Mila
“Is that it?” Isaiah asked as he put down his 212th bag of spatial storage artifacts inside Mila’s quarters in the Violet Mountain Blessed Land.
“Yeah.” It had been over an hour since Mila’d found anything worth stealing while using her sensory domain to look through the planet’s cities, so it seemed after nearly twenty days she and Isaiah were finally done with their looting work. “And Aalam’s got that AI practically drooling to have h...
2023-07-04 23:51:07 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
Getting to look at the inside of the blessed land with his own eyes, Aalam felt it was beautiful. Every point on the hemisphere, not including the ground, was linked to a different point, so looking up you could see the ground and looking out across the horizon you could see the entire blessed land over and over and over again, the entire area spatially closed off.
To Aalam, however, it was obvious the space wasn’t a hemisphere, but a sphere in full. It was just that the o...
2023-07-04 23:50:45 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Mila let out a deep breath as Elder Haxor’s soul started to travel toward the Altar of Sacrifice. Then she walked over to where Isaiah was slowly taking his spear out of Kalin Hewin’s head and reached up to pat him on the shoulder. “Excellent job.”
Focusing everyone’s attention on Kalin Hewin had been a good idea. With the huge explosion and then the plagues, there was almost certainly a general confusion about why the reaction against the sect was so extreme...
2023-07-04 23:50:26 +0000 UTC
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Lander
With several of the key hubs of the planet’s teleportation network seemingly having been sabotaged, it took them several extra minutes to arrive at the Kimali Mountains, the elders each carrying two D ranks with useful skills to make their movements faster along the way, including the one with Soul Sight.
“The souls are all going into the mountains,” the D rank, a human nearing the end of his lifespan, confirmed when they all landed at one of the mountain range’s ma...
2023-07-04 23:50:06 +0000 UTC
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Lander
Death.
Sending his senses around the Violet Mountain Blessed Land, Lander Haxor couldn’t help but feel everything in his life had been pointless.
He’d clawed, tricked, and betrayed his way to become number two in the Violet Mountain Sect, and he had enjoyed great wealth and privilege as a result. But what would he be remembered for?
It wouldn’t be for the trade deal he’d renegotiated with the Vin Clan and the other four powers. It wouldn’t be fo...
2023-07-04 23:49:45 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
“What exactly was your plan, Aalam?” Mila asked after a couple minutes, taking a closer look at the formations in the cave. “For example, when are you planning on activating the gathering of souls?”
“I was going to wait at least another twelve hours.” Aalam spoke as he made modifications to the curse the Altar of Sacrifice would release. “Souls generally last about three days before they start to fall apart, so there isn’t a huge rush. And three of th...
2023-07-04 23:49:17 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
“What the Hell is wrong with you?”
When Mila joined them in the Kimali Mountains, the first thing she did was walk up to Isaiah and slap him full force in the face. Granted, her effective Strength was less than half his effective Toughness, so the blow didn’t hurt, but she knew how to use her power, and he wasn’t prepared, so he went flying into the wall of the cave.
Then, as he slowly got up while struggling to understand what was happening, she ...
2023-07-04 23:48:54 +0000 UTC
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Lander
Lander Haxor was feeling more fear than he ever had in his life. The Violet Mountain Lord had killed jinn able to advance to C rank in the Carium Galaxy Cluster for hundreds of thousands of years without trouble. But this time he’d messed up, killing the ancestor of an A rank’s personal apprentice and the teacher of an A rank force’s prince.
According to Sarra Lin’Talic, the Violet Mountain Lord was going to die. And, honestly, Lander didn’t care about that much. ...
2023-07-04 23:47:45 +0000 UTC
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Aalam
It took over 7 hours to make all the required tools. Then Aalam packed them and the Shadow Thief’s most dangerous artifact into a spatial storage ring and he and Isaiah made their way to Hira’s teleportation platform, transporting themselves to the Carium Galaxy Cluster’s capital planet.
As the capital planet of the Violet Mountain Sect, it wasn’t open to outsiders, permission from the sect required to use the teleportation platform. But the number of forces with tho...
2023-07-04 23:47:24 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“So, you’ve been lying to us?” Mr. Haxor leaned forward into her personal space at the reveal of her true stats, a hint of anger in his voice.
“No.” Mila met his eyes and didn’t look away. “I just have a teacher who believes good learning experiences can’t come when everyone knows you’re under the protection of an A rank.”
“An A rank?” Mr. Haxor’s body quickly moved back. And Mila could see the gears spinning in his head. “Which A rank...
