Even hours later, we still sit there, back after two more rounds of making more pancakes and getting some drinks to go with them. Chocolate milk, for example, or some fancy brands of freshly pressed fruit juices whose names I can’t even read.
At some point, we take off our shoes and walk into the sea and let the waves...
2025-12-17 09:53:43 +0000 UTC
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As per the last messages I sent to Earth, I learn my mom is currently on a nice tropical island that I reach by ramping up the use of kinetic energy. During my flight, I notice fighter jets in the distance, but they disappear quickly before I can fly toward them and check them out up close.
But the closer I am to my des...
2025-12-16 09:54:38 +0000 UTC
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“So, how does it look here on Earth so far?” I ask. To not waste any time, I start manifesting and weaving together weapons made of manabloc that I put on the floor.
“Please make some simple square plates, cubes, and orbs, I’m selling these, and pass some to scientists I hire,” Channeler says as he sees that. ...
2025-12-15 09:35:34 +0000 UTC
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After exiting the bus, I move through the city. I either stretch Ley Lines or use Wraith Dance to pass miles upon miles in mere seconds. With the city I grew up in as a base for comparison, my abilities feel incredible. The street that took so long to pass now requires just a mere second, and the hour-and-a-half-long bus trav...
2025-12-14 09:48:10 +0000 UTC
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POV Sophie Martinez
When the fight ends, the wall on the side of Nathaniel's room explodes, and I see his figure step through before using that kinetic movement to appear near us.
We don't say anything, and neither does he, as he looks us over. Then he lies down on the ground before saying, "Lily,...
2025-12-11 09:50:02 +0000 UTC
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The flash blinds me, and I observe the rest with my other senses. The initial fireball heats up, reaching a temperature I cannot even grasp properly. It quickly grows, surrounding both of us and reaching further. Everything inside of it is set ablaze.
I grab currents of heat from the explosion in between us. It is the h...
2025-12-10 09:35:45 +0000 UTC
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Another piece of metal ore gets pulled into Jean's hand, and he throws it. It breaks through the barriers, slowing down a little, and even then, the fire shield melts it into glowing liquid metal, which drops and falls across Sophie's body, burning through her skin.
The same happens with another, bigger piece, and liqui...
2025-12-09 09:48:13 +0000 UTC
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The first person to challenge Lily is another thylarin with six arms. In each of his hands, he holds a dagger. There is no waiting either, the fight starts right away in a sudden burst of speed.
The arena is still the same, a huge floating island with a few dozen more islands of various sizes floating around it. Some of...
2025-12-08 10:02:05 +0000 UTC
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One of the first people to return from the event is Tess, who cleared her dungeon with Maya. Coming to the area, she halts in her steps, seeing us resting there against Wolfy's slowly moving belly as he breathes. Her disciple is sleeping, and her tiny arms are put over my chest in what almost looks like she is hugging somethi...
2025-12-07 10:01:21 +0000 UTC
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From the kids, I learn that it is possible to summon a personal screen to watch the event. It is even possible to filter out people to watch the person you want. So, of course, I now sit outside, resting against the side of Wolfy and surrounded by kids, Lily on one side and Biscuit, who, even this time, does not participate i...
2025-12-04 10:04:45 +0000 UTC
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The third event starts, leaving the disciples behind while their masters enter inside. The minion tournament should take place before the last event, with me still wondering if the black wolf will participate.
I do not enter this event, as I do not want to be kicked out right away, and it seems like Lily doesn’t parti...
2025-12-03 09:45:25 +0000 UTC
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During my wait for the next event, I am interrupted by a bus-sized, pitch-black wolf with not a single hair of a different color. Only his eyes are golden, shining with deep intelligence. I get a feeling from him, not dissimilar from Biscuit, just much weaker, even now.
Biscuit's disciple appears in the common area the ...
2025-12-02 09:41:40 +0000 UTC
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POV Lily Chen
When Nathaniel returns to the common area, he immediately sits down.
At first, nothing happens, he simply sits there, dealing with his body upgrade. But after a few seconds, his shoulders begin to shake. A moment later, he coughs, and a bit of his blood sprays onto the ground beneath...
2025-12-01 09:58:27 +0000 UTC
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The location of the first event is huge. It is entirely flat land covered with ruins, stretching as far as I can see from the screen. These ruins are not the remains of buildings, but of some sort of gigantic structures. Some resemble pillars, others are broken arches, or, most strangely, an enormous cube broken apart.
...
2025-11-30 09:56:27 +0000 UTC
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This tournament has only four events over the duration of five days. It is less than before, and the tournament is shorter too.
What I keep thinking of is that the fact that it is impossible to die during events might push the planets to fight against each other. I would not be surprised if this entire setup is designed...
