A PROMENADE OF LINGERING IN OBFUSCATION.

Derek Corbett had just lost his parents mysteriously. Trying to gather his broken self together, hoping to give all he is left with the love they all deserve but will he be able to live a normal life again when the darkness of a thousand years comes with its unending battles?

With goldenseal added to his cup of peychauds, will he save his loved ones from the darkness now in possession of him or destroy all he cares about by himself?

Find out in this book.

Nagtataka si Chinny kung bakit sa dinami-rami ng mga tao sa mundo ay bakit siya pa ang napadpad at bumalik sa sinaunang panahon ng China.Siya na walang lahi ng pagiging Chinese.Siya na hindi mahilig manuod ng mga palabas ng Chinese at walang alam sa kanilang history.Ang lahat  kanyang katanungan ay unti-unting nabigyan ng kasagutan sa paglipas ng mga araw.At kahit ayaw niya ay parang nasasanay na siya sa kanyang bagong mundo lalo na noong nakilala niya si Shin Lou,ang magiting na general na binihag ng mga taong kumupkop sa kanya.

Pinagaling niya ang mga sugat nito at pagkatapos ay tinulungan niya itong makatakas.Isinama siya ni Shin sa pagtakas at dinala sa kaharian kung saan ito nakatira.Sa paglipas ng mga araw ay lumalalim ang nararamdamang pag-ibig ni Chinny kay Shin sa kabila ng pagiging malamig na trato nito sa kanya.Gusto niyang makasama si Shin habambuhay ngunit paano mangyayari iyon gayong magkaiba sila ng oras at mundong kinalakhan?Idagdag pa ang malaking pagkakagusto rito ng dalagang si Aning na anak ng isang general at kababata ni Shin.

A genius scientist finally succeeded in making a breakthrough in science and technology by creating the world's first Super Artificial Intelligence.

But as if fate had another will, he died with a smile on his face after completing his masterpiece, leaving the results of his efforts to the world for a better future.

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"Welcome back master." That was the first word Aizen heard when he opened his eyes.

An Impartial Artificial Intelligence System or introduced to the public as [Axel Goddess] finally managed to revive her long-lost master.

A thousand years have passed after my death?

The planet where we live is no longer on the Earth?

And humans are almost extinct due to mutations on the Earth?

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I will release one chapter per day.

This novel will not contain incest, only a girl who is too protective and always think of the best things for her father.

Aizen, an ultra-genius scientist finally succeeded in making a breakthrough in science and technology by creating the world's first Super Artificial Intelligence.

But as if fate had another will, he died with a smile on his face after completing his perfect masterpiece, leaving his life's ultimate work that will continue to evolve with time to the world for the hope of an extraordinary and unimaginable future.

"Welcome back, Master Aizen." That was the first word Aizen heard when he opened his eyes. He awoke before a beautiful woman who was familiar to him.

Axel, an avatar of the Impartial Artificial Intelligence System or introduced to the public as [Axel Goddess] finally managed to revive her long-lost master alongside his daughter, Ana.

His short sleep to welcome the morning turned out to be eternal sleep that was less eternal, a thousand years had passed since his death.

Faced with a problem that even Axel could not solve which forced the creation of a second civilization on Mars, while humanity on Earth was on the verge of extinction because the deadly mutations caused living organisms to grow violent by changing their bodies and abilities.

With a super hot Artificial Intelligence that finally gets a perfect human body, as well as a clingy and spoiled daughter who is formerly estranged on his side, Aizen must use his intelligence to find a way to save his home planet which turned out to be very complicated and ends up getting them involved in it.

Author's note: On hiatus | Rewriting

Alley grew up as a child with nothing.

No friends.
No family.
No idea of her true identity.
Not even a clue on why her own parents abandoned her. 

She was left in the doorstep of a wealthy family as a child of unknown origins.  They took her in as a servant girl but treated her like dirt. 

Years later, a young man suddenly appears in her room saying he was her childhood friend and that there was actually more to her identity?! 

Note: I do not own the original photo. I got it from the internet and edited it a bit. 
Credit goes to the original photo’s owner. Thanks for posting it online and giving me people like me who have zero artsy skills to use as a cover photo for their novel. ✌

In the magical world of Huwle, the being that rules supreme over all life is declared to be God. Once even few millennium, a series of mandatory trials for the most powerful mages in the world is held in order to determine who among them is best suited to become the next God.

This is the one-thousandth time this process has been initiated, and the current God is almost positive he knows which individual will succeed him. Over the three millennium he has reigned, there was only one that he has ever shown as much promise as this. However, this individual did have a significant problem that could not be over looked.

Although he was currently considered to have the strongest magic in the world, he was not the world's best mage. The reason being: he is totally unable to make decisions on his own.

In the magical world of Huwle, the being that rules supreme over all life is declared to be God. Once even few millennium, a series of mandatory trials for the most powerful mages in the world is held in order to determine who among them is best suited to become the next God.

