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Edge of apocalypse 50

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...

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Edge of apocalypse 49

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, ...

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Edge of apocalypse 48

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...

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Edge of apocalypse 47

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...

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Edge of apocalypse 46

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...

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Edge of apocalypse 45

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 ...

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Edge of apocalypse 44

“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...

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Edge of apocalypse 43

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 ...

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Edge of apocalypse 42

[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...

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Edge of apocalypse 41

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...

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Magnus Thorne 07

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 ...

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Magnus Thorne 06

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...

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Edge of Apocalypse 40

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...

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Magnus Thorne 05

05 – Neverexia

[TLC 1-1-1 Reached.]

[Refinement 1 Reached.]

The accomplishment should have made me feel elated, but I barely had the strength...

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Edge of apocalypse 39

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 ...

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Magnus Thorne 04

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...

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38 – Tense talks

[New Quest: Peer at the Leviathan.]

  • Ask your mother about the HDF.
  • Reward: Prototype telepo...

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Magnus Thorne 03

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...

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Magnus Thorne 02

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...

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Magnus Thorne 01

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...

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37 – Confrontation

[Quest: Leviathan Unveiled complete.]

[You can choose one quest to autocomplete.]

“Delay that, please. I c...

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36 – Disastrous Circumstances

[Time nexus event triggered by Subject: Albert Grassman.]

[Regressive timeline detected.]

[Aborting emergency quest…]

...

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35 – Leviathan Stirs

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...

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34 – Lurkers in the shadows

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...

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33 – Meddling with danger

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...

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32 – Secret Societies

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...

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31 – Terrible Mistake

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 ...

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30 – Tensile strength of the mind

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 ...

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29 – Ghost of old age (2/2)

[Hazegem upgraded.]

  • Cost per hour: 3FU -> 2.5FU
  • Cooldown 1:1 -> 1:0.9

The room was just like Albert left it...

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29 – Ghost of old age (1/2)

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 ...

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