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Anything ~ 52!

Luke was the first to react by a long shot, his open distrust of foliage saving the team as he Bum Flashed over and swept them into the open air. The plant connected to itself with a clashing that would put thunder to shame, sending them rattling through the turbulent air with enough force that there was no doubt that they would have absolutely died if they had been caught.

“If you are hearing this recording,” a voice boomed, following the mind-shattering noises of the plan...

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Anything ~ 51!

“I have no idea how you managed to make that work.” Taylor shuddered as her Cleanse spell worked overtime to eradicate the flecks of… mud… that kept splattering onto her with each step someone took.

“You catch Cookie, I pull her to me,” Luke explained yet again as they worked to defend the Druid, who was sitting in the muck and somehow smiling. “The angle of your fall changes and becomes a slope. You don’t fall as hard on a slope. You can’t reach the fastest f...

Anything ~ 50!

“There, now we’re directly above the Scar that’s something like ten miles below us. Are we all happy, now that we know no bugs are coming out of it?” Luke grouched at the others, a little upset that an animal or monster that he could eat wasn’t presenting itself.

*Buzz.*

Everyone went dead silent as a Preying Mantous flew through the area. Only the swirling wind kicking up dust hid the group as the monstrous insect continued past into the sand dunes. Taylor moti...

Anything ~ 49!

“So, just to make sure we’re all on board with the plan, Taylor,” Zed paused to send a scathing glare at the ‘leader’ of the party, “We go into the desert here with no plan except to ‘fix stuff’, two of our party members are severely limited in the amount of help they can offer, tensions are high… but if we win, we go on a ‘vacation’ from being told what to do and try to become as powerful as we can for ten years or until caught; whichever come...

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Anything ~ 48!

- Luke -

“So what now?” Taylor’s voice caused Luke to blink and lose sight of a ripple in the sand that he was almost positive was a root system coming to try to wrap him up.

He decided that perhaps he should just move to a new spot, instead of being forced to splatter the viney growth and upset the Druid. Again. He moved five feet to the left, then eight feet backward. His muttering went unheard by the others. “Those plants wouldn’t be expecting this. ...

Anything ~ 47!

Andre explained his new Ability on the way to picking up Taylor. They chewed over the information as a group, then - to the Druid’s delight - started brainstorming. Zed was the first to come up with a good idea for the first beacon. “Why not just get all of those nasty bugs that kill plants all in one area and wipe them out in one go? I think you combined with Luke can take ‘em all in one, maybe two hits?”

“I like that; we can get to it right now.” Luke was quick to...

Anything ~ 46!

- Andre -

Everything hurt in the absolute best way, as if he was taking a nap after a particularly strenuous pre-dawn workout. For a long moment, Andre didn’t want to let his mind do any work, simply exulting in the fact that he felt amazing. He wanted to look at the notification that was playing behind his eyes-

Then the rest of his body let him know that he was in a whole lotta pain.

“Ahh!” The Druid’s eyes flew open and he looked around in confusion. “W...

Anything ~ 45!

Luke turned calmly to meet the raging Druid. Blood was pouring from the Druid’s skin as he ate away at his own flesh to sustain the magic he was casting. “I’ll kill you for this! There’s a reason we put them to sleep first, you monster!”

A glass bottle appeared in Luke's off hand, and he whipped it out with deadly accuracy and pristine balance. The base of the bottle *bonked* the center of Andre’s forehead, and the Druids’ eyes rolled up in his head. Luke...

Anything ~ 44!

- Luke -

The Murderhobo had finished his excavation, creating a deep channel to the edge of the Zone, and used it to drain the entire lake into the open air. It hadn’t even taken very long, as the water only pretended to be water. It flowed far faster, taking only a few hours to completely drain all but the deepest parts of the once-lake. During all of this, he set off trap after trap, finding himself partially mesmerized, blown away, and once even sporting what would have be...

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May we have many more, and greater happiness each day.

Anything ~ 43!

