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The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 41
<< Chapter 40 | Index| Chapter 42>>The party of five streamed into the empty room. Ronan’s gaze swept the floors and walls, finding no differences to the last time he was here.Stone bricks, cracked and weathered in an eerily artificial manner that made them seem almost naturally aged, yet he knew ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 40
<< Chapter 39| Index| Chapter 41 >>Even knowing what he was about to see didn’t make it any easier. Ronan baulked at the stench of human waste and rotten flesh.A high pitched scream greeted him as a woman in the middle of the four clanked her chains at him. “Stay back, bastard!” she cried.Just...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 39
<< Chapter 38 | Index| Chapter 40>>For the first time in this life, Ronan focused on the shifting void. He knew this place held endless mysteries, perhaps even answers about what the system was.Every time he felt as if he was drawing close to seeing something in the shifting nothingness, it slipped ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 38
<< Chapter 37| Index| Chapter 39 >>After seeing the notifications informing him of his multiple level ups, Ronan was ecstatic. He had expected it, but this was still cause for celebration.The first time around, he had reluctantly tossed aside the allure of magic in favour of taking the fighter class...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 37
<< Chapter 36 | Index| Chapter 38>>Ronan let out a bestial roar of fury as he plunged the rusty spear into the zombified goblin fleshbeast. The orange tip lacerated the necrotic flesh. Blood, pus, and spurts of acid flowed out.He was about to put his mana control to the test. He’d never been stupi...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 36
<< Chapter 35| Index| Chapter 37 >>Ronan arrived in front of the third archway right as a gangly green leg was poking out. Rather than wait for the shaman to make its own entrance, he grabbed it by the ankle and ripped it out of the portal.That clearly wasn’t supposed to happen, because he heard a...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 35
<< Chapter 34 | Index| Chapter 36>>You have joined a party!Experience, loot, and aggro will be shared with all party members[Ronan Steele] has been selected as Party Leader!Please select loot distribution for your party![Leader distribution][Shared][Rolling distribution]Ronan simply selected leader ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 34
<< Chapter 33| Index| Chapter 35 >>Ronan watched as the myriad skills tome floated into the air in front of him. It slammed open and the endless pages started to flutter. After a few seconds, it landed on a particular page and golden script appeared in the air.[Myriad Skills Tome (Common)] has been ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 33
<< Chapter 32 | Index| Chapter 34>>Ronan didn’t even see the champion’s fist coming. One moment he was staring at its hideous sneering face. Then everything went black.He remembered… the crack of a whip. Then the crack of bone. Then… nothing.No. There was something else. Familiar. In between...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 32
<< Chapter 31| Index| Chapter 33 >>Ronan pulled up his status once again to check out what his stat investments had given him. He smiled at the nice even numbers but let slip a growl at the annoyance that was his dexterity. Even so, it would still improve his control even if it was annoying to look ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 31
<< Chapter 30 | Index| Chapter 32>>Ronan read through the system message. It was the longest he’d seen, but given that it was a collection of all the monsters he’d killed in that savage brawl, it wasn’t much of a surprise.You have killed [Lesser Goblin Warrior Lv.17-23]x14, [Lesser Goblin Arch...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 30
<< Chapter 29| Index| Chapter 31 >>A lance of searing agony sliced itself into the side of Ronan’s head. A mist of blood trailed behind his body, his figure blurring as he combined swift strike with a shoulder charge.In the blink of an eye, he went from being at the end of the goblin’s spear to ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 29
<< Chapter 28 | Index| Chapter 30>>Duck. Parry. The crack of bone. Flesh giving way to the pounding of his fists. Ronan loved this.He’d been denying it for a while, but as he fought the elite berserker, he understood. This was what he was born for.He used to work out pretty often. Weights, calisth...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 28
<< Chapter 27| Index| Chapter 29 >>You have been invited to join a party by [Jackson Wright]!Warning: Experience, loot, and aggro are shared between party members!Accept the invitation?Ronan stared at the invitation with annoyance. Wouldn’t this have been extremely useful from the moment he’d be...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 27
<< Chapter 26 | Index| Chapter 28>>Terry and Jackson were backed up against a door on the opposite side of the tunnel. The rough stone ground had given way to shoddy tiles that were cracked and uneven.Signs of civilisation. Or a facsimile of it that the goblins had made for themselves in the mountai...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 26
