They had reasons to celebrate. The results were better than Zarian had hoped, which had him smiling.
He lost his smile when he realized his hand was gripping one half of Naomi’s very well-rounded rear. How had that happened? He could’ve sworn he was keeping his hands on the armrests.
My body … it’s betraying me.
She didn’t jump out of his lap despite the risqué hold on her person.
Instead, she wriggled further into him, squeezing away every in...
2024-12-18 02:18:57 +0000 UTC
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Zarian and Para felt an immense amount of aura drain away faster than ever before. The wizard clenched his jaw and endured as he held tight to Morphs and Aura Slayer.
Para let out a soft squeal, forced to drop the Arcane Artillery Platform. The six overlapping runic diagrams of multicolored, multi-element magic winked away from around them.
Para put all of her focus on maintaining Void Domain, affecting only a few dozen feet of surrounding air space. Even then, the dynamic duo nea...
2024-12-17 03:31:10 +0000 UTC
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If it wasn’t for Zarian’s free evil +5 and the pressure of causality turning against him, he wouldn’t have brainstormed with Para to do something extra devious. They’d plotted to stack the effects of his incomplete gravity spell, Crucifying Storm Tower, Arcane Artillery Platform, Void Domain, and an extra surprise that the wizard was saving for the end to fuck over the monster wave.
Void Domain, a mythical spell, was a known factor for infusing the void with the environment, far...
2024-12-14 18:15:42 +0000 UTC
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You’re still the POV Character, Zarian sent to Naomi’s mind. We’re splitting the power of the Lion Prince, which makes it a little weaker than usual after I, uh, screwed up. So be careful! And if push comes to shove, we’ll have to make a tactical retreat like the System suggests.
The odds were that bad, huh?
It is what it is. Naomi figured she could work with that as she flipped away from clawing strikes, gnashing teeth, and grasping tentacl...
2024-12-13 18:23:21 +0000 UTC
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Naomi used another trait of hers, Truly A Savage.
If Barehanded Sage was a trait that made her a grandmaster in high fantasy super Kung Fu while buffing her best stats, then Truly A Savage was a trait that buffed her most willful abilities when she acted like a primal beast of a woman. This was perfect for another new skill she’d gotten from combining Tranquil Mind +3 and Earth-Sky Meditation +3.
<Harmonious Meditation of Heaven and Hell (Level 1): Enter a tranquil me...
2024-12-12 20:15:25 +0000 UTC
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Zarian asserted his claim as the mightiest by facing the wraith at the center of his Void Domain. His claim became greater by partnering Overpowered Times Two with Grand War Mage Body Furnace and his other physical buffs.
Para helped the most as his biggest physicality reinforcer, keeping his body mighty. Floridian Mindset did its divine Thematic Law thing, of course, making Para even greater, which made Zarian’s body greater.
Because of all that, the wizard’s reality-bending ...
2024-12-12 19:21:59 +0000 UTC
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<Devourer of Secrets and Stories (Legendary): With aura and Willpower, your mind can feast on profiles, languages, qualities, memories, ancient knowledge, puzzles, complexities, themes, fables, and the dark depths of the Infinita Star System itself. This trait also comes with +25% to Willpower and a high dose of studious madness.>
Zarian and Para weren’t linked like they used to be. They couldn’t unravel into each other anymore.
That was okay.
Zari...
2024-12-11 17:54:32 +0000 UTC
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Blocky clouds and grasping mists blurred past the two hellbent and aerial Marines.
Beneath them, the castle mountains crumbled into irrelevance. The massive titans of fabled geography shrank downward into the earth until they were mere fortress foothills.
Then the last traces of the Grimrock Castle Mountains disappeared. The land of stone forts and wild gardens merged with brackish wetlands. Ancient architecture and old trees with slick moss covering their stone bark became one wi...
2024-12-11 17:53:38 +0000 UTC
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Zarian invited Bianca over with a simple swivel of his hips, a graceful flutter of his cloak, and a flick of his lion’s tail. Then the statuesque, amber-haired, amber-eyed woman appeared through a darkened wrinkle in the air.
With a flashy smile, she wiped away the non-rankers’ fears and had them eating out of the palm of her hands.
“She’s going to be insufferable when she becomes a Master Ranker,” Zarian said.
“Any more insufferable than you?” Hannah quipped.<...
2024-12-10 13:44:39 +0000 UTC
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The early morning shifted toward late morning. More blocky clouds appeared in the sky above the bombed out and devastated basin where Castle Grimrock had once stood.
A thousand men and women milled about nervously as two overtly powerful Master Rankers prowled among them. The leaders, a Level 70 Storm Blaster named Dawson and a Level 75 Blessed Cleric named Gisella, were the only two capable enough to serve as guides.
