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Unfortunately I was not able to access my laptop today and I won't be at home this evening, meaning I'm not able to properly format and upload today's chapters! Before you set fire to the pitchforks and start rioting in the streets, don't fear—I will upload all missing chapters tomorrow along with the chapters that were supposed to go up today. Apologies for the issues. I wish that one day patreon allows me to schedule edits so ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 149
<< Chapter 148| Index| Chapter 150 >>Of the three combined methods, visualisation combined with mana manipulation produced an almost perfect mana bolt. Structure and stability-wise, at least. The shape was uniform, with no rough edges and an even compression of mana throughout the bullet-shaped projectile.Thanks to his visual image, Ronan’s mana seemed to be filling a mould, rather than being forced against its will to remain in a shape it didn...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 148
<< Chapter 147 | Index| Chapter 149>>For this one, Ronan decided to sit down. He didn’t want any accidental movement to affect the outcome of the test. Once he was sitting, looking like a meditating monk, Ronan started to cycle his mana.His reserves weren’t full, but he had enough to work with. Using the method he’d adapted from the Nine Mouths Delta Mystic Energy Art, he split the mana into nine streams, cycling it once, before the nine re...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 147
<< Chapter 146| Index| Chapter 148 >>After tidily dispatching the three goblins in stage 2 of the hard difficulty tutorial, Ronan had earned himself another 2 minutes of practice time. Well, it had been messy, truth be told, but one thing he could credit the system for is that it cleaned up after itself. The guts and gore dissolved back into mana along with the rest of a corpse once a monster was killed, saving him from sanitation duty.Having dev...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 146
<< Chapter 145 | Index| Chapter 147>>The second experimental iteration was one of his favourites since the first integration, when he didn’t yet know of his heritage. Not only did he gradually improve his mana cycling until he could split it into five distinct streams per point of mana, improving the stability and duration of his basic mana constructs by four times, but he also obtained another new stat fruit and a much cooler skill.The stat fr...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 145
<< Chapter 144| Index| Chapter 146 >>First of all, Ronan wanted to check his status. Technically it didn’t exist when he was here, but his heritage had complete access to it and so he could view what it ‘theoretically’ would look like at level 0. A weird loophole, but beneficial nonetheless.It was far easier to analyse things when he didn’t have to worry about killing a suddenly-spawned goblin while racing through his lengthy status. Espe...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 144
<< Chapter 143 | Index| Chapter 145>>Before he even entered the boss room, Ronan formed a shortsword with conjure weapon. At the current rarity of the skill and with his mana manipulation skills, it was the most suitable weapon he could arm himself with. He had spears and such from the goblins in the tutorial, but they were all fairly shoddy and likely to break after a single strike.Then he took out the skill-stealing mirror and held it in his ot...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 143
<< Chapter 142| Index| Chapter 144 >>Once he killed the rat mother and made it back to the streets of New London, as he’d begun to call it, Ronan found a place to hole up so that he could use all of his shards. Unfortunately, even using conversion cultivation on his non-energy-aspected shards didn’t allow him to push into the next realm of mystic energy cultivation. He reached about three-quarters of the way. It was annoying, but no big deal....
