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Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 101: Rules
Armageddon was something pulled straight from Corey's greatest fantasy. The small floating amongst the clouds like it wanted to become one with the heavens had everything a childhood Corey had dreamt off. When he first played a fantasy type video game.From the medieval castle, to the clothes, the blossoming green terrains and the people. The people were close to humans excluding their great magical prowress. Corey was having the time of his life just looking at the image NewAge had pulled up. He couldn't wait until they arrived. Then he could see in person just how wonderful the place looked. But was he being honest with himself? He'd seen more places with a beautiful environment that this on can't compete with, so why was he is excited?As an fan of anime and video games hbased off animes, Corey had taking a liking to to full metal alchemist and black clover. Seeing this place reminded him so much of that.From the buildings. To the people. The statues and the little stories they
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 102: Rage and Lessons
Mikayla was right. And Iriel hated to admit. But more than that, she hated to admit that Corey had been. Right. He knew to shun her out, in order to get her to listen. She wanted to apologize, but when she showed up at his room he was gone. And so was the princess, and Misha. She didn't know who to ask about Corey's sudden disappearance, since no one was talking to her. Her only option happened to be the human female working on a device that looked funny. Iriel tapped the side of the door with her knuckles. Pamela shot her head up from where she sat on the floor, looking over some blueprints. When she saw the cause of the disturbance, she returned her eyes to where they initially were. "Can we talk?"Pamela said nothing. So Iriel huffed, she clenched her fist ready to go into a rant about how humans were beneath her. And that Pamela can't be protected by Corey forever. But she shoved that away and forced her body to ease up. Tension formed in her shoulders. "I need to ask you some
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 103: The Red claw butcher
They arrived at Armageddon shortly after Iriel's outburst, which was a week later. Very fortunate for her, the women had decided to let her stay. As long as that incident never repeated itself. Misha had to hide her shock at Borba's sense of calmness. She was slightly happy the orc had gotten a taste of death, then maybe it would teach to not easily react so brashly. But Misha wasn't stupid enough to let her happiness carry on. She knew the type of people orcs were. For Borba to have calmed down, that only meant something bad was on its way. And the general didn't even banter with Misha. When Misha would say something snarky, and Borba would hum only.It made her words feel like nothing. The orc had killed her brother. Who was trying to kill her. So she was starting to see Borba's side, which annoyed her. She had always known she wasn't in the right, but Borba was infuriating enough for her to continue hating her. Until now. They couldn't leave the boat despite being below the maje
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 104: Excitement
The storm cleared up the very next day, and the undead Luna floated up into the skies. There Corey contacted the owner of the cabin they had bought for their time there. The old woman was kind enough to direct them to place in the nearby woods with a lake to park the ship. Mikayla used her magic to shield, and reduce the size of the ship so it would fit into the lake. They packed their bags, and followed the old woman to the cabin. This was when Corey revealed a side of him that seemed to freak out about everything. In a good way. He wad asking the old lady about the cabin. The history of Armageddon, she revealed that she owned the library with the books that nobody could read."You do?" Corey question was one of many that he had bothered the old woman with. But she didn't seem to mind. Enjoying the youthful enthusiasm of the teenage boy. "Yes. I own the library." She replied, using her walking cane to knock a branch that stood in her way. "Can you understand the language?""No. N
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 105: Conspiracies; The journal of Edward Feldman
The library was a large mess. Filled with dust, creepers hiding in little crevices, and other bugs that Corey didn't care for. A spider had crawled up his leg twice and he was still unbothered, simply throwing the creature away and continuing his exploration. It took him a day and a half to clean the entire library. By the time he was done, his excitement had grown twice the normal amount. He selected the first book in his path. A small black book with a one word title. LCorey flipped it open, scanning over the first page. The book was full of ideas on how to successfully fail in life. Corey burst out laughing as he realized the 'L' in the title meant loser."No fucking way. Why would someone write this?" He laughed even harder. The ideas in the book were spot on. Anyone who followed them would secure a chance of never being successful ever. Some of them could permanently ruin an image to the point of no recovery. He slid the book back into its spot and pulled out another one. A mu
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 106: Secrets unveil
