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Book 6 is out on Amazon!

Time to shill the launch of Book 6!

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Chapter 729 - Primordial Knight Morwag

Morwag towers over me, standing uncomfortably close. His expression keeps shifting in confusion as we stand outside the Megacity, deep enough into one of the countless canyons of the fourth floor of Beyond for it to have vanished from sight.

“But I have been given this mission alone,” he repeats, this time with a ha...

Chapter 728 - The most beautiful woman to ever live

“So you’ve been watching us the entire time?”

“Of course I did. You’re mine after all. I’m just greedy like that.”

“There have to be some protections against that. System privacy rules, and stuff.”

“None at all.”

“Well, one of these days there’ll be an attendee labor union to ...

Chapter 727 - Interesting person

A few minutes isn’t that long, but that’s all the time I have before Magistra finds Enforcer to challenge for her duel, ends her life out of spite, or maybe even tries to throw an attack at the Absolute, who then kills her.

Not far away, I notice Fen as well, now without his master. The soon-to-be-not-noble lady’s...

Chapter 726 - Hornless Demon

The Hornless Demon is, as his name says, a demon without horns. Red eyes, long white hair tied into a ponytail, and horns that look like they were cut or sawn off just above where they grow from the top of his forehead. He wears relaxed clothes that sharply contrast with Magistra’s formal outfit, and I can’t see any weapo...

Chapter 725 - Accumulation

A single step with Wraith Dance takes me outside the barriers I created and closer to the sword. I reach out and wrap my hand around the handle. The mana stored inside is not the kind anyone can use. Its frequency is tuned for Savi. But that does not pose a problem for me.

Sensing more attacks heading my way, I turn tow...

Chapter 724 - Under attack

The debris fills the air as I slide into deep [Focus], powered by black mana, causing it all to look as if time itself has slowed.

Minion is sleeping against my chest, the little thief with her head on my leg, and my minion’s rival closes her eyes in a flash.

My mana reaches out and fills the ar...

Chapter 723 - That’s what I’ll do

It has been one day. I spent some of that time exploring the area, even talking with Magistra’s spy guys, trying out of curiosity to get some information about that woman and why she might hate demons so much. I do it carefully, trying not to throw them off in case they might actually work with her.

I learn nothing. M...

Chapter 722 - What the doctor said

All of us stare at Savant, who stares back. His eyes turn toward Vega resting against my chest, then at the rowdy bunch of kids. At least the dagger stays quiet, shut tight like it’s scared of this man. I notice it hasn’t trashtalked me either. Smart thing, I was fully ready to throw it into the water to let it rust or ro...

Chapter 721 - Fundamental theorem of minions

“So, Minion, let me get this straight,” I say, grabbing her horn to make her look at me. “Your gang consists of a demon guy who used to be a noble, who once kicked you when you were a street thief, and since then, his grandfather got eaten after trying to challenge what you call the Undying Dragon that isn’t a dragon ...

Chapter 720 - Guess who’s back, idiot!

An hour later, Savant is still nowhere to be seen, doing whatever Savant does.

As I head alone toward the meeting spot, I notice a flash of white fur in the bushes as the noble lady’s pet follows me. Fen doesn’t howl or bark, just moves quietly behind. In a way, he almost looks like some spoiled youngest child who e...

Chapter 719 - In sync

I spend only two seconds looking toward the panicking guards behind the barrier before turning to Lily. “I will go and look for Minion. I tied the [Ley Line] to you so if anything happens, just pull on it and I will come to help.”

Before I fully lift into the air, she calls, “If she needs help, ju...

Chapter 718 - Into the Quarantine

Even though I act nonchalant in front of my teammates, I'm a bit worried. Vega can be reckless at times, and taking all the hints in, she should be in the locked down area, so she's quite possibly affected by the illness as well.

If what I think is true, and Greed somehow pulled strings to get Lily and me here to help h...

Chapter 717 - What’s this quest about?

It is getting darker, and I’m losing my energy at a much quicker pace as I listen to Lily, who keeps talking excitedly about her training. That and a dozen other things she quickly chirps about.

For example, the ninth floor of the tutorial called The Pit, which they now suspect is something like a trashcan. A place wh...

Chapter 716 - Mythical being

“Your attention, please,” the other person in the room calls. An older woman, sitting on the sofa with some sort of drink on the small table nearby.

She is dressed up very well in the kind of clothes that likely take half an hour to put on with the help of two or three maidservants. Her gray hair is carefully styled...

HDT Book 6 soon on Amazon

Hey!

