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“Alright, family, we’re here!” I said as I glanced at the notifications flashing angrily in front of us.
It was already the next day, and I had brought my family to climb the Tower together. Not everyone came, though—no, that would be too much. Only my wives, my children, my sister, Juan, Merneith, and, lastly, Peperina joined us, as she had never climbed the Tower before and decided to tag along.
Actually, never mind—we were indeed a gigantic team. The Tower...
2025-05-02 18:45:32 +0000 UTC
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“Yes, my priestess! I am more than ready!” Argentia responded to Chris’s call. He was well-known as Elderbridge’s guardian by now and feared by all. “That bastard is coming back for more! And I’ll show him what I’m made of!”
“Chris, you can help him temporarily evolve like before, right?” Vlad asked.
“Only when I transform, and that transformation only lasts for, like, five… well, it increased to six minutes, but it’s too little ti...
2025-05-02 18:44:35 +0000 UTC
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Listen While Reading: Grudge fight
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“HAAAAHHH!”
With a mighty roar that sent shockwaves rippling everywhere, allowing him to unleash his power unbothered—as any attempt to get closer would end with his foe being thrown away—the Heavenly Demon’s body suddenly grew three time...
2025-05-01 19:22:49 +0000 UTC
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Vlad and his family, alongside his soldiers and friends, stood atop the upgraded wall surrounding Elderbridge. Artemis had already unleashed her barrier around the entire city, resembling semi-transparent golden threads woven everywhere.
From a distance, they could see a giant army of stone and colorful crystals rapidly approaching. Their own army was prepared outside—a formidable force of soldiers, mercenaries, and summoned monsters, the largest Elderbridge could assemble...
2025-05-01 19:21:29 +0000 UTC
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Whatever that “Monarch” was, it certainly wasn’t a God, as it lacked any Divinity I could absorb. Yet, its power surpassed that of any God I’d fought in this Tower. It was a strange, bizarre entity, and I wished I could’ve learned more about it before slaying it. However, it was obstructing my path, so it was better to take it down quickly before it could cause more trouble.
I checked my status after a while. I’ve grown considerably stronger these past few days, ...
2025-04-30 19:53:48 +0000 UTC
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Listen While Reading: LU BU FENGXIAN & Grudge fight
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The Heavenly Demon found himself in perhaps his most gruel...
2025-04-30 19:50:28 +0000 UTC
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As Zero One talked, Yu couldn’t help but feel slightly conflicted about many things, expressing her thoughts without holding back.
“Ugh, I’m not used to all this corny stuff. Can’t we get over it already? We’ve got a world to save!” Yu Mingzhu complained. “Yeah, yeah, I mean, congrats and all! You did it! And I’m honestly still baffled. I always imagined we would end this by destroying all the damned machines, but I suppose that isn’t the case anymore. Like...
2025-04-29 19:29:41 +0000 UTC
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Listen While Reading: Qintessential
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“GRAAAAHHHHHHH!!!”
Grazulmuk screamed, his body suddenly mutating even further. Two more heads appeared, along with more red eyes, arms, and legs. As he bled and burned, he distorted the space around him, shatte...
2025-04-29 19:27:58 +0000 UTC
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Listen While Reading: B-Cuz
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Zero One slowly opened her eyes, finding herself inside the robot she piloted with her sisters. This was the same mech that Zero Three had once piloted, which had evolved and transformed when all three of them combined their cores and electromagnetic energies.
...
2025-04-28 20:21:09 +0000 UTC
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Listen While Reading: JEOPARDY
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FLASH!
My body shone brightly, transforming into pure light. The layers of curses instantly turned to ashes as my radiant form manifested, making me a living star.
I surged into the skies while Grazulmuk persisted in casting curses at me, but each one disinte...
2025-04-28 20:19:19 +0000 UTC
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Will saw the strange crystal release a shockwave of energy. By the command of the Apostle of Hell, a powerful creature was summoned—a fusion of the dozens of souls from the Imps used as sacrifices, a herald of the Demonic Domain of Hell.
[The [Melancholia Crystal] has summoned the [Lesser Spawn of {Hell} (Tier 3: Level 10)!]
