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Leveling up the World (Chapter 64)

An awakening area?

Dallion stepped back. The chief was still standing in front of him, eyes glaring with hatred. The village itself, though, had changed. The crumbling structures had not only...

The Cassandrian Theory (Chapter 8)

Velenia II, Cassandrian front, 611.07 A.E. (Age of Exploration)

Planet purging was always different. Sometimes the focus was a single contaminated colony, sometimes it wou...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 63)

There was something different in the air when Dallion woke up. A few short weeks ago he would dread this day, desperately trying to move beyond level three. Now, Dallion was looking forward to it�...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 62)

The shrine altar remained dim after the test. Dallion made several attempts to get back inside, to no avail. At one point he even tried to mend the shrine, hoping to trick it into letting him in, b...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 61)

The prospect of being an echo of himself terrified Dallion. As much as he was certain that he was the real him, there was just enough doubt for him to reconsider. If he was the original, nothing st...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 60)

There was nothing glorious in the way Dallion had become level five—he hadn’t bested the mountain, nor had he achieved a bone crushing victory. Even so, he was remarkably pleased with the resul...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 59)

Fighting the colossus with a dartbow and buckler turned out more difficult than Dallion thought. The more he tried to increase the distance, the more the guardian shortened it, moving as fast as Da...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 58)

You are Level 4

The rectangle illuminated the room. Never had Dallion been so glad to be in this small dark room. Finally, he could catch his breath wit...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 57)

Fighting a mountain on top of a mountain, Dallion thought, shooting bolts at the head of the giant colossus as quickly as the dartbow would let him. There had been a time, back on Earth, w...

The Cassandrian Theory (Chapter 7)

Director Sim wasn’t wrong. I was made aware the very next morning, precisely one hour before the start of my shift, via two high priority datapad messages. The first was a standard form order fro...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 56)

Collected

Being calm and dispassionate often helps in difficult situations, although there’s such a thing as overthinking.

The rectangle b...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 55)

The day passed in the medieval equivalent of partying, very much like the time Dallion had first awakened. There was lots of food, by local standards, a healthy number of people, as well as lots of...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 54)

“Return to your village with the Archduke’s thanks,” Dame Vesivua said with the dignity of a bored city official.

Just like at the previous village, there was no fanfare, no trumpets, o...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 53)

The mood on the way back was very different from what it had been getting here. The further the party went, the happier and more relieved the volunteers became. People smiled more, joked about duri...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 52)

“You’re lucky you aren’t part of my troops,” Dame Vesuvia went on. “Rushing towards a chainling with that level of training. If it wasn’t for the Cleric, you’d have been a pile of cha...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 51)

The chainling jumped away from Dallion, just in time to avoid a series of glowing red knives that hit the ground.

“I told you to run.” The Cleric said a short distance away, holding sever...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 50)

Labyrinth section damaged!

Overall completion 37%

“One more to go,” Dallion said in an attempt to cheer up the rest of the group.

The plan, i...

The Cassandrian Theory (Chapter 6)

They said two things were certain in the facility—anomalies and quarantine. I hadn’t seen direct evidence of either since my arrival, but there were traces in the files. Small hints bled throug...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 49)

Walking through the bolt was different from what Dallion expected. While sharing a lot of similarities—the starting point, the guardian room, the mending maze—each had its own set of peculiarit...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 48)

Dame Vesuvia charged forward. A large group of soldiers followed, running on foot. What little remained of the volunteers was long forgotten. Neither as disciplined nor as prepared as the main forc...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 47)

The Cleric emerged out of nothing. One moment he wasn’t there, the next the lines of his silhouette appeared, gradually getting filled like a paint by numbers picture. Without question it was ver...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 46)

It didn’t take long for Dallion to dash past the protective line of soldiers. All the awakened training he had done had improved his body and behavior to the point he could almost see the guide-m...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 45)

Gloria didn’t say a word after returning to the real world. Her panic had subsided, but there was no telling whether the talk with Dallion had calmed her down, or she was simply good at hiding th...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 44)

The bodies were buried without much fanfare. Once they were gathered in one spot, the Cleric did something making the ground open up and swallowed them up. Seconds later a clay tombstone emerged, m...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 43)

Dallion took a deep breath. Entering the library in his awakened realm became more difficult each time. When his grandfather had told him about it, he’d been curious; the second time-he’d been ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 42)

The source of the fire turned out to be the remains of several wooden wagons. As the hunting party approached, Dallion was able to see more details of the scene, and just as Havoc had predicted, he...

The Cassandrian Theory (Chapter 5)

Gamma-Engidea, Cassandrian Front, 608.1 A.E. (Age of Expansion)

“Aurora Borealis has jumped in,” I announced on the bridge. “Three more Ascendants expected within the minute.�...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 41)

There was no way of telling whether Veil succeeded or not. In the course of the day he approached the Cleric, then walked back to the volunteer group without a word. Dallion suspected that a longer...

Leveling up the world (Chapter 40)

Walking, training, food, and rest—those were the activities associated with the hunting party—as the soldiers called the group. Looking at it logically, that much was a given. What made them di...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 39)

The creature snarled, leaping away from Gloria. Without the status information there was no telling how much health it had remaining, but the damage was obvious. The beast’s movements, although n...