But for me, this is the best representation of what they look like. Battered, almost look like beaten, but still tenacious. And they're currently home so, personal fashion is out for now from when they patrol Arizona wasteland

reality they look like this

Here's the concept idea of after wearing the Oldworlders' gear

This is going to be a routine thing. not sure it's going to be a hit or a plop. here is the concept idea of what the veteran rangers are wearing:

YES! Haha!

heyya! currently doing well. I have to change the SSD, buy some RAM for the laptop. buy out some additional stuff like a USB hub cause some of the usb is broken in and a fan cause i messed up the heating which is now overheating. i had to find ways to take some additional work like trying cambly(which is a no since it needs a working laptop) usercrowd, or just asking my boss for some addtional hours. now, i'm trying to finish up a patreon... which really pains me to ask people for some money for this not so good work of mine. all in all, damn laptop is still on hold due to low funds. trying to find some cheap ass second hand gaming laptop in social media though so i can play wasteland 2 for some research.

Good Question. 🤔🤔 well he's in shock (or thats how i portray it to be) First kill and all. So he's reverting back to something familiar: a known routine, just to keep himself sane from asking too many question. I found it interesting that when someone took a life for the first time that close, individuals tends to have this "narrow road" vision where everything turns to silent and people tried all sorts of ways to justify their action. to keep themselves sane. In contrast with those individuals(soldiers mostly) who engage and eliminated individuals from a distance away. treating it as a game. Now, if it looks entirely unbelievable in a reader standpoint 🤔🤔 i'm sorry. i'm still working out how to illustrate it better that those two are trained not experienced. hopefully you still enjoy it though. point out some more loopholes! i really mean it! haha so i can do better! TV? not entirely. 🤔🤔 i usually dwell into trauma cases(of self defense nature) due to my profession haha!

Thank you!!! oh. so it's more of a transitioning phase one step first then followed by the second? Leave much for the imagination... I'll keep that in mind. My bad for the too much detail. I got worked up on using Black Iron Glory for reference. A fight scene is still up next. So i'll change things up. Again, thank you so much!

Oh! Thank you so much! I've been using Grammarly since i started. So it's a surprise that there's still a typo for that.

🤔 Couldn't think of any other name at that moment. So I went with that. My bad if it does resemble fallout series. Then again, the resemble is there. I'm not skimping out on that haha. Wasteland was the inspiration for the fallout series.

Thank you for asking! I'm not sure if you're that aware about the lore behind Wasteland. Yes, they do have limited resources. But Ranger Citadel has the capacity to create ample amount of surplus ammo because of raw materials from Ag Center (ag center is friend highpool is shit) and the mines. So they are pretty much re-cooking lead and brass to be used again. Yeah, later on i'll try to dig deeper when it comes to ammo conservation and different weapons.

It's New Vegas haha

Thank you! [img=recommend][img=recommend] *had to translate it by typing in each word* I'm thankful that you voiced out your feelings about this story! hmm... it might be working? cause first you recognize it as Anime haha. I didn't intended it to be anime though. Their personalities are intended. At the start though 🤗🤗 cause of one thing. Their Defense Mechanism. The guy is pretty much teasing her all the times and shows concern cause he's feeling guilty. I'll capitalize on this feeling on the later chapters. the girl on the meantime, I made her in the concept of repressed emotions. Not revealing her true emotions to world but all that goes thrown out cause of Houmin's constant annoyance and her subconscious anger to him. Both of them have worked their personalities already. Both are young adults. Military and Technically training does change your behavior to things, but personality is a hard thing to change especially if your an adult. It might be easier to say that training with someone you idolize will cause you to integrate a part of that characters personality to your own. It does happen but it changes overtime not in a quick succession. it depends on how the individual rationalized the events around him (being in a game world and killing someone.) Meaning, all the personalities both Houmin and Skylar encountered during their training, they have to figure out which are these are more useful and which are not. They only did training... They're not experienced. So to this arc, i'm showcassing Houmin's easily thought of plan and the actual reality they have to face. No amount of training will help them when facing such situation and how it affect them mentally and emotionally. Also i highly appreciated you pointed this out. i'll note about this when i try to rework the training chapter.

