At the same time…in a different tutorial…
Kroktar was always proud about his assignment in the guard post, since the day he hatched from his egg he felt the pride that all Crocodiarii had. They were a strong race, their jaws mighty and their scales thick. Not even the Brammgestir could defeat them. So why did they need to suffer like this?
First the guards thought it was just a horde of wild beasts or a patrol of the Brammgestir trying to see if the guard...
If heaven existed in the multiverse, Ethan certainly found it. As weird as he found those crocodile people he forgot everything the moment he tasted from their food and drinks. At first he was skeptical because, well, he thought they would just eat raw meat or something like that, but then they brought out something that looked like a chicken and something similar to a suckling pig. Multiple trays of steamed vegetables, potatoes prepared in different styles. The best was tankards filled to th...
2025-05-02 13:19:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant wasn’t dead, something he would have known if this wasn’t his first time ever seeing such a creature that only existed in myths and legends before. It turns out a giant has two brains that communicate with each other, share knowledge and memories and when one vanishes? No problem at all, they just need to wait until the head regenerates. But what if they can’t wait, well then you have a giant with the motor skills of a three-year-old.
Ethan nearly laughed when he saw the...
2025-05-02 13:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostOuroboros pulled his mind back from the tutorial where his newest disciple was about to start a fight with one of the legendary fire giants, well it would be legendary if the system didn’t scale it down to a pathetic level thirty, but that wasn’t his business, nobody interfered with the system. It’s not like the people didn’t try it, they just got punished so severely that nobody dared to do it again.
When his mind returned to his body he gracefully rose from his throne and walk...
2025-05-02 13:17:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe following days turned into a blended mess of magic, beast and feelings of guilt. His thoughts returned to James again and again, how he killed him and how easy it felt to kill him in the first place. There was no real fight, no challenge, no battle for his life. He walked up to him and killed him, it was as easy as squashing a bug. So Ethan did the only thing one could do without a smartphone or television, he hunted the whole quarter of the swamp to extinction.
During his first par...
2025-05-02 13:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Nora slithered away from Ethan she felt truly alone for the first time. Before her birth she was part of her father’s domain, no more than a spirit, a wandering soul, but she was one of millions, now her own being, without the comfort of a sibling or her new companion, Ethan.
Making her way through the muddy swamp felt weird for her, while she wasn’t really cold due to her connection with Ethan she still felt a shiver run over her white scales. She felt the connection wit...
2025-05-02 13:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe cursed bolt of magic splashed against the wall of ice that shot up from the ground, to Ethan’s surprise it melted his ice almost completely, only a thin sheet remained where the bolt hit. The black flames of the cursed bolt were stronger than his ice. He already had a guess why, while his was just the simple ice element he seemed to have something aligned with curses and fire, so cursed flames.
Ethan jumped back while the small horde of undead monsters surrounded James, he looked ...
2025-05-02 13:15:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning Ethan felt refreshed, his mind was occupied with so many things, even one night of rest was better than all the sleep in his entire life, at least it felt that way to him. For the first time he also noticed the lack of hunger and thirst, ever since the day he entered the tutorial it was absent. When looking around the swamp he was glad the system did something because nothing looked edible in this artificial world. He shudders thinking back to that mimic deer.
Nora was ...
2025-05-02 13:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostEthan put some distance between himself and the plague rain. He watched it a while longer before turning around and making his way through the swamp once again. While he had plans in mind for his own advancement Ethan needed to focus on his companion, Nora. For some time he didn’t want to pry into her own business but her absence could lead to mistakes down the line.
With no proper ground around them he just made a platform resting on four pillars, he surrounded it with ice spikes tha...
2025-05-02 13:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostEthan had cooled off, it was like his anger froze solid and drifted away like snow. After his outburst he managed to bring his emotions under control again and for the first time he just relaxed. From the dungeon he decided to stay in the swamp for now instead of pushing into the next circle. While the forest in the center wasn’t small by any means the circle the swamp formed around it was truly massive. While wrapping around the forest already gave it an impressive size, but it reached out...
