“It’s more a way to flex than anything else, but using it feels extremely good, the different elemental interactions are very funny to watch.”
“But still… Why a billiard? Who got the idea first?” Rune couldn’t help but ask.
“There is no first… Because it’s the bone region. Artisans and craftsmen have been specially recruited to start an adaptation process experiment. It’s also extremely advantageous for the first comers as it means less competition and lots o...
2022-01-16 11:45:04 +0000 UTC
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Once they reached a public space to settle down in, Rune simply sat down in a chair. But as he kept his stealth, it only looked like a haunted chair was moving by itself.
“Show yourself! Why are you keeping your stealth!” The girl named Crystal was really getting familiar with the strange stealthed guy, to the point that she started to say everything she wanted.
“I don’t have stealth! If you had eyes you would see me! You’re just blind!” In answer, he stated the obviou...
2022-01-16 11:44:44 +0000 UTC
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“While you were working on imitating my amazing construct, I worked on gathering where we need to go to get what we want once we’re there, so just follow me. First, we’ll go get our own account to connect to the front base network,” Arik, who proved again that he prepared himself the best, took the lead.
Stepping out of the platform a few seconds after it was secured and people started to come from everywhere, they went through one of the 4 available very big doors, at least spa...
2022-01-16 11:44:27 +0000 UTC
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‘So it clips there…’
Custom equipment was really custom equipment, with the help of the notice Rune quickly found how “custom” they were, and was impressed by the ingenuity behind it.
First was the securing belt, the one made to hold the ether pocket dimension ball that contained… Everything. No more was it tied around his hips as a much more secure spot was created after the transformation: The rib cage.
Originally made to protect the important organs, it was de...
2022-01-10 05:13:25 +0000 UTC
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The hole leading to the bone region was located at the absolute center of the base, it was normal for it to be located here when one thought about it. It was the reason the base existed after all.
When Rune, Arik, and Astryde passed through the perception blockers of the biggest dome of the surface base, a hive of activity was unveiled to their perception.
The whole size of the hole, multiple kilometers in diameters, had been streamlined and arranged to welcome a gigantic platform...
2022-01-10 05:13:12 +0000 UTC
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The exploration immortal style, that’s the name Rune gave his not-yet finished fighting style that adopted cosmic mist as a core component.
Despite having obtained this component months ago and using it for much more than what he planned during its creation, he knew that only a trial by adventure would teach him how to properly wield it.
And a trial by adventure was what the group had started to experience since a few days ago, when they finally breached through to the tier 4 zo...
2022-01-10 05:12:59 +0000 UTC
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“I want to see if there are survivors,” Arik added an unexpected point to the list of what he wanted to do.
“How?”
“I don’t know, I’ll ask Astryde.”
“Ok, I want to do a behavior analysis of the monsters there,” Rune then added his own.
It was then Astryde’s turn.
“I want to do deep rewinds at archeological sites,” she simply said.
“And what does it mean?” Rune asked for clarifications, with Arik similarly blinking multiple time...
2022-01-04 01:32:41 +0000 UTC
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At 580 meters per second, without the reaction speed granted by their 10 000 perception, it would be a feat for them to only be able to stay next to each other.
At such a speed, using energy platforms to use their strength in the air steadily used their energy. Arik and Astryde who didn’t have bonus efficiency to their energy compression had to use a bit of momentum to aid them at not using tens of energy armor at each step.
Fortunately, the Ether Law was built finely, and they ...
2022-01-04 01:32:25 +0000 UTC
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“2 months ago, Nelo departed alone after maxing his stats. He went to the beyond-horizon monster's anomaly again, still as stubborn as ever. As for Astryde and I, we started to make preparation to go to the bone region a few weeks after Nelo departed, when Gar brought me a report he got from his new contacts…”
Arik seemed to have forgotten what Rune asked about if their company was named Undecided Company and just continued his chronology.
“From there, the situation hasn...
2022-01-04 01:32:08 +0000 UTC
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Leaving the ether labs, he didn’t do any other detour to buy or eat something and arrived back at the Undecided Training Park an hour later.
And while he wished nothing had changed, the creation of a highway heading right towards the training park, the not-little flow of people using it, and the numerous mentions of the term “training park” explicitly told him things had… Changed.
When his perception touched the border of the park, the only thing he still recognized was th...
