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Treasure hunting in endless ocean light and shadow
In the morning, Neil woke up earlier than Adele. That feeling of uneasiness only increased from the morning. It’s literally like a thousand glowing red eyes watching you from utter darkness. The feeling of a monster under the bed ! The feeling of looming Monday morning ! The feeling that highlighted his loneliness all too much. Neil told himself it’s alright to be lonely. He preferred it that way. Then, he drilled his butt in the chair, started drawing soul locking talismans on the purple leather hexagons, made by Mona. At first, it was one talisman per one minute. After about sixty, his speed increased to one talisman per ten seconds. In one more hour, it was reduced to one per five seconds. However, if it’s calculated by absolute figures, the worst case was that only the evil soul was removed from the amalgamation of souls that sage is. That means, they will have to separate out nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine souls. That, assuming the fact - sage could take hos
Treasure hunting in endless ocean Cinch point
The trade off of light and shadow felt like it’s taking forever, but it was finished in a short moment. Neil knew, since Adele is acting as conduit, all the pain and stress will fall on her body. There’s only one way to avoid such a thing. He needs to walk into the trap that is Sage’s mind. It felt like he was doing a thousand brainteasers at the same moment when he walked into Sage's brain. A rough steel pillar with a flat top was floating in the middle of nowhere. All around him, there are gears, long poles balanced precariously on fulcrums, and a very little area marked as ‘ Safe zone ‘. Even an amateur could tell that reaching that safe zone is the goal. If only that were easy ! The gears are tightly packed, and the rotating long poles come by at fixed intervals. Any place where you could fall off to, a trap existed, such as a mud pool, a lava pool, a grassland where a tiger was waiting, and so on and so forth. The entire setting looked like an extremely well crafted and
Treasure hunting in endless ocean The meeting
Neil held Adele up, supporting a drooping Merlin with another hand. “ A tear ! there’s a tear in the time worm’s membrane. Sage .. hic .. Sage d..hic Sage did not get destroyed completely. A shadow remnant ran to the tear.. We need to chase.. You mu… must n..t miss. It’s dang..rews .. Neil. you must kill.. Her. She knows mo..re. She cou..huh..ld revive st..ahar beasht inside.. Must not ! save… the.. World for.. Now.. ! please ! “ Adele managed through flickering consciousness. She had overdrawn her body. Despite the cautiousness of Neil, this was a fight where she would have been exhausted. She only survived because of Merlin’s never ending mana. Neil supported Merlin. After about fifteen minutes of mana transfer, Adele became stable. During this time, Neil got another message. [ Curse of Kraken broken. ] [ You have no traces of kraken curse upon you. ] He retrieved his stats once again. It’s been more than nine months since he last checked his stats. Neil opened his stats.
Treasure hunting in endless ocean Last boss
The spacemancers of Drow kingdom did nothing but fix the space portals these days. They built a straight line of portals over a space of thousands of miles. A portal was built for every five hundred miles in a inhabited area, and one per thousand kilometers in an uninhabited area. After Adele gave out her warning, they set off within fifteen minutes. And within an hour, they were standing at the border line of where space anomalies had been happening. The sky is already pitch black, yet, occasionally, a light edge in a color goes off outlining one space anomaly layered on top of another. Just minutes after they arrived at the location, the pitch black horizon broke, opening a tear within itself, shimmering in bright blue color. Like a divine eye of blue with a dark and stormy horizon filled with black lightning, with a gray stone temple as its center. Without a doubt, that’s the place where they have to be. Neil named it immediately. ‘ No 1 event dungeon ! ‘ he thought. Beca
Treasure hunting in endless ocean Love story - The beginning
The ship Xena has taken to go to Valkyrie is a giant cargo ship. The ship itself will not go to Valkyrie, but the company that operates the ship is a giant commercial operator. As such, they have arrangements to transport a person from Espana to Valkyrie in an unbroken chain. These ships do not make stops at any major cities between Espana and Valkyrie. Rather, they stop in small dedicated bays within the vicinity of the gigantic cities, such as Praha, Qatar, Torrent , Lehsa, and Raheyne. It would take at least three days to walk to any of these cities on foot. Simply put, it’s a distance bandits on horses can’t attack, nor the lords feel comfortable marching an army. Provided a local strongman marches the army, flags would go down, or changed in a subtle manner. The person who knows the meaning would not dock the ship at the bay. This way, the looting becomes hard, so the companies happily operate their giant ships. As Xena traveled from port to port, the information came to h
Treasure hunting in endless ocean Love Story - Choice
Redsand was a city that’s neither here, nor there. It exists sheerly because the ships can’t sail forever without resupplying. Simply put, the Red Death desert is too big and too long. Thus, the sea trade route has always been the most convenient way to go from north to south in the Drakon empire. On top of that, the sea is relatively calm and predictable on the western coast of the dragon empire. The storms came like clock work, as did the northerly and southerly wind. The channels are interspersed just at the right places. As long as a person wants to get off, they could stop anywhere on the long coast line, given most of it is gentle mud flats. Thus, Red Sand city, the most important stop, has been built at about twenty five days of sea journey from Praha to the south. The ships from Red Sand go north or south, so much so, the wharf is clearly divided in a manner that southern ships will not touch the northern ships. ‘Fuck ! ‘ Xena cursed, as she looked at the timetables of