The guides weren’t necessary. They were merely a show of comp...
2024-12-10 13:04:05 +0000 UTC
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The Star System paused at the appropriate time.
Everyone was lost for thought.
That was … a lot of achievements.
Zarian came out with so many. His total number of achievements jumped from thirty to forty now.
Hannah had also gained ten achievements. The others followed suit, with Bianca having nine, Naomi grabbing up eight, and Gilbert coming in last with seven, which was still an impressive amount from one crawl.
Zarian imagined everyone was paying close atten...
2024-12-10 12:15:17 +0000 UTC
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Other than his lower back flaring with intense pain, Zarian knew things were especially wrong when the Star System sent notifications in a panicked tone: <What is happening to him? This is not how his class reselection is supposed to go.>
<Something interrupted the sub-parameters for his Second Class Advancement.>
<Is he going to die again?>
<Please prevent him from dying.>
2024-12-10 11:37:38 +0000 UTC
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Zarian felt a little guilty that he had it easier compared to Naomi.
Yeah, he’d done incredible things the past year. He’d taken on unique challenges that few could handle. He’d broken his brain that one time, after all.
But he was a recipient of ultra god nepotism, while Naomi would have to work thrice as hard if she wanted to stay competitive. That dream of hers – to become stronger than ‘all of him’ – seemed to grow more distant as he advanced further.
I...
2024-12-08 05:16:12 +0000 UTC
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Zarian twisted his body left and right on his throne after sitting there for over twenty-four hours. He blinked up at the sunrise of a new day, his daughter coming around with another round of meals and drinks.
He smiled at her, and she smiled back as she handed him some piping hot and tasty cooking. Then Zarian glanced at the others. They looked as ready to move on as he felt.
It had taken all day and the night to decide on the top five picks for each reselection for the Second C...
2024-12-08 05:14:26 +0000 UTC
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Before anyone reported their gains, the Star System appeared as gold message boxes above their camp.
Heart thumping, Zarian shifted to the edge of his throne. Everyone shifted along with him. Even Foodie slowed down to give the group messages a curious look.
<Zarian Darkrun!>
<Naomi Washington!>
<Hannah Townhouse!>
<Bianca Garcia!>
<Gilbert McDonald!>
2024-12-07 00:23:33 +0000 UTC
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Zarian jolted out of his bedroll. Something attached to his back yanked him to a sudden stop. His hand plowed through the stone floor, and he slipped and smacked his face on the floor, forming a crater three feet wide and half a foot deep.
Laying still, he caught his breath while still halfway into the dream world. He vaguely recalled there being a laughing jokester who caught him by the waist and flipped him into…
Zarian shook his head. He focused on the present moment. He saw ...
2024-12-06 02:20:39 +0000 UTC
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As the Silver Guardian raged against the Voracious Blood Beast, the royal son of the Windstorm Tribe stood on top of his scorpion and used his Wind Howl spell.
His mind recalled the runic text and mystic sayings from his Grimoire of the Windstorm Adept. He felt the rare traits from his royal heritage empower his spell, giving his voice a booming effect.
Prince Omar shouted with magic that kicked up some billowing gusts. He ordered his personal entourage, two hundred scorpions, a w...
2024-12-05 03:50:50 +0000 UTC
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“So that’s the infamous Ride-or-Die Village.”
In the late evening of Mid Summer, Prince Omar Windstorm tapped his two fingers in code on the hard shell of his mount. As they travelled along a well-paved road, the giant scorpion beast he sat on made loud hisses, which sounded threatening to most foreigners.
But to Prince Omar and his brethren of the United Nomad Empire, his mount was responding in affirmation. She braced herself subtly in case the villains of Ride-or-Die spru...
2024-12-04 01:25:25 +0000 UTC
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Dawson felt a little confused by how the goblin was walking casually toward his guild members. He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand. His paranoia flared.
Thankfully, he didn’t have to shout to warn his men and women. The scouts on the edges saw what was coming and sent out a warning to get some semblance of a fighting force together.
A solid unit of thirty warrior-types collected as a show of force against the one goblin. Another thirty magician-types moved in from be...
2024-12-03 20:07:58 +0000 UTC
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“Well, would you look at that? A whole battlefield with loot ripe for the taking.”
Dawson stood on the edge of a castle-cliff with a ragged hole in the dilapidated wall. Behind him, over a thousand men shuffled to a stop, breathing hard or light depending on their physical abilities and stats. They all had large packs half-filled with travel provisions and half-empty for storing away new loot.
In front of Dawson, he saw a drop that was three hundred feet deep before merging wi...
