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The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 267
<< Chapter 266 | Index| Chapter 268>>Ronan and Doctor Valen looked down at the last of the shapeshifters that had been in the med-bay that day. “I still can’t believe they got Jonah. We did something good today. Thank you, Davy. I wouldn’t have been able to find the courage to do this without your help. What do we do next? You mentioned their plan. If they unseal the bunker… I don’t even want to think about the consequences.”Frankly, ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 266
<< Chapter 265| Index| Chapter 267 >>Ronan’s eyebrows raised. That was surprising. Both that she had done such extensive documenting and research into the gorzerk and also that she had figured out what no one else had.He didn’t make that obvious with his facial expressions or response, though. Clearly the doctor was worried about people overhearing her. He had a great idea. “Doctor, how would you feel about taking out all the shapeshifters ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 265
<< Chapter 264 | Index| Chapter 266>>Ronan let the conjured hammer in his hand fade and stumbled backwards. “Damned… Monster. Tried to kill me.” He pretended to faint, keeping his awareness on his surroundings. He doubted the security would kill him outright without first figuring out what had happened.“Davy? Davy, are you alright!?” He felt hands grabbing his arms. He slowly opened his eyes and saw one of the guards from earlier. Two m...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 264
<< Chapter 263| Index| Chapter 265 >>There were still a few hours until the gorzerks’ plan was meant to be set in motion. At the very least Ronan could make sure James was secure and away from the action. It was a bit odd for a security guard to be this shocked by one of the shapeshifters, though. Isn’t it their entire job to protect the bunker from them? And each other…The chief and the other guards had been rather troubled by the emergenc...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 263
<< Chapter 262 | Index| Chapter 264>>The building he had been in upon arriving in stage 3 of the nightmare tutorial turned out to be an apartment block of sorts. As for the wider settlement, it was a colossal underground fortress-city that dwarfed the one that stage 2 had been set in. The architecture and layout was similar, though. Everything was made of white metal and built for efficiency.Unlike in stage 2, Ronan didn’t have a helpful and ov...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 262
<< Chapter 261| Index| Chapter 263 >>0…Good luck, challenger!Ronan was excited to see what was going to be the next challenge of the nightmare tutorial. So excited that he barely cared about the shifting void around him as he was transported to said stage.Rather than falling out feet-first, as was often the case, he found himself waking up on a cold floor. His back was drenched and his hands lay in a pool of something that was simultaneously ge...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 261
<< Chapter 260 | Index| Chapter 262>>Ronan was really glad the stupid monsters hadn’t decided to kill him in bed. It meant he could stay on the exceptionally comfortable futuristic mattress for the five minutes he had left until he was transported to stage 3.The only downside to the nightmare difficulty tutorial was that there was a severe lack of elite enemies. He wanted to cultivate. Then again, it was possible he would find some in stage 3. ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 260
<< Chapter 259| Index| Chapter 261 >>Ronan pulled up the original description of his class to read just what he’d gotten himself into. Somehow he felt that each new class he unlocked was more powerful and yet more terrifying than the last.Gambler of Fate (Celestial)Your existence is an aberration. To achieve the luck and fortune you have at such a stage of life is unfathomable, yet somehow you join the ranks of the fated few. To gamble with the...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 259
<< Chapter 258 | Index| Chapter 260>>Ronan sat on the exceptionally comfortable bed while thinking about how to best go about his gorzerk hunt. He lay down again, wanting to feel the unbelievably soft mattress against his back. It was even comfier than the prison bed, which was saying something. That rubbery alien material was like heaven, but this alternate-timeline human bed was a heaven among heavens.His desire to grow stronger overturned his ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 258
<< Chapter 257| Index| Chapter 259 >>Ronan learned a lot from his brief conversation with Freddie. A lot, and not much at all. This was another version of Earth. This time, the disaster that had taken hold was nuclear war and its terrifying aftermath. Humanity had fled underground into a strange tunnel network-nuclear shelter hybrid.Apparently there had been a lot of chaos and violence in the early days. In fact, it had been almost fifty years si...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 257
