This is extra chapter for you guys :)
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“A proposal.”
A proposal… of course. Mother hasn’t come for a chat. Vivena had known it from the moment she had learned of her mother’s arrival and yet it stung a little. However, with her high Mind attribute and [Mind Fortress] passive skill, these were just echoes of true emotions. She had been forced to buy [Mind Fortress], for a fortune, to cope with her father’s death. A better skill for that wou...
2024-05-21 21:01:10 +0000 UTC
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First of all, the chapter got a little out of hand and I had to end it in a weird place. The next chapter will continue the conversation between Vivena and her mother as this is quite crucial (that is why I didn't want to rush it just to finish). If I have enough time I will try to get bonus chapter around Monday/Tuesday.
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“Is this the end of an era?”
Harter read the title of the news article and had to double check the name of the news...
2024-05-17 19:59:59 +0000 UTC
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Keynes sighed. Exhaustion was catching up with him. It had been weeks since he started doing interviews. Things had gone smoothly, mostly. It turned out that not everybody had the same tolerance for risk as him or Kora. Some people panicked feeling trapped by the spacesuits, others didn’t want to return to orbit, captivated by the solid ground beneath their feet and open sky above their heads. Not everyone was cut out to live on a spaceship.
After a while, it became tiring to deal wit...
2024-05-10 19:35:54 +0000 UTC
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Still waiting for the book to be released on Amazon ;/
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Willow Croft’s eyes gleamed with desire but his spiritual aura told Keynes a more profound story of what was going through the ex-World Government rift specialist’s head. An excitement of such magnitude that it made Keynes pause. What exactly the researcher saw in the rift orb of enlargement Keynes didn’t know but the man’s fervour reminded him of his time at the base in Jamaica. Upon meeting Keynes for the ...
2024-05-03 19:08:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Regarding publication the first book, I stumbled into a wall. Amazon doesn't want to publish my book because I cannot give them proof I hold the publishing rights. Which is fucking bollocks and the worst part is I feel like I am talking to a literal wall.
All because some prick had stolen my book earlier... this is absolutely fucking demoralizing.
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Lack of pushback surprised Keynes. He had expected ot...
2024-04-26 19:24:55 +0000 UTC
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Permanent Mana Storage has been upgraded from 0 to 2050.
Keynes blinked, unsure if was seeing it correctly. Was that a System message about the spaceship’s upgrade?
“Wait, is the ship part of the System?” he asked, confused.
“Aren’t we all?” the visage replied with a smirk. “But I jest. It is fairly normal to use the System’s framework for a host of different activities.”
“Is this how a Territory works?”
“Fairly sim...
2024-04-19 18:59:23 +0000 UTC
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In the end, the egg issue was solved by Rell, and its simplicity made Keynes question his own intellect. Luckily, he wasn’t the only one.
Rell’s idea narrowed the scope of what they were trying to do with the tunnel. Instead of building a safe passage, it was easier, quicker and cheaper to create a container to transport the egg. It still caused Trisk a mana headache but he managed to encase the egg in the cocoon made out of Level 1 stone.
Once Keynes transported the egg to th...
2024-04-12 21:29:09 +0000 UTC
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Keynes had told them about the bond egg in the rift and his plans to move the egg to the shuttlecraft. The news was met with an awkward silence. Oh, boy, I messed up, didn’t I?
Even Alice didn’t comment on his internal thoughts.
Despite his earlier words, this wasn’t what he had in mind. He didn’t want his crew to be afraid of speaking up. He had to do something before this escalated further.
He asked Natalia, Willow, Persephone and Ul inside the mountain ri...
2024-04-05 20:04:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey, thanks for your patience. I got you the chapter! Also, I wanted to remind you that this arc is mostly focused on base building from very very scratch. Wars and such will follow.
Moreover, we are getting closer to a interlude involving several characters from Earth.
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Keynes jumped from one rocky outcropping to another. Halfway to the exit, he’d dismissed the spacesuit, wanting to enjoy the fresh air. The frigid temperature didn’t affect him, his Vitality and th...
2024-03-30 14:49:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! One thing of note in today's chapter. Monsters have tags instead of details. This is a change I introduced while editing the first book.
Also, I would love to know what do you think about the new saga. I knew it just started, but I wonder how does it look from your perspective.
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Natalia exited the rift with Willow in tow. His complaints fell on deaf ears. Despite his arguments about the value of the toxic rift’s resources, they were short on time a...
