Helen lived close to her work place, Pink Bodies.
During the day, the place looked nondescript. The bulbous circles that were supposed to be blaring with pink lights, attracting the attention of those looking for someone to comfort their loneliness or take the edge off of their day-to-day stress blended in with the concrete streets. Artemvian that the building itsel...
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“I-It’s coming!” Stole sounded both excited and nervous.
I could understand why, I was excited too.
Skaris trembled, barely able to contain his eagerness. “Sssssha! Sssslaveborn! Let me have thisssss one!”
“I could shoot it down from here.” Ky...
2024-07-09 05:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostArtemvian walked quickly through the metropolitan streets, eyes alert and hands ready in his pockets. Broad daylight accentuated the dirt and grime, both the physical and metaphorical stains of this city. Ignoring an one-eyed homeless man whose cardboard cutout read ‘Help me buy new eyes!’, the Mage looked at the address on his phone again, double checking it with the GPS and ma...
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We would meet at the docks in one week.
So I sat in my quarters (nothing more than one corner of the tent really) while Skaris and Kyrian slept. Ignoring the lizard beastman’s snoring, I scribbled on the floor with a piece of soot I found. Strangely, the moment made me laugh. I had been ...
2024-07-06 19:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
While Riley went to the back, Brant bombarded Artemvian with questions.
“So… that guy you captured the other day… you say he was a Werewolf?”
“Yup. Just a mutt though.” Artemvian answered, taking another bite of his sandwich. “Two possibilities. One is that a traveling Veritas Lycan, a True Werewo...
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I was going to church.
Well, the Church. One of its branches anyways.
It stood on top of a hill that stood behind Miltus, overlooking both the City and the Slums which stood next to it. The entire building was painted with gray-white walls and mounted with elaborate structural de...
2024-07-04 05:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostNew Novel: Title is Pending.
Introduction
Eulogy of Artemvian Moneti Delacreu
Delivered by Emperor Theodus III the Pious
Found in the Tomb of Maxxus Bolivine
Many would ask me how I knew Artemvian.
I first met Artemvian when I was 6, right after I set the nursery on Fire. My fathe...
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Stole led us to the central marketplace.
“Stick next to me like hair on a monster’s ass.” She muttered then slipped into the crowd.
Skaris and I followed her, bumbling like an awkward teenage boy at his first dance recital about to ask for his crush’s hand. Whev...
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Leaving the Mage Tower after speaking with Dibo left me with plenty of questions and tasks to think about.
In a nutshell, Dibo had gotten information that the [Player’s Guild] will be participating in a raid that the Church was planning. Using this raid, he was hoping that we could make conta...
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“So… this is the magic tower.”
“You’ve never seen one before?”
Out of reflex, I nodded my head. “I have seen them before.”
Technically, it wasn’t a lie. I had seen them before on the computer screen. Just not in real life.
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The burning sands that shifted beneath my feet with each step.
Half-buried weapons, bones, fistful of hair that lay strewn around the field.
The acidic stench of blood, piss and shit that stung my nose.
People that chanted, screamed and roared meaningless, incoherent words.<...
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One of the time old arguments on the forums.
Build Design… AKA: Which Items to use for endgame content and most importantly, which Cores to take.
In MSS, there were thousands of Cores with drop rates that made me tear my hair out after 50 hours or punch my screen after 500 hours. So ...
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The statue’s arms were rock tight (no pun intended), one wrapped around my neck in a rear naked choke. Her other hand roamed freely over my stomach and occasionally dipped below it, in places that should never be touched by anything made of stone. In any other situation, I would’ve tried to break free.
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Stole watched as Gurran, the proud lightning shielder, got blasted away from the Skeleton that exploded.
Used to adventuring alone, ambushing monsters under the cover of darkness, her first instinct was to run.
Even the girl’s Core makeup was centered around this fact. Having experienced So...
