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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
- 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&
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 200 The three of us stepped into the opened zone, and came to a halt at almost the same instant."Well, that's clever," Briggs mused aloud, Endure on his shoulder as his pale violet eyes scanned the buildings around us.They were overgrown with v
- 199 Errant stepped out from the bounds of The Camp, trotting calmly along the packed trail that led towards the Rift, aiming to get out of the Camp's Interdictions.A large winged creature with a dark head spiraled down out of the sky ahead of him, clearl
- 198 Watching two fractured temporal flows rub past one another is an interesting experience. It was possible to see the different degrees of wear and tear through the time, although not very far. Light did screwy things when it pa.s.sed through the barrier, a
- 197 A Warped Champion howled and charged me from behind. I didn't look back as half a ton of stone came down on his head and crushed him flat behind me. His oversized sword chopped down and bit into the stones a half-inch from me, and I mentally wagged a
- 196 "Let's plan out our next moves, now that we are on a schedule,- Briggs /broke in calmly, sunny form radiating purpose. -Errant, I understand if you want to remain in the capital back there, especially if that's where Heaven wants you. Are y
- 195 "Sir Errant!""Highness.""Prince Estemar!""Miss Amber! And Miss Verd, and Miss Veis... Lady Hazé?" A pause. "Is Mama here, too?""Commander Briggs. It has been some time.""Pure Sword Errant? d
- 194 "The advent of this style came out of the convergence of two skills. One is the ability to deliver increased damage on a jump or fall. The other is being able to make a running long jump from standing still." I watched them think that over. &quo
- 193 "Yes, that is true. You should be aware that its part of the nature the Curse coded into us. Think about it... despite Hags being pretty much the epitome of vile, evil, wicked women, petty and scheming and powerful enough to make their wishes reality
- 192 The arrival of The Wagon was a cause for celebration in The Camp. The reason was obvious... behind it came the Road of the Silver Queen.Starsister Hazé had wrought a road where none was before. A Dawnstopped Widened Shaping Stone, cast out of a V Valence.
- 191 The carnage and destruction wreaked upon Hardhelm Forging the next night was the talk of the capital.Unlike earlier liberations of the dwarves, there was nothing subtle or mysterious about this. Overseers, slavemasters, and guards died in great numbers, m
- 190 Feist and Grym both gasped together.When you're two hundred feet underground, creeping through tunnels bored through solid stone by magic by creatures with inhuman senses, that's not a good thing to happen.Everyone's heads snapped around in
- 189 The goblet was full of a rich red wine, s.h.i.+mmering like ruby under the silvery magical lighting, scattering a few crimson rays about the room. Errant accepted it smoothly, and took a drink without hesitation after briefly tinking the crystal goblet ag
- 188 It wasn't a very big house, but it was enough for six house guests without too much problem. The three girls scampered all over the whole thing, looking for items of interest, including up into the attic. Perhaps particularly up into the attic.Perfec
- 187 "That's a big city!" Amber noted on behalf of everyone, eyes bright as the ringed walls of Zynozure rose from the sprawl of the lesser city below."The biggest in all my travels," Hazé agreed, eyes looking around with casual alertn
- 186 The Order of the Ruby Heart was in an uproar. Someone had dared make an a.s.sa.s.sination attempt on one of its squires, and been thwarted by the fact everyone concerned had stumbled right into the middle of an Inquisition operation.There was nothing for
- 185 "Whoooo!" Grym called out, swaying as the Wagon beneath him juked sideways. A tree, whirling end over end in their direction, crashed to the ground and tumbled and rolled right past them as they headed off on an angle, shattered branches flying
- 184 "A message delivery?" Errant's brow furrowed. "You aren't a page, you are a squire. Why was such a simple task given to you?"Estemar's brown eyes flickered with annoyance, that was quickly buried under his discipline. &q
