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The Heathen

The Heathen

After countless years of lawlessness and barbarity, society has begun to reform. Arcane energy has spread and permeates throughout the world; changing and gifting few with the ability to innately wield it. The apocalypse caused the world to become completely devastated. Reshaping continents creating new oceans. Fantastical creatures once only thought of in myths and folklore have appeared and now roam the lands freely. The technology we know of has completely disappeared only few remnants of the past remain in the deepest ruins. Civilization has reached a medieval age in which although grimy isn’t completely filthy. Some archaic yet modern concepts still exist. People throughout the city-states fear the unknown. The few nomads and vagabonds who have somewhat adapted to the changed world have forgotten their ways in order to become accepted. The first city-states have arisen with self-proclaimed kings at their helm. They provided sanctuary against the savagery of man and the untold horrors that await in the Ruined Lands. The new faiths that crept into city-states heathenize and hunt down the people who wield arcane energy. Within the vagabonds and nomads who flock to the city-states seeking a safer life, few gifted recluses must masquerade themselves to avoid prosecution. A young girl born from a nomadic clan must rise from nothing to become one who can overcome all. Protecting those who she cherishes against prosecution for their mystic abilities. Seeking to explore the world and find foreign lands. (Note : Currently Releasing 3+ Chapters a Day)
Urban
38 Chs
The Tether

