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Core Collapse Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Once everyone was dressed and most were convinced to acquire their system, many of the helpers from Fenard’s palace dispersed. Those that remained herded the disoriented people f...

Core Collapse Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Tom put the finishing touches on the Adventurer’s Guild Hall late in the evening. It had been a long day of practicing his skills. He had begun early in the morning, arriving at ...

Core Collapse Chapter 32

Chanter 32

Tom adjusted his cravat nervously as the Mage King of Petosh, Arom, absorbed the dire warning that he had just provided. When Tom had given the news to Fenard, Fenard had insisted ...

Core Collapse Chapter 31

Chapter 31

The warning came before the dragon, but only just.

Twenty-three people died.

But together they saved two hundred seventy-six.

The dragon flew off to the west.

Core Collapse Chapter 30

Chapter 30

Ursula Urban was old.

Jessica was a little afraid to ask how old for several reasons. Most obviously just because it was impolite. But also because she knew that the...

Core Collapse Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Mark and Tony had all of their horses saddled for them early in the morning. The faithful stableboys had awoken before dawn and had yet to break their fast, but were both looking f...

Core Collapse Chapter 28

Chapter 28

Tirns was exhausted. Ever since the night that the dragon had burned down the tents of the refugee camp, or the invasion army, or whatever it had been, the poor knight surveilling ...

Core Collapse Chapter 27

Chapter 27

After the demonstration, Ubo spent a little while teaching Vella a few minor spells using the magic visualization room while the others either went to do their own thing or listene...

Writathon participation

I'll be participating in the writathon. Core Collapse Chapter 26 is the mark of when writathon began. I'll be rapidly releasing the advanced chapters as I write new ones, so expect a small flood fr...

Core Collapse Chapter 26

Chapter 26

Ubo and Vella ended up staying at Weaver Estate for some time. Jessica was just as interested in having a master Mage’s perspective on her abilities as he was in studying her Ski...

Core Collapse Chapter 19.1

The scene below takes place after the other events in chapter 19. For reference for those of you who don't want to figure out where that falls in the story line, it's right after the 3 adventurers ...

Poll Alert: Chapter 14

Core Collapse chapter 14 has an important poll to decide Jessica's Level 30 skill! Check it out if you want a say in a decision that affects the story.

Core Collapse Chapter 25

Chapter 25

Something was bothering Rowena, Jessica was certain of it. The young Rogue was distracted. At least, when they weren’t in combat she was distracted. When she was in combat she lo...

Core Collapse Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Ubo Urban tried to cast Candleflame. And he failed. He tried again, and he failed. He sighed, taking a sip of the tea that he had been served while waiting for the master of the ho...

Core Collapse Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Tom, Jessica, Grant, Emil, and Norman arrived at Weaver estate several days later. Tom of course immediately set up a Dungeon for Alpha. It was once more partitioned, with a room t...

Core Collapse Chapter 22

Chapter 22

The party left for Torren the next day. It was a rather short trip, only about a day in the saddle before Tom was once more stabling his monsters in a temporary dungeon made using ...

Core Collapse Chapter 21

Retcon Notice: Chapter 13's dialogue between Tom and Antoine has been substantially rewritten and improved. It now contains 150% more lore!

Chapter 21

They quickly discovered a few fac...

Core Collapse Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Tom decided to stay in Caseville until he reached level thirty, which didn’t take very long. With the experience trickling in from his new dungeons, and the significant boost tha...

Core Collapse Chapter 19

Chapter 19

King Fenard really had to thank Emil for introducing the concepts of modern plumbing to Welsius. With the boiler and the water tank on the roof of the palace providing heat and wat...

Core Collapse Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Vella strained her mind as she floated the pen in the air in front of her face. She’d never known before awakening her class that she could strain her mind like it was a muscle, ...

Core Collapse Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Sal waited quietly in the darkness of the dungeon for the combat to begin. No, not quietly. Silently. Her level twenty stealth completely obliterated her presence, and the...

Core Collapse Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Tom established a shallow dungeon outside the city limits of Nashak when he arrived using Alpha Core for his dungeons to remain in without alarming the populace of the city. While ...

Core Collapse Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Reluctantly, Tom changed his plans for his birthday.

This decision was not made lightly, but after informing King Fenard that he had once again accidentally linked into his n...

Core Collapse Chapter 14

Update: I rewrote the opening of this chapter.

Chapter 14

There were two problems that they encountered at Iota dungeon, the Core that Tom intended to claim after Theta dungeon. They ha...

Core Collapse Chapter 13

Major Retcon Notice: The dialogue between Tom and Antoine in this chapter has been almost completely rewritten.

Minor retcon notice: In chapter 3, Sue Weaver is now present for the financial ...

Core Collapse Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Tirns had been riding with very few stops ever since the news of the collapse of Velund had reached Welsius. He was a Winged Knight, one of the few to ride a wyvern instead of a pe...

Poll notice: Core Controller Chapter 64

Just a notice in case you only read this story on Patreon; chapter 64 on Royal Road has an important poll attached to it.  I am allowing readers to determine which of the countries of this wor...

Core Controller Chapter 11

Chapter 11

The news that the dungeon’s evolution was responsible for the decrease in the spawn rate of water elementals, and not the actions of Tom’s party keeping the cores to themselv...

Core Collapse Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Tom announced the next morning that he wanted to stay a while at the newly minted Zeta dungeon to make certain that it adapted to the new changes well.  He was quite excited...

Core Collapse Chapter 9

Minor retcon notice; I deleted the passage in which Jessica unlocked her new subclass in chapter 6.

Chapter 9

Jessica had always loved fireworks.  The Fourth of July was by far h...