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[MA] 165. Like a Phoenix Feather
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters this week. Next one on Thursday.]The dark barrier faded over a few seconds while the dark purple frame turned to a lighter shade.For the past days, Shen wondered if the preparations were necessary—if the Rift War was actually real. When he had been in the rift, the D-ranks hadn't appeared until he destroyed the violet ...
[MA] 164. Undeterred Judgment
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 3/3 chapters this week. Next one on Tuesday.]Five hours remained until the battle started.Shen sat cross-legged before the blocked portal, deep in meditation, seeking balance amid a sea of turbulent thoughts.The fight wouldn't be easy. Shen couldn't fight against ten aura users, not alone, and he knew that. How about doing it wit...
[MA] 163. Win or Die Trying
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: This is the last chapter I owe you. Next chapter on Saturday.]Sheen stood on top of a metallic platform with the seven highest-ranking generals in the camp.The five men and two women were well into their late years, the strongest was only low E-rank, and two men weren't even Guardians. Yet, they were modern military officials who had...
[MA] 162. Mana Infusion
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 2/3 chapters this week. I owe you 1 late chapter. Next chapter in a few minutes.]One of the Guardians who had raised his hand previously, an elder with gray hair, plate armor, and a massive shield and mace, raised it again."Yes?" Shen prompted."You said generals will still be able to stop us, right?" the man asked."Ye...
[MA] 161. That's Why You're Here
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters this week. I owe you 1 chapter, which will be released with Thursday's chapter for sure. I wanted to release it today, but I failed.]Shen was surprised yet again when he found Sai and his family midway through to the front desks.Madam Pihu had a small, strange smile on her face. Shen would love to get her into his aura t...
[MA] 160. Glaring Hole
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 3/3 chapters this week. I owe you 1 chapter, which will probably be released with Tuesday's chapter.]Shen entered the blue tent with Alicia by his side. Marzia stayed outside with her retinue.The tent was more like a huge, quickly assemblable building than an actual tent. It had a small reception before a long corridor that led to mu...
[MA] 159. How Could Anyone Say Otherwise?
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/2 chapters I owe you. I now owe you 1 chapter. Next chapter on Saturday.]Sai walked hand-to-hand with his sister with a deep frown. Shen's ultimatum felt wrong. Wrong, and twisted, and... expected, in hindsight.Shen was a xianxia cultivator in real life. Sai had read about cultivator rigidness in some stories and liked Shen's s...
[MA] 158. Big Mama
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 2/3 chapters this week. I owe you 2 chapters. Next one in a few minutes.]As expected, one of the teleporting visitors was Marzia Martino.The sixteen years old Italian was 6"1' with short reddish-brown hair and eyes of the same color—likely because of the system's changes when ranking her up or increasing her stats. She wore...
[MA] 157. Practical Honor
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters this week. I owe you 2 chapters. Next one on Thursday]"Sai?" Shen said over the phone. His guard had just frozen in place after Shen's apology."Sorry," Sai said. "I... uh... Will Ananya be fine if she keeps going into your aura?""I regularly visit the commoners' military training area,"...
[MA] 156. Madam Pihu
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters I owe you. I now owe you 2 chapters. Next chapter on Tuesday.]Shen's policy on his aura was simple: he would rather no one had to feel it and would go out of his way to prevent unnecessary discomfort.However, everyone was fair game until the Rift War was over.Almost every single person in the area was there to fight, wit...
[MA] 155. Set of Laws
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N:3/3 chapters this week. I owe you 3 chapters. Next one in a few minutes.]Shen was waiting for Alicia to bring Sai when he received a system message.=Alliance-Enforced Race-Wide Set of LawsNew laws are now in vigor for your race.This is the first time your race is placed under Alliance-Enforced Race-Wide laws. Therefore, this time only, yo...
[MA] 154. How Dare You?!
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 2/3 chapters this week. Next one on Saturday.]Shen left Alicia four hundred yards away from a big blue tent. She kept moving despite how conflicted she felt with the new arrival.On the one hand, Sai was another partner in crime, so to say. He and Alicia were Shen's only faithful companions, and she wanted someone relatable to talk to...
[MA] 153. Again?
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters this week. Next one in a few minutes.]Sai's relief was quickly replaced with something his senses were screaming at him from the moment he had noticed the blur approaching. He had ignored it simply because Shen had approached so fast, and his mind had been overwhelmed with the reencounter. He immediately regretted it.She...
[MA] 152. Latest Fashion
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter [A/N: 3/3 chapters this week. Next one on Tuesday.An important note: I'll make a trip on Thursday and return the following Tuesday. That's three days' worth of chapters. I plan on keeping the schedule, but if I fail, I'll release them later. They shall not be skipped.]"I still can't believe you spent four hundred thous...
[MA] 151. Allow, Preserve, and Protect
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: A bit of a slow chapter, but a necessary one. Things will start to gain momentum from the next chapter onward.2/3 this week. Next one on Saturday.]"Not just any smartphone," Alicia said with a conspirational tone and approached. "An alien smartphone," she whispered."Are you sure that's wise?" he insisted, igno...
