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Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 131
Two people arguing startled Corey out of his stupor. Not sleep. Corey didn't sleep because he was trying to formulate a plan on what to do with himself now that he hadn't picked up a quest or done anything. He knew if he ran into people they would be out for his head, but he wasn't about to let that stop him. So he stayed up all night, thinking to no success and staring at his ceiling like a madman. He didn't want to leave his room to see who was the cause of the argument. Or who was having the argument. The screaming got louder and louder. And you'd think they were hard to resist but Corey did the impossible. He resisted. He stayed put, hoping they were mature enough to solve their dispute without him. When heavy thumping started to march his way, Corey rolled off the bed. Then rolled again, but under it. The door slammed open, and he couldn't see who it was but he knew by the growl. It was Borba. Meaning she was fighting with Misha. Again. They were sometimes at each other's thro
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 132: Here's an idea
Corey decided the first quest would be the solo one. For reasons he kept to himself. The women needed to be informed, he'd told Mikayla of course and she took it well. If he didn't know better, he would have thought that she was grateful that she didn't have to go. And maybe he didn't know. As he gathered the other women, plus Laverna who he had decided would come with him so they could discuss more. He hadn't even informed her yet. NewAge: WASN'T LAVERNA MARRIED? HAVE YOU ASKED HER IF SHE WANTS TO SEE HER HUSBAND?'Remind me to do that once we're alone.'"Corey, it's too early for this."He hummed, "yeah I'm sure. But I've gathered you here to inform you that I'll be embarking on a solo quest with Laverna.""What? Why her?""Yeah, why me? I don't like work."Corey refrained from rolling his eyes at the childishness, and mostly laziness when Laverna was involved. Smart as she is, she just didn't fancy having to work for anything. Which should have annoyed. Corey, but he refused to bo
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 133: Building the foresight
A loud thud snapped Corey out of his sleep. He groaned, rubbing his eyes and blinking at the darkness. His breath came out slowly, and Corey promised to smacked the owner of that noise until they saw red. He jumped out of bed, his pajama bottoms hanging low off his waist. He marched with vigor. Walking into the dining hall where the women were preparing breakfast. Borba was holding up a keg of beer over her mouth, and Misha was watching her with disgust. "You can't possibly think that's healthy for you.""Which one you made that noise!?! I was trying to sleep." Corey raised his voice high so that they could hear him as he voiced his rage. They turned to him, blinking. "What noise? Was it Borba drinking? cause I'd wouldn't be surprised."Finishing the beer, she smacked her beer keg. Breaking it on Misha's head. The sentinel voiced her discomfort as Borba circled her bicep around her throat. "Sorry Corey, the crash must have come from Pamela's room. She's been working on something."
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 134
It took Corey two days to accept that he could not figure out the key and lock. He was annoyed, and just wanted to break something. So instead of going on the serious group quest, Corey opted for a lesser quest. Which involved crashing a party at a bar and claiming to be friends of the groom. Because he has no friends and he didn't want to seem like a loser. Which, Corey what laughed when he saw the quest. Sure, the groom didn't technically call himself a loser but when Corey told this story to the girls they were dying. They all needed a good moment to laugh it all out before they arrived at the venue. Laughing at the groom would have been a bad idea. "He's paying for friends, I'm so dead." Gogo snickered. It had been a whole hour, they were dressed for this event and still laughing like idiots. "Where do you find these idiots?" Pamela laughs. "Even if I didn't have friends, I never would have done something this lame. He's paying us so much to fake being his friends? Then what? W
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 135: The sad man's wedding
As depressing as hiring yourself a group of friends was, Corey and his women were able to steal the show and make the groom feel perfectly comfortable. Hai wife was surprised, and so was everyone. Mostly because of the variety of women that surrounded Corey. The stroy they went with was that Corey was one of the groom's oldest friends, and he was coming to the wedding with his women. A few of them were the groom's friends. They brought gifts and by the time the boring vows had been done, and they could go to the reception and watch the couple and their family dance, Corey was relaxed. Verosika, Pamela and Yumiko caught the bride's attention. And they were dancing around her while having a conversation. Borba was drinking with one of the groomsmen, while Misha avoided everyone as much as they avoided her. Well except for the bounty hunters who were trying to make conversations with her for the wrong reasons. Gogo was dancing with a little kid, she'd made him a horse from a balloon so
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 136: Tight Buckeroo
Corey gave directions to where the best man would be so Eleanora went after him the very next day. Corey followed closely, keeping an eye on her. He crossed the threshold of the hotel the man had been staying in. Eleanora was handling him.The best man checked out a couple of minutes ago. Corey told Eleanora to follow him until he was far out of the town before she did anything. He also warned her to be careful with whatever she did. No loud noises or smoke in case she chose to burn him. Before the cleaners could come to the room, Corey was snooping around. There had to be something that the man forgot to take. His efforts were rewarded when Corey found a stack of notes sent to him the bounty hunter from someone in the bad lands. Corey took them and disappeared just as the cleaners were arriving. He found Eleanora, as she was disposed of the body and his car. She sent everything into the lake nearby, with stacks of rocks to keep it down. Her satisfied expression told Corey that kill
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 137: Death
The small box contained a key to something. The key was bland, and ordinary. If Corey wasn't a curious Nancy he might have overlooked it and thought nothing of it. But the question he got stuck on made him analyze the key even more. What would a bounty hunter be doing with an ordinary key? And why would he keep it in a box? The box looked far better and possibly more expensive than the key. The question pegged Corey over and over until he couldn't take it anymore. They skimmed over the contents of each bag, in a hurry to find something that would need a key. Laverna had to take a break to text her new lover and Corey hadn't eaten anything. Of course food was for the weak so he focused intensely on his search. More questions came with each item that he found. They made some kind of puzzle. Corey tried to fit the pieces together, yet he was failing at something. Taking a moment back, to rest and refuel his brain, Corey asked NewAge for a package of the game. He read through the bad g
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 138: the reunion
The shock of finding out that most of the gamers that he had met online, the gamers who plenty of people obsessed over were no more. It made Corey angry first Erogo was fuckin with his past trauma, then for some reason he started killing people off. Why? What did he stand to gain from doing that? Most of the gamers were just kids. Even someone like kat was considered a child. She was still very young. Not as young as him. Even though she was alive, Corey felt she was hanging off the spectrum. She didn't look too great, she puffed her chest as she sobbed. He had a moment where he felt so bad for her. But this was none of their faults. A greater power was at play. Corey paused to ask himself, could it be possible that Erogo was creating an army with those gamers? That sounded ridiculous because the god had more than he needed. So what was the point of killing so many?What did those people do to him?Corey waited for NewAge to bring him some good news about the dead gamers. Corey could
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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
