As Luke wandered through the store lost in thought, his sister came sprinting toward him.
“Big bro!” she called, grabbing his hand. “Look at the TVs, look at the movie! You have to go to the theater with me!”
“Yes, Luke. You absolutely have to take her to the theater,” Artemis chimed in.
Clara appeared behind them. “Don’t bother your brother. For him, a supermarket must feel like a trip to the zoo right now.”
“But I wanted to show him the movie on t...
2025-12-09 17:28:06 +0000 UTC
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Five days had passed since Luke returned home. At first, the lack of danger felt unreal, no renegades to worry about, no Bartholomew lurking in the shadows, no looming final event from the tutorial. Instead, he was simply… living. Just like before. Like the old life he used to have.
“Mom, can we get ice cream?” Lillian asked from the shopping cart, her feet swinging back and forth.
“We’ll see. First we need to buy the things on the list,” Clara replied.
They were...
2025-12-09 17:26:38 +0000 UTC
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Lunch unfolded quietly, the clatter of silverware blending with soft conversation. The table, silent in the first few minutes, soon filled with stories. Everyone had something to share about the previous year, a stretch of time that had felt far longer than twelve months.
Franky kept his distance. The little wyvern lingered in the hallway with only his head angled toward the cracked door. His curious eyes tracked every movement in the dining room. He wouldn’t dare approach the table, ...
2025-12-09 17:25:18 +0000 UTC
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Luke stood in the kitchen beside Clara, helping her prepare lunch. Morning light filtered through the window, washing over the metal utensils and giving the room a warmth he hadn’t felt in a long time. As he sliced carrots and other vegetables on the cutting board, his movements were precise, fluid, almost automatic. Clara watched each motion with a spark of surprise in her eyes; it wasn’t every day she saw someone handle a knife like it was an extension of their hand.
She hadn’t ...
2025-12-09 17:24:01 +0000 UTC
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The skill descriptions still hovered before Luke’s eyes, glowing lines detailing Franky’s new abilities:
[Accelerated Flight (Rare)]: The wyvern can channel mana into its wings and muscles, allowing for a temporary burst of speed while flying. This acceleration is ideal for quick maneuvers, dodging attacks, or gaining a momentary aerial advantage.
[Fireball (Common)]: The wyvern spits a small fireball from its mouth. The attack doesn’t have a large i...
2025-12-07 07:17:14 +0000 UTC
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Lillian and Franky were both on Luke’s bed. But something had changed, something impossible to miss. The little snake that had fought beside him was no longer a snake. The deep forest-green scales were gone, replaced by a glossy jet-black sheen and sharp obsidian spikes running along its body. And the most obvious change of all: Franky now had two hind legs, and his forelimbs had fused into what looked unmistakably like wings.
The snake had become a… wyvern.
“No, no, this ca...
2025-12-07 07:15:59 +0000 UTC
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“N-no, I have to make something special for you,” she insisted, sounding suddenly energized as she hurried to the fridge and yanked it open.
“Mommy was really sad and had to go to the hospital a lot because of it,” Lillian said quietly.
Luke glanced over at Clara.
“You weren’t supposed to tell your brother that, young lady,” Clara reminded her.
“I’m sorry…” Luke murmured, the weight of everything he’d put this family through settling even heavie...
2025-12-07 07:14:42 +0000 UTC
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The front door had been open for several seconds before he managed to breathe. His adoptive mother stood there, staring at him, disbelief clouding her eyes as they slowly filled with tears. She pressed a hand to her chest and stepped back, then reached toward him as if afraid he might vanish.
“Is it really you, my son?” Her voice wavered, already breaking. She looked like she couldn’t trust her own sight.
“It’s really me, Mom. I came home. I came back to my family.” Hi...
2025-12-07 07:13:31 +0000 UTC
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“Is this appearance acceptable to you, Jonathan?” the creature rumbled, its voice echoing with a depth that shook the air.
“N-no… c-can you go back to the old one?”
The devil stared him down. “You failed, Jonathan. You were supposed to kill that Luke.”
As the creature closed in, Jonathan kept retreating. His mind spun in panic, scrambling for any way out, but there wasn’t one.
“I… I tried.”
“Tried?” The creature’s voice was calm, yet s...
2025-12-05 06:30:22 +0000 UTC
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Across the multiverse, there were Vampire Hunters. Not adventurers looking for coin. Not mercenaries chasing bounties. These were zealots whose entire purpose in life revolved around one mission: destroy every vampire in existence. Most were tied to the churches of various gods, carrying divine mandates like badges of honor.
“Vampires are one of the most hated races in the entire multiverse. Because of the Vampiric Hunger, they can’t coexist in human societies. People have tried...