2025-11-27 09:39:38 +0000 UTC
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From where I sit on the ground, I watch the transparent half figure above Adrian lift into the air somewhere in the distance as wings grow from its back, and with Adrian hanging beneath it, he flies toward the second floating island.
I only have time to wonder what I should even call him in my mind before the mess I put...
2025-11-26 09:34:28 +0000 UTC
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I watch as the back of that transparent figure over him splits, and two more arms grow from it. Both reach toward me, pushing through the torrent of my mana and thermal energy, until they touch my shoulders. Like the Hornless Demon, Adrian calms my raging mana and helps me circulate it, easing the pressure so we can talk.
...
2025-11-25 09:45:27 +0000 UTC
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The rest of my time before the tournament, I spend in Beyond, only returning to the ninth floor to go over some things with Lily or to observe what Maya and Sophie are working on with thought acceleration. I take a lot of notes from that, adding everything to my own preparations.
Biscuit moves with me in and out of Beyo...
2025-11-24 09:53:54 +0000 UTC
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POV Weslin
For the remaining hours, I keep watching the event and come to the realization of what the Ruler of Humility likely wanted to show us. Most of the assholes on the screen are out of their depth. They are slow, they do not handle pain that well, and they are unused to their bodies being so weak...
2025-11-23 10:03:02 +0000 UTC
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There are a bunch of people around me, and one of them, a selari woman, almost tackles me right away. But she miscalculates her speed, and I avoid her, only for another man to tackle her to the ground, where he starts punching her. Someone throws a rock that scrapes the side of my head and sends blood running down my cheek.
2025-11-20 08:46:18 +0000 UTC
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Well, it had to happen one day.
We now have the best doggo of Beyond.
I stare at Biscuit by my feet, and he stares up at me. He is back in his adult form, wearing a cute royal blue vest with many pockets. It even has tiny bags filled with pieces of dried meat as if he has been preparing for an expedition.
I ...
2025-11-19 09:59:12 +0000 UTC
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An hour later, I enter the main room, doing my best to avoid any member of the Dusk Horizon tribe who might want to challenge me to a duel. Walking across the way, too strong, man-eating, skyscraper-like tree, I examine it as always, though not too intrusively. It might notice and try to eat me to fill its daily macros by usi...
2025-11-18 09:49:07 +0000 UTC
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Looking at it from any reasonable point of view, it should be impossible for Biscuit to produce this much saliva, not in his puppy form. It has already been five minutes, and I still lie there while he keeps licking my face, hair, neck, anything he manages to reach.
A few times, he even pushes his butt against my face a...
2025-11-17 09:30:43 +0000 UTC
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It takes a few days, but while I deal with the damn wound, I also take care of other things. I find out it really is possible to rent out a residence, and for a surprisingly high price too. I do it through the Japanese salary woman look alike realtor.
Of course, she gets a cut, but this way I don’t have to deal with p...
2025-11-16 10:00:29 +0000 UTC
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It’s already been a few days since our short mission to the hideout of what was left of the Eternal Clowns, and my wound still hasn’t healed. Everything else did, but where that white lightning pierced through my side, where sparks hit my face and body, the wounds remain. They don’t heal, they make me slowly bleed out, ...
2025-11-13 09:43:40 +0000 UTC
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POV Brich
It has been a few days since my failure to get possession of that low pristine armor Isolde wanted to study so badly. She paid a lot of shards for the information about the Eternal Court’s location. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be! If not for that man’s eyes, maybe…
I shudde...
2025-11-12 08:11:31 +0000 UTC
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The sky above us turns darker as heavy clouds gather even though it’s midday, and the wind starts to pick up. Between the dark masses of clouds, white lightning crackles, but the sound it makes is unlike any other I’ve heard before. It sounds like it tears the sky as it passes through.
In the center of that storm, L...
2025-11-11 09:59:13 +0000 UTC
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Morwag, still gripping Brich, swings the lumoran the second time and slams him into the ground with another sickening crunch, and I see Brich’s neck snap.
Before Morwag can swing again, that same neck twists back into place with an even worse crunch, and his eyes open wide. In a burst of quick movement from his back, ...
2025-11-10 10:04:23 +0000 UTC
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The place around us starts to fall apart as I expand the field with kinetic energy and hold it steady. All the debris, even the dust, freezes in the air, but there’s one thing I can’t stop from moving.
Even through all of this, Morwag climbs out from behind the wall I sent him through. The cracks spread around him a...
2025-11-09 09:38:38 +0000 UTC
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POV Nathaniel
The secret base isn’t as populated as I thought it would be. I think the number is around fifty people, or at least that’s how many of the Eternal Court remain. Everyone else is either dead, left the guild, or scattered across the other floors. Even from these remaining numbers, only a...
2025-11-06 10:17:52 +0000 UTC
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