- 183 -Sage Sama? We've got a small situation here...-I always encouraged a little healthy understatement as a way of controlling fear. Someone who was screaming about the end of the world wasn't in a state of mind to give a very good report.-Go ahead
- 182 The mushroom was about three feet high, partially mobile, shaking... and shrieking loudly enough to qualify as an ambulance, if any of them knew what that was.Alas, the Sound Bubble was up, and n.o.body heard it before Verd brought her heavy spear down an
- 181 -Sage Sama! We've got a problem here!-Dwarves came across much more clearly in Marktell than in person. The quarter of my brain devoted to communication /responded instantly, -Go ahead, Captain!-The Rockborn officer gave me a full eyeview of the figh
- 180 Haggar Gozeman had spent untold hours of pain, sweat, and tears trying to get ahead in life. He had built up a small trading business, owned his own textile mill selling cheap fabrics to the undercla.s.s, and exploited his workers ruthlessly as he attempt
- 179 Something was wrong here.Errant eyed the architecture and ornamentation of the place with an eye both critical and approving. Verses of the primary tenets of Aru, depictions of miracles a.s.sociated with him, art and sculptures of saints and heroes who ha
- 178 Thrice Way of Waters, -6 to opponents' armor or natural armor. Water always finding the weak points in a rigid defense.Thrice Way of Fire, -6 to opponents' dodge or dex bonuses. Fire consumes all, erratic, unpredictable, your own movements used
- 177 Buzzing arrows came whizzing in from all directions, driving into the planks of the carriage. Truly it was unusual for such a vehicle to be traveling alone, without armed guards, and doubtless the men in wait thought they'd hooked themselves a fine,
- 176 The headquarters of the Order of the Ruby Heart was up on the Third Circle.At one time, he'd been told, it had stood on the Second. But as the power of the Aruan Church had waned, its greatest knightly Order's standing had fallen with it.Part of
- 175 "Little Feist." The voice of the hyn was very smooth, rather genderless and hard to describe or remember, while at the same time being quite unforgettable. No one who heard it would fail to recognize it, but trying to describe it was virtually i
- 174 Those who had fallen had already been dragged away. The Casters who could Revivify them were already waiting, and the White Staff that could do the same was also waiting. Paying for it out of the Company spoils had been totally agreed to by those fighting
- 173 "It's time for us to go."The three girls looked at one another in astonishment. "Go where?" Verd asked Hazé, caught off guard by this sudden statement."For starters, down to Zynozure. Veis' brother Errant is heading ther
- 172 Like most big cities, the capital of the Empire was built along a river, the Crowned, and the great lake called The Throned, flowing through a broad river valley. The fields around here were the best in the Empire, if not the world, and upon the combined
- 171 It took eight days to advance eight miles and hold the ground. The Camp actually did not move, the formal base staying near the Silver Worm to have access to water, and secure the trail of supplies and new bodies arriving from behind. Sure, they could lab
- 170 "I was found innocent! Innocent!"Errant's fist crashed against the man's jaw, and he slammed to the ground. Deftly, he removed the golden ring and its warding magic on the man's left hand, and as the man whimpered and looked up, h
- 169 Riding the Light, Errant naturally made very good time. He also got in a lot of practice dealing with rapid environmental s.h.i.+ftings via dimension-skipping, which dovetailed with the memories of what he'd done back in the game and grounded him in
- 168 The crystal pillars were denser and denser as they closed in on the Rift, battling vermin and Warpbands with equal regularity, taking cover against Chaos Storms that were reduced to mere sand storms in the Corridor. As the Warped died, the Corridor drove
- 167 The expression on his father's face was interesting. Pride, of course, that his son had done such a thing. Unease, at what this might portend, because his father did not think he could do the same. Regret, that he had not paid more attention to this