This is the one-thousandth time this process has been initiated, and the current God is almost positive he knows which individual will succeed him. Over the three millennium he has reigned, there was only one that he has ever shown as much promise as this. However, this individual did have a significant problem that could not be over looked.

Although he was currently considered to have the strongest magic in the world, he was not the world's best mage. The reason being: he is totally unable to make decisions on his own.

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This is my first story on Webnovel, so I hope you all enjoy it.

Hello my fellow writers/readers and thanks to all who have read this book over the past two & half years. The novel has undergone minor changes multiple times before but there's a new change coming that will benefit the novel and series going forward. For those who may have liked the book in its current version and for those who by chance didn't, there is another version of the book coming in 2021. For the past several months I have been working out the overall story arch of the series; after much deliberation I decided to go back & revise/retool certain aspects of the main plot-line and do a considerable amount of World-building. I chose to do this because I started writing this whole series back in 2006-2007 and I was only in my late teens at the time, to me personally the book didn't really read like it was written from a mature/experienced writer. 

So, since I've been taking courses for Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University for some time now I've gained a lot of experience as an author. Because of this I felt that the only way to truly be able to continue to write the series that I've spent half my life working on was to go back and write the story the way I envisioned back when I was a teenage, except that now I have the experience and skills needed to tackle this. Now, with me saying there's a new version or what I've been calling a 'Definitive Edition' on my social media pages doesn't mean that 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers' is being scraped, you can still purchase it if you choose at @Smashwords.com/books/view/893010. This new version of the book is: 1. Going to be the same story that's in 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers'  right now & 2. This new version will be in the category of Epic Fantasy, whereas the current version is more YA themed. 

As of now 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers' has a 63,620 word count, which puts it in the category of YA Fantasy. This new version titled 'Millennium' will have around a 110,000 word count. 'Millennium' will open up completely different vs how 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers' does. 'Dawn' throws the reader into the middle of the story and has the reader following multiple time lines that Catch up to each other as the plot moves forward, 'Millennium' however opens with the 'inciting incident'/'call to adventure' within the opening chapters whereas 'Dawn' doesn't, but instead has you on a quest with the main characters to figure out what caused the inciting incident only to show it later on in the book. This wasn't initially how I intended to tell the story. Initially 'Dawn' was just a Novella that I wrote as a companion piece to the first book that I wrote in 2010 which is now a soon to published spin-off novel of 'Millennium'. Unfortunately, I caught a very, very bad case of writers block; the weird thing was that I could write other projects just not anything Gatekeepers related.  So I ended up writing origin stories for multiple characters as weekly assignments for my creative writing intro course at the time, ironically all those characters became either main characters or secondary characters within 'Dawn' a year or so later.

So to sum it all up, 'Millennium' is the broader/more immersive version of 'Dawn of the Gatekeepers'. Its the same story, but more descriptive, more world building, and the main character 'Alicia Iminz' will be written from first person perspective instead of third person. I decided that to give readers a more immersive feel to the book it would be best to do this. Plus its not fun writing everyone in third person and with this new format for writing the main character you the 'reader' will be able to know who your supposed to care about, you'll be able to get inside the head of the main character and gain an understanding of the world the she and the rest of the cast inhabit.

The first 15% of 'Millennium' will be available here on Wattpad as well as The series' Official Tumblr  Page which will be fully up & running by New Years, the free sample chapters have been updated and will be updated again once the final manuscript has been by Smashwords.

'Millennium' is available for pre-order now on Smashwords. use the link below to pre-order your copy --> --> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1052388

"If there are infinite dimensions, then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are infinite alternate realities, we would exist in almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent" ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich.

In the distant future mankind has achieved a multitude of technological milestones, created a method of FTL known as ‘Millennium Drives’ and have been discovered by intelligent life from outside of the Milky Way Galaxy. Unbeknownst to the mortal realm a young woman from another realm has risen from the ashes of her tyrannical ‘Overlords’ and will soon leave her mark upon the universe.

Centuries in the future within a realm unknown to mortals, a malicious war wages on between the Celestial kingdoms of Paradia. There are the oppressive God Collective; descendants of an ancient Celestial race who are committed to purging the Five Realms of the self-righteous and divine Goddesses. Both factions have not openly declared war upon another, but instead have initiated multiple proxy wars against each other. These proxy wars have been fought by the Monoliths; a Celestial hive mind race that numbered somewhere in the billions with a strong warrior culture, they pledged their loyalty to the God Collective. The Goddesses were too passive to raise an army of their own, instead they relied on a secret order of Mystics they had trained. These Mystics were few in number but were tactically superior to the Monoliths who unlike the Mystics couldn’t harness the power of the Ember; the Ember was a living cosmic essence that resided within the Realms and was responsible for mortals and celestials possessing supernatural abilities.

