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The Power Of Ten: Sama Rantha Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Power Of Ten: Sama Rantha novel. A total of 531 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Power of Ten – The Missing Tens – Sama Rantha, Vol I – HagbornChapter One – Rebirth
The Power of Ten – The Missing Tens – Sama Rantha, Vol I – HagbornChapter One – Rebirth and DeathWhere am I?I looked around dazedly, trying to get my foggy thoughts together. It was hard to think.I thought… I thought I had been reborn. I thought I was a b
- 201 Verd, Veis, and Amber had been in many, many combat situations.They had done a lot of sparring against other humans, humanoids, and their pets, especially on the little missions with Feist that Hazé had dropped them off on.Then had come the more exciting
- 202 Errant hewed the head off the last of the minotaurs, and Darkbolt flung the corpse aside. Without pause, his Wrath lashed out and punched through a gorehorn, before splitting to cut down two more wounded ones fighting next to it.The harpies that came with
- 203 Flikflikflikflikflikflikflikchokchoksqueeeeeee...The blood mantis was huge, thorax well over my head, pincers the size of yataghans, and it was both fast and flexible. It stabbed down with its pincers, trying to impale me with a rain of blows, totally unl
- 204 Errant fought twice more out there, earning himself some battlespoils, and facing off against one of their champions wielding a greataxe an ogre might enjoy, clad in that stupid spikey dire harness, waving that Axe about like a willow wand and cras.h.i.+n
- 205 "You know, this is not nearly as fun as I thought it would be," Briggs commented, slumping down to a seat on a pile of fallen rubble. He kicked the head of a hacked carnoraptor out of the way with a sigh."These should not be here. Their tim
- 206 (This chapter is background, not a story. Feel free to skip to the next chapter.)The forces of Good, Evil, Law, and Chaos represent conflicting profound forces that define the multiverse with their struggles and conflicts in the Power of Ten. As forces th
- 207 In the s.p.a.ce of less than a day, there was a tremendous amount of movement.The Brotherhood brought out an ancient spell for Hazé called Gemjump. A Valence V effect, it allowed the Caster to recall precisely to the gem the spell was placed within, regar
- 208 Mastering my Phoenix Cloak so that it could manifest as other Elements was one of the two Masteries attached to that Tat. The other Mastery concerned how the Phoenix could manifest and be controlled, both of which were vital to this final quenching, heati
- 209 Unlimited Cure V's at will, every six seconds, in service to her Special Purpose of Thwart the Hag Curse.She had chosen that Special Purpose with the clear idea that it put her solidly against all Hags, their plans, minions, and allies, AND it also m
- 210 Those people outside the fourth Ring were just here to listen, as they were operating at a fraction of Sama's time and couldn't contribute effectively. They had to know what was going on to coordinate, but the decisions were being made here by a
- 211 "Raaaaaarrrrghhhh!"Blackheart turned his head as a flood of yellow-skinned orcs smashed into the lines nearby, screaming their bloodthirsty little hearts out. The armored, mutated humans there, the Warped, took the charge with near-berserker fre
- 212 The Run began fairly quietly, but it got pretty loud, pretty quick.AA, Briggs, and I tore open the Barrier, letting in normal s.p.a.ce/time into this 100x zone and starting the collapse that would literally rip the zone apart and send huge portions of it
- 213 Okay, an average lizard-man is a 2 HD scaled humanoid (lizardoid? Okay, bipedal sentient carnivore). They've got a decent bite attack (as in, it would rip off a normal human's face), and weak natural claw attacks. They're stronger than huma
- 214 In the course of an epic journey to equally epic conflicts with some of the most elite fighting forces imaginable, it is of course necessary to have conflict zones.Such areas are replete with dramatic scenery, and fell foes that must be overcome on the ro
- 215 For some strange reason, I was absolutely sure it was coincidence, the winds didn't blow them out of the Stillflight area as they fell. Sure enough, the winds were all suddenly blowing in and down. These elemental creatures of air, who should have be
- 216 AA and I were still shooting up towards the walls, tossed up like softb.a.l.l.s, when Briggs shot right on by; last to jump, first to get there. His broad shoulders rotated Endure back to his right as he came over the edge of the parapet just as the Queen
- 217 There were now two lines of Disks forming steps racing up to the walls. The dragons all waited until they were together, and then used the Amulets of Spell Knowledge they were wearing. The spell within, naturally enough, was Spider Climb.It was like we pl
- 218 Zone 2..."So, I count two hundred visible super-worm tunnels through this pa.s.s..."-------------Zone 3..."Um!" Verd pointed at a castle-sized toadstool in the distance. "Is that mushroom moving?""Yes.""Oh.&quo
