Entering the city of Botshofn was a simple affair. The city guards performed an inspection of the wagons to make sure there was no contraband then charged Volcrag a bit of tax. None of the guards or drivers had to pay an entry fee to get inside of the city. If they did then trying to transport anything a good distance would cost more than the merchant would make. Who would choose to do a guard ...
2019-07-29 21:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostThomas watched Lexiana walk away and shook his head. He said he accepted her apology, and he did, but that didn't mean he would lower his guard against her by one iota. He still planned to ditch her at the first possible opportunity. When she was out of sight he went back to his job and continued to send out pings using his Mana Field ability. The more he used it the easier it was to use. His m...
2019-07-24 20:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostAfter staring at the red-head for a while, Thomas turned to look at Volcrag and asked, "Is there any chance I could guard a different wagon?
Volcrag looked between Thomas and Lexiana. As a long-time merchant, it wasn't hard for him to see the tension and hint of hostility that Thomas held toward Lexiana. To answer Thomas's question he shook his head, "Sorry son, you two were the very last...
2019-07-23 21:34:22 +0000 UTC View PostThomas walked across the room and collected the mana crystal glittering on the floor. He studied it with a frown, unlike others this one really was pitch black. Could such an impure mana crystal actually be used for anything good? Well, it's not like he planned to keep it. With the exception of extras, all the mana crystals he collected were going to be turned in for quests to gain experience. ...
2019-07-22 20:12:16 +0000 UTC View PostThomas let out a sigh as he looked into the room within the dungeon. The monsters within the room were not exactly surprising but they were definitely going to be annoying. He was starting to wonder if he should have just stayed on the second floor instead of making his way down to the third floor today. Dealing with the zombies had been easy enough, if smelly, and worth a fair bit of experienc...
2019-07-20 22:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostThomas wiped some sweat from his brow while walking around the room collecting the dropped mana crystals. They were somewhat smaller than the crystals he got from the skeletons. He attributed that to the fact that the zombies appeared to be weaker than the skeletons. Normally monsters grew stronger the deeper you went into a dungeon. In the case of this dungeon, the monsters got weaker but the ...
2019-07-18 23:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostAfter enjoying the skewers with Snowlily, Thomas opened up his character sheet to take a look at it. He'd avoided looking at it the entire time they were in the dungeon. He wanted his progress to come to him as a complete surprise. As he looked at his available experience his eyes widened in shock. He had over seventeen thousand experience saved up! He did some quick math in his mind and grinne...
2019-07-16 23:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs the single gunshot continued to echo in the dungeon room, Lexiana was shivering while she crouched down and covered her ears with her hands. The sound had been deafening in the dungeon room and with her hearing it was painfully loud. It took her a few moments to recover. When she did she looked at the dungeon wall behind her and started to shiver in fear. There was a small smoking crater now...
2019-07-12 21:22:40 +0000 UTC View PostThomas took a moment to examine the classic dungeon monsters in front of him. There were a total of five skeletons within the room he'd just entered and not all of them were the same. The first two skeletons were wielding a shield in one hand and a longsword in the other. The longsword was covered in rust, chips, and cracks while the wooden shield had a massive crack with a broken axe stic...
2019-07-11 17:15:07 +0000 UTC View PostThomas sat on the bed in his room inside the inn. Dinner had been respectable but nothing to write home about. He suspected that the inn used normal animal meat as it wasn't nearly as tasty as monster meat. Snowlily was already asleep against his thigh and snoring lightly. He was ready to get some sleep himself, after all it had been a rather long day for him. First that dream world with the cr...
2019-07-05 18:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Thomas walked through the city a not-so-subtle shadow walked a little distance behind him. This shadow was different from the four Black's that had attacked Thomas the previous night. For starters, the shadow was a young woman in her late teens to early twenties. She was also very clearly not human as two triangular ears covered in flaming red fur stuck out of similarly colored wavey red ...
2019-06-27 10:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostShortly after Thomas began his flight he started to breathe a little heavily. Flying used no mana at all but rapidly drained his physical strength and stamina. Despite only flying for a few minutes he felt like he had run for several kilometers at full speed. Feeling his stamina getting lower he began preparing to land. It was easy enough to slowly glide towards the ground. As he descended a su...
2019-06-23 23:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostBANG!
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BANG!!
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BANG!!!
Thomas fired three shots from his Peace Maker with noticeable pauses in between each shot. The pauses between shots gave him time to charge mana into the revolver to increase the damage each shot would deal. It proved futile. The first shot hit the spike-covered bear-like monster square on the head. The bones protruding around its skull...
2019-06-23 00:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Thomas was breaking down his campsite and getting onto the road to continue his travels, the four Black's had revived from their defeat. All four of them looked gloomy as they stood around, especially Black One who had lost his shortsword. Defeat and death within a VRMMO was a completely common affair and players had probably totaled more than a few million deaths already. That didn't mak...
2019-06-20 02:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostThomas stood in front of the gaping hole in his tent and looked at the last survivor of the group that tried to assault him. The man had thrown out some lame insults in an attempt to get Thomas to not just shoot him dead and he'd agreed. Not for any sense of mercy or from falling for the taunting. He simply wanted to give his new sword a nice test run. While he waited patiently for the battered...