After a millennium of war and casualties in the hundreds of millions, the Collective and Goddesses called a cease fire and signed a treaty which stated the two sides would govern over Paradia together. The Goddesses were reluctant at first, but after concluding that the Collective’s military was exhausted and with their own forces dwindling, they signed. The Goddesses chose to sign the treaty because two of their council members had foreseen events within the future that would cause war to plague Paraida again. Only this time they would have an army led by a mysterious warrior whose face was shrouded in darkness, with neither council member able to identify them. So, the Goddesses stayed vigilant as they ruled Paradia alongside the Collective as they waited for their time to come.

That time would come almost two thousand years later during a time of relative calm throughout the realms. Over the millennia the Collective used their armies to oppress the populace of their respective kingdoms. This oppression came in the form of stringent workforce directives, children being enforced into hard labor conditions, an increase in taxes and fear being used to break the will of the citizens. But all of this would be unseen by the Collective as their greatest threat had just been discovered. Viennashal Iminz, a Goddess of the High Council and supreme ruler of Galaxia Prime has been keeping her daughter Alicia hidden away within the kingdom for years unbeknownst to the Collective, but this young Celestial has the blood of mortals coursing through her veins. Viennashal attempted to keep her daughter’s existence a secret, but the Collective had spies everywhere. With her daughter’s existence now known Viennashal will stop at nothing to guarantee her daughters safety; even if it means going to war. Because if the visions were true than her offspring would be the undoing of the Collective.

