“So this is your dropout classmate?” Eve’s boyfriend asked. He faced me with his arms crossed as I entered the Sunken Crypts.
[Cupcake Crew] Sullivan clearly went to th...
2025-10-25 16:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post“How was your night?” Mitch, her personal assistant, asked with a wide smile, though fake, as he took off his shoes. “Did you sleep well?”
Veyra lay lifelessly in her game pod. She sm...
2025-10-25 15:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostRayshire was the opening city of the Ray Dragon event. I spawned at the end of the tunnel in the volcano that separated the event from the regular game. On this side, the humongous volcano appeared...
2025-10-25 15:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostHe looked like he liked me… Veyra thought.
It was a sad thought. The assassin player had been pretty good in terms of controlling his character. He’d clearly practiced combat for...
2025-10-25 15:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe lid of the game pod opened. Ender’s Cafe was still silent, with customers still in their game pods. My dad didn’t seem to be present.
I stretched, feeling aches here and there, as if ...
2025-10-25 14:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You defeated them!” Olaf, the dragonborn village chief, gushed. “You actually did it. I can’t believe it!”
A system notification suggested two dialogue options again, which were, ...
2025-10-25 13:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe misty mountains fell quiet with everyone dead. A wyvern screeched somewhere in the distance. The humid air felt a little chilly. Monsters didn’t seem to attack us, and the area felt safe.
... 2025-10-25 13:42:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Time Eruption] dealt area damage to everyone within fifty feet of its caster. A wide-scale AoE spell, dealing more damage the more it was charged. Like most time magic spells, it ignored 50% of th...
2025-10-25 12:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostBlades collided, and Vivi was blown back, crashing against a wall behind her.
The wall was, of course, really just a part of the behemoth’s intestines. It buckled inward by Vivi’s weight,...
2025-10-25 12:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe carriages were about to intersect at the exact same time. The coincidence was definitely curated by the system AI to make the quest work.
I hid atop a misty tree branch a few hundred feet...
2025-10-24 17:47:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment she entered the tunnel within the behemoth, tendrils with sharp tips lashed out at her like a wall of spears.
She turned sideways, giving the spears less points to pierce her, and ...
2025-10-24 11:23:40 +0000 UTC View PostI wished Olaf goodbye, promising to defend the holy spring by any means necessary, though I knew full well that his precious egg would most likely end up cracked in someone else’s quest completio...
2025-10-23 17:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up inside a small, shabby wooden cottage with a straw-bed. The window was open. Or rather, the window was just a hole in the wall. Mist from outside flowed in, filling the cottage with humid...
2025-10-23 17:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnder’s Cafe wasn’t the best by any objective metric. Their pods weren’t even that cheap to rent. But when stepping in, it was clear that this place just got it.
The entrance l...
2025-10-23 16:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe motors of my virtual headset buzzed as I was forcibly logged off of Wonderwind, sent into the real world.
A jarring change of scenery followed. The scents of pleasant forestry from in-gam...
2025-10-23 16:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostMagma sprayed from Oblivara’s greatsword onto the trees behind as the giant knight [Swung] at me.
The blade slashed with superhuman force, but its trajectory was predictable. I ducked under...
2025-10-23 16:19:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! I've been cooking up a new story for the last month or so, and I think it's time to start posting. Everything is still a bit of a work in progress, including the cover, which is curren...
2025-10-23 16:18:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe greatsword glowed inside, taken straight from the forge—though the veins were hard to decipher. Just like with Abyss Destroyer, the surface of the sword appeared alive by the ether f...
2025-10-23 10:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s not firing!” a panicked voice shouted, coming from one of the former ballista operators, now an engineer of the slingshot launcher.
The second iteration slingshot launcher was con...
2025-10-22 11:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostCoshi charged forward, slingshot launcher in hand.
Another thorn vine released; she jumped to the side. Carefully, to not shake the missile inside the barrel, as that could apparently destroy...
2025-10-21 10:39:42 +0000 UTC View PostVivi discussed with Civar regarding the possibility of creating true ascension skills for metal using the enhancement strings. After a lengthy session of theorizing and attempting different combina...
2025-10-20 10:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostThomas’s eyes were spinning as he sat on his anvil, staring at the set of veins balanced upright on his vise. The veins created a tall and thick network, easily larger than the greatswords Vivi s...
2025-10-19 11:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostPatryn wiped the sweat off his forehead, handed over his slingshot launcher to the reloading team and called, “Reload!”
The command was self-evident, of course. The single job of the team...
2025-10-18 11:03:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe girl wore some of the nicest clothes Vivi had seen. The idea of teleporting away was forgotten as Vivi admired the outfit.
The girl’s raincoat was black like Grandpa’s, though hers wa...
2025-10-17 09:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post“No, the barrel will overheat in an instant from the spin,” Freyven was saying to his team as Vivi walked up to their U-shaped table. “The grooves are most likely the best choice, though insi...
2025-10-16 10:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I can now ascend safely with around eight thousand wisps,” Vivi said.
“No you can’t,” her teacher said immediately and with his arms crossed.
Vivi waited for him to continue,...
2025-10-15 11:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe sword crushed the sand golem to bits. One slash—one effortless little swing across its chest—and the blade ate its skin like cutting through yoghurt.
Nevermind the fact that the sword...
2025-10-14 10:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post“It has been confirmed now that a storm is building three miles outside Ranewal’s outskirts,” Helegar, the sub-sovereign of Ythar’s north canton, said.
He was dressed casually in a sw...
2025-10-14 10:21:30 +0000 UTC View PostVivi was strangely nervous as she headed up the street, toward the mines. It had been a while since she checked up on Eem. Multiple days. Enough that Eem was probably panicking, wondering if she’...
2025-10-13 10:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostWith the monsters cleared from their immediate surroundings, the ballistics team performed more test fires. The durability and reliability of the slingshot launcher was further stressed, and the ac...
2025-10-12 10:28:40 +0000 UTC View Post