[MA] 150. She'll Live
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters this week. We're back on track! Next one on Thursday.]Evelyn was covered in blood.Some belonged to her fallen enemies but most was hers. Her left shoulder had three bullet holes, her scalp and the right part of her face had been heavily damaged by shrapnel, her two legs were cut right below the waist, her left arm only w...
[MA] 149. Unfortunately Not Today
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 2/3 chapters this week. Next one on Saturday.]"What kind of video?" Alicia asked."I want to explain what happened to me. The world must know the Guardian System and the Alliance aren't trustworthy. The system lied to me about Valentina's rank, which goes contrary to what we were taught, and the Alliance let a strong b...
[MA] 148. Blockade
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters this week. Next one in a few minutes.]Shen woke up lying in the backseat of an abandoned car. Alicia had found a light blanket somewhere and covered him with it.The sleep had done him good; it had helped his mind and body relax after everything he had been through. His father had been right to take sporadic naps despite theo...
Correction, I'll return on July, not August
In case you read the previous post too quickly, or got it by email, the return date is July 4th, not August.Sorry!
I'll return next week, July 4th
TL;DR: Adapting to medicine + COVID made returning this month impossible. I'll return next week with 3 chapters/week. No patrons will be charged on July 1st. I'm sorry.So, here's the update on everything going on with my mental health.As most of you know, I started my treatment taking a bit of anxiety medicine, then I took 2 doses of 5mg of ADHD medicine per day (so, 10mg/day).Let me t...
About May Chapters
Alright people, it looks like the medicine thought I was mocking it and decided to hit harder right after I posted the schedule. I just can't write. To make things worse, my next visit to the doctor got postponed a week to May 26th, so I won't have the advantage of extra focus (given by ADHD medicine) to write.Therefore, I'll take May as a forced vacation month. Patrons will not be cha...
[MA] 147. Excuses
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 3/3 chapters from last week. I said there would be 2 today, but I'm still exhausted. One tomorrow or two on Thursday.]Pikun, the Superintendent of the Buffer Universe, was floating not too far from the Milky Way Galaxy.The Primordial Universe was at the very center of the Multiverse Alliance—or as close to it as physically possible...
May 2022 Release Schedule
(The content here is the same that I shared on Discord, except condensed and better presented. If you already read it there, no need to read it here.)I'm currently 6 chapters behind. This is how I plan on working this out this month. Also, important notice on possible release rate reduction next month.The release schedule for this month will be:This week: at least two chapters, leaving me 9 ch...
[MA] 146. Honorable Carnage
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: As someone commented in the previous chapter, I messed up the learning ability upgrade price.It originally wasn't meant to be subjected to the Pioneer Tutorial's discount, but I later changed my mind when setting up the economy at length. However, I didn't fix the price in my spreadsheet.After thinking about it, I realized th...
[MA] 145. Subpar Weapon
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 chapters this week. We're back on track! Next one on Thursday.]Destroying a single monolith didn't restore Shen's ability to use his blocked Concepts. He was still limited, though he kept improving.As he had expected, within minutes, he further refined his movements to decrease qi expenditure and increase effectiveness. H...
[MA] 144. Devastation Quota
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 3/3 chapters from last week. Next one in a few minutes]Liya was slightly surprised at being detected by Feng Shen, but she should've seen that coming. His aura wasn't typical.She took a few moments to understand how he could naturally use his body to double his aura's power, then it dawned on her: his dragon genes.She had nev...
[MA] 143. Ever Again
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 2/3 this week. Next one tomorrow (Sunday) or Tuesday.]Shen had been ready to die, but then the world changed.It didn't get brighter or darker, nothing new appeared in his field of view, and space and time weren't affected. Yet, everything was different for him.Feng Shen was himself again.He had a moment, a split second, to parse ...
[MA] 142. Not My Call to Make
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 1/3 this week. Next one in a few minutes.]Earth was too weak to withstand an S-rank for too long. The rift's artificially crafted space, fortunately, wasn't. The portal blinked out as an overwhelming presence descended upon the world.The Universe's Superintendent wouldn't want anyone to witness or feel them. Earth was on ...
[MA] 141. Despair
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: 2/4 chapters this week. Next ones on Saturday.]Liya arrived at the basement where her charge had gone crazy. She still couldn't get the system to show her what had happened there, which was why she was investigating at all.She focused on feeling the surrounding energies. She wasn't an expert energy manipulator; her approach to ma...
[MA] 140. Expenditure
Previous Chapter — Table of Contents — Next Chapter[A/N: Sorry for the delay!I was trying not to bother you with my mental health issues, but after two delayed chapters, I think I owe you an explanation. So, here were go again.TL;DR: I messed up my routine, and it messed up everything.Long version:As you probably know, I'm undergoing ADHD treatment. It was going great until I went on a tri...