Treasure hunting in endless ocean Love story - Back from hell
Drip …Drip ..Drip .The sound reverberated in Caspian Hart’s ears. His head squeezed in pain along with the dripping sound. He tried to twitch his fingers, but it was as if he was drowning under the sea. While he could breathe, his body felt as heavy as a rock. Oranges and reds swirled in front of his eyes, but there was no smell of molten steel. The entire cave smelled like rusty iron and sunshine.Moreover, the place felt fairly cool. The entirety of molten steel caves is sweltering hot. Caspian tried to open his eyes, but it’s as if they are glued shut using excessive glue. He could feel something on his hands and feet, which felt surprisingly like shackles. Am I being sold as slave ? he wondered. He was told by his compatriots with in the forge more than once they will sell him as a slave. After all, he was good looking, had an even more good looking body, ringlets of black silky hair, ocean blue eyes, and bronze skin that tanned so evenly, not even a tanning station co
Treasure hunting in endless ocean Love story - the evil witch
“ Why are you so sure I make the correct decisions all the time ? If I made all the correct decisions, then I would have left along with Xena to meet her brother. We wouldn’t have met you. “ Caspian grumbled at Madea. “ Indeed, you could have. Then you would have died along with him, and the rest of the winter army. “ Madea counterattacked. That’s also a point, Caspian agreed. All the same, he would rather die by Xena’s side rather than live while he doesn’t know her life or death. “ We are on a ship. It’s not like I could run. You could undo these ropes. “ Caspian tried. Madea smiled at him genially. “ I am old now. I do not have the energy to keep up with the young these days. I would rather not spend effort where it’s not needed. “ Madea gave an easy answer. Caspian signed internally at the answer. Even when he was free, Madea’s sorcery is not something an average man could overcome. Now getting out of these shackles and running? It’s probably not possible at all. Thus, f
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Reborn Drows
While Adele and Neil were discussing these details, Orion and his subjects were busy as bees. The flame crystals brought back by Neil had been handed over to the Drow king. At the time, the most vibrant flame crystal was placed in a cradle, in the center of an altar. Five Drows surrounded the altar, looking at the circle pointedly. Orion stood in the head position, the five Drows started chanting. After a time, the Drows stopped chanting and looked at the center, where a flame crystal was placed. Their eyes are full of expectation. Nothing happened. The light of hope in their eyes dimmed at the result. Their gazes turned to Orion, as if asking if they should continue. “ Continue. “ Orion ordered. The king looked on emotionlessly, despite the turmoil going on inside his head. Orion’s newly acquired ‘King’ title is not steady yet. Most of the old leaders did not agree to support Neil, but Orion just pushed it through, by the virtue of providing food and a safe place for Drows.
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Barrier - Peace
Sasha woke up quite late. she was lying on the furs in front of fireplace, like a kitten. She hadn't slept this well for a long while. It’s almost like a dream. Perhaps it was, given Adele was standing in the corner, staring straight at Sasha. Sasha wondered why she was able to sleep this well in the middle of a battle field. The answer was surprisingly simple. Because she was surrounded by family, and friends. Valerie fought with her life on line to protect Sasha, despite being a Snorc. Dan … he smelt like home. There are no other words for it. He was her only family, until Rudy arrived here, and probably would be her only light, when the world becomes cold and dark. Dan and Valerie's predictions about Snorc peace treaty being a ruse came true. Even so, the Snorc attack came far too fast. So much so, the defense could not even gather compleetely. Dan’s arm is still holding hers as woke. He held her hand on one side, and the hilt of the sword on the other side. W
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The smallest crack
Neil’s heart filled with unspeakable dread when he looked at the invisible shield membrane slowly covering up the temple. Every cell of his body rejected that shield with all of its being. Neil acted involuntarily. “ Retreat ! “ he screamed at the top of his lungs. His desire to take every last one of the elves with him powered his next spell. ‘ Collect ‘ Neil commanded with all of his being. His magic exploded, pulling all the nearby flame crystals, every last one of the flames whooshed out, becoming a red crystal as they rushed towards Neil. Neil, with Merlin on his back, rushed as fast as he could towards the portal that’s becoming unclear by the second. The space has become destabilized, and the time space continuum broke as the shield continued to cover the flame temple. The black flame in front of the priest is still burning, the remaining four Tomoe of the flames are still alit, but all the other flames are gone. It’s only then Neil understood the scale of
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Black flame
