“Holy! Now that is a hook.” Everyone looked surprised for a moment by Jason’s right hand, including Kane. The stadium fell into a momentary silence with the crushing blow, and Kane looked disoriented by the strike. He wasn’t ready for the strike, and there was no expectation to see such massive power from Jason. Besides, Kane was taller than Jason, and the distance Jason had to cross was longer than what Kane should cross to reach Jason. However, the surprise didn’t last for more than a second. Jason’s right hand again reached Kane’s face like a rocket. “Crack!” The mics near the ring recorded a clear cracking sound as Jason’s fist connected with Kane’s skull. Kane’s head whipped to the side with uncontrollable force, and a bit of blood splattered to the side. However, Jason wasn’t done with his assault. His left hand followed with a punch to Kane’s ribcage, followed by a similar right hand. “Crack! Crack!” Two more crushing sounds followed the brutal assault. Finally, Ja
“Damn! Damn! Damn!”“What? Are you still watching the fight? Can’t you just give it up? I lost all my allowance by betting on Kane. That stupid musclehead. Totally useless.”“No. It is the Crystal Pulse!”“What? Do they have to boast more? I am telling you… If this wasn’t their area….”The player with dark circles under his eyes clenched his fists in anger. He lost so much money in the fight a few hours ago. However, there were many changes within the player community within this short time. First, there were no more arguments about who owned Light Shone. Even if Jason failed the assessment in The Endless, Jason Hope was a more complex man to the players. He was the true alpha of The Endless who could be as scary as the real him on Earth. The order in Light Shone looked much better, and the regular players showed much more interest in the Crystal Pulse and its activities. Of course, the Crystal Pulse wasn’t a terrible place for regular players who didn’t register or got selected a
“This way!”Gillian led the way into the forest in haste. The road they started building was coming into shape and travelling into the forest became easy. The only downside was the effort they had to put into developing a single road. Clearing, preparations and material gathering took days. Instead of calling it playing, it felt like manual labour. If not for the fact that their pay was good and their gameplay wasn’t as boring as it looked, they would have given up long ago. The daily training and the feeling of getting stronger as the days passed made it exciting for them. All the hard work they had to put in looked worth it when they could see the road they were taking and where it was headed. ‘But it is nothing to them….’She thought of the Earth wizard and his students who made roads within a couple of hours. They came here with Jason, and they looked more like workers compared to real wizards. Also, they seemed to be really respectful toward Jason and showed a slight hint of
“I am leaving, then….” “I will take care of her, and we will wait until you are back.” There was an awkward silence between them. Jason kept his distance from Amelia and Hanna. Last time, Nyx got pulled in with him in the space wrap, as Amelia called it. He might drag the two people he had to protect into danger if something went wrong. Hanna was still asleep, and he couldn’t imagine how sad she would be if she knew he was leaving for an unknown period. ‘The warning is useful. I don’t have to drag them into this.’ He didn’t know how long he would be away, and what kind of world he would fall into. ‘It won’t be the same as the last time, right?’ He thought of the children he trained. He thought of them many times and wished what he taught them was enough for them to have a safe life. ‘Sigh.’ His eyes darted to the silver-haired beauty who had her gaze fixed on him. He didn’t know what was going on in her mind, but he knew the one who sent him the message through the armban
‘Where am I?’ Jason slowly opened his eyes and he felt something brushing against his skin. “Crack! Crack” The steel straps shattered with the steel bed as he moved his body with no effort. ‘Huh?’ Jason looked at the shattered steel in a confused mind. ‘I was… Like how it ended in the previous simulation.’ He realised he couldn’t feel any ground beneath him. ‘I am floating….’ His body flooded with a familiar power, and his body had mutated into how he was at the end of the last simulation. Half of his body had skin that resembles the void filled with stars, and the other half had the scaled skin covered in spikes. ‘What is this place?’ He realised he was inside a manmade structure. ‘A factory? How did I get here? And what is this?’ He looked at the broken metal beneath him. The light came down into the massive building through the broken roof. Everything looked rusted and old, but Jason noticed some metals showing signs of resistance to the weather. ‘What are these?
‘Sigh.’Jason stared at the setting sun in silence. For once in his life, he learned about absolute silence. Even the noisy robot which followed him around was silent. He knew it was sitting below the garbage mountain. It was the gloomiest sunset he ever witnessed in his life. Unknown fumes and black clouds covered the sky the entire day, and sunlight rarely penetrated the grey sky. The sunset revealed no stars or a moon, making Jason angrier. He thought of the time he spent watching the sky with Hanna and Amelia. He told stories about the stars they saw on Yuriel to his little girl. Of course, Amelia didn’t mind teasing him from time to time about his stories, and it was a time he enjoyed with the two of them. This gloomy sky made him enraged as time passed.“Roar!”Jason roared into the darkness and waved his hand at the dark sky.“Swift!”A gust of power-filled wind ripped the gloomy sky into two, revealing the distant star.‘Sigh!’He leaned back and looked into the unknown sky
“Another one. Damn it.”Jason growled in frustration. It took him days to properly disassemble a single robot, and it took him even more time to learn how to put one back together. However, he failed to make even a single one work. Jason also had to keep his anger in check to ensure he wouldn’t destroy any more robots. Since he had to repair at least one of them, every part was valuable. ‘I am not even close to finding this damned objective.’What truly made him angrier was knowing that repairing a robot might not help him achieve anything. He had no idea how to extract their memories and even if these robots had records of their creators. The best thing was to repair these devices that resembled computers to see the information they had, but he couldn’t even repair a simple robot. Also, the world had no source of power left except the sun, and he had to start everything from scratch. “Beep! Beep!”“Hm?”Jason looked at the only working robot looking at his handy work. PX-5 was t
‘Damn it. Why is this so hard?’Jason looked at the things he wrote down as the process of getting rid of the garbage on this planet. He could collect and recycle the most, but there was a massive problem with the history he learned. The original inhabitants brought resources from other planets and objects in the surrounding solar system to this planet, and the crash of the floating constructions made it worse. In the end, the planet had more materials than its original mass, and Jason thought of getting rid of them over time. Also, the lack of sunlight due to the polluted sky, and the energy was a limited resource for the time being. He had to clear the sky to ensure the machines could work for a longer time. The next problem was the repairs and services of the robots. The original robots didn’t include advanced maintenance robots, which were suitable for sustaining the robots independently. ‘I have no idea what happened to these humans. They didn’t send any communication back o