Leveling up the World (Chapter 38)
PRACTICE GUARDIAN
Species: UNKNOWN
Class: UNKNOWN
Statistics: UNKNOWN
Skills: UNKNOWN
Weak Spots: UNKNOWN 2021-02-06 00:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post
PRACTICE GUARDIAN
Species: UNKNOWN
Class: UNKNOWN
Statistics: UNKNOWN
Skills: UNKNOWN
Weak Spots: UNKNOWN 2021-02-06 00:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Walking turned out to be far less fun than expected. Initially the trio was fascinated by everything, as if they had stepped across an invisible barrier at the village limits and earned themselves a taste of freedom. As time passed by, the sense o...
2021-02-04 23:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Here’s your emblem,” the cleric handed Dallion a pendant on a silver chain. The pendant was composed of six gems placed on a circle of pale blue metal. “Wear it all times, don’t lose it.”
The materials alone were probably worth ...
2021-02-04 01:49:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs time passed, interest in the soldiers began to wane. While the children and some young adults remained on the edges of the village square, most of the rest had gone back to their everyday chores. Bread, fruit, water, and what little other provi...
2021-02-02 22:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe arrival of the Order was accompanied by the calm type of confusion that Dallion had grown to expect. For the most part the people seemed vaguely intrigued, just as someone would be if a distant relative suddenly showed up on the door. On her p...
2021-02-02 01:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Brother, brother!” Linner shouted loud enough for half the village to hear. “Look what I got!”
The child never seemed to get tired, making Dallion wonder whether he was the only awakened in the family. If stamina was any indication,...
2021-02-01 01:16:08 +0000 UTC View PostVeterans I’d served with like to say that the more things change, the more they remain the same. In a way, they were correct. Technology advanced every few years; better, faster, and larger ships were flying through human space, connecting colon...
2021-01-31 17:37:52 +0000 UTC View PostLife slowly returned to normal after Dallion’s first “village task”. It was outright astonishing how quickly everything around the events left the villager’s consciousness. After just one day the only people who referred to the improvement...
2021-01-30 22:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostWow. It really worked!
Dallion had managed to enter the awakened state without focusing on an object. The room was just as he remembered it from before. The only difference was that this time there was a doorway, as well as two fram...
2021-01-29 22:08:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Here,” the elder put a bowl of freshly baked potatoes on the table. “Your mother made these.”
Dallion nodded while stuffing his face with the remaining few pieces of bread left. He had been gulping down food with the speed of a vacu...
2021-01-29 21:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Huh?” The village chief blinked as Dallion let go of his hand.
That wasn’t the only change. The stone well had become completely transformed. Nearly double in size, it now had two separate sections as well as a fountain head pouring w...
2021-01-28 17:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe boy rushed to the spot. There was a small hole in the rock, no larger than a punch bowl. In it, curled up, was a small panther-like cub. Sensing Dallion, the cub opened a lazy eye, then suddenly jumped up, hissing with the ferocity of a YouTub...
2021-01-27 16:49:32 +0000 UTC View PostStars. Until now Dallion had never realized how much he missed them. Not the few pale dots he saw from the city, real stars, covering the sky like salt on a black napkin. Even the moons had lit up, emanating a crisp colored glow. Lying on his back...
2021-01-26 19:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhoever said that the larger a creature, the slower its actions clearly had no idea what they were talking about. As Dallion found out, the pack-panther was not only big—roughly the size of an elephant—but also rad reflexes rivaling his own. T...
2021-01-25 21:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs night fell and Dallion prepared mentally for his inevitable battle against the pack, one thing became alarmingly apparent: while wounds didn’t require medical attention while in the awakened state, the pain and discomfort remained. Doing a fe...
2021-01-24 23:42:55 +0000 UTC View PostMy phone was ringing when I logged out. No notifications had managed to penetrate the game, simply stacking up and awaiting my response. Strangely enough, I didn’t feel the usual desire to respond. All my life, I’d had a near obsession to resp...
2021-01-24 20:52:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe attack footstep markers lead on into a chamber where they split into dozens of options. The chamber was more den than lair—the creatures had grouped in one giant blob in the center, snoring away. By crude estimates there had to be at least s...
2021-01-23 16:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostAdequate light made Dallion appreciate the realm of the Well a whole lot more. Maybe it was due to him killing off—or “mending” as the awakened term went—a lot of the area’s creatures, or maybe it was the effects of morning, but the unwe...
2021-01-22 15:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostFighting a pack was very different from fighting a group of creatures. An individual creature, even a strong and intelligent one, had one course of action. Thanks to the markers his skills provided him, Dallion could see that action and react in t...
2021-01-21 21:16:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe realm of the Well turned out to be quite real, and very very large. Dallion spent hours walking in the direction of the large mountains before it became obvious that it would take weeks, if not months, to reach them. If there was a way to esca...
2021-01-20 22:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the village chief appeared from his mansion, the entire crowd fell into a subdued silence. While not imposing in figure, an invisible strength emanated from the old man crushing the spirits of everyone around. Almost immediately everyone’s ...
2021-01-19 23:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone from the village had gathered to witness Dallion’s walk to the chief’s mansion. The atmosphere was noticeably different from last time. Then everyone had accepted the fact that he’d lose his gift and had remained in their homes. Now...
2021-01-18 18:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all!
Hope you are well. After some though I decided to as your thoughts on some important matters.
First of all, would you prefer for tiers to be restructured based on fiction? I’m still not 100 sure that would be p...
2021-01-18 11:01:17 +0000 UTC View PostFighting a creature with no weaknesses turned out less difficult than Dallion expected. Having to deal with a slime that shot “bullets” of water, though, was extremely annoying. The projectiles themselves weren’t nearly destructive as the bo...
2021-01-17 20:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostEight battleships surrounded the battleship, placed in strategic positions a short distance away. I noticed one more patrolling the system. As far as I could tell all of them were Taurus class, built exclusively to defend deep space stations. Thei...
2021-01-17 20:02:09 +0000 UTC View PostIncreasing one’s awakening status, as it turned out, had a considerable number of advantages. Apart from the improvements and the new skill Dallion had gained, he found that he could use his powers twice per day. Quite the welcome surprise, sinc...
2021-01-16 17:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostSneaking back in proved much easier than sneaking out. The first thing that Dallion did was curse himself for closing the door in such a way so that the bar would bolt it from the inside. The second was to knock directly on it and wait for someone...
2021-01-15 15:54:33 +0000 UTC View PostYou are at a crossroads.
Choose the item that will serve you best.
Two rectangles floated in front of Dallion. One had had a realistic picture of a short sword, the same the boy h...
2021-01-14 17:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe sand dragon entered the sand with a splash, though not before Dallion could see its status rectangle. Seventy-nine percent of health remained—not bad for a single attack, although after all the damage bonuses he had hoped for more. Without a...
2021-01-13 18:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
Unfortunately, I’m going through some health issues, so there will be a delay of Rush and Cassandrian stories.
If things don’t improve it’s possibly that Leveling is delayed as well a bit.
S...
2021-01-12 21:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post