2024-03-22 20:02:37 +0000 UTC
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Willow muttered to himself, nearly being overwhelmed by excitement. The absolutely, incredibly, fantastic technological marvel of the spaceship, dropship and spacesuits could only be rivalled by the thrill of exploring a new rift.
To stand inside an extraterrestrial rift made Willow beyond ecstatic.
He had so many questions, so many theories and so many hypotheses.
Standing inside the boss chamber, Willow’s spacesuit ran a standard analysis, which was included in the cost ...
2024-03-15 20:24:56 +0000 UTC
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Jedd put a glass of water away, making sure to not disturb the immaculate arrangement on his desk. In his mind, he thanked himself for the hundredth for his insightful thinking and picking up [Create Water] as his quarterly compensation as Keynes’s personal assistant.
It hadn’t been a random pick though. While working on the secret space program with Rell, Jedd had done an analysis of the ‘create’ spell category. There were many variations with a few surprises in the mix. Unfort...
2024-03-08 19:47:39 +0000 UTC
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Killing the rock serpent didn’t clear the rift, which confirmed the obvious: there were more of them. Keynes considered bringing either Persephone or Natalia inside.
The risk factor for Natalia Kowalska and Persephone inside this rift is 0.
The AI informed him.
The risk factor of Willow Croft is 0.1%.
The risk factor for Ul is 0.3%.
It is advised to bring them inside as th...
2024-03-01 19:08:35 +0000 UTC
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Keynes tuned out the voices of his crew congratulating him. As much as he wished to participate in the celebration, his mission weighed on him. He thanked Jedd on the private channel and turned to the task at hand. Given the ridiculous cost of the mission and their dwindling supplies, they needed to succeed today.
He glanced back. Natalia stood in the pristine white spacesuit against the stark visage of the shuttlecraft. She was going through the safety procedures again. This and more c...
2024-02-23 20:27:48 +0000 UTC
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hey, I ended up rewriting the entire chapter and using only a few scraps here and there. I almost ended up committing the same mistake as I had done in the beginning of the story by making Keynes miserable. There is some truth that authors like their protagonists to suffer.
Not this time, or at least not yet.
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A shuttlecraft pierced a thick coat of clouds like a bullet. From a distance, the craft looked very much like a bullet. Its hues and colours r...
2024-02-17 21:12:30 +0000 UTC
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I am not happy with the tone and level of detail of this chapter so I decided to spend more time on editing or rewriting it.
With the beginning of this arc, I made a decision to focus more on quality and not rush ahead.
Also, the first book has 32 chapters edited (out of 35) so soon you can expect the edited chapters to appear on discord, royal road and eventually on amazon.
I will publish Chapter 202 tomorrow.
Sorry for that but I hope you agree with me that quality i...
2024-02-16 20:13:37 +0000 UTC
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Several hours before the end of the second dominion
The surrounding area of the Inner Sanctuary swarmed with ascenders. Their overwhelming presence brought the dominion monsters to near extinction. Although the dominion monsters weren’t the reason why a million of ascenders had come here.
The competition in the Inner Sanctuary was ending today and everyone wanted a piece of the dominion boss’ spoil. Little did they know about the ‘spoils’ they wer...
2024-02-09 20:33:58 +0000 UTC
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This was HARD as this is a kind of ending of Earth saga for Keynes. I will still write about Earth but through eyes of different people. Keynes's journey is now elsewhere :)
I know the encoutner with Vivena is different but there certain reason for that.
- rewrite already erased that prologe
- that fight is a vision Shaper had seen but his vision failed to fulfill.
Anyway, I am off for a month, to recharge batteries, gather ideas and start writing the next saga :)
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2024-01-05 20:29:49 +0000 UTC
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Merry Christmas everyone. Chapter 200 will be the end of the current arc. From Chapter 201, things will escalate, pace and scope will increase. I will also do more skips.
After Chapter 200, I am going to taka a month of break to recharge my batteries and plan future arcs.
I would like to thank you everyone who was supporting me all this time. I greatly appreciate it. Hopefully in future I will be able to turn wiriting into a full time job.
On that note, I am currenly e...
2023-12-22 18:41:29 +0000 UTC
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Kora sighed with satisfaction as she finished replacing soil. It wasn’t the process itself that was exhausting but their circumstances. They were in the middle of ‘garden war’ and no matter how silly it sounded, it was anything but.
While these gardens here were simplified, Kora had seen what plants and trees were capable of and she wished to master them or at least become proficient to reap benefits. She wasn't a delusional person and understood her limitations quite well; some t...
