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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