2025-12-05 06:29:01 +0000 UTC
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Luke walked through the streets of Portland, Maine, feeling strangely out of place as cars rushed by, people chatted on sidewalks, and groups of teenagers posed for selfies. His quiet, familiar Maine somehow looked different now.
“Wow, Luke. We finally made it here. No undead, no floating murder castles dangling over an abyss. Seriously, why don’t you just retire already?” Artemis said as they moved along the street.
“I feel like an old man from the 1930s who just woke up ...
2025-12-05 06:27:36 +0000 UTC
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‘Let America know you’re basically a walking magnet for disaster’, Artemis muttered.
“Have a good day, or better yet, a good early morning,” Joffrey chuckled.
It wasn’t even five a.m. yet.
Joffrey suddenly paused and looked back at him. “Think carefully about that offer to work for the SIA.”
“I’ll think about it, sir,” Luke answered as he walked away.
While crossing the lobby, he spotted something he never expected to see there.
...
2025-12-05 06:25:09 +0000 UTC
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The teleportation circle had dropped Luke straight back into Maine. He found himself inside a government controlled facility. The world now operated in two halves: the Modern Society, still governed the old fashioned way, and the New World, ruled by the nobility, the strongest people on Earth. And since those same nobles had ended every major war in the past, they held influence over both societies.
“Do you want us to call your home?” asked the government agent walking beside him. H...
2025-12-03 06:18:34 +0000 UTC
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“I’m heading to the United States of America, state of Maine,” Luke said when his turn finally came to present his VIP card.
“We’ll escort you to a waiting room. Unfortunately, all teleportations are temporarily blocked. A noble is about to use the system with their entourage, and for safety reasons we don’t allow anyone else to use it during that time,” the attendant explained. “My apologies, but for some reason a lot of important figures decided to show up today.”
2025-12-03 06:16:56 +0000 UTC
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Luke walked with Charlie through the city’s marketplace. The stroll ended up being longer than he expected, but he didn’t mind. Charlie was experiencing everything with bright eyed wonder, and he wanted her to enjoy it. They chose to walk instead of taking a carriage or one of the canal boats, sticking to their own district. He’d learned that each of the eight districts was governed by a different noble family. So even without a king, the city still had its own small scale royalty. Not ...
2025-12-03 06:15:39 +0000 UTC
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There was another problem too. Even while Charlie was inside his soul, she no longer regenerated HP, mana, or stamina. Samael had explained that this happened to servants starting at Rank E. He called it a bonus piece of information for Luke. After all, once someone reached Rank E, everyone received a massive increase to natural regeneration, even HP. That meant a servant no longer needed their master to recover.
Samael described it as greater autonomy for servants. However, they still ...
2025-12-03 06:14:05 +0000 UTC
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“Charlie, can I ask you something?”
“Of course, Master Luke.”
“Why… did you say you usually call me your husband?”
Her face went crimson, bright enough to rival a ripe tomato. She covered her cheeks with both hands.
“Y-you know, Master Luke.”
Know what?
Charlie lifted one trembling hand, her blush somehow deepening. “Ever since the moment you… asked me to marry you.”
He froze. What?
For a second Luke hon...
2025-12-01 06:50:53 +0000 UTC
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“Luke, everything I just told you is extremely valuable knowledge about the origins of vampires. But now let’s talk about the present. There are five great vampire families, each with its own noble bloodline: Nycteris, Antrozous, Barbastella, Lasiurus, and Vespertilio.”
Charlie belonged to the Vespertilio family, and Luke wanted to understand what that actually meant.
“Vampire nobility works like multiversal nobility, though they prefer the term ‘family.’ ...
2025-12-01 06:28:36 +0000 UTC
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Charlie had gained a body of flesh, and for the first time she was truly alive, at least more alive than she’d ever been as a skeleton. Now she was a vampire, a kind of undead creature, at least as far as Luke understood. And with that came a whole list of new concerns that had begun gnawing at him as he read the system’s explanations: sunlight, vampiric hunger, and something ominously called a Vampiric Beast.
Could sunlight kill her? How strong was that hunger? And what was a Vampi...
2025-11-30 17:58:07 +0000 UTC
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[Vampiric Reflexes I (Ancient)]: A vampire’s natural reflexes, combined with its heightened perception, create a full 360-degree sphere of awareness, making it extremely difficult to catch off guard.
[Vampiric Aura I (Ancient)]: In moments of pursuit, the vampire releases a predatory aura capable of intimidating weaker foes or anyone with low mental resistance.
[Weak Vampiric Charm I (Ancient)]: The vampire possesses an innate be...
