“Why do all of you talk about Eric?” Marcello asked cooly, summoning his blood stained archeios javelin in his right hand. “What’s so great about this guy, anyway?”
“He’s way stronger than you, and he has an entire army at his command! Unlike you, you homeless, wandering, motherless idiot!” Hilga shouted while backing off.
Marcello sighed, his exhalation of breath visible against the fog. “You know, I was deciding whether or not to let you live,” he said slowly...
2021-08-26 19:36:21 +0000 UTC
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Hilga and Devin continued to watch as the knight meandered up and down the brook, staring at his surroundings cluelessly like a tourist in a big city. From the perspective of any third party, it was clear that this knight was a complete buffoon.
Both of them were thinking the same thing, that this knight could not possibly be that high of a level if he acted in this manner, like a lost kitten stumbling through the woods.
Neither of them were aware that they had already stepped int...
2021-08-23 20:42:35 +0000 UTC
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Lots of revisions later, here it is! In the future I might commission a custom illustration too.
2021-08-21 18:50:21 +0000 UTC
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Marcello wiped the sweat off his brow with his wrist, breathing heavily with his rusty hatchet in hand as he took a step back and reviewed his handiwork. He had carved this particular totem with the black magic creature in mind, and hoped that the results would show for themselves with a creation that finally had an additional effect just like his Awful Totem of an Ice Giant.
He used the imp’s tail in this particular totem, crushing it with his hatchet and smearing the remains across ...
2021-08-21 17:55:58 +0000 UTC
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Marcello staggered forward, trying to deal with the full-body recoil from his giant transformation as best as he could. His footsteps were heavy and lethargic, but he just couldn’t let this half dead level forty white wolf get away with a clean consciousness.
Experience was hard to come by in this forest, and Marcello really did not want to allow his growth to stagnate after already coming so far. Using the very last of his mana that he scrounged up over the course of the fight throug...
2021-08-19 00:38:23 +0000 UTC
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Marcello dropped his plank shield and grabbed his longsword, brandishing it with both hands as he knocked back the great wolf. He slashed his sword across the gray dire wolf’s face with enough force that it knocked him back a couple of meters.
“That's all you got?” he taunted, as this lean level 23 wolf had run quite a bit faster than the rest of his pack and was now facing Marcello alone.
The other wolves were much slower, and Marcello noticed that there were clear signs of...
2021-08-17 02:58:06 +0000 UTC
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Michael waited patiently at the cusp of his camp, standing with a group of people. To his side was Nolan, who had a small bandage wrapped around the stubs of his ring and pinky finger on his right hand, where the castle lord had sliced them off.
“I don’t think this is a good idea,” Nolan said nervously, looking around the woods. They had set up camp here with a few other groups of survivors from sector four and sector six, but were nowhere near the sizes of the larger camps.
2021-08-16 02:38:34 +0000 UTC
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Marcello sat by the bloodied face of Fred, the man beaten to a bloody pulp but otherwise alright.
You have slain [Lvl 8 Human (Healer)]
You have slain [Lvl 10 Human (Mage)]
…
He received several notifications about his kills, accompanied by solo experience gained and points received. But the amount of experience gained from killing low level humans was pitifully insignificant compared to the beavers from the impossible trial.
I...
2021-08-15 20:57:57 +0000 UTC
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“Eric is going to have you gutted like a pig!” Fred swore. “You don’t know who you’ve decided to mess with, knight. Consider yourself dead already… *cough*...”
“Yeah, I don’t think so.”
Marcello raised his fist and punched the bearded man in the face, just hard enough for it to sting. “That one was for spitting at me earlier.”
Fred cleared his throat and spit again at Marcello, aiming for his eye slit in his visor. Thankfully, the knight turn...
2021-08-14 21:40:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
I'm commissioning a professional cover from fiverr. Still shopping around, the ETA is about two days from when I order it.
Thank you guys for supporting.
edit: the artist requested two extra days, so it will arrive on the 17th
2021-08-13 20:24:33 +0000 UTC
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Marcello listened intently as Garib explained to him the quest details.
“If you go to the grove, there will be an old silver sword. Retrieve it, and come back here. You will need it for the next part of the quest. But beware, because vicious goblins live in the grove!” Garib said with dramatic flair. “Although I don’t think you’ll have much trouble with them, after all you’ve been through, gahaha!”
