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Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 173
Sitting under the hot spray coming off the shower, Corey had his eyes watching the news on earth. More issues were displayed. The number of dead children was vastly increasing. It shook his small town, and the entirety of the US. All the parents could shout was for kids to stop thinking of this as a joke. They'd do everything to make sure the games were not in their childrens rooms, and yet somehow their kid would still end up dead. And they would later discover the video game. Many speculated that some of the children had not really played the game. And someone was using the chaos to commit vile crimes. Corey believed all of the stories. Because they all made sense. All except the reason behind the game's killing. Erogo must have taken more a thousand people, why was he still collecting more?Was he that desperate to create an android like human? Why would he even want to do that?Visibly puzzled by the stroy he was watching on the news, Corey hadn't noticed a pale figure stepping
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 174
"You think I'm cheating?" Corey said in a low, raspy voice that made Erogo think the teen was pissed. But aside for his glare, corey looked nonchalant. "How else can you see me? My form is hidden right now, but you can see me. You can pause time. You can shoot beams, kill giants, you're obviously cheating. And I want to know how? How the fuck, is a single human such as yourself capable of brawling with Iriel? How?" Corey's head tilts to the side, a realization dawns on him for the first time. In Edwards journal, he'd mentioned that a being like the lock keeper had been the one to drag him there. Destiny claimed that he made a deal with the gods and the lock keeper. He told them that fake prophecy. His last name is Feldman, and yet this man before him could not put the two pieces together. That meant the lock keeper those two were referring too, Corey had yet to meet him. And he had a strong feeling that Erogo hadn't met him yet either. Nodding, Corey was getting a clearer picture
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 175: Helping the ambassador
After a vigorous night of thinking up ideas, Corey finally figured out how he could save his favorite game from being removed from everywhere else. He'd started with thinking about the deleting the lock keeper's game, but that dastardly restrictions stood in his way. Then Corey's next idea didn't work either. He finally came up with something that worked. Corey thought about erasing the connecting between the CoT creators and the lock keeper. By making people forget that they were the parent company for the murderous game. To Corey's surprise, it worked. Which made him marvel at his ability. Wiping the minds of every human with just a thought. It was a little bit scary. Why was given such an ability?He could seriously return to earth and fuck things up for everyone. And they would worship him at the end of the day.He could make them do it. And yet he had simple limitations. Corey wanted to get those shackles off his body. He was day dreaming about the things he could do to people
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game chapter 176
The shadow casted a dark glow over Corey's body. He looked up, noticing the large man lifting a weapon towards Corey. Wanting to mess with the man, Corey didn't move. Allowing the man's weapon to connect with his neck, only it shattered and Corey's ears caught a gasp of shock. He rose before the man could call for help. Hands stretched out to grab the man by the throat. Smacking his skull against the door, and completely killing him on the impact. A loud alarm rang through the halls and Corey groaned. He raised his foot, forgoing his whole plan of taking this the normal way. Corey broke the door off its hinges and ran towards the woman chained in the room.She still looked calm, not bothered by anything that had happened to her. Corey was impressed, he shoved a hand out to grasp her. "I was sent to retrieve you." She grabbed the hand, and Corey freed him.She still made no conscious move to ask him any questions. As you she trusted that he was telling the truth or she just didn't c
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 177
Corey had long forgotten what his thoughts of the previous day had been. Instead, he was trying his best to catch a good night sleep. But he had received three more notes very directly telling him to start following the clues again. It seems his decision to just not listen to the person that was sending him on the wild goose chase, had been upsetting said person. Corey didn't really care, but he couldn't sleep that night. He kept hearing a faint tapping noise that NewAge said was only in his head. Annoyed, and frustrated, Corey kept his eyes closed and tried to force his body to sleep. Eventually the tapping got too loud and fast that Corey pried his eyes open to see what he could do to distract himself. He let a gasp out, discovering that he wasn't in his room anymore. But in some kind of bunker. Corey rolled out, and dropped to his feet. The tapping noise was coming from a leakage in the roof. Which was weird. Well, not as weird as being in a strange room. A voice came out throu
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 178: The destiny
The issue with getting to destiny was that Corey had to make sure his great grand … uncle or father, he wasn't sure. The man was really really old, and Corey had removed most of the information about him. He didn't want to go to the brothel, or his home, so he opted for something else. From what NewAge told Corey, Destiny spent a good chunk of his afternoon feeding the birds by a gloomy, eerie lake. Laverna was with him this time so they were both confronting the man who got them in this situation together. The women agreed they'd stay on the ship unless Corey said something otherwise. They arrived at the small county farm where Destiny lived. Laverna wanted to explore his home, but Corey reminded her that destiny has been hiding for years. He likely has traps that will immediately alert him if anyone stepped on to his front porch. Sure, Corey could have disabled whatever Destiny had set, but he somehow felt like that was the wrong way to go about things. Corey and Laverna made a s
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 179: Scaredy cat
They'd stayed for another hour, just going through Destiny's house while he tried to pretend that they weren't there. Corey was in a bit of a bind as his confusion over the situation stermed strongly. He had to take a moment to ask himself, what the fuck was he going to do with what destiny had told him? He knew not to trust Liu Zing from the get go. The man was too calm, he knew too much, and he was way to involved in the sacrifice. Especially when Iriel had mentioned that only Liu can perform the sacrifice. Did none of the other celestials find it weird? Why had they just automatically accepted that it was perfectly okay for someone to be this in charge of everything. And now that his theory on the blind man was confirmed, Corey also deduced that the sacrificing of the Feldmans was also Liu's idea. From what destiny had described. Laverna couldn't remember what exactly happened during her death, but she knew it wasn't nice. So as they paced around their relative's home, they thou
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 180
"So we scared the fuck out of him." Laverna states as they enter the living room of Destiny's house. Corey had rebuilt it, and they'd left Destiny as a crying mess in his real master's bedroom. Corey went out through the pantry to collect those porn magazines so that they could read it, and find out as much as they can about the real lock keeper. When he'd first thought about this game he had never expected all the twist that came with it. Kudos to the creator, now whether that is Erogo or the real lock keeper, Corey has no clue. They sat on the long stretching sofa and the magazines turned into books for them to read and commence their research on. Corey handed one book to Laverna, he took one for himself, and left the rest in the middle so they could pick when they were done. The first book he opened showed him so much about how high people thought of the lock keeper. The guardian of the horrors, secrets of the universe, criminals who have committed the worst of the worst. He had
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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
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..
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