Little Bear had been delivered in secret by the salvage crew. He had only brought along Little Riches, who was all curled up. He hadn't been allowed to bring his two darling robot dogs Dogdan and Dogke.
After all, he wasn't a real child. While he sometimes acted immature, he understood the gravity of their situation and wouldn't do anything against orders. Fang Zhao didn't have to worry for the time being.
Fang Zhao sent the scoresheet he had spent completing over the last few days to the series production crew and answered any questions they had regarding the composition.
At the same time, "Above the Blue Dome of Heaven" production team.
The busy music studio didn't stop to rest at all.
The scale of this drama series about warp engine engineers could not compare with the extent of "Founding Era". But, it was still a rather large investment in comparison to other series being produced currently. The series had already been fully shot, and it was currently in the tense period of post production.
"Above the Blue Dome of Heaven" was a quality series. Professionals like Fang Zhao had been contracted to compose the opening, closing and various accompaniment music. 
The music studio was also receiving completed works from the other contracted composers. All they needed to do was choose the most suitable pieces according to the series.
This job sounded easy, but in truth, it really wasn't. The style and instruments of the accompaniment needed to match the scene's plot. This was highly important for a quality series like this one. Investors, producers and even the director viewed the music with great importance.
Emotional people could be entirely won over by a film's music. The music could have a long-lasting effect. Many people still associated scenes of long ago to familiar tunes. 
When Fang Zhao's works were sent over, the music studio staff immediately jumped into a discussion. 
"Oh, this song isn't bad. I told him we needed a slow emotional style during the drafting stage. Fang Zhao hasn't let me down!"
That staff played the tune as he was talking. 
"Every note tells a story! It's slow, but not boring. It's rich, but not too heavy. It's suitable both for the opening or accompaniment. Maybe it's better as the accompaniment during the pan-in. That will create a powerful impression!"
A team member in the room nodded, but then shook his head. It wasn't that he didn't accept what his colleague had said, but rather, they had different preferences.
"I prefer the second song in the list. It's lively! There's both the cello's deep timbre and the guitar's bounce. There's a sort of industrial romanticism. It's very apt for our series! I personally think that it can be used for the end credits. It can even be adapted to have vocals."
"No no no, if we're talking about the ending theme, the third song is best suited for it!" Another staff member in the corner with earphones plugged in was visibly excited.
"Really, have a listen. Oh, Chief, you should listen to it too! It's simply entrancing! The brisk tension can fit seamlessly in any plot. It doesn't sound out of place at all, and it's pleasing to listen too! Fang Zhao's composing ability is really too strong! Chief, did you specifically request Fang Zhao for an all-purpose ending theme during the planning stage?"
The chief hadn't said a word all this time. He nibbled on his pen and flipped through the materials while listening to the music on his earphones. Then, he removed the earphones, placed the pen down and rubbed the goose pimples on his arm. "I didn't. Anyways, why don't you all like the last song 'Millennium'?
"How can any other song compare with it in terms of extravagance and narrative? Even compared with all our music scores, every other song pales in comparison! You guys should at least have the basic ability to appreciate what's good, right?"
All the others in the studio appeared embarrassed.
"It's not that we don't like it. In our opinion, Fang Zhao's 'Millennium' is already at the level where it can be the series's main theme. However, cough… didn't… didn't we already decide on the series's main theme…?" 
His voice trailed off towards the end of his sentence.
All of them had a rather considerable professional ability and could easily appreciate the finer works. Even if they didn't like the genre, they were still more than capable of telling what was good.
It wasn't that they didn't like "Millenium". In fact it was so good it exceeded the expectations! It even surpassed the range of their ability! But, their hands were tied. 
The tune selected as the series's main theme was also composed by a great master-level composer. It too was an exquisite piece, and more importantly, that composer was very experienced. In terms of seniority and connections, he was surely stronger than the rest. As a young composer, Fang Zhao was famous, but he still had to pay respects to the master-level composers.
The studio's chief frowned silently for a moment before clicking his tongue.
"The series has two seasons. We can keep the first season's theme. Since Fang Zhao's songs are more applicable for the second season, we'll use them there," the studio chief said.
In the original plan, the main theme of the series wouldn't change between the seasons. However, the studio chief wasn't willing to neglect Fang Zhao's "Millennium".
"The historical sentiments and sense of mission isn't something others can compete with. There are also some complex elements within that I am unable to describe for the time being. I just feel that it would be a pity not to use 'Millennium' for the main theme!"
The others also nodded and smiled. "Using it in the second season is fine too. Perhaps it may even be more suitable."
The studio chief suddenly seemed to think of something. "All the works that Fang Zhao sent over match well. I have seen the music scores he sent. A few songs are suitable for rearranging. Let's adapt several other uses from this main theme. This way, we use other composers' works in the first season and have Fang Zhao's pieces cover the entire second season." 
"Can… can we do that? But, Chief, rearranging tunes will still incur expenses. Given Fang Zhao's current status, this might be a little expensive. Our funding might not be… well, how about we discuss a full package with Fang Zhao? It would be more cost-effective." 
The chief went out and made a call asking his superiors for instructions. He returned and tapped his hands on the table. "Negotiate a whole package!"
"Got it. Can we contact Fang Zhao now?"
"It should be fine. Even if he can't be contacted, he left a number probably belonging to his assistant or manager."
The studio chief exhaled sharply after giving out the instructions to discuss a whole package deal with Fang Zhao. He grinned in satisfaction. "Although Fang Zhao is young, he won't have any problem carrying a season solo. It doesn't matter if others have doubts. His works do the talking! Besides, Fang Zhao's current influence is global! In terms of popularity, appeal and ability, he really doesn't fear anyone!"
The studio chief was fully confident. Fang Zhao's ability was the reason for his decisiveness. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare raise this matter to his superiors.
As he leaned back in his reclining chair, the studio chief's smile slowly dwindled. He gazed in nothing in particular and mumbled, "Old Master Mo said he didn't even provide any counsel for these compositions. He really wouldn't lie about such stuff. That means that all these are Fang Zhao's own works.
"Young people these days!
"Too impressive!
"Fortunately, there's only one of him. Otherwise, won't seniors like us lose our jobs?
"Honestly, in terms of character, hardships and realization, some people that are close to two hundred years old can't even be compared to Fang Zhao. Ahh, I wonder how profound the composers during the Period of Destruction were? Why haven't we heard of any really renowned composers from that time?"
"Even if there were any, that period didn't permit pure musicians to exist, right?" someone else interjected.
"That's true."
"Eh? I've seen Fang Zhao's file. He hasn't experienced many trying times before."
"That's innate talent."
"Oh, some people just can't be compared."
The production team acted quickly and immediately contacted Fang Zhao to discuss buying the whole package.
Fang Zhao didn't have any urgent matters to attend to and had remained on the island. Thus, he answered the incoming call immediately. While he was discussing this matter with the production team, Little Bear was on the sofa watching TV in the refurbished storehouse underground.
Yan Biao and Zuo Yu had just tidied up the armory and came over to check. When they saw Little Bear seated there quietly, they couldn't help feeling some pity for this kid and decided to accompany him for a bit.
Yan Biao replaced his stern expression with a more amiable one as he served up some fruits and snacks.
"Little friend, are you missing your family?" Yan Biao asked with a stiff smile.
Little Bear looked up with a questioning glance. "Family?"
"Was the person we saw previously your family?"
Little Bear's lips twitched and he answered casually, "Oh, her? She's bringing men to prod Tomorrow Empire's stronghold. Outer space immigration can't move along if they aren't suppressed. Interstellar navigation still lacks this piece."
Yan Biao and Zuo Yu: ?!!
No! Shut your mouth! This is too much info! We don't want to hear this!
How can you tell us such confidential matters to us this easily!!!
Yan Biao felt like slapping himself. Stupid mouth!
The atmosphere became awkward once more.
Just as Yan Biao and Zuo Yu decided to leave, Little Bear glanced at them with a playful smirk and called out, "Hey, salted fishes, have you heard of hand-shredded mecha?"
Zuo Yu said, "Nope, I have only heard of hand-shredded chicken."
Zuo Yu then added, "Little friend, have you ever seen a mecha being swallowed whole?"
The two of them stared at each other in silence.
And, it was as if they both came to sudden realizations as ghastly looks appeared on their faces.
Zuo Yu really wanted to slap himself. You and your stupid mouth!
The kid had a really strange expression. He noticed Zuo Yu didn't seem to be joking, like there was some unknown horror story behind it.
Swallowing a mecha whole.
Meanwhile, Zuo Yu was thinking, Ripping a mecha with bare hands… doesn't seem to be false either.
Zuo Yu shuddered and suddenly felt envious of Nanfeng.