“No, I don’t think I will,” Marcello replied with a grin.
2021-08-13 02:50:09 +0000 UTC
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Much to Marcello’s surprise, inside the golden treasure chest was a pair of pastel colored flamboyant billowed pants that looked like something a teen from an eighties movie would be wearing, except the silk used to make the pants were quite different from anything found on earth.
He used identify on the pair of billowed pants neatly folded in the large golden chest.
[Charismatic White Spider Silk Pants of Chakra (epic)] – Legends once said that a certain lizardfolk gr...
2021-08-11 17:50:23 +0000 UTC
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Conquest rewards have been processed. Assimilating a skill obtained by conquest requires one skill point.
Secret quest updated: [Conquest of Lords]
[Conquest of Lords]: You have defeated the King Jaeger, the lord of this terrestrial plane pillar. The proud lizard king boasted immense strength and size due to its consumption of a root of the world tree several years ago, granting it an ability to enlarge its body more than twice its size.
A new conque...
2021-08-09 22:17:51 +0000 UTC
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The giant lizard king swelled up like a balloon, its rotund belly extending as its head and arms grew larger by the second. This was the King Jaeger’s signature ability, a manifestation of the characteristics of the Terrestrial Biome itself. Everything grew larger here as the flora and fauna were nurtured by the potent vital energies leaking from the world tree’s many gnarled roots. Several years ago, the King Jaeger had stumbled upon and consumed a piece of the world tree’s roots.
<...
2021-08-08 15:58:32 +0000 UTC
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[Tenacious Woodcutter]: You have shown a tenacity and determination for woodcutting that very few in the universe have been able to display. Your efforts have been rewarded. Your familiarity with wood has increased significantly, and your body circuit has embraced the wood element for finer attunement. You can now cut down trees faster. +Wood attunement +Wood affinity +Tree cutting speed
Sick. Faster tree cutting speed. In the battle against the King Jaeger, never would...
2021-08-05 06:34:32 +0000 UTC
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It was time to put the dumbest idea in the history of dumb ideas to action. To make this absurd strategy to kill the King Jaeger work, he just needed three things.
A bigger sword? A huge physical powerup? Some cheat ability? Plot armor? Haha, no. None of that was necessary.
Marcello’s mind raced at a hundred miles per hour as he reviewed his plan in his head. He felt mental clarity and a bit of euphoria like he just got injected with a bit too much morphine, which was a strange ...
2021-08-04 19:24:12 +0000 UTC
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Note: chapter 28 and 29 are considered one chapter for advanced chap purposes.
He was alive once more, brought back to life by the slimmest of margins by the +10 stats when the end is near effect on Despair Intuition.
That marked the turning point in the battle, where the knight in battered armor would valiantly turn around with super strength and slay the giant lizard king, prevailing against all odds.
That’s how it was supposed to ...
2021-08-03 02:51:03 +0000 UTC
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The massive pot bellied lizard lumbered into the basin, its vicious claws protruding and its large white fangs bared. With a giant round belly that extended from its neck downwards, the lizard with a large frilly dewlap hanging from its neck was huge and intimidating, causing the entire forest to rustle with its every movement. Despite the portly nature of its midsection, a clear indication that it was well fed, it had the muscular body of a half-ton bull and thick muscular legs.
2021-08-02 23:44:49 +0000 UTC
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The man that Eric referred to as Andrew convulsed violently before falling to the ground after the mana bolt hit.
“That deer is my prey!” a female voice shouted from across the river bank, out of sight. “If you go that way, you’ll end up like your buddy over there, alright?”
Eric looked down at the convulsing Andrew and then back across the river, trying to find the mage that caused that injury. He had never seen such a powerful mana bolt before, able to chunk Andrew’s...
2021-08-01 21:00:19 +0000 UTC
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After completing the ladder, Marcello’s profession status changed as well from Carpenter -> Carpenter (novice). Apparently his profession did not level the same way his class did, and his progression would be marked in tier grades rather than levels. He wasn’t quite sure how to increase his profession tier, but it just made sense that crafting new things with higher grades would steadily increase his proficiency.
Anyway, he was exhausted from working for so many hours in a row. T...
2021-07-30 18:21:30 +0000 UTC
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Clearly there was nothing more important in life than making wooden planks.