2024-12-03 19:27:03 +0000 UTC
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“Oh, good, I would’ve been a little upset if you used Sinfeast’s tears. While it is funny to have the tears of a bastard god in a vial, I wouldn’t want that to be my whole schtick,” Zarian said.
“No, no. I have another purpose for these tears.”
“Cool, cool. So, uh, you okay?”
“No, I’m not. You have left me imbalanced and forced into a position of deep contemplation. I suppose Lovewar will be happy about this. Your sister, however…”
“How is A...
2024-11-30 23:11:58 +0000 UTC
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For the first time in a while, Zarian caught Luciana off guard.
Ever since the Darkrun Apocalypse, she had this weird and corruptive smugness to her that tested the limits of Zarian’s boundaries. She’d strained his patience plenty of times.
But now he had something that she simply couldn’t resist.
The traumatized tears of another Evil God.
Sinfeast was a divine ruler taking up one of fourteen major seats at the top of the alignments. Granted, there were five Free...
2024-11-30 23:10:09 +0000 UTC
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“Oh, this sounds interesting,” Foodie said, ears perking up with interest.
“She’s quite the astute daughter. I like her already.” Ruvaria nodded before continuing. “There is one thing that is impossible to destroy in its entirety in the Infinita Star System, and that is a soul. And while there is no knowing fully what happens to most souls after they die, I can tell you for sure that there are cases of revivals, rebirths, transmigration, and even direct transcendence. That l...
2024-11-30 05:05:58 +0000 UTC
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The POV was back on Zarian as he sat on a throne made from quarter percent darkness and the Parasite Cloak +3. His new daughter waited on his knee. His friends surrounded him, including Bianca, who parked her big fifty-foot self in a crouch behind his throne.
Everyone waited with bated breath on the dark tower he formed underneath them, keeping them above the haze, smoke, and smashed rubble covering the ruined cavern floor. The whole place looked like it was about to fall apart. More op...
2024-11-30 05:03:10 +0000 UTC
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Jack was trying to readjust midair again when he realized how Naomi kept coming at him again and again.
No, this wasn’t because of Zarian’s interference.
Naomi was kicking off the cavern walls with so much power she shot herself around fast enough to keep the pressure on Jack.
Every kick off destroyed much of the cavern and brought down more from the mountain above, threatening a full cave in. But the mad woman didn’t care. She kept bouncing back and forth with explosi...
2024-11-28 19:40:19 +0000 UTC
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Jack’s notifications flooded with new updates as a large part of the cavern ceiling came crashing down. He checked his notifications frantically while he slashed upward with one hand his Star Sword +3.
A crescent wave of condensed star magic and white hot hatred flew from the tip of his perfected blade. It split the falling cavern debris in half.
A burning pulse from his White Immolation Shield +3 combined with a force push from his Absolute Judgment +2 shoved tons of sliced and...
2024-11-28 19:36:34 +0000 UTC
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Zarian blinked his eyes rapidly to clear his vision, which healed up now. Dust, grit, and smoke billowed around him.
His ears needed more time to heal back to being functional again, so he couldn’t hear much of anything other than some painful ringing.
He rose back to his feet, his arms hugging his newly adopted daughter to his chest. Para waved and glimmered around them as his cloak.
He looked around at the devastation left behind by the portal collapse. Everyone was okay...
2024-11-27 22:24:21 +0000 UTC
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Looking over to the side, Gilbert noticed the crumbled and scorched corpses of imps and demonic beasts around the staircase. The threshold and the stairs themselves were also heavily damaged.
Gilbert gave himself a few seconds to recover before pushing up to his hands and knees on top of Bianca’s head. He was about to jump down only to stop when he saw a horse-like form appear inside the staircase.
“Hey, Slip!” Gilbert greeted.
The eight-legged Sleipnir neighed in resp...
2024-11-27 04:30:59 +0000 UTC
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Gilbert wondered if the machinations that made the Infinita Star System had parameters set to test the exact weaknesses of a person. When he turned to face Lady Hentayury again, he had to brace himself.
The devilish false idol exuded a thick, energetic, and heady charm that challenged his rare trait, Unyielding Mentality, and his free for real +2.
She was a tall, voluptuous, and attractive woman with pale skin, golden hair, and bright blue eyes. She had full ruby red lips. A full ...
2024-11-27 03:52:12 +0000 UTC
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The little goblin went about cooking a tasty snack for Zarian.
As Zarian waited and endured monstrous starvation, he felt a familiar shift in the air. Hidden Hell felt it, too.
The realm sent small pulses of energy, as if to probe the shift. It couldn’t interact with it, however. Nothing could mess with it or stop it.
Hidden Hell was powerless against the POV Shift.
Zarian had no idea why it was happening and couldn’t control it. The best he could do was get a glim...
2024-11-27 03:15:04 +0000 UTC
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