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Chapter 480 - Breakfast of Champions

Lily and the twins scrunch their faces, painful expressions appearing on them. Their postures wobble, and their control of mana wavers, caused by the effects of the disruptive field and something else.

My domain encompasses them, smaller but more powerful, declaring anything related to mana within it under my control. 2024-10-31 09:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 479 - Chained Beast

The feeling of danger keeps increasing until it feels nearly physical, like I can touch it, sense it on my skin. It makes the hair on the back of my head stand and goosebumps cover my forearms. That feeling is akin to crawling into the cave of a beast, moving in on your knees and pulling yourself ahead. Knowing you should sto...

Chapter 478 - The pain... it’s unbearable.

After getting stomped by that demon, I remain sitting, replaying our fight and even take some notes onto the mana stone I have with me. Some of these things will be very useful for my minion.

While doing this, I reflect on our situation, trying to recall and visualize all those rivers of molten material in. There is a s...

Chapter 477 - Green acid

The Rotlings are a constant reminder of the dangers of the mines we are traveling through. The deeper we delve, the more of them appear, and I could swear they have some sort of Hive Mind or skill-sharing ability.

If you kill one with lightning, the rest become that tiny bit more resistant to the lightning.

Of cou...

Chapter 476 - About time to leave

A few hours later we reach one of the bigger caves after the Witch punctures a hole through the wall towards it, avoiding the cave-in. That hole is probably as long as a football stadium, and I watch her the entire time she does so, Mais quietly walking behind her.

She stops in front of the wall and taps on it with her ...

Chapter 475 - Know your place

(Why are the monsters not trying to cause a cave in? So deep underground we would be screwed,) Dennis wonders as we stop because of yet another cave-in.

(They are attempting. There are some monsters trying to weaken the rock around us, but the Witch is fighting against it by solidifying it,) ...

Audiobook 2 is finally out!

Later than expected, but the second audiobook is finally out and it's longer than the first one! While the first one was 18 hours, the second is 23 hours long.

Some of you asked me when it's coming out, so I hope everyone gets the info this way.

Edit: lol, I forgot to give url - 2024-10-22 16:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 474 - Relentless passage of time

There are a few payments to be made, some final checks, and confirmations—just the kind of annoying tasks the twins insisted on handling themselves.

After that, trailing behind the main group, we pass through a door carved into the rock and enter a wide tunnel with a low ceiling. Soon, the space opens up, revealing a ...

Chapter 473 - The Witch

Days pass by quickly. Mana training, getting taught and then killed by Whitey, giving pointers to Lily and to the twins.

There isn’t any talk anymore about having them swap difficulty. Even when they are not combining their forces to fight, they are dangerous. They do not flinch when they get hurt. They are quick and ...

Chapter 472 - Not a very reasonable person

Our fort is a nice place, not that far away from Hollowgate. Thanks to the big window-sized hole I made in one of the walls of my room, I have quite a nice view of it.

At night, with the purple nebula and countless stars above, I’d even say it’s quite pleasant, especially with the city lights below.

The place ...

Chapter 471 - One Hundredth Time

Even though the metals Dennis and Aaron brought back are only of epic rarity, I’m happy with them. I long since learned that sometimes a nice complementary metal with good properties is better than one of higher rarity. Sometimes.

The lights around me turn on again, a dozen thermal cubes lighting up my underground lab...

Chapter 470 - Gravelhands

POV Dennis Dalton

Using [Haste], I reach the top of the building where Aaron is already waiting. Like me, he’s wearing clothes woven with experimental threads made from an alloy of multiple metals Nat spun. These threads allow us to block our mana signatures much more efficiently, as ...

Chapter 469 - Awakening

After Dennis and Aaron return, I give all of them an explanation of what happened. Lily is listening especially carefully as someone who will soon enter Beyond.

Telling her about the trial is impossible, as the system censors it, but Beyond information seems to be allowed, so I tell her anything that comes to mind.

Chapter 468 - More fitting expression

Taking a few steps closer and to the side, I finally see what the TV screen shows. It’s the fight against lurker Whitey from my first-person point of view.

“Just come here and sit, don’t sneak around,” the man waves his hand at me. I notice how slim and smooth it looks.

Not hesitating much longer, I reach ...