Killing a castle lord? Insignificant. Gaining access to the lost library of Alexandria? Not even worthy of mention. Chopping trees and trying to turn the giant tree trunk into usable material? Now that was where things got serious.
Marcello could only question his entire life choices leading up to this point as he sized up the large tree that he just felled. He received quite a lot of carpenter information...
2021-07-28 21:10:46 +0000 UTC
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Just how the hell was he supposed to scale that cliff? Moving forward with his longsword in hand, Marcello walked towards the rock cliff, circling around the perimeter of the pool at the base of the waterfall.
*Splash*
The pool of water erupted, and a beaver appeared from the depths of the waterfall bed. Except this wasn’t some normal beaver. Due to the excessive vital energies of the terrestrial plane, this furry fellow with a flat tail and large buck teeth was...
2021-07-26 23:49:51 +0000 UTC
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Taking the glistening golden key off its hook, the knight with a torn gambeson grabbed the clover shaped end of the large vintage key and hastily inserted it into the lock on the old wooden door. With some effort and elbow grease, the key turned in place, deactivating the rusted locking mechanism.
*Click*
The door opened, and a musty scent came from within. Marcello walked through the door into a musty old library filled with bookshelves and books on a variety of ...
2021-07-26 15:42:50 +0000 UTC
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The lone knight and his ice elemental companion walked into the white room, as a notification announced their arrival.
Ding!
Your trial has commenced.
[Impossible Trial Information]
You have taken a brave step into the impossible. Difficulty has increased to the maximum. Special reward will be given out. You have decided to embark on this challenge alone. May the stars look down upon your fortune and grace you with victory, oh brave one.<...
2021-07-25 14:41:43 +0000 UTC
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Marcello was buzzing with adrenaline as he looked at the legacy class he unlocked. This had to be one of those secret classes that were so desired in games.
Enigmatic Bulwark Knight (rare) (secret advanced class) – You have vanquished a castle lord and inherited his legacy. With it comes the power of a class long lost in history. This juggernaut of yore once belonged to the infamously strong legionnaires of the Empire. These bulwark knight legionnaires were known for their brute s...
2021-07-22 20:02:36 +0000 UTC
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Marcello laughed. Dead bodies and blood littered the now empty throne room, and all he could do was sit down and laugh about it. After going through all of that, strategizing before entering the doorway, having everyone abandon him, killing the lord… nothing shocked him as much as the one thing he was staring at.
It was that lustrous, silvery door with the word IMPOSSIBLE on top that seemed to glow with a type of mana that he hadn’t encountered before. He felt like the door was the ...
2021-07-20 21:59:11 +0000 UTC
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Michael ran for the door the moment that the snake woman began to get her essence reabsorbed back into the castle lord’s body. The businessman with thick rim glasses was true to his word, taking the slim opportunity when the rest of his allies were getting cut down by the castle lord to flee towards the exit door. He had warned them that he had zero desire to fight the castle lord. Warning them ahead of time instead of simply lying to their faces was already a gracious act he granted them b...
2021-07-19 21:35:05 +0000 UTC
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“Yeah, he’s in there. I got a feeling,” Marcello replied.
None of the party members even bothered to question Marcello’s intuition. He had been right so many times in the past that his gut feelings were taken as a matter-of-fact at this point. And plus he always backed up his gut feelings with perfectly logical explanations.
“If the boss is really in that room, we should strategize about our approach before we enter,” Michael said with a matter-of-fact tone. “I say w...
2021-07-18 23:04:05 +0000 UTC
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In reaction to the deaths of four loyal servants, an ominous aura emanated from somewhere deeper within the castle. The pressure from the dark aura was immense, easily penetrating through castle walls.
Somehow, Marcello felt a sense of jovialness mixed in with the aura’s dissatisfaction over the servants’ deaths, even though that made no sense. Why would the lord of the castle be happy to learn that his loyal servants were killed? He shuddered to think of the reason why.
All s...
2021-07-17 17:33:06 +0000 UTC
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It was similar to the feeling he had when he expelled Emma’s mind control Inheritance from his head, except far, far worse. The reason was because Emma herself had already retracted her Inheritance from his body immediately after the hobgoblin fight, and what Marcello kicked out later that day when he awakened his own Inheritance were just the vestiges of her control.
This banshee’s curse was no mere vestige, it was an active curse that attacked his very soul. Expelling it would be ...
2021-07-17 05:56:19 +0000 UTC
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