Before a second had passed after opening the doors, Nate was already running to the side. He was pretty sure he was going to get shot with projectiles but that didn’t mean he needed to stand still and be a sitting duck.
Frick, who seemed to be having the time of his life, was floating over the top of the Constructs screaming obscenities at them and he thought he might have heard something about preparing for goblin induced destruction. Nate had no idea where that was coming from as he...
2024-02-14 05:30:00 +0000 UTC
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Nate sat still on the grass among the trees, comfortable in his new robe. Looking over his Stats it didn’t take him long to decide where to invest them. His Intellect was going up quite fast and he would break sixty by the time he was level 20. With that in mind he would rather focus on some of the things he felt were holding him back.
His Magic Control and Channelling Speed were key to his dynamic use of runes. Bringing those Stats up was a priority, especially with his robe shoring ...
2024-02-14 05:26:20 +0000 UTC
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Nate sat a few metres from the smoking corpse of the Lobster. The euphoria from so much processed mana was quickly fading as he felt his Core spreading the energy throughout his body. His mind quickened under the stream, though the improvements were becoming less noticeable. That made sense to him though. Moving from twenty to forty Intellect was effectively doubling his intelligence or at least whatever part of his mental capabilities Intellect focused on. But moving from forty to almost fif...
2024-02-14 05:20:51 +0000 UTC
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Frick returned a while later, the little blue goblin holding out the pocketknife for Nate. He wasn’t sure but he guessed it had been an hour or two that Frick had been gone. It was hard to tell but the fire was mostly gone, a few embers still glowing among the ash, so he figured an hour or two was probably right.
He’d spent that time doing two things. The first was reviewing his clothes. Arikanvil had made a comment about Dead Realm material not handling mana well, and he could see ...
2024-02-14 05:20:14 +0000 UTC
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Glancing at his stat sheet Nate tracked his progress as he started thinking through plans for dealing with the crab of the lake.
He was very happy with how he was doing. His Magic Power was still terrible, and in terms of physical power and speed, he hadn’t changed at all. But he was tougher and felt fitter. He’d managed to develop his other magical Stats and his Intellect, Dexterity and C...
2024-02-14 05:19:46 +0000 UTC
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Three Challenge rewards and he had to select one. Power, Wealth, or Assistance. That was all the detail that The System had provided him. Not a lot to go on, he thought. He started going through each of the options. Power was a hard one. He didn’t know enough about The System or how it worked. Power might mean bonus stats. It could be bonus Skills. It might even give him a Spell, which he noted was blank on his character sheet so far. Or it could be some sort of enchanted ...
2024-02-14 05:17:48 +0000 UTC
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The construct closest to him was less than ten metres away. Barrier in one hand and his projectile rune in the other, Nate leaned around the corner, took aim, and started feeding mana to the projectile rune through his core. Focusing on his Runic Intent skill, he changed the speed and chose the direction he wanted the projectile to release. Counting out the seconds in his head he got to five before the rune was charged enough to fire. The ensuing piece of earth looked like a ...
2024-02-14 05:17:07 +0000 UTC
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Accrued Mana applied to Primary Class.
Level up…
Level up…
Stats adjusted: +4 Dexterity, +2 Endurance, +4 Intellect, +4 Creativity, +2 Perception, +4 Mana Reserve, +10 Free Stats
Skills Available! Please Select 1* Skills.
Class Skill Options:
Improved Mana Reserve (Rare)
Spells and Skills. Most require mana and so the measure of a researcher, a mage, a warrior, is how much mana they can wield and how long they can last. For thos...
2024-02-14 05:15:22 +0000 UTC
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Nate woke feeling well rested, despite his stony bed. It hadn’t taken him long to finish cleaning himself the previous day after his meal of somewhat burned boar. He’d washed his face at the edge of the lake and taken a drink before hightailing it back to his nook. Today was the day he’d explore the other corridor. But first, he needed to prepare a little defence in case he needed to run. Picking up the last piece of wood he had in his stash, Nate commiserated with himself that he didnâ...
