Aaron could barely keep his laughter down on the next attempt. He had survived a direct attack from a peak E-grade beast, and he had energy to spare.
Consuming the last of his adipose reserves, he shot into the air, chasing after the retreating bird with [ Gust Step ].
He was still healing from the wounds as he flew after it, but he cared little for details like that. His Vitality Heart was pumping hard, and with e...
2025-08-11 20:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostAaron would have to be a little smarter against this foe. It wasn’t just an attack that could hit him, but one that exploded like a shotgun that he couldn’t predict.
Unfortunately for the crow, that was precisely the kind of challenge he welcomed.
Attempt number two went about as well as one would expect. However, he had gauged the range of the explosive shockwaves. Even if he couldn’t predict the shockwaves himself, if he kn...
2025-08-10 20:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostSitting in the training room, Aaron felt for the energy he had sensed when peering into the troll. As he inched closer to the sensation, he felt his heart thump with power and reached out.
His heart was something else. More than what it had been before the Integration. Like a power station for his body, it created Vitality and rejuvenated him when wounded. But there was more to it, and he delved deeper in search of concrete answers.
<... 2025-08-09 20:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostClub strikes and monstrous claws flew through the air, but they always fell short of Aaron, who danced around the towering troll with the elegance of a superpowered Muhammad Ali, slipping attacks like it was his day job.
However, his body was mostly on autopilot. His thoughts were elsewhere, focused on the mana he was pushing into his attacks.
Even if the troll stood there and took his attacks without firing back, killing it would ...
2025-08-07 20:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostAaron stopped himself short of starting the trial. Mo’han’s distraction meant that he still hadn’t hit level 20 in his Profession, and he wanted to quickly cross that off his to-do list before heading back into the trials.
Hanging out with Mo’han had been fun, and some much-needed rest and replenishment, but it was time to get back to work. And that meant delving back into his contemplations around cooking, which the asura had dr...
2025-08-06 20:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post“You haven’t even been in here yet?” Aaron questioned as the hulking asura craned past him to nervously take in the spectacle that was his cooking.
“Quite the concoctions you’re making over there,” Mo’han grimaced. He was a polite alien, but even he couldn’t guard against the offensive scents assaulting his senses, and soon, his purple skin was blanching as he struggled to hold his stomach down.
“You okay, big fel...
2025-08-05 19:29:34 +0000 UTC View PostReturning to the hallway, Aaron glanced around in search of Mo’han for a moment before turning to his status screen and placing his remaining free points into Perception.
Perception mightn’t have seemed necessary to an extent, thanks to the mana sphere, but Aaron was quickly understanding how important the Stat was.
Perception seemed to govern how one saw everything. He had long been wanting to improve it, as it aided his...
2025-08-04 20:25:26 +0000 UTC View PostFrom all around, the toxic fumes rushed toward him, and a smile formed on Aaron’s face. He still had work to do with his senses, but he had learned all he was going to from this mana. Further improvement would require exposure to various Skills and mana types. So, for now, he was happy to make this trial a little more exciting.
Oozagh’s powerful breath wasn’t going to save him from this, he quickly realized. Whatever was pushing th...
2025-08-03 20:03:26 +0000 UTC View PostChain Quest: The Trial of Dominance
Stage four of [ Trial of Dominance ] COMPLETED!
You have tested yourself, subjugated a town of lizardmen and their leaders, and survived.
Quest Rewards: Sphere of Binding [ Rare ], System Store upgraded to level 4!.
Experience rewarded for completing a quest stage!
“Seriously, no l...
2025-08-02 19:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostTutorial days elapsed: 56.25 (225 Days in Trial time)
What a little cheat, Aaron thought as he revived in the hallway. The dirty move only made him that much more determined to see his fist through the face of the backstabber.
Charging straight back into the trial, Aaron used the lessons he had learned to speedrun the first parts of the trial.
He didn’t waste time dueling with the spearmen, quickly...
