Shaun had made it to the entrance to the room where the soiree was to be held 5 minutes early with Gabe and Eric, they had rushed through showering, changing and getting themselves as presentable as possible, for Shaun that meant he had used all the mana he had recuperated healing himself and throwing on a clean shirt and pants, not having anything nicer to wear. There was just over 100 people present, all waiting until they could enter, they had been some of the last to arrive and looking ar...
2024-05-15 13:59:03 +0000 UTC
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Shaun had just finished off the 14th wave, he has definitely more exhausted than he had been earlier and he had resorted to no longer using his own mana and instead relying on the gauntlet and physical attacks, needing to recover as much as he could before the 15th wave. He had tried to trap one of the wolves but it was an impossible task, he tried to stun one and even knock it unconscious so he could recover, but he either always killed it or it would continuously fight back. The others left...
2024-05-15 13:57:54 +0000 UTC
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Fighting the sparrows had gone from incredibly frustrating and time consuming to being almost too easy. A few times he had to change tactics as a few of the sparrow had tried to attack the others but he caught this in time and was able to kill them before they had a chance to let their spear attacks go at them. After the third wave of sparrows though it had become too dangerous for the others to not be paying attention and instead had to focus on making sure they wouldn’t be attacked, they ...
2024-05-15 13:57:06 +0000 UTC
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When Shaun got to the waiting room he sat down on one of the chairs and just took deep breaths, trying to calm himself down and stay logical. The effects from using the lightning was still lingering, the euphoric energy running through him had lessened considerably but it was still there, lingering. He ignored it though and focused on what had happened. He had killed Trevor, something he had tried to avoid the entire fight. He had given him multiple chances to concede but he didn’t, he just...
2024-05-15 13:56:01 +0000 UTC
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With a yell Trevor decided to run full steam ahead right towards where he was standing, he didn’t life his sword or even attempt to use his gauntlet, he simply waited until Trevor got close and swung out with his sword for his first attack and he simply used his increase Dexterity to move out of he way. Rather than stay close he moved himself further away from Trevor, who was currently following him around, rage clearly written on his face. He didn’t actually think that a simple swing...
2024-05-15 13:55:07 +0000 UTC
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He could hear people talking, he was also surprisingly comfortable. When Shaun opened his eyes he could see he was in one of the apartments, when he turned to see who was talking he saw Gabe and Eric both on the couch through the door, snuggled up with each other, Eric in Gabe’s arms. He couldn’t help but smile at them, it was a beautiful sight, and he was happy that they were so comfortable, clearly in love.
“Do you guys need the room?” Shaun said to them from where he was layi...
2024-05-15 10:28:17 +0000 UTC
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When Shaun woke up he had a splitting headache and his body felt like it was being eaten alive. When he finally opened his eyes and looked around he realised he was still in the dungeon which was good news, the bad news was that the feeling of being eaten was because the centipedes from the 2nd wave were currently attempting to eat him. When he sat up his body twitched uncontrollably, probably due to being hit by the explosion of lightning. I did it! Holy shit I actually made lightning!
2024-05-14 17:28:32 +0000 UTC
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When he got to the dungeons he was surprised by the amount of people there, a lot of whom were not in the best shape. When he thought about it for a moment he realised why, everyone now knew who they were fighting in this round, that meant that they knew if the person they were fighting was weaker or stronger than they were and by how much. That pushed a lot of people to go and gain the levels they needed to close the gap between them and their opponent. And those who were fighting someone on...
2024-05-13 10:48:56 +0000 UTC
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Now knowing that the chances of being watched in this stage of the tutorial he decided that he would need to play it safe and not do anything that would bring any unwanted attention to him, because of that all training with his affinity would need to be done in a dungeon, including any crafting. On top of that he immediately ruled out going back to the book shop and asking for a book on the Great War. The one thing that stood out to him now that he had left the arena was that there was never ...
2024-05-10 10:52:57 +0000 UTC
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Shaun was sitting in one of the restaurants with Gabe and Eric, they only had a few hours before they were due back at the arena for the first day of fighting, the real start to this stage of the tutorial, and he was barely able to keep his frustrations to himself. Eric was the first to pick up on his mood, Gabe quickly followed when he had asked where he wanted to eat and he just replied back with I don’t care. He had spent over a full day reading the book on races, then rereading the book...