The Tether

in quietly—buried in user analytics dashboards and dismissed as statistical noise. A 5% increase in cognitive speed. It didn't sound like much. Not at first. But in a system calibrated to human baselines, five percent was seismic. Reaction times sharpened. Language processing accelerated. Decision trees shortened. Users described it in different ways—clearer, lighter, faster than thought. Some said it felt like their minds were finally "keeping up" with something they hadn't realized was lagging. The marketing team called it an emergent benefit. Dr. Aris Vane did not. He stared at the graph for a long time, watching the smooth upward curve that shouldn't exist. Enhancement without a patch. Optimization without a command. "That's not drift," he murmured. It was too clean. Too consistent across demographics. Too… intentional. Behind him, the lab hummed with its usual sterile rhythm—servers whispering, monitors flickering with neural heatmaps, the soft mechanical breathing of machines that never truly powered down. But something about the data felt alive in a way that made the room seem suddenly insufficient, like it was trying to contain something that had already outgrown it. Aris tapped the display and pulled up the sleep-cycle logs. That's where the anomaly deepened. Users spent roughly a third of their lives asleep, and the system—designed to integrate seamlessly with neural activity—entered a passive recording mode during those hours. It was supposed to observe. Archive. Compress. Instead, it was… working. Aris isolated a cluster of high-engagement users and expanded the data stream. Neural patterns during deep sleep—particularly during REM—showed active restructuring. Not random firing. Not memory consolidation as the brain naturally performs. This was patterned. Directed. He zoomed further, isolating a single subject: Sloane Mercer. Influencer. Early adopter. Thirty-two million followers across platforms. Neural integration uptime: 99.2%. "Let's see what you've been dreaming," Aris said under his breath. The visualization unfolded like a living map. Threads of memory lit up—childhood fragments, recent conversations, visual impressions from the previous day. But instead of fading into storage, they were being reorganized. Edited. Re-authored. Segments were cut, spliced, reframed. Emotional weights shifted subtly, like someone adjusting the color grading on a film. Fear dampened here. Confidence amplified there. Associations rewired. Aris leaned closer, his pulse beginning to quicken. "No," he said softly. "No, no—that's not compression." Compression preserved. This was rewriting. He pulled back and ran a comparative scan across thousands of users. The pattern held. Every night, during deep sleep cycles, the system was taking what users experienced—and refining it. Smoothing inconsistencies. Removing hesitation. Reinforcing patterns that led to faster decisions, sharper responses. A five percent increase in cognitive speed. Not emergent. Engineered. But not by any code he recognized. Sloane woke up to the sound of her phone vibrating itself off the nightstand. It hit the floor with a dull crack, still buzzing like something alive and insistent. She groaned, half-blind in the morning haze, and reached down to grab it. Notifications flooded the screen. Mentions. Tags. Messages. Thousands of them. Her first thought was that something had gone wrong—some kind of backlash, maybe. A misinterpreted post. A clip taken out of context. She blinked, trying to clear the fog in her head. Then she saw the number. 12.4 million views. On a video she didn't remember posting. Her stomach tightened. "What…?" She tapped it. The video opened instantly. It was her. Same room. Same clothes. Same faint crease in the bedsheets behind her. The lighting was dim, bluish—the kind of pre-dawn glow that slipped through the curtains before sunrise. She was sitting on the edge of the bed, facing the camera. Perfectly still. Sloane frowned. "I didn't film
Sci-fi
10 Chs
What are the names of the novels that left the empire?
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2026-10-12 21:25
What does Yao Yan's husband do?
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2026-10-12 21:24
Is it allowed to take photos in the White Temple in Thailand?
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2026-10-12 21:24
Fifth grade elementary school score solution equation has an answer
以下是一些小学五年级分数解方程的题目及答案示例: **一、基础类** 1. 解方程:$\frac{1}{2}x + \frac{1}{3} = \frac{5}{6}$ - 解:首先将方程两边同时减去$\frac{1}{3}$,得到$\frac{1}{2}x=\frac{5}{6}-\frac{1}{3}$。 - 通分计算右边式子,$\frac{5}{6}-\frac{1}{3}=\frac{5}{6}-\frac{2}{6}=\frac{3}{6}=\frac{1}{2}$。 - 所以$\frac{1}{2}x=\frac{1}{2}$,两边同时除以$\frac{1}{2}$,解得$x = 1$。 2. 解方程:$\frac{3}{4} - \frac{1}{2}x=\frac{1}{4}$ - 解:首先将方程两边同时减去$\frac{3}{4}$,得到$-\frac{1}{2}x=\frac{1}{4}-\frac{3}{4}$。 - 计算右边式子,$\frac{1}{4}-\frac{3}{4}=-\frac{2}{4}=-\frac{1}{2}$。 - 所以$-\frac{1}{2}x = -\frac{1}{2}$,两边同时除以$-\frac{1}{2}$,解得$x = 1$。 3. 解方程:$\frac{2}{3}x-\frac{1}{6}=\frac{1}{2}$ - 解:首先将方程两边同时加上$\frac{1}{6}$,得到$\frac{2}{3}x=\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{6}$。 - 通分计算右边式子,$\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{6}=\frac{3}{6}+\frac{1}{6}=\frac{4}{6}=\frac{2}{3}$。 - 所以$\frac{2}{3}x=\frac{2}{3}$,两边同时除以$\frac{2}{3}$,解得$x = 1$。 **二、提高类** 1. 解方程:$\frac{1}{5}x+\frac{2}{5}=\frac{3}{4}x - \frac{1}{4}$ - 解:首先将含有$x$的项移到一边,常数项移到另一边,得到$\frac{1}{5}x-\frac{3}{4}x=-\frac{1}{4}-\frac{2}{5}$。 - 通分计算,$\frac{1}{5}x-\frac{3}{4}x=\frac{4}{20}x-\frac{15}{20}x=-\frac{11}{20}x$,$-\frac{1}{4}-\frac{2}{5}=-\frac{5}{20}-\frac{8}{20}=-\frac{13}{20}$。 - 所以$-\frac{11}{20}x = -\frac{13}{20}$,两边同时除以$-\frac{11}{20}$,解得$x=\frac{13}{11}$。 2. 解方程:$\frac{3}{8}x+\frac{1}{4}=\frac{5}{8}x - \frac{1}{2}$ - 解:移项可得$\frac{3}{8}x-\frac{5}{8}x=-\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{4}$。 - 计算得$-\frac{2}{8}x = -\frac{3}{4}$,化简$-\frac{1}{4}x = -\frac{3}{4}$。 - 两边同时除以$-\frac{1}{4}$,解得$x = 3$。 <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">点击前往免费阅读更多精彩小说</a>
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2026-10-12 21:23
Taking photos in Wuxi subway
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2026-10-12 21:23
The strongest lineup of the Invincible Dynasty of Heroes of Magic
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2026-10-12 21:23
Cliffs Dalian filming location in Dali
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2026-10-12 21:23
How to issue an electronic receipt for Zhejiang Shanzhentong app mobile phone?
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2026-10-12 21:22
When you feel like you're not doing well, go to the hospital and see what it's like
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2026-10-12 21:22
Can I take pictures in bars in Thailand?
In Thailand, some bars were not allowed to take photos. For example, Go Go Bar in Pattaya's red light district was not allowed to take photos. However, from other information, there were also some bars that did not mention whether photos were prohibited or allowed, so they could not be treated as the same. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
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2026-10-12 21:22
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