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Leveling up the World (Chapter 38)

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Species: UNKNOWN

Class: UNKNOWN

Statistics: UNKNOWN

Skills: UNKNOWN

Weak Spots: UNKNOWN

The cage burst open, releasing ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 37)

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 of wonder faded away. The grass was just as green a...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 36)

“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 more than the entire village and everything in it....

Leveling up the World (Chapter 35)

As 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 provisions the villagers had were brought to the soldie...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 34)

The 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 part, the members of the order had annoyed contempt...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 33)

“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, his younger brother definitely had him beat.

The Cassandrian Theory (Chapter 4)

Veterans 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 colonies that didn’t exist decades ago. The overall g...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 32)

Life 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 of the well, were the boy’s fathers. After one ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 31)

Wow. 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 framed items on the wall—a buckler and a short sword...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 30)

“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 vacuum cleaner for the last ten minutes and was only a...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 29)

“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 water directly without the need of a bucket.

...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 28)

The 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 YouTube kitten.

“You’re the last beast?”

Leveling up the World (Chapter 27)

Stars. 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, Dallion raised his hand up, as if stretching to ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 26)

Whoever 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. The first time it attacked, the boy barely had the ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 25)

As 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 few mocks attacks, even after a bit of rest, remaine...

Rush to Level 0: The Game (Chapter 15)

My 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 respond to any and all unmarked notifications that mad...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 24)

The 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 six creatures there, possibly more. If he caught th...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 23)

Adequate 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 unwelcoming feelings of fear and dread that hung in th...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 22)

Fighting 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 the most suitable fashion. Whether it was one, thre...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 21)

The 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 escape this place, that wasn’t it. Apparently, the v...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 20)

When 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 glances fell to the ground. Even the Luor guards t...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 19)

Everyone 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 there was hope he could actually stand up to the ...

Restructuring Question

Hello, 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 possible technically, but with the fictions being s...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 18)

Fighting 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 boy imagined. They didn’t cut through objects, nor...

The Cassandrian Theory (Chapter 3)

Eight 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. Their standard armament included five hundred launchab...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 17)

Increasing 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, since it avoided him to explain what he had done that ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 16)

Sneaking 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 to open.

Dallion’s parents turned out to ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 15)

You 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 had seen upon waking up in this world. The other ha...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 14)

The 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 doubt this opponent was beyond anything he had fa...

Announcement

Hello 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.

Sorry about this. I hope things return to normal so...