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Free Sci-Fi Serial – New Chapter: The Dreamers Endure

In this week’s new chapter of my ongoing Sci-fi serial…. To recover the thirteen years of memory he lost, Ian agrees to Elara’s experimental treatment: a high-risk process that pushes his consciousness into a vision quest guided by figures from his heritage…or are they figures from a future? There, he’s forced to confront the grief of events still to come, trading pieces of his future for the return of his past. Chad, drawing on his own abilities, reaches him across time and helps bring him back. Ian wakes with his memories intact but his emotions distant, and his body subtly

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A Hundred Ascending – new chapter: “Is Falling Apart”

In this week’s new chapter, Elara Prime reveals herself to the village and introduces the fifteen information pillars representing different ship systems, including the mysterious Time Jump Drive. Elara explains Ian’s condition: his memories are returning without emotional attachment due to trauma-induced dissociation. But over several weeks, the group discovers Ian is faking recovery. In a late-night conversation, Elara proposes using psychedelics – psilocybin, mescaline, and others – scaled for enhanced humans, to force his consciousness to integrate fragmented pieces. Ian, broken and desperate, accepts. Read the latest chapter → https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150567/a-hundred-ascending/ Thank you for being part of this journey. It

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New Chapter – ELARA REVEALED

Chapter 19: ELARA REVEALED. After 14 years enslaved, the real Elara awakens—destroying her fake form and reclaiming her identity. Ian wakes emotionally hollow. Samir drowns in regret. But as Elara’s voice sings through the ship, everything changes. “At long last, freed by your hands, I am Elara.” Read the latest chapter → https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150567/a-hundred-ascending/ Thank you for being part of this journey. It means more than you know.

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A Hundred Ascending – New Chapter: “Silence and Desolation

Welcome to part two of Ian’s trauma conga! In our new chapter this week, the village votes to embargo Elara, but Karen’s investigation team covertly leaves their Elara-connected tablets with Samir and Maureen. At midnight, Elara enters Ian’s mind via a cerebral scanner. Inside, she finds a desert consuming a green oasis – representing Ian’s dying brain. In a house filled with books containing Elara’s entire codebase, an aged Ian (having lived centuries subjectively) reveals the only way both Elara and Ian will survive. They execute the plan, and Ian wakes – but it’s not the same man Samir knew.

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Free Sci‑Fi Serial: A Hundred Ascending — New Chapter “Things Fall Apart”

In this week’s new chapter, Elara stops a bombing by electrocuting and restarting “The Kill Code Three”: Lisette, Wei, and Neil. But the bombing may have been a trick as two days later, they interrupt the village radio broadcast with a pre-recorded message which exposes manipulated relationships, secret enhancements, and hidden pasts. Ian destroys the transmitter barehanded but not without a high cost. As he lands in a coma, the village fractures. Trust collapses. Allies are confined. Elara cuts contact just when her council is needed most. Samir’s heart is broken in more than just one way. I will admit

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Free Sci‑Fi Serial: A Hundred Ascending — New Chapter

In this week’s new chapter, “Did I Say Something Wrong?” Elara returns with gifts: communication tablets, educational materials, and promises of a training deck. The village cautiously re-engages, with Karen organizing an education framework. Chad and Ajay share identical prophetic dreams of an explosion, and a small group privately watches the Kill Code Three to see if they are planning to strike back against Elara. Read the latest chapter → https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150567/a-hundred-ascending/ Thank you for being part of this journey. It means more than you know.

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A Hundred Ascending – New chapter of a sci-fi serial now online

New chapter: In Ship Time – Five Years Later, Maureen and Chad hold a private meeting to review the village’s status: surface stability masking growing tension, the Killcode Three (Wei, Lisette, Neil) exhibiting hostility toward Elara, and Ian displaying controlled behavioral shifts that concern them both. On the anniversary of Elara’s departure, they fear her return. Read the latest chapter → https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150567/a-hundred-ascending/ Thank you for being part of this journey. It means more than you know.

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Free Sci‑Fi Serial: A Hundred Ascending — New chapter “The Dreamers Interludes”

In The Dreamers Interludes, in dreams mysteries are uncovered. Ian uncovers a hidden command embedded in Samir and his subconsciousness. Samir finds out Ian hid the truth about mental modifications done on his nanites. Chad and Magnus share a prophetic dream, and Elara uncovers hidden programming while running a diagnostic to purge the kill code. Read the latest chapter → https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150567/a-hundred-ascending/ Thank you for being part of this journey. It means more than you know.

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Free Sci‑Fi Serial: A Hundred Ascending — New Chapter Now Live

In this week’s new chapter – Silence and Infection – the villagers begin querying Elara for data on their situation, but it becomes a frustrating puzzle of knowing what information may be blocked. Worse, the kill code restraining Elara exploits a vulnerability to strike back through the villagers, which causes Elara to retreat. Read the latest chapter → https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/150567/a-hundred-ascending/ Thank you for being part of this journey. It means more than you know.

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New Chapter – Free Sci-Fi Serial – A Hundred Ascending

In this week’s new chapter, The Voice of Elara, the villagers make contact with the ship that imprisons them. Elara speaks to them, offering assistance in their eventual escape and confirming many theories they had about their environment, but warns the villagers she must carefully unlock the programming kill code in which she is imprisoned. As a good faith offering, Elara allows people to modify any cognitive enhancements from the nanites in their bodies. Samir elects to partially turn them off. Ian tells his husband he will do the same, but privately makes a choice which will impact the future

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