- 219 Veis was looking a lot older in the eyes as she and the girls stumbled into the tent in the morning, and they all promptly fell asleep together without saying anything.Briggs kicked back on the side of a hill, the vivic fires eating away at the remnants o
- 220 AA hit the side of the cliff with a running vertical, and Briggs and I zipped right into his wake and did the same, momentum redirected with physics-ignoring aplomb. No full Interdiction meant we could wiggle our noses at King Gravity, too... we just had
- 221 "Good morning, elder," I greeted him, looking him right in the eyes as he inhaled and found absolutely no trace of fear on me, which to a big thing facing a small thing would be very strange, indeed. "Me and my friends are simply traversing
- 222 Still hanging in Zone 14..."If I'm gonna uplift 'em, might as well go all the way, right?" I narrowed my eyes in the direction of the holy council taking place. "They've got good intentions, such as they are, and are very mal
- 223 Yep, Zone 14 still...Hazé stopped her strafing and brought up two Walls of Fire in front of two of the six entrances to the complex, forcing the undead into taking double-damage banefire'd flames to the face to get to them. The Heavenbound immediatel
- 224 The house looked subtly different from before. The many birdhouses were now mounted on the porch, for starters, and the small gardens and flowers had been left to go wild.There was still a lot of traffic going in and out, as many women and few men bustled
- 225 What, we skipped Zone 15 entirely?..."I can't believe you actually netted so many Will o' Wisps.""They're like prize munchies for s.h.i.+eld Dragons. I'm thoughtful that way.""But really, a Ghost Touch net? Whe
- 226 We were a meme.That whole thing about going to exotic foreign lands, meeting beautiful, charming natives, and killing them? I wasn't sure about the charming, but the rest certainly applied.I snarked to myself as we trundled along, leaving behind us a
- 227 Elder Arg ma.s.sed more than all three demons together, and he was motoring with a Motion spell to accentuate his already tremendous natural foot speed. His Primal heavyfoot was also coming along nicely, and oh, what was that Strength of his? Base 39, wit
- 228 "Like getting D Rank, just for that one Level?" Briggs murmured, and everyone else agreed. Earning that much Karma was no joke at all! Eighty Levels worth..."There's a reason all them post-Tens aren't youngsters anymore," I h
- 229 Zone 19....Zone 19 was a dark faerie wonderland, outside instead of underground. That unhelpfully added a lot of twisted dark magic plants, fey, animals, magical beasts, scattered undead, and various undead capering around, all with a huge amount of Unsee
- 230 She had far too much self-control to betray what she was thinking, but I was sure she was weighing a whole lot of things mentally. Three thousand years of living in a place chock full of demons, drow, and fey... those things could not be pleasant. Everyth
- 231 "Don't resist, and there should be no pain." She arched a flawless eyebrow at me, and simply let me press her hand against my Charisma Mark.There was a flash of light behind my back as the Seals there below my Phoenix Cloak lit up. Wayfair&
- 232 The bulk of the Mu Spore quickly closing in on our company definitely had hostile intent. Given that we had to carve our way through a hostile field of lethal fungus, and were creating a ruckus as we did so, not to be unexpected. Find authorized novels i
- 233 "I didn't think a Mi-go could get much uglier, and the universe proved me wrong," Briggs stated with a sigh."Zrrrt." I gave him a noogie. "Pseudos come from Outside Creation!"He opened his wide mouth, closed it, scowled
- 234 "How long until we find out the results of the auction?" Wayfair asked me quietly.I had to roll my eyes. "We're in a time-acceleration zone, and it's going to take at least three real days to set the auction up. So, not until we a
- 235 There was a lot of fire going on.Errant was chaincasting Walls of Fire at this point. They only lasted as long as he kept the Wrath focused on them, so generally no more then a few breaths... but that was naturally enough to disrupt anything resembling a
- 236 Rolling, rolling, rolling...The traveling music was nonstop and often hilarious, as naturally half the Bards and Minstrels (the ones not totally intimidated by the idea) scrambled for a chance to sing and play for us while we ran. To solve the whole 400x
- 237 True to form, two minutes later, there we were.The great arch we used to enter had only a scattering of resistance. It did, however, have a lot of things burning vivic, odd smears on the walls, shattered and rusting weapons and armor, and a few maimed and
- 238 We swept into the inner plaza.That ring of vivic energy burning on the walls above us, ALL around us, was particularly impressive. Mental thumbs-up went all around. Wayfair led an appreciate round of applause from those watching the show.And the looks on
- 239 "Morning there," I told the Exemplar Wolf, whose bloodshot golden eyes glared at me, but showed confusion at the burning marilith getting sucked into my Tat, and my friendly tone and facial Tats. "I'm going to release you, but it'