Chapter 467 - Knowledge

The feeling of pulling descends upon me, and I leave the 1st floor of Beyond.

With all the items that are piled up from dozens of lurkers and the first expedition I joined, and the ones Whitey killed before. There are so many they are just piled up and tied with clothes I tore and tied together, plus some threads I made...

Chapter 466 - All out

I don’t hesitate even for a moment and go all out.

Ley Lines shoot all over the place, deploying the structure I was preparing in my mind ever since I returned to Beyond. Dozens of threads all over the place, creating a three-dimensional web and pathways I can teleport or send mana through.

The entirety of my bo...

Chapter 465 - Challenge

Jean then takes a step and grabs Luna in his massive hands, lifting the golden retriever so he can look into her eyes.

Luna calmly returns that gaze. “You will either let me down, or I will bite you, smelly human.”

Leticia rushes closer, putting her hand on Jean’s massive forearm. “CarrotCake—ehm, sorry,...

Chapter 464 - Luna

Everyone evacuates the vicinity as the giant and Jean crash, their surroundings turning into craters and a storm of shockwaves.

Jean this time takes some hits in exchange for delivering his own. Each of his punches tears his flesh, skin, blood spraying into the air as his body is unable to endure the sheer power of his ...

Chapter 463 - Lurkers everywhere

The muscleman, annoying boy healer, Leticia, and good girl Luna are also marked by the fight. Well, other than the boy who looks like he came from a walk. The big musclehead has his hand and forearms terribly burned, but he doesn’t seem to mind and is even smiling brightly.

“What a fight! That little man sure packed...

Chapter 462 - Specter

The dreary silence continues even as we are halfway towards the area I consider Whitey’s territory.

There is no wind down here, or at least not on this floor, so the trees or grass do not even move. Everything just stands still, damaged, overgrown by vegetation, or thrown all around by different kinds of attacks.

Chapter 461 - Allies?

“Are round 5 people all weirdos?” Spacewolf attacks me.

The little jerk likes to stay near that mountain of muscles, and as we sit there and plan, he becomes braver and braver. He’s already attacked others like that, and now I’m his target.

Some of his confidence might be bought by his worth as well. He in...

Chapter 460 - What a beautiful day

“I want to change handler,” I tell her and wait for a pop-up message.

“It doesn’t work at this place,” she sighs and points at the storage cubes I brought here. “White sand was made by a powerful Absolute long ago. It was his way of dealing with annoying mana users and later modified and used to trap Champio...

Chapter 459 - On the schedule

For two to three days, I hunt around the camp and try to do side quests that could gain me some stay tokens.

With the twins, we experiment a bit and came up with a way to make some items to sell for extra shards, gaining me around 15 thousand more and some for the twins as well as I make multiple versions of each item. ...

Chapter 458 - The Arm Collector

The twins continue to use their [Connection] in front of me with the goal of connecting to my simple mana orb and taking over or changing the settings on it.

I made it as simple as possible, with two modes: floating still and spinning. That is something I have “coded” into it.

Later, we w...

Chapter 457 - Show them

The first test of the giga web made with the help of [Ley Line] was a huge success!

I didn’t die.

That’s it.

There is no need to talk about what happened. I’m sure the next attempt will work out! I just need to iron out some… things.

I’m also kind of amazed by my new pas...

Chapter 456 - Like in the movies

“Nat, please put on your shirt,” Dennis complains.

Unfazed, I continue to mimic the stances Lissandra taught me.

“It would get dirty,” I answer simply.

“There might be dangerous predators in the area,” Aaron says with a serious tone.

“Huh? There is not, I would sense it.”

“Is he...

Chapter 455 - Seventh variation

“I already modified my arm, I mostly used that Champion’s bone as inspiration. It’s the toughest body part I have met so far! Of course, I was unable to modify my arm to the same extent, but look!”

Lily then takes the dagger made of white sand, the one she didn’t sell yet. She sends a bit of her mana through, ...

Chapter 454 - Shaping the Invisible

In the end, I decide to go with

Passive Skill: Mana-Fortified Mind (Low Arcane) - The user's mind becomes an impenetrable fortress, fortified by impossibly complex mana weaves. This passive grants immense resistance to all forms of mental attacks, including illusions, mind control, and psychic attac...