Jakob H. Greif

Museum Core Chapter 126: Get Off My Lawn

Immortality, fire resistance, endurance … once upon a time, the phoenix had seemed like a great idea.

Lukas Henderson had once heard the saying “the tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut” and learned that it applied to the Royal Marines as well, albeit in the form of “if you prove yourself capable of handling the stuff that gets dumped on you, expect to have even more dumped on you the next day.”

Apparently, sadly, that very same principle held true in the BPA. 2025-08-05 18:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Museum Core Chapter 125: Future Nonsense

“So this is what it’s been all about …” Frye said, looking at the photograph Thomas had just handed him. “You said the next merge is going to be in twenty-four days. Do you know how … involved it’s going to be?”

Thomas shrugged. “I know when it’ll happen, but not the scope. Unfortunately, the devices that dragon hoarded aren’t all perfect.

“For example, the bloodline detector I found says that Deputy Director Abrams has Honey Badger and Ha...

Museum Core Chapter 124: LOOT!

Jaclyn was aware of the fact that, right at this moment, she was utterly disgusting.

As it turned out, fighting underwater didn’t mean you automatically got clean as you retreated, and the blood and guts presently covering her were starting to stink to high heaven, to the point where the various sailors on the ship were actively starting to avoid the section of deck where she was standing.

And despite all that, her cleaning herself off would have taken a mere couple of ...

Museum Core Chapter 123: A Cornered Beast

Of course, Thomas had prepared for this eventuality, and the plan was quite an elegant one, in his own mind.

It was, well, … run like hell while screaming for help.

Or just, you know, telepathically inform Elias that Thomas temporarily needed someone else to play matador because he needed reassess and reload.

Because his strategy hadn’t been entirely bad, it had worked some, but at the same time, there were also improvements to be made, improvements he knew, imp...

Update on Apcoalypse Redux Sequel Series

After looking at my current and planned projects, I realized that I can actually give some proper information on when the AR sqeul series will be released, and what it will involve.

Apocalypse Continuum is going to be released once Museum Core and Outrage of the Ancients are done, which should happen either by the end of 2025 or early 2026, and it's going to follow Isaac's younger brother (who wasn't yet born during the original series) exploring the galaxy.

Aliens, the horror o...

Museum Core Chapter 122: Crystal vs Machine

The plan was both simple, and ridiculously complicated. And had far too many points of failure. If they fell short, at all, anywhere, everything beyond that would devolve into dogpiling the kaiju and praying they’d already done enough damage to win.

And the two of them had the “honor” of striking the first blow.

Her and Elias, who was currently using a water-breathing amulet, were descending into the depths of the ocean, ahead of everyone and everything else, four g...

Museum Core Chapter 121: Final Preparations

Thalassophobia was absolutely bloody awful; that was something she could say with absolute certainty.

And yet, for this fight, she’d been given something that largely removed it as an issue, through one simple trick.

Pocket Depthfinder (C-Rank, common)

A simple enchanted contact lens.

The Pocket Fishfinder will show the outline of the seafloor at a distance of up to ten kilometers.

Energy draw: tiny

Yes, she could still “see” sod all, but now she knew...

Museum Core Chapter 120: Everything’s The Same, But Different

I think it's been a while since I posted the link for the discord (https://discord.gg/b6MrYKtj4T).
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Thomas was in the middle of yet another chess match against Elias, as his vision was blocked with a system window.

Earth Unified System … huh.

He quickly read the message, then clicked it away to focus on the second window....

Museum Core Chapter 119: Multi-Classing

This chapter kinda got away from me, and as such, I've decided to split it up, the second part (which actually has no real reason for being a part of this one) should be done tomorrow. 

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Jaclyn was doing what she always did in the morning, after dropping Eve off at school. Flying through the skies above Bristol, moving towards her place of work while keeping the rain off herself using a cleaning sp...

Outrage of the Ancients Audiobook Release!

The Audiobook for Outrage of the Ancients is finally done and has been released on Audible!

As for the book, I'll be continuing with book 3 once I'm done with Museum Core 4, which will be soon-ish. 

2025-07-22 15:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Museum Core Chapter 118: Negotiations … of a Sort

In many ways, the real world was like quicksand. No matter what she did to escape the messiness of reality, she’d always wind up right back here, walking into this building, with the weight of the world on her shoulders. And while she didn’t always feel it there, right now, after spending the last two days with her daughter, it seemed as though it had all come crashing down like a goddamn anvil.

“How was your weekend?” Frye asked.

“Don’t ask …” Jaclyn sighed.

Museum Core Chapter 117: The Insanity of a Future Champion

This … this was perhaps not the best way of earning those final ten percent of progression needed to hit the peak of his current rank.

Actually, it was guaranteed to not be the best, considering the sheer insanity of picking this fight.

But as the system kept telling him, the powers it granted weren’t fixed, and could grow well beyond their original parameters, if he managed to achieve something sufficiently spectacular, before he advanced to the next rank, w...

