Shortly after reaching some kilometers away from the neon white wall, enough for his sphere to reach it, Rune got his mini ether tower out and activated it, but even after 5 minutes it didn’t stop working and sent the beeping alarm signifying it stopped working.
With his perception sphere, he could see beyond the wall and it perfectly replicated the scene before his eyes, neon white soil without anything on it, any greeneries or blacke...
2021-11-17 07:32:13 +0000 UTC
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A majority of the bodies already partially disintegrated, only leaving disintegrating cores on the ground, which Rune took.
‘For such a practice run, the saying after the effort comes the comfort should be true, etherly speaking…’
*Ding* Physical Fundamental: Fighting Instinct reached Tier 3 Level 39
*Ding* Physical Fundamental: Body Control reached Tier 3 Level 40
*Ding* ...
2021-11-17 07:32:00 +0000 UTC
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‘An entire month and some days to arrive back, for what reasons would I ever do a month-long journey prior to the awakening of the Ether law? Nothing.’
Standing in the air with an energy platform under his feet, Rune was looking at an entire forest that radiated light, not the general white ether mist that wasn’t even light, but a neon white light.
At regular intervals, his armor lost some tens of points, it was a regular eve...
2021-11-10 22:30:42 +0000 UTC
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Now free from anything and everything, Rune could at any time stop to do his usual observation of the environment, a hobby he came to appreciate.
His perception range being 2.5 times that of before, he could perceive when something didn’t belong somewhere.
The joy he got out of those stops only grew as, this time, he had the help of the guide to guide him. The more he learned, the easier learning became.
What he was doing w...
2021-11-10 22:30:18 +0000 UTC
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“You also have this personal receiving and transmitting mini ether tower. When you reach a zone border, a region transition, or a zone of interest, use it to transmit the coordinates back with a complete scan, it’ll also automatically make sure your flat compass isn’t unsettled compared to the system of coordinates we are using.”
Rune was currently at the Adventurer’s Society headquarters, on the 4th floor.
There, he enco...
2021-11-10 22:30:00 +0000 UTC
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‘So essentially, I became a genius warrior, and if I follow the trend of having a temporal perception extended by 100%, then I should focus on the offensive, a steady offensive like I’ve always done and liked. Therefore, it comes back to body control masteries.’
With 3 slots to fill, Rune already concluded that he’d stop using the reinforced armor mastery, reinforcement used his precious energy after all.
Then, adding his s...
2021-11-10 22:29:41 +0000 UTC
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‘A genius at momentum manipulation right?’
Rune could think of some explanations for what Utopia was attempting to do, but clearly, it was working, even if it took more than a hundred exchanges before he succeeded at going further than one exchange.
Those hundred exchanges also allowed him to progress in his new temporality. Every new move he tried had an effect, and more than ever he could capture the behavior of his opponent....
2021-11-10 22:29:26 +0000 UTC
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“But… But, I followed all the steps so why do you say that? Is there a major problem with some of the elements I added?” Incredulity infused in his voice, Rune was really confused, and a little panicked.
His plan was getting wrecked.
“I asked for more information about you when I received your form about the composite element you wanted to create, and I think your idea is pure genius. Using your soul specialty to go beyond ...
2021-11-10 22:28:32 +0000 UTC
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‘Spiritual powers, perception-based spiritual powers, spirit ripple!’
Using the guide and turning to the right page, he could finally start to unveil all his choices in depth.
With him was Nelo, who seemed to live on the balcony. Rune not having anything to train in but only having to read, also decided to take residence here.
‘A secondary specialization of spiritual power?’
He just started to understand what sp...
2021-11-10 22:28:08 +0000 UTC
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“Obviously, it all comes down to having the power to do it, and that’s your role! So what do you intend to do if one day you’re attacked by a fellow intelligent being?”
Mr. Finley, as he liked to be called, was doing something called participative pedagogy, investing Rune as a participant instead of as a simple listener.
“Make them unconscious, use a special restricting energy spell, and discuss with them when they wake u...
2021-11-10 22:27:51 +0000 UTC
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‘I don’t really want my purging to finish…’
Like a salted fish, Rune was laying down doing nothing, or more accurately he was thinking about what was soon to come.