"Every time background music plays in my head, I feel like there is nothing to be afraid of." —Fang Zhao
Toward the end of the apocalyptic period, Fang Zhao lost his life. However, instead of dying, he found himself 500 years later in the body of a young and aspiring composer who shared the same name. Having received a second chance at life, Fang Zhao sets out to achieve the previous owner's dreams.
Armed with the experience of living through an apocalyptic age and his profession as a composer before that period, Fang Zhao uses his talent, wits, and knowledge to make his mark in the entertainment industry of the future.

This spell asks you to tap into dark places. Places of temptation. Places you can't handle.
ABBY ABOUT DARK MAGIC IN BEFORE SUNSET

Dark Magic, also referred to as the Dark Arts or Black Magic, is a powerful form of witchcraft that draws on malevolent powers that asks the practitioner to tap into dark places of temptation. Such magic has typically been used for dark purposes that deliberately cause harm in some way, e.g. to injure or kill, to cause destruction or misfortune, or for personal gain without regard to consequences. In popular usage, the term "dark magic" is often used to describe any form of magic that goes against the Balance of Nature.

A "dark witch" refers to any witch who has tapped into dark magic, either to perform something they were not strong enough to do individually with traditional or other forms of magic or as a means to empower themselves with far greater strength. Despite its power, dark magic is known to corrupt the practitioner by distorting the human perception between right and wrong and most practitioners of dark magic become malefic over the course of time. Alaric explains that it gets inside the heart and it poisons the mind.

Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

Dark magic was first mentioned by Esther Mikaelson after she explained how she used it to create the Original vampires. Abby also used dark magic when she desiccated the Original vampire, Mikael.
Bonnie would eventually turn to the dark arts in order to desiccate Klaus. Later, Bonnie Bennett resorted to using dark magic again, in an attempt to help her friend after the Spirits turned against her. However, after Bonnie is warned about the dangerous consequences that come with dark magic from her Grams, she plans to quit the Dark Arts for good. Though is quickly forced to use dark magic yet again by the infamous Klaus to place his spirit back inside his original body and subsequently having the spirits punish her through her Grams.

Throughout The Originals Series

Over a millennium ago, Esther sought out her sister Dahlia to make her fertile. Dahlia used dark magic to perform the fertility spell. Dahlia also used dark magic over the following years to link herself to Freya; perform the century slumber spell, channel Freya, make herself and Freya invulnerable and sense the newborn of each generation's magic. It is also possible that Dahlia used dark magic to link herself to Klaus and channel his immortality.

Like her sister Dahlia, Esther is also very skilled in the Dark Arts. Esther promised that if Dahlia took Freya, she would return to the Dark Arts and take revenge. Many years later, Esther used dark magic to perform a variation of Qetsiyah's immortality spell to turn her family into vampires. She then preceded to use dark magic to place the Hybrid curse on Klaus. Over a millennium later, Esther used dark magic with help of the Bennett witches to link all of her children together.

Throughout Legacies Series

Like other members of her family, Hope Mikaelson is no stranger to dark magic and is versed in various spells that utilize it, such as locator spells and an death spell - the former in which she used to track down Landon and the latter which she intended to use on, though instead used against a fully transformed dragon.

Josie Saltzman is also tapped into dark magic on several occasions, first of which helping Hope with her locator spell to track Landon and other times to to harm students, whether intentional or not. Specifically with Josie and Lizzie, when one twin uses or is exposed to dark magic, they both suffer physical symptoms such as vomited "black goo" or horrible rashes. Unlike other practitioners of dark magic, Lizzie and Josie are the only known witches to suffer physical consequences of using such magic.

Trivia

In Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Freya mentions how sacred ground that's been stained in the blood of the innocents that were massacred creates a place of "dark power", based on her revelation it would be safe to say that such a place serves as a source of Dark Magic as well.

Dark Magic allows a witch to circumvent the common rules of witchcraft that apply to other forms of magic. Such examples include:
A dark witch's ability to reach the purgatory for supernatural beings by inducing death in themselves while returning to life is powered by the sheer force of will.

A dark witch's ability to access the Ancestral Plane despite not being an ancestral witch.

