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Chapter 551 - Embedded Agents & Finance Majors
“Are you absolutely sure young Eric here wouldn’t like to major in drama and holovid casting?” The officiously dressed man with irises such a dark shade of violet they could pass for black pulled out a folded cloth and patted dry his forehead. “In addition to our esteemed fine arts, business, and physical mastery programs, Westwind Academy is also renowned for its performance arts and communication curriculums.”Eric blinked at the completely unexpected curriculum push from what he supposed would be his guidance counselor. Still, he di...
Chapter 550 - Unexpected Breakthroughs
The next day found Eric meditating in his favorite garden spot at the crack of dawn, doing his absolute best to feel the disparate flows of Spiritual Energy tingle against his peripheral meridians, even if his ridiculously clogged major meridians didn’t feel their passage at all.He suppressed the sharp spike of dismay.He wasn’t here to regret that which he might have lost… that which he had had no choice but to sacrifice, in order to raise an army of 3 million and put his old man DOWN!No.He was here to coax at least one more peripheral st...
Chapter 549 - Tests, Training & Ice Cream!
“Eric? Is it true?”Eric smiled at Louise’s question, though most of his focus was on punching out the right holes on his multiple choice examination, surprised both by how fascinating he found even the hints as to this world’s origins to be, though he was confident he had failed that portion utterly, refusing to fake it, since he actually wanted to learn what he needed to know… and surprised by how comfortable he was with the math and grammar portion.Clearly, his elevated Scholarship along with Battletime and a much-needed nap was giv...
Chapter 548 - Garden Meditations
A dinner of grilled whitefish with a tangy lemon sauce, jasmine-infused rice, and fresh vegetables was surpassed only by the chocolate cake A dinner of grilled whitefish with a tangy lemon sauce, jasmine-infused rice, and fresh vegetables was surpassed only by the chocolate cake and homemade ice cream that tasted exactly like happiness, and Eric most definitely wasn’t tearing up, though he did make sure to tall Maja a bedtime story before turning in himself and declaring it, all in all, a very good day.But he refused to play the idiot or risk...
Chapter 547 - Any time is sling time!
Eric gently tucked in a sleeping Maja as Hanna saw to Ella's comfort, a soft whimper slipping from her pressed lips before both girls eased Eric gently tucked in a sleeping Maja as Hanna saw to Ella's comfort, a soft whimper slipping from her pressed lips before both girls eased into deeper sleep as Hanna sung a soft, motherly lullaby.“Thank you,” she whispered once they stepped out of the girls' bedroom, squeezing Eric’s shoulder before blinking in surprise. “You are a strong one, aren’t you?”Eric forced a chuckle. “Y...
Chapter 546 - A Bitter Price Paid
“Eric? Breakfast is ready!” Eric gasped. Finesse check made! You have successfully avoided smashing your new bed! For just a second he was c“Eric? Breakfast is ready!”Eric gasped.Finesse check made! You have successfully avoided smashing your new bed!For just a second he was confused, waking up in an unknown bedroom upon a soft feather-stuffed mattress, beholding a spacious bedroom that included bookcases, polished hardwood furniture, a fluffy throw rug, a writing desk with both quill, ink pot, and vellum, and what looked like an exotic...
Chapter 545 - Woodland Magic
“This is our stop, kids,” John said when their train came to a surprisingly quiet stop at the outskirts of a quaint little town that looked “This is our stop, kids,” John said when their train came to a surprisingly quiet stop at the outskirts of a quaint little town that looked like something out of a fifties post-card. Even if most of the smiling faces had a Han cast to their features and tiny horns that really did blend into their hairline, such that Eric hardly noticed them by the time they had made their way down the station stairs...
Chapter 544 - Unexpected Companions
A/N - As you might have noticed, our tale is ta
Chapter 543 - Disguised as Himself
“Good morning, young sir,” the uniformed customs officer he approached, greeted him with a surprisingly sincere smile. “Are your parents com“Good morning, young sir,” the uniformed customs officer he approached, greeted him with a surprisingly sincere smile. “Are your parents coming? We find it best to process our guests as a family. Better for everyone, and we wouldn’t want to scare your folk if they can’t find you.”Eric blinked, feeling a moment’s surreal bemusement.This clean-cut uniformed man who didn’t exert any Qi pr...
Chapter 542 - A Fresh Start!
“We’re here, sir. Immigration’s straight down the central corridor. You can’t miss it,” said the deferential young lieutenant opening the sh“We’re here, sir. Immigration’s straight down the central corridor. You can’t miss it,” said the deferential young lieutenant opening the shuttle door for a bemused Eric, now finding himself in a docking bay overlooking automatic doors leading inside what looked like a massive airport. He noted that he was far from the only person looking to cross the jump gate, catching sight of what mu...
Chapter 541 - Love, Conquest, and New Adventures!
“Ooh. Someone really IS enjoying Captain Kirking his way through the universe!” The teasing voice of Eric’s closest friend quipped, pulling “Ooh. Someone really IS enjoying Captain Kirking his way through the universe!” The teasing voice of Eric’s closest friend quipped, pulling him to luxurious wakefulness.Before he suppressed a groan, jolted by that awful ache in his bones, the painful almost-cramping in every muscle that were simultaneously so explosively powerful that it was beyond any comic-book representation he’d ever seen....