2025-05-02 13:13:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Ethan appeared back on the summoning circle he just wanted to sit down for a bit. There was so much going on and he felt like the tutorial and the system in general wanted to overwhelm him. So he tried to break everything down into more manageable pieces of a massive puzzle. So he checked the effects of his new armor set. While lore was interesting he just wanted the benefits of it now so he willed the system to shorten it down
[Hat of the Wandering Wizard]
[Gives...
Let's hope this is the end…Ethan said to Nora, the snake being silent for a long time now, the changes to his race seemed to affect her too and she looked almost dead while being wrapped around his biceps and shoulder but when he stepped into the corridor she woke up, looking around with her big blue eyes.
You could have warned me you know, I was out cold when you…why are you laughing? Her tongue moved angrily in and out of her mouth. Ethan's fist literally explode...
2025-05-02 13:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostCharlotte smiled at the group of children that sat with her in a circle, each of them was working on something different. Two girls around ten years old decided to try weaving. A boy next to them was carving utensils, multiple crude spoons were laying in front of him, opposite him a teenage boy was sewing a damaged shirt and yelped when he pricked his finger again.
While they worked Charlotte was finishing her own project, a beautiful bow rested on her lap, the dark wood was polished an...
2025-05-02 13:11:07 +0000 UTC View PostStepping into the next corridor was different in many ways, Ethan felt like he was reborn in a place where only death had a place. His whole body felt stronger and solid but there should be some change with his stats, besides the obvious ones from his level. He was also wondering when a new primary class was supposed to show up, besides his plague mage and new race the mage class felt lackluster now. Especially because his new skills made the class useless for him.
Still there was this...
Ethan rested opposite the dead ghoul, both of them kneeling on the ground but only he was still alive, his breathing was heavy and restless, a cloud of frigid air escaping his blue lips with each breath, but the smile on his face grew by the second. He felt the cold move through his body, reaching every part of him, strengthening him in a way he couldn’t understand properly. His mana felt different, like it was more solid and not slipping through his fingers as easily, it was more…part of...
2025-05-02 12:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostTransfer completed!
Ethan landed on the ground with a groan. “Stupid dungeon in this stupid tutorial” he just laid there for a minute and started at the ceiling. The compacted dirt was only broken up by the occasional root that managed to fight through the hard pressed mud. He wonders if it will stop someday, each time he wants to rest something happened.
It was almost like the system or whoever was in charge of the tutorial wanted them to be in constant stres...
2025-05-02 12:52:58 +0000 UTC View PostRunning was something Ethan rarely did in his old life, not because he was lazy but it wasn’t necessary, if you needed to go somewhere you always had a car, public transport or just a stupid bike to reach your goal. Well in his new life it became something essential for him. Picking the mage was the right choice for him, he wasn’t supposed to be as nimble as an archer or rogue and he couldn’t see himself brandish a sword and defend himself with a shield.
Well, now he wished he had...
2025-05-02 12:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostTravelling the swamp on a walkway made from ice made Ethan question his current skills, he had multiple skills related to ice but was using none of them to create this path, it was only his will and magical energy that created it. So why didn’t he use it like this all the time and relied on the skills that pushed his magic into a specific form?
He was aware that skills helped a lot, his caltrops wouldn’t be possible without system assistance, the amount of mana and concentration he...
Pale trees covered in dark brown or even black leaves. The bark covered in moss and riddled with holes, a low hanging fog covered the ground and made every step treacherous. The light of the sun seems almost absent compared to the normal forest. The center was bleak but the swamp felt like a death trap to an unprepared wanderer. Forming the first ring after the center it covered a large territory and who knows what kind of creatures awaited Ethan here.
Besides that one time he used the ...
2025-05-02 12:51:05 +0000 UTC View PostEthan was excited for his new class, while it sounded kind of evil he knew he could make it work. One thing he knew for sure was that the class wasn't very flexible in the beginning. It’s after all for slow acting effects over a large area. The knowledge he received from the system laid the whole process out for him in the most basic way.
Starting at target selection, to transmission, behavior, desired result. If he had this class back at the game it would kind of work like this: gobl...