- 166 The ground exploded in a shower of dark rocks and sand. A sound reminiscent of breaking boulders and protesting steel rang out over the empty land, carrying for miles.Briggs hooked Endure on the corner of its mouth and levered down, dragging his Hammer be
- 165 "So, she is doing well?" Errant confirmed, as the two of them watched the impromptu Shrine to an Elder G.o.d burn both up and down. Half a dozen Mother Vines populated the area, and a Simming Pod was blazing with cerulean fire.Over two hundred P
- 164 Hazé put her hand to the side of her head in disbelief. Feist just chuckled and threw two more bodies on the Disks with impromptu ease for his size."How many is this tonight?" she asked a little helplessly."I think we're up to sixteen
- 163 Today we set up the Camp at the edge of the Dichromatic Plains.The ground ahead of us was all black. Some were stretches of sand, dunes whipped back and forth by planar gales visible in the distance, parti-colored lightning visible Over There where the Ri
- 162 Errant thumbed his chasuble reflexively as he made the long walk upwards, traipsing up sideways along the windy pa.s.sage to the top.It had taken him several months to finish it, as he had to first commission the cloth with extraordinary workmans.h.i.+p t
- 161 "Canapes! I need the canapes out now!""No, the fish, the fis.h.!.+ Set it there, there, and there!""Do you not know how to arrange a proper cheese platter? A wheel, a wheel, this is the pattern...""Did someone never teac
- 160 Rorn was there, waiting out in the darkness. He fell in beside me as I headed back into the Camp."I wondered why there were never Berserkers in the Ironblood," he mused to me."Chaotic Good Berserkers are awesome heroes. The rest can go jump
- 159 They were big, hairy men, brawny and muscular, with an air of incipient violence hanging around them , ready to boil over. Their armor and weapons showed signs of a lot of use, and they handed them over to the smiths to fix almost reluctantly, as if think
- 158 Errant brought Grace from nearly his heels overhead and down, hewing through the neck of the Stone Jotun Warlock who he had just hamstring. Black earthen energy spewed out of the wound with the geysers of blood, sparking and flaring against the residual e
- 157 "Thrust! Again, again, again! Faster, faster!" Hazé's Staff spun, cracking against the thrusting spear, knocking it aside as fast as it stabbed out.Eyes intense, Verd chased after her, motions eerily fluid and precise, stepping in sharp cad
- 156 The Ironblood were drawn up in lines along the entry line into The Camp as the two h.e.l.lhounds trotted in, heads high. They saluted the two h.e.l.lhounds sharply as they came in, spear b.u.t.ts pounding the ground and cheers breaking out for the return
- 155 Not too long ago, after a certain Mark /Omnitell...The ceremony was progressing nicely. The priests were chanting, the sacrifice of hapless peasants was completed, the blood-filled pentagram was burning, and the Calling was nearing completion.The Portal w
- 154 It had been a year since his little sister had left, and his mother had been revealed as a changeling. That she was actually a Warlock was something not spread out to others, but the search for the background of the woman was something that his father
- 153 Scut didn't know quite what to think of Mama at times.Oh, she was a good cook, always cheerful, smelled like old herbs and honey, gave great hugs, and wasn't afraid to cuff him on the head if he was being rebellious.The fact she was blind but al
- 152 They looked very pretty, that was sure. Some of the women were mounted on unicorns; many other elves on stags, with great curved racks polished with metal. They all had mail on so fine it could be poured in the hand, sometimes with ornate plate in additio
- 151 "Warlord," Temerick greeted Rorn respectfully, coming in beside him. He could feel the orders going out, elements of the Kalden continuing to advance, while others cleaned up at speed. The battlefield was starting to burn white, and the looters
- 150 This girl was a redhead, and literally. Her hair was scarlet, almost the hue of blood, just enough on the unnatural side to be magical. She flaunted it, obviously quite proud of it. It set off her pale, almost milk-white complexion, and the scattering of
- 149 The Camp disa.s.sembled in an amazingly short period of time. The people working it moved with quick harmony, as if they had done it all before, moving from one area to the next with aplomb as wagons were loaded and sent off.A fair number of those wagons