A dark witch's ability to return to life following the performance of a suspension spell depending on a life link despite that link being broken. This is powered by the witch's force of will as well.

Spells of possession are considered to consist of dark magic, though not all spells are out right stated as such.

Traveler passengers spell are forms of possession, though it is never accurately stated that they've used dark magic specifically. This is the most likely case though as they sacrifice multiple people on several occasions to fuel their most potent spells.

Expression is an extremely powerful source of dark magic; it isn't even credited as magic by witches.
Shane states Expression is neither good nor evil.
Nandi LaMarche states that the magic her mother practiced was "unnatural". In We'll Always Have Bourbon Street, when Stefan asks if it is like black magic, to which she replies that its worse than dark magic. Many years prior, Nandi's mother, Valerie LaMarche stated to Damon that the magic he sought was 'dark' and 'powerful' and that dark magic draws power from dark places. Casting the spell he needed would require the sacrifice of 12 human souls.




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Back to Kino, she learned that some kind of skill effect managed to get into her mind and as it does, her body reacts on its own. As a result, she felt this sharp sting from her head, she placed her right hand on her forehead to ease the pain and it slowly faded away.

Anyhow, the effects were removed thanks to her aura technique, it reacts every time something enters her body with malicious intent, it is very similar to the immune system.


Soon after, back to the sever body, it showed this scene where something inside it managed to break out from the body's tough scale and formed a meter crack. Two scythes come out and at the same time, the creature forces its way out for its body.


Since Kino isn't under any skill effect, she can think clearly and her mind is back to normal, she can now process what comes to her mind five times faster than last time. It seems some kind of skill effect affecting her brain back then, but what is the cause?


No matter, she can think about it later on after all of this is ended. She aimed her guns and shot the sever body three times in a row with her guns simultaneously, to which all bullets were cut to little pieces by the scythes.


The pieces are scattered to surroundings, hitting the ground, nearby fallen trees and even the sever body. Kino frowns when the scene comes into view.


The scythes didn't move an inch but the bullets were cut to little pieces, either the scythes are too fast for her naked eyes, or skill is activated, she must be careful against this thing.


She reloaded and at the same time, activated her skill and used the aura technique, "system, activate S4, A2."


[Skill is activated.]


Her body let out a bright green glow and then, she used her aura technique to boost her movement speed. However, she didn't use it yet.


She wants to see what this thing is, first, it comes out from a sever body, second, its aura is different from any living being she encounters. It was unique and strange.


She can kill it easily if she wants to despite its speed is beyond her. There are many ways to kill a creature that is faster than you.


Anyhow, with an aura technique on standby and her skill is activated, she will kill it if things went bad.


Coming out through the crack, its legs start to make their appearance. It was a centipede leg and then, a few moments later.


Its full figure managed to get out albeit with great difficulty. Its upper body is that of a human and as it goes down to its lower part, centipede legs can be seen touching the ground.


It was black and very sharp. Every time its hundred legs take a step, it forms this small crack on the ground for each leg, so every time it comes into contact with the ground, it forms a small crack.


Kino wondered why but either her legs are heavy or too sharp, she considered that to her mind as another danger when fighting it.


The creature's height is three meters and its upper body is covered with brown scales, it has long brown hair, two antennas facing the sky, and beautiful facial features. Any man will fall in love at first sight despite its hideous centipede body.


Kino ignored its exquisite face and slim body, just seeing the creature in front of her makes her doubt something. With its height of about three meters and legs of hundreds. It should be difficult to swing that scythes.


The scythes are in truth her hands, Kino just figured this out when the scythes out of the blue transform into ordinary hands.


The creature observed its surroundings before finally met Kino who aimed it with weapons. The creature's instinct told itself that the person is very dangerous, especially those two things on her grip.


The creature didn't understand what those things were on the girl's grip, though, her question was answered by the voice of an old man, the voice echoed in her head.


After that, it nodded as it understood what those things were and at the same time, the creature was confused. Why was such a dangerous tool pointed at her? Isn't she just existing for a few seconds? Why would someone want to kill it?


Her thoughts are asking those questions, however, no answers coming from the voice of an old man, it seems she thought the old man knows all and will always answer her question despite only hearing the voice for the first time but it seems that wasn't the case, at least that's what it thought when suddenly.


'Don't worry little one, I will always be here to protect you. However, you must find out your questions all by yourself.' The old man's voice echoed in its head.


It didn't understand what it meant but it nodded nevertheless.


"Here, I give you my memories worth a thousand years of knowledge." The voice added.


Returning to Kino, she is wondering why that creature nodded two times as if listening to a teacher's lecture. She observed it before doing anything and then, a few moments later, the creature in front of her opened its eyes.


Kino raised her guard rapidly as if a thermometer touched a sick person's skin. The creature right in front of her is different than the one a few seconds ago.


From a newborn baby to a creature that lives more than a millennium, the creature's aura tells it all.