As some of you know, Book 6 will launch on Amazon on November 5th, and that means I’ll have to take it down before then, even from Patreon - Once again, I curse Amazon’s exclusivity BS.

So you can reread these chapters (470 - 549) , buy the book on Amazon when it launches (wink wink), or just grab the...

Chapter 715 - The Loot, the Beyond quest, and the two assholes

For now, I decide to ignore the fact that my residence was broken into to deliver these items. Actually, fuck it. What the hell is this crap? Do I not deserve some privacy? Just a tiny bit? I will remember this insult, and my revenge will be terrifying.

Stopping in front of my house, I look from a distance. Sure, having...

Chapter 714 - The Gray Sun

POV Ruler of Greed

Thane leaves as quickly as she usually does after one of her speeches. It is always the same, with the only difference being the event she announced.

Knowing Humility, I can guess what to expect, and I try to estimate who will perform best and is most likely to win. Out of curio...

Chapter 713 - Pathfinder Thane

Kindness snickers the entire time as we leave the balcony, all while the tiny vyssari boy acts as if nothing happened. Once in a while, I glance at the Ruler, wondering if this is her actual body. I’m almost completely sure it’s just a vessel. She doesn’t seem like the type capable of holding back her power that well, p...

Chapter 712 - Well behaved

In the following ten minutes, Victoria keeps berating me for my behavior, asking me that same question that always works. But I can’t even be mad at her, it always works, so I would do it too if I were her. It is simple: Do you want people to look down on me as your older sister who hasn’t helped to raise you well?

...

Chapter 711 - No ill will

“Who is your Handler?” I ask Brich while waving at Victoria, who sees me and gestures that she will join us soon.

“No one well known, just one of the newer Handlers I got assigned to.”

“Didn’t try to change your Handler?”

Brich shakes his head wide. “I won’t. She was always nice to me and d...

Chapter 710 - The Party

After waiting for a minute in front of the doors, two burly guards step aside, allowing me to enter the balcony, if it can even be called that. It is far too huge, placed in likely the highest place in the Megacity. The size is like one or two football fields, reaching out far enough to offer a sweeping view of the city and t...

Chapter 709 - High Grade residence

We are joined by a thylarin woman in professional-looking clothes. The kind you would see on a Japanese businesswoman. She has four arms, yellow eyes, and yellow hair that is striking against her blue skin. As we walk through the streets, she keeps talking quickly while pointing at the houses.

“A High Grade residence ...

Chapter 708 - Ninety Nine

Nyssa is strong. The Primordial Knights are a bunch of lunatics held together by some old rules and the faint logic of a barely reasonable demon who founded the guild long ago. Also, there is one extremely overworked old demon I heard about, a Beyond local who does more than anyone else to handle the problems caused by the gu...

Chapter 707 - Can I ask you a question?

“Are you that worried about the Armory? Wanted to grab some secrets for yourself?” I ask, dusting off my clothes while scanning the place. I try to memorize the view to later figure out where exactly in the Megacity it is.

“It is not that I care. There are places like that all over Beyond, but at my current level,...

Chapter 706 - Not enough to stop me

Lyraen’s white lightning moves in a way that leads me to conclude it is in no one’s best interest to attempt to defend against it, and that I should fuck off.

Taking as much mana as I was able to replenish, I use it to teleport away through the [Ley Line] I had placed during our conversation. The th...

Maya, Nathaniel, Minion and Puppy Biscuit art

Moar art!

This time it is Maya with her tricolored mana sword and her new Armament tattoos.
The other one isn't exactly a canon, but I enjoy it anyway. Nathaniel with puppy Biscuit (with cute tiny budding antlers) and Minion trying to mimic her master and learn to float with help of kinetic energy.

I hope ...

Chapter 705 - A mess

That deep male voice comes from nowhere I can place. It echoes from every direction while seeming to come from none at all.

A female voice answers it, “Don’t kill him yet. He belongs to Nyssa, and the Wraith doesn’t seem to be taking him over.”

This one I can follow. I see her standing far away. A pretty b...

Chapter 704 - You Came to the Wrong Neighborhood

My kick sends the pale red presence rolling across the ground. With a single step, I reach it again, kicking it and making it slam against another wall that appears behind it.

I suspected this, but it seems weaker after being trapped for who knows how long. Or maybe it is simply like that without its sword.

Well, ...

Chapter 703 - You can’t have this one

“You are lying.” Weslin is the first one to speak after that. “There is no way someone possessed Nyssa, be it mimic, skin jumper, parasite, or body snatcher.”

The lumoran man waves it off. “Right? Kaari thought the same, and honestly, I did too. But hell, we also thought we could kill that fella in one attack ...