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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 10 (Book 2)

The Whiter Clover Guild didn’t have a proper office. They created a temporary guildhall in a large stable. 

Zayn didn’t expect much, but the restoration of the stable progressed further than anticipated. The guild members used firm oak plants to replace the uneven ground, removed e...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 9 (Book 2)

Zayn dealt the finishing blow to more than a dozen bounters, and he immediately integrated the Soul Essences into his Hidden Class Path.

[Soul Lord – Hidden Class Path – (805/1000)]

‘If we proceed to grind for two or three hours, we could…’

Za...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 8 (Book 2)

Zayn didn’t recognize them at first because he could have never fathomed encountering them in the Magma Prairie or Forgotten Lands, but his attention landed on a few familiar Players. They were powerhouses of the past and renowned figures with significant influence all over the globe.

Tho...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 7 (Book 2)

“As expected. This is amazing!” Percy exclaimed, his eyes glued to the holographic screen.

The drone recordings revealed several angles of their fight against the Hellhounds pack. The battle ended quickly, but the recordings could be used for a short video nonetheless.

It showed Z...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 6 (Book 2)

“So that’s the Magma Prairie?” Percy asked, scanning the vast, flat grassland, “I expected it to be worse.”

The Magma Prairie was a humongous flat area behind the Emberforge Mountains that broke the laws of physique. The grassland flourished and was as wide as the eye could see. I...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 5 (Book 2)

The exhaustion accumulated from overworking his body and mind for weeks affected Zayn hard now that he was one step closer to his goal.

He returned to a small town near Emberfall and chose to go offline. Once the Olympus Pod pulled him out of Forgotten Lands, Zayn heaved his body out of the...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 4 (Book 2)

Zayn hoped to help as many people as possible, but he was unsure how much of the Primordial Pantheon noticed his influence and interference.

Did they notice that he was changing the future in the first place? Did they even know about him and that he retained his memories?

‘Wait. Did...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 3 (Book 2)

Zayn didn’t have to worry about his final choice. Soul Lord felt that it was the right path for him, so he decided to pick it.

Even if one looked at it from a logical point of view, Zayn made the right decision.

A new, unknown Class was a risk because Zayn knew little about it excep...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 2 (Book 2)

Initially, Zayn planned to pick another Unique Class Path called Origin Swordmaster. It was a powerful Class Path wielded by one of the strongest survivors Zayn got to know.

Although he didn’t meet the Origin Swordmaster often, he learned a lot about his Class Path and its powerful perks....

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 1 (Book 2)

A young man could be seen jumping through a large clearing. He disappeared to escape the fury of the house-sized Deer and popped out on the other side of the clearing amid flourishing flowers. Some were undoubtedly valuable and useful for alchemy, but Zayn didn’t pay any attention to them. The ...

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Forgotten Lands - Prologue (Book 2)

After the raid of the Hidden Library in the Tower of Nature, Zayn didn’t enter the Tower of Nature again. There was no need for him to waste his time. He obtained what he had been looking for.

The books treasured by the Grandmagus of the Tower of Nature ended up in Zayn’s hands. All he ...

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Forgotten Lands - Epilogue (Book 1)

In the celestial realm atop a majestic mountain, a beautiful island could be seen, floating in the clouds. Ethereal lights shrouded a palace made from pristine marble.

“The Cycle performs better than the last,”  A humongous figure, shrouded in silver and golden sparks, revealed wit...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 50 (Book 1)

Once they jumped through the portal the world around them changed.

They were transported into a large open area in the center of a huge, but ordinary-looking library.

‘That is a little bit underwhelming.’

He didn’t expect the Grandmagus’ library to look like a…perfectl...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 49 (Book 1)

A pained shriek reverberated through the surroundings as an azure inferno manifested in the center of the Boss Room.

Ginormous roots pinned the Tainted Dryad to the ground, blocking her paths of escape as the inferno swallowed her.

Bottles filled with viscous liquid flung through the ...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 48 (Book 1)

Convincing Natalia and Blake to join his mission was easy. Natalias was bored. She had nothing better to do these days, and Blake didn’t say anything either. She nodded faintly, which was quite hard to make out given that she was shrouded in an oversized robe.

Once they decided to dive in...