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 142
<< Chapter 141 | Index| Chapter 143>>The penultimate branch iteration began. Ronan had two goals in this life. The first was to spend some time exploring the camp that Daniel and Tiffany had told him about. He was curious to see how other people were getting by post-tutorial.More than that, he wondered if there might be an interesting person whose skill he’d prefer to steal over Lord Rockmore’s.From what he’d experienced of the fake aristoc...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 141
<< Chapter 140| Index| Chapter 142 >>When he reached the fourth cycle, after three semi-failures, Ronan was losing hope in the cultivation art being worth losing an opportunity at an item. However, as the cycling shard energy reached the halfway mark, and he attempted to guide it to split, the feeling shifted.The first split came with ease, and by focusing, Ronan was able to maintain two separate streams of shard energy throughout the remainder o...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 140
<< Chapter 139 | Index| Chapter 141>>Veloxis hadn’t lectured Ronan about killing foxes the second time around. Nonetheless, the nine-tailed fox had still slaughtered him in seconds. A few more seconds than the first time, but not many. Progress was progress.Having the world shift suddenly from the top of the hundred-floor tower overgrown with plants to Tharaxes’ throne room was jarring. Ronan hoped he would get used to it after a few branch p...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 139
<< Chapter 138| Index| Chapter 140 >>Along his way to the nest, Ronan encountered rats more frequently than when he’d first entered the sewers. At the very least, the system seemed to have the decency not to send people who’d just finished the tutorial right into the jaws of death.The rats were gradually increasing in level the further he went, but still none came close to his own. He blew smoke from his finger after frying one with a lightni...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 138
<< Chapter 137 | Index| Chapter 139>>After about ten seconds, the icy cold of the skill stealing mirror entering Ronan’s body passed. Deep inside him, he felt a new something settling in, the feeling similar to what he’d experienced inside the chronos forge, albeit far more distant; the murmuring of a power, rather than the raging core of it.Still, it was the first time he had touched on that part of himself outside of the chronos clan’s an...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 137
<< Chapter 136| Index| Chapter 138 >>Activating the skill upgrade shards was as easy as breathing. A little harder perhaps, considering that he still needed to think about doing so. Breathing was instinctual, and Ronan wasn’t yet at the point he could use skills instinctually. Maybe one day.[Skill Upgrade Shard (Common)] x8 has been consumed![Magic Strike (Common)] is evolving…[Magic Strike (Common)] has evolved into [Magic Strike (Uncommon)]...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 136
<< Chapter 135 | Index| Chapter 137>>You have killed [Tharaxes - BOSS][Hobgoblin Lich-Lord Lv.51]!+13 Bronze Credits+44 Copper Credits+14 [Sword II] Mastery+5 [Stamina III] Mastery+9 [Momentum II] Mastery+32 [Anti-Magic] Mastery+3 [Pain II] Mastery+9 [Health II] Mastery+5 [Mana III] Mastery+11 [Critical] Mastery+Pyroclastic Storm Focus Lv.51 (Rare)+Spark of the Undead (Rare)+Boss Shard Lv.51 (Soul)+Boss Shard Lv.51 (Energy)You have leveled up to ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 135
<< Chapter 134| Index| Chapter 136 >>Ronan shot up like a launching rocket. His leg muscles seemed to have transformed into belleville springs, exploding upwards with incredible force. A fireball soared under his feet as Tharaxes desperately tried to blast him out of the sky.It was too late.Ronan was already spinning forwards, as though performing a frontflip. Silent slicer was true to its name, not a single sound made as it arced upwards, toward...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 134
<< Chapter 133 | Index| Chapter 135>>Ronan turned to face Howard, Jenna, and Alyssa. He was glad he’d arrived in time. Barely.He’d jumped into the pitfall trap and seen Tharaxes about to fry Howard. Not wanting the poor fellow to suffer the same unfortunate fate as the previous iteration, he’d sacrificed all of his momentum to use charge of the juggernaut and place himself in the path of the spell.In the end, it paid off. Dispel had proven ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 133
<< Chapter 132| Index| Chapter 134 >>“Hey, old man, are you alright?”“What? Daisy? Where are we?” Howard rubbed his eyes as he sat up. The last thing he remembered was seeing Daisy, his daughter.“Daisy? Who the hell is that? My name’s Jenna, and this is Alyssa.” The peppy voice sounded nothing like his daughter. Everything came rushing back.Howard leapt to his feet and conjured a knife in each hand. He raised one, ready to launch it...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 132
<< Chapter 131 | Index| Chapter 133>>Against his instincts and desire for vengeance, Ronan didn’t immediately rush down the dark corridor of stage 4. From experience, he knew that there shouldn’t be a time limit to this part of the tutorial.With sorcerer now a permanent class, he wanted to take some time to continue practicing his system-less magic. Before he discovered the ability to breathe in mana, which allowed him to defeat the goblins h...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 131
