Stealing the core of a building and replacing it with an AI built on a GPT-4 model – developed and fine tuned in less than two days – proved to be a monumental task. Taking the physical thing o...
2023-05-29 16:40:33 +0000 UTC
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When Albert’s mother returned home, he was so immersed in his attempts to make the spell work and make it into a skill that he didn’t even hear her. She had to come all the way up to his room, ...
2023-05-29 16:40:05 +0000 UTC
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Albert returned from a morning spent at the village of Elvenhome, back to the ‘real’ world. It wasn’t like Elvenhome was not a real place, but compared to the bleak gloom of his house, it fel...
2023-05-29 16:39:47 +0000 UTC
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Albert sat on the side of his bed, dangling his legs and waiting. His mother told him that she would soon take him to the Quadrangle, making use of the small window of time she managed to buy befor...
2023-05-29 16:39:29 +0000 UTC
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It was a sleep of no dreams. Or at least, no dreams that Albert could remember. Which meant no nightmares either, a very good thing considering that what happened prior to going to sleep should hav...
2023-05-29 14:49:23 +0000 UTC
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Albert’s face contorted and twisted, his teeth ground and his voice almost spilled out in a scream as the pain of the gem exploding in his hand coursed through him like liquid fire. It burnt and ...
2023-05-29 14:49:05 +0000 UTC
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“Cool thing, that system you have.” A voice echoed from afar. “I wonder if I can extract it from you the same way I stole all the memories from your mother’s head before I left her...
2023-05-29 14:48:46 +0000 UTC
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Albert listened his mother’s voice on the phone, trying to hear the voice on the other side as well but failing, all the while his expression grew increasingly worried. He thought about what not ...
2023-05-29 11:59:39 +0000 UTC
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[Temporary timeline, possible future.]
The portal shimmered. On the other side was the access route to the CARF, operated by unmanned machines and subroutines that not even S...
2023-05-29 11:59:19 +0000 UTC
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Burst of chapters incoming! I finally got around to proofing and fixing up to chapter 50 ^^
Enjoy
41 – Too Easy
There were many ways to access the CARF. Some of them were prop...
2023-05-29 11:58:56 +0000 UTC
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07 – Pistols and dust
The streets of Neverexia were wide, the dusty dirt road baked by the sun, dry and hot. At the sides of the wide street, the porches of houses made of wood hid plush ...
2023-05-27 09:06:23 +0000 UTC
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06 – Cowboy underland
Fuck systems. Fuck who has them. Fuck all of them. They get the easy life, except since everyone has a system, their life isn’t really any easier. They all get sec...
2023-05-27 08:29:21 +0000 UTC
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40 – Planning for Time
Albert looked at the notification from the System hovering, as usual, in the air before his eyes. It always took on different shapes and styles, making letters appe...
2023-05-27 08:28:46 +0000 UTC
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05 – Neverexia
[TLC 1-1-1 Reached.]
[Refinement 1 Reached.]
The accomplishment should have made me feel elated, but I barely had the strength...
2023-05-26 14:22:09 +0000 UTC
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39 – On the same page
“What is the HDF?” Asked Albert.
The clock ticked. There was, hidden in some part of everyone’s mind – be it more at the forefront or more hidden away ...
2023-05-26 14:14:07 +0000 UTC
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04 – Dwarves
Crouching, I slowly made my way towards the dwarves in the distance. The lights of their settlement were clearly visible now, at the far end of an underground room that was s...
2023-05-25 13:50:12 +0000 UTC
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[New Quest: Peer at the Leviathan.]
- Ask your mother about the HDF.
- Reward: Prototype telepo...
2023-05-25 13:23:49 +0000 UTC
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03 – TLC and Refinement
Both TLC and Refinement are surprisingly easy and intuitive to understand. For me, at least. I will try to explain them to you so that you can understand how magic...
2023-05-25 13:23:04 +0000 UTC
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02 – Killing monsters
Having absorbed the power of the cage meant that I could explore the hidden secrets of magic once more, but unfortunately I was still mostly a mortal.
A loud g...
2023-05-24 23:50:52 +0000 UTC
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New novel, fresh out of the oven! It's still pending approval on RR, which means that it's going to be a while before it goes public. Also, worry not, releases of the other fic will not slow no...
2023-05-24 15:30:34 +0000 UTC
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[Quest: Leviathan Unveiled complete.]
[You can choose one quest to autocomplete.]
“Delay that, please. I c...
2023-05-24 13:50:08 +0000 UTC
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[Time nexus event triggered by Subject: Albert Grassman.]
[Regressive timeline detected.]
[Aborting emergency quest…]
...
2023-05-23 14:17:50 +0000 UTC
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There was a direct phone line connecting the Quadrangle to the Warden of the CARF. Being a facility where some of most dangerous people on Earth were being held, the line was encrypted and availabl...
2023-05-23 11:24:53 +0000 UTC
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Samantha was in full panic mode. Nobody had ever seen her lose her cool like that in her long years as the Head of the Bureau, not even when the real shit had hit the fan and the security of the wh...
2023-05-22 20:39:22 +0000 UTC
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Continental America Rehabilitation Facility – The CARF.
The black cube dominated the landscape like an inescapable prison from which not even light came out. Its vertical walls absorbed eve...
2023-05-22 12:26:06 +0000 UTC
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The problem with rewinding time is that it cannot be un-rewound. The process cannot be undone. Events cannot be restored after they get deleted. The only way to get them back is to live through the...
2023-05-22 12:25:43 +0000 UTC
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The television flickered, the image projected onto the old screen struggling to form according to the newest modern digital codecs. Inside Lloyd’s house everything was an antique, but everything ...
2023-05-22 12:25:25 +0000 UTC
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It was almost frustrating how, during the golem fight in the daily mission at Elvenhome, the Minor ring of Protection had been so useless as to not even resist one single hit from ...
2023-05-22 12:24:59 +0000 UTC
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[Hazegem upgraded.]
- Cost per hour: 3FU -> 2.5FU
- Cooldown 1:1 -> 1:0.9
The room was just like Albert left it...
2023-05-18 19:31:59 +0000 UTC
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Right before Albert teleported back to the Elven village, he felt a rush of energy suddenly leave the body of the golem and enter his sensory range. He turned around to see it, but only managed to ...
2023-05-18 19:31:36 +0000 UTC
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