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Player Initiated 24 - Power of Nature
The decision to direct the tip into the bay proved to be both right and wrong. The wave, which would have hit the coiling dragon island, then wrecked the coast line was broken out of its path. However, the arrow has become a cyclone of water, rising the already gigantic height of the thousand meter high sea into a single whirlpool taller than the dragon horns. They would be submerged, and pulled in to the sea with more than thousands of kilograms of force. If that water touches them, they will be minced meat ! His grandfather, grandmother, mother and little sister were standing atop the hill, looking at the swirling pool of water around them in utter shock. The cyclone is two meters taller than the place by two meters. Only the lighting rod is taller than the whirling water pool. He levitated all of his family up without hesitation. The water is closing in on him. He pushed a small bubble up and around him using water manipulation, but his mana is low ! Water is too strong ! Fo
Player Initiated 25 - Miracle
Eric lifted his arm, aimed at the fish. He only had one chance at this. The plate sank once more. However, this time, the fish had more than enough mana to pull the water up. It lined up with Eric, a spectral water shark roared in the water behind it. Just as the beast was about to swallow him, Eric fired a single shot, straight into the beast’s mouth with his gun. The next moment, it’s as if the time had stood still. The blue fish, swimming through the ocean like the king of the sea, vanished in bubbles piece by piece. The gigantic swirling pool around the island kept it’s shape despite the death of calamity beast, rising in height with each growing minute. Air around their family stood static, as they looked up the rising water wall with dread. As the water pressure built, the basin plate sank lower and lower in the ground, conversely, the height of the dragon horn mountain rose. Eric and family felt like they were on a gigantic bull rider machine with how badly the mountai
Player Initiated 26 - no land for an old man
It was still raining heavily. Eric set up a tent one more time. A bigger and sturdier one - whose only disadvantage is being ugly. It’s not even cute ugly like a pug, it’s plain ugly like a plastic boat. Yet, it’s rain resistance is top notch, it came with a dry flooring of about a palm tall. Eric set up a water collector on one side, collecting the rainwater. At this height, they can drink it directly. His mother started cooking right away. Eric fiddled in the corner with setting up a diesel generator. His grandfather has gotten through to the old man on the island town, and informed them that they won’t need a rescue. All the same, the government is sending a medical team to check up on them. They still wore the oxygen nebulizers, but removed their life jackets. Mimi has long since came out of her child bag, and she is fast asleep in her own little bed. They all changed their clothes, had a bath, then, drank warming medicine brewed by his grandmother. The generator was up and r
Player Initiated 27 - Silver lining
“ What ? “ Eric thought he’s hearing auditory hallucinations. All soil on the island has been washed away ! The pier has been crushed into fertilizer , the fishing boat they have had for a mere month is twisted into a churro … they barely have a bag of rice left ! In such a scenario, the old man still wanted to live on the island ? Eric was dumbfounded. “ Grandfather, I think you do not understand ! There is no soil on the island, not even sand ! Before, we drove an ATV to ride up to the house on the plateau. Now, the same drive is impossible. The bay is still open, but … the pier is broken. The ramp we use to tow the boats through has become a cliff ! Just how do you plan to live on this island ? “ Eric was pissed. “ The bamboo grove is fine. I see it from here. “ His grandfather retorted. “ Do you want to be a panda, eating only bamboo ? In that case, sorry ! No chance ! The bamboo roots are rotting. Don’t forget, the grove has been soaked in salt water. It may look alive now,
Player Initiated 28 - Person of interest
The night has fallen like a wet blanket of darkness. In the deep darkness, a man is skating at top speed on sunglasses. He avoided all the obstacles easily, and made it to the only place in a fence with a hole in it. He effortlessly slipped through the fence, then entered an apartment through the backdoor. It’s Peter Ho’s apartment building. ◆◇◆A dark balloon reflecting the night sky flitted through the sky, gently sliding through the air. It arrived at the rooftop of a skyscraper, then came to a slow stop. A little girl in hot pants and a fitted black shirt jumped down from the balloon. There are holsters on her thighs, daggers on knee high boots, twin blades on her back and extendable claws on her elbows. She moved with the grace of a cat, jumping down from the building top, going floor by floor, she jumped into the third apartment from the top, and rolled into a stop, holding her gun at the ready. She looked all around, making sure no targets showed up in her map, then walked o
Player Initiated 29 - Grand discovery