- 240 And just like that, all the Hag's carefully crafted elites were ours to play with.Werewolves get some pretty impressive physical buffs, and combined with that DR 10/silver, can both dish it out and take it. Lesser Exemplars got +4 to all Stats, speed
- 241 They opened up with a spell bombardment from range, of course.Demons and daemons came shrieking up behind them, Summoned in earlier, commanded to inflict Ye Awful Harm upon us. Twisted energies spat at us – profane killing strength, hate lightning, aqua s
- 242 Brother Firesword bent, he twisted, he slid this way, then that, all the while his Blades danced and cut, punis.h.i.+ng them with every move. He was in easy range of a swing of their arms almost half the time, but never quite in the right position to get
- 243 It was hard to miss the several-hundred-yards-high wall of magic, earth, and bits of drow and their cities tearing across the landscape, even at a distance. Being forewarned of it happening, everyone broke off the fighting, slaughtering, and run-by lootin
- 244 The trip out of the Imperial Zone was fruitful and definitely had a lot of diversions to admire. Why, there were dead drow in every single kind of pose you could imagine, and so many ways to die.There were also demons and daemons all over the place, which
- 245 "Don't you say it.""We've got giant mushroom people.""Don't! It's too obvious!""And now we have Mushroom Giant people," Briggs went on, as if I hadn't said anything. I threw up my hands as e
- 246 The Jotuns flooded towards the disturbance. Owing to a severe lack of real-time communication and post-combat lack of high-level people to communicate with, the Hags didn't know precisely what was going on.They knew the Wake had come, and they had en
- 247 The Blessed Legionnaires were clad in breastplate and greaves, with greats.h.i.+elds fifteen feet high and thicker than your average door. Some had Axes, some had Spears, and the Hagsp.a.w.n commanders seemed to prefer Swords. There were a hundred of the
- 248 The couple of lightning bolts coming down might have alerted the Hags and Jotuns that something was going on in a different location. Of course, who would be dumb enough to keep using magic against Void Brothers?And then a very angry lion flew up as some
- 249 Spore-laden atmosphere, deadly flora, odors to make you gag, hostile unnatural natives, and colors and hues to nauseate you.What was not to love?Had there been word conveyed across the Hag Empire? It didn't look like it, or the three Mu Spores we cou
- 250 And then, there were the elves.When I learned what they were planning, I rolled my eyes at what a Cha 50 half-drow alu'ri-turned-succubus could do, especially after being anointed as a Favored of the G.o.ddess of Silver Magic.She had recruited them a
- 251 Briggs did give me a hairy eyeball. "How high have you taken those Succubi Levels?" he asked suspiciously.I lifted an eyebrow. "Where did that come from?""You basically ordered some berserking, battle-crazed, flesh-starved super m
- 252 So, it was just the three of us cras.h.i.+ng our way forwards, working on the a.s.sumption that having nine hundred miles of ground to cover, losing most of the leaders.h.i.+p, and most of those who fought being dead putting a severe crimp in the ability
- 253 -By the way, Fuzzy, you're going to take Wars.h.i.+fter Levels, right?-He /sighed. -Valus, what now?- He /ruminated. -That's a Cla.s.s for combat s.h.i.+fters, no?- Which meant we couldn't use it, since active shapechanging was very much no
- 254 -They decided to come out to meet us. Impressive,- Brother Ancientaxe /murmured.There were literally hundreds of drakes and dragons in the sky. Their main job seemed to be to pace us, as none wanted to get to close and pay homage to King Gravity.On the gr
- 255 Hagmother and Empress Tusk Annie now had a choice to make.Us three had broken free of her encirclement... or at the very least, were On Top of it, which made it hard to get around us. If we collapsed on the Obelisk, she could certainly encircle us... but
- 256 The ley line fed back towards the Slow Zone's wall, that wall just as ma.s.sive as ours, and disappeared inside of it... followed by a plunging spear of reinforced reality cracking that temporal barrier and driving onwards inexorably.It wouldn't
- 257 The attack was pulled back, not that any who had actually entered combat could return. More dragons, giants, and drac arrived, filling the disintegrating swamp around the ruined plaza with ma.s.sive, angry bodies eager to exact vengeance.Which was totally
- 258 King Gold roared as he dove into the lines of drak, and the quivering creatures were further intimidated by the answering roars behind him.The berserkers came to the aid of their king, and slammed into the drak lines in a murderous frenzy. Nothing was goi
- 259 t.i.tan-Slaying Defensive Techniques, double your Dodge bonus against things two sizes bigger than you. Which she had just voluntarily activated. So nice. I wasn't going to tell her she didn't have to do that; she couldn't hit me anyways.Co