2025-07-31 20:16:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, that was to be expected,” Aaron grunted as the familiar question marks filled his inspection notification. He really needed to find out if there was a way of fixing that, if possible. But at this point in time, he had bigger problems to worry about.
The fat-lipped toad turned to face him, dressed in shamanic rags and mana swirling around its suction-grip fingers as it prepared a spell. He hadn’t really had much of a chance t...
2025-07-30 20:54:10 +0000 UTC View PostAaron threw ingredients together like a possessed child let loose in the kitchen, grabbing items solely based on what boons they offered, caring little for what the recipes might taste like.
It was lucky for him that he had the gut of an ogre, because the path Oozagh had set him on had nothing to do with flavor. This was purely about buffs and boons. About foul concoctions designed with a singular thought in mind: how many buffs ca...
2025-07-29 20:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostModerate Blessing of Oozagh the Rotund.
Provides: Trait unchanged from Minor Blessing.
+5% All Stats
Skill [ Epic - Legacy ] Adipose Fusion.
The ogre chef Oozagh requires vast amounts of energy to fuel their cooking and transmutation of ingredients, and to do this, he harnesses his greatest asset—adipose tissue. The ogre god takes the storing ...
2025-07-28 20:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostTaking a minute for himself before starting his next trail, Aaron pulled out his Cape of the Starwalker and Soul Strengthening Radish and inspected them.
Soul Strengthening Radish [ Rare ]
Consume this radish to strengthen your race and take you one step closer to race evolution.
Race evolution? Right, our races are grading in the status screen, aren’t they? Aaron also vaguely reme...
2025-07-27 20:17:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait, so we’re graded on our overall performance and get points based on how many trial quests we complete in this place? And then we gain access to another special store where we can spend those points before leaving the trial?”
“Yes, A-ran! Strange Douglas didn’t mention this. He wouldn’t stop talking when I arrived.”
Yeah, that sounds about right. That bastard treated me like talking to me was a waste of his t...
2025-07-25 22:05:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Good luck!” Mo’han waved as the small human walked toward the trial, turning to shoot back dual thumbs-ups before he pressed down on it.
Moments later, the human returned, lying on the tiles with a bit of an embarrassed frown, but hopped straight back to his feet and into the trial once more.
“You’ve got this A-ran!”
This time, the human didn’t even look back, just restarted the trial.
He sure is dete...
2025-07-24 19:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Err, yeah. It’s pronounced Aaron, but close enough. So, you’re Mo’han, I take it?”
“That’s me! Have we met? How did you know my name?”
“What? No. I just inspected you.”
“Oh, right,” the comically muscled man face-palmed. “These System features take a little getting used to. I keep forgetting others can employ the abilities I can.”
“Didn’t they go through that stuff with you in the Tutori...
2025-07-23 19:35:21 +0000 UTC View PostAaron immediately accepted the offer. Though it was weird and a little awkward doing it whilst Yendal stared him down. But most importantly, moderate? That was better than minor, right?
“So, are you just going to stare at me?”
“Oh, right,” Aaron nervously nodded and checked the blessing offer.
Moderate Blessing of Yendal the Empty-Handed.
Provides: Supreme Senses. Balance, control, and t...
2025-07-22 19:48:20 +0000 UTC View PostReappearing in the obsidian hallway, Aaron’s expression hardened with determination.
“Well, if that’s the way it’s going to be, then fine,” he muttered as he stuffed the strange, glowing radish that he had won from the quest into his pouch and engaged in the fourth stage of the trial.
Appearing before Yendal on a platform suspended in the sky, Aaron shot forward, passing through clouds as he closed the distance without a ...
2025-07-21 20:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostLeaping out from the water, Aaron shot straight across to the closet lizardmen, charging up his [ Overclocked Haymaker ] as he ran.
The closest lizard barely managed to turn its yellow, reptilian eye toward him in time to catch a glimpse of the powered-up punch coming its way before its head disintegrated into meat chunks.
The other lizards shared a terrified look and raised their weapons. This was an actual town, ...
