The goat exploded to bits.
Two inside-carved missiles hit it like meteorites, leaving nothing but a crater behind where the arch goat had just enjoyed eating its imaginary grass. The facets’ light returned, revealing utter destruction left behind where the missiles had just hit.
Coshi was grinning next to her. Vivi, however, barely...
2025-11-03 10:25:23 +0000 UTC
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The Wizard’s Tower was quickly turning to rubble. Above, the top floor had blown up entirely, the walls having fallen outward. The roof must have flown off somewhere by the explosion of Heywin’s ritual. The damages spread to the lower levels with the walls crumbling one brick at a time. We were essentially exposed to open misty air.
Th...
2025-11-02 14:09:25 +0000 UTC
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In a panic, Vivi threw all of her skills active. in front of her, while Momentum Leap still continued flinging her toward the goat.
The four attacking blades crushed down with heavy overhead swings. The four blades collided at the point of impact, and their tips combined into a humongous greatsword of void ether. Vivi’s shield was slashe...
2025-11-02 14:02:10 +0000 UTC
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SoulShadow, a long time legend of the assassin class. For the longest time, SoulShadow was the god every assassin looked up to, until Dragrath pushed him to second place on the assassin rankings. I used to watch Youtube tutorials on how to play the game made by this guy when I was a noob.
He lived in a mansion in ...
2025-11-01 17:58:32 +0000 UTC
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“Could we somehow meet Heywin outside the tower?” Veyra wondered. “Maybe we can send him a letter with a pigeon or something?”
“He’s still an NPC,” I said. “Chances are, he’s coded to not leave the tower.”
Veyra sighed. “True enough.”
We were talking in a random tavern again, since the guild hall was off...
2025-11-01 17:04:46 +0000 UTC
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“The tower was in the wilderness,” Veyra continued. “It wasn’t marked as a safe zone. If we teleport there now, Syntrix is free to kill us.”
“Did they also get the quest from Heywin?” I asked. “Was that shown on the forums?”
“They did,” Veyra said. “And they have an egg. Heywin gave them the same deal as us. E...
2025-11-01 15:25:58 +0000 UTC
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Within the next four hours of slashing monsters, Vivi obtained four skill wisps. Two common, two rare.
The common skills were essentially useless. One of them was another Basic Ascension, and the other was Voice Amplify, a skill that did just what its name implied. It was essentially a voice amplifier in skill form, and very much useless, ...
2025-11-01 13:52:37 +0000 UTC
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I could not sleep.
For the life of me, I could not sleep for a single minute, and it had nothing to do with the hard floor mattress provided by The Cave. I felt like I was about to explode with stress. I rolled around on the mattress, getting the blanket all jumbled up.
The two hamsters running my brain were occupied by two all-consu...
2025-10-31 13:36:27 +0000 UTC
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The events in Paradise marked the end of Vivi’s resting period. She no longer had the urge to wander around and smile at people. Instead, her drive to get things done returned with full force.
The first thing she did after waking up was to tell Lucius to send three consecutive signals to Essi to confirm that she hadn’t been killed.
...
2025-10-31 13:00:42 +0000 UTC
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Veyra had been right. Dungeon hunting was seriously fun.
Or, well, it wasn’t really the dungeon hunting that was fun. Every monster here was level 350 at minimum, and the rooms only grew more cluttered monsters as we descended. Fighting monsters was stressful and insanely difficult.
Really, the fun came from our teamwork. ...
2025-10-30 14:41:07 +0000 UTC
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“Has the Ray Dragon event been received well so far?” Lee Hyunwoo, the Chairman of Wind Virtual Games asked from his seat at the end of the long rectangular table.
The meeting was held directly in Seoul, Korea, and each executive of his developers was present face-to-face. The lights were dim to let the projector better display colors....
2025-10-30 13:10:38 +0000 UTC
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There was a reason why Vivi chose the same tree as her spawning point. The chance was slim, but if she was lucky, tonight’s practice session would be far more pleasant. Productive, perhaps not, but fun. She opened her eyes under the scorching sun, squinting as she checked her surroundings.
She felt a presence in the forest. Not a hostile...
2025-10-30 12:47:11 +0000 UTC
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Rampant spells greeted me right away as [Arrow Of Time] shot like a cannonball.
This time, I knew it was coming and side-stepped. The arrow was still impossibly fast. If I made a single mistake, it would one-shot me. And that spell would be coming every five seconds.
Veyra wasn’t just watching from the side anymore. She entered wit...
2025-10-29 14:03:30 +0000 UTC
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I performed three whole push-ups.
Then I fell under my weight.
Yeah. Three push-ups. And that’s coming from a skinny guy. I was pretty much a skeleton in real life. I definitely needed to start improving my health and physique from now on. For a start, I could probably do push-ups and squats and whatever bodyweight exercises existe...
2025-10-29 14:02:51 +0000 UTC
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Storm season wasn’t over by the time Vivi was back on her feet, though it had calmed down. All twenty-seven storms had broken, their monsters scattering across the level. All that was left was cleanup, killing the remaining wandering monsters.
So, all they had to do was kill around a billion ether worth of monsters.
For now, Shiven...