Chapter 540 - Hyperion Cores & Bubble Baths
Eric’s thoughts were whirling as he allowed a surprisingly anxious-looking admiral to lead him through multiple bridges, passageways, elevatEric’s thoughts were whirling as he allowed a surprisingly anxious-looking admiral to lead him through multiple bridges, passageways, elevators and corridors of uniform shiny chrome, steel, and soothing pastel colors that somehow didn’t take the edge off the sharp tension radiating from the entire quintet of elite Engineers surrounding him, all of them murmuring chants that at any other place and time...
Chapter 539 - Flying off to fresh new adventures!
Eric took great big wheezing gasps of air as the gentle golden sunlight caressed his skin, saturating him with warmth, hope, and life-givingEric took great big wheezing gasps of air as the gentle golden sunlight caressed his skin, saturating him with warmth, hope, and life-giving Spiritual Energy. And how odd it was, for his running to be as effortless and glorious as a dream while his cells screamed for sustenance as he raced a micrometer above the train tracks, moving as fast as a Self-Tube jet video spinning across the continent. He found so...
Chapter 538 - Total War Mode Activated!
“Did the System just shout that to the entire world? How the fuck did Eric manage to get past 3700 in two attributes? How powerful even is t“Did the System just shout that to the entire world? How the fuck did Eric manage to get past 3700 in two attributes? How powerful even is that? Like, superman power? Super Punch Man power? And Elonia’s glowing! And my interface is congratulating me for joining a faction that’s now spread across the entire continent! You just know she got some major power-ups,” Yuki whispered to her partner as the...
Chapter 537 - Crimson Feast
Congratulations! You have successfully destroyed: Doomsday Device! You have successfully subdued the American Administrative Counsel! You haCongratulations! You have successfully destroyed: Doomsday Device!You have successfully subdued the American Administrative Counsel!You have successfully completed the auxiliary-granted quest: Conflict Resolution! This Advanced White-Tier quest has granted you the boon of: 15 Spiritual Energy and the positive regard of your sifu, sensei, mentor, and one-time lover who is so seeks to infuse Gold-Tier Phoenix...
Chapter 536 - Wrath of the Phoenix
The air rang with the sound of monstrously thick bloodsteel bands exploding as Eric howled with a berserker’s fury. Hroka stumbled back, widThe air rang with the sound of monstrously thick bloodsteel bands exploding as Eric howled with a berserker’s fury.Hroka stumbled back, wide-eyed, blood trickling from his ears as he was braced by a grimacing Caliban, peering at the howling beast with undisguised hope as Hroka’s heart quailed with despair. Yet the court roared and cheered, eyes wild with fey passions and fearsome intensity as the mons...
Chapter 535 - Class evolution... for a price.
Eric howled with furious despair, desperate to understand out how such a hideous curse could have such powerful hold on him. His disbelievinEric howled with furious despair, desperate to understand out how such a hideous curse could have such powerful hold on him. His disbelieving eyes grew wide with dismay as he sensed the thin crimson chain covered in thorns and familial blood binding him not just to the memory of a foe’s final spite-filled act… but to the literal millions of valiant warriors, his revenants he had forged into what had amm...
Battleforged: Phoenix Fire is live!
Book 5 is finally out, my friends, and I'm so very grateful for all your encouragement and support during the process! It was a treat editinBook 5 is finally out, my friends, and I'm so very grateful for all your encouragement and support during the process! It was a treat editing polishing Eric's adventures from first being trapped in a maze with little more than a collar around his neck to taking on the entire goblin faction in all his blazing glory.If you wanted to show your support, that would truly be epic, since nothing helps ...
Chapter 534 - Sore Losers
At that moment the theater-sized screen that the entire feasting hall was staring at so intently suddenly crackled to life, revealing dozensAt that moment the theater-sized screen that the entire feasting hall was staring at so intently suddenly crackled to life, revealing dozens of chillingly familiar figures gathered together in what looked more like a sterile concrete bunker than the grandiose chambers filled with all the trappings of wealth and power that Eric would have expected of the assembled powers of the united North American Counsel....
Chapter 533 - Death's Disciple
Elonia took a shuddering breath, heart clenching as she took in the sight of her brother taking on a half dozen heavily warded Inquisitors. Elonia took a shuddering breath, heart clenching as she took in the sight of her brother taking on a half dozen heavily warded Inquisitors.Elonia took a shuddering breath, heart clenching as she took in the sight of her brother taking on a half dozen heavily warded Inquisitors. All of them radiating death’s promise. All of them armed to the teeth.And as became utterly clear, they weren’t going to hold b...
Chapter 532 - Autumn's Harvest
“Surrender your throne, you silly fool of a girl. Surrender it before I tear that crown free of your skull!” Irene’s polished smile twisted “Surrender your throne, you silly fool of a girl. Surrender it before I tear that crown free of your skull!” Irene’s polished smile twisted“Surrender your throne, you silly fool of a girl. Surrender it before I tear that crown free of your skull!”Irene’s polished smile twisted into a cold sneer. Her lips curled with a serpentine contempt that all the high end fashion and fifth avenue jewel...