2021-12-29 04:29:09 +0000 UTC
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‘Mmh… Let’s try adaptation and interaction this time.’
Making another trip to the third layer of his introspection space, he proficiently found his way to the cohesion area and modified the appropriate number of grains.
Then he set up his mental imagery and started the most direct way of fusing everything together with the similarly most direct framework of thoughts.
Over 3 months, soon to be 4, Rune had gained a massive number of insights he added to his framework, ...
2021-12-29 04:28:48 +0000 UTC
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Unbothered by danger, Rune started to release cosmic mist and gather it around him.
He didn’t think clearly about what he was doing and what he really wanted out of this light fight that couldn’t have consequences even if he wanted.
The moment he saw a squad of 5 quadrupeds furred monsters, he approached them, and when they sensed him they charged over.
By the time they reached his position, he had already disappeared from their perception and wasn’t even preparing to ...
2021-12-29 04:28:27 +0000 UTC
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After Hosirha departed, it was Arik’s turn to come to his table.
“I’m not receiving guests… Should I make a sign with ‘Purge Undergoing’ written on it to be left alone?”
“Even if I punched you, your purge wouldn’t be canceled immediately,” it seemed he didn’t have any urgent things to say and just got here for the heck of it.
“My purge being interrupted or not isn’t the most important part in what you just said!”
As an answer, Arik got a big...
2021-12-23 20:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Completely relaxed and clear of any worries from a whole week dedicated to nothing else than his newly discovered passion of intent tinkering, Rune felt ready to start working on mastering a technique that didn’t look appealing.
Before doing that however, he decided to make a detour to the Dream to be ready for a whole month of focus on one thing, it was the minimal requirement for the technique to work after all.
As for if this walk in the Dream would be entertaining or not, it...
2021-12-23 20:44:39 +0000 UTC
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Accepting the DELR directly, the meeting was finally turning into something Rune had already experienced before with Aleda.
“So, I’m certain I understood what you want your growth mastery to be, and while the simple and summarized version is completely impossible to make, once you add the correct restrictions, it immediately changes. But you’re underestimating the precision you need to have when you fuse all your effects. For example…”
In his view, 10 pictures of complet...
2021-12-23 20:44:15 +0000 UTC
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This chapter was written under the auspice of the best lo-fi chill music compilation I ever encountered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em88JdiM8bM)
After 2 days of spectating the true tournament, Rune received a message from Olivia, who he asked some time ago for the available information on the hole tunnel research station...
2021-12-17 06:56:39 +0000 UTC
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A/N
Well, well, well.
Hello? <3
It’s been a while, right? Now that I’m not getting 2 chapters out per day, I decided to make an author note every 25 chapters, this way I can… Do things.
Who among you really has the capability to make something you write be read by other people? Lots of other people? It’s not in my genes for sure. Me on youtube? Prospective disaster I say mate.
How do other authors do their notes anyway...
2021-12-17 06:56:32 +0000 UTC
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Despite being catched by the track unit and losing his insignia, Rune didn’t change his plan of enjoying the crowded capital 1 week before the event started.
Unseen by all, he arrived at the west capital sector and went to see with his own eyes the grand stadium that he just had to lift his head to see. It was where the main activity of the event would take place.
The underground part was covered in perception-blockers so he couldn’t see it, but the above-ground structure was ...
2021-12-17 06:54:00 +0000 UTC
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All the expedition fronts had come back, nearly all deployed patrollers had been called back, and no one was leaving.
Rune had thought about showing his “against society” vibes, but even he didn’t want to leave so near to the event that would irreversibly change the current social order.
He remembered what Mr. Finely had hinted at when he got to know about the Heaven’s Rift, so he knew that everyone would be able to find their own place soon, even if they didn’t know it ...
2021-12-13 02:38:55 +0000 UTC
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“Congratulations on completing your come back ceremony,” Rune had timed this announcement precisely, “Now, my friends will try to teach you self-control, even though we all know you don’t need to learn to control your strength.”
“Be honest Rune, you want her to beat us up!” Astryde made his inner thoughts visible to all.
“I knew my friend Rune to be someone who never lied… He died today,” Arik added layers where they weren’t needed.
“He’s a compulsi...
2021-12-13 02:38:37 +0000 UTC
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*Ding* Energy: Specialized Cosmic Mist Element reached Tier 1 Level 78
Without him seeking to, he once again leveled his tier 1 elemental specialization.
