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StarDuster - Glory of the Umbral Avenger

My Father always told me to stand tall, this is my opportunity to do just that. [ This novel has been discontinued, a redux version of this series is currently in production. ] A glorious reign over the realm only to be hunted, a glorious return only to be haunted. Avery Hall had a fair share of experience when it came to the many layers of humanity. With the death of our real world in the future, everyone gets digitized and becomes... well, Immortal. To a degree. But how to do you spend immortality? Video Games... of course, with everything being digital... and with Hyper Advanced A.I... it's possible to create games that simulate what reality used to be like. Our story takes place in Starduster MMO, a fantasy based MMO game where the game's story is run mainly by player choice, with any choice being an important factor into anything. Our main point of view is Avery Hall, who specializes in the Sniper Class, a long range damage class that uses a Rifle. He is quite efficient at making use of all he has available, and is kind of a jerk. Avery also has been preventing the Progress of the game by holding on to a Key Artifact, other players find out about this and after a while decide they don't want him around anymore. While normally death lowers levels... his reputation is too low within the game and he gets banned, luckily he has a second account, as most V.I.P. users in the world do... Avery, swears to return the status quo, but maybe he'll be good this time... hopefully, habits take a long time to stop. So we join Avery's journey to get back to the top, just make sure he doesn't forget to properly transfer accounts.

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AntHill Annihilation

Well, for now while I run... I can figure out what to do next, I still need some XP, don't know how much... and then I can create the Bleed Damage Cartridge.

In this game, for bullets you can just create one Cartridge of any bullet, and when you reload it uses a copy of the cartridge, special effects and all, so you never run out of bullets. This is pretty good because this means I don't have to farm wolves for their Fangs forever.

You see, farming wolves had a few purposes for me. Such as

Bleed Bullets

XP

Money

Fur Coat

So yeah, just need to wait out the storm of high level players flying above the forest right now looking for me...

Its only inconvenience for me, but I'd rather not be inconvenienced if you get what I mean.

I am a Power train baby, And I ain't stop for nooooo body!

Maybe they'll get distracted by the Boss when it respawns... they'll probably try to go for WR, alot of people in this game try for that.

I guess I'll farm some wolves for now, hopefully I don't get found.

Another shot, Another kill...

It just keeps rolling in.

Despite being typical Sniper charector in a story, im not the best shot with a gun, despite using one for years. The game has auto correct for everything, that's why I'm hitting these mostly.

Speaking of the game, I should really update stats... I wonder what I look like too, I haven't seen a mirror yet.

I can tell me hair is like... marbled... but blue.

My original charector had this same pattern but red, despite it being RNG I dont think it's coincidence.

Speaking of RNG, it's fucking bullshit isn't it? Why the fuck is most of your charector details randomly generated?

Well, I guess it doesn't matter. It's only appearance after all... it can be changed by a huge amount of factors.

Titles, Class, SubClass, Job... it all changes appearance.

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I'm almost level 5, only a few kills to go...

Once I'm there I get to pick a Job, most people don't really care about jobs... except Crafters.

I'm kinda of a mix between Crafter and Combat... I mean why not use every part of a system to your advantage?

Once I craft the Bleed bullets, I use the change Job token to swap to alchemist... it's kinda rare but usually there is a few on the Player Market.

Alright.. last wolf!

Bam! Haha!

| Level 5 Acheived |

Nice Nice Nice,

System! Open my Status!

| Cobalt |

| Level 5 Sniper |

| Peirce type |

| Stats - Hidden |

| Job: Available |

| Title: Beast Slayer |

Oh, when did I get a title?

Nevermind... I'll check later.

System! Change Job! Black Smith!

| Confirmed, Crafting now available |

| Lvl 5 Forging gained |

System! Check title!

| Confirmed |

| Title is beast slayer, it grants bonus damage to beast type creatures that are lower level than you and grants special abilities involving beasts... gained by killing 95% of a Beast Species population solo |

| Title also stacks with other similar titles |

Oh nice, that's pretty useful. I wonder what the special abilities are... maybe I have bonuses in taming?

Alright, time to make some bullets.

Craft bleeding bullets x10 !

| Confirmed, Wich type? |

Sniper!

| Confirmed, crafting will take 90 seconds. |

Alright, that's diddly darn done.

System, Combine these into a cartridge!

| Confirmed, Blood type cartridge being created. |

Umm, I think it's supposed to be bleeding type right?

