He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)

by Shirtaloon

Ability: [Astral Affinity] •Increased resistance to dimension effects and astral forces. Dimension abilities have increased effect and transcendent damage is increased.

Ability: [Mysterious Stranger] •Language adaptation. •Essence, awakening stone and skill-book absorption. •Immunity to identification and tracking effects.

“The way you made them disregard you as a threat by appearing weak and harmless,” Gary praised. “Feeble and helpless, even touched in the head a little. It was masterful how impotent you came across. Even after you kept escaping from the cage, they had no respect for you as a threat whatsoever.”

I WENT TO A MAGICAL ALTERNATE UNIVERSE AND ALL I GOT WAS VAST COSMIC POWER.

“What about dwarves?” Jason asked. “Gnomes? Non-copyrighted small people who live inside hillocks?”

then cores would the only thing

Do you have aristocracy in your world?” “Sure,” Jason said. “We’re slowly phasing it out in favour of wealth-based oligarchy, but it’s still around.”

“Remember, everything is new to him. He’s probably just taking his time to look around.”

“Turns out booze is poison,” Gary said. “I’m not going to stop drinking it, but it makes you think.”

“I’m not very smart and simple formalities are super-hard to figure out. It’s definitely not that I find them to be a set of arbitrary behavioural norms that serve as a tool of exclusionary tribalism and that eschewing the rituals of cultural performance facilitates the fostering of new relationships by having both sides step out of their preconceived societal modes.”

“Jason, there’s a time to be clever pedant, and a time to shut your mouth for once and learn something.”

It’s like he lives off-balance. Talking with him feels like teetering on the edge of something I don’t understand.”

“Standing up for those who can’t stand up for themselves is a virtue. But if acting on that virtue puts more hurt into the world than it takes away? Is that still moral?”

She wants your principles to go through the fire so they don’t collapse once you’re out in the world where she can’t watch over you. I’ve been playing along, but I want a friend, not a frigging ethics pupil.”

“Don’t muddy the waters unless muddy water is useful to you.”