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｢ +7 EXP ｣
｢ +3 EXP ｣
｢ +8 EXP ｣
The expedition was going smoothly. Almost too smoothly.
Since I gave Stole that peptalk, she fulfilled her job as a [Pioneer] with renewed gusto. The girl took the role very seriously and we cou...
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“You brat, what did you say to me?” Dorothy took a step forward and the wolf behind her growled; its eyes glowering with red light. Simultaneously, Dorothy’s own cerulean eyes seemed to glow.
“So she has a Core that shares certain abilities with her Summons. Battle-oriented supp...
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A kid with a dog… wolf? –some kind of canine ears sat with her legs crossed. A crossbow –called an Arbalest– that was longer than she was tall lay within easy reach though I had no idea how she’d hoist it in time. Her eyes were pitch black with amber pupils, the same color as her spiky hair which was shaved ...
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I was so going to die.
The archer with the ugly mug from before fired without warning, the twang of his bow reaching my ears at the same time I ducked my head, feeling the arrow whistle above my head.
“Stop!” Gurran ordered, obviously their leader. To their credit, most of th...
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“Technically speaking it’s not a dungeon. It’s a field.”
“Sssso while I am getting my [Evolution], you will be hunting?”
“That’s the idea.” I replied.
Currently we were walking towards the Beastman Settlement, in between Eretia and Miltus. This w...
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The fire spread like a virus.
In this place, the Slums, everything was built out of scrap metal, driftwood and unwanted. The weather in Miltus was sunny and warm with the occasional rain. A weather perfect for those who didn’t have much in the way of shelter, even in the Slums the few hours of ...
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When we entered the bar-like room that served as the Guild’s reception area, all the talking died out. Elves froze in the midst of raising a glass of wine to their lips and beastman around us actually let out a few growls; somewhere between appreciation, respect and wariness. Others all had the same reaction; t...
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After everyone left, Aurora remained behind having asked Kyrian and I if the three of us could talk in private.
“If you need help selling off the loot to the guild or other merchants for a better price, I’d be more than happy to go with you.” Kyrian offered.
Aurora –with her A...
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Lock sat in the Forge –the dwarven word for their temple– of Smith, the dwarven god.
Contrary to what one might expect, the temple itself wasn’t a heat-filled building, filled with screeching metal and screaming hammers. The building Lock was in looked like a typical church, much like what one might f...
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“Damn it!” Kyrian slammed his fist on the wall.
Everyone else remained silent, dealing with the situation in their won ways.
Krag sat straight across from me, looking after the wounded Dibo. Dibo’s face wasn’t… pretty. He had cuts all over his face, swollen nearly...
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We set out into the maze again, leaving the carnage behind us.
“I hope everyone else got out fine.”
I wondered if feeling remorse justified my actions. The truth was that I risked everyone’s life, choosing a path that was narrower and riskier for my own selfish reasons.<...
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There are roughly 4 types of monsters.
Regular monsters are the typical mobs, swarming the field and are commonplace throughout the world. Though some argue that we should have a separate category for those that appear only in select dungeons, I personally think most monsters belong here.
Bo...
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[Inuho-oh], a Grade-6 monster resembling a Terror Bird wearing the skin of a chicken.
There had been no benefit to actively looking for it until now. It was bad-tempered and powerful; considering the fact that none of its abilities were a good match for us –even if it dropped a Core, a big if– I wa...
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“Mr. Lock. W-Was that, was that what I think it was?” Aurora hissed, waking the others. Then she scrambled to her feet, green eyes wide with disbelief.
I stared at my katana which had been surrounded by a black and gray hue moments before, equally as shocked.
That was...
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Kyrian was the first to strike, summoning a pair of [Lightning Strike] to stun the one-horned Ice Dokkaebis.
I veered off from the one I had been attacking, aiding Skaris.
Skaris whirled his spear like a martial artist from a action movie film and then stabbed forward in what looked like a s...
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