Cyril Sarnath

Chapter 128: Third Champion

There was something fulfilling in hunting the ambushers. Keynes didn’t even bother killing them. The dominion would do its job if they were stupid enough to linger about.

It almost took him an hour before an unheard message made the enemies stop the chase after Esopp and retreat toward the south, away from the lake. Glad with the turn of events, as his mana was running dangerously low, Keynes found Esopp and both men made their way back to the beach.

They found Serrata ready to ...

Chapter 127: Act

Apologies for the late chapter but I had to rewrite several chunks as I wasn't happy with them.

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“Or else?” asked an upstart kid.

It wasn’t the first time an arrogant and overleveled child of some rich prick tried to push Ezra around.

Too bad for that one, it wouldn’t work this time.

“Or else you’ll be taught a harsh lesson,” Ezra replied with a fatherly patience. He hadn’t been the youngest man when the first outbreak had happened but with th...

Chapter 126: The Lake

Hey everyone! I wanted to give you a heads up that I am planning to take November off. I have to recharge my batteries. I haven't had a longer break since I have started publishing the story. I also want to review and plan the future arcs.

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Syberius had trouble containing a smile. Running into Keynes Kid of all people in a place like this was more than he could dream of. Syberius no longer considered going after the sub-boss. With Keynes Kid in his possession, he’d be unstoppa...

Chapter 125: Fated Encounter

Keynes’s eyes snapped open as Alice pinged him. A group of intruders were approaching them from the south. Keynes immediately notified Esopp and Serrata, then activated [Spiritual Ghost] and put on his Cloak of Shadows to hide his face.

He needed to find out if the group was a scouting team of a larger expedition or they were on their own. He quietly rose into the air to the limit of his [Flight] skill. If they were coming from the south, it was naturally the first direction Keynes ch...

Chapter 124: Spawning Ground

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“Do you think you can take us to the other side of the swamp?” Esopp asked quietly, during their walk alongside the swamp’s edge. It was early morning and with lack of obvious solution as to what to do about the swamp, they cut their group some slack.

Keynes wore a pensive look as his thoughts circled around various topics. He didn’t answer Esopp until the other man stopped and gave Keynes a little confused but inquiring glance.

“The...

Chapter 123: Threats

Hey everyone, I am going to take a November off. This is the last chapter before the break. I have to recharge my batteries, think about the future chapters and arc and a way to add beta readers to the whole process. I won't charge you for November.

See you in a month!

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Without a moment of hesitation, Keynes shot toward the giant frog. He didn’t bother with physical attacks as he wasn’t equipped for that, but once in range, he unfurled his auras.

Th...

Chapter 122: Yellow River

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“We broke into the weekly top 100 in the global ranking,” Serrata noted, a little surprised.

Keynes had stopped paying attention to the global ranking a while ago when he’d realised that he’d need to look for dominion monsters to keep his rank, and events like the one in the Capital were rather rare.

There were four rankings available to Keynes in the System interface.

• All-time: 6600
• Monthly: 6600
• Weekly...
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Chapter 121: Field of Grass

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Syberius stood in the middle of his camp, angrily staring at the flood of dominion monsters slowly surrounding it. Whoever thought to set off explosives here was going to be punished mercilessly. The blasts lured thousands of monsters to their location.

All his plans turned to dust.

They had been stealthy moving forward, keeping the attention of the monsters to the minimum until <...

Chapter 120: Night Essence

Hey everyone, I am going to take a November off. This is the last chapter before the break. I have to recharge my batteries, think about the future chapters and arc and a way to add beta readers to the whole process. I won't charge you for November.

See you in a month!

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They reached the ledge in half an hour. Esopp’s guess turned out to be the correct one and nothing had attacked them on their way there. It meant they had another thirty minutes to rest.

Chapter 119: In the Lands of Debuffs

Keynes’s group covered barely a half kilometre when the event message informed everyone that the dominion had been sealed. It meant no help from outside. While Keynes was fine with that, most of their group had been struggling. It was a hard task to move forward when a random roar in the distance could freeze people in place.

The number of lesser debuffs that had an extremely short duration or range was staggering. They came and went, though Keynes’s defensive buff was usually enoug...

