After taking over a minute just standing there to get used to the horrific smell, I felt I could kind of handle it. It was still nauseating. Like explosive diarrhea from a baby, that had been left to cook in the sun with rotten fruit, and then shoved into your face. This place really did earn its rank as the number one beginner hell zone.
I looked over my visual interface. My health, magic, and stamina bars were in the upper left corner, colored red, blue, and green respectively. Since ...
2025-06-10 18:12:52 +0000 UTC
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The capsule had been set up without issue on the anti-vibration pad in the living room. The double wide front door right into the living room from the front of the house had made things super easy. Flooring was a hardwood laminate, since I didn’t want any rugs to hide dust in. A camera system was installed and connected up to the VR system to alert me if there was movement on my property. I could pull up that app in game. Since a web connection was allowed in game so people could chat on fo...
2025-06-10 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I confirmed my address on the Exponential website for the capsule delivery and made the half million dollar platinum level purchase. The short of the stock was also hitting at this time. I had placed the initial order for a capsule for $200,000 once the site went live, but once manufacturing delays came out I was sent an e-mail asking if I wanted to upgrade my purchasing tier.
That was what I had just finished handling, upgrading to the platinum tier and was listed as number 2 in the qu...
2025-06-10 17:45:05 +0000 UTC
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The next day my Car drove me back up to upstate New York. I had already arranged for an AirBnB for the next 3 weeks near where my house was being remodeled. During the drive I arranged for a weekly cleaning and laundry service at the house to start three weeks from now when construction should be done. After that I also arranged for long term food delivery. The cleaning and yard service would cost $200 a week and the food service would cost $50 a day for two meals being delivered.
I arr...
2025-06-10 17:31:47 +0000 UTC
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Two weeks later the closed alpha test ended. Public reports, medical records, and reviews were released. Three days after that the price reached a high point as orders flooded into the company. I sold my shares for $125 each. That was around the six times increase I had heard about in my last life.
I smiled at the amount, since my worries melted away once the money entered my account after the sale of the stock. My initial investment of $405,000 turned into $2.3 million. I immediately p...
2025-06-10 17:10:09 +0000 UTC
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“The college?” Rodrick asked as I pulled up into the administration parking lot.
“Can you keep a secret? I mean a big secret,” I asked.
“Are you pregnant? If you are, mom and dad will find out,” he said. I glared at him and then hit him on the shoulder as the car put itself into the parking lot. Rodrick just grinned at me.
“No, you idiot. I am not pregnant. But this is serious. If Mom and Dad find out, well there will be a lot of shouting,” I said.
“M...
2025-06-10 16:56:16 +0000 UTC
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I looked in the mirror. Gone was the older jaded woman and in her place was a much younger, slightly less jaded woman who was in much better shape. By the Trinity, I had really let myself go the last time, even with the medical nanites. That was the problem with getting lower quality nanites and struggling for money for the majority of my life, it was far too easy to become a blob in a capsule.
Somehow, I had come back in time. I had panicked at first, then there was confusion, since I ...
2025-06-10 16:26:11 +0000 UTC
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2025-06-10 16:04:41 +0000 UTC
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I dodged as the massive tail slammed into the sand once more. I then dived underneath it, as it swept over me again. It felt like forever, but it had been less than a minute since my father and I had talked. The elder snake was completely focused in on both of us.
My body was reaching the point of exhaustion. The old aches and pains from my time fleeing and rowing hadn’t been completely healed. Those hidden injuries were starting to come back up again. I could tell my father was getti...
2025-06-09 22:58:51 +0000 UTC
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Its massive tail came sweeping out of the forest and across the beach. The tail was lifted a slight distance above the ground to move more quickly. The air itself seemed to be slightly distorting from the immense pressure being generated by the tail swing. I could only go up or under, both maneuvers had a lot of risks, and I only had a few seconds to decide.
Neither option appealed to me. They were both obvious choices and one this elder snake would easily exploit to take me out. I turn...
2025-06-08 22:59:36 +0000 UTC
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The motorboat died along the coast. Thankfully, I had prepared two oars we could use to row with. Going for fuel was foolish along with the secret construction site. It was better to row our way all the way around the continent to Highwater Bastion.