Edwards journal kept changing every god-damn day. Eventually Corey had to give up on trying to figure out what was true and what wasn't. The only consistent thing was the man's moronic behavior in all of them. The first chapter changed just as much as the others. Corey's first day of school had arrived and he wasn't close to figuring out the truth of Edward Feldman. Corey had been given his schedule, and found his way to the assembly line. Where the teachers had the students from each class lined out.While they all stood in front to address them. Their speech a had taken a good chunk of Corey's time but he was too excited to feel anything else. His toes wiggled in his shoes, he was trying so hard not to show his excitement. The other students all seemed plain and unmoved about being in the school. Even Yumiko and Pamela weren't so excited. The only person to mirror his kind of feeling was gogo. Who had turned her academy uniform into a pirate themed version. Corey had complimented
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 107: Madness
Corey's first mission out of his class was supposed to be simple, he was to find and collect six Easters eggs before the week came to an end. With only two days left to actually do this, he packed up and gathered the women who wanted to go. Which was Yumiko, and Borba. Who had finally woken up from her little slumber and was in need of something to do. Just sitting in the cabin sounded so boring and she didn't want to deal with customers at the bathhouse or read at the library. Yumiko wanted to go to avoid her class. They took to the small town to begin their search. The teacher had given them a list of areas where the eggs might be.The first place they searched was the market square. With booths and people rushing to get something, it was difficult to find an egg.They eventually found it in a small girl's picnic basket and had to play a serious game to decide whose method they would use. The game of rock paper scissors, ended with Borba as the winner. She growled at the little gi
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 108: Never trust a pretty face
A new day, and for once Corey had no questions to ask. That was mostly due to the fact that he was drowning. His eyes checrd around the blue sea. The color so thick he couldn't see anything. Not even his teacher that was supposed to be leading the class on an underwater tour. Corey could sense the woman and his classmates but he had developed a horrible habit o meditating anytime his brain started to overthink.He didn't think it was a bad thing until now, when he had let his body drift to the bottom while he emptied out this mind he was still at a loss for what to do about Edward Feldman's arrival. And meditating helped him find peace.Not the kind of peace Juno had, but the it was enough to keep him distracted. Corey eventually joined the class after his little break, the cold water felt nice against his leather suit. The scuba gear was uncomfortable but he had no choice but to wear it. The premise of the class was to expand the knowledge of the sea.And all Corey had learnt was tha
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191: It can't end like this
Corey woke the next morning to the loud banging of something metallic. He could almost feel the danger before it arrived. He could sense the trap before he woke up, and NewAge provided him with no warning. That was the worst of it all. His stomach clenched, buckled with the tight feeling of despair slipping through the cracks of his chest. Something was here. An enemy that had put his system on hold. How was that possible? Corey shoved himself out of bed. Rushing towards the door of the bedroom, his fingers barely grazed the doorknob before it flew open. Scratching his nose as he ducked out of the way. Corey blinked, staring heavily at the figure that stood before him. Just yesterday, he'd been playing videogames. How did things roll from zero to one hundred? A dark figure pushed out from the door way. "We haven't been acquainted, Mr Feldman. But you're about to find out this is just the first phase of my plan."Corey wasn't given a chance to speak as the grimy voice of the man. T
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Author's note
Dear readers,I would just like to say thank you to thank everyone who has read this story so far. It's my first time writing a male leading story, and I'm not sure I did it right but I hope to get it perfectly some day. But this note isn't to tell you thank you, I also wanted to inform you that starting next month I will be taking a full month's hiatus from this story. It's not going the way I planned, reader wise. And I'd like a break from it to get my head cleared and gather some new ideas. I'll publish some chapters for the rest of the month. But after that, I'll be off on a break to return by June. Thank you for reading this note. And have a good day..
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190: Impressed by the best gamer
Taking a break was not something Corey wanted to do but he had no clue if taking another quest would benefit him at the moment. Likely because he was feeling the urge to be lazy. But where was the fun in that. Corey tapped his friend Toby while he slept. He seemed stressed, and on his screen was a failed level to a part of Clash of Thunder that Corey assumed they must have added in after he died. And apparently Toby was having issues with finishing it. Corey pulled out his chair from under the desk, plopped down on it. He pulled the headphones over his ears, and clicked on the replay on the screen. He wasn't adjusted to the set that Toby used for his gaming. But a quick two minute scan, and Corey knew where to keep his hands without having to remove his eyes from the screen ever. He sat feeling the old school joy he would normally get whenever he got home from school and settled behind his desk to play his favorite games. Or just to stream. Sometimes, he didn't even stream, he just
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189: They're on hiatus?