<< Chapter 256 | Index| Chapter 258>>Two things happened at once. Ronan’s spear flew from his hand, directly towards the frost giant’s heart. He had wanted to test his new skill to mark it, but he wasn’t sure if it would alert the titanic monster to his presence.Unfortunately his caution was unwarranted. When the two giants began to swing their spiked clubs, they did not do so at one another. Instead, both turned in sync and slammed their c...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 256
<< Chapter 255| Index| Chapter 257 >>Ronan didn’t focus as much on his status this time around. All he cared about was getting back into the nightmare difficulty tutorial and figuring out how he could put that damned divine fire out.He complained to the system and got his difficulty adjusted with ease. His excitement grew as the timer counted down to the beginning of the tutorial. Ronan was ready to show that fiery bastard what pain was.The wor...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 255
<< Chapter 254 | Index| Chapter 256>>While running, Ronan had turned another two of the shapeshifters to paste. They had rewarded him with levels, and he had even felt the warmth of a restoration at one point, but he hadn’t even had time to check the exact measure of his rewards because the damned flames were still chasing him.He ran towards a dead end, cursing his luck. There was a turn at the end of the street, but he still had no clue what h...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 254
<< Chapter 253| Index| Chapter 255 >>Congratulations, you have cleared Stage 1 of the tutorial![Inventory] access has been granted at minimum functionality. Improve inventory metrics by spending system credits or through other approved means. Open inventory through mental, verbal, or spiritual command.+1 Bronze Credit+Myriad Skills Tome (Epic)Stage 2 will begin in 5 minutes!4:59…Ronan let out a pained sigh. Even though that creature—the Gorze...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 253
<< Chapter 252 | Index| Chapter 254>>Ronan leapt down the stairs two or three at a time, not caring for the people he was knocking out of the way as he did so. They all lit up with righteous indignation as their position in the queue was disrupted, but quickly found their way back to it and fell silent.Their behaviour was creepy as fuck, but Ronan did his best to ignore it and focus on getting closer to the source of the explosions. Now that he w...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 252
<< Chapter 251| Index| Chapter 253 >>Ronan was in a place he had been many times before. Fifty one, to be exact, and this made the fifty second. He stood in a strange empty place, with the sound of the system droning away in his mind, informing him of the 103rd Grand Integration and how it was going to change his life and his world.He read through his status. It hadn’t been that long since he last saw it in full, but even since that moment he h...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 251
<< Chapter 250 | Index| Chapter 252>>All chronos multipliers have been reset to their base values!You have received 0.0495 Chronos Concentration!You have reached the first tier of Chronos Concentration!Chronos multiplier limits have been increased!Chronos multiplier gain has increased from 1.0x to 1.5xYour heritage grows in potency!You have reached the second tier of Chronos Concentration!Chronos multiplier gain has increased from 1.5x to 2.5xChr...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 250
<< Chapter 249| Index| Chapter 251 >>It was Ronan’s third time using the Chronos Forge, and this time he was slightly less excited as he had been the first two times. Not because the skill he was creating was any less powerful or useful than the first two, but mainly because it wasn’t a skill that would immediately give him a major power-up. It wouldn’t be flashy, either.However, utility skills such as the one he planned on alloying had the...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 249
<< Chapter 248 | Index| Chapter 250>>Unprecedented modifications detected…Analysing…Unable to determine harm-benefit of modifications. Deferring to inheritorPhysical body has mutated, resulting in the following:Physical damage reduction +13%Keep mutations?Barely any gain, but he supposed that death had been fairly anti-climactic. It had been shocking and sudden, but not very dramatic at all. Boring, even.Iteration 51 analysis:Highest level ac...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 248
<< Chapter 247| Index| Chapter 249 >>Race evolution complete! You have become a [Human (E)]!The same warmth that had accompanied the first racial evolution filled him and then left as it was completed. Ronan wondered about the mechanics of the racial evolution and how it would differ between races.Humans were sort of… meh. Some of the aliens he’d seen so far in his journeys had far more potent natural advantages than his species. Would the ev...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 247