‘Tier 3 class and specialty… I want to dieeeee…’
His inner reaction was a little over-exaggerated but only he knew what happened inside his mind.
‘Noooo, I can feel it! Noooooo!’
*Ding* Cohesion: Specialized Cohesion Infusion...
2021-11-10 22:27:29 +0000 UTC
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The waiting line reduced as quickly as people entered, 20 minutes later Rune had to end his awareness training because his turn was coming.
For the information zone, there were 5 employees in charge of everyone coming, the mission zone also had 5 and the same for the tier 3 zone. When it was his turn he arrived at one of the desks with a female rululu behind it.
“Hello, can you tell me your name and occupation please?” She aske...
2021-11-10 22:27:10 +0000 UTC
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The speed Rune was traveling at was not “steady” anymore, it was peak tier 2 high speed.
As he was more of a strength rather than a momentum speed-based user, he had to change his course to adjust to the forest environment, he forgoed the shortcut of simply flying.
Arriving at the camp an hour later, he slowed down to not appear as a ballistic missile type of threat.
First, with his eyes, he saw someone standing in the ai...
2021-11-10 22:26:16 +0000 UTC
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‘Oh, a new monster I’ve never seen before?’
Adventuring in a mountainous environment was completely new for Rune, he did not have any experience in a field that was so unbalanced.
The star was up and it was similar to any other star he saw till now, it was just a sun, it was a normal region with a normal star and no moon, accompanied with no restriction on the ether. In sum, a blank and average region.
The monster he ne...
2021-11-10 22:26:02 +0000 UTC
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‘The spiral of death, inevitable.’
He knew, he hoped, he wanted this situation to happen.
Rune wasn’t regenerating any armor anymore.
The linear increase of the erosion rate achieved the necessary threshold for him to know that despite sending all the energy he regenerated every second, his armor was being completely eroded.
Not at 1 point per second, it only just started, maybe only 0.01 point per second, but he ...
2021-11-10 22:25:46 +0000 UTC
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In the clearing he created not that long ago, at the metaphysical border to the radioactive zone, it’s now been 7 days since Rune sat there and engaged in the purging process. There were no complicated manipulations to do except not doing anything.
You just had to wait for your own being, your body, your spirit, your soul, everything that defined you, to accept that one or more of the slotted mastery it hosted was not needed anymore. S...
2021-11-10 22:25:25 +0000 UTC
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Near the tier 3 jungle region transition, a hundred kilometers from its border, the Undecided camp had long reached its maximum capacity.
Everything was managed by the IGS administration, helped by the Adventurer’s Society and the patrollers, the only effective military force available to the government.
The whole zone surrounding the camp was clear of any monsters, not even birds could be seen passing by, and everyone currently ...
2021-11-10 22:25:10 +0000 UTC
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“No, it’s not something like a veil… Also not something in the air… But I can see nothing in the colors...”
Going full researcher mode, Rune tried things one after the other, he knew a method existed, and if a plant life from a tier 3 zone could do it, so he could do it, that was it.
After trying ideas that appeared after only observing but failed every time he tried, Rune entered the rainbow flower’s rainbow cloud.
...
2021-11-10 22:24:00 +0000 UTC
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For 6 additional days, Rune decided to train his awareness by trying to do another type of advanced passive training, it was so slow that he wanted to push it a little more.
The passive training of his momentum had no limit to it, as for his perception passive training, the one he used was sufficient, he just had to have a background process of his spirit pushing them both as much as it could.
So he wanted to bring his awareness to...
2021-11-10 22:23:41 +0000 UTC
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Sure, Rune could now do a lot of things, and he knew for sure that he wasn’t going to retire, he was going to go on more than an expedition, he was going to embark on a real adventure, only coming back when he reached tier 3 to demand the loan from the IGS.
Be it a cave, an ocean, or a desert, he was going to go everywhere.
Maybe it wasn’t the optimized path, but from the moment he preferred manipulating his awareness to listen...
