Hidden Scenario — Tomb of the Green-Eyed One
Once, the all-powerful Green-Eyed Necromancer had eyes for the world’s riches. But he was merely a master of souls, not of theft, and thus set his sights on the Treacherous Twenty: the greatest thieves across all lands. He bent their souls to his will, and through their power, raided the world of its riches. The Master of Thieve’s legend spread across all realms while his fingers pillaged all under his watch...
2025-08-04 17:37:19 +0000 UTC
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As Alex meditated on his fight with the bloodmist assassin, the Vitality of his body wasn’t what he recalled most vividly. Yes, fighting with an injured body was a challenge; it required he push his body to its limits, but he’d done that before and would again. Likewise, it wasn’t Strength he recalled either. His Strength had constantly been tested, but if strength decided the fight he wouldn’t have lasted long. Was it Perception or Dexterity then? From the instant he perceived danger...
2025-07-29 05:49:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey, I just wanna give a quick apology for bein
2025-07-22 15:25:12 +0000 UTC
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Nychta felt fire. The flames that made a pyre of the mountain around them; the boil that rose in Alex’s veins. Most of all, she felt the fire slumbering dormant in his soul. Each time he swung her, each time she clashed with opposing steel, a flicker of that fire coursed through her. It reminded her of her world; her people, and what she’d lost. Still, it was not hot enough. It was… wrong.
Why? She began to wonder. Why does one swing a sword—
Spa...
2025-07-14 04:28:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey ya'll, just want to let you guys know the chapter will be a few days late this week. Sorry about that. With the chapter I posted last week, we've actually gone through my backlog.
Now, this isn't too big a deal. I have the rest of book 1 outlined and most of book 2 plotted out, I'll just have to put in a little bit of work to get some more backlog for myself. But essentially, I've just been editing and editing for these last 3-4 months, and when I got to the point where it was time...
2025-07-07 22:53:37 +0000 UTC
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Gregorian Calendar, 1903
Southern Carpathian Mountains
135 Years before System Reset
As far back as the girl could remember, there’d been chains. They wrapped her wrists and ankles, trapping her to this dark cavern. They wormed beneath her mind, looser there, but that darkspawn was keeping them loose on purpose. So that they inflicted their cold on the deepest recesses of her mind with every thought. So that she perceived each moment. Each second. Each minute. E...
2025-06-30 11:15:44 +0000 UTC
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From within the mists, the sheer scale of the Misting Valleys was obscured. The summits of mountains and the depths of its passages were both hidden, but this afternoon, it wasn’t just that. Rather than a sea of white, the mists were hazed over a faint, rusty brown. Even trees just meters away from Alex appeared less distinct and the color made it harder for him to carve properly into their bark with his knife.
Brown, he noted, Not red.
It was a subtle th...
2025-06-24 00:09:59 +0000 UTC
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Alex’s soul returned to his body. He lay slumped on the altar in the middle of the room’s runic formation. Other than the moon, which was visible through an unfathomably deep-dug oculus, his surroundings were dark. The runic light on the formation had winked out. He didn’t exude an electrified glow, and nor did the Lost Souls. They were all gone now. He’d been terrified that he might find himself surrounded by them, unshackled by Sanity, but no, they’d just… disappeared.
“...
2025-06-17 16:37:56 +0000 UTC
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Heya! Chapter 31 which I'm releasing on RR this week is a short one, so I'll be releasing 32 tomorrow to make up for that, and of course that means 42 will be coming up tomorrow on Patreon so look forward to that ^^
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Alex heard somewhere that wheat farmers sometimes burned their fields after a successful harvest. That way, the nutrients returned to the earth as ash, and after a fresh rain, their sacrifice made the soil fertile for new beginnings—or so he’d heard.
2025-06-16 12:20:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey! Quick note: this chapter's got some pretty rough content, enough to warrant a TW for some. Patreon doen't let me spoiler mark text though, so I'll have those down at the bottom of this chapter for folks who'd appreciate it.
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The scene before Alex’s eyes was a nightmare—one that he felt he’d had before. He pried his stiff fingers from Nychta’s…
From… Nychta? He shivered at the name, then hurriedly nudged the body he’d felled, fearful for a sec...
2025-06-10 12:20:19 +0000 UTC
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“They’ve promised that dreams can come true, but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Alex jolted awake, gasping and sweating. He hugged himself. Then a second later, another set of arms wrapped around him. Laura held him gently from behind, her hands brushing his chest, her lips pressing against his neck and cheek.