<< Chapter 246 | Index| Chapter 248>>Ronan decided that he liked the sound of the dao of wind. It suited his combat style and he hoped that aligning with it would bring his strength to new heights. He had never used any wind-based skills or spells in the past, which did lead him to question the validity of the notification, but he wasn’t about to turn down a power-up.You have aligned with the [Dao of Wind]!It wasn’t a simple decision that cha...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 246
<< Chapter 245| Index| Chapter 247 >>Ronan held his conjured short-spear at Louri’s throat. The red-skinned demoness had tried to influence him with her laugh, but his mental resistance combined with the effects of his branded amulet allowed him to resist. “Explain why you just tried to manipulate my mind or I’ll finish what I started down there.”The demoness blinked, then held up both hands. “What are you talking about? I didn’t—...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 245
<< Chapter 244 | Index| Chapter 246>>When the smoke from the explosion cleared, and he had healed the damage to his eardrums, Ronan stood up straight. His head was still ringing, but the delayed restoration of leveling up so many times had healed all the damage of Feldramei’s second sonic attack.He saw more than one blinking notification demanding his attention, but there was no time to give it to them. He still had two more enemies to kill. Th...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 244
<< Chapter 243| Index| Chapter 245 >>“I was here first. The piggy is mine.” The rubbery green-skinned alien who had been the first to respond to Ronan’s announcement warned the two new arrivals away.However, neither of them seemed to take the threat seriously. It was the fairy-like creature, Feldramei, who replied first. “Avanalax, you seem to forget your place. That is not how things work in here. Only strength matters, and you are not s...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 243
<< Chapter 242 | Index| Chapter 244>>Cultivating effectively in the prison was proving to be far more difficult than Ronan had expected. The cells seemed to remain permanently open to the main area of the prison all the time, and every now and then another inmate would walk past his cell, forcing him to cut his cultivation short and conceal the gladiator shard.Ronan was confident that if it came down to a fight he would be able to take on almost ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 242
<< Chapter 241| Index| Chapter 243 >>When he’d used the first shard and felt his soul being attacked, Ronan had panicked. However, persevering through the entire shard he had discovered the secret to his new cultivation art.It turned the shard energy hostile and attacked his soul, wearing it away from the outside in. Once all of the energy in a given shard was consumed to erode his soul’s integrity, it would suddenly revert and heal all of th...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 241
<< Chapter 240 | Index| Chapter 242>>The great thing about where he’d chosen to start the branch path was that he had not yet had the meeting with the princess. It meant that he could make another specific request of her if he wanted to. He wasn’t sure he had anything particular in mind, though.Actually…Ronan felt he had a better idea than getting a bunch of new skills. He decided to ask the princess for more skill upgrade shards, and she w...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 240
<< Chapter 239| Index| Chapter 241 >>Skills available for evolution:Light Manipulation [Cost: 6 Skill Upgrade Shards (Rare)]Arcane Piercing Strike [Cost: 9 Skill Upgrade Shards (Rare)]Cure Affliction [Cost: 5 Skill Upgrade Shards (Rare)]Pressure Cutter [Cost: 8 Skill Upgrade Shards (Rare)]Stupendous Stats [Cost: 20 Skill Upgrade Shards (Rare)]In the end Ronan had to dismantle seven of the epic rarity upgrade shards to even see the price of gettin...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 239
<< Chapter 238 | Index| Chapter 240>>Ronan moved towards the burning wreckage of the tower. He was watching and waiting for any sign of the Governor. He felt a little bad about all the notifications that had appeared when the tower blew up, but given that he hadn’t gained a single level he knew for a fact that the Governor hadn’t died in the blast.He watched for about ten seconds and didn’t see any signs of movement. Confused, he walked rig...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 238
<< Chapter 237| Index| Chapter 239 >>Ronan didn’t waste any time in changing his focus from the snipers to the captain. The gold-uniformed sword-wielding foe made a beeline for Ronan, moving much faster than even the device-boosted lieutenants. It was obvious that the difference in stats and levels couldn’t be overcome through technology alone.Despite the difference in level between Ronan and the captain he didn’t find that he was outmatche...