2021-11-10 22:23:29 +0000 UTC
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Using his hands like precise surgical tools, he took the gorilla arm in his embrace, and with his whole body supporting him, he did a classic shoulder-throw and returned the monster on its back.
He never directly countered a tier 3 before, but now he could, he didn’t know what reached tier 3, but it enabled for now, and for probably the next few minutes, a tier 3 reaction speed.
In total silence, he then punched the downed gorill...
2021-11-10 22:23:18 +0000 UTC
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2 hours have passed since Rune engaged the first squad of monsters.
The rhinoceros squad already became completely berserk and didn’t care about hurting their own companions as long as the human that still lived took damage.
With his perception sphere, Rune could see that finally, a second squad was answering the call of blood, birds started to appear 40 minutes ago but not even one dived.
They waited like scavengers, but t...
2021-11-10 22:22:51 +0000 UTC
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The hazy space of torpor, something Rune didn’t see a lot, but every time he did, it was a good time.
His spirit healed, the combination of time, healing and sleep, made his spirit lethargic, but he could still feel it.
His sleep quality wasn’t disturbed by the numerous noises around, he was used to noise when he got to sleep due to living in a big family, like his young brothers not correctly adjusting their sound, which in th...
2021-11-10 22:22:01 +0000 UTC
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*Ding* Spiritual Fundamental: Perception Control reached Tier 2 Level 56
The notification passed through his mind but he didn’t react to it.
Rune was sitting with his legs hanging over the famous straight cliff, just observing the immensity of it, “it” being the nothingness, it was night so not even the usual white ether mist appeared.
Notifications could be ignored, what interested him was reaching tie...
2021-11-10 22:21:45 +0000 UTC
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Those intrusions in his perception sphere of course woke up Rune, but finding another group of humans here apart from his 6 friends really was a strange situation, in addition to being unexpected.
Being asocial didn’t mean he couldn’t talk to people, but if he could aVoid it then he would be more than happy about his accomplishment.
It was the moment he needed a hero, anyone would do, even Arik.
‘No, Arik would run away...
2021-11-10 22:21:30 +0000 UTC
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Maybe the red fog was a sign that the wolf was doing something to his health, maybe boosting his health regeneration, he didn’t know.
He just knew that there was always a way, if his damage weren’t enough then he could only increase them.
To increase his damage there was only one way, reinforcement and taking a risk, totally the opposite of his planned and measured fighting style.
Changing to a proactive approach, he wait...
2021-11-10 22:21:16 +0000 UTC
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“The plan is to go back ten or twenty kilometers then walk northeast, we’ll not follow the cliff, in 1 week we should reach maximum tier 2 stats, and then, we’ll be ready to start individual training, let’s go.”
Utopia took to the air and, followed by the whole Undecided, got back using their own path.
Monsters didn’t fill the zone in one day so once they traveled 20 kilometers back, they stopped and oriented themselves...
2021-11-10 22:21:02 +0000 UTC
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“The forest is ending! I think there’s a problem!” From high above, Astryde who acted as an eye scout shouted this news with her heart.
If Utopia wasn’t there to remind them of how much time has passed, then not even the day-night cycle would have sufficed.
“There’s nothing beyond! What the hell!” This time it was disturbing.
Utopia acted by taking to the air and taking a look, and with his perception sphere, Ru...
2021-11-10 22:20:06 +0000 UTC
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“The board was really underrepresenting what the Endless was like,” Arik, the Arik, who didn’t talk that much, was complaining about their situation as he sent a bear flying in the air.
“100% the majority never thought about doing what we are freaking doing,” Gar, who received the bear and killed it by using hundreds of energy threads, responded by insulting their straight-line plan.
“I love it!” Rune exclaimed from f...
2021-11-10 22:19:50 +0000 UTC
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“Rune.”
From the deep and comforting darkness of slumber, Rune’s spirit reacted to his own name.
After sleeping for 30 hours, cracks that formed due to the constant pressure he applied upon his perception sphere became only faint lines without effects.
His ether soul had completely dispersed, even if he wanted to he wouldn’t be able to influence it, he was in a deep sleep state and only his name finally convinced his ...
2021-11-10 22:19:14 +0000 UTC
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