Chapter 531 - Formal Inquisition
The air shook with the roar of flaring anti grav boosters upon the undercarriage of the massive shuttle slowly touching down in the heart ofThe air shook with the roar of flaring anti grav boosters upon the undercarriage of the massive shuttle slowly touching down in the heart of the recently build starport in Freetown, arguably the most technologically sophisticated holding in all of Terra.Or so the diligent-looking Hroka Levalier was briefed by the primly attired woman by his side, different from the powerfully built half dozen agents in impe...
Chapter 530 - Dealing with the devil you know.
“Your Grace, Lord Hroka and his entourage have arrived in port.” Caliban paled, swallowing as his tired eyes rested upon a solemn-faced Niki“Your Grace, Lord Hroka and his entourage have arrived in port.”Caliban paled, swallowing as his tired eyes rested upon a solemn-faced Nikita gently touching his shoulder with her finger, and for a moment it was only them in the increasingly busy command center for the entire Terran Branch of the Blue Federation that had somehow transformed from property trust to full time invest bankers now financi...
Chapter 529 - Bittersweet Triumph
Congratulations! You have successfully bested Contender Hencely Adams Augustus! You have claimed 12 Strength / 14 Vitality / 13 Quickness / Congratulations! You have successfully bested Contender Hencely Adams Augustus! You have claimed 12 Strength / 14 Vitality / 13 Quickness /Congratulations! You have successfully bested Contender Hencely Adams Augustus!You have claimed 12 Strength / 14 Vitality / 13 Quickness / 12 Finesse / 13 Perception / 23 Soul Reserves / 23 Arcane Potential from your prey!Eric choked back a scream that was equal parts ec...
Chapter 528 - Rescue
Hencely’s eyes bulged, clearly outraged at the smirk his foe dared to flash in the face of his own death. “You would dare to mock me with suHencely’s eyes bulged, clearly outraged at the smirk his foe dared to flash in the face of his own death. “You would dare to mock me with such a worthless stat, after you’ve been drained of all strength? Ha! SO BE IT! Men, show this fool what happens to those who oppose us! Fire at will!”The air filled with no less than a dozen clicks… and nothing else.No roar of blackpowder cannons filling th...
Chapter 527 - Guillotine
“The prisoners will step forward, now!” Brittany’s heart wrenched as she choked back a scream from the awful mounting dread consuming her as“The prisoners will step forward, now!”Brittany’s heart wrenched as she choked back a scream from the awful mounting dread consuming her as she was forced one awful step at a time to approach that hideous thing of twisted nightmare fuel that her brutal captors were dragging her and her entire family across the mud-slicked courtyard still ripe with the stench of ruptured bowels and death toward.A...
Chapter 526 - Enemy's Gambit
“The gnolls still claim Plymouth, Newport, New Bedford, and Provincetown. Gnolls which, for some fucking reason, we haven’t even seen yet! T“The gnolls still claim Plymouth, Newport, New Bedford, and Provincetown. Gnolls which, for some fucking reason, we haven’t even seen yet! Then we gotta take out Quincy and finally smash all the fuckers readying for their final push into Boston, if we’re going to free the northeast of those cackling shits once and for all, and give Elonia’s girlfriend, Princess Brittany Summers, the happy ending...
Chapter 525 - Conquest
Congratulations! You have SUCCESSFULLY Raised Gnoll Triple Masted Galleon as a Construct Revenant at the cost of 3/5ths of one Soul Point! CCongratulations! You have SUCCESSFULLY Raised Gnoll Triple Masted Galleon as a Construct Revenant at the cost of 3/5ths of one Soul Point! Construct includes 74 24-Pounder cannons, 450 revenant seamen integral to the functioning of said ship, 780 barrels of gunpowder & 5000 24-pound shells & canisters. All ammunition shall regenerate in full after every battle or after a full 24 hours have passed!You have s...
Chapter 524 - Privateer
Bunbun gave her master a pointed look as they dashed through the air at supersonic speeds. “So… instead of purging earth of every last orc…Bunbun gave her master a pointed look as they dashed through the air at supersonic speeds. “So… instead of purging earth of every last orc…Bunbun gave her master a pointed look as they dashed through the air at supersonic speeds.“So… instead of purging earth of every last orc… we’re bedding them?”Eric flushed. “I couldn’t help it. I was overcome by hotness.”Surprisingly, his famil...
Chapter 523 - Making new friends!
“Hey Orlin, how goes the contract?” The dwarven king, surrounded by his engineers animatedly discussing their most recent project being care“Hey Orlin, how goes the contract?”The dwarven king, surrounded by his engineers animatedly discussing their most recent project being carefully assembled before them, spun around, eyes going comically wide in surprise.“Don’t sneak up on me like that!” The king huffed, the lone pair of honor guard beside him turning to glare a smirking Eric’s way.“You’ll get used to it,” Eric quipped b...