- 260 I ran back to the others, as they weren't too far away, and the fighting was still ongoing.It was ongoing very, very bloodily. My exultation at finally fighting Hagmom had been blowing through the Marks.p.a.ce with singing glory.My fury at her gettin
- 261 I also had to speak with the little sisters, and my h.e.l.lpoodles. This was replete with many protests, woofs of denial, and other disagreements that I just ramrodded right through. After all, they knew me, I wasn't going to take the low road, and I
- 262 My Weapons were floating all around as I went through the final quenching on the Blade. Elder Arg had taken less than eight hours of work to complete this, and I had been his a.s.sistant the whole time, adding in another eight hours of my own to give it a
- 263 Published at 25th of August 2019 05:15:07 PM Chapter 264 "So, what are we looking at?" Briggs asked for everyone, as multiple eyes, including some powerful Casters from multiple races, were tuning into this, getting Brother AA's impression
- 264 The inhabitants of this volcanic area were firenewts.These were the devolved, mortalish descendants of elemental salamanders, the flaming half-men, half-serpents of legend from Elemental Fire. They had black skin, whose cracks showed the heated flesh bene
- 265 There were thousands of eyes watching the sun rise today. A Ten Bishop of Aru, Moncynux Aeon, led everyone in the Salute to Aru, starting a little bit early and with exquisite timing finished the Ritual and movements just as the first rays of the sun came
- 266 They were separated by literally thousands of miles, and yet their eyes met instantly. The ancient reptile who'd just received a +4 Intellect boost and full Ranks in Diplomacy and Sense Motive for his Kaiju hit dice, and the primeval ape who'd j
- 267 -The primary danger to the two of you is not the tentacles, but the spores. Master Fuego, keep a burning aura of light up above your scales. If the brown mold touches you, it will drain your heat at an exponential rate. Master Mono, redirect the lightning
- 268 Now, of course, there remained the problem of having two kaiju with ma.s.sive territorial instincts sitting there right next to one another. Dominance issues was a thing.-It's not over.- They were a mile away, turned around, and looked at me without
- 269 Blackheart thought that he was immune to fear, by the grace of the dark G.o.ds of his people.He found out otherwise. His bullox lowed deeply, quaking beneath him at the sight of the woman walking up to him, sensing in her something profoundly terrifying,
- 270 Now, there were others who wanted to get in on this, including our Exemplar Lite Paladins and so forth, but I inquired who might be able to survive a pond of poisoned, diseased, acidic vomit being dumped on them, and they shut up and decided to work on th
- 271 The flailing arm that was almost as big as Mono pounded into him, and he batted it away with the end of his Staff as he heaved the Pandemic over. It didn't really mean much, the Sluggor could just reform its arms and heads in the new orientation, but
- 272 The not-so-depths of Zynozure...There were some minor impediments in coming here.The guardians were somewhat forgivable. They'd have killed him in a heartbeat, of course, and their families had probably served their master for generations. He could s
- 273 Our preparations were fast, but very complete, planned out in advance, b.u.t.tressed with many Casters to speed things along, working and digging and building with breathtaking speed given the power of many of the beings exerting themselves here.Thick wal
- 274 Behind us, the whole approach area was covered by low stone mounds, about four feet high, s.p.a.ced in what looked like an irregular pattern. It was in truth designed to break up anything resembling a charge lane, and form a serpentine road that had all b
- 275 There were a lot of the fellows, so despite the slaughter, despite the bottlenecks, despite the cavalcade of spells, despite the butchering of their most powerful members/demons/mutants/beasts, they kept coming.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster up
- 276 "Ugh, dammit.""Again? Don't they learn?""Firk ding blast..."I held out my hand, Briggs forked over a gold coin, others were exchanged around me.-Light'em up.- Far over by the savage tribes, Tremble relayed the order
- 277 Wayfair was, of course, above getting her hands dirty in melee. It didn't mean she couldn't, it just meant that she wasn't that great at it, relatively speaking, and she vastly preferred using magic and ranged attacks to kill things. It was
- 278 The smell was bad, but it was being cleaned up by vivus, so it was just tolerated as the endless number of corpses burned constantly. Given the necroic empowerment, they were staining the ground white even here, underneath the Rift, and it was easy to see
- 279 Wayfair was in a foul mood.She wasn't affected by the overarching chaotic magic they were using to warp minds and wills, of course. Nor was she susceptible to their charms, illusions, and glamours, having natural True Seeing and looking right through
