A/N: Hey guys, seriously panicking right now. I just realised the month is almost over, and yet we are nowhere near where I wanted to be by this time. I'm hesitant to just up the pace again as I still haven't written the final chapters, so it might hurt my back log. But there is a chapter I wante...
2025-07-21 15:13:45 +0000 UTC View PostRafe's mind raced. His formerly unresponsive mind raced as he considered the implications. His mother was alive. She was in a position of power in perhaps the strongest organisation on Earth currently.
He was getting an invitation to some kind of auction. Maybe it was a way for him to return to Earth?
A/N: Allow me to apologise. This chapter was misscheduled. It was supposed to come out yesterday, but I noticed well close to morning hours I'd made a mistake. Well we'll just push Friday's chapter to Saturday or Sunday I guess. Enjoy.
Of course Barbara's ...
2025-07-18 15:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Not my best work, but oh well. Anyway, I've had a terrible one and a half weeks, but as of today, I'm happy to proclaim everything is settled. I'm hoping to get back into the writing starting right now. I have less than two weeks to finish drafting the end game for this arc. And no...
2025-07-16 16:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostA month after the apocalypse came to Earth, Thea found herself walking next to the half robot man. His second eye became inorganic eventually, and she discovered his whole skeleton became metallic also, even though his skin in some parts seemed normal. Apparently he had a constitution stat since he was a rare ranked tank soon...
2025-07-15 15:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: So I might just change Patreon to five chapters a week from now on. Maybe the added pressure will force me to write faster. Although RR will continue to be four chapters for now. Anyway, Monday to Friday chapters at least for the foreseeable future.
Rafael did not appear fo...
2025-07-14 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I know some people have complained about these kinds of chapters being like filler, and I agree to a certain extent. Which is why I had planned not to use this and two others...
2025-07-13 15:11:03 +0000 UTC View PostShe tried to keep herself positive, Filoria did, but deep down she had known there was a chance. Could she truly land a hit even on a somewhat weakened Collab?
A few questions to Hestus had had the gnomish merchant confessing he'd skimped on the stat dampeners. Rafael had known this, and he'd apparently encouraged...
2025-07-11 15:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostFiloria had not felt so happy after Rafael's ominous words. She couldn't tell why she thought those words were ominous. Her and Helare might have their differences, but this was surely not one of them.
The boy was planning something. Something that would leave them both devastated.
She needed to tell someone...
2025-07-09 14:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday (new schedule).
After his impressive fights with Collab, the boy always went to train with Helare. For some reason, those moments caused a pang in Filoria's heart. She had come to the compound hoping she'd get the chance to fight the...
2025-07-07 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the labour of more than two days before he was ready to start consuming his first soul nurturing treasure.
Name: Divine ray seed (common, F grade)
Apparently, the sunflower seed like natural treasures were called Divine ray seeds, and he had to take a few handfuls of them at once. They had ...
2025-07-05 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe it was a lucky thing Helare had told him about the cores at everyone's being when she had. Because soul cultivation was all about improving the core. Once one was able to sense it of course.
It was more involved than that. There was an escalating difficulty that had to do with exercising the whole schema and feedi...
2025-07-04 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt was two days later when Helare finally got to continue the lesson on veils for him. The one she'd started almost two weeks ago by then. It was just just in time too, because Rafe had only a few days left on Primus, by his reckoning.
“To recap, veils were once part of auras, and they are something new. Something int...
2025-07-03 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBefore he sparred with Helare, he had his first semi-real bout with Collab. Collab was using his sword, and Rafe was using his hands. The only way Rafe knew how to train someone was how both Liam and Noid had approached his early training.
He'd probably need new training methods of his own soon, but for someone who neve...
2025-07-02 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I will be taking a break once this volume is complete, hopefully next month, so this should serve as an early hiatus notice. To that end, I'm going to be increasing the frequency of chapter releases. Will do five this week starting today because I'm doing a bonus chapter on RR. Then...
