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The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 323
<< Chapter 322 | Index| Chapter 324 >>Ronan was sitting cross-legged in the middle of a thousand dissolving Orken corpses. The largest of them lay beside him, or at least the remnants of it did. A single punch had been enough to kill the mini-boss despite the fact it was a level 350 monster. Ronan had such high hopes for the mini-boss fight, but to be disappointed yet again by his opponent being too weak and dying in one punch made him feel like his favourite bald superhero. Despite that, he wasn’t going to give up purely because of frustrati...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 322
<< Chapter 321| Index| Chapter 323 >>Ronan skimmed through his status when he returned. There wasn’t much point looking through it when he’d checked it out right before the iteration began. After skipping through the rigmarole of getting into the right tutorial, he was yanked into the shifting void for a brief moment and then dumped unceremoniously into the streets of London.His surroundings didn’t shock him, as most of his nightmare tutorial attempts had brought him to his home city. A few of the attempts had sent him to the coast or oth...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 321
<< Chapter 320 | Index| Chapter 322 >>The cost to temper Surging Strikes from legendary to mythical was expensive, but not prohibitive. Ronan still had plenty of useless skills to burn, and he put a dozen of them into the forge as fuel to prepare for the upgrades he was performing. The moment it reached the required amount of fuel, he began the tempering process once more.[Surging Strikes (Legendary)] has been tempered and grown more powerful![Surging Strikes (Legendary)] has become [Surging Strikes (Mythical)]!Surging Strikes (Mythical): By co...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 320
<< Chapter 319| Index| Chapter 321 >>It was time for a long-overdue session in the Chronos Forge. Ronan had spent almost a hundred iterations doing nothing but practicing his abilities and gaining new masteries. The end result of that was his vastly improved combat strength and the litany of new masteries and spells he had acquired, but also a very, very large number of skills and traits had joined his status, turning it into a truly lengthy read.While quite a few of them were useful to him, the vast majority were either so average it wasn’t ...
Dao of Healing Book 1 Publishing Announcement!
Happy New Year to everyone who uses the Gregorian Calendar! I hope you had a fantastic time with friends, family, or in the comfort of your own company.Book 1 of Dao of Healing is now available on Amazon and Audible. It's quite a circular moment as the book is being published on the same day that Dao of Healing was first released on Royal Road at the start of 2025! I apologise for the sudden stub, I should have announced things a while back but as you already all know I've been a bit inconsistent recently. In any case, Dao of Healing ha...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 319
<< Chapter 318 | Index| Chapter 320 >>Brown hair that fell just above his eyes, pale skin that was just a shade darker than a sheet of paper, and glistening amber eyes that seemed like a drop of infinite honey; the face of death.Ronan stared at the man who had just torn open reality and stepped out in front of him. The world was frozen. Nothing could move in the presence of the new arrival. Ronan could barely breathe. His mere presence was suffocating.Ronan glanced at the tag that floated above the man. It was just question marks. No name, no l...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 318
<< Chapter 317| Index| Chapter 319 >>The knowledge the Tellen had of their sector was overwhelming. Ronan now knew the live location of every single creature that Serenaeth 7 could sense with its roots and awareness, the composition of the soil and stone that made up the ground, the minerals it contained, the composition of the air, all of the people who had emerged from the tutorials and were living in the sector, whether they were humans, those weird elf-like creatures, the shapeshifters, or just mutated foxes and other animals. There was far...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 317
<< Chapter 316 | Index| Chapter 318 >>Ronan had taken a seat on the mossy ground of the grove to listen to Serenaeth 7 tell him the story of the Tellen’s second encounter with a member of the Chronos Clan. He was eager to hear it, and learn more about what those who possessed the same heritage as him were capable of; what he might one day be capable of doing.The second member of the Chronos Clan that we encountered was Karazor. It was one of our pioneers who met with the unassuming woman on the dark continent of our old world. Back then, the ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 316
<< Chapter 315| Index| Chapter 317 >>The savage slicer cut into Lord Rockmore’s chest with ease, drawing a stream of blood that dripped down the white shirt he wore. Ironically, the wound the sword carved into the bastard was a clean cut, the polar opposite of its name.I guess all that work wasn’t for nothing. This thing wouldn’t last more than a few attacks against something like those kaijus, but it’s certainly fantastic for short term battling. The only issue is that I feel like my conjured weapons are still far superior, so perhaps ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 315
<< Chapter 314 | Index| Chapter 316 >>None of the sword-blades Ronan had forged until that point had earned a handle. Most of them would break after one swing empowered with his mana. This one might survive just two or three, but he at least wanted recognition from the system for his effort. Even if it was just a few more points in the relevant masteries.He had practiced making a few handles up until that point, but the process wasn’t too difficult. Rather than go for anything particularly complex, he simply opted for a basic wooden handle. H...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 314
<< Chapter 313| Index| Chapter 315 >>Ronan wasn’t sure what to do when he saw the notification. His first instinct, one borne of dozens of lives fighting against the foxes and a few painful deaths to the Trickster itself, made him want to rush to the tower and take it down so that he could reclaim the sector pillar for himself. However, a rational part of his mind prevailed. There was no need to do so.He didn’t have to complete every objective in every single life. He was busy crafting, and whatever happened with the sector pillar wouldn’...