- 280 Now, they were dealing with a lot more fortifications then before, thrown up by Casters during the night, meaning more layers of walls to get past. That meant their mounds of multi-armed, over-muscled, magic-wielding, metal-skinned, multi-legged, and so o
- 281 True to form, they didn't really wait for me, because they didn't have to. I'd catch up.All eight of the Brothers here went in, staying tight, with Briggs backing them. They were only thirty seconds in front of me, but that was fine, becaus
- 282 "Well, I think it was done for me to set up things to fight the Hag Curse... and because a very, very strong Null is needed to really do the job right." I nodded in the direction of the Rift in the distance."You intend to do more than close
- 283 His great hand was reaching for me, wrought of the blood and misery of endless conflicts, and all the souls, innocent or enraged, who fought in them. His eyes were battle madness, the desire to fight and win incarnate, His voice the scream of every victor
- 284 This Ancient was definitely more physically brutal then the golden-haired female, but somehow not as ominous. Still, his bullox was shaking under him, and the pure physical presence that the Hammer-wielding brute held was awe-inspiring.That, and the hobgo
- 285 This isn't a story, but it did take me four hours to get it all together, so ignore it if you like!Sama Rantha is yet another chapter in my Power of Ten storyline, a story I feverishly started back in 2005, and poured out something like a hundred tho
- 286 Coming off of Power of Ten: Sama Rantha, the first novel about Sama, the main issue I had here is determing Sama's Starting Point, i.e. her Level. She has just done huge meritorious deeds, she has partic.i.p.ated in some extremely high level power le
- 287 I would like to say that I was having the time of my life.Seriously, I would.I had been blown into the Warp after it cracked the main line connecting it to reality. However, there was now a border there, and it had been crossed.Forces of all nine Alignmen
- 288 And if anyone ever thought Psions were better then wizards, as psions and PP are all Pools...The cloud of psionic energy permeated my Matrix, smaller energy units, less potent, more flexible, like the Pool gathered outside. Like Casters, the different adv
- 289 The full student body of the Wendelton Academy was out for this ceremony, and a hapless groundskeeper was moaning in ecstasy as he was ritually flensed and bathed in oils, his agony and joy blinding him to his coming death, only the pain and pleasure fill
- 290 "Sir, we've found something of interest down on the fifth floor."Dorval raised an eyebrow at the words of the Umbran Striker. While cooperation between the Order of the Fallen Moon and the Order of the Rising Sun was generally cordial, that
- 291 "She's a bladebelle. Let's bring her to the Castle, while your people handle the investigation. That'll allow the blues to sc.r.a.pe some shreds of relevance out of this, while we keep the information flow open properly." Philius
- 292 "Your colors are noted," I repeated back to him, and the corner of his mouth twitched up. Snarked! The shorter fellow in blacks, making an interesting contrast to the first guy, was amused at the wordplay, but gave an impression of being dangero
- 293 "So, I did have a past, and something removed it." Well, I happened to know otherwise, but wow, Mom-me was pretty slick. After all, false memories wouldn't feed into a persona properly, while not having any in an installed personality was g
- 294 It was a fundamental change from what I'd been given, but that just meant a different advance schema taking more time.It had also allowed her to juke the system nicely.My true Primary Cla.s.s was Melee, not a Soulblade Psi-Warrior. While PW's we
- 295 "She inserted her braid into a datajack without even thinking it was unusual, and started immediately pulling up general galactic history texts. I did not press the issue, wondering if it was due to her being a Null Psion," Philius reported.&quo
- 296 And that's how I ended up on the streets of Ja.n.u.s Prime, wandering around Downspire among the low-lifes and the poor down here, fallen from the great Upspire Pinnacles of the Castle and the Dungeon, as the headquarters of the Coronals and Umbrans
- 297 Termite offices were open at all hours, since exterminators worked the oddest of s.h.i.+fts, and wanted to get paid p.r.o.nto, instead of sitting on kills which could be taken away from them. There were people who thought of camping Termite offices to way
- 298 Egil Rosenblaun bent down to examine the cuts on the heads and bodies of the spideroids, noting the surgical ease with which they'd been carved through. As their bodies were as tough and elastic as flexamite armor, capable of taking sustained small a
- 299 "-and that's the summary, My Queen. An infestation of Cla.s.s Three or Cla.s.s Two, depending on how far and deep it goes. A little bit beyond the hourly you a.s.signed me, and, um, I don't really want to try all those numbers at this time.
- 300 "Clarify yourself, Sergeant. Did you watch the videos on my report to my superior?"He paused. "We received word of an arachnid gigus infestation alert, and were directed to go address it. We have full tactical maps in place for-""