They managed to push two more Cultivation levels that day, before they both were silently laying on the floor. Neither was going to admit to the other that they couldn’t carry on of course, but they could both sense each other’s souls.
Max looked up at his upper corner. He had only 200 ...
2023-06-30 16:26:31 +0000 UTC View PostThey woke up early to a gentle shake. A woman in her early thirties looked at Max who had been laying on the floor of the hut with curiosity. Not even in his sleep Max had let go of [The Maverick].
“Morning,” Max muttered.
“If you want to call it that,” the wo...
2023-06-29 17:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Max had looted the panthers he sat down next to the Stranger. Maverick asked him why, but Max shook his head. It was a token gesture anyway. Maverick could sense what Max felt.
What Max felt was a confusing soup of emotions. Regret? None. Grief? Absolutely not. No remorse or horror ov...
2023-06-28 17:22:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe apex faction representatives of the ICBB argued. And argued. Then they had a break and Max was offered ‘human food’. He was excited at the prospect, wondering what kind of treats that might entail. When he was escorted back to his room, there was a pile of carrots and a bowl of oatmeal wa...
2023-06-27 18:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostAfter coming out of the floating darkness Max was already accustomed to when being teleported by the Zoos, they fell on the floor made of some strange white material. Max got up and looked around.
He was in a corridor of some futuristic craft. Every surface was smooth and white and there wa...
2023-06-26 16:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe brief moment the Stranger’s complacent smile broke into an indignant snarl was savory. Max shot the panther next to the Stranger in a few well aimed shots. It died with a pained yowl and Max took distance from the Stranger enough to see the cave’s mouth. The matriarch came out and hissed....
2023-06-25 17:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post“You!” Max exclaimed. “What is going on?”
“Oh, a long story that,” the Stranger said. “First of all I must applaud you on your deft performance in escaping me.”
“Can’t say I regret that,” Max said. “You weren’t particularly co-operative.”
“Not one o...
2023-06-24 17:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostMax delved deeper into the forest, holding a very peculiar map. There were three types of monsters. There were the old [Tauroid] that had gained some levels, but had not undergone an evolution, making them essentially harmless, as Max could shoot them dead with a single bullet. 2023-06-24 17:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Fortunately nothing bad happened during the time Max was to keep watch. Only good things happened in terms of his progress.
Leveled up Quartz-level Cultivator (lesser) to 14
+1 free attribute point
Leveled up Quartz-level Cultivator (les...
2023-06-24 17:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostMax woke up to a somewhat normalized camp-life. As always he overslept as far as the community was concerned. Sleep hadn’t been all to waste, as Maverick had been active during the night. There was a red dot in Max’s vision where the system notifications were. He checked it, although he knew ...
2023-06-24 17:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostA heavy, somber silence had enveloped the camp. Only the sounds of work, such as muffled grunts and one or two calls for someone to come help lift something could be heard. The cries of the wounded and of those who had lost someone had died down. Only clipped mutters could be heard. There were no...
2023-06-24 17:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe panthers were definitely different now. Max couldn’t tell if they had ever been the same at all, or if the ICCB had just changed the spawns or whatever completely.
These cats were a different beast entirely.
They were larger than a tiger, their heads hanging in a relaxed hunch a...
2023-06-24 17:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe material boxes contained 15 [Sheets of linen cloth] and 6 [Coils of rope]. The people gathered around actually cheered when they saw those items materialize on Max. While they had been excited and happy about the tools, they were absolutely ecstatic about the...
2023-06-24 17:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostJoshua gushed at Max so much it embarrassed him. Max couldn’t help but to smile, regardless. It felt good to stand up to bullies and brutes. And besides he had done the right thing. That felt good in itself.
Joshua surely had his weaknesses as a leader, as any person would, but he was ear...
2023-06-24 17:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostMax left Marie and continued taking in the camp, which was admittedly turning into a village. Max tried to prompt Maverick, but the gun was quiet. Max considered it was possible the prickly weapon could be sulking, but Max hadn’t done anything to evoke such drastic measures. The gun just seemed...
2023-06-24 17:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken Max a lot of convincing during the night to let him sleep in his hammock in the great oak-like tree. A lot of the people had insisted he gets his own room from one of the ten houses for the first night. Max had shot that ridiculous idea down. He was perfectly happy sleeping in his ha...
2023-06-24 17:06:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Max came back to Joshua’s camp with fifty obsidian dwarves in tow and a talking gun, it was appropriate to say the little community was surprised.
“Max!” Marie exclaimed as she saw Max approach. “What is all this?”
“This is good news,” Max said, smiling at her. “I...
2023-06-24 17:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostMax and Maverick cycled for a while, obtaining level 5 in (lesser) Quartz-level Cultivation. When Max woke up in the morning, they were level 7. This of course resulted in endless boast by Maverick, a flame of passion Max realized, which could not be quelled by weary praise. Than...
2023-06-24 17:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostA powerful sensation, like fever passed over Max’s body. It was followed by a surge of power and in the middle of his chest, he could feel some strange energy gathering. It swirled around and started pulsating like a second heart. It was a faint but consistent pulse. From the nexus of energy, M...
2023-06-24 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostMax sat on a tiny stone table eating food that had been promptly delivered after Durum had left. The king had gone over the Mana cycling technique to cultivate Max’s spirit and taught Max what to say in the trial against the High-King.
He had also gone over in scant details about the diff...
2023-06-24 17:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostMax was sitting in the nice room he’d been using previously when King Durum entered with a small entourage at his back. The king took a look at the two assassins laying face down on the ground
“Looks like the High-King sent his regards,” Durum said dryly.
Max gave him a humorles...
2023-06-24 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as their ragged expedition shuffled out of the great stone doors back to the realm of the obsidian dwarves, they were met by an entourage of thirty dwarves all armed and armored, standing in two neat groups. At the door towards the room, lay a dead dwarf in a pool of blood.
This was...
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