Andrew Thompson
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Cleaning up the main inn hall after Flameforge’s celebration was the easiest job Dallion had done in this world. The guild captain had made everyone mend everything in sight under the pretense that it was part of their training. More likely, she was displeased that a member of her guild had lost a duel and wanted to teach everyone else a lesson. That was alright with Dallion, especially since his hunch had proven to be true—skills could be combined in interesting ways. Now, more than ever, he was…-
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“Prep the room, '' Fire Sky said in an icy tone. The moment she did, it was as if a switch was flipped. The Flameforge guild members stopped whatever they were doing and in nearly perfect unison broke up the food area into its composing tables. Each table was put against a wall, leaving the center of the room empty. “There’ll be no fighting here,” Hannah said, although she sounded less insistent than one would expect. “I’ll pay for the event and all related damages,” the captain said…
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Dallion made a dozen more attempts to construct his first item between lunch and dinner. He’d spend hours reading through instructions, following what passed as best practices, only to find out he couldn’t make heads or tails of the markers. There was one thing on which tomes, scrolls, and Nil could agree upon: it was always recommended that novices started with tin—or iron, if tin wasn’t as available in the local real-life area—and gradually work their way up to more advanced metals. Having his…
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It was astonishing to find that there was something Nil didn’t know about. Dallion never thought he would see the day, but here he was—despite all of the echo’s knowledge and the thousands upon thousands of scrolls and tomes in the ring library, there was nothing that identified the rock plant that had been found at the market. Initially, Nil thought Dallion to be mistaken or goofing around, but after a few demonstrations—thanks to Dallion’s music skills—he couldn’t deny it any longer. The…
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It had been less than a day, in real time, since Dallion had been on a guild mission. Back on Earth that would be considered barely any time at all. After all, how much could change in a day? Barring something going viral or another major unexpected event, everything but the people’s clothes remained the same. Here, he could say no such thing. In the span of a day—or four in true time—Dallion had entered double digit territory, leveled up twice, acquired a new skill, linked several awakened realms to…
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Dawn had long passed when Dallion woke up. The night had turned out much better than anything Dallion had experienced since coming to this world, even if it was unexpected. Even with all the weirdness going on, hooking up with a gorgon was way out there. The first thing Dallion saw upon opening his eyes was a note of paper on Eury’s pillow, pressed down by a heavy metal key. Curious, Dallion stretched, then took the note. The briefness of the note combined with the perfect handwriting made Dallion…
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Interviews, interviews never change. Dallion never was particularly fond of them back on Earth, though he was never terrified of them either. All in all, he found them a waste of time. In nine out of ten cases, a person’s mind was already made up, and it took great effort for the interviewee to change it one way or another. Given the speed by which candidates entered and left the room, Dallion assumed that the test was in the awakened realm, and possibly involved a combat scenario. As it turned out, he…
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Five points on a stat were nothing to be laughed at. In absolute terms, that was the same number of points that one got for becoming a full awakened. However, after everything he had been through, Dallion felt the reward to be a total letdown. For one thing, it was in a stat he couldn’t even use yet. To make things worse, it was starting to look like he wouldn’t find out in the near future, anyway. From what Nil had explained, an awakened had seven stages of development. Each stage was divided by a…
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The moment Nox jumped towards the echo, it was already too late. Dallion’s copy knew about the order instants before Dallion gave it, however, what he couldn’t know was where the crackling would attack from. When the claws descended, the only thing the echo could do was try to block with his shield. The shield, being only a copy of Dallion’s, quickly broke, as the claws went on, slicing into the echo’s body. In the past, that was enough to bring the echo out of existence. This time, though, a…
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The further Dallion ran on along the surface of the innermost cube, the more it became obvious that there wouldn’t be any entrance. What windows he had seen before had disappeared, along with edges, cracks, and even seams. It was as if he was running one solid chunk of concrete. There was no place he could turn, nowhere he could hide from the three echoes pursuing him and their ranged attacks. However, if there was one thing this world had taught him, it was that nothing was as it seemed. Actually, that…
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