Museum Core Chapter 116: Deep, Dark, and Grindy

Sergeant Kim felt fat as he descended back down into the ocean, his new wetsuit bulging all over from countless pieces of gear he was now allowed to wield as his mission was now to just kill monsters, rather than going out “into the wilderness” with a knife and hunting down a beast.

Yes, he’d been able to ditch most of his illumination devices since he could now see in the dark, but the sheer amount of new gear bordered on the ridiculous, to the point where his midsection...

Museum Core Chapter 115: Stealing Fire

BTW, if any of you are Dungeon Crawler Carl fans, it got adapted into a webtoon that releases in a few hours.

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One might say there was an element of insanity to what he was about to do. One would be wrong.

This was insane, wholly, completely, and utterly.

And yet … and yet the idea of going down there to fight a primordial sea beast and gain the power to hunt all kinds of titanic...

Museum Core Chapter 114: A Mafia-esque Offer

If he was being entirely honest with himself, Thomas could admit that he was probably doing this far too late for it to have any chance of making a difference.

Granted, he hadn’t had everything ready for the longest time, and it wasn’t like there weren’t other issues, too. Mostly psychological ones.

The nations with which he was about to entreaty weren’t ones he knew much about, unless one counted Anime, Manwha, or the vaguely threatening propaganda on the topic of China h...

Museum Core Chapter 113: Buy It For Me?

One of these days, Thomas seriously needed to find his way into the company text chains, proverbially speaking.

Because by the time he learned about what had gone down in the US, it had already been over for nearly half a day.

Of course, at the same time, that delay didn’t mean he couldn’t turn this to his advantage.

An anchor beast had died, and there would almost certainly be a deal to be had. After all, he just needed a large and important enough chunk of the monster,...

Museum Core Chapter 112: Hold the LINE

One minute earlier

Flinging himself out of an airplane while dripping wet so that he could use his magical power of close-range hydrokinesis to slow down his fall to something less than lethal was hardly how Colones James Hunter, USMC, had planned to spend the day. But that was how it went. When you were in the military, your time was no longer your own.

Supposedly, that same power of water control was meant to enable true flight, and he could pull it off in brief bursts, but doin...

Museum Core Chapter 111: The Cavalry

Her journey to the plane hadn’t quite been “abducted off the street by an unmarked car” levels of abrupt, but it had been a near-run thing.

Frye had passed along the alert along with a whole bevy of orders and five minutes later, Jacyln had found herself sitting in the cramped confines of some kind of experimental transport jet that seemed to be the military equivalent of the Concorde, along with the usual suspects of Henderson and Granger, as well as Harper, who was presently des...

Museum Core Chapter 110: Interlude American Midwest

The day now referred to as “the merge” had thrown a whole lot of things out of whack.

For Major General Alexander Fuller, that thing had been his retirement, but all things considered, he considered himself to have gotten off lightly. Especially compared to the people who’d been in the transformation zone at the time. It might have struck in one of the most sparsely populated areas of the country, but it had still caught up millions, of which only a bare handful had managed to get...

Museum Core Chapter 109: The Other Shoe

Surprisingly enough, there were basically no issues getting his hands on the buoy. He had Jan hitch a ride with the next truck to leave the jungle, hop off once it reached the border checkpoint, run over to the commander’s office, and ask to be connected to the BPA via the secure landline he knew to have been located there.

He’d gotten Frye’s secretary, rather than the man himself, but the request had been passed along anyway.

Just which poor bastard had wound up having to h...

Museum Core Chapter 108: Duel in the Void

It was a common refrain that humanity knew more about the surface of the moon than the depths of the Earth’s oceans. Thomas wasn’t entirely certain how true that was, or if there was perhaps a specific viewpoint/framing that was required to make that happen, but looking out across the seemingly infinite vastness of the sea, he could believe it.

Though he had to admit that if he weren’t able to constantly “see” the sea floor via the submarine’s radar, this place would have be...

Museum Core Chapter 107: Hell’s Aquarium

Thomas looked around the newly expanded arena that he’d modified purely for this purpose, creating what, at the end of the day, was effectively a fishbowl the size of a football stadium.

As per usual, he’d overdone things by a truly ludicrous margin, creating it entirely out of D-Rank steel, to the point where it equaled a large chunk of the country in value.

But then again, water was freakign heavy, and at the end of the day, going over the top due to his capabilitie...

Museum Core Chapter 106: The Abyss

What in God’s name was going on? That System certainly was showing a lot of personality, but everything else was both strange and concerning.

Yet the System window also gave her quite a bit of information.

The guardian was likely the anchor beast; the System could be accessed merely by being present, and as for what that System did, all she had to do was ask.

The System of Machine Ascendency functions around the idea of using technology to grow beyond oneself, gaining abil...

Museum Core Chapter 105: The Deep

Two days into her passage on the Royal Navy destroyer Dauntless, Jaclyn was being shown around the ship, shown the adaptations made as a response to the new realities.

It had taken a while, but she’d finally managed to badger the destroyer’s captain into having someone explain to her how his ship had been adapted to the new circumstances. Unfortunately, the man hadn’t seemed to like her much from the start, something that likely came down to the fact that his warship<...