System! Why is it Blood type?

| User " Cobalt " has " Beast Slayer title ", one special effects of the title slightly increases effectiveness of beast type items. |

Oh, so they'll do more bleed damage then? Or maybe last longer? Oh I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait!

Alright! They are done!

System! Show me their stats!

| Confirmed |

| Blood Bullet ( Cartridge ) |

| Inflicts bleeding damage to Target and up to 2 others equal to 0.5% of it's HP untill it's healed, or untill the user dies. |

| Desc. "Bleed, Bleed, Bleed oh worthless insects! Fall to the might of the Beast Slayer!" - Quote sited by previous Beast Slayer's bullets. The bullets seem to talk to long time users. |

Oh shit, that's kinda metal!

And beneficial... it increases efficiency of our next little project, and oh boy they'll bleed.

Off to the AntHill we go...

The Anthille is an underground area populated by lots of high level insect monsters called " Oreachs ", in reality they are just big ants. About a level 40 average... bosses can reach 60.

They drop lots more XP than you'd expect, similar to about a level 50 Average monster, and 70 for bosses.

And, to top it all off... there is a secret strategy of mine to easily kill them at any level.

There is a item called Insect juice.

It basically covers you in the ant's chemicals do they don't see you as an enemy.

So I can safely get to... the god spot.

It's a destructable environment thing that hangs on the ceiling that respawns after a while, first you destroy it, climb the wall up, and then launch into it just before it respawns, you clip through.

And just like that, bam!

You can hit enemies, but they can't hit you!

There is one catch, it can be destroyed by other players, but it shouldn't be a problem... I think I'm the only one who knows about it cause I'm a greedy bastard.

Man, if people knew about this... I wouldn't of been on the top as long as I did! Too bad so sad Losers!

Alright... let's exploit the game engine for an unfair advantage!

But first...

System! Put all unused stat points into Dex!

| Confirmed |

| Skill unlocked: Dash |

A nice little speed boost, not enough to run from assassins but it's what I got.

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I've arrived!

Time to destroy another ecosystem!

Alright, just put on the juice I bought...

Ignore me big ant, just passing through...

There is the Destructible! Ah, but there is an ant under it... it won't respawn before the ant attacks me.

I'll wait here then, I got some reserve juice just for this situation.

( 3 Hours later )

Move...

Move...

Move...

PLEASE!

Ugh...

Wait... it's getting up! It's moving!

Fucking finally...

A hop, skip and a jump... shoot the thing... bam there it goes...

...

...

...

...

and.... now!

Ow Ow Ow, they programed the pain of being inside of an object... why?

It's not terrible, I can still do this grind... it's worth it.

Alright, stuiped ant that wasted all that money your first!

* Bang *

| Damage reduced by 95%, enemies level is 40 levels higher than you! |

| Bleed Applied! 0.5% of it's health will be drained untill it's healed! |

The level is a little high, variation can do that. But it doesn't matter, the damage from the bleed will kill it in 200 seconds, that's about 3 minutes. Good thing ants can't heal haha!

It's screaming at me, trying to get other ants attention... but as they rush over I shoot them too!

It's prefect, they keep funneling into the death zone for them!

I'll be super high level in no time.

After about 10 were killed, I spotted a boss... theres quite a few monsters tagged with bleeding right now, I guess it came out knowing the deaths of those ants are undeniable so it will attack me itself.

Too bad it can't reach me.

Oh, there is some other players over there in a fight against a different boss.

I'll tag the creature for credit...

* Bang *

| Achievment Unlocked |

| Blood Maladiction |

Oh, an achievement... those change your appearance too.

System! Give me the effects of the Blood Maladiction and How I Got it!

| Confirmed |

| Following effects applied

Your cloths will always smell of blood

Your eyes have blood red irises. |

| Acheived by having over 50 enemies bleed at one time |

That's kinda cool, but me smelling like blood will probably get annoying.

( Many Hours Later )

Huh, there goes down another ant...

| Level 30 Acheived |

Oh, I'm already level 30?

Cool...

System, show my status!

| Confirmed |

| Cobalt |

| Not Alligned |

| Level 30 Sniper |

| Peirce type |

| Stats - Hidden |

| Job: Black Smith |

| Title: Beast Slayer |

| Acheivments ; Blood Maladiction |

Sick... I guess I can choose my " Alignment " now.

It only matters for the Arena PvP stuff, I don't really care about it so I won't choose one.

Anyways, let's grind a few more levels.