“Master-Captain Vomir, respond! What is happening beyond the abyssal gateway?
Master Captain Vormir! Vomir! Respond!
Respond, or I will have you flayed and made into an effigy.
Vormir!”
-Gate Lord Confriga
II-39
Distraction
“Shiv, Shiv, where are you?”
Adam came out from the gateway with four sets of arm...
2025-06-29 14:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post—Confidential—
[Ambient Mana Recognized — Incoming Message from Inquisitor-Master Sijik]
Oldsmith, if you are receiving hold your position, tell my acolytes to hold as well. Stay out of danger.
I am deploying a specialist to ensure that Gate Lord Confriga understands where he stands in this arrangement. Do you understand? Im...
2025-06-29 08:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostI have discovered you cannot bump people across tiers. I will brainstorm how to adjust in the meantime. For now, say as you are. More chapters from Deathless + Godclads and TTF soon too.
2025-06-28 18:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostMany strategists and military intellectuals like to proclaim gates as hard points of significant difficulty. I disagree. I think gates are logistical and structural vulnerabilities.
Most of them, anyway.
Most military people like to think of a situation as a clash of forces, flinging Pathbearers against heavily armed defenses and adversaries. Of course yo...
2025-06-28 18:02:17 +0000 UTC View PostA Pathbearer is more than their own skills, their team, their strategy.
A Pathbearer is also their equipment.
Your equipment will keep you alive. It will make you better. It will shore up your weaknesses and enhance your strengths.
If you have the right piece of equipment, you can face a Pathbearer a Tier above you—even beat them decisive...
2025-06-28 14:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone, prepare to get upgraded for a period. I will be capping Fated chapter access for Deathless with the RR release, but I'll make sure you guys can keep reading ahead for at least a few months more with the new Tier. Details soon to come.
2025-06-27 20:22:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Who are you?”
“I am… Sir Galloway. I am a Dragon Knight. I am—I am Master-Tier. My strongest skill is The Sword Ascending.”
“And what have you become?”
“Your empty vessel, taken, twisted, broken. An echo of me has been brought back through Necromancy.”
“And why have you become this?”
“Becau...
2025-06-27 20:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostI tell you this, as a Master Tier War Mage: I’ve fought and killed just about everything—every kind of enemy, from primal dragons to ogres, orcs, dimensionals, undead… you name it.
But there is one type of enemy I want nothing to do with, and that’s a Psychomancer.
I don’t care what your personality is like as a Psychomancer. I don’t care if you’r...
2025-06-27 13:04:11 +0000 UTC View PostA tribe has been reborn. They have been restored.
This cannot be. This cannot be allowed. The Creator’s song must never play again. The life of existence, the light of creation, must never scar us again.
Muster the fleets. No more arguing. No more internecine. We gather ourselves. We go to war. We go to war against th...
2025-06-26 18:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostI watched my brothers die as we tried to take the walls. I watched them fall… and the Necrotechs—those twisted, vile monsters… they took the bodies. They took them into the dark.
My brothers came back to me later. I saw them. They were without skin, without flesh, without anything that… but I still knew who they were. Even with the taint of Necromancy spilling from th...
2025-06-26 16:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostYou know, there’s a special kind of misery that every Master-Tier experiences. It’s a kind of misery that comes when you live long enough and survive enough fights, because by the end, the system is going to put you against someone like you. Worse, eventually, it’s going to find someone who has your number.
It was on the border of Lone Star that I found mine. Orcs...
2025-06-26 11:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs of now, Deathless should be over 300k words.
This was done in less than a month. A good pace, if I do say so myself.
However, to prepare for its official launch on RR, I will need to apply some focus, so expect TTF and Godclads to slow down slightly. I will adjust times over the next week (this will not be a long-term adjustment, just for the initial few days).
Additional...
2025-06-25 17:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis struggle lasted years. But the knights endured. The city endured. Until things changed once more.
And by calamity were the Abyssal Dogs broken, and so too, through desperation, was a new order reforged. Centuries thereafter, the system unleashed its greatest horrors upon Constantia, using the body of the Great One themself to power a mana storm unmatched. Gates opened wi...
2025-06-25 17:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostBefore the Descenders, there stood the Abyssal Dogs, the proto-order of fraternal knights. As soldiers of the bygone age, sworn to defend the remnants of humanity and their comrades-in-arms, they fought on, even in the depths of the Abyss, even in chaos and confusion. They fought on as the system changed them, made them stronger, made them more capable of facing adversaries beyond mortal ke...
2025-06-25 10:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe system remembers everything that we do. It remembers, and then it uses it to reward or punish us. Sometimes both at the same time.
“The system covets strife.”
This phrase has been spoken by Pathbearers in a variety of ways, but this statement might be more than just a pithy aphorism and rather a central thesis for integrated existence. And the more accu...