I had cooked a lot more fish and wrapped them in large fresh leaves. They should last for a couple of days. We got one full day of using the motor on the motorboat before it died. I detached the motor and let it sink over the back of the moa...
2025-06-07 23:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“Still alive?” Shortnose asked me as the storm continued to rage around us. The water level was getting close to our patch of mud. I had no idea how long I had been sleeping.
“Yes,” I replied. My body felt a bit better, my exhaustion was less, but my hunger was worse. We were both sitting against a tree with the motorboat leaned against it, blocking the worst of the wind and rain.
“So, the ship left?” he asked.
“They most likely spotted this storm and were forc...
2025-06-06 23:00:37 +0000 UTC
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I was faster than the apostates, which meant that after the truck was destroyed, there was no escape. With two heavily wounded and one lightly wounded, there was no escape. I didn’t let bloodlust consume me. I was too tired for that.
It took less than a minute to kill off the rest of the apostates. They put up a good fight, but I was far more powerful and skilled than them. Against five at once, they could swarm me. But with the falling tree as a distraction, breaking apart their form...
2025-06-05 23:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I tossed Shortnose to the side and rushed at the group of soldiers standing guard a checkpoint at a bridge that I needed to cross. It was the middle of the night, the perfect time for an ambush. The sky was overcast from the constant rain that came pouring down in fits and spurts.
The trek to get this far had been miserable, wet, and exhausting. My coated claws did not glint as I rushed forward. “Cat!” The cry when up from the soldiers as I darted past one. His neck was split open. ...
2025-06-04 22:57:53 +0000 UTC
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After an hour of traveling down the river, Shortnose began to stir. It was time to get off. I dragged him off the wooden makeshift raft, making sure not to stab him with my claws. After I got him off and onto the shore I kicked the raft back out onto the river. It floated away in the distance.
“Why, why, why,” Shortnose began to mumble. He was clearly out of it, but we didn’t have time to waste. Slither would be coming this direction himself and mobilizing his forces.
I let ...
2025-06-03 23:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“You make essscape,” the snake swam to the side of the barge as it hissed out its threat. I had hurt it, but it clearly wanted us alive. I got up and quickly picked up the catatonic Shortnose once more. The barge was close to the shore having drifted. Slither moving along side it to get head, pushed it even more. A tactical mistake. I got a running start and leapt off the barge as it was smashed by Slither’s tail. Pieces went flying everywhere behind me.
The barge had been a good ...
2025-06-02 23:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Thank you again for looking out for me,” Yang Heng said and bowed towards me quite deeply.
“It was the least I could do. We are peers now, so good acquaintances, friends at least,” I said to Yang Heng.
“If anything, your status is above mine, with your connections. You sure you don’t want company?” he asked me. I shook my head. I had taken enough of his time chatting about the past and stuff I had done. I didn’t reveal the truly interesting pieces of information, ...
2025-06-01 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“What about the pitch black throne? I found something underneath it,” I said and removed the hilt I had recovered. Senior held out his hand and I handed over the hilt for him to inspect. He carefully looked over it for a minute before speaking.
“That throne, or chair, is called the Chair of Despair, or the Seat of Wishes. It has many different names. It is something whose origins have been lost to time. But what it does is take the wish of the last person who sat in it and creates...
2025-05-31 23:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Waking up, I felt afraid and nervous and then calmed down. My martial robes had been changed to white and were of high quality. It felt weird that someone had changed me while I was sleeping. I noticed all my personal spatial items and sword on a table next to my bed. I checked them and nothing had been removed. I equipped everything back on me while I looked around.
The room I was in was quite plain. Everything was quite plain in grey or beige colors. The lighting was soft and the ener...
2025-05-30 23:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I had repurposed the furred creature’s base as my own. Josh had shown up and I put him to work on manning the turrets to take out anything approaching, while I worked on trying to put togeather an escape vessel.
The corpses were left where they fell. Let the furred creatures rot in this hell for all I cared about them. I had three vessels to work on that had crashed and exploded. While the most critical components were messed up, the rest of the vessels were still in working shape.
