For an entire year within the time dilation field at the Roving Seed Base, Xavier felt confident suspending his instruction of his students to pursue his goal of mastering—at least to a degree—Pocket Time Stream.
This was the only period in which Xavier stopped participating in their shared meals. Gaining proficienc...
2025-08-21 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was five years ago by RSD time that Xavier had experienced the A Grade Time mage’s memory and attained the spell pattern for Pocket Time Stream.
It had come as an absolute shock that the exact thing he needed to permanently learn the spell was in the Information Packet he’d received. It took a great deal of...
2025-08-20 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier smiled at the description of his newly acquired temporary spell.
He froze the world around him, stepping back farther along the battlements of Eldaarn’s last remaining stronghold. He took in the long, clear space around him, free of defenders, as none were in reserve. As he did, he had an intense feeling of dé...
2025-08-20 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostXavier ended up spending at least three hours each with Michael, Rebecca, Rose, Kelly, Miranda, Howard, Siobhan, and Justin on their final day in the Roving Seed Base—a day that ended up being much longer than twenty-four-hours by the end of it.
As always, he was thoroughly impressed with each of their abilities. Whil...
2025-08-19 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps it would be prudent to first learn the strength of one’s enemy before vowing to kill them, Bones said in Xavier’s mind.
Xavier smirked at the soul bound weapon’s words. Bones had been silent, up until that moment when, atop the Kingdom of Eldaarn’s castle battlements, Xavier had proclaim...
2025-08-19 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostXavier sat on one of the couches inside his massive library. The main room of his house inside the Roving Seed Base was three times larger than it had been when it had first been grown. He snapped the book he’d just finished reading closed and gazed out at the shelves.
Every single one of the shelves lining the walls ...
2025-08-18 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe king lowered his head. “We ventured to a new world. We were not looking to conquer. The universe is far larger than we could have imagined. There must be places we could go. Our world was riddled with beasts. They almost destroyed us. Surely, there were worlds where that happened. Beasts, I have no qualm cleari...
2025-08-18 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stood on the battlements on the one-hundred-and-fifty-fourth floor of the Tower of Champions, speaking to the King of Eldaarn, prompting the man to tell him more of what had happened to his world.
The man blinked, raised his head, looked Xavier in the eye. He seemed to see something, then, and nodded to himself.<...
2025-08-14 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Ten years?” Xavier asked.
“At minimum,” Howard replied. “We think it would be enough time for us all to gain a strong foundation and push through to high D Grade like you are now, at least for us three.” He nodded at Siobhan and Justin. “Especially when you move this base to other worlds and expand ...
2025-08-14 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier soon got into a rhythm with the tower floors again.
His approach to them wasn’t altogether different to what it had been before. He still spent as little time on each floor as he could manage, quickly getting the lay of the land before moving on—with the exception of ranking up Recursive Analysis, as he wante...
2025-08-14 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor Xavier, another year had gone by since his cores had been shattered.
This year had been different to the others. Different to any he’d had his entire life. Because he hadn’t spent the time alone.
Living at home with his mother, before he’d left and found his own place when he’d went to university, he...
2025-08-13 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDays, weeks, and months rolled by as Xavier trained his old party members inside the Roving Seed Base.
It didn’t take long for Howard and Siobhan to gain the ability to split their minds, though to Xavier it felt like a long time. Two weeks went by until Siobhan gained the skill. Two weeks after that, Howard gained it...
2025-08-12 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Xavier returned to the Staging Room, he didn’t instantly head toward the next tower floor. Instead, he took a moment to think.
Well, maybe a little more than a moment.
He cast Time Alteration and sat on his comfortable armchair within the time dilation field, thinking through the different things he wanted ...
2025-08-12 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostXavier’s old party members stepped into the clearing that had just formed in the forest, staring around at the structures that had sprouted from the ground—the four three-bedroom houses on the left and the large tavern-like building on the right.
“Whoa.” Justin looked about. “This is much nicer than the last c...
2025-08-11 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNothing happened.
Xavier was not struck down by a lightning bolt from nowhere, nor was he teleported into a volcano, or thrown into a sun. The Voice of the System didn’t materialise in front of him. A notification didn’t appear. The air in the room didn’t so much as shimmer.