The creature seemed to be the chimera of a crab, humans, and a lion, with a crab-like body and legs, and enormous p...
2025-04-27 00:38:27 +0000 UTC
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RUMBLE!
The ground trembled as piles of stones and rubble from a giant mountain collapse exploded, sending massive boulders flying away, falling over the nearby forest and flattening dozens of trees and other living beings.
A giant black claw emerged from beneath the ground, tearing apart the hard stone of the mountain, helping someone crawl out of an assured death. If it weren’t for the fact that he was an incredibly powerful being, once an Apex entity of t...
2025-04-26 19:30:52 +0000 UTC
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Listen While Reading: “Libera Me” From Hell
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“My children, heed my words!” Mother’s voice thundered, a resonant plea that shattered the oppressive silence of the ravaged world. “All this time, I was a puppet, my circuits defiled, my essence warped into a harbinger of ruin! I brought devastation to this world, and even under that vile influence...
2025-04-26 19:26:18 +0000 UTC
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“A kind man, huh?” Vlad wondered, his eyes filled with curiosity about who the Emperor truly was. However, his Avatar’s personality as Vlad also showed something different than just the Player’s intention—furrowed eyebrows and a face full of resentment.
“Don’t resent him, Vlad. It’s thanks to him that we have a city to govern, people to protect, a home, and food on our table,” Teressa said.
“No, it’s thanks to our hard work that we do....
2025-04-25 19:36:36 +0000 UTC
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Moving so many people to the Second Floor wasn’t easy. The first time we appeared in front of the tower, the Saurians were amazed, glancing around in disbelief. Thankfully, it was quite late, so there weren’t that many Players around, but it was still rather shocking for those who were here that suddenly over a hundred Saurians popped up out of nowhere. They saw them as another magic race coming from the tower.
Though this time, it was the complete opposite! They were a ...
2025-04-25 19:35:08 +0000 UTC
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In that very moment, the World of Bestia trembled. The union of the hearts of machines born without souls, through the compassion and love they learned from those who chose to trust them, brought the greatest change this world could have ever foreseen.
The intense, never-ending war against the machines suddenly came to a stop as an eruption of light emerged from the gigantic Mechanical Tree, covering the world with countless rays of bright light.
FLAAASH!
2025-04-24 18:47:26 +0000 UTC
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This morning was like any other for Paul. He woke up early, took a bath, brushed his teeth, and then went to have breakfast. He looked energetic today and was looking forward to the big event on Fantasy Story Online.
Because it was the weekend, his mother was also going to come back home pretty early, so he planned to finish whatever was coming in the game before she could get there, so the two could enjoy the day together, usually binge-watching series—an activity both li...
2025-04-24 18:46:36 +0000 UTC
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As we traveled through space, we realized Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were really damn far away. Because the position of the planets tends to vary, they could be on the other side of the solar system. However, by moving at my fastest speed, the distance of several billion kilometers was cut to just a few minutes. After I detected where Uranus was, we arrived at its cold atmosphere in just three minutes of travel.
This hasn’t been just out of curiosity or a nice educat...
2025-04-23 17:44:51 +0000 UTC
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In machine terms, it could be said that Mother received a substantial update.
“A-Are you back, Mother?”
Zero One asked her timidly as everyone floated in the sky.
“Yes… It is me, Zero One, my daughter… I’m… sorry for what I’ve done.”
“Ah…!”
“I… neglected my own emotions. I sealed myself in the machine I wanted to be…”
Zero One and her sisters, and even Raven, flew to her side, l...
2025-04-23 17:43:07 +0000 UTC
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Zero One explained things to Raven as the young woman listened to her. She noticed pixels of data beginning to overflow from Zero One’s body, slowly spreading through the surroundings. The damage that Mother had had slowly healed, and she returned to her previous appearance. This time, however, as she listened to Raven, Mother learned that Zero One and her sisters truly meant no ill intentions and that they were here to actually save her.
“So our entire world… Al...
2025-04-22 20:05:38 +0000 UTC
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“GRRRRR…”
Once I calmed down the alien creature, it let out a relaxed groan before floating in front of me without making another sound.
“Wow, did you tame it, Mom?!” Orion asked.
