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Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 112: Laverna Feldman
"Well she doesn't waste any time.""Who?" Luke asked, drawing Corey to the light that he had said those words out loud. "No one. Luke, tell me, what will you do if I do free you? There's no way for you to get back to your home."Without hesitation, the sword answered. Perhaps he thought that Corey had a change of heart on the matter of freeing him. "I don't need to return to anywhere. I'll be honest, Corey, you and I are alike. I see how much power you have, but you're trying not to use it against others. And while I do respect that-"NewAge: DOES HE KNOW YOU'RE VERY MUCH GOING TO USE IT AGAINST EROGO FOR WHAT HE DID?'Doesn't have a single clue.'"- I think you need to take a little bit more from the world. Set people in line. Build a Kingdom, not a paradise."While to some that might have been enticing, Corey would argue his paradise was his Kingdom. You'd have to think like him. All he'd ever wanted to escape too, was a place where he couldn't be harmed. A place where he wouldn't
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 113: Private Discussion
Corey hadn't returned back to Laverna's book. She was laying out some hard truths that he needed to wrap his head around. Practically, from what he had gathered, the odds were stacked up against him. As always. Corey slid down the tree once nightfall came, the heat hadn't reduced one bit and if Corey wasn't an obsessive about completing challenges, he would have walked back to the castle and laid a curse on a every dragon. The cat had left at some point, possible bored by Corey's lack of interest in him. On the ground, Corey searched for a place he could camp. He wasn't just done with Laverna. Now he knew that he had to find her. If Iriel was really shoved this deep into his life then doesn't that mean he's led himself straight into the arms of his enemies?The thought annoyed the hell out of him. Corey grumbled, and nursed his torso with his fingers. NewAge: I THINK LAVERNA IS DEAD.'What?'NewAge: THINK ABOUT IT, COREY. SHE SAID SHE READ EDWARD'S JOURNAL, AND THAT SHE HAD ALL THE
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 114
The next morning, the sun rose to cause more heat for Corey. He went in search of the salvation dragon. There was more turmoil in his head than he had before he came on this quest. Now Corey was aware of his enemies. You would think this made things easier for him, but it didn't. It only made things harder for him to understand. To plan his next course of action. Could he win when his ability, although very broken, was still partly a mystery to him?Why was there a limit to a limitless ability? He needed answers, which meant he had to turn back to Laverna. Corey didn't drink, neither did he eat anything, he had completely forgotten other things aside for what he needed to do. NewAge: DID LAVERNA WRITE ABOUT THE PROPHECY? 'I think so but I haven't gotten that far into it.'NewAge: THERE'S ALSO THE FACT THAT HER JOURNAL STARTS FROM HER THIRD LIFE. SHE'S DIED TWICE BUT THE JOURNAL STARTS AFTER THE SECOND.'Right. Check for Laverna, I'm pretty sure she must have changed her name but I'
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 115: Phone call
Finding the salvation dragon was easy once Corey heard the dragon's growl. It was daring anyone who had the guts to cross its area. The queen and king were full of shit because there was no way in hell the dragon would move her nest and there was no need for her to move anywhere else. Standing on the edge do a steep cliff, Corey could only see the clouds. He had walked for so long while following the map that when he arrived at the top he almost walked off. He couldn't see anything for miles, nothing but clouds. There was a gap between where he stood and the other side where he could see the salvation dragon flying in a circle. She didn't look pleased at all, and Corey didn't want to bother her. Or tame her for that matter. The space between them was where the clouds laid. Confusing him about how high he was. He thought about teleporting over to that side but that sounded like too much. Especially for him to just see the egg and get his achievement. Though now that he was suspiciou
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Corey spent another day in the dragon's den just perched on a tree, and contemplating what to do. He had to get Laverna's head before he returned to Armageddon, but he wouldn't put it past the order of seven to have her head guarded. He didn't open her journal, he simply sat on the tree allowing his mind to wonder around.While laying on his back, staring up at the tall leaves protecting his eyes from the sun, Corey closed his eyes. Attempting to take a nap, even though he knew he was as exposed as a sitting duck. And if someone wanted to strike him they could. They could but they wouldn't succeed. His ears were on alert and so was NewAge. The system had drawn the map to the head. As it turned ou, after sacrificing a Feldman and the ritual doesn't work, they simply bury them and forget about them. There were no booby traps or anything dangerous from what NewAge found.Which wasn't surprising when Corey really thought about it. Why would they care about the dead Feldmans if they weren
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 117
Boarding the undead damsel, Corey told the women that they would be visiting a graveyard to collect something. He was surprised when they asked him no questions. Mostly distracted by Eleanora's new tattoo and story behind it. He thanked his luck for that.Well, everyone was distracted. Excluding Mikayla. And Corey had to give her credit for always being in his business. She hinted for him to join her on the top deck since she had no idea where this graveyard was. "You're going to get some type of artifact?"He wanted to say yes, but they would see him talk to the head so the point of lying was defeated. "No, I'm going to grave rob. I need the head of someone I knew.""But why? Why now?"Corey shrugged his ample shoulders. "I just remembered." A lazy truth but it seemed like it was enough for Mikayla."Why is you ship called the undead, damsel by the way?"She laughed, and turned the wheel just a bit. "You're asking this now?"Corey laughed with her. He didn't know where the question
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game 118: Laverna and her questions
"Corey." The second Pamela called his name Corey turned into someone sprayed with laughing gas. He clutched his stomach and bristled, he could already tell what was going through her mind the moment she saw Laverna. He could almost her voice complaining that he has brought in another woman. But this time Corey felt a gag in his throat. This was his aunt. Changing her form didn't dispell that fact.Laverna stared at the array of women, she had never met her nephew before today and now she had to wonder what he had been up too. From the orc whose height seemed way too tall, a sentinel, she couldn't even figure out what Yumiko was. Gogo looked somewhat demonic but also human. Mikayla was certainly not human, Verosika was a demon- no one could miss that, and Laverna also didn't know what she was. She looked half dead but she didn't feel any different. Her nephew would need to explain a lot to her."Corey," Pamela repeated his name. Amongst the entire group, Laverna noticed that the red
Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game Chapter 119
The return to Armageddon brought Corey no relief than when he had originally left. The only difference being the fun he was having with Laverna around. He found her funny, and enlightening. She was smart, and equally as curious like Corey. He reminded himself that she was taken at the age of eighteen. Her life was still young, and full of many things to explore. He wasn't entirely surprised at how well they connected. As friends. Even though she was his aunt. She hadn't aged much on the inside. "Iriel could recognize though?" She said as Mikayla parked the ship over the lake. "Nope, no one here is well adversed with video games."Laverna laughed hard, her stomach tightened. "Fuck off, you made me a VC? Which one?""You ever played 'dawn of Ritchfork; Rise of the walking Dead'?""Is that like a new remake of Ritchfork Dead, one to six?"His eyes widen to a cartoonish extent. "Yes. That's the made video game, though it's old so they remade everything.""Whoa! That used to be my favo
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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
