Tristan
[Sage of All, Archmage of History Lv. 83 -> Sage of All, Archmage of History Lv. 86]
[Skill Boost obtained]
[Skill gained: Unshackled Knowledge]
[Skill Boost obtained]
World Boss battles continued to be an excellent source of Levels, but for the first time, I could be truly happy about it without even the tiniest twinge of guilt.
While there ha...
2025-10-18 16:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostFYI, my laptop needs some repairs, I'll be taking it to the shop Wednesday, depending on how long that takes, there may be a longer gap in chapters.
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Joseph
Just as with the fire-based Nation Boss he had practically beaten solo, this was an enemy he practically hard-countered, simply because he, ul...
2025-10-17 20:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostSundiata
They were right back here. In Africa, only a few hundred kilometers from the place where he had awoken, and a couple of thousand from the heart of the New Malian Empire.
And once again, Zerzura was planned to be right in the line of fire, the “glorious capital” reduced to little more than a mobile bunker.
Well, the city hadn’t been used against Typhon, but it ha...
2025-10-15 12:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
Suddenly having everyone fall out of the sky when the World Boss was killed while ninety percent of all fighters didn’t even have eyes on him had certainly been, er, something, but it wasn’t an unfixable “something.”
Between Merlin and Fionn, everyone got caught rather quickly, and even those who weren’t still got stopped before they hit the ground.
...
2025-10-14 09:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostDrake
A monster so big it showed up on radar … this was going to be a mess. A big one.
But at the same time, the way it stood out amidst the sea and sky, there was no way the missiles would fail to lock onto it. Assuming the monster’s air attribute didn’t interfere, at least.
Though missile engagements weren’t his concern, as he had four battleships under his ...
2025-10-13 15:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
Twenty days. Almost three weeks. It could feel like an eternity, or it could go by at a truly glacial pace, depending on what was happening.
Under the circumstances we found ourselves laboring under, with another cataclysmic fight awaiting on the far side of that timespan ... it had somehow managed to do both.
Every moment excruciatingly extended, unbearably l...
2025-10-05 19:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
The veil covering the sky overhead vanished like morning dew under a noonday sun, the light of the sun further illuminating the mess the battle had left behind.
For starters, it appeared the desert Cipactli had created was here to stay, though about half the place wasn’t a desert anymore, instead having been reduced to a bloody swamp by the various fluids leaking from the ...
2025-10-04 19:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostFionn
Cipactli, the Devourer of Creation, True Ruler of the Cosmic Ocean, Primordial of Earth (World Boss)
No level, no nod to where the System had found the template, no other frills or other description.
Just a name, a few titles, and the simple statement that this thing was meant to be a challenge for the entire world.
Yet … who cared what it called itself? They wer...
2025-10-02 14:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostSo, here's the thing. I was initally planning to write one chapter per World Boss fight, so I could post that as one part, but I'm not quite writing quickly enouhg to then keep up my usual rythm of putting out a chapter at least every three days.
Therefore, here's the question: would you like me to post the fight in pieces, to maintain the usual pace of uploads, or get it as one big...
2025-09-28 19:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostDietrich
Why was it always helicopters?
Well, they were a useful conveyance with a multitude of potential configurations and uses …it was the single most annoying vehicle he’d ever encountered, almost as though its inventor had been intending to create a sanity-breaking torture machine, rather than a means of getting around.
All that being said, however, there was very lit...
2025-09-24 20:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis certainly was a weird situation. Even though we had a massive sword of Damocles hanging over our heads in the form of the World Bosses, things were oddly peaceful for now. Almost as if the worst was past …
Although one of the first things Charlemagne had done was announce to the world what and when the danger was coming. It was abundantly clear that, in his mind, the idea of people...
2025-09-23 11:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here. We. GO!
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Tristan
It had been obvious from the start, but the System had seriously driven the point home in a way nothing else possibly couild have: history was a horror show.
It wasn’t just an unending parade of wars and famines and natural disasters, which would have been bad enou...
2025-09-20 21:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostNote: I put in a pronounciation note because a certain Welsh name is one you're not going to have the faintest idea how its supposed to sound.
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Temujin
The empire, long united, must divide; the empire, long divided, must unite.
That saying summed up Chinese history rather well.
Tristan
The landscape of Romania flew past quickly beneath me, forests, fields, highways, towns … exactly what I’d expected.
Because, sadly, this was the real world. Just because I had a land surveying Skill in [Know The Land] didn’t mean I’d automatically find something previously undiscovered the moment I started looking around.
It was still worth doing, though; not ...
2025-09-17 20:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostTristan, Nine Days Later
The fifth Challenge was just about every kind of hell combined. Lots and lots of monsters, as scattered as they would have been in the first four challenges, with my job as a living taxi transforming from being my occasional objective due to immediate need to never-ending task of soul-crushing proportions that saw me yet all over the globe, any time not spent shut...