2025-07-20 20:37:08 +0000 UTC View PostMindbending Punch [ Rare ] This attack doesn’t just harm your opponent's body, but their mental state as well. When activated, Mindbending Punch fills the user’s fists with mental energy that bursts free on contact, releasing an attack that harms both the target’s body and mind.
Seismic Palm [ Rare ] Send the rippling force of your power tremoring through the world. When activated, Seismic Palm releases a t...
2025-07-19 21:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe cackling laughter erupting from the pit boss felt like a hammer as it slammed into him, pushing Aaron several feet back as he raised his hands in a fruitless defense. What was so much worse than that, though, was that the echoing laughter seemed to fill his head, making it nearly impossible to think.
“Get out!” Aaron roared, and an amused smirk played on the mad pit boss’ face.
Then, he flashed forward. In a near instant,...
2025-07-17 22:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostExtra wasn’t even the start of it, Aaron thought as he bolted from the miners on all fours. Because being normal is just too fucking hard, isn’t it?
Foaming at the mouth, barking as they leap toward him, Aaron could only shake his head as he glanced back over his shoulder. Either the multiverse was a very strange place, or these trials really liked to collect weirdos.
However, there were advantages to having rather fas...
2025-07-16 20:59:57 +0000 UTC View PostWith his newly upgraded Alpha Trait, the ball game became a breeze. After he died a dozen more times, it still took him some time to get used to, but with the trait upgraded, the strain on his mind and soul was drastically reduced, and he could actually manipulate the threads a bit. It still took a little while to actually “weave” them together, but he managed to do it. It wasn’t as precise as he would have liked, but the numbered holes ...
2025-07-15 20:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, altering the threads of fate was much more difficult when the base thread was constantly moving, as it was with the clown game. At the expense of cranial comfort, he could see the many threads he could force the ball onto, but there were so many that by the time he found the one that took the ball where he wanted it to go, the clown’s mouth had moved and the base thread was going a completely different direction. Generally,...
2025-07-14 20:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostAaron mused over what trial to take next once he made it back to the hallway. He kinda wanted to jump straight into the fourth stage of the Trial of Endurance, but it was probably better to save until after he hit level 20. The fourth stage was meant to be a significant difficulty spike, after all. And he needed to tie the skills he had cultivated together before that.
He decided to go with the Trial of Survival. He figured he still need...
2025-07-13 20:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostTaking a seat on one of the sofas in the viewing room, Sooty bounced eagerly beside Aaron.
“So, what about your next skill?”
“Wait, you can’t just leave me hanging like that. You mentioned other races back in the crafting station. Are there really going to be other races on Superearth? Like aliens?”
“I'm not sure why you insist on calling it Superearth,” Douglas chimed in, having accompanied them to the viewing ...
2025-07-12 21:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostStepping into the trial, he saw it. It was the threads of fate, diverging from the shadow before him. Hundreds of paths the shadow could take every second. Some were barely distinguishable from one another, whilst others moved in entirely different directions.
This was it. What he needed to master if he wanted to be able to keep pace and predict this superior foe.
His first few attempts at the trial went just about as w...
2025-07-12 02:04:51 +0000 UTC View PostAaron made his way to the trial dial and selected Yendal the Empty-Handed as he had planned.
He knew the shadow was going to be stronger than the last he had fought, but he hadn’t expected the tiny arena to be replaced by a huge colosseum. As he looked across at the calm, unmoving shadow, select floor tiles flipped over, exposing a flaming descent beneath the arena before flipping back around.
Okay, that’s new.
B...
2025-07-12 02:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post“So that’s the mortal you’ve been watching?” said a stunning silver-haired woman with spider legs protruding from her back. “I never expected you to take an interest in some F-grade nobody.”
“Oh, you’re back,” said Yendal, not even glancing over. Her eyes were glued to the screens that took over the entire wall of her viewing room.
“You don’t have to act so surprised. Also, you didn't answer my question....
2025-07-11 19:47:27 +0000 UTC View Post