<< Chapter 130| Index| Chapter 132 >>The sensation of the chronos forge’s power flowing through him was not a painful experience. Ronan felt only the enticing allure of future power as his four skills were being fused into one.Overcharge, impact leech, and sacrificial strike grew nearer to double strike within his consciousness. Ronan took the time to feel the sensation of each skill, growing more familiar with them as a whole, so that he knew ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 130
<< Chapter 129 | Index| Chapter 131>>A long list of skills that began with his plethora of common skills and ended with universal language adaptation then appeared. That Ronan was able to select absolutely any of his skills for alloying was something of a surprise, but he realised this first attempt would be absolutely free of charge. He would make the most of it.Beneath the list of skills there was a similar list containing his traits. As he’d...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 129
<< Chapter 128| Index| Chapter 130 >>With access to the Chronos Forge, Ronan now had a way to use any and all skills to empower himself, even if their actual effects weren’t what he needed. Even better, it didn’t require chronos merits to activate. Instead, it used his skills and traits as fuel.Having confirmed that, he withdrew his consciousness from the forge. Before creating his new skill, Ronan was going to see what the Temporal Obelisk h...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 128
<< Chapter 127 | Index| Chapter 129>>For what felt like an eternity, Ronan sat in the endless dark void of death. He pondered his attempt at the hard difficulty tutorial. What he had done right.Where he had failed.His stubborn determination to break through every obstacle in his path had served him well, but it was also a hindrance at times. If he had taken a moment to feel out the throne room, perhaps he could have discovered the phylactery earl...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 127
<< Chapter 126| Index| Chapter 128 >>To Ronan, the horrifying creature revealed by the fading cyan flames seemed familiar. A second passed as it flexed its hands and rolled its neck. Then it struck him.The zombie-like skeletal humanoid was almost identical to Magriz’al, the normal difficulty tutorial boss. Except, this new vessel of Tharaxes’ had pallid, sickly green-blue flesh, eyes that glowed like the very fire that summoned it, and most o...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 126
<< Chapter 125 | Index| Chapter 127>>Ronan was satisfied. He’d just swung his mace, shattering the front legs of the skeletal horse. It collapsed to the ground, where it remained, unmoving.He wouldn’t put it past the infuriating creature to stand up and try attacking him even only possessing hind legs. It hadn’t died after he smashed its head to dust, after all. No, the infuriating creature had just charged right into him once again.Not tha...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 125
<< Chapter 124| Index| Chapter 126 >>Tharaxes’ life hadn’t changed much when the system integrated his world. He still remained in his throne room, and could continue his experiments. However, there were now limits to his power. Frustrating, infuriating, and utterly unbreakable limits imposed by the accursed system.His ‘level’ was fixed and his mana no longer grew as time passed. He had tried to circumvent the restrictions by summoning un...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 124
<< Chapter 123 | Index| Chapter 125>>Unfortunately for Ronan, this was the first time his enemy was able to charge back. Unstoppable charge of the juggernaut drained his 103 momentum, and at the same time as he began to rocket forwards, the elite death knight cataphract echoed his movements.The mounted undead knight was far slower than Ronan, but even the few steps it rushed forward before meeting his own charge gave it an advantage. Mace crashed...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 123
<< Chapter 122| Index| Chapter 124 >>Just ten seconds after Tharaxes began the summoning of the new undead creatures, two five-metre wide roughly spherical balls of bone and dust had formed around the floating cyan lights that gave the creatures un-life. His plan of charging right into the boss and taking it out in—if not a single blow—a single, decisive movement.He had critical tempo, and critical experience, and Ronan felt that defeating th...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 122
<< Chapter 121 | Index| Chapter 123>>“This cheating, midget motherfucker!” Jenna was already charging her own black lightning to return fire, but her potty mouth was ready to blast at full strength at all times.She was cursing the lich-lord out for not letting his summons do the dirty work. While the trio had to maintain a constant vigil on their surroundings, watching out for the fleeting assaults of the six hidden undead, Tharaxes unleashed...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 121
<< Chapter 120| Index| Chapter 122 >>Ronan had tried to keep focus on his allies as he began fighting. After the tenth swing of his mace, he lost track. The thrill of battle was intoxicating, and with every bone he smashed to dust, its hold on him grew a little deeper.There were so many skeleton giants to fight, it was impossible to drop his focus for even the briefest of moments. Not to mention that interrupting the smooth flow of battle that he...
