Ultimate Level 1 - Book 7 - Chapter 370a - Archons
Added 2025-02-04 14:00:02 +0000 UTC“The system is under attack in ways it should not be. What are we going to do about it?”
Four figures said nothing in response to the first, each of them feeling the flow of power that ran through them from every living creature across the system.
Strands wound together in tight cords, running into the very chairs they sat upon, the seat of their power and also the chains that bound them.
“What has happened is not new. Many times each day these things take place and yet you now say we should act upon it?” the third archon asked. “You only bring this up because of what it is connected to.”
“Of course that is the reason,” the male archon stated, his voice louder than before and earning him a harsh gaze from the other four.
He coughed, his appearance nothing more than a humanoid body, each of them sharing the same one, filled with lights and twinkling every moment as the system's power coursed through their being.
“Each of you knows it is different this time. Never in so long has one been like this.”
His words caused them all to sit there silently. Time, which seemed to have no purpose in this room, passed. A thread blinked out, an entire world gone, while other threads wove together to make a strand.
“Did everyone just come to the same conclusion?” one of the female archons asked, the fourth in the row.
Heads moved slowly up and down, blank faces, no expressions given.
“Even then, the risk is so great,” the same archon who had brought up this protest continued. “How many have come, giving power back to the system to influence this thread… this strand… the very thing we all know the potential danger it represents?”
“That does not matter,” the second archon replied, glancing at the one who sat in the last seat. “We have been here so long and seen so many things. This is nothing to be concerned with. Our rules will keep things safe. The gods play their game according to them. At any time we can adjust the rules if need be.”
No more words were spoken as the other four turned their heads into the same neutral position they kept them unless one spoke or a god came to their room.
Yet on the end, the fifth archon frowned for a moment before joining the others in their gaze across every thread they were connected to.
Comments
This series is in my Top 5. I'll gladly wait and keep reading to Book 10! LOL
Mike Naka
2025-02-04 22:55:46 +0000 UTCYou could kept this mystery. It adds more questions.
Felix Richards
2025-02-04 19:10:14 +0000 UTCMax just needs to go up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start and then beat the archons with his unlimited lives.
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2025-02-04 18:12:40 +0000 UTCI think it would be a little too distracting if you tried to write a lot. But you could totally get away with a small aside kind of like this chapter. Like how Max killed his first Elf. He was like euphoric and could “taste it” and struggle back from it. But instead just some creature who experiences the same but they hear the voice inside telling them “this is who you are, one meant to devour all” or “command all” and have them “agree” to basically become a black skill controlled meat puppet. Or you could have an end of world moment. The world champion broken and crawling away. Wondering how someone managed to destroy their world. How they’re so strong and trying to barter before they hear the black skills “double voice” talk about devouring the system itself, etc and then being struck down (the world winking out)
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2025-02-04 18:11:25 +0000 UTCthere is a part of me - if i felt 'spunky' who wants to try and write the other two black skills but i don't think that: a - I could do it fast enough to make it worth the time / effort for what's coming in book 10+ b- could do it well enough that people would wait for book 10+ to pursue those :)
Shawn Wilson
2025-02-04 15:27:50 +0000 UTC370a... Is there a b coming :o 😄 Very interesting peek... Wonder what the changing rules are and what party these archons will play.
Scott Frederiksen
2025-02-04 14:43:19 +0000 UTCI wonder if the planet that winked out was from the other black skill s
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2025-02-04 14:06:19 +0000 UTCWhooooo!!!! The true sysadmins!!!! Archons blah! :p thanks for the hmmm... what is this foreshadowing?? Ahhh to trite. Glimpse of who will die??? LoL... the evil overlords? Piffle. Max walks into the room of archon and declares, "You're fired!!! ... now scram before I feed you to hungry deagons!!!"
Khal Lee
2025-02-04 14:05:55 +0000 UTC