- 148 The Duke took a very deep breath. He was a servant of Huul, he dealt with fiends, and steeled his heart for more dire news. "Yes!" he stated grimly."Your daughter's nanny is a doppelganger, placed to watch over the Hagchild." His
- 147 "Errant!"Hearing his younger sister Quetzal calling him was unusual. She was rapidly being turned by this d.a.m.n environment and his older sister and brothers into the cold hard b.i.t.c.h typical of the Gilderalz Ducal House, and had started ta
- 146 Rorn led the men up to a hilltop and paused. Even knowing he was going to see it, he stopped.Below, the foothills suddenly smoothed away into a gra.s.sy plain, dotted here and there by copses of trees. Gouges had been sc.r.a.ped out of the plains, irregul
- 145 Moonfire came down from the sky, quite gentle at first.As it coursed across Verd, something responded.It was like a shadow that was always there, but never noticed. Under the moonfire's illumination, it couldn't conceal itself any more. From ins
- 144 The chatter didn't stop as I walked in, as the ones here were too busy proving their manhood to one another, and didn't notice me, at least at first. Then I walked up on the stage, and that got attention. The conversations started to drop off, h
- 143 The Golden Wing was a pretentious bunch of erinyes-inspired women who had set themselves up as a monastery of sorts, where they accepted orphans, exiles, and the remnants of n.o.ble families or merchants who'd lost everything in cutthroat compet.i.ti
- 142 Hazé stepped off the Energized Pattern, turned around and waited.Scut and Verd looked at her for a moment, then their eyes crossed, they stumbled and fell down, and began to heave out their guts.First time teleports were a thing. Subtle changes in air pre
- 141 The sounds of beatings being applied weren't particularly unusual in the training area. Such encouragements motivated the inept and lackadaisical to focus better, and the threat of them kept the motivated more driven.Too, beating the s.h.i.+t out of
- 140 Hazé spun her Staff in her fingers, looking ahead of her.She was invisible up on a roof, and this town didn't have internal Wards, so she knew she wouldn't be spotted. Her attention was on a girl below.This girl's mother was a greenhag.Hazé
- 139 Getting the components together hadn't been as hard as he imagined. After all, there were still shrines to Amana around, as even devotees of Huul wouldn't chase off the Gentle Mother's healers without very, very good reason.Keeping one'
- 138 It was time. Her Karmic Debt was gone, and wiping that cult of Angar on their annual ritual hunt had definitely given her enough Karma to do what she wanted to do next. She only regretted that she didn't have time for more then the local Baron to be
- 137 Several years ago..."Growing up a n.o.ble in a medieval society is supposed to be fun," Errant murmured for the thousandth time, as he picked himself up off the sandy floor of the sparring chamber, probably for the ten thousandth time.It wasn�
- 136 Most onlookers would call them raven's wings. They were iridescent black, sized to be of neo-angelic proportions, a comparison that would have generated nothing but ire from their owner.Ire was driving him now, as those wings performed like those of
- 135 The door rang, but there was no magical presence of whoever entered.Hazé already expected what to see, but popped her head around the corner anyway. "Oh, it's you. Be right with you, Brother!"The Fire and the Sword smiled despite himself. S
- 134 Eight different warbands were taken out in one day. It was a new record for combats, and Sama or a Void Brother were present at all of them. Demons were Summoned, and the lesser ones Fed the Land all the way around. The Greaters were sent packing back to
- 133 "That was very well done."Hazé froze.She had Detect Life up, and yet n.o.body was registering on it. Her Ranks in Perception had been bought up with her Human Racial Levels, the only Levels she had been able to gain while saddled with so much Ka
- 132 Warm breath hissed out in the cold air, but the owner ignored the cold. The cold never really let go here in the North, even in the summer it wasn't uncommon to find ice in shadowed pools. With autumn pressing in, the temperature was dropping by the