“Did you say ‘break me’?” Sam asked, wondering if she was making fun of his Breaker bloodline.
“Yes, it’s an Islegardian obscenity, why?” Raiko said.
“Oh, never mind. Anyway, what’ve you found?” he asked, coming to get a good look himself.
Komachi wriggled out of his armor and perched up on his shoulder like an owl ready to take flight.
...
2023-08-25 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostKomachi was a lot of things, but attentive was not one of them. As she slowly came awake to the sounds of Sam swinging his big soot-stained sword through the air, Komachi realized she still had a notification pending.
She twisted about, all four paws pushing against the air as she arched her back in a deep stretch. Her dark gold fur shimmered in the light of the crackling fir...
2023-08-24 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSam only made it a few steps before rocky debris began to pelt him from above. Snatching Komachi from beside him, he hurried into a sheltering overhang as larger bits of rubble rained down into the ravine.
Rather than taper off, as Sam was accustomed to, the earthquake grew in intensity. The very land seemed to scream out in wild-eyed rage, and it took him a long few moments ...
2023-08-24 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWithout access to personal stores of Fire Mana or Metal Mana, what Sam could do was somewhat limited. But thankfully, he had access to a ready supply of Fire right in front of him, and the blade itself was composed of Metal.
While not the same as having the attunements themselves, he could still manipulate them with his affinities. In some ways, having an affinity was better ...
2023-08-23 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMultiple Skills have Leveled Up!
Your [Rally] Ability has reached (☆ Primitive III).
Your [Armor Foundation] Skill has reached (☆ Primitive III).
Your [Endure] Trait has reached (☆ Primitive II).
Your [Greatsword Foundation] Skill has reached (☆ Primitive V).
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2023-08-23 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostPurring, Komachi listened to the crackling of the campfire, and dried her sodden fur with its soothing warmth. The [Archflame], dancing at its center, felt a little like home. Just like Hawai’i.
Ever since she had met the Sage Raiko, Komachi had learned many things. And after venturing to Islegard’s end, then to the Shardrune of Il’dran and leveling up numerous times, s...
2023-08-22 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the fire was roaring, Sam settled back down to enjoy some [Simple Rations] with Komachi. He spared a thought for Kale and his friends, wondering how they were holding up without any of the supplies.
Stroke of luck that I managed to keep them, he thought. Not that he would have let Darren take them, but he wouldn’t have thought anything of passing some of his s...
2023-08-22 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSam’s stomach did flips as gravity suddenly pulled the rug out from under him. The golem and Sam plunged through the misted depths, still fighting, forcing Sam onto the defense.
Current Heat Level: 8/100
Undeterred by the rapid change in scenery, the golem kept swinging after Sam.
Leveraging his buffed Strength, Sam swept his claymore back and f...
2023-08-21 22:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Sorry, Komachi,” Sam said through gritted teeth. He hadn’t even lasted a day in this new world. So much hope and potential wasted because… what? Darren thought it would be easier to manipulate the group without him?
A flicker of rage smoldered in Sam’s chest, but he didn’t stamp it out. Instead, he stoked it and directed it to strengthen him. He had to find a way...
2023-08-21 22:25:26 +0000 UTC View PostSam wasn’t sure just how long they searched. Long enough for the sky to just begin to lighten, at the very least. But there was no trace of Matt.
Eventually, they had to face facts that regardless of whether or not Darren was telling the truth about Matt, they weren’t likely to find him. And with every hour that passed, the chances of finding him alive shrank.
So th...
2023-08-20 06:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostDarren came over and began kicking dirt and debris into the flames. “Come on, slacker. Every moment we delay is another that the spiders might come back. Besides, you want to rescue Matt, right? Well, get a move on, hero.”
The flames roared and spat angry embers, forcing Darren to step away and then hurriedly scurry farther, as if that had been his intention all ...
2023-08-20 06:55:56 +0000 UTC View PostDarren did his best to keep his expression as blank and innocent as possible. It helped that he now had a skill that assisted him, keeping him from sweating and blustering as he normally would.
Who knew you could get a Profession just from lying through your teeth?
“I want Matt to be alive more than anybody else,” he lied.
His greatest fear was that Matt was n...
2023-08-20 06:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostA beautiful horned demon knelt over Sam in his dreams, eyes aglow with bleeding blue fire and skin marked all over by luminous sigils.
“The Shatterblade,” she whispered with Raiko’s refined voice. “Did it survive? Did you?”
He struggled to respond, trapped somewhere between being asleep and awake.
Until a raucous noise from the waking world pulled him ou...
2023-08-20 06:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostEven Sam had to admit that his plan wasn’t anything special. But it seemed like people needed something to do. Some sort of plan, even if it wasn’t stellar.
And so, he laid out something so simple, any of them should be able to follow it without any issue.
“Firstly,” Sam continued, “we’re going to need a watch rotation. Three people for a few hours each. The...
2023-08-20 06:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostNaturally, the talk soon turned toward their stats, and what everybody should do with their allotment.
Sam was still digesting the information about affinities. It felt odd that he had an affinity for Fire mana, but not for Void mana. Considering that, as far as he understood, he couldn’t create Fire mana. Ever.
