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Chapter 28: Astra Vine

"Holy moly," Ethan, as Wildvine, muttered to himself, his plant-like eyes wide. "There's such a long section of this thing embedded in the ground; no wonder we couldn't even...

Chapter 27: Back to the Wild

"Aah!!!" Seraphina's surprised shriek echoed through the clearing.

"Alright, Seraphina, stop shouting," Ethan's synthesized voice as ...

Chapter 26: Upgrade

Ethan, as XLR8, focused his high-speed spinning attack relentlessly on Hardman's back. The screech of his bone-claws against the hardened skin was deafening. He actually man...

Chapter 25: Winning Streak

"Azure Light Slash!"

"Air-Rending Slash!"

The two metal-type opponents immediately unleashed their psionic skills on Marcus, their saber and sword glowing with destruct...

Chapter 24: Porcupine

The arena announcer's voice boomed over the crowd. "Next up, let us welcome back to the ring the undefeated newcomer, Kid Hacker, and his challenger, the prickly veteran, Porcupine, f...

Chapter 23: Getting Rich

Why didn't Ethan, Marcus, and Seraphina show up for the final school assessment? Naturally, it was because they now looked down on those few begin...

Chapter 22: Training Ends

Ethan gestured for Seraphina to begin. She responded instantly, launching herself forward. She executed a flying scissor kick with her left leg, using the p...

Chapter 21: Temporary Spar

However, Ethan's arduous training under Mr. Gordon was not without its immediate benefits. In the afternoon, after experiencing four hours of high-intensity pressure training, when...

Chapter 20: Arduous Training

At eight o'clock the next morning, the students of Class Four straggled into the Sunstone Martial Arts Gym. From the oppressive, gloomy atmosphere that hung heavy in the air, one c...

CHAPTER 14

Scott didn't know how he knew where to go; he just ran. The instincts screaming in his blood, heightened by the full moon's oppressive glow, were a confusing, terrifying cacophony. But thr...

CHAPTER 13

Alex slammed the sedan to a halt in front of his mother's house, the tires screeching on the wet pavement. The quiet suburban street was dark, the only light coming from their own porch and the fli...

CHAPTER 19 : Practical Training

In a quiet corner of a modern teahouse, Mr. Gordon, Ethan Atherton, Marcus Vance, and Seraphina Linley were sitting together. Mr. Gordon b...

CHAPTER 18

Ethan Atherton, now cloaked and masked as "Kid Hacker," arrived at the fighter's entrance to the ring. A grim-faced staff member slid a datapad across the counter. Ethan sig...

XGO V2 CHAPTER 8 Of Ghosts, Geniuses, and Goodwill

The pre-dawn gloom of the Malibu workshop was a graveyard of abandoned ideas and empty wine bottles. Holographic displays, left on overnight, cast long, ghost-blue shadows across half-assemb...

CHAPTER 47

At the hotel entrance, Superman scanned with his X-ray vision and easily found the penguin playing on the computer.

He landed on the balcony of room 2706 with Lois. Out of politeness, ...

XGO V2 CHAPTER 7 : Of Fathers, Files, and Frailties.

The faint scent of ozone and something unplaceably alien lingered in Tony Stark’s Malibu workshop long after Alex’s swirling portal had snapped shut, leaving an unnerving silence in its wake. T...

Chapter 17: Underground Fight Club

The three of them, once again cloaked in their now-familiar anonymous black robes and simple masks, located the establishment Seraphina had spoken of. The sign above the rather unassuming, slightly...

Chapter 16: Diamondhead

The two behemoths, Ethan as the crimson-skinned Four Arms and Marcus with his psionically enhanced, bulging muscles, fiercely collided once more. The impact emitte...

Chapter 15: Cultivation

Ethan Atherton carefully regarded the spoils from their black market trip: two ordinary F-rank Aura Cores and five advanced-grade psionic potions. His first strategic step w...

Chapter 14: Exchange

Ethan, transformed into the blur that was XLR8, clutched Seraphina and Marcus tightly, one under each arm, and sped with frantic urgency to...

Chapter 13: Skill Crystal Core

Wayne stared at Ethan’s new plant-like form, a bewildered expression on his face. "Whoa. So… green!"

Wildvine’s blue central eye swiveled to glare at him. "If you don't know how ...

Chapter 12: Wildvine

Snore~ snore~

Deep within the verdant, sun-dappled wilderness forest, a lone Direwolf was blissfully sunbathing, sprawled out near the base of a large tree, fast asleep. Its snores, lo...

Chapter 11: The Wild

Seraphina, ever the organized one, went through their final equipment checklist with the air of a seasoned quartermaster. "Psionic Armor, standard light combat issue, capabl...

Chapter 10: Beast Hunters ( Edit )

After they had eaten and drunk to their considerable content, a feat largely attributable to Marcus’s appetite and Ethan’s surprising Four Arms-fueled capacity, Seraphina, with a sudden glint i...

Chapter 9: Skills ( Edit )

“Ready, Marcus?” Heatblast’s voice crackled with anticipation. Without waiting for an answer, Ethan thrust both flaming hands forward. A thick, incand...