Roland
As Roland watched the two men fight, he felt really small. They were outside the new capital, next to a large lake about 500 kilometers away from the center of the continent, and Shadow thought it would only be a couple minutes until the System recognized him as ruler of the planet, so almost his entire government in the area were in attendance, some 10,000+ people. But no one was looking at him.
Skies above, even Roland wasn’t paying any attention to the upcoming event.<...
2023-07-04 23:09:07 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila didn’t know how to feel. On the one hand she'd wanted this proposal for a couple years. On the other, Aalam had just brutally tortured someone she’d been trying to make a friend; was not in his right mind, making the entire proposal pretty much invalid; and, instead of showing an expression of love and anticipation, he was glaring at her like he wanted to kill her.
Overall, it wasn’t very romantic.
“It’s a simple question, Mila. You either say ‘yes’, ...
2023-07-04 23:08:48 +0000 UTC
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Mila
After sliding to the floor of the room, Mila just sat there for a full two minutes doing nothing. For one, she was in pain. Aalam had thrown her quite hard, and she was a bit out of it as a result. But the more important reason was she didn’t know what to do.
Aalam was back in his Id state, and he seemingly had been for a while. What had triggered it, she had no idea, but that wasn’t what was important. He was doing something to Isaiah and she had no way to s...
2023-07-04 23:08:25 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
“Okay. Let me see if I have this correct.” As Mila finished explaining about her and Aalam’s lives as they ran through a forest, Isaiah thought hard about how to make what he was about to say not sound offensive. “In your previous lives, Aalam was basically a young Alashan…”
Isaiah still wasn’t sure how to say the next part, and Mila took his pause to ask a question. “Alashan, the rune master?”
She then raised her hand as they continued running, indi...
2023-07-04 23:08:02 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
“Okay.” Aalam sounded impatient and Isaiah was feeling the same way as they both looked at Mila, her hand still on the Shadow Thief’s ring. “Is the last item what I think it is? You’ve been describing everything else for over ten minutes now.”
Mila turned to look at them and smiled. “What do you think it is, Aalam?”
“A whole lot of blood from a B rank life aligned dragon, maybe a Forest Dragon.”
“No.” Mila shook her head. “Close, but yo...
2023-07-04 23:07:40 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“The Knight skill is a variant servant skill of the Soul, Humble, and Contract categories, similar to Mila’s Exemplary Chamberlain skill, though only Legendary in grade,” Aalam explained as he did something complicated to the Shadow Thief’s C rank spatial storage ring, the unlocking process taking quite a bit of mana to the point he was drawing on Mila’s reserves as well. “It provides the same type of long-distance telepathy with a master who has a Lord variant skill, a...
2023-07-04 23:07:19 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The second secret room contained a grand total of 47 Legendary grade or higher skill orbs, but only 9 were for F ranks, most of the rest for G ranks instead, and there was only one Heroic grade skill among the 47, a D rank farming skill. Of the nine F rank skills, two were copies of the Legendary grade Lord skill and three were farming skills, likely stolen from the same source as the Heroic grade D rank skill. And that left only four skills which the three of them could learn.
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2023-07-04 23:07:01 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“So, even if you are up against a C rank, the System has a loophole to allow your master to protect you from soul possession?” Isaiah sounded confused as he worked to roast monster meat in one of the fire pits of the Gale Clan’s former camp, looking to Mila, who’d just told him what had happened in the inheritance. “Even if your master is a former A rank, that seems a little too convenient. Aren’t apocalypse style integrations supposed to be challenges for F ranks?”
2023-07-04 23:06:38 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
While sitting crosslegged on the ground and trying to cycle his qi to remove the effects of the powder the leader of the Kindar Raiders had thrown at him, Isaiah saw Prince Tomin exit the inheritance. The man didn’t try to talk to him, however, and just curled up in a ball on the ground and started to cry.
“Um?” Isaiah started to ask. “Is everything okay?”
“No!” Tomin rose to his feet and looked down at Isaiah, his face all puffy. “Things are not okay!...
2023-07-04 23:06:17 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Treasure!” Aalam looked around the inheritance’s warehouse like a child in a candy store, the expression on his face one she hadn’t seen since their last vacation, when they’d gone on a helicopter ride over the grand canyon.
“What’s that?” He pointed to a pile of silvery metal ingots nearly a dozen meters high, beside which one of the five E rank golems in the warehouse was frozen.
