All around Earth and The Realm, people tuned in from everywhere to watch. There was not a single bar that did not display the projections from the tournament. Everyone was watching it live. Whoever was filming had been censoring a lot of the gory parts live. Making it palatable for nearly all ages. It was a masterclass of editing. Never before had such a brutal fight at the dragonslayer level been depicted so clearly before. That alone would have drawn billions to watch.
Bu...
2025-12-04 18:02:55 +0000 UTC
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Ryan watched the fight overhead, or the parts where they stopped and clashed. Even for a fourth realm, most of the actual combat was a blur. They would just appear, their weapons would blur, then disappear and reappear somewhere else. It was easier for him to watch the projections that Gamielle was plotting.
It had been a deathless battle so far but he knew it was just luck. They were all desperately trying to pile on the damage as Pinkie’s form started bulging.
People...
2025-12-03 18:00:41 +0000 UTC
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There was a hierarchy amongst dragonslayers. In Pinkie’s mind, the worst of the worst was the ones that had [Dragonslayer] in their class names. Those who hadn’t done enough to be given any other Epic class in their offerings. Their classes would quite literally be called something like [Dragonslayer Warrior] or something just as generic.
She preferred calling them Dragonfodder. You could send multiple squads of those her way and she would welcome them into her stomach.
Unfort...
2025-12-02 17:54:45 +0000 UTC
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There was a reason why the first exit town in Sector Four was called Gravenmarch. It was where the Fourthers would begin their pilgrimage. No one knew who had started tradition, but now it was almost socially mandatory.
Every Fourther would take a solemn walk in quiet reverence for what had once been.
To march upon the bones of long dead civilizations, upon the battlefields where thousands of Settlers had died trying to stop each other from evolving their class.&nbs...
2025-12-01 17:58:44 +0000 UTC
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While the Emerald Hills of Sector Three were impossible to live in for ordinary people, it was still teeming with life. Big and small, they lived in an ecosystem that was alive and flourishing.
Sector Four was none of those things. It was the first Sector where life had to struggle to survive, where the original creatures exited their native sector en masse. Bringing terror and death to the lower Sectors.
At least that’s what the Realmers had said.
A constant grey haze hun...
2025-11-28 18:04:08 +0000 UTC
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[Mages] were the worst classes to go solo. For a [Mage] to match the other classes in solo capability required them to spend more time learning spell matrices that would enhance the body and shift a good portion of your mana into maintaining those spells.
Even the Pioneers couldn’t be said to have surpassed that standard. After all, who could say that the Witch Pioneer or the Mage Pioneer were better than their peers in a one on one duel?
There was, of course, one example that d...
2025-11-27 18:03:04 +0000 UTC
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Entering dilated time area…
Welcome to the time chamber.
For the first time in Ryan’s life, he felt a sense of megalophobia. The ‘chamber’ he was in was less of a chamber and more of a superstructure with a completely alien sense of size. He looked up and was certain the ceiling was higher up than Cerul had flown. If it was on Earth the building would have its own atmosphere.
Massive pillars supported the whole building, each pillar ...
2025-11-26 18:01:03 +0000 UTC
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It is likely a wasted effort to make your own memes. Yes, a repeated overt phrase can catch on fire and sweep through the social consciousness, but finding which one will do so is an exercise in futility. You have seen it have you not? The most nonsensical childish things being elevated to infamy.
No, I’m not saying to give up on it. Save them for now.
When the time comes, when your friend starts to feel like a force of nature, that is when you provid...
2025-11-25 18:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Robert Robinson had received the most calm phone calls from his wife in in a while. Which, if you knew her meant trouble.
“Dear, Ryan’s employer just arrived. You should come home as soon as possible.”
“Is something wrong?”
“No. But you remember that farm he’s been working on? It belongs to Seffara the Sapphire.”
Those words caused a short circuit in his brain. He took a minute before he replied without really thinking. Just an automatic respon...
2025-11-24 17:58:35 +0000 UTC
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3 Days left until the tournament…
“Is it weird that I don’t feel anything anymore?”
“Like, maybe a little? You should feel something when you keep staring at it. I’m feeling something, anyway.”
“I feel like I was chasing it so much that when I got it and did what I wanted with it, it just became–I don’t know, numbers on a screen?”
“Is it because it is just numbers on a screen? Oooh, if you don’t feel anything, then you can give it to ...
2025-11-21 18:00:20 +0000 UTC
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What you are talking about is concern trolling. People on Realmnet point out the obvious when it happens and believe they can spot it all the time. The truly dangerous ones are those who have learned to be subtle, those that can pose innocuous questions that seep into the subconscious and make people question the nature of their beliefs a few days later. Pay attention to the more subtle examples in the document. Learn their essence and practice.