She quickly shot the creature a few times and its hands transformed into sharp and glistening scythes under the dim night. Swinging it to the upcoming bullets, it leaves a series of sparks and sound effects of a bullet getting cut echoed to the air.


As Kino shot it, her body makes these unique moving patterns, this was caused by activating a skill. You think to activate a skill you don't have to do something? No!

For the first pattern, she shot her right gun first then the left one.

Second, repeat the first pattern a few times. 

Third, she pulled the trigger for both guns at the same time.

For the last pattern, her guns let out a bright glow and the air around her becomes heavy, even for the creature that was a few meters away, it can feel it, the stifling sensation on its chest.

Bullets come out from the barrel and pierce through the air, leaving a yellow light as its trail. If this is in slow mode motion, it would be very cool.

The creature noticed Kino's pattern and aware that the person in front of it is a human with great capabilities. 

Without wasting much time, it changed its plan. 

Indeed, this creature had a plan from the very beginning and this creature was no fool despite its existence on earth was only a few seconds long.

Its original plan was to deflect any bullets until its opponent had no more but no matter what, its opponent seems to gain advantage every second passed.

It is true that each bullet managed to cut down to little pieces but the next one is more powerful and stronger.

Her scythes exuding a thick and dark aura. Like an aura of someone reaching their end. Not only her aura, her posture is different too, from a creature who didn't know anything but only to swing its scythe to a battle stance. 

Kino was surprised when saw the sight where the creature changed its posture.

The creature all this time cut her bullets with its scythe without techniques needed. 

Now, with the change of posture to a battle stance, it shows that the creature knows a thing or two about martial arts despite its existence on the planet for only a few seconds.


By this point, Kino thought to herself. 'This thing is more troublesome than I expected!'


At first, she thought she could have a spar with it to know what's her weaknesses is when executing a battle technique and fix it because all her peers are very weak and their strength didn't worth to mention and every time she had a spar, either her opponent ends up in bed for five months or crippled.

Now, she is up against a creature who is a millennium-old despite its existence was a few seconds long. She is confident that she can defeat it easily but experience wins than pure strength, she must be careful.

What's more, after she's done with this thing, she had to against an ancient creature.

Also, she has no idea why the creature in front of her suddenly had an aura that was similar to the ones who live for millennium years old. Wait, hold on, similar isn't a suitable word, it was the same as the ones who live for millennium years old.

With dark aura finally cloak the scythes, it cleanly cuts the upcoming bullets in half, causing a series of sparks and loud sound of bullets getting cut.

Its sound is a high pitched metal that meets each other at high speed, echoed to the surroundings. Not only that, a loud boom and trembling ground occurred after it cut the bullets.

Kino's brows shot up in amazement, this is because those last two bullets had the same power as a missile coming out from a bazooka. The one that could destroy a tank but this creature cuts it as if it was nothing but like cutting tofu. Freaking tofu!

"Hey, what's the big deal? I didn't do anything wrong yet! Why would you shoot me as if I'm your mortal enemy?" It complained and this ruined Kino's image about this creature to a certain degree, what a letdown.

Furthermore, what is meant by 'didn't do anything wrong yet?' Doesn't that mean she was planning to make any wrongdoings?

When it comes to VR games, everyone, from gamers to the technologically adverse wanted to play them. With the advance of technology in the world, a new type of VR is released, which allows its user to enter the realm of videogames. 

A game about a zombie apocalypse is released the day after this new type of VR, and was an immediate success. It was a globally revered sensation at the time, a whopping 2.5 million players played the game, playing for an obscene amount of hours. It was like they never logged off. 

Now, a young man, who is known as Tornado online, is one of those 2.5 million players, trapped in a zombie apocalypse world. Survival is a must. Weaving through the technological reality, anything is possible. You could scrounge for food, set up shelter, or even get an undead girlfriend.
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No one knows...


Note: The story is slow-paced.
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'“Uhm Tornado, why are burying yourself except your head?” Uno asked curiously.

“I'm leveling up.”

