Cyril Sarnath

Chapter 94: Throne

Apologies for being late. Personal matters.

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Shaper missed a step as he walked to the throne room. His bond with Magnalius went haywire. The sensation was so intense that Shaper could taste chaos magic pulsing through their bond.

It filled him with horror, causing some of his darkest memories to resurface. Suddenly, he was transported back to ancient time, to the One Empire or more precisely to its birth where already a thousand-year-old Shaper met a young boy with a truly...

Chapter 93: Empathy

Hey guys, I'm quite excited with all the umcoming chapters. Once we are finished with the World Reserve, a BIG meeting awaits us.

Retcon: The Dominion of Monsters has several types of monsters, I replaced Predator type with Alpha type. The reason for the change is that there is already Apex Predator and it is very much the same as Predator. Alpha is is different, it's like a captain among monsters (08/07/22 - European).

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Shaper stood in one of his secret rooms inside the p...

Chapter 92: Local Event

Hey! Just wanted to say sorry, this chapter may feel a bit crude.

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Keynes landed in one of hundreds of villages that lay in the Capital’s surrounding area.

It no longer resembled a village though. Not a single hut was left standing. It looked as if a hurricane had passed through and that was far from the worst. Bodies of tribesmen were scattered everywhere. The monsters made no exceptions. Seeing firsthand the consequence of his actions gave Keynes pause.

Chapter 91: Exchange

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Keynes’s consciousness returned with a snap and alarm. Instinctively, he flooded his surroundings with [Chaos Aura], then reached into his dimensional bag and took out two shortswords.

Nothing assaulted him though, so he turned the aura off.

As his awareness settled down, he allowed himself to have a better look at the room he was in.

The room was spacious, with vaulted ceiling and tiled walls. The tiles were polished and smooth. There were several nar...

Chapter 90: Level 45 drop

Let me know what do you think about the direction of the story. I am really curious if you like it. 

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Monsters didn’t leave Keynes time to think about the Dominion or the outbreak. They flooded the cave in seconds. Keynes took out his two shortswords boosting his Dexterity and to lesser extent Strength.

The monsters were of many varieties and sizes. And what Keynes found terrifying was that their skills also differed, making them an unpredictable and dangerous combi...

Chapter 89: Rankings

Apologies for the delay. I decided to rewrite the entire chapter this morning. Hope you like it. 

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“What the hell is an era?” Vivena asked her spiritual companion, not bothering with using her mind to ask the question. She floated above the treetops near the location where she’d called Wagner. Her eyes were directed at the Capital, far in the distance. Something was going on up there.

“You can now access the System. It has a lot of information about eras.” 2022-06-24 20:17:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 88: Consequences

I guess many of you will tell that this is the point where the story should have started and I cannot argue with it. This is where the real struggle begins. Enjoy:)

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Master! Only twenty seconds left … you must do something… Absorb [Chaos Aura] FAST!

Keynes heard Alice’s voice in his head and almost ignored it as he pondered the failure he was. But when she said to do something she’d been adamantly against from the beginning, it got a desired reac...

Chapter 87: The Champion of the Labyrinth

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Keynes went through the two attackers in a blink of an eye, barely paying any attention to them. His emotions were aflame. Keynes was pissed. Since his meeting with Vivena, others had constantly tried to exploit him. This time, it was Bonolo and Hawthorne.

His mind was locked in the survival mode, it knew no mercy. But there was also a lot of anger and resentment, which was a shame because the labyrinth was a masterpiece. In o...

Chapter 86: The Bottom 10

The next few rooms had no active traps as far as Keynes could see, even though they had the features like holes in the walls, floors and ceilings, slits that ran across and alongside the long corridor and could hide saws, or runes.

Nothing attacked Keynes and that bothered him and put him on edge for the whole time.

Some rooms were larger and merged with other smaller rooms. All the different routes of the labyrinth seemed to come together.

And yet, Keynes didn’t meet anyo...

Chapter 85: The Labyrinth

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Every minute the last racer will be killed by the labyrinth. It took some time before the king’s words settled in Keynes’s mind. Now, the king’s previous mention of certain death made sense.

It only enraged Keynes more as he thought about Bonolo, Hawthorne and Haruka. Neither of them had told Keynes the full truth. Keynes wasn’t going to retaliate against them but he no ...

Chapter 84: The Covenant of Tribes

Hey everyone, this is last Monday's chapter. From Friday we're back on the track.

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The day of the race approached and with it came a competitive spirit. Keynes knew he wasn’t taking part in the race because of Bonolo’s request anymore. Too many layers of stinking politics for Keynes’s liking.

But it didn’t stop Keynes from feeling the thrill of competition. He wanted to win this just to beat others. He had never experienced such emotions before as he’d never been ...

Chapter 83: The Cult

Hey, everyone, sorry for not posting on Friday and Monday. This chapter is for last Friday. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish off Monday’s chapter for today. I will be publishing it tomorrow as soon as I complete it. From Friday we are back on schedule.

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After two days of boredom, Vivena had enough and asked Haruka to take her for a tour around the city. She was half-expecting a straight rejection as the royal family so far did everything to make her stay unexciting. She...

Chapter 82: Easy Money

“Forty-nine,” Tom Ventura said with a smirk.

“Twenty-seven,” Kaito Ren replied less enthusiastically.

“This isn’t a competition,” Christopher Wolf reminded them, then dodged an attack and cut down the attacking monster. Both men glanced at him expectantly. Wolf shook his head in disbelief. Only after the other two unpeeled their gazes, Wolf murmured. “Thirty-three.”