- Taylor -

“You’re sure about this?” Taylor watched the Descender portal warily, and Andre somewhat guiltily. She could stop this from happening, but… if it worked, it was worth doing. “If you want, we can think of another option. You don’t have to-”

“Luke was right. When someone comes after us, they don’t deserve our pity. Besides that… we’ve come this far.” Andre’s voice was firm, if somewhat hoarse. Taylor could tell that this decisio...

Anything ~ 42!

Luke reached the top of the bubble, bent his knees, and pushed downward directly at the center of the face. There was no holding back right now: anything he had was used. His Chain-blade Rope was extended directly in front of him, as it was his strongest weapon currently. He dumped forty percent of his total mana into it and hoped for the best as a wave of power rippled upward.

The ‘Super Friendship Blast’ almost seemed to move slowly as it distorted space. Luke had plenty ...

Anything ~ 41!

“I’ve never tried fried human before! Food!” The excited cry went out, and a chorus of bloodthirsty cheers followed just behind. Luke looked at the lightning shapes coming toward him and began swinging his left arm around, and around, windmilling his Chain-blade Rope.

As the next wave of unicorns arrived, he expanded his Rope out as quickly as he could. Doing this meant that the damage potential decreased drastically, but direct damage wasn’t what he was going for. His ...

Anything ~ 40!

- Luke -

“Why, Luke? Why must you kill us all? We tried to make peace, we made so many offers… didn’t even one of them sound good?” The Murderhobo stood at the end of Zone twelve, his chest heaving as he brought Cookie into the air above his head with shaking hands. He stood over Shelly, the first Unicorn he had ever met, as she trembled in fear at the single human that had managed to reduce the grand herd to only a single living member; and even now was about to make t...

Anything ~ 39!

Andre tried and failed to come up with a response for the Bard, but finally merely muttered, “Where were you when I first got this place?”

Taylor looked up at him in light disgust, “What was that?”

“Nothing. Listen, Zed…” Andre began, only to be cut off by the increasing-volume of moans coming from the Bard.

“Ughh. I’m perpetually dying here, Andre. This hurts an unbelievable amount. Just throw me out like a hunk of garbage!” The Bard sighed soft...

Anything ~ 38!

- Andre -

The Druid watched as the man that had just turned a literal swarm of bugs into paste opened a portal and vanished. He winced as he realized that the Murderhobo had drained away a huge amount of the area’s ambient mana when he opened the portal, and it might take days before there was enough in the area to be able to open portals again. Even then… only if the plant life here survived. At this moment, that meant exactly one thing. “There are more bugs com...

Anything ~ 37!

Luke landed heavily on the border between Zones, blood not his own running off his body so thickly that he needed to shake like a dog just to get the top layer off. He sighed as he stepped into Zone eleven. “Stupid birds.”

Since he had already defeated this Zone before, there was a good shot that he could just run across it. Yet, he was almost certain that the parasites would have taken over the guardian and would be using it as a gatekeeper. Since he had resolved to kill t...

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Anything ~ 36!

Dev edit is complete!

Small note: Chain-link Scourge has been changed to Chain-blade Rope during edits.

Displeased with the feeling of his bones poking through his skin in a few places, Luke meandered around Murder World for a short while until he found a trickle of water. He dropped into it and started slurping down the fluid, then let it wash through him as his Skills kicked in and began rearranging his insides. “Ugh… that feels ...

Anything ~ 35!

A note ahead of time, some of this is getting reworked when I come through it on my editing pass. (Turns out I found that they had killed a few people earlier in the book. Whoops :P )

“We’re under orders to have the trial right here so that no one can subvert justice.” The Knight Captain told them from behind his closed faceplate. “You’re suspected of the murder of many of the Kingdom’s Ascenders. Your team leader may speak for you. If she lies, you are ordered to...

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Anything ~ 34!

Luke’s head throbbed, and he wondered if it was because of the concussive mana blast from his Sigil, or if it was something the strange man had done. Probably a little of both. He lay in the nice warm sand and grumbled as he looked over the new messages he had received.

Information packet integrated: Higher Ascenders and where you stand.

Higher Ascenders are considered anyone past the level 30 threshold, also known as ‘World Anchors’. As Ascenders increase in po...