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After being killed by a high-velocity tree-hug, Arlo is transported to a new world of skills, stats, and levels where those brave and talented enough to conquer ancient Delves are rewarded with incredible supernatural power.
- Chapter 1: A Deadly Oak Tree
- Chapter 2: Stats!
- Chapter 3: New Friends!
- Chapter 4: Unilateral Decision Making
- Chapter 5: Attack of the Stickmen
- Chapter 6: A Perfectly Ordinary Bridge
- Chapter 7: Fear is the Mind-Killer
- Chapter 8: Cash Crop
- Chapter 9: Dog Pile
- Chapter 10: Feelings
- Chapter 11: Mandatory Sewer Level
- Chapter 12: The Wise and Magnanimous Grotto
- Chapter 13: Figuring Out How to: Not Die
- Chapter 14: That's a Lot of Damage
- Chapter 15: Delicious Chips With a Side of Suffering
- Chapter 16: Fuuuuusion Ha!
- Chapter 17: Are Severed Heads Loot?
- Chapter 18: The Man Who Doesn't Exist
- Chapter 19: Nobody Expects the Hiwardian Inquisition
- Chapter 20: What? Your Skills are Evolving!
- Chapter 21: The Re-Born Identity
- Chapter 22: Are These Item Descriptions... Flirting With Me?
- Chapter 23: Lies! Deception!
- Chapter 24: Truth! Honesty!
- Chapter 25: Hell Has an Open-Door Policy
- Chapter 26: When in Rome...
- Chapter 27: Set Loose Upon the City
- Chapter 28: Dress to Impress
- Chapter 29: New Exploit
- Chapter 30: Training Arc
- Chapter 31: Uninvited Guests
- Chapter 32: Nobody Expects the Hiwardian Inquisition AGAIN!
- Chapter 33: Lito the Bloodhound
- Chapter 34: A Dozen Cutthroats and a Level One Delver
- Chapter 35: An Entirely Inadequate Dungeon
- Chapter 36: Any Frog in a Storm
- Chapter 37: Umi-Dooby-Doo, Who Are You?
- Chapter 38: Main Quest Progression
- Chapter 39: The Sagacious Seinnador
- Chapter 40: The Ultimate Attack Magic!
- Chapter 41: Weapons, Armor, and Swagger
- Chapter 42: Ashe, Ember, and Cole
- Chapter 43: The Eye of Sam'lia
- Chapter 44: We Can't Stop Here!
- Chapter 45: This is Bat Country!
- Chapter 46: The Subtle Art of Hammering
- Chapter 47: I Can't Feel My Guilt When I'm With You
- Chapter 48: Enter the Mana-Matrix
- Chapter 49: Some Light Exercise
- Chapter 50: Gracorvus
- Chapter 51: LFG
- Chapter 52: A Perfectly un-Ordinary Bridge
- Chapter 53: The Third Layer
- Chapter 54: Orexis
- Chapter 55: God of Yearning
- Chapter 56: Override Code: FAAFO
- Chapter 57: S-Tier
- Chapter 58: Player 5
- Chapter 59: Short Rest
- Chapter 60: Delve Core 9998
- Chapter 61: The Wailing, The Moaning
- Chapter 62: Shog'tuatha
- Chapter 63: Heads Shoulders Knees & Toes
- Chapter 64: Handsy
- Chapter 65: Breaking Gear
- Chapter 66: Gods and Ladders
- Chapter 67: Fortune
- Chapter 68: The Quick Way Down
- Chapter 69: May I Borrow a Cup of Soul?
- Chapter 70: The Inner, Inner Cage
- Chapter 71: Cage Match, Round 1
- Chapter 72: Cage Match, Round 2
- Chapter 73: Cage Match, Round 3
- Chapter 74: Through the Gift Shop
- Chapter 75: Void Transaction
- Chapter MT1 - Epilogue
- Chapter 76: Vicious Mimicry
- Chapter 77: Cadaverous Mimicry
- Chapter 78: Mimic Mimicry
- Chapter 79: Royal Mimicry
- Chapter 80: Chatty Mimicry
- Chapter 81: The One and Only Mimicry
- Chapter 82: Tanking Mimicry
- Chapter 83: Ded Mimicry
- Chapter 84: Mandatory Tavern Scene
- Chapter 85: Keystone Evolution
- Chapter 86: The Why
- Chapter 87: Tavio of Seqaria
- Chapter 88: Don't PvP with a PvE Spec
- Chapter 89: Don’t PvP in a Pocket Dimension Controlled by Your Opponent
- Chapter 90: Fix My Build
- Chapter 91: Homecoming
- Chapter 92: Tonight We Dine in Hell
- Chapter 93: Talking to (a) God
- Chapter 94: System Phases
- Chapter 95: The 'Hammer' is My...