“Refined Antimagic Tin.” Mila shared Nana Xara’s explanation with ...
2023-07-04 23:05:41 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila had improved quite a lot since being reborn as a succubus.
Name: Li Mila
Level: 14
Race: Strong Soul Succubus Princess (F-Epic)
Bloodline: Prime Servitor (Mythic)
Abilities
Omniglot Reader (Legendary)
Fairy Law (Legendary)
Master of Disguise (Heroic)
Class 1: Diabolical Trickster (F...
2023-07-04 23:05:27 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila was feeling a lot of emotions, but the biggest one was disgust. She didn’t consider herself a particularly moral person, and her powers, while incredibly useful, would make the way she fought unethical to many, but what the Shadow Thief’s soul fragment and the Kindar Raiders had planned was revolting even to her.
There weren’t a million native cultivators on the planet, so their plan was to capture and hold Isaiah, then either wait for the population on the planet ...
2023-07-04 23:04:54 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila walked with her group down a stone corridor and then down a spiral staircase about 120 meters. At the bottom was another nondescript stone corridor and this led to another large room which Mila calculated was directly under the entrance to the inheritance.
This room was almost identical to the testing rooms, only there were eight archway entrances and a waist high pedestal in the center with a basketball-sized black orb sitting on top of it. All the others who’d passed...
2023-07-04 23:04:31 +0000 UTC
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Mila
The inside of the inheritance wasn’t that large, at least the top part, but it branched. After the first room with the orb containing the ritual to turn humans into beastmen there was another room which flashed red every time a cultivator passed through.
With the Noble’s Sight skill Mila had learned and mastered, along with her Laws and third eye, she was able to see karmic threads attach to every cultivator who entered, linking them to something down below, likely the so...
2023-07-04 23:04:08 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
“Excuse me, everyone!” As the illusionary clone of the woman looked at him, Isaiah heard a different voice yell over the sounds of the crowd. “I’m the head of the Kindar Raiders’ invasion force and I have a few things to say!”
Isaiah, Tomin, Ava, and the woman’s illusionary clone all turned to look at the shouting middle-aged man, who looked no different from a native Hiran commoner.
“The inheritance of the Shadow Thief is about to open in a minute and...
2023-07-04 23:03:35 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
Isaiah paused for a second a hundred meters below the water, focusing on his Kinetic Senses skill as he held on tightly to the harpoon in his right hand. Then he moved, activating Dragon Drive and stabbing out with five Power Attacks in quick succession.
The giant eel-like creature trying to surround him was cut into six pieces and Isaiah felt quite a bit of primal energy flow into his body, pushing him up to level 12.
Again, however, the weapon he was using wasn’t ...
2023-07-04 23:03:14 +0000 UTC
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Roland
One year after returning from the tutorial, things were going much better for Roland than before the apocalypse. Instead of being hunted across the continent, he was leading a force of tens of thousands of people with superpowers and his people were hunting down the last remaining of the five generals. Instead of fearing for the safety of his sister and awaiting the news of her forced marriage, he could now see her every day and watch as she grew into an amazing young woman. And,...
2023-07-04 23:02:54 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Using telekinesis, Aalam summoned all twelve golden flying needles from the Left Hand of the Runescribe he was wearing on his left hand. Then he took out all twelve contained elemental essences and placed them two thirds to the end of each needle, next to the orbs in each needle holding elemental power. Finally, he took out the twelve transparent Triforce Threads Mila’d taken as one of her Legendary grade rewards, each of which was about a centimeter thick and three meters long, ...
2023-07-04 23:02:36 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
“So, a bastard sword. Why not a spear?”
Using one of his minds to enter the inheritance space of the 12 Elements Bastard Sword, Aalam’s senses for that mind had been transferred into a mental space which looked like a large futuristic city. It was about the size of Manhattan in New York, but with a technology level a couple hundred years more advanced, and it reminded Aalam of Coruscant, the galactic capital planet from Star Wars.
Mostly, however, Aa...
2023-07-04 23:02:17 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila watched Aalam level up and felt a bit dirty.
The guilt had stopped when he’d mentioned Houston, as it wasn’t her causing him to change, it was the universe, and if he didn’t change he’d just die again. But she didn’t like the fact he had to change in the first place.
