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Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter One: The Haunted
The floor creaked eerily as they stepped on the floorboards of the house. Dried leaves littered the entrance, the following passage empty and silent like the graves. The front door swung, and Arlo jerked, pointing his MAC-114 at it. "Activate your UV visors." he ordered the team of six beside him. All of them dressed in the same black vest and trousers, all taped with kevlar. Their faces are covered in black masks. The team responded to his orders and they trooped in a uniformed and precise formation. The passageway as seen from the visors was empty and seemingly endless. The walls held different writings and palm prints. The languages were recorded by their visors and were being streamed live by the 'Sector.' A division of the United Nations Alliance Force (UNAF). Arlo got their call while he was in the hospital, keeping his sister company. It was supposed to be his leave. He'd just finished a mission about two weeks ago! His captain told him they needed him back on the job for on
Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter Two: Pale Old Lady
Arlo couldn't understand it, it was something straight out of Aria's video games and shows. It had wings made of skin that seemed to be lined with talons at connected angles. Its face was like that of a devil's, exactly like the gargoyles from movies. Its hand contained talons that were fastened into the soldier's chest, its talons pierced through three levels of kevlar. "Holy!" Jake screamed and released a rain of bullets on the creature which didn't seem fazed, every other person stepped back, but the beast just kept on working forward. Arlo who seemed to understand their titanium piercing, self exploding, poison ejecting bullet from the MAC-114 won't work. He ran straight for one of the fires that lit the room and threw it at the monster, and he followed it with a grenade. His team dove off the ground and an explosion shook the room. The creature collapsed into cement. "What the hell was that?" "I think that was a Gargoyle!" Arlo said. His sister had always forced him to sit do
Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter Three: Exclusive Contract
"That wasn't very nice," the lady said, still standing. He seemed to have imagined the thud. "I left you alive and saved you for last, so you will have last words privileges and this is how you treat me, with noise?" she said. "Look at your friends." she said as the door opened. He turned his head slowly. Jake and Nat were on the floor, dead. "So as I was saying. Let me try a poem of mine. I don't really. I am not good at it. Let's see!" She cleared her throat."I am the pale old lady that haunts your dreams,""Woven into a poem from your kin's awful dreams,"Cries were made from brooks and streams,"About I, the one who makes all scream,"Just as she finished her eyes glowed a deep green. She looked directly in his eyes and he screamed, as it was as if he was staring into the eyes of death itself. He felt his life crawl away and it was gonna be the end of him until a voice stopped the process.Arlo could make the image of a man and a ball like thingy. He was sure he could clearly h
Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter Four: The Interface
Just as his drop of blood landed on the piece of paper a surge went through his system. The world closed down. Veins bulge from his body, he felt himself being drawn into a whirlpool. Pain attacked his nerves like a series of piercing needles. His heart bloated like it was going to explode, he felt his teeth were way more than thirty two. He held his chest and fell to the ground crouching in pain. He tore at his own face, tearing the skin off it. His body began to squirm like a worm was passing through his insides. He rolled on the floor, his body jerking unnaturally and his fingers were curled like a leper's. He felt his bones crack, till he couldn't contain the pain anymore and he let out a piercing scream that was followed by an explosion of his head. And silence became prominent. All noise died. He opened his eyes, and a large screen hung over the space right above his eyes. The screen held a blue color and a little information was written on it. It possessed the vibes he got f
Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter Five: The Balmox
He was standing above two people, they were dead. The man was white haired, his wrinkled face still prominent even though he was covered in crimson. He turned to the woman and found her head a few centimeters away from her neck, she was facing sideways, her skin had already lost any luster it could have possessed. Somehow he knew they were his parents and he felt a knot of sadness in him. He held his abdomen and limped backwards, scanning his environment. His ear howled, allowing the sounds of him stepping on shards of glass in the scattered unlit room, seeming distant like the light of the stars. He collided with a piece of furniture and almost reeled backwards. He staggered and found his footing, just as he did, a bird fluttered past him and he fell back cause of shock and the pain in his abdomen tugged at him once more. He groaned and gasped. On the ground he fell towards, his hand felt a metallic piece and he traced it. It was a dagger, he held it in his hand. The thought of d
Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter Six: Journey
The stench of smoke and blood made him cough as he trudged forward on the rocky terrain of his town; Vailand. The gash in his stomach had stopped stinging him thanks to the female warrior who saved his life; Tina. He would have tried talking to her, but all he could do was thank her before he passed out. He had been awoken by the other male warrior, a mean guy with a lightning scar across his nose. He had tried to gather his thoughts when Ag popped up again.He'd since then been fiddling with the system in his head. He acquired a reward of two ES that he'd later known to be Essence. This essence would help him improve his magical energy. He was a Order 0 Sorcerer and he was currently at level One. His level progress had increased to fifty percent after he improved it with the 2ES he was rewarded with. Ag had notified him that missions would be harder as they progressed. He was currently reading about his skills, Heaven's Winter and Hell's Wrath./Skill Library: Heaven's Winter: A sk
Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter Seven: Freshman
After a while, he was led by one of them into one of the rows of houses and when he entered, he met a young blonde woman waiting for him, and a bed beside her. She extended her hands towards the bed. She held an almost seductive smile, her dress was a blue shirt tucked in a large long white skirt. Are you kidding? Carol's thought already swung, what sort of world is this? He thought. He complied, and laid down on the bed, his heart beating fast. He was already imagining lots of lewd imagery when the woman stuck a syringe right in his abdomen. He screamed, and before he knew it he was shrouded in darkness once again. Just moments before he passed out, he felt the only thing he has been doing for the past few days was pass out. He woke up in a different room, with one other person in the room with him. The person was on a bed beside him, they were flipping a book, cross legged and a pair of glasses placed carefully on their nose. They glanced up at him as he shrugged and stood up. "
Interface: Hollows and Bones Chapter Eight: School Library
He had only a minute left to complete the task, so he told Magus, who obliged with no questions, to run. He reached the class when the seconds were at the dot of 5. He exhaled as Ag's Message popped up. /Side Task: Completed Reward: 5MP received Total MP: 10 Complete more side task to earn mps/He caught his breath for a while before walking towards the two vacant seats at the far end of the class. Magus walked smiling at everyone, eagerly greeting the students, and for some reason, none of them answered. They seemed to want to keep as much distance from him as possible. Coral shrugged, he glanced back towards Magus and in that second noticed someone's leg stretched out fast enough that Magus would collide with it. He held him back just mere moments before he collided with the leg. The owner of the leg, a blonde fair guy with a pair of glasses, looked up angrily."Everyone," h
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Chapter Twenty: Physical Fitness
He didn't need to do anything else here, for the main time he had to start studying. He needed to learn a lot about so many minerals and so many plants. With his stone identification skill and plant analysis skill, it was going to be easier for him, still he had a lot to study. The book, Herbs and Magic had a very misleading title. It didn't have anything to do with Herbs and magic, sure maybe it taught lots of herbs and potions for sorcerers, but it's main purpose was actually to teach basic sorcerers to increase their magical force so as to ascend to the next order. He walked out of the laboratory with Magus and headed straight for his dorm to start reading or sleep, or whatever he felt like. After school and registration, with the just concluded experiment, he felt the need to rest. He was going to head out at night to the gym to train his mortal body. He woke up at around nineteen hours in the evening feeling lightheaded, sleeping for one and a half hours wasn't really the rest
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Chapter Nineteen: Void Magician
The echo of his boots against the surface of the strangely tiled floor of the lab section of the school was so eerie it made him want to tiptoe. He checked his card tag again to confirm the number on it. "036..." he repeated in his head. He was walking as fast as he could, counting the number on the laboratory doors. "030... 031... 033..." "Okay slow down ass!" Magus called, panting behind him. He dropped the two kegs of water in his hands.He turned back to him, staring him down with his eyes. "You are lucky, we are here." He inserted the key attached to his card tag into the keyhole and turned, the door clicked open and he pushed it in. Magus lifted the two kegs inside, half dragging - half lifting and cursing the world for creating him with hands. Coral enjoyed this moment more than he admitted to himself, his lips curled up in a wicked grin. He entered the laboratory and found it quite adequate, it had everything he needed, from glass tubes to a big square pit. The equipmen
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Chapter Eighteen: Suicidal
"Bradli Pouel!" he called. "Spiral House." A blonde boy in the front seat screamed YES! Coral arched his eyebrows as he continued to call names. "Magelius Fortuna," he called and Magus waved his hand uninterested. "House of Authority."And finally, "Coral Haller!" he announced. "Ember House."Coral was a bit startled, but Magus just smiled at him. "You are in Gwen's house." "Who?" Coral asked, astonished. "Gwendolyn." "The princess?" he said in disbelief. Magus opened his mouth to speak. "Would both of you like to indulge the whole class in whatever you are discussing." one of the students; a female, said, turning to them angrily. Coral shook his head. That was Alexia, the class leader. She was collectively called Mother Hen by everyone in the class. They just call her Hen now. She controlled the class with a flaming iron hand, especially when the profs were present. The class began and none of them met Coral's interest. Politics, Geography, Maths(He hated math), Elementary D
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Chapter Seventeen: House Sorting