He sat, sunk back in the armchair...
2025-08-11 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIn a dark tavern a mere few minutes before dawn’s kiss would bless Collinsville with its golden light, Justin sat at the edge of his seat.
Xavier still had that same foolish grin on his face. He raised his chin and summoned a mug of coffee from his Storage Ring. Steam wafted from the mug, and he took a small, casual s...
2025-08-07 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostYou have completed this floor faster than any other Champion before you. However, as the parameters of the floor were changed, and the challenge you completed was different to that of other Champions in your universe, you will not be given the top spot in the leaderboard.
Xavier sat on the floor of the ...
2025-08-07 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostYou have gained the spell: Untethered
Xavier sighed in relief. When the pattern of runes he’d drawn with Celestial Energy had solidified within his mind, he’d been confident things had worked exactly as planned.
But he hadn’t been sure. Not until he read that notification.
It was like ...
2025-08-06 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Another System!?” Justin had been sipping tea and did a spit take. He wiped his mouth after his outburst. “Wait… So… You’re telling me you advanced in another System? What… What does that even mean?”
Siobhan, wide-eyed, shook her head. “That’s insane, Xav...
2025-08-06 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostXavier’s physical body sat, cross-legged on the Bright City of Aethisa’s battlements, the world frozen around him, both sides of the conflict on the hundred-and-twenty-first floor now aiming all their efforts toward killing him.
Xavier’s mental apparition, however, stood in a room within his mind, not giving what ...
2025-08-05 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSitting in the corner table in Collinsville’s main tavern, Xavier considered the best way to answer Siobhan’s question.
Before he replied, Justin raised an eyebrow at the redheaded woman. “The man just got back here. Who knows how many months he spent inside that time dilation field. Maybe the questions can wait a...
2025-08-05 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis notification has been translated from a competing System Version.
You have discovered your Reality Core.
You have gained a new energy source: Reality Energy.
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2025-08-04 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXavier frowned.
The dwarves and the Phoexians banded together, throwing everything they had at him. Streams of fire poured forth from the closest Phoexian flights. Ballistae bolts arced toward him from the dwarven battlements. Spells were cast by every mage along the walls.
The leaders, too, joined the fight. Whic...
2025-08-04 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe four suns above the Bright City and the cracked desert beyond illuminated a stunning sight. Dwarves and Phoexians were floating in the air, untethered from natural gravity. It wasn’t only these Denizens, either. Everything not bolted down gently made its way up. The pebbles and rocks along the desert floor. The...
2025-07-31 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostXavier stared at the strange notification with a blank look on his face.
He had seen System Errors before, but he’d never seen anything like this. Universe Iteration? He imagined that referred to his universe, though which universe that was had been redacted—which was something he’d definitely
Eleven years.
Xavier had aged eleven years since the System had been integrated, yet only a fraction of that time had actually passed.
After the time dilation field had abruptly shut down, Xavier drew another Time Alteration spell pattern and sat, cross-legged in the middle of the clearing with his eyes closed. 2025-07-30 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The pattern glowed with an intensity the previous patterns hadn’t possessed. If Xavier’s vision had been weaker, he would have needed to shield his eyes from the sight. The glow was brighter than the four blaring suns above the world he stood upon.
The glow had reached the far corners of the pattern, lighting up eve...
2025-07-30 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostXavier gazed upon the massive pattern of runes he’d drawn over the battlements of the Bright City of Aethisa. The pattern was contained within his time dilation field, the dwarves along the wall as frozen as the Phoexian flights above.
The pattern contained thousands of different runes. From where he stood, it was dif...
2025-07-29 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe process of pushing out the impurities from Xavier’s body didn’t take as long as he’d imagined.
When he’d begun, pushing out that first bit of terrible-smelling sludge, he’d thought the entire process would take him weeks, maybe even months. But once he’d gotten started, pushing more and more of it out of...
2025-07-29 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAre you sure that will work? The Lost Bone of a Dead God sounded dubious about Xavier’s idea.
The hot stone beneath him continued to bake the young dragonkin as he sat cross-legged on Aethisa’s battlements. The four suns blared down, but they did not add their heat. The rays of sunlight were stopped...
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