Emily Harris
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6
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2.2 M
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Gan Salin smiled and waved at Jack. Despite his tattered appearance, he behaved like everything was normal. He wasn’t even deterred by the wrist-thick iron bars that separated the two of them. “Salin,” Jack whispered, “what the hell is going on?” “I’m trapped,” Gan Salin whispered back. “I can see that, but why? What happened?” “Oh, lots of things!” He got excited. “I somehow lucked out and survived through the second and third rings—by the way, did I mention that was almost…-
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Throughout Jack’s week-long journey through the desert, he didn’t forget about the Dao Soul. Every second night, he entered his soul world instead of sleeping. The Dao Soul waited there, a mute copy of Jack that took childlike joy in fighting. Here, the Dao came easy, but the System was cut-off. He had changed the terrain from a grassland to a desert, to better resemble his current environment. The only other difference from last time was the shining green beacon in the sky—the Life Drop—though…
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Jack cracked his knuckles. He was suddenly eager to fight, eager to unleash his pent-up energy on this clueless monster. Nauja and Brock stepped away, leaving him alone against the monstrous chameleon, which still hid in the sand, unaware they’d noticed it. Unfortunately, Jack wanted a fight. “Come out!” he ordered, shooting a Meteor Punch from afar. The purple blow landed on the chameleon’s back with an explosion that leveled the nearby sand dune, sending showers of sand flying tens of feet into…
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Sup! I have a great announcement to make. In addition to nostalgia, you can now listen to the story as a So, if you enjoyed the story so far, Of course, kindness should always be reciprocated. Over the past week, I have worked hard to prepare Here are the links: Kindle/KU: https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0BW9X6H59 Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Road-to-Mastery-Audiobook/B0C2VW2YNR Go open them! Thank…
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The sand worm was wide enough to swallow a house, and long enough that they never saw its tail. It burst out from under the sand without any warning whatsoever, biting down on and swallowing a scaled lizard that lounged on top of a dune. Thankfully, it didn’t attack them. The worm snapped up the lizard and dived back down, raising a huge wave of sand. “Rare encounters, it says,” Jack said dryly. “Aren’t we lucky.” “Extremely,” Nauja added. “So. Light steps. Brock, sorry to say this,…
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Vivi soared through the sky. Her flame wings beat back the clouds as she rushed forward at top speed. Usually, this kind of energy expenditure would be considered reckless and putting her at risk. Now, she had no time to care. Smoke rose in the horizon. The smoke of Ouagadougou—the capital of Burkina Faso. Her headquarters. She sped through the air and over the walls. The people below shouted at her, but the wind stole their words. Her wings took her to the presidential palace courtyard, where a battle…
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Jack emerged from the tunnel with a full breath of fresh air. “Ahh,” he said in mock relief. “Nothing beats a good old desert.” The Village Ring, unlike what its name indicated, was not a village. It was a scorching desert striped with red and brown sand, complete with a large amount of sun mushrooms a hundred miles overhead, an arid climate, and a whole menagerie of fearsome monsters. The ring’s name came from the nine villages spread around its surface, each in its own oasis. These nine…
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Jack appeared in the middle of the shrine with a stumble. The moment reality finished playing around, he scanned his surroundings. Destruction. The skeleton by the corner was the only thing left untouched. The rest of the shrine was carnage, like someone took a sledgehammer and went to town on it. The thin walls were torn and battered. The floor was upturned. The ceiling had collapsed in places, showering the room with debris. Not even the statue of Enas had escaped. It lay on the ground with tiny dents…
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A huge circle of darkness was superimposed on Jack’s vision. It was close and far away at the same time. He could sense it just before his eyes, a threat of cosmic scale, but he could also see stars orbiting it in the distance, their shapes twisting and warping, elongated. In this moment, Jack didn’t have a mind to observe the universe around him. His gaze and soul were captivated by the darkness. He felt something in there, waiting, calling to him. It was gargantuan beyond belief. He knew it was…
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As the last of Jack’s flame whisked away with a final spark of infinite sadness, gentle warmth filled his entire being, suffocating him, completing him, burying him under power the likes of which he couldn’t even begin to imagine. His world turned green, a plain of infinite vitality, a pond of life from which he was allowed to drink. His ruined body sucked in the life like a cracked desert absorbs the rain, drinking greedily, desperately. His numbness became infinite pain, filling his every corner.…
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