2024-05-10 10:51:54 +0000 UTC
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Shaun fell back on the bed, emotionally exhausted from having to answer the questions that Gabe and Eric had for him. They hadn’t been in his apartment for that long, maybe an hour tops, but with every question they asked he had to come up with an answer that was as close to the truth as he could make it without revealing anything that could potentially expose his secret heritage. Because of that he ended up telling some lies, which ended up with him telling more lies, and in the end he rea...
2024-05-08 12:19:01 +0000 UTC
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Shaun wasn’t disappointed by his performance in the dungeon, if anything he was impressed with himself. Rodger, the 3rd highest ranked person from this tutorial, had gone into the dungeon with a party of five and had only managed to complete the 7th wave before retreating, not that he blamed him. The sparrow were a hard enemy to win against, their attacks were powerful and they were hard to catch. But when comparing that result to his own, he had managed to complete the first 10 waves, thre...
2024-05-07 10:53:32 +0000 UTC
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Shaun didn’t know how he was going to win this fight, but he wasn’t going to give up without at least giving it his all. What he did know was that he wanted to find out more about the Starling Sparrow, at the very least so that when he came to fight it next he would have a better idea of what he was up against. Looking at the 15 sparrow gathered he knew he would have no hope of fighting the boss first, if he tried he would be attacked relentlessly by the other sparrows, giving him little ...
2024-05-06 10:27:20 +0000 UTC
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Shaun knew that staying on the ground and playing shoot the sparrow out of the sky was going to be more hassle than it was worth, joining them in the air was going to be a much better use of his time and energy. He didn’t see anything particularly weird or interesting about the sparrow like he had with the Ant Queen, although that didn’t mean that they didn’t have attacks that could harm him.
Compressing air into platforms he started to run up into the air at the closest sparrow, ...
2024-05-03 11:11:22 +0000 UTC
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When the monsters appeared for wave two, there were a few things that had changed. The monsters were the same, still soldier ants, but now they were level 26 and there was 6 of them. To him the changes would be minor, fighting one more ant wasn’t going to have much of an impact on the fight and even with them being level 26, he didn’t expect a boost in strength when compared to when one moved from F to E grade. The only difference with this fight was that he was going to attempt to rely l...
2024-05-02 17:34:23 +0000 UTC
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It didn’t take long to get to the dungeons, it was easy to follow the signs from the shops, down a hallway and after only a few minutes they had made it. The area around the stores had been decently busy, maybe a few hundred people were there, either browsing, eating or just walking around with people they knew. The dungeon area was different through, there were still a few hundred people around but it felt much higher given they were in a smaller space. Their entrance to the dungeon area d...
2024-05-01 11:01:37 +0000 UTC
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After being led into the room they were offered both something to drink and eat, which they all accepted without hesitation, another Goblin brought out enough for each of them to eat their fill and more, and all thoughts of selling their loot went out the window. They were given a variety of drinks to choose from, and he ended up grabbing a juice made of some fruit he had never heard of, it was the best thing he had ever drank in his life. The food was the same, although platters were brought...
2024-04-30 17:09:57 +0000 UTC
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When Shaun entered his room he was surprised at what he found, it wasn’t just a room with a bed, instead what he found was an entire apartment, it had a lounge area with a kitchen off to the side. It all looked very different to what he was used to, when he went up to what he assumed was a stove he could see that it was just stone, no gas or electricity to be seen. It had a dial made of crystal, where when he turned it around the entire plate started to heat up. Turning it off he continued ...
2024-04-29 11:14:14 +0000 UTC
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To say that the tutorial had taken an odd turn would have been understating it, all they had to do in the previous stages was fight, grow stronger and survive. This stage should have been the same, and in some ways it was. The objective was to fight each other and win, but what the little blue man was saying was that there was going to be more than just what the system message said and he didn’t know how he felt about that.
“As you can all see you are in a colosseum, and the purpose...
2024-04-26 11:02:37 +0000 UTC
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Much had changed over the last two months, Earth had been integrated into the multiverse, and with it came the system. A game like interface where people could kill monsters to level up their class and work in a profession to help them gain skills that revolved around what could be an infinite amount of different jobs. All of this revolved around a specific purpose, to get stronger, to gain power, to rise to the top. Everyone from Earth had been moved into a tutorial, while their planet...