2025-11-30 17:56:36 +0000 UTC
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Husband? What does she mean she’s always called me her husband?
While Luke was trying to wrap his head around that, Charlie’s system screen had been flooded with skill notifications, each one with its own loading bar. Her evolution into a vampire had triggered the avalanche, and both of them watched as the windows blinked into existence, each promising to reshape her in ways neither of them fully understood.
[Charlotte Vespertilio has awakened the Race Skill: ...
2025-11-29 04:52:36 +0000 UTC
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Luke was too stunned to speak. His body didn’t move, his voice didn’t work, and whatever thoughts tried to form in his head simply froze. It felt like his brain had crashed mid loading, leaving him there with his mouth half open, useless.
On the bed in front of him sat a woman. A breathtaking one. Her skin was pale, impossibly pale, yet soft and warm looking, like porcelain with life beneath it. Her hair spilled down her shoulders in long golden strands, silky and bright as molten g...
2025-11-29 02:54:01 +0000 UTC
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Luke would return to Maine and stay with his family for a while, but he was already planning his way back to the New World. There was too much left unfinished here. He needed to level his Witch class, and now that the level cap had lifted, he could finally continue progressing both his first class and his profession.
And then there were Charlie and Angie. Their lives in modern society simply weren’t possible. Not in any normal sense. Angie had gray, stone textured skin and wings sprou...
2025-11-28 02:09:43 +0000 UTC
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Luke and the others had taken over a table inside a bustling tavern. Camlann was nothing like the ruined Safe Zone or the capital of the tutorial. It was alive, a real medieval city, fully functioning, sprawling, and loud. A massive circular kingdom encased by high walls, so large that it needed its own naval transport system just to help people move around the districts.
Evangeline took a long gulp from her tankard of beer. “Whereever Princess Rhiannon is right now, this one’s for ...
2025-11-28 02:07:31 +0000 UTC
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Luke had already left, and the bedroom door closed with a soft thud. Charlie remained where she was, unmoving, gripping her sword so tightly the metal quivered faintly between her fingers. She only relaxed once she recognized the footsteps in the hall as Luke’s group and not an enemy’s.
Her interface opened with a gentle glow, projecting a pulsing notification before her eyes.
[Evolution to Rank E was interrupted. Do you wish to continue?]
Charlie stared...
2025-11-26 14:54:43 +0000 UTC
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Angie tilted her head in a respectful gesture, though the glint in her eyes betrayed the happiness she was trying not to show.
“Thank you, my lord,” she said, light and cheerful.
Luke nodded, still slightly thrown off by how close she was standing.
“Right… I’ll transfer the outfit to your inventory.”
Immediately, a new notification appeared in the transparent interface only he could see.
[Basic Polearm Handling (Common)]: The Valkyrie gains pr...
2025-11-26 14:53:18 +0000 UTC
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In the end, things worked themselves out. Luke managed to explain everything to Charlie, in a very condensed version, since they couldn’t afford to linger long in that room. For reasons he didn’t entirely understand, Charlie was irritated with him over the fact that Angie was naked. She even threw a blanket over Angie and kept watching Luke’s eyes as if making sure he wasn’t trying to sneak a look.
“Charlie, now that everything’s sorted, you can put your sword away,” Luke ...
2025-11-26 14:51:56 +0000 UTC
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Luke was back inside one of the village houses. Queen Rhiannon was long gone. Evangeline, Jack, and Eleanor had all called him reckless, and they were right. Without Allison there, the queen could easily have killed him, and he wouldn’t even have had the chance to react.
Now he paced in circles across the room, thoughts colliding in his head as he tried to decide what to do. He wouldn’t abandon Allison. She had become part of his family. He had taken her into his life the same way h...
2025-11-26 14:50:04 +0000 UTC
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“Queen Rhiannon,” Eugene said, letting his spear fall before dropping to one knee.
He wasn’t the only one. One by one, every member of Haven kneeled before her.
“We swear our blades to Princess Allison Rhiannon,” Eugene declared. “We wish to protect her, to serve in her army.”
The others echoed him without hesitation.
The queen slowly turned to face them. Her mismatched eyes, one cold and one burning, swept across the group with an interest that wasn’t ...
2025-11-24 05:24:39 +0000 UTC
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Allison was gone.
Luke stood frozen in place, tracking every one of her footsteps as she walked toward the massive wooden ship hovering above the ground. The floating vessel had lowered its thick ropes, swaying as they touched the snow. Allison gripped one tightly and began to climb, never once looking back. Since her last “goodbye,” she hadn’t spoken another word.
And he hadn’t managed to say anything either. Anything he did now would only make things worse for her.
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