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Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 139: Ugly treasures
"Who is she?" Yumiko asked, somehow when Corey went to get dinner-The door broke down and Borba shoved her hand in, grabbed him by the throat and dragged him out of the room shouting at him for not eating anything- yeah, somewhere along being forced to eat, Yumiko had snuck into his room. She was sniffing Kat, turning her around like she was a piece of fabric. This is part of the reason Corey like Yumiko, she had zero tact. She didn't bother to word things perfectly and she didn't understand ninety percent of everything she goes through. Kat let out a strangled sound. "Can she put me down? I'm still trying to see if I believe this is real or not?" Kat eyed Corey. In all her life of simping on the gamer, she didn't think he was this handsome because of how secretive he was. Revealing his face was a no go. And he hardly spoke out loud but she had gotten to like him due to his brilliant game plays. Now she was in front of him, he has powers, her best friend is alive, and there's this
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 140
If Corey had a dime for every time he was abruptly woken up, he'd be ….. quiet broke but really frustrated. This time it was Verosika who woke him up. She had jumped on top of him while he slept. Laid no mercy to his chest. Corey grunted, and pleaded for the patience to not attack the person who broke through his sleep by throwing them out the window."Wakey wakey. We have a dilemma."Corey rolled over, and dropped Verosika on her back. She made a moaning sound, before screeching when he dropped his weight on her went back to sleep. "Corey you're smothering me, you ass!""Not my problem." He mumbled. She squirmed, and hit his shoulders several times but he wouldn't even budge. Soon Corey was able to pass off to sleep, only to have it disrupted again when the door flew open. Pamela made her presence known, kat tracking slowly behind her friend. "Corey, Mikayla said we have a quest to do and we're finally there. Verosika, what are you doing?" She rasped. The imp queen rolled her eye
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 141: Mother Dearest
"If two plus two is four. And four plus four is eight. What in the cosmic is this?" Mikayla voiced what everyone was thinking. The quest had been unexpected in such a way that corey could not describe. They'd arrived at a classroom. The so called puzzles they were supposed to solve seemed nonexistent as three teachers filed into the room, and told them to take their seats. They would have to volunteer each level on who would solve the problem. Which meant just Misha, Corey, Mikayla, and Pamela would be swapping. Pamela wasn't even sure why she volunteered. Well maybe it was because the other women flatly refused. Borba claimed it was unethical for an orc to do such menial task. Verosika said queen aren't nerds. Which Mikayla took offense too. Gogo said out loud that she was definitely not book smart, so unless they wanted to fail they would leave her out of it. Eleanora had no clue about math or anything, dragon mages were not taught that. And Kat said nothing but Pamela answered for
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 142; Don't talk about scars
Gogo wasn't meant to see the actual wounds, and Corey mother threw up. Having seen the actual damage she had caused due to her codependency made her feel worse than a monster. The sores were almost painful to stare but gogo kept her eyes on them. Corey wasn't paying any attention to who was watching him, he was feeling vengeful glaring down at his mother like she had cursed him. In a way, she definitely cursed him. She was supposed to be his guardian, instead she chose to turn on him. If Larry had left her after a week, she likely would have married someone far worse. His mother had really bad taste. And Corey always suffered for it. "Corey, I'm sorry." She vomited again. He only glared, this was even half of his injuries. The scars he used to have around his back and chest had healed over the years, they were hardly visible. But his arms. They suffered refusing to even heal. "Look at me." Corey commanded and his mother sobbed. This was her personal hell. Having to see the actual
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 143
Kneeling by the window, Corey spun a pen in his hand. He was in a rut. Hate brewed within his stomach at the memory of seeing his mother. Hate that he didn't like. He didn't want to feel. But for the past three days, whenever he woke up, Corey would pause and just think about this mother's face. She was in the game. She didn't even know how. And so was Larry. The people he hoped he wouldn't see were all here. The pen spun faster as his thoughts continued to dive deeper. The women were respectful, they didn't bother him too much and they didn't show their pity but Corey could feel it. They were thinking about his inks differently. He had started wearing sleeves, and hiding them because they drew attention. Corey glared at the pen until it snapped. He spun the two split pieces, his mind somewhere far away. Yumiko was the only one who didn't get that Corey needed some space to get his emotions underwraps. He couldn't sleep. He couldn't eat. Just seeing his mother had sent him into a d
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 144
NewAge: COREY THAT QUEST COULD HAVE HELPED YOU.'Hard pass.'NewAge: IT WOULD HAVE CAUSED A GOOD DISTRACTION.'Soft pass.'NewAge: YOU'RE AN INSUFFERABLE LITTLE SHIT. 'Firstly, I'm not little. Secondly, I'm not taking any quest like that.'NewAge: A QUEST JUST JUMPED INTO YOU HANDS AND YOU'RE SAYING NO TO IT. YOU DIDN'T EVEN SAY NO, YOU PRACTICALLY THREW IT OUT THE WINDOW. ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS?'Nope. I need a more adventurous quest. Something that'll force me to tap into my power.'NewAge: OH WOW, IT'S NOT LIKE THEY OFFERED YOU A CHANCE FOR THAT! HE'S GONE MAD! "Corey?" Kat's voice snapped corey out of his little game. He was having fun messing with the system. For once it was the other way around. The door crept open, and Corey laughed internally. NewAge was swearing at him. And it was fun. The system truly was his friend. It was annoying as shit. Easy to poke fun at. When it wasn't pissing Corey off. "What's up?""Uh?" She dropped her eyes into his lap, where Yumiko was curled u
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 145
Strapping his backpack, Corey received multiple hugs from the women as they filed into the vehicle he had conjured up. It was an RV, but longer and a bigger. Not the easiest to drive but Mikayla splunked it up with her magic. Adding a little bit to make it stable enough for Borba to drive. Seeing as she was the only one Strong enough to steer that monstrosity. Corey saw them off before teleporting himself to the end of the mountain. Mount Oval, a dumb name if you asked him. He wasn't the only one there. About thirty other participants stood at the bottom. Corey scanned all of them, checking their power scale and he was impressed to find that most of them were over the level three hundred. Meaning they could put up a very good fight. He rolled his sleeves up, and stretches his arms. A woman stepped in front of them. She was dressed like a jester, clown makeup and all. She reminded him of gogo, only less hot. And the madness in her eyes was lacking as well. "Welcome to the death game
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 146
The jester was determined to kill Corey, and he was determined to have fun with her. Her first swing had zero effect on him, she was below his level. Corey shrugged it off like it was nothing and clambered on. She kept trying, pulling different weapons and if he considered her a real threat he might have fought back but his determination to just have fun while getting to the top was stronger. And he wanted that wish. He wanted to ask for his full potential. If that was even possible.He was sure they were pranking him, for one reason only. No one has something this powerful as a prize. NewAge: AGREED. THEY MOST LIKELY KILLED EVERYONE BEFORE THEY COULD GET TO THE TOP. AS YOU KNOW, IT'S A DEATH GAME. BUT DID YOU KNOW NO ONE HAS EVER WON IT?That didn't surprise Corey. This con sounded normal, especially with the jester claiming he was cheating. She was attacking him because she knew he was going to make it to the top. Corey turned his neck, to see one of his competitors fall off a clif
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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