As Eric watched the eternal lightning that connected their island to the sky, he finally gave up on convincing his grandfather. Sometimes, you just have to wait for people to realize facts on their own. Worse yet, at his grandfather’s age, with valid reasons, he is more stubborn. Since they made their decision, Eric could only equip them with as many skills needed for survival as possible. The lightning made their continuing stay here uncomfortable, but they can’t go down just now. First, he needs to initiate them as players. Now that he has server chat activated, it is best if they are initiated as players. Their current talents being enhanced is more than enough to guarantee their survival and safety for the time being. It is just as well there is a tunnel from here to the dragon temple they could use. Eric took his mother down the tunnel first. Followed by mimi, and his grandparents. He first touched the dragon statue to make sure the electricity was not flowing through the stat
Player Initiated 30 - lots of crowd
He came up in a village. There are hundreds of people around him, in a small village congregation type area.“ Heroes ! Please help. The mountain floods are about to arrive any moment now. We need to raise the embankment height ! “ The village chief is shouting.[ Mission ][ Save the village from flooding ][ Failure penalty : passive debuff title unreliable ][ Success Reward : Quest Altar blueprint ]( accept ) ( deny )Eric looked at the person beside him. It was a girl in hot pants, with a tight black T-shirt. Has knee high boots with p
Player Initiated 31 - Flood dungeon
Digger is far too slow. Eric racked his brain for options… Can he make a whirlpool with water manipulation ? Wait ! For that he needs talent from Ursula. If talent sharing is working, then isn’t it better to share the mud manipulation talent from his grandmother ? He immediately opened the console. To check if the talent share is available. [ Talent share outsourcing ( level 0 ) ][ You can chose up to 1 talent, which will work at (N) percent reduction in strength. ] [ Water manipulation ( 90% ) from Ursula ] [ Mud manipulation ( 90% ) from Dolly ] [ Water manipulation ( 90% ) from Mimi ] [ Blade work ( 10% ) from Song Tu ] [ Chef’s domain ( 95% ) from Song Anxia ] [ Plant growth ( 50% ) from Stevia Mangrove ] Eric expected water manipulation to be heavily debuffed. He was surprised that his grandfathers’ talent has such little penalty, and his mother’s domain has such a high penalty ! Do I have seedlings ? Eric mused. Just as he was about to open the inventory, he paused
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38 - Rename
“ Your highness, you wanna come and say hello to Island channel’s viewers ? “ Eric asked. Mimi skipped over to him with ballet steps.“ Hello, citizens of Arendelle. Morning greetings to you all. “ she greeted, then skipped back up to the pavilion with one twirl at each step. [ daughter_slave999 ] : Wow ! She is so cute ! [ tablefor11 ] : Children are so happy anywhere. Which idiot said she was abused ! [ nonaMakers ] : A fine morning to you too, your highness. How is the ice production going ? Will it be enough to make a milkshake any time soon ? [ ttt_ioeil ] : Seems you are back to normal life. I am happy for you dude. “ Thanks guys. We will finish unpacking after breakfast. First, we will install the rope lift in the bay. Hopefully, we can go to the sea today. “ Eric informed the guys on the broadcast. Eric’s grandfather took over the screen after that. The last bag is unpacked in front of the audience. [ Aluminium sheets x 10 ] [ Welding tools x 20 ] [ Welding powder x
37 - Quest Altar
Eric just returned as the live barrage was full of activity. Chills ran on his spine as he looked at their conversation about the house. To be truthful, he made the bricks on planet Kepler, and the cement too. Fortunately, the island really did have a cave. They really used to store soy sauce and the materials there. There was some oyster shell cement there. Eric used that little bit of it to just give a dab on the house, giving it an effect of being built with oyster shell cement. ‘ I have such good foresight. ‘ he gave a pat on head for himself. The living though, he had been worrying about it too. His grandfather was finally able to catch one sentence at this time. So, he answered instead of Eric. “ My grandson says, we will buy a helicopter in the future. “ he told the audience. [ fans ] : ???“ and we will run a hotel. “ [ fans ] : ?????!!!Eric smiled at his grandfather’s succinctness. He took the phone to himself. “ Hello dear viewers, I am back. “ Eric said, looking a
36 - how to make a living
Eric and family finished their daily routine, then Eric habitually turned on his phone for the live broadcast. He has monetized his channel since the first day he began constructing the house. He was shocked to find the subscriber count increased significantly, and the donations are on the rise. After some searching, he realized the reason is because of the weatherman who came in the morning. The comments in the live stream are all worrying for his family. Eric reassured them. “ Everyone, please do not worry. We have a freshwater supply. People can live up to three months on just water. Even the heavens will run out of water if they want to keep raining for three months, right ? “ Eric said a bit cheekily, as he jumped from one of the boulders to another. The supply drop fell right in the middle of the boulder basin. It looked like a flower fallen among dinosaur eggs from this high up. Eric speeded up towards the supply crate. If not for his stat increased physique, he almost cou
35 - the house