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Forgotten Land - Chapter 47 (Book 1)

Zayn was not over the moon with their achievements, but he had to acknowledge that Melanie and the rest had improved a lot. It would have been a lot more troublesome to kill the Tainted Dryad without any help.

It would have been a lot more expensive as well.

Zayn had prepared a bunch ...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 46 (Book 1)

The Tainted Dryad moved through the Boss Room with a dancer’s fluidity. Her steps echoed across the cold cobblestone in a fierce breeze. The Tainted Dryad’s body seemed to merge with the Corrupted Smog around her – a beautiful yet deadly gown of corrosive smog and darkness.

As she ext...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 45 (Book 1)

Removing the traps installed on the 4th floor wasn’t difficult. David used the professional guides and the tips and tricks given by Locksmiths, Assassins, and other Players who’d created videos about how to deactivate traps, or how to trigger them safely if deactivating wasn’t a secure opti...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 44 (Book 1)

They defeated more than 150 Monsters on the 3rd Floor and decided to take a short break near the staircase that led up to the 4th Floor.

While not every monster dropped a Soul Essence or Card Shards, the drop rate was fairly decent.

‘Finally, I understand why everyone was so crazy a...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 43 (Book 1)

The Tower of Nature’s difficulty increased starting from the 3rd Floor.

It was the halfway mark of the dungeon and determined whether the Players were ready to deal with the true terrors of the Tower of Nature, or not.

Sabertooth Hounds weren’t the only standard monsters they enco...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 42 (Book 1)

Melanie breathed heavily. She was exhausted but smiled from one ear to another.

“That was much better than our first fight!”

Zayn nodded slowly, but his attention drifted to the kill notification.

14 Sabertooth Hounds have been slain +4 Soul Essences, +1 Common C...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 41 (Book 1)

David and the three girls ascended the flight of stairs. They didn’t rush upstairs and talked about their fight instead.

“We did a pretty good job. The Tower of Nature is not as frightening as everyone says. It should be easier than expected, don’t you think so?” Natalia jumped out ...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 40 (Book 1)

The average Foundation of their group reached 66 Units. That was neither high nor low given that the requirements to enter the Tower of Nature was an average Foundation above 50 and that no Player was allowed to have a Foundation in the three digits.

Entering the first floor of the Tower of...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 39 (Book 1)

It was impossible to recall every little detail about Forgotten Lands. Too much time passed since Zayn played Forgotten Lands, and it was not like he had known that the game would merge with reality at that time.

The descending domains were also not the same as the scenery in Forgotten Land...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 38 (Book 1)

It didn’t take much effort to exchange contacts with Melanie. She was more than willing to give Zayn her number. Once they finalized that they would meet up to dive into the Tower of Nature later their shopping spree ended rather quickly.

Zayn purchased three Olympus Pods. Their latest mo...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 37 (Book 1)

It felt like an eternity since the Dexter family went outside together. Malcolm had always been busy with work and the brothers had to study a lot to get accepted into prestigious universities. None of that mattered anymore.

Malcolm and Stephanie were still skeptical about their youngest so...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 36 (Book 1)

Zayn decided to sell the Booster copyright after some back and forth. He managed to analyze Millenia’s behavior pretty well and knew enough about him from the past to create an opportunity and strike it rich.

The wealth he’d procured over the last few days was also the reason Zayn was s...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 35 (Book 1)

[Millenia: I don’t know how you managed to create your own potion, but Booster is perfect. If you manage to concoct enough Booster we will be able to push our competitors aside and create a temporary monopoly on the potion market. But you know that already. That’s why you sent a Booster and t...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 34 (Book 1)

Hours flew by in the blink of an eye. Zayn’s sense of time distorted as the batches of ingredients flooded his mailbox.

Millenia had spent a small fortune to transfer the ingredients straight into Zayn’s mailbox where he could retrieve them whenever he saw fit. However, there was no nee...

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Forgotten Lands - Chapter 33 (Book 1)

Grim Reboar(Quasi-Superior) has been slain. +8 Soul Essences, +1 Common Card, +2 Uncommon Card Shards

[Proficiency of Blink reached 100%. Level Up!]

Despite defeating a Quasi-Superior Monster, only Blink leveled up. The proficiency o...

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