Chapter 118: Queen

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Every major power in the world had their agents located around the sub-boss dominion in the Oriental League. There was little dispute how crucial this dominion was. Getting the Orb of Dominion was one thing, but that could be achieved by killing a local dominion boss. There was another reason why so many ascenders came here.

Killing this boss would grant rewards greater than even the weekly top 1 rank and with this boss gone, they’d be a step...

Chapter 117: Bloodline

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Windsor Freeman’s mind was wrapped around three major things.

Aura intent was the first. It was a recent discovery that came from absorbing a technique. Techniques, of which Windsor had absorbed three, were an interesting concept. They didn’t add any power but granted understanding. Unsurprisingly, these techniques weren’t without their own set of drawbacks. If the understanding they bestowed was withou...

Chapter 116: Lion's Den

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A week ago.

Wagner was teleported to the address given in the invitation. He half-expected a trap to welcome him there. Such a low blow was entirely in the realm of possibilities of the Solar Council. But instead of death or imprisonment, Wagner found a lone man in a sharp suit that perked up upon their arrival and then lowered his head in a greeting.

“Mr Zimmerman. The Solar Council is expecting you.”

Chapter 115: Very Elite

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They left first thing in the morning and took the same route that had brought Keynes to the base. But they didn’t stop on the airstrip and instead reached a small harbour where a bout took them to a neighbour island.

A welcoming party waited for them in a fishing village. From what Esopp said, almost all islands in the proximity of two hundred kilometres indirectly belonged to their company now. As impressive as it sounded, it wa...

Chapter 114: Loyalty

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Panicked voice of Alice reached Keynes a second after he accepted [Mind Illusion].

Master? Master! What happened?! Where have you been? Where have I been?

Keynes let her ramble for a time being. He needed to sort his thoughts out. Whatever he’d experienced inside the hidden room, shook him to the core. Back there he hadn’t felt it as strongly as now.

• The Purifying Body buff fail...
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Chapter 113: Chamber of Rewards

Esopp spun around, finding himself completely alone in a large, ornate cellar. There was nothing else here… What did that boy do this time? Esopp asked himself. By instinct, Esopp pulled all his items out of his dimensional pouch…

“Welcome, challenger,” a voice said and Esopp’s head snapped in the direction of the intruder. It was a hooded apparition in a black, wispy apparel that didn’t belong to this world. This had to be another monster like the Deadly Encounter....

Chapter 112: Deadly Encounter

My apologies for being late, but I had to rewrite most of the chapter. Hope you will like it :)

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Inside this rift one monster stood apart from others. Not only in terms of strength and speed but also self-awareness too. As it moved with graceful silence between the lesser monsters that were in forms of trees, it considered its prey.

Hunger suffused the monster thinking of what lay ahead. It was going to bring death to another hated creature.

Upon reaching a clea...

Chapter 111: Ritual of Secrecy

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Haef’s hands shook as he finished a Level 2 ring. It was his ninth attempt to create a ring with ‘+ X to all attributes’. Out of nine rings, four failed to possess the modifier while the other four had only 2 points, which suspiciously corresponded to with the Level of the raw materials. This time Haef managed to cross the limitation and land ‘+3 to all attributes’. Too bad that Keynes Kid wanted at least two Level 2 rings with ‘+4 t...

Chapter 110: Solution

Hey guys so this is the additional chapter for today!

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Three rocks fell to the ground.

You are distracted.

Keynes sighed, staring at the scenery before his eyes. A flat expanse of an otherwise mountainous Level 1 rift.

And you are ignoring me yet again, Alice added after a few seconds.

She was right. Keynes was exhausted after training for 6 hours straight though it wasn’t the source of his distraction, Haef was. Since Alice had sense...

Chapter 109: Intuitive Crafting

Hey everyone, I have plans to add another chapter sometime tomorrow to Rift Essence Ascender (it will amount to 5 chapters ahead) and to Perfect State Ascender (it will amount to 12 chapters ahead).

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Andrew Gunnar stared at the list of the materials required by the head of the crafting department but couldn’t collect his thoughts. Why was he not warned about the arrival of Keynes Kid? Having another one of the Big Four in Emerald City had implications… Like throwing t...