2025-07-01 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostHelare came back before the training that afternoon. Well, afternoon was relative. This was a land of perpetual day. Although there was no sun in the sky, it was always light out, except when it was cloudy.
After Helare left, Rafe checked to make sure there was no one watching, then he opened his inventory screen again....
2025-06-29 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“To understand it, you must start with aura. Or aura skills, as the system now classifies them,” Helare said.
Her subtly expressed vitriol for the system had yet to subside. It made sense. Rafe was unsure about the system too these days. It appeared to be on his side, but was it really?
How stranding him on th...
2025-06-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHelare came to him once she finished her work for the day. She looked to be in some sort of rush.
“You'll be training with Collab today, won't you?” she asked.
Rafe blinked at her. “Yes…” he answered, not quite able to hide his questioning intent.
“Great. More competition for your limited attenti...
2025-06-25 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you planning to give it to me as a gift?” Helare asked.
“Huh? As a gift?” Rafe asked in turn.
“It is a special item,” the princess clarified.
“And it might be expensive,” Rafe told her. “Expensive enough to compensate the losses you've suffered because of me destroying a whole shipment...
2025-06-23 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostRafe didn't know how long he had been out, but he was sure the room should not be as big as it appeared.
With his vision swimming and hazy, he figured maybe he wasn't as back to it as he'd thought. Until he started hearing things. Like the rhythmic breathing of someone sleeping.
It was physically impossible for tw...
2025-06-21 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Well, we are deep in the fun and games act now. Just wanted to say, enjoy these low stakes chapters for a bit. We are very close to the midpoint of this volume and thus, fair warning, there might be some misery porn in the near future. Enjoy the fun while it lasts. Cheers.
Rafe could suddenly...
2025-06-19 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostNew insights detected.
Insight Into Spatial rends (beginner).
That was…typical. Typically annoying. It was also to be expected, everything considered.
Your insight into Spatial rends has grown…
Insight into Spatial rends.
... 2025-06-17 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: And we are at one hundred. I want to thank you guys for supporting me. Without you, I wouldn't have made it thi...
2025-06-15 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRafe hit the red-hot metal. Again. He hit it, trying to temper it, to shape it to his liking.
Insights. He had had them within his soul for weeks. He had seen them growing, but he hadn't yet allowed himself to feel them, to use them.
First, an insight into sharpness. He had decided three would be enough for his in...
2025-06-13 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHelare could not believe she had needed an excuse to see Rafael. She did not want to appear desperate. But was she? Was she desperate to see him?
He was too busy the day after the fight. She could see the clatter around him. Of moulds and tools and half finished things of metal. And he looked tired. She could see ...
2025-06-11 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRafe swished to the left, narrowly avoiding a vertical slash that would have bisected a lesser warrior. The struggle was almost real in these instances. She had somehow improved over tens of minutes of Rafe dancing around her.
His stamina was flagging.
One of his disadvantages when compared to higher leveled...
2025-06-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA spar with the girl who'd almost killed him once? Rafe decided it was as good a time as any to have a bit of revenge.
Of course one thing Rafe was determined to do was not show off just how skilled he was. He couldn't expose any more of his techniques. He couldn't blatantly show any combat skills.
He tighte...
2025-06-07 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey everyone. I just wanted to inform y'all that an idea I've been playing around with crystallized today. There is every chance I'ma be writing it soon. It's going to be a comedy. I just need to build up my backlog on my main story. The Wandering Sword will probably take me years to finish,...
2025-06-05 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhen next Rafe woke up, he was a Burned blacksmith. Just one of millions of metalworkers the leadership had requisitioned to work on thousands of secret projects.
It turned out the last stand of the Earth Elemenoids had saved them. The Earth users had sent their golem, which Rafe believed had had an aura approaching the...
2025-06-03 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Tired of this set up act. Let's just jump into fun and games. Warning that there might be some romance-y subplots, but definitely no harem in case you think I could betray you like that. Just believe I have a plan for the plot developments that are going to occur in the next few chapters. Thank you for reading.<...
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