The new additions to the group were still on Corey's mind as he navigated through the lobby of a deserted and destroyed space ship. Dressed in a black suit to keep his oxygen from running out. His objective was to fix the ship, keep the oxygen and find out who the imposters were. There were a total of three that Corey had to search for. So he asked the women to all join in. Toby even agreed, he wanted a way to test out his alien form. No doubt so he could attack Corey, and the teen more than welcomed it. He was easy to intrigue sometimes. And for the rare occasion, rare but consistent, what should have intrigued Corey instead bored him.He took slow strides through the lobbies with Alisha by his side. She really had no complaints to joining his harem and Corey was slowly getting to know her personality. Almost like he was still getting to know Clio. Alisha was a natural hunter, she had skills that Corey didn't posses. Sure, he was a jack of all trades. But watching how she skillfully
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188: CONGRATULATIONS 🎉
The next day, Corey was apologizing to Toby. "How was i supposed to know he won trick you into marrying him? It was supposed to be a harmless joke." Toby glared at Corey. He'd gone from trying to think of a way to get himself a girlfriend to married to an orc dude that threatened to kill him if he ever left him. And he could tell Corey was secretly laughing at his predicament. No matter how many times he tried to act sympathic and sorry. It was clear to Toby that his friend was having a good laugh out of this. "If you're truly sorry, you'd use your powers to get me out of this.""Yeah, but the king would be so sad." Toby tossed his pillow at Corey. The teen didn't bother blocking it. He fell on his back then began cackling. "I'm sorry if I don't want to be married to an-"The door to his room opened, and Borba walked in. Her eyebrow raised. "You're not thinking of ditching my brother. You're his mate. Acceptance is your only choice. I chose Corey, and he didn't complain. We orcs ar
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187: Near death celebration
The missile was fast and Corey found that he could still laugh with his broken sense of humor in such a situation. Misha turned to him, incredilous expression on her face. Then she loosened up and laughed. As if on cue, Corey got a message from Borba. He teleported her to their position. She whipped around to see the missile before she could even greet Corey and tell him her brother was inviting him to enjoy an orc festival. She heard the coy laughter coming from Corey and Misha. Borba flung her mace at the missile. The wind blew against her skin as the weapon struck the tip of the sharp war missile. Making it explode. Her weapon flew back, and she caught it. Laughing curiously at the pretty site. She turned around and Corey looked in awe. From the background, it looked like a scene from an action movie. With the explosion in the sky, pieces of metal flying about. And Borba walking towards him. The wind in her hair, a smirk on her face. Corey wanted to snap a picture but all he did
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186: The types of bots
They'd found a place for Corey to fix Misha's button. And while he worked on it, getting another chance to look at her insides- no sexual innuendos there- he watched the city and spotted many types of bots. Corey was intrigued, and he was never one to really hide his fascination from himself. If he wanted to study something he would admit that much to himself. So as he settled carefully on the blanket, and Misha was stuck in a limbo like state unable to fully shake out of it and wake up until Corey was done, he asked NewAge to explain each of the bots and their purposes. He was already acquainted with the killer bots. NewAge: THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF SENTIENT BOTS THAT ARE CREATED ALMOST EVERYDAY. BUT ONLY TEN STAND OUT TO THE WORLD. WE'LL GO FROM AN UNEVEN LIST. 1: THE MEDIC BOTS; THESE BOTS COME WITH NO RANK OR LEVEL AND THEY ARE USUALLY THE EASIEST TO KILL AS THEY HOLD NO FIGHTING SKILLS. THE CREATORS DELETED THAT FROM THEIR SYSTEMS THE SAME WAY THEY DELETED EMOTIONS FROM THE KILL
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185: The warehouse
After reading the clue Corey went about his day, keeping it in mind that he would think about what to do with the aforementioned clue once he was done ne thinking about the lock keeper. Because the man kept him intrigued and on his toes. He wanted to know more. But Corey knew he would never find anything about the lock keeper without some help. Which was disappointing. It was still strange referring to an unknown force as the lock keeper, instead of the man he'd once known to be that. Erogo was just Erogo. Self centered and easily blinded by words. Corey went to bed almost too easily. Sometimes his mind and body surprised him. After what he'd seen, the question of how he could still sleep well was insane. Corey turned around in the bed, thinking about what his day would entail. But that changed when Misha broke into his room the moment he was done getting dressed for the day. She looked distressed. "Corey, I got another message. I think I need to go to that warehouse. Convince
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184: Check his mind
Corey sat his father down in Greta's den where the dragon was peacefully taking a nice nap. She had woken up briefly to sniff Corey's hand, and give his full body a lick with her long rough tongue. Corey had dried himself off the saliva and proceeded to walk circles around his father. He was watching the man as he tensed in the chair. Between the mighty dragon and a powerful kid that he knew was about to do something horrible to him. So he hissed, "Do you worst. I'll never talk."Corey laughed at the irony hidden in those words. "But I haven't even said anything, you're the one talking." His father tensed even more, and Corey was having too much fun making a fool out of the man. But how he could he not have fun? Corey knelt by his father's feet, and his eyes started to glow in a way that was nearly blinding. His father blinked severally and tried to process what he was seeing. Then his eyes rolled, in the most painful way possible. He wasn't given the opportunity to scream. Corey w
