— Well, Mahan, what is it? he suddenly wailed. - Well, how do you manage to dig these castles?I didn’t tell him that, in fact, both castles appeared to me thanks to one pretty young lady, whom I first helped to marry, and then ... Then lieutenant Rzhevsky arrived, and then this began!An Evil Gnum fell out of the portal at us. Looking around, he immediately summed it up:"Ah, Mahan?" Did you get a new lock? Are the ashtrays clogged in the old one?“No, no,” I replied with a yawn. We ran out of firewood for heating.- Then yes! said the Evil Gnum. Why didn't you take two? Did I treat you to coffee or not?“Yes, I didn’t know that you needed it too,” I shrugged."Well, what do we have here?" - Eric and the evil Gnum simultaneously rubbed their palms, apparently leafing through the papers sent to me by Sidorov.“It’s simple here,” I said. - I got a level 18 castle with a garrison. At level 20, the garrison will double. At level 24, all fighters will add 50 levels. At level 28, the garri

- Need to try! I scratched my head. - There is also some kind of “Indefatigable Quartet” there. What will be given for it is unknown.— Popvobovat? Flute furrowed her brows menacingly.- Exactly! Plinto exclaimed. - There is also "Three Maidens!" In this way, you can definitely get three visits a day!“Three months for ten levels…” I thought. - And Gnum and Eric should help ...- Three months! Shilopopaya rolled her eyes.- You motherfucker! - Flute's eyes jumped out again, and Natalie began to fill out. Something needs to be done with the eyes too! I took out the amulet of communication and activated it:“Gnum, buddy, I’m in Altameda, can you drop by?”- What am I, a grasshopper, to jump around the castles? the amulet replied in an unhappy voice.— Viltraks! I called. — Deliver, please, by the portal of the Evil Gnum.- Will be done! the manager replied.A minute later, the master of all trades himself appeared:“Well, why else are you distracting me from the case?“I had a brilliant

“Well, I went,” Calathea chuckled, releasing my elbow. Thank you for a nice evening and hope to see you next week!“Have a nice day,” I replied.- Yes, what a day! she waved her hand. - I'm going to sleep! — and disappeared in the flash of the portal. I summoned Viltrax, and we found ourselves in the castle.Flute, please let me go! I asked.“I’ll let you go now, and you’ll go and do stupid things!” she disagreed.“I won’t,” I promised.- What a fool! she muttered. - You'd better do it! And then you keep it all...“If I didn’t hold it, I would be waving a pick in the mines now!” I objected.The flute let me go, walked around in front and looked into my eyes.— Don't hang your nose, Shaman! she asked quietly. - Still forming!“I know,” I nodded. “But that takes time. I'll go, Flute.“At the weekend, I take it you won’t be here?” she squinted at Shilopopuya.“No, it won’t,” I replied.She sighed and I pressed the exit button. Having got out of the capsule, I climbed into the shower, whe

“Talent search,” he explained. “When you had information technology with global cloud-connected server projects, we began to attempt to infiltrate your networks in order to obtain computing resources to restore our ship simulator. Very soon it turned out that this task is not trivial in essence. And then there was Barliona. The main difference between Barliona and its predecessors was its "liveness". The imitators acted not only with exceptional intelligence, but also in many cases showed pronounced emotions. Our analysis suggests that Barliona is a symbiosis of mind and artificial intelligence.“Having understood this, even at the dawn of the project, we infiltrated it under the guise of non-player characters, distributed pieces of the code of our Simulator around Barliona and began to wait for daredevils who could repair our ship’s brain. It became clear that just a person is not enough for this, special talents in the psychic field are needed. After analyzing our needs, we created

The crowd of servants of the Darkness still chased us. My throat must have already overheated from the constant flames on the Fourth Acceleration, as I began to experience pain like a sore throat. I stopped and, having cleared the circle with a flame, again tried to take the Tarantula in its paws. He wrapped his limbs around mine, once again confirming my opinion that he had, rather, tentacles there, and I was finally able to soar into the air. There was very little time left, and I turned on the acceleration in order to get to the border with Cadiz faster. As soon as we flew over the black river, I immediately went downhill, as the counter was already counting down the last minute. Putting the Tarantula on the grass, I turned into a man.- Pa-a-am! the earth shook, and a transparent dome surrounded me.I was completely exhausted, and so I just sat on the grass, unable to do anything. I started scribbling a message in the clan chat."[Mahan] I'm two kilometers west of Cadiz"The answe