Or any other mana, for that matter.
So ho...
2023-08-20 06:52:40 +0000 UTC View PostNobody in Sam’s group understood the danger they were in, let alone appeared to remember the countdown to the ogre’s rampage. They bantered and talked over the grilled lizard meat as if this was just a camping trip without bothering to keep their voices down.
No one but Sam, Kylie and Kale were keeping watch on their surroundings. Chris and Kai looked around sometimes, bu...
2023-08-20 06:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostHaving fought for who knows how long, nearly dying, then the whole strangeness with that nexus place and finally fighting again had Sam realizing just how much he was running on fumes.
He was already hungry by the time they went to the beach, and every other crazy adrenaline-filled event since then hadn’t given him the opportunity to appreciate just how hungry he was.
While everybody else was still picking themselves up off the floor, Sam rushed forward to meet the large lizard. Though he could handle the [Dull Claymore] similarly to how he could have a much smaller and lighter longsword, it was still unwieldy due to its sheer size.
Sam held the blade across the back of his shoulder in a modified Wrath Guard. He stomped down on one foot as...
2023-08-20 06:50:45 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s awesome,” Sam said, staring at the ogre in the distance. It was enormous. A creature the size of a building, and yet it seemed so still that you could have missed it if not for the system or whatever it was.
“You might want to put on some armor, yeah?” Kale prompted, tapping his own chainmail and padded shirt.
Sam paused and looked at the state of hims...
2023-08-20 06:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostSweating, Sam shifted the coffers to be in front of Komachi so she could choose without having to move at all. “Twenty seconds, Komachi!”
The cat looked up at him with her deep emerald-green eyes, made a grumble in the back of her throat, and gently batted at the nearest coffer out of idle feline curiosity.
Sam wasn’t even sure why he was stressing about this, but...
2023-08-20 06:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostSomething dawned on him. “Wait,” he said, staring at his cat. “You said you didn’t get Nomad for an option…. So that means you can pick a Job too?”
Komachi nodded. “Yis.”
“You are the best cat.”
His cat hopped onto the shelf, sifting through the boxes. “I need one for… well, either I’m going to be a Mage or a Cleric.”
“...
2023-08-20 06:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostQuest Updated: Initialization in the Nexus
Objectives completed: 1/3
Select starting Job (Complete)
Select starting equipment (Incomplete)
Select starting Legend (Incomplete)
You have limited time remaining to complete this Quest.
[Fighter] Unlocked.
You gain the following:
[Armor Foundation]
(Fighter Skill) (F-Class)
(☆ Primitive I)
With your nascent understanding of armor types, you can not only identify various types of armor, but also move in them without great encumbrance. Tho...
2023-08-20 06:43:14 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s this?”
“Pick it up and Examine it,” the butler instructed.
Sam lifted the faceted gem and focused on it like Raiko had taught him to do with the [Shatterblade]. It came much easier this time.
[Starter Job Crystal]
(Ascension Gem) (F-Class)
(★Common)
Unlock...
2023-08-20 06:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostLounging in his throne room, Apostos dangled one leg over the obsidian arm of his throne and pursed his lips behind his bone mask. “Well now, I didn’t expect that.”
Lifting a lazy finger, he traced a magical rune in the air and one of three view windows zoomed in on the nearly naked man in a hole.
That blade of his should have shattered, the shrapnel ripp...
2023-08-20 06:25:42 +0000 UTC View PostSam found himself irrationally angry. Something attacking a Shard seemed profane. Utterly wrong. It was like watching somebody kick a puppy.
He had no idea where the feeling came from, but it boiled his blood and lent him new strength to scour the surrounding Empty. Ruby lightning arced out from the wild sweeping swings of the [Shatterblade] obliterating any Empty that dared ...
2023-08-20 04:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to [Worldshard: Islegard]!
Status: Undergoing Ascension
A rising tide of dragonfire surged towards Sam and the marshaling line of mages, archers, and knights around him. It consumed everything in its path, melting rock into magma before the wave even touched it.
Magical barriers flew up, conjured by dozens of mages working...
2023-08-20 04:55:15 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell is going on!?” Sam bellowed, getting shakily to his feet.
“Proving your strength,” the samurai explained simply, smirking. “Look closely at your weapon.”
Sam glanced at the oversized weapon. It looked like something out of a video game. No way anybody in real life could swing something like that without it being made of foam.
And yet… ...
2023-08-20 04:48:34 +0000 UTC View PostSam blinked the sun from his eyes and sat up, stretching and yawning to banish the fatigue from his muscles.
“Good nap, eh?” rumbled a friendly voice nearby.
Running a hand through his sand-crusted hair, Sam gave the glittering waves a mistrustful look. After a long, stressful day at his soul-crushingly mundane retail job stocking shelves, he had been looking forwar...
2023-08-20 04:39:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sam was surfing with his cat when the apocalypse struck.
Suddenly enlisted into a battle to fend off annihilation, Sam seizes the strength of the Void to survive, leaving his retail job behind.
In the aftermath, Sam's thrown into a new world shattered into floating islands with survivors from Earth. Training and fighting with his giant sword and apocalyptic mana, he...
2023-08-20 04:34:46 +0000 UTC View Post