2025-05-29 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I slowly welded the metal plates onto my craft. It was very slow. The welding device was incredibly weak. The metal was a very high quality. The tool was used for emergency patch jobs or lesser quality material. Now I had to put the array plates to create a proper formation. That meant taking my time while the massive battle continued to rage around me. Shaking the citadel and sending out massive energy waves.
Sometimes there were lulls, like when the soldiers finally wiped out all the ...
2025-05-28 23:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Ahead of us emerged two lizards from a passage to block our way forward. They didn’t look good. The purple one was missing its tail and the yellow one was missing an eye and a good portion of its face. Also both of their scales were ripped up and heavily damaged. It was honestly impressive that they were still alive and had moved into a position to intercept us.
“The hunt continues,” the purple lizard said while flicking its tongue.
“Leave Supreme Wizard. Our quarrel is no...
2025-05-27 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I pulled out the hilt I had gotten before. I had recovered my energy from the earlier events, but I still felt sore, tired, and worn out. I channeled my energy into the hilt, which consumed it greedily. No response, no magical blade formed, nothing except losing energy. I put the hilt away once more with some difficulty.
It was a shame that the hilt wasn’t a secret super weapon of some kind. I floated away for a bit and grabbed a deformed plate. I took it back to the metal wall and ma...
2025-05-26 23:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“One Swing To Separate Heaven And Earth!”
I put everything I had into the attack and then some. My treasured blade disintegrated from the amount of energy I put into the attack. But I didn’t target Ix. There was no chance of hurting the demonic cultivator Ix. My earlier attack had shown how pointless that was. He was the wrong target. The words I had heard earlier lingered in my mind.
I targeted the opening in the crystal chamber holding the Gu. I w...
2025-05-25 23:00:04 +0000 UTC
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AN: Ix gets a theme song. When you are this powerful, you get your own theme song.
That was when I felt my very soul tremble. I couldn’t move, I could barely think. I just felt an overwhelming amount of fear and despair. The arrays plates parted and I was quickly dragged through the space towards the absolute center of the Gu Container. The plates moved back into position behind us. Not that escape was an option anymore.
In front of me as the plates parted was a giant crystal ch...
2025-05-24 23:00:07 +0000 UTC
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There was a group of seven beings standing in front of a hallway that led off to the inner citadel. Two of them were lizards, one yellow and the other purple, unlike the jade green that Hissk was. They were staring at me intently as Shen approached the group with a smile. He was going to be completely shameless once again. You could take the fish out of water, but it was still a fish. Shen’s shamelessness was a part of him. Enough to make me consider killing him, but not enough to do it whe...
2025-05-23 23:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The light and energy were blinding, forcing me to look away. Whatever power source the war machine had used, just went super critical. Everything in a large spherical radius that had been in that area was wiped out. The giant worm, paste. The molten metal, blasted away. The solid metal under the initial molten metal layer, turned molten and blasted away as well.
That entire section of the barrier sphere, was pushed outwards as the shockwave spread out. We were over halfway to the Citade...
2025-05-22 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Being an immortal wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. After imagining it for so long, I had expected more fanfare and congratulations. All I got instead was a molten hellscape and more work. I carefully adjusted the grip on my sword and swung.
I hesitated for a single moment and by then it was too late. A spatial slash cut the intervening space and all one had to do was step through. The problem was that if your step was off, the slash was disrupted, or there was another problem ...
2025-05-21 23:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The being exploded into meat chunks and destroyed all the energy inside of themselves. They had been wounded in a fight and saw me approaching so they decided to kill themselves first so I couldn’t get any benefits. That was annoying.
“Yuan Zhou,” a familiar figure said from a distance away. It was Hissk. I hadn’t seen him since he had rescued his fellow lizard.
“Hissk. You have gotten stronger,” I declared.
“So have you. My senior asked me to avenge him. Hissk...
2025-05-20 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“That was a good nap,” Sword God Feng said before puking out more blood and viscera. It had been around a year if I had to guess. While that might seem like a long time, to work out the fundamental truths of a sword, it was incredibly short. “Now tell me what a sword means.”
“A sword is a companion tool,” I declared.
“Not a weapon?” I tried to suppress my nervousness.
“A weapon is a tool of killing. A sword can be used for more than killing. Using your blad...
2025-05-19 23:00:04 +0000 UTC
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