David Jackson
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As if to match me, the plant-based mannachoid had taken on a bipedal appearance. Its trunk had become a defined torso, with two legs ending in thick roots instead of feet, and two arms tapering off into tentacle vines. At the top of the torso was what looked to be a flowery growth, it looked like a yellow tulip that was yet to bloom with those bulbous black eyes in the middle. Around the Mannachoid's shoulders were small twigs covered in leaves. This thing looked dangerous. "An attack like that will not…-
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I was immediately on guard and ready for any attack that might come my way, crouched and ready to blast into the air through the use of my propulsion. I wouldn't be running away, though. At that moment there was only one alien lifeform to fight, so it might have been my only opportunity to easily eliminate someone without having to worry about fighting a large group where things could get messy. The ground underneath me rumbled, and before I could react, a thick vine had wrapped itself around my right…
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I had been in my new body in my new world for a little over an hour at the very most, and I had the distinct feeling that a single misstep over the next half hour could put my reincarnated existence out of commission a little bit earlier than expected. If fighting against the Mannachoid was meant to be a way to earn some early respect from the squadron leaders, then taking out the guy who fought it almost single-handedly would be a pretty good second best. In other words, I was going to be on the radar of…
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My body fizzed with nervous energy. Back on my homeworld, I wouldn't have been able to hold my own in a fight against anyone, here I was able to put a 30-foot tall robot on its backside in under ten minutes. I'd walked out of the hall and over to the remains of the mecha after my big final attack, and in the aftermath, I still couldn't really believe what I'd managed to pull off. The many life forms who had been watching the raging battle, and the few who had shot their own manna fuelled attacks at the…
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The mecha was absolutely immense. The robotic figure must have stood to be at least thirty feet tall, towering over the hall and every life form within it by a substantial degree. Technically the girl who had rushed off in a blur of manna enhanced speed hadn't actually said that we needed to fight this giant construct, but if there were a bunch of squadron leaders already watching us, trying to decide who they were going to pick up for their magical galactic ass-kicking squads, then it was a pretty good…
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My legs moved automatically as if I were on a journey that I had made every day for the past 10 years and somehow just instinctively knew where to go. I figured that it was BB nudging me in the right direction, that or the body I was now inhabiting used to belong to someone else and I was riding off their muscle memory. I chose to believe it was the first of the two options, I didn't want to think that my arrival in this universe had been at the expense of another sentient being. Either way, I seemed to…
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I woke with a heavy groan. My head was pounding something fierce and it felt like I'd gorged myself on a bowl full of sand. Sure, the drinking session I'd had the night before had probably been one for the storybooks, if I could remember any of it, but I hadn't had a hangover like this since the very first time I'd gotten drunk. I let my heavy eyelids crack open, yawned, and then stopped dead. Waking up in someone else's bed was a bit of a strange experience. Waking up in someone else's bed and the room…
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The darkness was suffocating. It surrounded me so tightly that even my arms were completely beyond my vision. The only light visible were little motes, dancing in the distance. They flickered into being and then drifted far down until eventually, they flickered out altogether. Those motes of light were the only reason that I could see the two creatures before me, creatures that made my headache and my heart pound. They were nothing more than silhouettes, a ghastly darkness that somehow appeared to be…
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"Look at what you did!" Nina shouted at him through the call the next day while looking at their news. She was never the one who liked attention, much less an intimate photo of kissing Joel under rain spreading all over the internet. Now even the nurses would take a second peek at her and doctors would gossip behind her back. "It's a good way. Now we won't have to make a special announcement for our relationship. No more hiding from others." Joel took this positively, and so did Nina after some…
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"I plan to start up a security company. I will hire contracted bodyguards to the ones who need them. The men working under me are willing to stick by my side and I will offer them the job soon when the plan is made. But-" he turned towards Markus. "I will need some guidance and help. I don't have much knowledge about business and companies." Jason said honestly. "Don't worry. Just ask whatever you need, I'll help you out with everything." Though Markus didn't say much, he meant and did everything he…
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