Since they’d left Geneva, they started encountering monsters at larg...

Chapter 81: Obstacle Course

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“Do you fancy a quick race on the obstacle course?” Keynes asked, feigning ignorance. The other man was clearly offended by Keynes’s mere presence here.

He’s Level 2 and in the lowest spiritual stage, Alice supplied her knowledge. Either that guy didn’t care about getting stronger or the Capital didn’t value him enough to raise his spiritual stage and Level.

“W—what?” the newcomer stuttered. “What did you just sa...

Chapter 80: Camp

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Keynes sat on the roof of the tallest tower in the Capital and watched the stars. It was the only place in the city where vines didn’t reach and he could be truly alone.

This place had a serious issue with privacy. Keynes didn’t have proof that the vines had come from the king but he’d bet the entire content of his dimensional bags that this was the case.

Anyway… a few more days and we are gone.

He jumped off the roof ...

Chapter 79: Vines

With every step, Keynes grew warier of his surroundings. At the face value, everything he’d seen so far in the palace looked perfectly ordinary.

And that wasn’t normal.

The Capital was supposed to have more rifts than the First Tribe but where were all their rift materials? Why almost everyone they passed by was Level 1? The guards were an exception, though they were only Level 2 at best.

It wasn’t all that itched Keynes. The vines were present in every corridor and ro...

Chapter 78: A Room

That 2 of 2 for today. Hopefully, over the next few weeks, I'd be able to further increase the number of chapters.

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How much of their conversation did you get? Keynes asked Alice.

Until to the point when she warned Chief Bonolo that her parents may kill him.

Alright, keep an eye on them.

Which one? I cannot split myself.

Too bad. It’d be a useful ability.

For now, stay with the woman.

It sucked tha...

Chapter 77: The Capital

Hey everyone, I am going to add another chapter today. It'd make 8 advance chapters for the Perfect State Ascenders. 

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Vivena pondered the design of the flying platforms. They were crude, uncomfortable and weren’t built for long distances. Even flying between the grove and the rifts hadn’t been an unpleasant experience. It was odd because everything else she’d seen in the grove where the First Tribe lived saw a high attention to detail and an excellent craftsmanship. 2022-05-20 17:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 76: Second Degree

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Controlling water through [Telekinesis] was freakishly hard. Liquids were difficult to manipulate in general and on top of that the water was Level 3 while Keynes was Level 2.

This rift was going to push him to 100%. FINALLY.

After all this time, he couldn’t wait to level up. While he was excited about the boost to his attributes which was significantly larger than a non-maxed-out increase by 33%. But there was another thing Keynes was l...

Chapter 75: The Next Tier

That the first of the additional chapters. I am planning to add another one either tomorrowor on Thursday. Enjoy :)

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While Keynes discovered the insane wealth of the hidden rooms, the world didn’t remain without its own big breakthrough.

In an exotic Level 2 rift in Northern America, a young soldier found a schematic of a mana container. It didn’t go well for the young soldier as he disappeared but some time later, the production of the first mana container commenced. ...

Chapter 74: Who are you?

Hey everyone! I am finally back. I was able to step back and relax, although I haven't stopped writing. I couldn't. I have another two chapters to edit which I plan to add here over this week, increasing the Perfect Ascender's advance chapters count to 8. (Price stays the same :))

Enjoy!

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“We’re leaving.”

Keynes had a bad feeling about the visit of the two women. Bill’s reaction only supplemented his conviction.

Over the four months, Keynes and Vivena g...

Chapter 73: Changing Times

A reminder that I will be taking the next week off. I will pause the patreon and if things go my way, I will be adding extra chapters to the Perfect State ascender from the next month.

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An evening was slowly creeping over the savannah. Keynes and Vivena were crossing the golden field, heading toward the village. The word didn’t really fit it anymore as the grove was being turned into… something else. Something that didn’t belong to this worl...

Chapter 72: Disappointments

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“I hate him,” Pandora spat. “Elevated stage and Perfect State?! How?!”

She was barely standing on her feet as she was venting her frustration. She and Haruka had spent over two months in the Level 3 rift and she was still far away from maxing out her attributes. The only attribute she’d maxed out so far was Mind, and it’d been done thanks to the mind mushrooms. But it’d been over four months ago and if she ...

Chapter 71: Researching

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I am going to take a break the next week (09-13 May) I will pause patreon for these days. I need to recover from writing, tidy up my notes and prepare the future chapters.

Going forward, I want to increase the number of advance chapters from June to 9 for Perfect State Ascender, 6 for Rift Ascender and 3 for Human Ascender. 

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Keynes’s mind was dropped into a maelstrom of colours and sounds. Before he realised what was going on, tendrils...

Chapter 70: Village

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We are getting close to Keynes's ascension to Level 3. 

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Keynes and the rest didn’t wait long for Haruka’s and Pandora’s father to arrive. They’d been warned that he was en route, what they weren’t ready for was the manner of his arrival.

He came on a flying platform.

It was four metres long and two metres wide and made out of wooden planks connected with a rope. On the platform was a metre square board with a formation en...

Chapter 69: Our Territory

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Before anyone could say anything a system message popped up.

You have received a communication request from Haruka.

Keynes accepted the request and a second later another system message came through.

• Message from Haruka:

“No matter what she says, please, do not challenge her, Keynes.”

So this was spiritual communication. Very h...