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When Michael woke up again there was definitely something different about him. He wasn’t a different person, so to speak, but something in his eyes had chan...
2024-11-05 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“’Break to go home’?” Eik read out loud. “That’s what it says on this thing.”
“So we really did do it?” Heath asked. “We can go home if we break that?”
Eik turned it over in his hand. The fl...
2024-11-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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For several moments Eik was lost in the feeling of the Profound Toxin surging through the kilometer long underground mycelium network.
His consciousness was pulled in and through the tunnel-like structures. It was as if he had become a part ...
2024-11-01 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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“Aw, shit! Are you guys seeing three of them as well?” Eik asked.
“Yes…” Michael nodded, swallowing hard.
“What do we do?” Heath asked as he raised his shield protectively. “I don’t think I can keep the atten...
2024-10-31 16:17:35 +0000 UTC
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Repeating the one step to bring out the boss from the beneath the mycelium network, Sonja stepped up to the edge and got into a stable kneeling position as she drew and nocked an arrow on the string to pull her bow to its full length. The moment s...
2024-10-29 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Next was the whole arm, cracked and bark-like skin decorated with the same moss that grew plentifully throughout the entire region. It bent at the elbow and put a palm against one of the many limbs, hauling itself up and out of the ground to revea...
2024-10-28 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Ignoring the pain in his leg, Eik leapt on his good foot. The Gohkamorian didn’t seem to have expected that because Eik’s Viper Fang went into his stomach with little more than a hand raised halfway in response.
A breathless gasp escaped...
2024-10-27 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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As if guided by a sixth sense, the Gohkamorian whirled on his feet, axe coming up in a deadly, two-handed arch. Profound Toxin was already gushing from Viper Fang, drawing a luminescent blue line through the night.
The lethal blade made brie...
2024-10-26 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, anesthesia and pain killers were a luxury they had no access to here in mushroom world. Heath had to use his other hand to cover Michael’s mouth to prevent him from howling in agony. Even if they had run a good distance away from ...
2024-10-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Another bolt of sailed over their heads, impacting a mushroom trunk and scorching it black.
“They’re shooting! I’ll try to return fire!” Sonja warned.
She let one fly but she had trouble aiming properly. She tried again but the...
2024-10-24 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Blotting out the sky, the titanic fungus looked like some manner of alien space craft arriving to lay claim to the planet.
Eik and the others were still far enough away from the thing that they hadn’t noticed it until now with the cap cove...
2024-10-23 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Someone’s here with us,” Eik said.
“But… how the hell did Menka Tokanami’s people come after us that quickly? Wasn’t Atla supposed to stop them from following us through the fracture,” Heath exclaimed.
Sonja shrugged. ...
2024-10-21 20:08:43 +0000 UTC
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After about half an hour of trudging through thick moss they came across a small pond no more than a few meters from edge to edge. Although Eik was hesitant to put his face into the water, he also realized the importance of locating a drinkable so...
2024-10-21 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Eik put on his pants and ran into the hallway where Atla was knocking up the others. Mis followed him, seeing a chance to beg for a rare midnight snack.
Sonja was up and alert in seconds, Michael following soon after. Heath was still trying ...
2024-10-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“72496!” the judge announced, his face saying that he still wasn’t sure he had sensed that right.
Eik stared at the man, not sure if his ears had gotten the number correct either. His optimistic hope for the score had been something ar...
2024-10-19 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“Go all out?” Michael repeated, the blood draining from his cheeks and forehead. “On that thing? What if it wakes up? I’m an F-ranker! A B-rank monster could sneeze on me and I’d die!”
“It won’t wake up,” Atla stated confid...
2024-10-18 16:00:30 +0000 UTC
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Despite holding the highest rank in their team of four, Eik didn’t even manage to get close to Heath’s impressive score in the endurance test. At fourteen seconds he was on his knees and at seventeen seconds he was out. Without Noxious Invigor...
2024-10-17 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Although Eik’s suite was still the largest and most exquisitely furnished, each of the three rooms granted to Heath, Sonja, and Michael had everything one could ever desire from a living space.
The wall that had been destroyed when Menka T...
2024-10-16 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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A second after the battle had begun, a series of explosions of pink smoke covered the entire field. An opaque shroud now hung heavy.
Muffled sounds of struggle followed, accompanied by the shrill shriek of Travis’ Lightning Judgement of Ty...
2024-10-15 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Atla was the first to step inside, followed closely by Mikla. Both wore the same type of ceremonial robe decorated with intricate color patterns woven into the fabric that Atla had worn for her first contact with Earth.
“You!” Boulder Fi...
2024-10-14 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The Mission Central building had been vacated completely to make space for the tribunal. Guards circled the outer walls and milled about the perimeter. Apparently they didn’t want to risk any Awakened with abilities that heightened their senses ...
2024-10-13 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“You know who’s doing it?” Eik asked, eyes wide. “Who? Who is it?”
Mikla raised his hands to calm him down. “As certain as I can realistically be, yes. Have you heard of the Gohkamorians?”
“Of course I haven’t. I’ve...
2024-10-12 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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[Acquired Movement Boost — Lv. 12]
[Acquired (Unique) Profound Toxin — Lv. 37]
[Skill evolution available. Skill available for evolution: (Unique) Profound Toxin]
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2024-10-11 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Eik, Michael, Sonja, and Heath sat around a table at a cafe. It was one of many located along one of the side streets that branched out from a main road that connected the Central Square as the city hub of Forest. Central Square was still overflow...
2024-10-10 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“We were worried sick!” Sonja cried. She had apparently been crying since before Eik got back, but it had intensified once they found out he had survived the attack.
They were walking back toward Forest with Eik and Michael carr...
2024-10-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Even as the poison flowed thickly through its veins, attacks from the high-rankers outside continued to batter the lake serpent without pause. More than once, Eik almost lost his grip on Viper Fang which was the only thing that kept him from slidi...
2024-10-08 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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When the fist came down Eik could do nothing to avoid it. It was too fast and too heavy. Life should have flashed before his eyes, but what he saw instead was Heath’s wide back obscuring the attack.
The metallic crash of a truck hitting a...
2024-10-07 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Rock Fist Bart stopped his squad with a raised hand when he saw the crocodilian monsters, taking another couple of cautious steps before noticing the other Awakened ahead. He frowned at the sight of Eik but quickly directed his attention back to t...
2024-10-06 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Heath’s breathing was growing more ragged by the second, the affected skin bubbling up into angry welts. Profound Toxin probably wouldn’t kill him very quickly without access to his circulatory system, but that didn’t change the fact that he...
2024-10-05 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The monstrous fiend got in a fifth lunge before a massive shock wave knocked it backwards into the lake, sending another large wave out in all directions.
“Something’s happening!” Heath hissed, clutching his shield tightly as if he was...
2024-10-04 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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