2024-04-25 11:51:20 +0000 UTC
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When there was only 5 minutes left before he was set to move onto the next stage of the tutorial he decided to have a quick look over the objectives, not to make sure that he had finished all of them, but to see how many people were left alive.
*Stage 2 objectives: 8,964 Participants*
Clear 3 Dungeons: Complete
Obtain Profession: Complete
Optional Objective – Form a blank Faction Emblem - Complete
2024-04-24 13:40:43 +0000 UTC
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This was what he had been waiting for, upgrading his class was the last thing he wanted to do before moving on to make the final gauntlet and finishing stage 2. He was hoping for something that would aid him in being able to craft the gauntlet, something that would also help with the gem would be nice, but he knew that the descriptions of his profession choices wouldn’t just tell him what would happen to his existing skills. Looking at the first choice he was ready to find out what he would...
2024-04-23 17:13:45 +0000 UTC
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Shaun didn’t stay outside of the dungeon, instead he moved back into the forest from the baron area around him, he didn’t find anything useful in the area that may help him with his craft so didn’t delay in finding somewhere safe to stay for the final day, somewhere he wouldn’t be interrupted.
He found a quiet clearing not far from where he had entered the forest, and getting comfortable, took out all of the items that he knew he wanted to use in the next item he crafted, as wel...
2024-04-22 17:16:55 +0000 UTC
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Shaun didn’t delay in moving towards the final dungeon, it was going to be the easiest for him, and the quickest as he already had an affinity for earth and would not need to spend time doing it inside of the dungeon itself. From everything that he knew about the dungeon from Gabe and Eric, it was pretty straight forward. There were three levels that you would have to move through and on each level was a different golem starting with ones made from marble, then bronze and finally carbon ste...
2024-04-20 18:21:43 +0000 UTC
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Shaun didn’t hesitate to obey the direction he was given, he made himself as comfortable as he could, not an easy thing to do when you are surrounded by water, but he managed. He knew what he was going to learn was important and he didn’t want to be distracted by anything while he listened, processed and asked questions of his own.
“As you must have realised by now, not all dungeons in the tutorial are the same, some, like the one you have found yourself in, have been seeded with ...
2024-04-20 18:21:10 +0000 UTC
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Shaun didn’t bother going back into the air to look around for where other monsters may be hiding, instead he tried a different approach and utilised his water affinity to attempt to cover ground quicker. When he swam at first he wasn’t able to fully utilise his ability to manipulate the water around him, it would take practice and patience, but the more he attempted to control the current to push him around faster, the closer he came to gaining full control.
As he moved around he c...
2024-04-20 18:20:31 +0000 UTC
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When Shaun had bonded the air last time he had made many mistakes that he had to go back and fix before he could actually start the process of bringing the mama into his body, this time he chose to take the time from the very beginning to ensure that he did it all right the first time. He had chosen his two affinity to use pretty quickly as they were obvious choices, He had ruled out fire and nature almost instantly, fire would not be useful in the slightest given he would need to push into t...
2024-04-20 18:19:55 +0000 UTC
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The moment he was deposited into the dungeon, his fears were confirmed, he was in the middle of an ocean, when looking around in every direction he couldn’t see land at all, there were just the swells of the water, moving him up and down as they reached him. He had hoped that he would be deposited on an island or something where he would be able to fight on land against the monsters in the water, and only if he really needed to, would he enter the ocean. But no, the entire dungeon was going...
2024-04-20 18:18:51 +0000 UTC
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Once he appeared back outside of the dungeon he didn’t see anyone waiting around this time. He assumed that they had all moved on, or after what Shaun had done before entering, decided it was in their best interest to either enter or meet elsewhere. He couldn’t find anyone close by when he used his echo to check the area, which he supposed was a good thing, although he was a little disappointed at not catching Trevor and being able to see in person what kind of strength he had compared to...
2024-04-20 18:18:17 +0000 UTC
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Shaun didn’t move on to the last islands straight away, instead, he played around with his new air affinity. He didn’t use it on his skill just yet, but rather used it in the way that it was described in the description, or at least, he tried too. The first thing he attempted was to harden the air, condensing it into something that would be able to hold his weight. It was hard at first, but he eventually found that when the air condensed enough that it had an opaque look to it. When he st...
2024-04-20 18:17:40 +0000 UTC
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