- Chapter 96: Patriarch
- Chapter 97: Umi-Dooby-Doo, Ecchi Otaku?
- Chapter 98: Spirit, Sea, and Lots of Cannons
- Chapter 99: At Loggerheads
- Chapter 100: Yaretzi!
- Chapter 101: Three vs Sixteen
- Chapter 102: One vs. One
- Chapter 103: Four vs. One
- Chapter 104: Thunderdome
- Chapter 105: Geul's Embrace
- Chapter 106: Cheer Up, You Got Levels!
- Chapter 107: Ownership
- Chapter 108: On Revelations
- Chapter 109: Grotto Safari
- Chapter 110: No Time For Sightseeing
- Chapter 111: Camping
- Chapter 112: Shouldn't Have Aimed for the Head
- Chapter 113: That Won’t Stop Me Because I Can’t Read
- Chapter 114: Symbiosis
- Chapter 115: Vyxmeldo'a
- Chapter 116: Sakra Manar
- Chapter 117: Delayed Evolutions
- Chapter 118: Architect
- Chapter 119: Generations Past
- Chapter 120: Damned if You Don't
- Chapter 121: 'Confusing' Some Littans
- Chapter 122: Reaching the Descent
- Chapter 123: Beginning the Descent
- Chapter 124: Dread Star
- Chapter 125: Eldritch Doom and Scheduling!
- Chapter 126: Crafts!
- Chapter 127: Monster Battle
- Chapter 128: Clockwork
- Chapter 129: Clockwork II
- Chapter 130: Kaleidoscope
- Chapter 131: It’s too Big for Us to Handle
- Chapter 132: Stacking DOTs
- Chapter 133: Dumping (Not Just for Stats)
- Chapter 134: Danger Close
- Chapter 135: We are Arlo
- Chapter 136: Entry Requirements Met
- Chapter MT2 - Epilogue
- Chapter 137: To the Moon!
- Chapter 138: You Get an Evo, and You Get an Evo, and You Get an Evo!
- Chapter 139: Becoming a C’thon in 1 Easy Step
- Chapter 140: The Winding Path
- Chapter 141: The Basilica
- Chapter 142: The Cathedral
- Chapter 143: Dimensionalism and You
- Chapter 144: Two Places at Once
- Chapter 145: System Addendum #3
- Chapter 146: Anty Bodies
- Chapter 147: A & N Exterminators
- Chapter 148: The Four Bugwomen of the Apocalypse
- Chapter 149: Death Sequence
- Chapter 150: Diptera Fatalis
- Chapter 151: Chips, Loot, & System Warnings
- Chapter 152: Mystery of the Insectoid Society
- Chapter 153: Lonely Langhrey
- Chapter 154: Sharing (your stats) is Caring
- Chapter 155: Splitting Souls
- Chapter 156: Need Before Greed
- Chapter 157: An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Chapter 158: System Addendum #4 (Unrated Version)
- Chapter 159: Arbitrage
- Chapter 160: Dread Star II
- Chapter 161: Brae’ach the Unifier, Part I
- Chapter 162: Brae’ach the Unifier, Part II
- Chapter 163: Phase Two
- Chapter 164: Hickory-Smoked Skills
- Chapter 165: The Good, The Bad, and The Arousing
- Chapter 166: Escape
- Chapter 166.5: Everyone Else's Skills and Evos
- Chapter 167: Breakfast Invitations
- Chapter 168: Pool Party Farewell
- Chapter 169: Strategy Meeting, but Naked
- Chapter 170: Reality Anchor
- Chapter 171: Gold Standard Delving
- Chapter 172: Littan Excellence
- Chapter 173: Surprise Mimicry
- Chapter 174: The Raaaaage Caaaaage!