2023-07-04 23:46:34 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Why did you bring me here?” Mila looked at Xander Rogar and the other two D ranks sitting opposite her in the conference room in the core area of the Violet Mountain Blessed Land. “Is this about Orianthi?”
“Orianthi?” Xander Rogar, who when not rescuing E ranks targeted by assassins was one of the three subheads of the Violet Mountain Sect’s disciplinary committee, asked. “Orianthi Hewin?”
“You asked me who would send assassins after me earli...
2023-07-04 23:46:12 +0000 UTC
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Zev
Zev Andar didn’t feel much after killing the jinn. During his time as the Violet Mountain Lord, he’d killed seven jinn for having the potential to reach C rank, and Epecteos Ka’Dravone’s chances had been the lowest of any of them. He also had no backing, so there wasn’t any chance of anyone trying to get revenge for his death.
The bigger issue was the loss of face for the Violet Mountain Sect due to Kalin’s actions. Zev would only live for another few tens o...
2023-07-04 23:45:51 +0000 UTC
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Epecteos
Epecteos was nowhere near as calm as he appeared on the surface.
The danger from Kalin Hewin had never been the man’s personal strength but his political status. He was the youngest of the Violet Mountain Sect’s eighteen elders and, due in part to how weak he was, only having a Rare grade class even at C rank, he had the highest chance of any of the sect’s elders when it came to advancing to B rank.
A normal elder losing to a D rank was a loss of ...
2023-07-04 23:45:29 +0000 UTC
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Isaiah
“So, you finally showed up.”
Isaiah had arrived in the capital city of Epecteos’s main planet of Toril about 30 seconds after Epecteos, so it wouldn’t be obvious they were together, even wearing a cloak to help hide his identity. And then he’d found a restaurant on the top of one of the city’s tallest buildings and ordered some food, waiting for Mila to either tell him she would no longer require their help or ask him and Epecteos to come rescue her.
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2023-07-04 23:45:04 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Entering into the Kimali Mountains on the Carium Galaxy Cluster’s capital planet, Mila realized two things. First, she shouldn’t have asked to go alone just because the mountains only had monsters up to D rank and she wanted to use her full skills. Second, she shouldn’t have thought, just because she was deep into the Territory of the Violet Mountain Sect, that she would be safe from cultivators.
Two D ranks had followed her ever since she left the Violet Mountain Bless...
2023-07-04 23:44:36 +0000 UTC
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Epecteos
“Why do we even do this?” After waking up on the container ship in the Atlantic from yet another loss to Isaiah in the soul net, Aalam kicked one of the containers on the ship and it went flying toward the ocean. He seemed to feel guilty about littering, however, so he used Telekinesis to stop it before it landed on the water and put it back in place. “It’s not like I’m improving at all.”
“Of course you’re improving, Aalam.” Epecteos, sitting on a...
2023-07-04 23:44:13 +0000 UTC
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Brom
Brom got on the teleportation platform with his father’s coffin, Darra, and his father’s chamberlain, along with two of his household guards and two powerful D ranks assigned to him by the Bronze Legion’s new successor. Then he entered in the identification number and passcode he’d received from Ms. Alvaro and hoped for the best.
Instead of appearing in the center of a large city on his parents’ home planet, they appeared on a much smaller platform next to a lake on...
2023-07-04 23:43:54 +0000 UTC
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Gregin
Gregin Laan was feeling good. His great-grandfather was about to be named the successor to the Bronze Legion, so his status in the legion was going to rise. He’d just made the last major breakthrough needed to advance to D rank while only 67, now only requiring resources to improve his race’s grade upon increasing its rank. And, in the War of the Chosen, he was going to absorb the secondary army and gain over a thousand law armors, which would allow him to advance far ...
2023-07-04 23:43:35 +0000 UTC
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Brom
Brom looked down at the coffin and didn’t know what to feel. Should he be sad? Should he be scared? Should he be enraged? Instead, as he looked down at his father’s partially mutilated corpse in the coffin, he just felt numb.
His mother had died on the battlefield when he was young and he didn’t have much memory of her. He at least knew he hadn’t seen her body, as it had never been recovered.
But his dad shouldn’t have died.
His father was the you...
2023-07-04 23:43:09 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Alright. I’ll go first.” Nitya stood up from where she was sitting. “I’m following the traditional wind mage path.
“As we all know, my race is specialized for the element of wind, my uniqueness greatly boosts the effectiveness of my Attunement stat, and my bloodline increases the power of mage skills and Magic.
“I need natural treasures to help with each of my race advancements so I can increase its grade each time I rank up, as well as treasures to help ...
