Arriving on the opposite end of the bridge connecting to the seed, a frown immediately developed across Vahn’s face the moment he spread his senses through the area. It wasn’t that he sensed any danger. Rather, it was the complete and utter lack of anyone’s presence that soured his mood. Resisting the urge to sigh, Vahn slowly combed through his …

(A/N: Important announcement at the end of the chapter~.) Peeking a few years into the future, specifically around the time that a second story was intended to take place, Vahn was unsurprised to find that his Template had elected to take matters into his own hands. More specifically, he had used his status as one of the most powerful and …

After wrapping things up in the Town of the Wandering Minstrels, Vahn decided to decompress by returning to the Little Garden, feasting alongside the few residents that remained before spending a bit of time exploring Actualized Worlds. More specifically, he decided to visit the Tri-Ace Anthology, not to battle against the Ethereal Queen, but to act as an observer or …

Though damage sustained by an Avatar wasn’t supposed to affect the user, Chung lurched forward in his chair, blood pouring from his nose and mouth as a vicious bruise spread across his neck. The pain was unlike anything he had ever experienced before, and, were it not for the fact his true body was also comprised of data, he might …

Around the same time that Sis was locking him out of several systems, a scraggly man with a sickly complexion, sunken features, and a sparse mustache could be found glowering at a stream of data. With the pinky finger of his left hand digging into his nose, the man used his right to chicken-peck a series of commands into the …

With the average ‘Toy Soldier’ possessing the strength of a middling D-Rank Regular, the most difficult aspect of traversing the Quarantine Area was avoiding traps and other environmental hazards. Fortunately, even without Vahn’s assistance, the girls could deal with most traps with an almost comical degree of ease. Musashi could detect most of them without any effort whatsoever, and, even …

Though he could have resolved everything himself, Vahn knew the girls would be disappointed if he didn’t give them the opportunity to act. Thus, rather than accepting Asensio’s assistance as a guide, his counterpart back at the Town of the Wandering Minstrel gave Scathach’s butt a light smack as he said, “We should regroup with the others. After a bit …

Following a lengthy discussion regarding the nature of the Tower and Vahn’s plans for the duration of his stay, Eduan ended up falling silent for several minutes. During this period, he emptied nearly half the contents of a 40oz wine vase as his children, specifically Maschenny, Asensio, and a peculiar individual named Icardi, sat silently around a banquet table. After …

Descending to the center of a vast crater filled with fragmented data and error messages, Vahn found a one-armed, severely injured, Eduan staring up at the sky with a wry smile on his face. He looked like he had experienced an apocalypse on his body, and, though he was still alive, he was almost unrecognizable from his former, inordinately handsome, …

Demonstrating that he wasn’t known as one of the Great Warriors without reason, Eduan had little difficulty evading Alpha, the oldest of Laev-tan’s sister swords. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of trying to attack Vahn directly, and, though he had taken measures to both protect and enhance his body with Shinsu, contact with the obsidian plates caused the lightning around …