomi.
Yeah, he’d done incredible things the past year. He’d taken on unique challenges that few could handle. He’d broken his brain that one time, after all.
But he was a recipient of ultra god nepotism, while Naomi would have to work thrice as hard if she wanted to stay competitive. That dream of hers – to becom...
2024-12-08 05:16:12 +0000 UTC View PostZarian twisted his body left and right on his throne after sitting there for over twenty-four hours. He blinked up at the sunrise of a new day, his daughter coming around with another round of meals and drinks.
He smiled at her, and she smiled back as she handed him some piping hot and tasty cooking. Then Zarian glanced at the others. They looked as ready to move on as he felt.
It h...
2024-12-08 05:14:26 +0000 UTC View PostBefore anyone reported their gains, the Star System appeared as gold message boxes above their camp.
Heart thumping, Zarian shifted to the edge of his throne. Everyone shifted along with him. Even Foodie slowed down to give the group messages a curious look.
<Zarian Darkrun!>
<Naomi Washington!>
<Hannah Townhouse!&...
2024-12-07 00:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostZarian jolted out of his bedroll. Something attached to his back yanked him to a sudden stop. His hand plowed through the stone floor, and he slipped and smacked his face on the floor, forming a crater three feet wide and half a foot deep.
Laying still, he caught his breath while still halfway into the dream world. He vaguely recalled there being a laughing jokester who caught him by the ...
2024-12-06 02:20:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Silver Guardian raged against the Voracious Blood Beast, the royal son of the Windstorm Tribe stood on top of his scorpion and used his Wind Howl spell.
His mind recalled the runic text and mystic sayings from his Grimoire of the Windstorm Adept. He felt the rare traits from his royal heritage empower his spell, giving his voice a booming effect.
Prince Omar shouted with magi...
2024-12-05 03:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post“So that’s the infamous Ride-or-Die Village.”
In the late evening of Mid Summer, Prince Omar Windstorm tapped his two fingers in code on the hard shell of his mount. As they travelled along a well-paved road, the giant scorpion beast he sat on made loud hisses, which sounded threatening to most foreigners.
But to Prince Omar and his brethren of the United Nomad Empire, his mou...
2024-12-04 01:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostDawson felt a little confused by how the goblin was walking casually toward his guild members. He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand. His paranoia flared.
Thankfully, he didn’t have to shout to warn his men and women. The scouts on the edges saw what was coming and sent out a warning to get some semblance of a fighting force together.
A solid unit of thirty warrior-types...
2024-12-03 20:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, would you look at that? A whole battlefield with loot ripe for the taking.”
Dawson stood on the edge of a castle-cliff with a ragged hole in the dilapidated wall. Behind him, over a thousand men shuffled to a stop, breathing hard or light depending on their physical abilities and stats. They all had large packs half-filled with travel provisions and half-empty for storing away ...
2024-12-03 19:27:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, good, I would’ve been a little upset if you used Sinfeast’s tears. While it is funny to have the tears of a bastard god in a vial, I wouldn’t want that to be my whole schtick,” Zarian said.
“No, no. I have another purpose for these tears.”
“Cool, cool. So, uh, you okay?”
“No, I’m not. You have left me imbalanced and forced into a position of deep con...
2024-11-30 23:11:58 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in a while, Zarian caught Luciana off guard.
Ever since the Darkrun Apocalypse, she had this weird and corruptive smugness to her that tested the limits of Zarian’s boundaries. She’d strained his patience plenty of times.
But now he had something that she simply couldn’t resist.
The traumatized tears of another Evil God.
Sinfeast was a divine rul...
2024-11-30 23:10:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, this sounds interesting,” Foodie said, ears perking up with interest.
“She’s quite the astute daughter. I like her already.” Ruvaria nodded before continuing. “There is one thing that is impossible to destroy in its entirety in the Infinita Star System, and that is a soul. And while there is no knowing fully what happens to most souls after they die, I can tell you for su...
2024-11-30 05:05:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe POV was back on Zarian as he sat on a throne made from quarter percent darkness and the Parasite Cloak +3. His new daughter waited on his knee. His friends surrounded him, including Bianca, who parked her big fifty-foot self in a crouch behind his throne.
Everyone waited with bated breath on the dark tower he formed underneath them, keeping them above the haze, smoke, and smashed rubb...
2024-11-30 05:03:10 +0000 UTC View PostJack was trying to readjust midair again when he realized how Naomi kept coming at him again and again.
No, this wasn’t because of Zarian’s interference.
Naomi was kicking off the cavern walls with so much power she shot herself around fast enough to keep the pressure on Jack.
Every kick off destroyed much of the cavern and brought down more from the mountain above, threat...
2024-11-28 19:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostJack’s notifications flooded with new updates as a large part of the cavern ceiling came crashing down. He checked his notifications frantically while he slashed upward with one hand his Star Sword +3.
A crescent wave of condensed star magic and white hot hatred flew from the tip of his perfected blade. It split the falling cavern debris in half.
A burning pulse from his White Imm...
2024-11-28 19:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostZarian blinked his eyes rapidly to clear his vision, which healed up now. Dust, grit, and smoke billowed around him.
His ears needed more time to heal back to being functional again, so he couldn’t hear much of anything other than some painful ringing.
He rose back to his feet, his arms hugging his newly adopted daughter to his chest. Para waved and glimmered around them as his cl...
2024-11-27 22:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostLooking over to the side, Gilbert noticed the crumbled and scorched corpses of imps and demonic beasts around the staircase. The threshold and the stairs themselves were also heavily damaged.
Gilbert gave himself a few seconds to recover before pushing up to his hands and knees on top of Bianca’s head. He was about to jump down only to stop when he saw a horse-like form appear inside th...
2024-11-27 04:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostGilbert wondered if the machinations that made the Infinita Star System had parameters set to test the exact weaknesses of a person. When he turned to face Lady Hentayury again, he had to brace himself.
The devilish false idol exuded a thick, energetic, and heady charm that challenged his rare trait, Unyielding Mentality, and his free for real +2.
She was a tall, voluptuous, and att...
2024-11-27 03:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe little goblin went about cooking a tasty snack for Zarian.
As Zarian waited and endured monstrous starvation, he felt a familiar shift in the air. Hidden Hell felt it, too.
The realm sent small pulses of energy, as if to probe the shift. It couldn’t interact with it, however. Nothing could mess with it or stop it.
Hidden Hell was powerless against the POV Shift.
Za...
2024-11-27 03:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post