2023-07-04 23:41:38 +0000 UTC
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Mila
For the last four years, ever since they’d placed the specialized artifact Aalam made from Nana Xara’s design on one of Epecteos’s F rank planets, Mila had been able to telepathically communicate with Aalam, Diana, Isaiah, and her grandmother at will, and it had been a huge boost to her mood.
Almost every day, for at least half an hour, she’d use one of her minds to talk with Diana, the experience far less exasperating than talking with their master. And she could joi...
2023-07-04 23:41:10 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
“Okay. That’s actually a really good offer.” Her mother laughed out loud and Krysta didn’t know what to think.
She was still a bit shaken by the giant explosion, but her mother didn’t seem to care about that part at all. All Ms. Alvaro had said was to mention a skill her brother had, a racial ability, and the fact he had a ridiculously powerful race. But she still didn’t know what the skill or racial ability did.
“Mom, could you explain please?”
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2023-07-04 23:40:46 +0000 UTC
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Mila
“Alright, Aalam.” Mila, who was quite a bit closer to the blast site than anyone else, killed an enemy scout she spotted using Telekinesis. “Diana’s done with the stick part of the negotiations. Now please elaborate on that bomb with more than just that it was an experiment.”
When Mila had retrieved her new armor from Aalam, he’d also given her an explosive and asked her to field test it by hiding it in the enemy castle and then running away. She...
2023-07-04 23:40:24 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
Three months later, Krysta appeared in a large castle along with the other members of the Bronze Legion’s army. Having sent the skill to the army’s general—who her mom suspected was actually the summoner and not Brom Karendesh—she was now a commander, so the System gave her more information on the stage than would be given to a soldier.
Apparently, both armies would be given fortified castles during this stage, making it very difficult to attack each other, and the ...
2023-07-04 23:40:02 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
“Shadow is female. The boy is a subordinate. Multiple masters.” Joma La’Vordi, the Alchemist of the Deep Woods, looked contemplative. “I feel like I’m missing something.”
Then a look of realization appeared on her face and she snapped the fingers of her right hand. “You haven’t stopped thinking about him even after meeting only briefly. The identity that makes the most sense died less than a month before the integration started, so of course he’d be reborn...
2023-07-04 23:39:38 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
Along with the six hundred silver law armors, Krysta was able to spot three black armors as well, which appeared to be the core of the law armor sets. One was on someone she recognized from the intelligence reports she’d received before making her attempt at the F rank Trial Tower, Brom Karendesh, who she was pretty sure was the general of the weaker of the Bronze Legion’s two armies. But she didn’t recognize the other two.
Both seemed generally human shaped, but it w...
2023-07-04 23:39:03 +0000 UTC
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Krysta
“How much do you think the Luck stat affects the War of the Chosen?” Henrietta Vin asked from behind the oversized black cauldron the Vin Clan’s army’s crafters had made for her.
“It’s probably relative like the Trial Tower.” Krysta thought for a few seconds as she proceeded with her own alchemy. “The general’s Luck stat I would guess matters most, followed by the commanders, and then the soldiers. But I’m not sure what it would do, as every stage is the...
2023-07-04 23:38:43 +0000 UTC
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Nitya
Nitya had been wrong. This trip of theirs was incredibly dangerous, just not for the two of them.
Getting the low grade wood and the Miasmic Soul Gems had been easy. She and Epecteos had just gone and talked with the relevant local organizations, told them what they wanted, and then bought it all for a reasonable price. They hadn’t even had to leave the E rank planets they’d originally arrived on. And the entire process had only taken two days.
When they arrived on...
2023-07-04 23:38:23 +0000 UTC
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Nitya
“So, what did you learn?” Epecteos asked as he looked at all five of them during their first training session after they woke from the battle.
Nitya and Irena had started joining in on the daily training after they learned about Aalam’s identity and it had benefitted the two of them greatly, their ranking on Earth’s soul net now solidly above everyone but Diana.
Aalam and Isaiah had accounts as well, but they generally used the soul net for combat training, not...
2023-07-04 23:38:01 +0000 UTC
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Mila
Given Sensory Domain was in the shape of a sphere and gave an absolute view of everything within that sphere, including everything underground, it was one of the best treasure finding skills in existence, and, while the conversion wasn’t perfect, the radius of the E rank Sensory Domain skill in meters was about equivalent to a cultivator’s effective Aura stat divided by 12. This then made the radius of Aalam’s domain about 1.86 kilometers, and Mila’s about 1.13 kilometers, ...
2023-07-04 23:37:13 +0000 UTC
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