Neil retrieved his spear, changed it into a chinese slaughterer broadsword, with about three foot pole and one and half foot blade. He twirled the blade slightly, the necks of three priests were cut off. [ Experience + 5 ] [ Experience + 5 ] [ Experience + 5 ] At the same time, Merlin was not silent. He stabbed a priest, then twirled and beheaded another. [ Experience + 10 ] The message popped up. Like that, Neil and Merlin danced in the courtyard. After their decimation of fifty priests, the priests ran away, and grouped together among them. They went for the necklaces of the fire priests, coalescing the necklaces with their own. “ Merlin ! Collect the red necklaces. “ Neil commanded. The next moment, the mana blade in Merlin’s hands vanished. He stuck to Neil’s back, while Neil cut off the head, Merlin collected the necklace. They worked tirelessly, decimating the priests. However, there was no end to them. “ Blluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooo
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Event Dungeon begins
While setting up camp meat just retrieving their modular home for Neil and Adele, it meant something far more complex for Drows. All the space mancers came together with their latest catch of space crystals. Then, they set up a hexagonal space barrier around a gigantic field, isolating the space from the time worm. Cosmos gave an unnecessarily long explanation, which could be summarized into ‘ this way, we don’t get sucked into the time worm’s belly accidentally ‘. The memories are cut off when Caspian and Xena enter the temple - however, at this point, Neil has come to a conclusion about one thing. They never entered the time worm’s inside. They only fought in an ephemeral space that reflected the fire temple, they did not go inside the fire temple exactly. However, the things he had in his hands are real. In Particular, land tokens have come up with real land. That means only one thing. That the real land tokens are still out there for him to grab. On top of that, he has s
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Love story - Date part 2
Xena did not explain her intention. Obviously Caspian spent the entirety of the next hour in confused anticipation, while everyone around him laughed at him knowingly. Xena finished her selection of fabrics. She ordered another set for Caspian himself, this time, in yellow and black, with a symbol of a bull. The next announcement came after an hour. All the participants of the spring fair contest are called to a venue. There are multitudes of fabrics, clay, metal pieces, even silver, gold and gems on various tables. On the other side, there are various tools, for making pottery, for making jewelry and various other items. “ Valkyrie had long been known as the city of the craftsmen. Our women have the best of clothes, best of jewelry and best of men when it comes to that. It is your job to prove that valkians have the most dedication when it comes to love as well. You are tasked to make a token of love for your beloved. Men and women both are free to choose what they want to m
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Love Story - the Date
“ Ladies and Gentlemen of Valkrie ! Welcome andddddddddd… .Welcome to the sixteenth sprint fair of lover’s paradise. As always, your response has been more than hot ! This time, for the first time in the history of lover’s paradise, we meet the numbers needed for the seven trials of the couples. Without further ado, let us start the treasure hunt of the lovers. The first challenge in the game is to know how much your lover knows you. On my right side, there are cabins. Our lovely ladies will stand in the pink chair, our handsome men will sit in the blue chairs. “ The host went on to explain they would be answering three questions. As long as answers sync, the couple passes. “ What’s your man’s name ? “ they asked. “ Caspian Hart “ Xena answered, so did Caspian. What’s your girl’s name ? “ was the next question. They obviously are doing this to filter off the random game breakers from entering the game. “ Xena winter child “ Both of them answered at the same time. “ Where did
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Love Story - Joking around
“ Hey! Stop laughing at me, you moron. “ Xena ordered Caspian bossily. “ I am not laughing at you. I am just happy we both lived till today. “ Caspian said, chortling with laughter. The words brought a hard stop to the amusement of Nadia and Tara, while Xena shared his happiness. “ Indeed ! We still have today.” Xena said, sitting down at the edge of Caspian’s bed. To be truthful, it is quite amazing. They were thrown out of the capital city in a time of strife, walked through five battles, and countless skirmishes. They crossed the sea ! Then they went to institutions which require one to be beholden to them until death, yet, they both are sitting here, free!It is nothing short of a miracle. They have dodged death by a hair’s breadth a thousand times. They have overcome insurmountable odds. “ Oh ! Stop laughing, you idiot ! She's not joking. “ Xena said, referring to Nadia. “I am not sleeping with anyone save my wife. “ Caspian answered Nadia after he got control on his ow
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Love story - Awake
“ Caspian Hart ! You moron ! You stupid imbecilic idiotic jarhead ! “ Xena exclaimed, as she threw her hands on his neck. “ Hey! What’s with the over reaction ! I did not die ! “ Caspian mumbled, a hand rubbing soothingly on Xena’s back. Xena stopped crying after some time. Caspian held her lightly, enjoying the rare instances where Xena actually shows some emotion. “ What day is it ? “ he asked, after Xena pulled back from him. “ You still have the gall to ask for the day ! It's the thirtieth day after the valhallan new year. “ Xena told him. “ it’s .. My god ! Was I asleep for ten days ? “ Caspian asked in shock. “ How many days did you think it was ? “ Xena asked him angrily. “ Just .. Right after the woman in red left. She was so scary. “ Caspian exclaimed. “ Woman in red ? Madea ? “ Xena asked, an ominous feeling rising in her heart. Caspian shook his head. “ The other one. The whining fire spirits wanted her to submit to them. She ate them all ! I hid because I was a