2025-10-29 11:45:04 +0000 UTC
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The air rippled and the walls pulsed upon the monster’s spell. Colors were inverted, and any dust stuck between ceiling bricks fell from the force. This was by far the most violent [Time Eruption] I’d seen.
I instinctively [Shadow Dashed] back. The time eruption moved faster than my dash, and precisely thanks to that speed, the damage ...
2025-10-28 13:29:09 +0000 UTC
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As always, we first checked if any frostfang feathers or fire seeds were listed in the auction house. If they were expensive, we wouldn’t pay for them, but it never hurt to check. And by knowing which player was selling them, we could possibly track them to see where they’d hunted them.
To our surprise, neither item had ever been liste...
2025-10-28 11:09:34 +0000 UTC
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Lucius placed Vivi into deep sleep soon after that and focused on recovery. She had no clue how long the process lasted for. To her, it was all just sleep.
She did see a few dreams. Actual dreams away from Paradise. The type that made no sense, such as swimming in tomato soup, or meeting a faceless mother, or hugging those who were importa...
2025-10-28 11:05:56 +0000 UTC
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[You have arrived in the Wizard’s Tower]
[You are in the Wilderness. The average monster level here is 315.]
A strong scent of old books and scrolls filled my nose. The wood creaked underneath. Around us, the circular walls were covered either by bookshelves or sturdy brick walls. Most bookshelves ...
2025-10-27 12:10:34 +0000 UTC
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Amolinn, Elder of the Cursed Walkers (NPC, Level 280) was a wretched figure like the rest of the townsfolk, but she wore a much nicer silk robe and a crooked staff. Being level 280, if we messed with her, there was a good chance she’d blast us back to the menu screen.
She sat on her knees on a floor pillow behind a round...
2025-10-27 11:46:09 +0000 UTC
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“W…” Vivi stuttered in disbelief. “What? Grandpa?”
“Surprised?” Grandpa asked, grinning like some mastermind. “Sorry, I’ve been keeping a few secrets.”
“How are you here?” Vivi asked, her voice barely coming out.
Is he fake? Vivi asked. Is someone tricking us?
“No, skills th...
2025-10-27 11:22:25 +0000 UTC
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Before any questing could start, we headed into the auction house to empty our inventories.
All combined, I expected the haul from the Sunken Crypts, with the boss drops and Cupcake Crew’s gear, to net us around twenty thousand gold. I’d earn slightly more than her, since my boss drops were better.
Entering the auction house, Vey...
2025-10-26 23:30:43 +0000 UTC
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[You have joined guild Solo Mage]
Guild Card Solo Mage:
Your Rank: Recruit (You are a new recruit in the guild. Elders have a right to kick you immediately and without warning.)
Members: Veyra, Assassin
Leader:
2025-10-26 18:45:10 +0000 UTC
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“Did we die?” Vivi asked as she woke up underneath a clouded sun.
The spot, she realized, was the very same she’d channeled ether in last time. Or tried to, at least, until Essi interrupted her. The forest looked a lot more clear without rainfall. Vivi woke up in her dress amongst the blooming flowers. She wasn’t exactly a summer p...
2025-10-26 12:45:54 +0000 UTC
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Luckily, Eve didn’t try to sleep with me.
She did undress in front of me before getting into her bed, though, and she kept looking down at my air mattress while I checked Wonderwind’s forums. She then mentioned that her bed did fit two if I was uncomfortable on the ground.
Okay, maybe she did try to sleep with me. But the air mat...
2025-10-25 18:28:10 +0000 UTC
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By the time I woke up in the real world, my game pod only had fifteen minutes remaining out of the ten hours I’d rented. Time always passed fast in the game.
That was the most successful ten hours of my life, I noted. Two raids with Veyra. Close to twenty thousand dollars in profit. I’d never seen money like that in my life.
2025-10-25 18:16:21 +0000 UTC
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Cursed Lichfang (Enhanced, Combination (Temporary))
Item Type: Legendary (Unique Event Item)
Required Character Level: 201
Stats:
700 Attack Force
50% Critic...
2025-10-25 17:59:21 +0000 UTC
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Pure dark matter exploded inside Broodmother Rathax’s head. The red of its eyes glowed in a necromantic green, and a second later, its intestines burst open. A visceral slash followed, and the boss’s severed limbs fell lifelessly to the ground.
[Critical Strike]
[You have dealt 274,913 damage to Broodmother Ratha...
2025-10-25 17:37:55 +0000 UTC
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“Well, that’s a classic,” Veyra said. “They trapped us in the boss room. Really?”
I received another private message.
Eveveeee: “Oh my god, so sorry! We activated the boss! Can you get out?"
We could, in fact, not get out. Not with a solid wall of stone blocking our escape. “Can you break...
2025-10-25 17:09:03 +0000 UTC
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A Demonspawn Arachnid (Level 223) crawled into the dungeon from an old fireplace. It raised its clawed front legs. Demonic energy oozed from its skin in the form of black and red mist, like Pink’s aura, but monstrous and evil.
It pounced at Sullivan with the speed of an assassin. Sullivan used [Block], and the claws met ...
2025-10-25 16:38:23 +0000 UTC
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