He woke up the next day feeling like a king. He danced through his early morning routine, rearranged their room to Magus's surprise. He showered quickly and for the first time, he beat Magus to dressing up for school. By the time his roommate would finish dressing up for school, Tina had arrived and they started out quietly. The morning sun was warm and gentle, like it was given everyone a big bear hug. Coral didn't say a word whilst they trekked to school and neither did Aduke and so as not to think about the awkwardness he called Ag up. /Status Report: 10 MP reward received Medical Skill Unlocked. (plant analysis)/ He clicked on Plant Analysis /Plant Analysis: A skill set that allows users to analyze plants chemicals and functions. They are able to determine the type of plants through smell, touch or sight. They are able to also detect chemical composition in plants. Costs: 5MP per usage./ He checked his profile to confirm his current condition /PROFILE HP: 98 ES
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Chapter Sixteen: Sensual Healing
For some reason it didn't sit well with her that Coral called her his sister. He was always confused around women, they always had their own private thoughts and proceeded to act nothing like they were thinking. "No." she protested, shaking her head quickly."Huh?" He raised his eyes. “Did I say something wrong?” He asked."I am not your sister. I am your friend... acquaintance." she stammered."Okaaay." he said and raised his hands. "Your sister," she asked. "She passed away?" "I don't know." he replied, not wanting to go there and she seemed to understand. She exhaled. "Umm, you will have to rest a lot. I told Magus you'd be back in four hours, but thankfully, I formulated the spells easily and fixed you up faster.""So how much time do I have left?" he asked."Two hours?" she said."Good, I will keep you company," he sat up, but felt faint."Lie back down!" She placed her hand on his chest and forced him back to bed. "You still need a few minutes of rest for your system to get
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Chapter Fifteen: Healing Spell
He opened his eyes, and ignoring the sheering pain, he got up as swiftly as he could. The assailants were already turning back. They were retreating after treating him like this. After almost killing him? No, they don't get to deserve when this fight ends. They started and he was going to end it. "Hahahahahaha! MUHAHAHHAHAHA!" he laughed out loud. "Is that all you got? If you want to exert power. You need to find someone weaker!"The boys turned back surprised. It wasn't because of what he said. No. It was the fact that he was rushing at them, like a beast and a dagger was in his hand. He wasn't going to fight them. No. He was going to fight to kill! Every single one of them will soon realize he was a ticking time bomb and soon enough he would rip them apart limb from limb.He drove his knife right into the abdomen of one of the boys, squelching and screaming and met each other in a painful race to usurp each other. He removed it, twirling with his leg, he sent his dagger flying, ca
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Chapter Fourteen: System Override
"You sound creepy like you have died before." she said. "Maybe I have." She wanted to say something but stopped. She just stared at him for a while before speaking. "So you believe your parents are gone, forever?""Yes! Our love and hate have ended, forever. No illusions. All I carry is the residual pain of their memories." Aduke smiled. "Well. Their memories are enough for me to believe their existence has not yet ceased," she said. "If you don't mind, I want to go check on some friends." She stood and walked away, obviously angry. Coral snickered. "The truth always hurt," he muttered and closed his eyes.The breeze swept calmly against his cheeks, causing a soft rustling among the withered leaves scattered along its base. He let his body notice every hint of the serene quietness revolving peacefully around him. He was so lost in this world of his that he almost didn't notice the soft cracking footsteps heading towards him. "Coral, the atmosphere is nice isn't it?" the soft bu
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Chapter Thirteen: Rite of Passage
After Coral had read that part he'd closed the book and shoved it under his bed staring and focusing on Magus who was sprawled on the bed snoring peacefully. He only picked the book two days later. The book didn't contain any more important info except for the order zeros of all the tiers. The Orders were the stages one can reach within a tier. A magician can only choose just one tier as his path, and the more they study and practice, they get connected to the magical force and would be able to use it to achieve abilities listed in the certain tier and its corresponding order. He was a Sorcerer and his Order Zero was named druid and was described to have a vast connection to plants and animals and also life in general depending on the talent of the practitioner. He seemed to be more inclined with the plants and earth. His first skill was called stone identification and he was easily able to identify soils and different kinds of stone with it as regards whatever they were used for. He
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Chapter Twelve: Horror of Horrors
He made his stance, and began to follow the rhythm, hitting the wooden dummy at targeted points. Sweats dripped down his head and onto his light brown skin. He punched and blocked, his movements turning into a trancelike state. For the past two weeks, he'd settled down in this world and had started to learn the way they do things. His roommate Magus was seated at the far corner, writing stuff down with a quill. After he had set his goals on Ag, every morning had been like this. He would wake up and go for his training routes which usually began with endurance and strength training. He would then move to skill acquisition. Within these two weeks, his body had grown rapidly, and a day before Ag had notified him that he had unlocked a warrior's body. After he finished with the wooden dummy, he went straight to the bathroom to get ready for school. He checked his profile./PROFILEHP: 98ES: 4MP: 53TIER: SORCERERORDER: 0Lvl: 2 (50% complete)WARRIOR BODY: Level 1(34%)SKILL: HEAVEN'