- Chapter 175: Planar or Spatial? The Subtle Nuance of Portal Magic
- Chapter 176: Strategy Meeting, but Dressed
- Chapter 177: Delicious in Delve
- Chapter 178: Nottagator Rematch
- Chapter 179: The Void King's Houseplant
- Chapter 180: Skill Forge
- Chapter 181: Project: Unavoidable Harm
- Chapter 182: Home & Garden & Very Small Pants
- Chapter 183: Showing Off ‘The Hammer’
- Chapter 184: When To Hit Your Guests & Other Lessons on Etiquette
- Chapter 185: Accidental Nation Building
- Chapter 186: Royal Security
- Chapter 187: The King
- Chapter 188: Insider Knowledge
- Chapter 189: Allies Close, Danger Closer
- Chapter 190: Napkin Hunt
- Chapter 191: Leon the Prosecutor
- Chapter 192: Arlo Xor’Drel, Esquire: Ace Attorney
- Chapter 193: Judgment
- Chapter 194: When to Hit Your Guests, Part II
- Chapter 195: The Chapter in Which the Combined Skills of Both Myself and My Bonded Familiar are Useless
- Chapter 196: The Hippo, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
- Chapter 197: What’re Ya Buyin’?
- Chapter 198: What’re Ya Sellin’?
- Chapter 199: Time to Meet Our Host
- Chapter 200: Bro, Can You Even Bench the World’s Largest Land Mammal?
- Chapter 201: Banana Sandwich
- Chapter 202: Special Guest Star
- Chapter 203: Is That a Skeleton in Your Closet, or a Divine Avatar Looking to Kill Us All?
- Chapter 204: Unified Theory of Demanifestation
- Chapter 205: Soundtrack
- Chapter 206: No Avatar Flesh After Midnight
- Chapter 207: Buffs, Cooldowns, Consumables. Burn Them All.
- Chapter 208: Shared Fate
- Chapter 209: The Plant Dimension
- Chapter 210: System Call
- Chapter 211: Chat Room
- Chapter 212: Divine Cowboy
- Chapter 213: Unworthy
- Chapter 214: Lockdown
- Chapter 215: God Wranglin'
- Chapter 216: Intentional Nation Building
- Chapter MTB3 - Epilogue
- Chapter 217: Cognitive Biases
- Chapter 218: Offer on the Table
- Chapter 219: Implant or Eccentricity?
- Chapter 220: Delving Through the Snow
- Chapter 221: How Many Zombies in a Horde?
- Chapter 222: 1,518
- Chapter 223: Please Die
- Chapter 224: Handling It
- Chapter 225: Lich in a Ditch
- Chapter 226: The Boss We Deserve
- Chapter 227: Dimensional Magic 40
- Chapter 228: The Best Option Comes First
- Chapter 229: Change of Plans
- Chapter 230: Working Out the Kinks
- Chapter BOOK 1 HAS BEEN SUMMONED FORTH!
- Chapter 231: Barely an Inconvenience
- Chapter 232: Surgery Prep
- Chapter 233: Gatekeeping
- Chapter 234: Dreamscape Ritual
- Chapter 235: Soul Carving
- Chapter 236: System Addendum #8 pt 1
- Chapter 237: System Addendum #8 pt 2
- Chapter 238: Mind Control Builds Your Character (sheet)
- Chapter 239: Godslayer
- Chapter 240: Prison Princess
- Chapter 241: Liquor and Stolen Goods
- Chapter Art Commissions Week 2 Idea Submissions
- Chapter 242: Batant IP Theft
- Chapter 243: Glow Up
- Chapter 244: Back Out in the Cold
- Chapter 245: Dungeons and…
- Chapter WEEK 3 ART COMMISSION SUBMISSIONS
- Chapter 246: Dungeons and… (2)
- Chapter 247: Dungeons and… (3)
- Chapter 248: Durgeons and… (4)
- Chapter 249: Durgeons and… (5)
- Chapter 250: Durgeons and… (6)
- Chapter 251: Durgons and… (7)
- Chapter 252: Durgons and… (8)
- Chapter 253: Durgons and… (9)
- Chapter 254: Dargons and… (10)
- Chapter 255: Dargons and... (11)
- Chapter 256: Dargons and… (12)
- Chapter 257: Dargons and… (13)
- Chapter 258: DRAGONS!!1
- Chapter 259: Her Golden Majesty
- Chapter 260: DRAGONS!!2
- Chapter 261: A Tale as Old as Hep
- Chapter 262: The Last Generation
- Chapter 263: Club Dragon
- Chapter 264: Another Montage
- Chapter 265: System Mafia (also, art comm #1)
- Chapter 266: Fortitude 70
- Chapter 267: Perfect Ego
- Chapter 267.5: Full Party Character Sheets (and a special shout-out)
- Chapter 268: Icebreakers
- Chapter 269: The Not-So-Forbidden Forest
- Chapter 270: Hammerhead Airlines
- Chapter 271: Layover
- Chapter 272: Viewpoints
- Chapter 273: The Truth Revealed!