“...” Uno

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It had been a week since Lu Zhou left Germany. October came and so did the cold weather. 
Lu Zhou sneezed and put on his favorite trench coat.
Lu Zhou sat in his study room chair. He was drinking coffee while reading the newspaper from across the ocean.
He opened the first page and read the large headline.
[The Application of Computer Science In Cutting-Edge Research and The Trend Of Future Academia Development.]
Everyone Daily used an entire page to publish his letter content.
Of course, the newspaper simplified the content of the letter and explained how supercomputers worked.
Lu Zhou read the entire article and couldn't help but smirk.
However, he was a little worried as well.
Although he was optimistic about supercomputers, he wondered if he had over-promoted it…
After all, scientific research funding was limited.
Although computational chemistry had good prospects, it wasn't necessary. Many laboratories were able to produce results without computational chemistry.
Hopefully, the policymakers realize this.
Lu Zhou suddenly felt like it would be better if he commented less on subjects like this.
Even with the help of the system, he couldn't guarantee that he was correct. Scientific research was a process of trial and error. In fact, the number of errors he had made far exceeded the number of success.
However, all of the published articles were about his success.
Lu Zhou shook his head and put the newspaper away as he said, "I guess I have to be more cautious, a mistake might come to bite me in the future."
He took his empty coffee cup into the kitchen. When he returned, his phone suddenly rang.
It was from an international caller. However, it wasn't from Jin Ling University, it was from Yang Xu.
Lu Zhou answered the call.
"Did you receive the package?"
"I did."
"How does it feel to be on Everyone Daily?"
Lu Zhou smiled as he replied, "It feels okay."
It wasn't his first time on Everyone Daily.
He had won multiple international awards, so this was nothing special.
Lu Zhou said, "If you didn't call me, I would've called you. Speaking of which, how is the construction going at the computational materials research institute building?"
"The foundation has been laid. I've been there a couple of times but I'm not sure. Aren't you the CEO of Star Sky Technology? Can't you just ask your manager?"
Star Sky Technology had opened a branch in Shanghai, and Lu Zhou had received the construction report, but he was still worried.
"The report is only on paper, it's not as good as seeing it in person. Remember to take a few photos when you go there next time."
Yang Xu smiled as he said, "It's just a big empty construction site with dust everywhere. It'll take two to three years just for the dust to settle."
Lu Zhou replied, "Two to three years is too long, I'll move in a few months after it's built."
Yang Xu smiled. "The chemistry department said we can stay here for as long as we want."
"No, no," Lu Zhou smiled and said, "we're only borrowing it for now, we still have to move out. We're still a private research institute while they're a public research institute. It's not good to mix the two together."
It was fine staying there for a while, but people would start asking questions if they stayed there for too long.
Like who owned the building?
Could the state transfer assets to private organizations?
There were a series of complicated questions.
Lu Zhou already bought the new building. Anyway, he wasn't lacking money, so he didn't have to borrow anyone's building.
"Okay, you're right," Yang Xu said. He suddenly slapped his head and said, "I nearly forgot, do you have any new research plans this year?"
Lu Zhou said, "Not right now, but I will tell you if I do. My suggestion is that you should find some interesting research projects to do." 
Researchers would get distracted if they didn't do experiments for a long time.
They didn't have a research plan themselves, so it was a good idea for them to cooperate with other research companies. This way, they could gain experience and might even generate some income.
Many companies would love to cooperate with the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials.
"Okay, I'll take note," Yang Xu said. As he twisted the pen around his fingers, he asked, "Speaking of which, what research have you been up to? Theoretical chemistry again?"
"Me?" Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Not really, the 'Theoretical Model of the Electrochemical Interface Structure' is already done, and I'm not interested in chemistry anymore."
Yang Xu said, "So you're doing nothing?"
Lu Zhou said, "Nope, I'm been studying the Navier-Stokes equation recently."
Yang Xu's pen flew out of his hand.
The pen flew onto the wall.
Yang Xu was stunned.
The f*ck?
Navier-Stokes equation?!
Although he wasn't familiar with mathematics, he still knew of the Millennium Prize Problems.
Lu Zhou didn't hear a response.
"… Is there a problem?"
"F*ck, you're insane! NS equations!" Yang Xu sat up from his chair and said, "You're finally taking on the Millennium Prize Problems?"
What do you mean finally?
Also, what does this have to do with Millennium Prize Problems?
Lu Zhou coughed and explained.
"The Millennium Prize Problem is about the smoothness and existence of the NS equations, I'm studying a specific application of the NS equations, on plasma…"
Lu Zhou suddenly remembered something.
"Oh yeah, if you're looking for a collaborative research project, my suggestion is superconducting materials."
"Superconducting materials?" Yang Xu asked. He then pointed out by saying, "But we're in the carbon nanomaterials field, we don't have any experience with metals…"
"I'm not asking you to change directions, we're still doing carbon nanomaterials."
Lu Zhou paused for a second before he continued, "It's just my opinion, but I think we don't have to find superconducting materials that are metals. Maybe we can find Cooper pairs in the π bonds." 


After suffering from a heat stroke while working under the scorching heat of summer, Lu Zhou, a hardworking but poor university student, somehow becomes the owner of an advanced technological system. With the cheat given by the system, his university life changes overnight. 
  
A Master's degree? Easy. 
  
PhD? Not a problem.   
  
From a nobody, he quickly becomes a huge celebrity in the world of science. With the missions given by the system, he is on his way to winning a Nobel Prize.   

"System, can points be exchanged for money?"
  
"No."
  
"F**k, what use are you then!?"
  
"This system will make you the ultimate scholar, the kind that lords over all of humanity. What use will money be to you?"

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