‘Yup, that was the correct decision. Not leveling it actively allows me to refine my intent, this way, when I finish my newly created 5th stage, I can start the grinding of my perception against my own element.’
Having just come back, he had put down all the insights he had gathered during his terror un...
2021-12-13 02:38:11 +0000 UTC
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From Rune’s perspective, it was obvious that something was happening outside. Rei was stopping too often and asked to be covered in cosmic mist so frequently he only uncovered himself for a few seconds each time.
With evacuating the target being their main goal, limiting the discovery factors was their priority.
And the two knew that between remaining immobile and actively evacuating, the risk of being discovered was sensibly the same, after all, they never considered themselves...
2021-12-07 04:49:19 +0000 UTC
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After 3 weeks of preparation and true to the statement they made, the terror unit’s 5 members were prepared to put into action their plan.
Tonight.
Even if they failed or had to retreat, they’d still continue to repeat it for the next week.
However, unlike what anyone would expect or think of before starting a very serious operation, the terror unit was sharing energy-infused juice cups with each other as they waited for the night to fall.
Maybe, nighttime didn’t...
2021-12-07 04:48:56 +0000 UTC
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“So you really were 7 years old! What the penguin! What the flying mother of hell did your parents say when you told them you-”
“I didn’t tell them obviously… I was a grown and mature girl already back then, 7 years old for a rululu is completely fine,” the confident voice of Lounae reached Rune.
“Well, it’s pretty disturbing to realize you started to slaughter monsters in mass so early and you’re still pushing for more. Anyway, are you coming back for the prospe...
2021-12-07 04:48:30 +0000 UTC
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“So their return is imminent?” Rune asked as he observed Adreana who was hard at work inside a new 500 meters wide circle area.
“A week at best, 2 weeks at worst, they’re nearly out of the tier 3 forest zone,” Arik, standing next to him, answered.
“What will a single star dome look like? You really accepted dome right? It’s not a joke?”
“Our idea was shit, so we took yours and scrapped ours,” Arik said with a straight face.
“If I don’t need to k...
2021-12-07 04:48:10 +0000 UTC
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Two hands expertly manipulating a holographic keyboard, two eyes making the holographic screens switch around to what needed to be answered, one mind working out questions that needed AI core to answer due to the amount of data required.
One screen kept providing data faster than Rune was able to process them, one screen was a live stream of short argumentations by lots of people in favor of something like “AU5-Stadium” or “854-Company-T”.
As for the final screen, it was j...
2021-12-07 04:47:48 +0000 UTC
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After finishing a 1-hour awareness division training session, Rune thought about how he wanted to be here, but also not here.
“Sigh… My next adventure is so far away…”
Lamenting a bit as he kept feeding his energy to his cosmic mist sphere, he knew he could just fill 8 mastery slots with what he needed, but he wasn’t stupid enough to do it.
He wouldn’t be able to keep at peace with himself if he did that, and missing so many stats would block him in terms of how ...
2021-12-02 16:23:13 +0000 UTC
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“Touch!”
A gigantic impact rang out as Rune kicked Arik in the back.
‘No way I can do my week of purge now when I have this amazing new toy to play with!’
Pumping more cosmic mist every second, he engulfed a static sphere of 50 meters full of dense mist.
It also wasn’t normal cosmic mist as he created the blinding intent he was most proficient in to refine it.
With his perception specialty, he was still able to resist contrarily to his friends, who lite...
2021-12-02 16:22:58 +0000 UTC
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It wasn’t the 8th month since he came back yet, and while Adreana had already fully formed her energy domain and was practicing her new ability, he wasn’t the last. Utopia and Gar were only in the middle to late stage of their specializations training.
‘Middle-of-the-pack, as expected of the great me, totally intentionally delaying my training to appear inconspicuous, you’re a genius past-self.’
Shamelessly changing his past actions as he ran, Rune was coming back from 2...
2021-12-02 16:22:47 +0000 UTC
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*Ding* Do you want to fill one of your empty mastery slots with Energy: Specialized Nature Element?
*Ding* Do you want to fill one of your empty mastery slots with Energy: Specialized Chaos Element?
*Ding* Do you want to fill one of your empty mastery slots with Energy: Specialized Emptiness Element?
With his experience at manipulating elements, Rune effortlessly created those 3 and acquiesced to having them added to his mas...
2021-12-02 16:22:27 +0000 UTC
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