2019-06-11 23:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Zero sat on a thick tree branch about twenty meters off of the ground. From here he could see out into the open for a fairly good distance. Using his innate skill 'Hawk Eyes' he was observing a man and his puppy as they ate their dinner around a campfire. Even at a distance of nearly three kilometers, he could still easily make out the details on the man's clothing and armor as if ...
2019-06-10 23:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thomas dreamt. Dreaming was nothing new, after all, he'd been doing it all his life. Even in a VR game dreaming was a necessity for a healthy mind. He would rarely remember the content of his dreams, usually only recalling a vague feeling. Tonight's dream was something different.
Thomas found himself standing inside of a cave with his mind fully conscious. Something like a lu...
2019-05-29 20:58:06 +0000 UTC View Post
After a nice nights sleep, Thomas rolled out of his bed and started getting himself ready for the day. He decked himself out in all of his gear. No matter what, he would be leaving the city today and heading out on his journey to find Hekrin's master. Thinking about Hekrin's master he wasn't able to remember if he'd ever asked for the man's name. If he had he'd forgotten it already...
2019-05-24 21:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As Thomas slept in his bed peacefully, Hekrin was wide awake inside of his workshop. The whole room seemed to waver as heat blasted out of the forge. The temperature of the flames inside of the forge had reached a height that Thomas could have only hoped to reach. At the same time, if Thomas were to enter the room he would instantly be reduced to ashes by the heat.
Within the...
2019-05-21 21:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
As Thomas drifted off to sleep there was a meeting taking place between the leaders of multiple countries throughout the world. The king of Reykhoten stood in a room within his castle and faced a group of mirrors. Reflected on each mirror was not his own reflection but the reflections of other men of various ages. Each exuded a feeling of nobility and power. It had taken some time ...
2019-05-18 15:55:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, sorry for vanishing like that. I'm sure most of you are aware that I am back but I wanted to put this up here to let you guys know officially.
I also wanted to take the time to mention the changes I'm planning so that you can drop my patreon if you don't like them.
Change 1: Tiers will be based on how many weeks ahead the chapters available will be. IE tier 1 will be 1 wee...
2019-05-15 21:35:16 +0000 UTC View PostOn his way to Hekrin's shop, Thomas stopped at Zella's Fashions and bought himself some fabric. He wanted to make some additional clothing as well as a jacket to wear over his armor. He still had the image of an old-fashioned cowboy in mind and it just felt 'right' to try to emulate it a bit more. He bought a lot of various cloth from the amiable older woman. Thin soft cloth, thick durable clot...
2019-04-09 20:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostMaking the sheaths for the weapons wasn't much of an issue and didn't take a whole lot of effort. The part that sucked though was not getting any experience for creating them. Still, the black Elder Lizardman hide made for excellent looking sheaths. The scales gave the sheaths a high-class look that wouldn't be too showy at first sight. The sheath for the sword was designed to sit against ...
2019-04-06 22:42:50 +0000 UTC View PostThomas carried Snowlily along with him all the way to The Swans Nest where they enjoyed a nice warm meal together. Snowlily still sulked when he forced her to eat her vegetables but she ate them so she could enjoy the next piece of meat. When they finished their dinner they retired to their room for the night.
Once inside of the room Thomas joined Snowlily on the bed and snuggled with her...
2019-04-04 23:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostThomas drifted into using his 'Serenity' to recover his health, stamina, and mana. He felt energy flowing into him and recovering his body but his headache didn't recede. This annoyed him greatly as it showed that the headache was likely something that natural healing couldn't help him with. Even after his mana and stamina had completely recovered, he continued to use 'Serenity' until the heada...
2019-04-03 22:23:59 +0000 UTC View PostThomas started with two possibilities for enhancing the sword. The first was to try and add space magic to it. If he could make a thin line along the edges of the sword it would be possible to slice just about anything by severing space itself. That seemed like an extremely badass idea to him. The problem was he hadn't really experimented with Space magic just yet and didn't want to waste his w...
2019-04-02 22:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostThomas read over the description of the fan and shook his head. That was just rude. He decided to test the fan before calling it a day, he needed to know how long it would run on a full charge. He turned the fan around in his hand and placed his index finger on the mana crystal. The moment he began to charge it with his mana the fan blade started to spin at a relatively decent rate and produced...
2019-03-31 20:39:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter thinking for a bit, Thomas decided what he wanted to make first. He grabbed one of the heart steel ingots and looked over it. He glanced at Snowlily as he asked, "Instead of 'heart' what do you think of the term 'Origin'?"
Snowlily was laying down on the floor and just tilted her head a bit to look at him for a moment. Then lay back down as if it didn't matter to her in the least. T...
2019-03-30 21:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostAs Thomas moved through the dungeon he tried his best to avoid other people. Fortunately, there weren't many players left in the dungeon. Even the players who couldn't put in as much time as he could had graduated from the starter city. The groups he came across were either comprised entirely of locals or only had a single player within them. Anytime he sensed a player he would store his Peace ...
2019-03-29 20:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostThomas sat at an empty table and placed Snowlily on his lap. Snowlily didn't offer any complaints as she looked over the top of the table and waited patiently. Thomas knew she was intelligent, she was a Garou after all, he just didn't know how intelligent she was at the moment. Was she as smart as a child? An adult? Somewhere in between? He honestly didn't know.
They sat together in silen...
2019-03-28 20:41:47 +0000 UTC View Post