2025-05-02 12:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostNot investing his free points was the biggest mistake Ethan made so far, nothing else seemed to compare at this moment. He didn’t even check his status while waiting all that time in the goblin camp. Maybe he got five levels, maybe ten? He certainly didn’t know. While running he couldn’t think about his own stupidity, the ogres while slower than him made up for that in being fucking big!
Each root Ethan stumbled over or branch he needed to avoid the ogres instead just bar...
2025-05-02 12:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostReworked on the 24/05/2025
The cold detachment he felt to this whole situation had Ethan a bit worried, he felt so distant to it all and the smile on his face only grew when he heard the goblins scream. A stray thought made his way to the front of his mind, asking if it was the tutorial or the blessing of his new patron that kept him away from a mental breakdown. At this point he knew that multiple things were influencing him on a base level. Not only Nora, which he wa...
Reworked on the 20/05/2025
The mystical force known as magic, Ethan noticed, wasn’t set in stone. It was malleable and with the right knowledge, could be formed like wet clay but also just as easily broken when it was used the wrong way. Then it will shower you with the remains of your work and if you’re unlucky enough take a part of your body too. Ethan rubbed over his burning arms, he used too much magic and was hit in the face by the first snowball of the tutori...
Reworked on the 20/05/2025
The moment the egg began to shake and break Ethan began to panic, Ouroboros told him basically nothing about the egg, just that the thing inside would affect him in some way. Still he needed to trust his new patron to have his best interest in mind when giving Ethan such a thing. He took the step and decided to go down this route with Ouroboros and even if the decision was made quickly he couldn’t change it anymore. Another sigh escap...
Reworked on the 20/05/2025
When he appeared again it wasn’t in the forest but instead down in the cube shaped room he spent the last hours playing around with magic. His eyes drifted to the small opening that served as his slide before. “Wait…how do I get back up…?” He hoped for some divine guidance but there was only silence. “Fucking great…” he sighed and succumbed to his fate. The egg clutched to his chest he wondered how the fuck he should get back ...
Reworked on the 17/05/2025
When Ethan woke up again he felt like days have passed since his battle with the weird man. The moment he opened his eyes a groan escaped his lips, the light that shined into his eyes was far too bright for him after spending such a long time in the dim forest and cave. He blinked some tears away and rubbed his eyes. When his eyes finally adjusted he could finally see his surroundings.
He was sitting in a garden, the grass was cut short...
2025-05-02 12:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostReworked on the 17/05/2025
“What?” Was the only word Ethan managed before the man smiled and took just one step, instantly he stood in front of Ethan, his speed so high he couldn’t even see him move. In the blink of an eye he found himself spinning through the air like some toy and only then did his body even realize it was hit, the pain flared in his side where the staff hit him, his entire left side was just an explosion of pain. Then a second hit followed righ...
Reworked on the 10/05/2025
Sophie watched as the two goblins stabbed each other with their rusty knives, the green creatures giggled while doing so even if tears streamed down their faces. Still under the purple glowing eyes of Sophie they killed each other, once they finally died and she got the notification from the system she continued on her path towards the goblin camp. This turned out to be too easy for someone like her.
She knew everybody was stupid, playi...
2025-05-02 12:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostReworked on the 10/05/2025
The dried mud cracked with every step he took, the last hour was spent walking through the forest as far away as possible from the swamp and the goblins. He needed to think and make a plan, this was something he was always good at. Looking at a situation and figuring out a way to achieve a result he was satisfied with. He wasn’t strong enough even with the experience he got from killing that goblin. That was a fact he had to remember, two l...
Reworked on the 10/05/2025
Running through the forest was quickly proving to be difficult, Ethan’s breathing was heavy, his arms and legs hurt and more than once did he stumbled because of his long robe or because his staff got stuck in some low hanging branches. Still they never stopped, in the fleeting moments that he looked behind him he noticed the panicked expressions of James and Marie and the grim determination of the three remaining prisoners.
In the di...
2025-05-02 12:39:40 +0000 UTC View Post