<< Chapter 25| Index| Chapter 27 >>With an incoherent scream the goblin swung its broadsword through the air. The blade sung a song of unrelenting fury. Ronan cursed.He was already focused on evading the whirling axes of the other goblin berserker, unable to split his attention. He tried to twist hi...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 25
<< Chapter 24 | Index| Chapter 26>>Ronan leaned against the stone wall of the tunnel, catching a quick breather. Dana was resting on the opposite wall, coiling up her whip.There were a few goblins left of this current group, but they were briefly held back by a barrage of mana bolts and arrows from ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 24
<< Chapter 23| Index| Chapter 25 >>“Don’t tell me we’re all just meatheads?” Ronan asked the group, silently hoping that wasn’t the case.At the very least, the fact Dana used a whip meant they wouldn’t be filling an identical role. However, Terry’s answer was a pleasant surprise.“Act...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 23
<< Chapter 22 | Index| Chapter 24>>Ronan was still recovering from the shock of almost falling down the small hill and over the edge of what seemed to be an endless drop into a misty ravine when the giant who’d saved him introduced himself. Terry towered over him, easily six foot six if he was low...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 22
<< Chapter 21| Index| Chapter 23 >>Ronan’s heart was torn between two classes. He knew that fighter suited him best, but the allure of magic was too tempting for a man raised on epic fantasy stories and video games.If this was a game or the timeframe of the tutorial was more relaxed, he would have...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 21
<< Chapter 20 | Index| Chapter 22>>Ronan jolted awake. Something had him by the shoulders. It shook him from side to side, yelling incoherently.“Fuck off, prick,” he groaned, feebly slapping in front of his face.“Ronan! Get up! There’s only twenty seconds left until the next stage,” Keith ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 20
<< Chapter 19| Index| Chapter 21 >>Ronan didn’t falter when the shaman slammed its heavy bone staff into his side. The blow was weak, stunted by the shaman’s awkward positioning.Even so, the system felt it necessary to shove a jarring message in his face right as he stepped into striking range.Y...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 19
<< Chapter 18 | Index| Chapter 20>>Ronan had a crazed grin painted on his face, marked with the blood and guts of half a dozen slain goblins. He was every bit the savage, but his movements contained a hint of grace.To a seasoned warrior he would still seem like a stumbling child, even when wielding ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 18
<< Chapter 17| Index| Chapter 19 >>“Let’s have it you little shits,” Ronan cackled as he swung the bone staff at the first warrior to reach him.As the heavy, gnarled staff cut down through the air, Ronan focused his intent. Magic strike never specified that his strikes had to be made with his ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 17
<< Chapter 16 | Index| Chapter 18>>9…Ronan cursed. He’d spent a little too long focusing on his status and forgotten to use the two endless treasury tokens.Then again, he didn’t need to bother with all the pomp and circumstance. He’d seen the flashy effects once.Taking both tokens out, he ac...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 16
<< Chapter 15| Index| Chapter 17 >>Gorax the Cleanser tapped his meaty fingers on the sleek metal desk. His face was twisted into a deep frown, his spined lips peeled back to reveal thick tusks that tapered to a needle-point just below his sharp cheekbones.Under his withering glare, an Ixian shifted...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 15
<< Chapter 14 | Index| Chapter 16>>Ronan went with the simplest strategy first. As he punched towards the lesser goblin archer’s face, he cried out the name of his skill.“Magic strike!”The goblin’s nose shattered under the force of his punch, blood squirting out across his knuckles and the m...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 14
<< Chapter 13| Index| Chapter 15 >>21…Ronan had wasted two-thirds of his recovery time lying in the grass and languishing in his emotions. Now that he’d settled them and knew what he needed to do, he pulled up the system notifications he’d been ignoring.Congratulations, you have cleared Stage ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 13
<< Chapter 12 | Index| Chapter 14>>If Ronan had not been dead, he might have recognised the sound that carved through the silence of the tutorial dungeon. It was the same sound he heard when his own system assessment was interrupted.The single mote of mana which had broken free of his corpse froze. ...
The Apocalypse Grinder - Chapter 12
<< Chapter 11| Index| Chapter 13 >>Blood and brain matter sprayed out from under the end of the shaman’s bone staff as it smashed into the zombified goblin fleshbeast’s skull and crushed it into dust. The creature collapsed to the ground, what little remained of its flesh rippling outwards from ...
