The Forest Of Dreams...There were eight of them left; following after Reid, they moved farther and farther into the forest."Be careful... Stay close, and don't touch anything...", Reid ordered.The forest was quiet as they walked through it. There was the occasional cawing of a bird or the growling of a beast somewhere in the distance. Everything was as normal as you would expect it to be.The farther they went into the forest, the more unrecognizable things got. When they had just entered the forest, the trees and the plants were ones they knew, but at some point along the way, those trees and plants had faded away, replaced by new, unrecognizable ones.The group had kept their hands to themselves, making sure not to touch anything as they continued through the forest.They walked for about two hours without pause when Reid suddenly stopped in his tracks. The others stopped as well, their senses going into overdrive as they tried to pick out the problem."I repeat, stay close. We h
Prince Adrian dived to the right in a bid to escape. The briwyn let out a grunt as it tried to chomp down on Prince Adrian. Prince Adrian backed away from the beast and they both got a break from attacking and defending; watching each other's movements carefully, Prince Adrian and the briwyn circled each other, trying to find the right moment to attack.Both were patient but Prince Adrian was more patient. This led to another quick dash from the beast as it tried to catch Prince Adrian off guard.A futile effort because the beast overshot its target, sliding past Prince Adrian who had turned his body to the left and stepped to the right, swinging his sword down onto the beast's head.A direct hit would have been the result, slicing the beast's head clean off its neck but reality defied these expectations.The beast that was millimeters away from death suddenly vanished, reappearing a few meters away from Prince Adrian, in the same spot it was before it dashed at Prince Adrian.Prince
Evening came and Aiden went to the farm he was assigned to. Despite it being a farm, he showed up early.As he approached the farm, he discovered that a lot of uninformed people were heading in the same direction. He looked around and saw that they all had overalls in their hands.As he looked around he saw Mallory. Mallory was walking alone as one would expect. Without a second thought, he walked over to Mallory. Mallory also had an overall in his hand."Hey, Mallory..."The boy was startled badly when he heard Aiden's greeting... He turned around to see Aiden. This was another surprise because Aiden was not the person he expected to see at the moment."You... What are you doing here...? Don't you have the training session to attend to...?"Aiden smiled when he heard Mallory's question..."You got screwed over again... I get it..."Mallory immediately guessed that things were not as simple as Aiden coming to meet him or some other bizarre reason like that. The only cause for Aiden's
There was the sound of something cracking, followed by a pained scream that rang through the room.Miss Riordan stood to the side as she watched Aiden undergo the reforging process. Even with her nerves as a healer, she flinched every time there was a crack.Aiden's reforging was as painful as you would expect. Every bike in his body was breaking, reforming into a hardened bone moments later.This had been going on for fifteen minutes and Aiden had broken every bone in his body at least twice. Throughout the whole process, Aiden could not manage to keep his screams back. Thankfully, he came to Miss Riordan when he felt the weirdness, getting Miss Riordan to isolate the space for his breakthrough.With no breaks in between, Aiden went a few hours in this agony, breaking every bone over and over again. He did this seven times for every bone before the reforging was completed.The bones that reformed were stronger and tougher making them even harder to break in the next round. This made
"Who do you think I am...?"Aiden stood tongue-tied for a few seconds. He did not know if knowledge of The Architect's Mould was something he should say, so he kept his mouth shut in the end."You just looked familiar... That's it...""Hmm... Okay... You have the following choices for getting through the first three levels, you may pick one..."In front of the old man were three prizes... One was a bottle, and in it was a liquid with a golden hue. Next to it was an artifact, a weapon that glimmered in the light... It was clear to anyone who saw it that this was no ordinary weapon.Aiden was tempted to choose this when he felt a shiver run through his body. This was unlike a shiver in a cold, rather, it carried with it a hint of excitement.When he laid eyes on the third prize, he found it to be a grey blob of mud, clay, or something... He could not make out what it was made of, from his initial impressions of it, but there was no mistake, this was exactly the thing that caused the sh
A hundred and fifty silver-streaked grey feral beasts with one Briwyn that had a light affinity was looking incredibly tough.However, he had gone through one of these configurations successfully, so it was not an asinine difficulty level.This... He proved by a successful demolishing of the beasts and as usual just a few seconds off the deadline.The third wave, two Briwyns, and a hundred silver-streaked grey feral beasts. The fourth wave, two Briwyns, and a hundred and fifty silver-streaked grey feral beasts.Beating these waves was half-complete when he managed to find the briwyn's affinity.After this fight, as Aiden went into the fifth level, and the skybox brightened, allowing him to show up once more on the projections, he noticed that the gold point had grown into the size of a small sphere.He tried interacting with it to see what it would do when he felt a shiver pass through his body.That shiver carried with it a lot of energy that Aiden started to fill like he would burst
The Briwyns had made no moves since the start of the round, they were content to just sit back and watch Aiden fall apart... However, Aiden had thrown a wrench into their plans.One after the other, they slowly came to life, one burst into flames and the other seemed to wear a snow-white coat of fur, as its surroundings began to freeze.Aiden's smile froze for a moment before it grew wider... 'let's get it, he thought in his heart as he dashed off to attack.The archer came to life, firing arrows one after the other... These arrows came piercing at Aiden, however, for this moment, he abandoned his crazy plan big catching arrows, instead, he let them pierce into the ground around him.With tight dives, and rolls into jumps, he tore through the gold-streaked feral beasts that came close, pulling out any of the arrows that he passed by.Suddenly he felt a chill on his neck, without the need for confirmation, he flicked the arrow to his back with such force that it pierced through the paw
Aiden walked toward the small pool in front of him... The pool was only a few meters wide but it had a bluish hue to it. Slowly Aiden stepped into the pool, he had only gone a few steps in and the water was up to his neck.Suddenly, the grey swirl in his eyes vanished... He looked around, surprised to see himself standing in neck-deep water... He had barely taken in half of the sight when he screamed.It was as if he had been stabbed but the speed at which Aiden ran out of the pool showed that this was not the case...Aiden took another look at the pool as well as his surroundings before he slowly stepped back into the pool.One step after the other, he waded through. At waist height, he still felt nothing but the moment the water was at neck height, all hell broke loose as Aiden screamed again.All the pores on his skin seemed to open up at once because the feeling was as if he had thousands of needles stabbing into his body.Five minutes...Ten minutes...Thirty minutes...Two hours