“A nightmare?” she asked.
Alex scanned the tent. His armor ...
2025-06-08 13:34:20 +0000 UTC
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Update: Hey guys, the next and final chapter I
2025-06-02 11:49:35 +0000 UTC
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Alex’s indignant march took a detour when he spotted a line of groggy MCTC personnel. Pretending he was one of them, he lined up too, and the girl at the window cast him a skeptical look before handing him his coffee.
He took a sip; sighed. “Can I get some sugar?”
“Move already!” The guy behind him shouted.
Alex grumbled, but did, ruffling through his inventory and producing a small packet. A double shot of coffee in the morning was the antidote to an ill min...
2025-05-28 23:11:59 +0000 UTC
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Integration 2nd Year
Atlantic Ocean, Earth
13 Years, 7 Months Before System Reset
The days had passed as noisily as Alex expected. It had started when Eric climbed the ladder to his bunk and tried whacking him in the face with a pillow. Half-asleep, Alex had groggily drawn his dagger and nearly gutted Eric—or at least, the man had pretended so for dramatic effect. Somehow, this hadn’t ruined the party’s festivities. The gutted feathers were swept under the r...
2025-05-24 13:06:52 +0000 UTC
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Alex’s fall down the abyss stretched an eternity. The wind that ruffled his clothes and lashed his wound were gone. With it, so too disappeared all signifiers that he was really there. Gravity upturned in his stomach. Yet his body became light as a feather, guided by gravity without mass. He was not falling, he was drifting. Sinking, deeper and deeper into darkness. He’d reached no awareness, commanded no fate. He was lost and still searching.
For the origin of my will...
2025-05-22 12:33:51 +0000 UTC
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The crow sailed through currents of mist, perching atop twisted trees as she waited for Alex. He hiked up the mountain, wary, but not of wraiths, and not of monsters. Nothing with enough sense to detect him would come anywhere near right now. Omen was something all creatures could feel, whether they recognized what that feeling was or not.
Alex recognized it, and his fate felt as cursed as it ever had been. Still, he followed. When he reached the branch where the crow had perched,...
2025-05-21 12:32:49 +0000 UTC
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The girl sped through the forest in Stealth, cursing Alex. Like damnation she was sticking around to fight that beast. And what—put her life in his trustworthy hands? He literally just confessed he couldn’t beat it! Curse it to be damned, she should just run while–
“Ahhck!” The girl cried, clutching her chest. At the bare thought of leaving Alex to his retribution, her heart suffered a thousand needles. This damned contract! Why had she ever been fool...
2025-05-21 12:27:59 +0000 UTC
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Author's note: Hey, I decided to split the chapter I was working on in two cause it was getting long. 33 will be coming tomorrow, along with 34. 35 not far after. Sorry they've been coming at odd times. We're gonna be catching up to 10 ahead soon, so when that happens the schedule will become a lot more consistent.
Enjoy ^^
Note update: still working on 33, sorry it's coming a little later than planned.
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Alex gave a grunty-sigh, settled against a tree...
2025-05-19 07:54:22 +0000 UTC
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Heya! This one's gonna be a shorter one. Thought I might release it with the next chapter for a fuller read since that one's a bit on the longer side, but edits to 32 it aren't quite done. Just letting ya'll know so you don't get caught off guard, this one comes in at about 2.5k words. Once 32's looking pretty though, 33 and 34 are already in good shape so they'll be coming lickity split.
Please enjoy ^^
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Alex inhaled all the aura remaining in the elixir, then impaled h...
2025-05-16 02:28:53 +0000 UTC
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Alex saw the crow perched on the branch of a tree. She had feathers black as night and pure white eyes that saw farther than any living creature. Yes, the crow was alive. The chill down his spine made Alex entirely certain. Their eyes met. Her limbs shifted. Her wings rustled as she took off into the mists. There was little else that had to be said—the purple smoke trailing behind her in the night sky made everything clear. He understood. The crow was the messenger of Omen.
Gloomy sto...
2025-05-12 22:00:11 +0000 UTC
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When Alex awoke, Gloomy was gone. He feared for a moment that she might’ve left him, that last night could've just been a dream. Maybe it would’ve been better if it was. But it wasn’t, so Gloomy must’ve been off in the mists. She’d let him sleep his ten hours as promised—and even more from the look of things. The sky was blanketed in night, his path lit only by the Constellations and the shine of a waning moon. Even simply craning his head to look up, Alex noticed tension in his b...