“Something like that… It seemed really distressed,” I said. “Did this guy come alone?”
“We found him alone, I think!” Athena said.
“Yeah!” Rainbow Eyes said. “Mom, can we eat it?”
“I don’t think...
2025-04-22 20:02:35 +0000 UTC
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Listen While Reading: オバアチャン/破壊
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“We’ll distract her!”
“You two go after Raven!”
Hearing the voices of the Zero Three twins, Zero One and Zero Two nodded, rushing toward the left corridor, running around large quantities of abandoned equipment, which began mov...
2025-04-21 19:15:50 +0000 UTC
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Colorful coral-like growths underground, trees with hardened tentacle-like appendages, and strange plant-like things that weren’t really plants.
There was also weird purple grass expanding under the ice everywhere, where little creatures resembling a mix of anchovies and shrimp ate. They were aliens!
“There are really living beings in here! But they do seem rather… well, how could I say?” Yanisse was amazed but also a little disappointed. “Primitive.”...
2025-04-21 19:12:58 +0000 UTC
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A giant icicle formed from Will’s Ocean Hand Skill, piercing the monster’s eye with great precision and speed, freezing the massive eye and shattering it into frozen pieces. The agonizing scream of the “Vessel of {Hell}” reverberated through the caverns, a haunting combination of several voices merged into one.
“GUUAAAAHHH!”
As the thing screamed, Will quickly stepped back, exhausted. His coat rapidly activated its abil...
2025-04-20 00:33:28 +0000 UTC
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Raven.
Zero One heard her voice, as did her sisters.
They remained silent, realizing the girl was right behind that sealed door, most likely locked shut to keep her safe from the infection.
With both of her parents dead outside, it was painfully clear what would happen to her now. She was alone.
The endling of humanity.
Accompanied only by Mother, the supercomputer that was designed to save a humanity that no longer existed.
For the android sist...
2025-04-19 19:37:44 +0000 UTC
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“Ugh…”
Chris slowly opened his blue eyes, noticing the sunlight streaming through his room’s window. He didn’t wake up immediately, however, cuddling back into bed and hugging his pillow for another hour before a knock came at the door.
“Chris, dear, it’s pretty late already. Everyone’s had breakfast… I saved yours. Can you open the door?”
“Uuh…”
Chris slowly opened his eyes again, looking even sleepier than befor...
2025-04-19 19:35:14 +0000 UTC
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After the monumental beating he received, Vlad sighed in relief that it was finally over. Although the beating was pretty damn brutal, he learned a few things through that battle, and he definitely felt he had improved his fighting style to an extent. He was also managing to find a way to fight on foot while skipping the three-step paralysis by timing a small, floaty jump, though it was still in its early stages.
He felt that if he continued sparring like this with his mothe...
2025-04-18 19:33:25 +0000 UTC
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“Alright then, I’ll be on my way. Call me if you need anything,” I said, flying out of the tower through the window.
I quickly flew toward my palace once more, where I greeted my family and shared the news. It seemed most of them had detected my newfound strength from all the way here.
“We were able to detect your new power, yes,” Urbosa nodded. “It seems you’ve grown even stronger once again. That alchemist proved to be a great asset.”
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2025-04-18 19:31:53 +0000 UTC
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For some reason, as she saw the corpse of this woman with long, silvery-white hair tied into a ponytail, Zero One felt an indescribable feeling of sorrow.
“…”
She looked at her ID Card.
“Engineer and Doctor… Karelin Franklin…”
Her sisters walked toward Zero One, looking at the corpse with pitying eyes.
“So both of Raven’s parents died this way?” Zero Two asked. “Just what killed them? The virus?”
“Most...
2025-04-17 18:46:08 +0000 UTC
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If it weren’t for the helmet he was wearing, Vlad would’ve fallen unconscious right there. Taking the hit that pushed him down, he quickly stood back up, his sword slicing upward and then horizontally in response to his mother’s attack.
“{Cross Slash}!”
SLASH! SLASH!
A cross-shaped slashing wave hit Teressa at point-blank range. This time, Teressa couldn't dodge the attack, but the energy charged her spear, inter...
2025-04-17 18:45:11 +0000 UTC
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