2024-02-14 05:10:37 +0000 UTC
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For Nate, the first step to planning was knowing what he was working with. Thinking Status brought up his updated sheet.
He was pleased with the results, and as he sat with his back to the statue, he could feel the mana from the environment slowly flowing into his chest and the little ball he felt there that represented his Class. It was hard to describe how it all made him...
2024-02-14 05:06:15 +0000 UTC
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Sprinting down the corridor, Nate took a sharp turn into the alcove, and, avoiding the divot in the floor from his earlier explosion, quickly climbed up into his nook. Catching his breath, he tried to calm down. He’d almost died and this time it had been his own fault. He should’ve spent more time testing it. He had thought the log would take more mana before it exploded. So many little mistakes and it had almost cost him his life. Slowly the panic subsided. He’d been an idiot, but in t...
2024-02-14 05:00:47 +0000 UTC
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Thinking about the concept of mana moving from higher density areas to lower density ones gave Nate an idea for how to move the mana around in himself. Arikanvil had said that Nate definitely had mana, and since he was constantly tingling he figured the mana in him was much lower than the mana around him. So, it kept trying to burrow into him. But what if he tried to force the mana in him into one location. If it was higher concentration than his surroundings would it leak out? Looking down a...
2024-02-14 04:57:28 +0000 UTC
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The water itself was a lovely, tepid temperature and Nate knew if he wasn’t being so careful he could easily have drifted off to sleep laying in the shallows. Standing up the water barely reached his knees which made it perfect for him to sit down in, with his knees pulled up to his chest. Nate could feel the tingling on his skin grow noticeably stronger wherever the water was touching him. He figured that was because there was probably more mana in the water than in the air of the dungeon....
2024-02-14 04:56:48 +0000 UTC
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Nate slowly opened his eyes and immediately stifled a groan; his first thought was one of fear. Was the cat about to get him? That adrenaline leant him focus and his eyes darted around as he sat up too quickly. The wave of dizziness from doing so almost made him blackout again but he stabilised himself on one arm and tried to breathe. His head ached, his arm still hurt, and the fog of confusion was still heavy on him. Taking a minute, he controlled his breathing like he had learned to do afte...
2024-02-14 04:56:22 +0000 UTC
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Nate noted there was no kaleidoscopic galaxy or bubble this time. One moment he was in Arikanvil’s portal chamber and the next he was sailing through the air before bouncing on soft grass strewn with leaves. From his prone position he got a first-row seat to watch the spherical portal shrink before it vanished, leaving him truly stranded on this new world. Taking in a deep breath, he found that he could breathe without issue. That meant the atmosphere here was pretty similar to Earth’s. I...
2024-02-14 04:55:48 +0000 UTC
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The purple giant strode purposefully back into the portal room, Nate sat up as he did so, before carefully pulling himself to his feet. His arms still hurt from the landing, and he still felt wrung dry from the mana density overload or whatever the creature had called it. Through the pain though, Nate could sense that his time here in this portal room of some purple god in another multiverse, was coming to an end. Even saying it in his mind sounded insane but he’d gone through so much pain ...
2024-02-14 04:43:15 +0000 UTC
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At first Nate wondered if he was dead. Was this all his life was going to end up amounting to? A few pieces of art before dying shortly after he turned eighteen? These thoughts plagued his mind for an unknown amount of time before feeling and sight began to return to him. As they did, his jaw dropped in awe, and he sucked in a breath.
He was inside something like a bubble, suspended in the middle of it. The reason sight was returning to him was obvious now. The bubble itself was slowly ...
2024-02-13 23:40:29 +0000 UTC
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Banksy was right. That was Nate’s first thought as he jumped the fence onto the railway tracks. It wasn’t the first time he’d done so. But it was the first time he’d almost landed in a pile of shit. So, Banksy was right, tramps really did shit everywhere. Carefully stepping away from the hopefully cold pile of excrement, Nate adjusted his black hoodie and took in a deep breath, sighing happily. It smelled, of course, but it felt like teenage rebellion, like a moment of freedom.
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2024-02-13 23:37:45 +0000 UTC
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