2025-05-12 12:41:59 +0000 UTC
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Distantly, Alex knew this couldn’t be real. He walked as though in a dream, or perhaps a memory. Through an Earth wasted by war and bloodshed, a planet that no longer looked worth fighting for. Corpses littered his path: The enemy’s. His own. Years of wear in his gait, death in his eyes, and emptiness in his soul, he ambled, muttering to himself old names.
Alyssa. Nolan. Julia. Yara. Aashay. Kirin.
“...Laura.”
He turned, hearing a dry croak in respo...
2025-05-11 07:29:54 +0000 UTC
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Quick Author note:
Heya! I decided this was one of those instances where less is more, so I ended up folding the first part into this chapter as all one chapter, and cutting some stuff for cohesion. It's still a pt 1 tho. I've left a "-+-" to mark where the new content begins for those who read the previous version so hit that with a ctrl-f and you should find it easily. Otherwise, please ignore that
Enjoy ^^
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Alex ran up-mountain towards the purple supply drop—...
2025-05-10 09:45:04 +0000 UTC
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Integration 2nd Year
New York, Earth
13 Years, 7 Months Before System Reset
When the System Apocalypse began, gradual terraformation reshaped Earth’s geography in monumental ways. Continents shifted, landmasses once separated by water were drawn together. Flora and fauna alien to Earth’s ecosystem thrived where once sat barren deserts, and entire mountain ranges emerged where none had existed before. Off the coast of New York, one such range had emerged from t...
2025-05-06 12:48:25 +0000 UTC
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Alex was surrounded; the killing intent from his adversaries made him feel as though he were being pricked by chilled needles. But there was an important distinction to be made between Alex’s un-appraised “Dangersense” and real Dangersense. Where real Dangersense was triggered by the threats themselves, Alex’s trait was activated by the intention of threat.
Currently, there were four individuals who intended to harm him—two that circled about flanking him from both sides...
2025-05-04 02:46:37 +0000 UTC
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“Do any of you know the easiest way to conquer an enemy? Divide and conquer, people! It’s turning the enemy against themselves. I haven’t been able to get my hands on a copy of The Art of War since the apocalypse, but Sun Tzu was saying the same things millennia ago! And now look at us. People used to help one another in times of difficulty––but where is that kindness now? How have we become so jaded? When did this happen?!
A beggar woman was clinging to my pant l...
2025-05-01 05:33:07 +0000 UTC
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“The difference between an undead and a living soul is that the living have the capacity to learn and change. The undead don’t. Everything they learn is relearned, and every change is one that their soul had potential for in life.
Undead are to be pitied. They are creatures perpetually stuck in the past, reaching for the heights they once achieved. And the most pitiful of all is that they will never attain them. No mortal soul remains intact when torn from its home, and...
2025-04-27 23:01:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey Ya'll! Before getting into the chapter, I just want to give a quick update note on what my schedule will be looking like on here. I'd like to fall into set posting days eventually, but it's been hard for me to tell from the offset which chapters will require the most edits. So for now I will be posting 4xWeek, uploading chapters as they're edited until we reach 10 chapters ahead of RR on here. At which point we'll fall into a weekly rhythm for the forseeable future as I plot Book 2 and se...
2025-04-27 01:26:22 +0000 UTC
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Heya! I have a full announcement on the old System Reset page on RR with more details, but I just wanted to let anyone on here who hasn't seen it know that System Reset has relaunched under a new fic page as of a few hours ago! Currently, I have 14 chapters up on there, and I'll be posting daily till I catch up to 23 (previously 21) on RR, then I'll be shifting to weekly uploads to get 5, then eventually 10 ahead on here.
Sorry about delays. I'd hoped to have more chapters edited and a...
2025-04-16 09:55:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, Elessar here! Sorry, I usually like to leave more personalized updates on patreon, but I've been busy today so I'm just copying over what I'm posting on RR. That aside, I’ve got some updates as far as how System Reset’s return is coming along!
I’ll give the TLDR at the top for anyone who doesn’t need the drivel: SR will be re-launching on RR on April 15th - definitively. Everything is in place now, I just have to ta...
2025-04-01 06:57:44 +0000 UTC
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