Timeskip Arc update
I'm not really sure how to start this one, as it was quite difficult to get back on here after so long, but here goes.To be honest I don't know what happened at the end of October in regards to everything but I got hit with a massive episode of seasonal depression combined with burnout from basically writing nonstop for 2 years straight, which compounded with just feeling generally listless. At first I was still writing but just less than usual and then I just woke up one morning and stared at my laptop for like three hours without bein...
Schedule Poll
Based on the results of the last poll, there is about a 50/50 split between those wanting to keep the old schedule and those who are happy to roll with whatever I decide, while a small contingent of readers supported the once-a-week bulk upload schedule. To strike something of a balance between all three and to ensure I can keep putting out chapters while staying happy, I've decided to post twice a week in chunks of 5-7 TAG Chapters and 1-3 Dao Chapters. Please choose the option listing the two days you would prefer I upload on.
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 313
<< Chapter 312 | Index| Chapter 314 >>In the next iteration Ronan managed to not break the second bucket when learning how to forge ingots. An unfortunate quirk of how Brand of the Temporal Artificer functioned was that anything inside the Survivalist’s Portable Forge remained in the same condition across iterations. Any tools or equipment he broke would stay broken until he fixed them or found a replacement. Thankfully it had come equipped with a collection of metal buckets for melting metal inside, and Ronan hadn’t shot himself in the foo...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 312
<< Chapter 311| Index| Chapter 313 >>Ronan had no idea what he was doing when it came to crafting items. He had made a few basic weapons from the sea monster parts he’d acquired during that particular scenario of the nightmare difficulty tutorial, but they had been a far cry from even the weapons he received from the endless treasury. If he was talking about making himself gear that was worthy of being branded and made permanent, then he doubted he would reach a high enough proficiency in crafting and forging in a hundred iterations to do tha...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 311
<< Chapter 310 | Index| Chapter 312 >>Ronan failed to defeat the nightmare difficulty tutorial against the strange mutated griffin-like creatures. In stage 4 the bosses ended up being even stronger than the twin kaijus and killed him. He suspected his far-less powerful class also contributed to the loss. However, he didn’t much mind as his real goal was, at that moment, to read through the list of masteries.Thankfully he was able to do that while still in his clan’s ancestral grounds. There was no need to begin the next iteration just yet.[...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 310
<< Chapter 309| Index| Chapter 311 >>Ronan reached the penultimate mastery notification and a smile appeared on his face. It was almost what he had been hoping for. While it wasn’t the exact mastery he had expected to merge, it made sense. He hadn’t used stealth at all in the last battle.[Perception II], [Breath I], [Meditation II], and [Focus II] Mastery have been assimilated into [Control II] Mastery!You have perfect control over your own micro-movements. Gain a minor boost to sensory awareness that is increased when you are standing stil...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 309
<< Chapter 308 | Index| Chapter 310 >>The nightmare tutorial scenario he had encountered on his weapons mastery merging attempt turned out to be suitable. Rather than another trial of shapeshifting and twisted emotions against the gorzerk, Ronan found himself face to face with two enormous beasts that seemed to be a hybrid abomination formed from an eagle, a lizard, a tiger, and some kind of goat. Wherever the hell they came from, Ronan planned to send them back with extreme prejudice, but only after using them as a whetstone for his developing...
