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B3 Chapter 334: Something New, Finale

Abrissian Manticore - Level 268:

Crucible Guardian, Depths-born, Beast, Skirmisher

Kaius blinked, staring at the patchwork Guardian as he grappled with...

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B3 Chapter 333: Something New, pt. 2

Their exit from the Godsmaw jungle had led them to a wide ledge halfway up a mountain, joined into a small U-shaped range. Cold air rolled down from the ice-capped peaks above, rapidly cooling the ...

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B3 Chapter 332: Something New, Pt. 1

At the very edge of the jungle tree-line, less than a league from the cavern wall, Kaius clung to the side of a trunk hundreds of longstrides above the ground. He grinned, enjoying the warm and hum...

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B3 Interlude 12: Exfiltrate

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B3 Chapter 331: Next Steps, Finale

Suspended on his throne in an endless field of black void and dancing white lights, Ekum watched. 

He was curious. His gamble had been performing well — the pair of them had managed to...

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B3 Chapter 330: Next Steps, pt. 4

Looking at his system guide’s guilty and sad smile twisted Kaius’s stomach in knots. It made the familiar office fade away, shelves of leatherbound volumes falling into the background as he gav...

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B3 Chapter 329: Next Steps, pt. 3

Sitting on a plush bear hide, Kaius readied himself to dive into his final skill. This was it — his last major milestone before he evolved his class for the first time.

He quelled his nerve...

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B3 Chapter 328: Next Steps, pt. 2

The felled trunk cut through the jungle like a city wall, a pillar of dead wood that had shattered the canopies of its neighbours. Lying on the ground, it was still almost as tall as the y...

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B3 Chapter 327: Next Steps, pt. 1

Old Thousand Eyes lay butchered and broken. Its wings had been severed, leaving only blackened and cracked stumps that still slowly wept clear fluid. Its entire flank was missing too, burned and ex...

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B3 Chapter 326: Crossing, finale

A sigilistic ring of tessellated and layered geometry hovered around the tip of Ianmus’s staff, rock solid and glowing softly to his mundane sight. Just over a longstride in diameter, it almo...

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B3 Chapter 325: Crossing, pt. 4

They tore across the ground, racing through a jungle painted in miniature. Each tree still towered up a hundred-fifty longstrides or more, but they were clustered tightly — only a bare hundred st...

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B3 Chapter 324: Crossing, pt. 3

Kaius tore through vines and brush alike as he raced through the jungle. His team was ahead of him, Porkchop acting like a plow as he used his strength and bolstered momentum to tear unheeded throu...

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B3 Chapter 323: Crossing, pt. 2

Kaius could feel Old Thousand Eyes dropping from the cavern ceiling at a steep dive, drawing closer by the moment. It would only take seconds for it to arrive, but with his mental stats raising his...

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B2 Chapter 322: Crossing, pt. 1

On their approach to the waterway that cut its way through the jungle, Kaius and his team hiked up one of the areas rare hills. It was barren, a singular tree dominating its peak and choking out th...

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B3 Chapter 321: Warm Up, Finale

The depthsborn snake-centipede lazed in a patching of sunlight, coiled around itself. 

It made it hard to judge its true size, but Kaius thought it had to be an easy thirty or fourty str...

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B3 Chapter 320: Warm Up, pt. 1

Ferns the size of oaks shaded them with fronds as large as boat sails. With every rustle of the ever-present humid jungle wind, spores drifted free, filling the air with an ochre haze that smelt of...

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B3 Interlude 11 : Movement

Cinching his quilted robe tighter, Hanrick took a long sip of brandy and savoured the smooth burn that coated the back of his throat. 

He stared mindlessly into the distance, sinking fur...

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B3 Chapter 319: Sanctuary, Finale

Kaius leaned back against the wall of the safe room, his arms folded in his lap as he took slow breaths. 

His spar with Porkchop had worked out a lot of the tense energy that had lingere...

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B3 Chapter 318: Sanctuary, pt. 6

Ianmus watched his closest two friends roughhouse in the middle of the safe room. Nominally, they were practicing their new skills — taking their time not to burn through too much of their alread...

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B3 Chapter 317: Sanctuary, pt. 5

Kaius stood in the centre of the safe room, his sheathed sword planted point first in the ground. Leaning forwards, he rested his weight on his cross guard, drenched in the soft glow of the grubs t...

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B3 Chapter 316: Sanctuary, pt. 4

Kaius tuned out the world around him and slid into his soul space a moment before he accepted his new skills. Even if he’d seen the System weave a new class skill seven times before, it was no le...

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B3 Chapter 315: Sanctuary, pt. 3

“If you want to prove yourself worthy of VOS…” 

An enigma, another tantalising hint at the truth behind the Vesryn order. Clearly, whatever it was, it was important to the...

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B3 Chapter 314: Sanctuary, pt. 2

Kaius lounged against the safe room wall, sipping from a mug of the thin sap that pooled in the natural basin in the room’s corner.

It was thin and watery, but had a faint sweetness and tas...

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B3 Chapter 313: Sanctuary, pt. 1

*Ding! level 244 Pale Rootborer - Envenomed Parasite slain - Experience Gained! Bonus Experience for slaying a foe of Significant Strength!*

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B3 Interlude 10: The Unmasked

Ro stomped her way across the office, resisting the urge to shatter a chair against the wall and scream. Pacing didn’t help, but shattered axles, what else could she do?

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B3 Chapter 312: Roots, Finale

Kaius stared at the field of pallid tendrils waving through the air, standing at the threshold to the cavern. They looked disgusting. It was perhaps a little ridiculous that he was more unsettled b...

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B3 Chapter 311: Roots, pt. 2

The pale worm swayed like a thread caught in a gentle breeze, sweeping around as it blindly searched for prey. Kaius could feel the feverish heat that flooded through Porkchop’s body, a ...

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B3 Chapter 310: Roots, pt. 1

They needed to move.

The other Kolnirs would catch up soon.  Even if they were moderately separated by a barred wall of supernaturally tough roots, he didn’t want to test the ...

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B3 Chapter 309: Kolnir, finale

Wading through the mire of grasses and fronds that surrounded him, Kaius felt like his nerves had been stretched to the point of breaking. 

Every few minutes he would hear the distinctiv...

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B3 Chapter 308: Kolnir, pt. 3

A/n: accidentally had this scheduled for tomorrow, since I queued it right around midnight and Patreon auto selects tomorrow as the queue date. Woopsy!


Kaius heard...

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