2023-12-15 20:20:09 +0000 UTC
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Alice sensed change in the spiritual landscape. It was unlike anything she had felt since her ‘awakening’ in this place. A powerful spiritual impulse swept through the surroundings, briefly freezing the spiritual life.
The spiritual realm was nothing like the physical one. Though Alice didn’t have direct access to the physical realm, she could, sort of, experience it through Keynes. Before her awakening, Alice's existence was in between the spiritual and physical realm. Now she fu...
2023-12-08 19:03:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, we are getting very close to the conclusion of the arc. My aim is two chapters but to do so, they would have to be long ones, so I am not sure it will happen, but on the other hand, I am planning a christmas break so I'm going to try hard to make it happen.
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Zephyr sat alone next to the dream tree, its trunk warped and twisted in odd ways. Zephyr’s body was unusually tense, an outcome of accumulated stress. He rolled his shoulders, hoping to release...
2023-12-01 20:18:05 +0000 UTC
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Congratulations!
You have acquired a Technique of Focus.
Keynes sighed, relieved. It was quite a ride and his brain felt wrung out, completely. At some point he had lost a track of time and followed the pattern that hardened his focus into laser-like quality. The technique gave Keynes a blueprint of how to attain that state again but the cost in the willpower was substantial.
Techniques were strange. So much alike to some spells and yet thei...
2023-11-24 19:35:17 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, just a quick message. I am planning to soon wrap up this arc with 3-4 chapters and then I will take a month break. After the break I am beginning another arc but it is very different from what we had so far.
More time skips.
We're leaving Earth.
Harter's fate.
In general, it is big step for the story as it will allow me to widen the scope and speed up the pace considerably. In some way, the next arc will be a soft restart. Still, Keynes remains the ...
2023-11-17 19:31:20 +0000 UTC
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Without Keynes’s [Purify] and away from their house, cleaning was an ordeal Kora wasn’t going to bother with. Her wounds had closed up already, leaving an itching echo. She also replaced her clothes after her guardian had returned to her the dimensional bag and the ring. She couldn’t do anything about the dirt, dried blood or sweat.
The waiting area had been raised nearby for contenders, their guardians and the Grand Druid who waited for the fights to conclude. Kora and the guardi...
2023-11-10 17:31:08 +0000 UTC
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Keynes and Kora exchanged the snake’s parts and the quest for two elixirs called the Touch of Sublime Nature. They were prohibitively expensive but their guardian advised them to do it. The elixirs would vastly improve their connection with the dream tree and their gardens.
The effects were semi-permanent as their connection improved, they would be able to learn as much as they could and retain gained knowledge. Unfortunately, they were left with no more favour to ask about o...
2023-11-03 16:57:15 +0000 UTC
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"We can't trust her," Kora whispered.
That much was a given, and Keynes was surprised Kora even felt the need to verbalise it. He kept his focus on Sophia, who was smiling cynically.
"So, what's it going to be? Are you in or out?"
"Okay," Keynes finally said, sensing tension emanating from Kora's aura. "And as a token of good faith from us, know that the Grand Druid wasn't pleased with Zephyr."
"I'm aware," Sophia replied.
"Maybe you are," Keynes added, not convi...
2023-10-27 18:53:10 +0000 UTC
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“Torvac.”
Keynes exhaled not being aware he was holding his breath. The same scenario happened to almost everyone but the green-haired woman and Torvac who stared at the space between his feet. It appeared that he had expected it.
Keynes saw the sharp look that Torvac’s partner gave Torvac. Clearly, they had decided to split and enter the competition individually.
“Torvac here,” the Grand Druid intoned. “Decided too late to absorb the Trait of Nature and failed a...
2023-10-20 18:49:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, I planned to write a longer chapter (including the results) but I have been feeling unwell the last week, which affected my productivity.
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In the early years of the outbreaks, there was a lot of misunderstanding about what should be prioritised. Mana was a prime example of this confusion. While it was undeniably important, people initially failed to grasp just how crucial it was.
At the time, other commodities like Rift Orb...
2023-10-13 18:21:58 +0000 UTC
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It turned out Kora didn't know—how could she? Massage oil for trees? What an absurd idea. Her [Nature Aura] not only proved ineffective but the dream tree seemed to actively resist it.
"Sto…p it…" the tree murmured in his mind.
"Kora, wait. The tree doesn't like the aura."
Neither [Nature Aura] nor the Trait of Nature allowed Kora to verbally communicate with the dream tree. Instead, upon touching the moss with her bare feet inside the house, she received impr...
2023-10-06 18:05:27 +0000 UTC
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