“What are you feeling?” Nana Xara spoke to her for the first time since Aalam had woken up and Mila’d blocked their connection.
“I’m kind of hating the universe a...
2023-07-04 23:01:31 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam had never seen Mila truly work before. Sure, when he was in the Id state she’d guided him through killing a fake family so he could gain access to the father’s alchemy lab, but he hadn’t paid attention to what she was doing in her own instance of the tutorial. And, sure, he’d seen her work with kids back on Earth. But he’d never seen her perform the type of work she’d trained her life for.
Now, however, she’d been sharing everything she was experiencing o...
2023-07-04 23:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Tomin
Tomin fell back onto his bed and started to try and figure out where everything had gone wrong.
He’d known the assignment would be difficult. The Kingdom of Night had invested a lot, and the B rank forces of the Life Tree Empire and the undead could completely trample them both if they knew what Hira was worth. But his sister’s new boyfriend had given them all the information, and they had prepared.
The problem wasn’t with the intelligence. The inher...
2023-07-04 23:00:45 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“That Gale Clan is terrible.” Aalam, as was usually the case, was a good listener when interested in what someone was saying, and he’d been interested in her story, so he’d gotten invested. “That poor … mass-murdering adult who should know better.” Some of the heat left his voice.
Then he asked, “Why should I care at all about Isaiah Gale? Sure, he’s powerful and it sounds like his life has been terrible. But, given how many deaths were required...
2023-07-04 23:00:26 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“What do you think the purpose and origin of the System are?” Aalam asked, seemingly getting more curious than angry upon hearing he couldn’t send a message to his sister.
Mila looked up at the ceiling of the soul well, contemplating just how odd the situation was. She’d just confessed and had it all blow up in her face, yet now she and Aalam were talking about the mysteries of the universe. Sure, it’s not like it was surprising. This was Aalam she was talking to. B...
2023-07-04 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam was angry and very, very confused.
This wasn’t exactly a rare situation for him. Confusion in general made him angry, as he hated not knowing what to do. And social interactions were often confusing.
Sure, he’d been getting better at them over the years before his death, but the main reason for that was Mila putting things in the right context, and now she was the problem.
The strategy he’d found best for understanding human interactions was to look a...
2023-07-04 22:59:47 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila didn’t know how she expected her first interaction with Aalam to go after he dropped out of his Id state, but she hadn’t thought his first response on seeing her injury would be to get angry about her losing his artifact.
Sure, she knew he’d put a lot of effort into the Left Hand of the Runescribe, but they’d lived together for five years. He should have at least some sense of empathy after seeing her hurt, yet his powerful aura was completely stable.
And h...
2023-07-04 22:59:27 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Aalam woke to the sound of thunder, a storm occurring outside the mountain holding the soul well, but he didn’t open his eyes. With his Void Sense skill he could tell someone was sitting in the hallway, and, with a quick check of his bond with Mila, he confirmed it was her.
He really didn’t want to talk to her, however, so he decided to delay, taking a while to take stock of his situation.
First, it was very unlikely he was dreaming. While many of his dreams had in...
2023-07-04 22:58:42 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila took a quick break and thought about whether what she was doing was right. Acting on her own internal wartime rules, she’d slaughtered a few thousand cultivators during the last several days, and it seemed like a good idea to quickly evaluate if she’d gone too far.
Her main goal was to get Aalam back to Earth to see his sister and, to do that, she needed a native to take over the planet so he could give them an access token to the Trial Tower, the only place she and ...
2023-07-04 22:56:44 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila felt sorry for Isaiah, but not to the point she’d allow him to kill her, so she’d done everything she could to get away.
Now though, she was starting to think breaking his spear hadn’t been the best idea as it seemed to have really, really pissed him off, to the point she was pretty sure he’d gained new Law Eggs.
After he stabbed himself a few times, she’d already realized one of his racial abilities fed off his qi to allow for passive healing—which was...
2023-07-04 22:56:20 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
Isaiah waited for the Gale Clan members to leave, deactivating the Power Attack he had ready, and tried to figure out why all eight hundred plus members of the Gale Clan were following the woman’s orders.
“Do you not know much about skills?” The woman asked him, looking somewhat confused.
Isaiah knew quite a lot about skills, but probably not as much as Aleron or Ava. There was a reason they always called him stupid.
In his mind, though, most skills were a...
2023-07-04 22:55:53 +0000 UTC
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