2025-09-14 20:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostArthur
London had taken a lot of damage, but nowhere near as much as many other cities hit by the resurgent Nazis, for one simple reason.
London was big, and very, very spread out. It had been hit with more than enough bombs to flatten most other cities, true, but its sheer size meant that the majority of its buildings were still intact, relatively speaking.
Though pe...
2025-09-12 13:05:16 +0000 UTC View PostCharlemagne
It was always going to come down to this. Some would say he had planned this the entire time, but that phrasing implied that he had had a hand in things turning out the way they had.
And, to be perfectly honest, he might have done that if it had, in any way, shape, or form, been necessary to do so.
But no, nothing of the sort had been required.
Because the cu...
2025-09-08 14:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostJoseph
Up to this point, Prague had only been hit by the very first wave of monsters, and it showed.
Intact buildings, reasonably happy people, and a regular flow of traffic.
Not anymore.
Phantoms clad in heavy leather coats and wielding firearms had come and … well, they’d tried to attack the people here. The ones under his protection.
And then they...
2025-09-06 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostPresident Lane
The fifth challenge had managed in an afternoon what the first four had failed to do in four months.
Completely crushed Europe.
Oh, there were still plenty of survivors, lots of infrastructure, and so on … but the capital cities of the continent had been crushed. That was where many of the battles of the Second World War had been concentrated, so that...
2025-09-03 10:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostTristan
The Tiger Panzer that drove straight at me was looking … strange. Fuzzy. Almost as though the black and gold stripes that “decorated” its outside were made from actual fur, rather than being a garish paint job the system had decided to slap on top of the massive war machine.
It tried to aim its turret at me, but I was already too close to it, below what it could target...
2025-09-03 10:34:16 +0000 UTC View PostDrake
There are three kinds of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea.
An old truth, one that had proven true all too often in his day but been rendered largely false by modern communications capabilities. Even the radio had changed the paradigm, never mind satellites and the like.
… When there wasn’t a monster with the ability t...
2025-09-03 10:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe second part of Outrage of the Ancients is coming out in a week, and therefore, here's the finished, fully edited copy for your perusal.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/oc9uy8k71o
2025-08-26 20:09:29 +0000 UTC View PostI actually recognized this guy. Not his face, even if the monster hadn’t been an indistinct phantom, the only actual Nazi I felt comfortable identifying based on their appearance was the head asshole himself, but I recognized the reference in the name.
Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, thought to have escaped Berlin at the end of the war, sparking endless manhunts for the following...
2025-08-25 18:52:28 +0000 UTC View Post
What do you think of the cover for book 3?
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Ours had been a war with no front lines, no clear targets, no order or even the remotest semblance of the Geneva Convention.
Humans on one side, monsters on the other.
Us forever reacting to the beasts that showed up effectively randomly, the beasts ...
2025-08-24 11:01:49 +0000 UTC View PostOne year later, Kyoto, Japan
As per usual, no one had felt entirely comfortable with having a monster spawner only controlled by his own honor and conscience inside a capital city, so the Japanese had built the requested museum somewhere other than Tokyo. But Thomas didn’t mind, he’d have done the exact same thing if he’d been in their place.
It was a perfectly understandable ...
2025-08-13 09:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Void Beast!” Elias growled, in a way that left Thomas unsure whether it was an identification of the problem or a curse. Probably both. Actually, now that he thought about it, definitely both.
These were the things that had given the former fairy’s former home its status as a deathworld. Beings from the space between worlds that had been plentiful on that particular planet...
2025-08-12 16:28:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe last few days until the second merge came and went in a flash, during which Thomas both did everything and felt as though he had achieved nothing.
His biggest “achievement” was moving the Belfast right next to the Natural History Museum via a newly-dug trench, just in case she was needed, though perhaps it would have been better if he hadn’t managed that.
Because ...
2025-08-10 19:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe humanoid figure standing amidst the chaos of a rapidly disintegrating city only vaguely resembled a human being, angry red skin as though it had once been flayed alive stretched across a body that was just skin and bones, with topped with flaming red hair and actually flaming eyeballs that were nothing but orbs of roiling flame, deeply set into its skull like the magma at the bottom of a vo...
2025-08-09 19:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostShe was going to kill Frye when she got back to Bristol.
Yes, every single one of her bonds was from the warmer climes, and perhaps being part reptile should have helped some.
And, technically, an expanse of ice and snow was also a desert, if you wanted to get down into the weeds of scientific definitions, so her claiming this was her first time in one wasn’t ent...
2025-08-08 14:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostApparently, magic that actively altered the variables used in engineering calculations was prone to driving engineers a wee bit batty, to draw upon the delightful pool of British expressions that Thomas was only starting to learn.
Yes, technically, the Belfast’s newest power “just” reduced the effective mass of the ship to whatever could be supported by the ground underfoot...
2025-08-07 09:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post