October Update + Reader POLL
Anyone on my discord has already read the announcement, but I wanted to post it here too just in case some of you aren't in the server. Thanks for your patience the past week with irregular uploads. I will aim to post more chapters for Dao of Healing next week and get to a more stable schedule with TAG.I thought it would be worth making a poll about the upload schedule after a suggestion from one of the readers in discord.Would you prefer to stay with current schedule (2x daily TAG, 4x weekly Dao), or would you rather have one big drop at t...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 308
<< Chapter 307| Index| Chapter 309 >>The warden went down the moment the conjured trident pierced through his armour and flesh. “What the hell do you think you are doing, I—” The alien didn’t get another word out before a dagger slashed his arm open from shoulder to wrist. Blue blood started to pour from the wound, but Ronan quickly sealed it. He didn’t want to end this too fast.“Right, tell me everything you know about this prison, including where the most dangerous inmates are kept and the best ways to get out.” He at least want...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 307
<< Chapter 306 | Index| Chapter 308 >>Piercing weapons mastery was slightly more difficult to obtain than slashing or blunt weapons mastery. Part of the reason for that was that many of the weapons which had been assimilated into slashing weapons mastery could also be used to pierce. Ronan didn’t want to ignore them, but he decided to mostly focus on weapons which had piercing or thrusting as a main form of dealing damage. He could start with the spear as the most obvious example, but his spear mastery was already impressive and there were mo...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 306
<< Chapter 305| Index| Chapter 307 >>Ronan revelled in the gaining of more body combat masteries. Fighting with his fists had been how he started in the integration. While he had died painfully quite a few times in brawls with goblins, that didn’t take away the pure thrill of pitting himself physically against an opponent and seeing who would come out on top.The only downside was that most of the monsters he faced in the lower difficulty tutorials weren’t much of a threat to him. Even with Perfectionist offering less stat points than other ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 305
<< Chapter 304 | Index| Chapter 306>>Ronan managed to defeat the spider monkeys all the way up to stage 4. The mini-boss there hadn’t been as challenging to defeat as Spinodoxis. Ronan reckoned that was purely because he was on land and not in the ocean, meaning that the monsters had less of a terrain advantage. However, they did use the skyscrapers like giant trees to jump around on, which made them hard to hit.In the end he still killed it and made out like a bandit. Before entering stage 5 he used the two shards he received to attempt to p...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 304
<< Chapter 303| Index| Chapter 305 >>Raising his cultivation wasn’t going to be difficult, but it would certainly be a hassle. The Path of the Gladiator was an unreliable source of shards. In fact, it could even be considered inferior to the tutorials of a lower difficulty. That was simply due to the fact there were very few elite monsters on that path. For Ronan, the most optimal place to find shards that would help boost his cultivation was the nightmare difficulty tutorial with its overpowered bosses and mini-bosses, but unfortunately the ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 303
<< Chapter 302 | Index| Chapter 304>>Ronan stared at the Chronos Forge. He was tempted to work on some of his skills, but he knew that he didn’t have enough skills to burn for fuel. That was fine. He had decided not to head back into the nightmare difficulty tutorial for the time being and instead grind a bunch of skills, traits, and raise his cultivation and masteries across the board.Of course, there was a chance that the administrator would still interfere with his tutorial run even if it was a lower difficulty. That was simply a risk he w...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 302
<< Chapter 301| Index| Chapter 303 >>Right before Ronan’s combined spear-strike that was layered with practically every offensive skill he possessed struck the magic-immune boss, the two kaijus used their skill to switch places. He had successfully fooled them into believing his conjured weapon strikes with the spear could only deal physical damage. And they had fallen for his ploy hook, line, and sinker.The boss that was completely immune to physical damage and yet highly susceptible to magic attacks appeared in front of him and took the ful...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 301
<< Chapter 300 | Index| Chapter 302>>Ronan barely registered the multiple plip noises before a dozen holes opened in his body. He started to use Suture Wound but at that moment both bosses attacked, leaping at him in an attempt to prevent him from recovering. Ronan cursed and let a few mana bolts fly, keeping the magic-weak kaiju at bay.Unfortunately they did little against the boss that had magic immunity. He was forced to conjure a sword and do his best to defend while bleeding from the gaping wounds that had opened up across his body. He fai...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 300
<< Chapter 299| Index| Chapter 301 >>Ronan watched with horror as the chunks of flesh and dismembered scales that floated on the surface of the sea started to move. Where smaller pieces of the boss touched, they merged into a larger whole. The shock of there being no kill notification after he had blown Azbab up was one thing, but watching it regenerate from nothing was another.Unfortunately for the boss Ronan was no dithering idiot. Unlike the foolish villains in most popular shows and comics, he wasn’t going to sit around while his enemy re...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 299
<< Chapter 298 | Index| Chapter 300>>Ronan wasn’t sure what would hit first, but he knew that his spell would strike true. The boss’ leap was towards him, but not quite as direct as the first few of its attacks had been. The spell arced as Mark of the Eternal Seeker drew it towards its intended target. He held his breath, then realised how stupid that was and conjured a sword while jumping towards the boss. He wanted to be ready to follow up on the spell, knowing that one would surely not be enough to guarantee victory.His belief held. The ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 298
<< Chapter 297| Index| Chapter 299 >>The creature was on him before he could react. Ronan had a fraction of a second to figure out what he was going to do. He used his new skill. Altered Destiny grabbed hold of reality and tore it sideways, sending a disturbing ripple through his body as his own fate was changed. Instead of the monster bursting through his torso and eviscerating it, the dark, scaled form sailed through empty air and travelled for another few hundred metres before diving back under the water’s surface.Ronan’s breath came sho...