- Chapter 274: No Dog in This Fight
- Chapter 275: Fight or Flight
- Chapter 276: Biiiiiirdmaaaaaaan!
- Chapter BOOK 2 IS LIVE ON AMAZON KINDLE/KU
- Chapter 277: Active Forgery
- Chapter 278: Tray Tables Up, Buffs in the Full Upright Position
- Chapter 279: Krimsim Skies
- Chapter 280: We Need Backup
- Chapter 281: Bullet Time
- Chapter 282: Angry Angry Hippo
- Chapter 283: Focused Fire
- Chapter Choose Your Own Addendum idea submission
- Chapter 284: Sumrann’s Champion
- Chapter 285: Explosion!+
- Chapter 286: True Sense (& Addendum Poll)
- Chapter 287: Sumrann’s Harvest
- Chapter MTB4 Ω 1
- Chapter MTB4 Ω 2
- Chapter MTB4 Ψ 1
- Chapter MTB4 Ω 3
- Chapter MTB5 Addendum: Shog 1
- Chapter MTB5 Addendum: Shog 2
- Chapter MTB5 Addendum: Shog 3
- Chapter MTB5 Prologue (1)
- Chapter MTB5 Prologue (2)
- Chapter MTB5 Prologue (3)
- Chapter MTB5 Prologue (4)
- Chapter Art & Updates
- Chapter 288: V for Vendetta (against trees, specifically)
- Chapter 289: Heinous Amounts of Shielding
- Chapter 291: Property Law 101
- Chapter 292: Which Came First, the Kingdom or the King?
- Chapter 293: Closettown
- Chapter 294: Magical Limbs and Where to Find Them
- Chapter 295: The Beating of His Hideous Heart
- Chapter 296: Asking Politely
- Chapter 297: In Which Teleportation Does Not Deal With the Cancer-Causing Soul Threads
- Chapter 298: The Return of the Bling
- Chapter 299: Fleeting Cheating
- Chapter Book 3 LAUNCH DAY
- Chapter 300: Cabinet Meeting 1
- Chapter 301: Cabinet Meeting 2
- Chapter 302: GUNS GUNS GUNS
- Chapter 303: World Domination
- Chapter 304: For the Eternal Glory of Closetland!
- Chapter 305: Battle Mage Farmer
- Chapter 306: Gifts That Keep on Giving
- Chapter 307: Team Princess (Legally distinct from other princess groups)
- Chapter 308: Vaulty-Tec
- Chapter 309: Hiwardian Drift
- Chapter 310: Blood and Steel
- Chapter 311: Bloody Perfection
- Chapter 312: Level Gaps
- Chapter 313: Unexpected Nation Building
- Chapter 314: Let Them Eat Pie
- Chapter 315: Ayamari (1)
- Chapter 316: The Who’s Who
- Chapter 317: The Wise Man’s Ear (The Name of the End) The Avatarkiller Chronicles
- Chapter 318: Ayamari (2)
- Chapter 319: Ayamari (3)
- Chapter 320: Ayamari (4)
- Chapter 321: Grudges
- Chapter 322: More Grudges
- Chapter 323: Settling Grudges
- Chapter 324: Discount Tournament Arc
- Chapter 325: Collateral Damage
- Chapter 326: The Minions of Your Minions are Your Minions
- Chapter 327: Broadcast
- Chapter Update (ill + holidays)
- Chapter 328: Rom-Com Take 1 (Pining Fir Yew)
- Chapter 329: Curse Ye Bones
- Chapter 330: Ye Think I Have Bones?
- Chapter 331: Parfum de Belette
- Chapter Updates: Dec 15 2025
- Chapter 332: Weasel Stank
- Chapter 333: Infection
- Chapter 334: Deadly Orders
- Chapter 335: Helping Hurts
- Chapter 336: Crafty Crafts
- Chapter Update: JAN 17 2026