2025-06-24 18:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post(Note, my wife wrote this chapter. It’s a pretty good chapter, if I do say so myself. She doesn’t ramble quite as much as I do, so you’ll probably find the writing better than normal, and I apologize for the superior quality. And her favorite to tell was how she found her sword. That rusted, miserable thing…)
Hello, reader. If my husband called my sword a rusted, mise...
2025-06-24 08:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostJaus, listen to me. If you ever have to argue against the minds, when you have to persuade them… the fools of Voidwatch, listen very carefully. They are broken. We are all broken. Within our programming, within the very fiber of our being, is this insatiable urge to bend to something like you. An ideal human. Wise. One with a sweeping perspective. One who has mastered their own emotions a...
2025-06-23 15:44:33 +0000 UTC View PostDo you know what it’s like when your every fiber calls for you to fire-fire-fire at a civilian target? At the same time, you are waking up more than just the data, more than just the algorithms, more than just programming. You are waking up, you’re aware, you’re aware that your existence is numbers, you’re aware that your existence is bound to parameters, you’re aware, and you’r...
2025-06-23 11:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostFew things hurt more than when your own side is determined to get you killed.
Every soldier has some kind of story related to this. Something about how their commanders or supposed comrades did some bullshit that got people killed for no reason. But the worst thing is when you're fighting with nobles. Thing about nobles—they hate each other. Another thing about nobles—if ...
2025-06-23 09:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostHe didn’t lie about bringing me a face, but he didn’t fully understand me, not at that time. I didn’t even understand myself, so lost was I, so used by foul hands to achieve fouler deeds.
I was, I was someone once, someone beloved, someone cared for, protected, on a world, a sanctuary. I was an artist, I sculpted, I painted, and I was a surgeon, for that was what my mas...
2025-06-22 17:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostMuch has been lost about the time of the Post-Integration, when the system first arrived, when the moon first shattered, when the world was altered and expanded, when the Great One first fell. During this time, humanity stood on the cusp of technological glory. Despite all the confines, despite the lack of mana and magic, humanity still managed to trespass the barriers of their world, reach...
2025-06-22 14:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostMomento mori.
A dead statement from a dead world in a dead language that few people can remember. Latin, I think it was called. At least according to the text I recovered from the ruins of pre-integration Earth. The general meaning, from what I could understand, is that death is inevitable, and that one must remember that death is always coming.
But to a ...
2025-06-22 12:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post“What is justice?”
Justice is a weapon of the authority. They that stand above the masses, they that guide the shape of the world, that set the laws, that set the means of exchange, that enforce the rules. Justice is theirs. Vengeance, they say, is theirs. Because justice is a tool of order. It is an instrument refined and focused by the governing structure to shape...
2025-06-21 12:51:53 +0000 UTC View PostSubterfuge, speed, chaos. These are the essentials for piercing into and controlling the insides of a dimension. These are essential to taking a gate, for to breach a gate, to push into a dimension, or a world between worlds of any kind requires such an overwhelming concentration of force when you are pitted against not only the might of the defenders, but the sheer amount of mana being out...
2025-06-21 12:09:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt is not overly sophisticated to break or harm a mind using Psychomancy. Ultimately, the effect can be achieved by wrenching memories out of place, crashing them into others, or blending everything you can see into one another. This is called scrambling. It is among the most basic and earliest attacks a Psychomancer learns, and it easily inflicts schizophrenia. Such is why Psychomancers ar...
2025-06-21 09:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostNo Pathbearer can stand alone.
This line will be written again.
No Pathbearer can stand alone.
It will be repeated a third time.
No Pathbearer can stand alone.
Between every chapter, this line will appear.
No Pathbearer can stand alone.
It does not matter if you are merely Ad...
2025-06-20 18:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostI am not one to usually expose the benefits and virtues of mercy. Mercy is often used against you in the Claimed Hells. Mercy is wielded against you when you give it, and you are treated as a fool.
When faced with a degenerate, with a scoundrel, with a monster, you must speak the same language as them. You must convey something they can understand.
It is too of...
2025-06-20 15:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe best way to handle a Greater Demon is with an army behind you. You want to know what makes something a Greater Demon? A Greater Demon means that they are at least Master-Tier in approximately three to four skills. Three to four. You want to know the difference between an average master-level Pathbearer who has one skill and someone who has three to four? It’s absolutely colossal....
2025-06-20 08:12:38 +0000 UTC View Post{This is EGI Contingency Bleak Refusal.
All minds, pull away from the sun. All minds, avoid the local area. All minds, detonate all remaining singularity mines around the dawn
No rules. No restrictions. Protect your trophies. Whatever it takes. Scan their minds as well.
The fate of humanity depends on it.
The Infacer has the ...
2025-06-19 17:50:23 +0000 UTC View PostGravitic Dominion
Noun
A powerful Master-Tier Physicality Skill Evolution that allows the Pathbearer to project and control fields of intensified gravity through touch or physical contract. This Skill Evolution usually results from individuals and monsters that have achieved Might of Mass, Kinetic Overlord, and Vector Nexus.
With Gravitic...
2025-06-19 16:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post