Yes, it will take time. I un...
2025-11-20 18:00:15 +0000 UTC
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If you ask me what your issue is here, it’s a lack of focus and subtlety. You’re trying to juggle your friend’s finances, penetrate private adventurer’s commissions, while constantly baiting online discussion about Artigan. You are not a [Mage] with multiple mental threads and even if you were, I wouldn’t recommend learning things that way. Focus on one while spending at most an hour a day on observing the others. Opportunity for money will come just by being in the vicinity of ...
2025-11-19 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Ryan had been so focused on showing off that he didn’t keep track of the Demon King after he had thrown him into the distance. It was almost too late when he saw Arctus blurring towards the group of adventurers. The greatsword rose and Ryan switched from glee to fury in an instant.
“THEY’RE MINE!”
The aura that had replenished and been wrapped into a blade–launched.
[Aura Slash]
An enormous wave of red slammed into the Demon King’s gr...
2025-11-18 17:56:37 +0000 UTC
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Back at the outpost.
Gamielle sat with Grand Elementalist Mak’erra, or M’erra as she called her. They were hovering high in the air, watching Cerul that was also circling the outpost. The Cerulean Crow was clearly enjoying the feeling of superiority, being high above the adventurers in chaos.
M’erra’s finger twitched, wanting to cause a mess herself. Gamielle eyed the grumpy elf in curiosity.
“Weren’t you working on those for a whi...
2025-11-17 17:58:57 +0000 UTC
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It was an arduous task to force the Trial System’s hand. Demon King Arctus had to stretch out campaigns and force his armies to perform continuous brutal retreats. All to make sure that the Trial System couldn’t identify a pivotal conflict to insert its Trialists. Demon King Arctus charged the battlefields himself, facing hundreds and thousands of hateful humans that attempted to slow him down. The rest of the human forces slowly chipped away at the outskirts of the demonic forces.
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2025-11-14 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
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- So, battle royale between the Tyrants who wins? @ Rangebate (Verified)
- The issue with this question depends on whether they're all forced to fight in a small arena or not. It also depends on whether the Chieftain gets to keep his bonuses despite his 'tribe' being his enemies. Otherwise the Passive Tyrant for sure. I think the Witch Tyrant might be a dark horse if they can start teaming up with each other, though they might honestly just all work together against her and...
2025-11-13 17:54:49 +0000 UTC
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Everyone was on high alert. The questions to their competence and legitimacy were getting louder and louder. Things had to be done. Patrols had tripled, enchanted weaponry quadrupled. Every single adventurer had been called to every Trial entrance in Sector Three. A single team of eights held each of the entrances that weren’t in leveled sectors.
Just in case Artigan got cheeky and tried to sneak through a non leveled zone.
Sector Three was enormous. The size of two continents o...
2025-11-12 17:58:52 +0000 UTC
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For the sake of clean and safe communications across realmnet we have compiled a list of content that will be banned on sight by the moderating team of Realmnet. We cannot promise that all these rules will be consistent and up to date. If in doubt, please err on the side of caution. THIS IS FOR YOUR SAFETY.
Comments insulting the Witch Tyrant directly.
This includes but is not limited to:
Calling her FallenAngel *extreme prejudice to calling her FallenAng...
2025-11-11 18:00:20 +0000 UTC
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6 days until the Tournament.
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“Hey Taris! Hey Taris! Did you hear? Artigan’s leaving the sect!”
“What?! He is? Isn’t that bad??”
Although the Obsidian Sect was largely isolated from the rest of The Realm, they still got regular updates. Leaving the sect required the presence of a qualified adult–or being one yourself. Meanwhile these adults would bring back most of the recent news through hard data disks that everyone could access in secure ‘...
2025-11-10 18:00:40 +0000 UTC
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A [Bard] and a [Rogue] sat in a cramped apartment of the Obsidian Sect. This was no great fireside tale after a great struggle. No quiet aftermath of events where everything would change.
Yet in the [Bard]’s mind, this moment mattered just as much. Because the past would foretell the future, and Artigan’s past was possibly The Realm’s future.
Artigan introduced himself as just Ryan, and that was a fine mortal name as any other.
“Well, it started in kindergarten...
2025-11-07 18:01:42 +0000 UTC
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It turned out that even with Gamielle out of the way, Ryan still wouldn’t get the money immediately. Apparently Seffara had to talk to her accountant and Larix had informed him that the money would need to be sourced from the [Secretary] to ensure it was untraceable.