After the departure of the filming team, Eric was able to work freely. He entered the Factorio game, removed the mines. When he adds a game building feature to a real piece of land, that area becomes inaccessible in reality. The others, like his family, instinctively avoid the place. When they were forced to enter, they … felt like they hit a barrier. As soon as he was done with the little experiment, he opened the laptop. He switched the game to home builder. He has more than enough wood, limestone, iron and iron plates. He simply used the production games to create bricks, then smelt the iron into rods he needed. Almost all apocalyptic games offered some kind of brick making, yet, he chose to make his bricks in the Dyson Sphere program, choosing planet kepler 452-b. By now, he has grasped the reality conversion feature roughly. When he places an iron mining drill on a random digitized area, as long as the AI could find iron in any digitized part of that planet, iron can and wil
34 - Filming Closes
His return was as silent as his departure.However, that all changed when he brought out the treasure chests. “ How ? “ his grandmother breathed in, with wonder and disbelief on her face. “ The cove forming the bay is also raised in elevation, grandma. Water receded from their resting place. But … Do you know these chests ? “ he asked curiously. When he retrieved them, he thought they belonged to the game system that made him a player. “ We brought these chests with us when we escaped in the seventies. “ his grandmother told him. It seems his grandparents were residents of S-city, and they arrived here during the time of great dislocation… probably to avoid persecution. What’s even more surprising was that his grandfather retrieved a set of bronze keys from his pocket. He put it through the first chest, opened it cautiously. The entire chest was filled with pure gold bars. Eric’s eyes were dazzled. Even in the present day, gold has not depreciated much. His grandfather nonchala
33 - Dinner
Eric made the round trip to the dragon temple within an hour. [ Terra ] [ 98.4 % ] [ Aqua ] [ 23.7 % ] [ Skye ] [ 6.1 % ] [ Cosmos ] [ 2.9 % ] The status of server completion displayed on his onyx ring. When he held it up to the light, it looked like it’s full of runic symbols. “ What constitutes the server completion ? “ Eric mused. [ A server must have an inkling of F to A, and S level realms. ] “ An Inkling ? “ Eric pondered about the strange choice of words. [ As long as a player passed within 10 meter distance from the realm, the realm is registered in the server. ] [ As long as the realm coincides the digitized land for a millimeter, the realm is registered in the server. ] Eric climbed down after verifying the information. The realm must be something similar to the flood dungeon he entered. ‘ Never mind ! Return for now. I am living a slow life this time around ! ‘ he encouraged himself. When he returned, his mother finished cooking dinner, and
32 - Abyssal shard
That creature can not be killed by bullets or arrows. This much, Eric realized instinctively. The only way to kill should be the aura gun. However, an aura gun can not kill a creature of higher level than itself. Eric searched through his console with trembling fingers and increased urgency to find something, anything that could kill the creature rising in front of him. He had a bad feeling about this one. His bad feelings are rarely wrong ! [ Merge ] Finally he found a skill among the level skills he received. It was the reward for crossing level 90. He pointed at the aura gun box, and tried to merge. [ place three items of similar type to merge them to receive a higher or same level item ] ‘ The f*** ! ‘ ‘ It is a damned gachapon style merge ! ‘ But he was grasping at the straws. The creature would complete its arrival any minute now. The three petaled octopus could only be hurt when you shoot right in the center of their mouth when they are open. Everywhere else on their
31 - Flood dungeon
Digger is far too slow. Eric racked his brain for options… Can he make a whirlpool with water manipulation ? Wait ! For that he needs talent from Ursula. If talent sharing is working, then isn’t it better to share the mud manipulation talent from his grandmother ? He immediately opened the console. To check if the talent share is available. [ Talent share outsourcing ( level 0 ) ][ You can chose up to 1 talent, which will work at (N) percent reduction in strength. ] [ Water manipulation ( 90% ) from Ursula ] [ Mud manipulation ( 90% ) from Dolly ] [ Water manipulation ( 90% ) from Mimi ] [ Blade work ( 10% ) from Song Tu ] [ Chef’s domain ( 95% ) from Song Anxia ] [ Plant growth ( 50% ) from Stevia Mangrove ] Eric expected water manipulation to be heavily debuffed. He was surprised that his grandfathers’ talent has such little penalty, and his mother’s domain has such a high penalty ! Do I have seedlings ? Eric mused. Just as he was about to open the inventory, he paused
30 - lots of crowd
He came up in a village. There are hundreds of people around him, in a small village congregation type area.“ Heroes ! Please help. The mountain floods are about to arrive any moment now. We need to raise the embankment height ! “ The village chief is shouting.[ Mission ][ Save the village from flooding ][ Failure penalty : passive debuff title unreliable ][ Success Reward : Quest Altar blueprint ]( accept ) ( deny )Eric looked at the person beside him. It was a girl in hot pants, with a tight black T-shirt. Has knee high boots with p