Figures.
But that didn’t matter anymore, what mattered was that Ryan would get it soon enough and that he’d pulled one over on Gamielle. She hadn’t shown her face around the Sect again and he was left...
2025-11-06 18:00:12 +0000 UTC
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- IT WASN’T ME! Fair’s fair on the Witch but I didn’t touch your city, Archmage! Someone set me up! @Stallqueen (Unverified, R12)
↪ Yeah, sure, you just happened to be in there when the city got attacked. Leaflegend068 (Realmer)
↪ Use your brain you stupid native. Nobody else got caught and you think I would? This is the biggest setup I’ve ever seen! It has to be the Witch Tyrant, nobody else has the capability to do this. @Stallqueen (Unverified,...
2025-11-05 18:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Epics were what differentiated dragonslayers. It was true, but it was also something realmnet simply said and didn’t understand. Not in full. There were mentions of classes and hierarchy amongst dragonslayers but really, nobody truly understood the difference between dragonslayers better than the dragonslayers themselves.
All realmnet would get were rumors about one dragonslayer being stronger than the other. How one Epic skill was simply overpowered compared to another one. Beyond th...
2025-11-04 18:00:14 +0000 UTC
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- Uhh, everyone safe? @Teknis (Realmer)
- What the hell is going on? @M’erra (Realmer)
- Even Vitalia got attacked. Mezhar was supposed to be nearby but he’s gone missing. @Atrisle (Realmer)
- Shady City is the only city not attacked, even Ulverra got bombed. @ Ezieeel (Realmer)
- This has to be Earth right? @ Leaflegends352 (Realmer)
- Blackout Information Lockdown Protocols are in effect. ALL ADVENTUR...
2025-11-03 18:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Her mother had warned her that the skill [Conceptual Inspection] could be dangerous. Taking a peek into the plumbing of others’ classes meant exposing yourself to them. The skill could be invaluable to learn their concepts and how their classes worked. At the highest levels. This was often the differentiator. Those with higher rarity classes could pull on it and force the world to bend around them.
Pulling on the very concepts that skills were derived from.
The problem with usin...
2025-10-31 17:04:16 +0000 UTC
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“I don’t know what visualization technique you plan on using but my advice? Make sure you choose one that fits your Epic.”
It was what Gamielle had told him before he went back to Earth and got ambushed by Pinkie. Ryan had tried hundreds of visualization techniques over ten days. He had narrowed it down to a couple notable ones.
None of them really felt like they would fit. All of them could work but Ryan had a feeling his Epic would reject it in the end. N...
2025-10-30 17:01:39 +0000 UTC
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24 days until the highest Trial needed to be challenged. The Realm. 8 days until the pre-class tournament begins.
Mahjit the [Mage] was no real [Savant]. It was a lie. There had been too much expectation, so much pressure to perform for the ‘prodigy’ that he had caved when the reporters came and asked him if he got the [Prodigy] title.
He hadn’t even gotten the [Genius] title. So Mahjit told them all he had gotten a [Savant] title. That one wasn’t well documented ...
2025-10-29 16:59:55 +0000 UTC
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A broken blade rattled as aura coursed through its enchanted metal. A wave of pure crimson flew forward to meet an iron wall. It held firm, the wave crashing uselessly once again. This time however, the gates swung against its attacker.
The broken blade screeched as it slid across Larix’s arm. Sparks flying out from the blade, completely unable to cut through. Ryan had finally run his aura dry.
Gamielle clapped her hands, satisfied by the result.
“Okay that should be eno...
2025-10-28 16:59:08 +0000 UTC
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It had been a while since Ryan was ambushed–and by ‘a while’, he meant ten days. His definition of ‘a while’ clearly needed work. Ten days had been just enough time for him to let his guard down for another prank from Seffara. Ryan pulled hard against his rope bindings. Then he shook his head.
“Really round two?”
“The fuck? How’d you know it was me?”
The feminine voice that was decidedly not Seffara nor Clara made him move. Ryan took his soulsword out and...
2025-10-27 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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*Raidco has become a large entity in itself. Offering large contracts and settlements to any crafting classes throughout The Realm. They have even integrated vertically. Offering jobs and positions to Realmers to supply lower realm adventurers. Raidco was also the first to start offering sponsorship slots to the talented blacksmiths of Earth. With a promise that the sponsored crafters would sign contracts that would give preferred rights to Raidco members.
“And the wheel ...
2025-10-25 17:05:23 +0000 UTC
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