THANK YOU FOR REPLYING SO QUICKLY! Yeah, I might have messed up about the rape part. In my defense, i did studied about behavioral reaction towards high stress events such as abuse and rapes. The human brain cannot process much more information under stress in that kind of situation (unless trained). I figured that it was dark, she saw him naked, she saw herself naked, and so and so forth. Explaining more can make the situation much worse. Since you'll just batter her mind with information and the mind just ignores much of it which makes her agitated. What I did not expect was translating that knowledge to a novel... well, it makes, as you said, feels dragged on for the readers. I'll Keep that in mind. The Time skip at the beginning, Yeah that was a bad call on my part. I was planning to make it like a fireplace rant between the two. Remembering the things what happened and making a sort of flashback filler. Their experiences and what changed. Not making the readers know how overpowered they were at the start. but i think i made a bad call about that and not make the readers feel supportive for the character. We'll there's a reason about it but i wont spoil it and hopefully i don't crap up the execution about it. for now my plan is to try and test the things i wanna do and see what sticks. I really hope you keep on reading this series. and add more things to comment about! The initial chapters... I'll leave it at it is. Reminder for me to work better.

YES! finally someone asked! haha. I'm a bit of a masochist so bear with me as we conduct a informative argument as I cry trying to make you look at it in my perspective haha. firstly, thank you for asking and pointing out so many wrong things about this as i need that to better this series. though it hurts and i teared up a bit.. JK only. i can't find your other comment, so i'll reply to this instead. it's suppose to be like that at first 🤔 if you can look it at that. and then the exposition why this and whats that, will be explained later on some parts. If thats poor writing then I am a poor writer trying to be better. that's my excuse. I wanted this to be a slow story. so i can churn out more. be more creative and gave it more depth later on. for now, the initial parts are just like that. forced and skipped. just the tidbits before it will be explained later on. I just hate the stories from the very start the exposition is there, there's too many info to process and you just want it to progress. while i did the opposite, it's progressing way too fast and not enough exposition. it's like playing dark souls on your initial playthrough. here's a sword, go kill that thing with a scary name. let's see what happen. PLEASE! POINT OUT MORE WRONG THINGS! I MEAN IT! I want this to be more enjoyable! haha! P.S the girl? I hate her too. can't kill her cause God ordered me to progress the story with her.

The Silent Beast has struck! Casualties rises! Marines facing against the enemy's special forces! ATI's creative capabilities! Rism on the escape! A race against time! Will the UN captures the elusive protectorate commander? Or will they lose him under their grasp? A Chapter that keeps us for wanting more! Until next week! FACE THY JUDGEMENT! --------- Magical Shields? I'm surprise no one has realized it yet that if this arc took the opportunity to reverse engineer these personal magic shields, we can expect SPARTAN-IV's augmentation and MJOLNIR GEN2 Armor from halo. Though it need a tiny bit of lore to be introduced, Nanobots. I can't remember if this novel actually talked about nanobots, all i remember is about the 3d printers. or just a personal shield from mass effect. all in all its cool to implement.

Steam! Gunpowder! Magic! Hold on or be bold? ATI on the edge of defeat or triumph! The sounds of war are at their crescendo! The Navy & Marines has joined in the fray! Lord Inquisitor General Rism, you have been welcomed by the new world. What will you do, oh, giver of judgement. Can't wait for tomorrow! The Choir has sung beautifully! FACE THY JUDGEMENT!

Discussion: Considering the lore of this novel pertaining to mythologies or pantheon in earth turning real in this planet, I would like to ask everyone about who/what diety do you think will side to UN? For me, it's Prometheus. So why Prometheus? To the best of my knowledge, he wasn't worship that much but he was celebrated. The one that gave humanity "fire" Giving humanity or the UN the better understanding to magic. better tech blend of science and magic (magitech) to bring the world to peace... forcefully if they have to.

Oh! OH! a steampunk civilization vs the vast knowledge of a space faring civilization that wages war with a Swarm race! This clash of culture, and metallurgical skills through war is a sight to see! Can the ATI's push on and take the remaining 2 objectives? or will they compromise and be... creative? Will Lord Inquisitor General Rism, be the one giving judgement? or will he be receiving it? Can't wait! The heartbeat skipping action! All in all, FACE THE JUDGEMENT!

Baptism by fire people! Effectiveness of human modern tactics to a magical fantasy land! A test of the ATI's strength upon responding to this kind of randomness! so excited! what's going to happen next? a.) will they blew the damn ship up? b.) will they take control of the ship? c.) will they capture the head beetle head while doing either of the two above? d.) Or a new player will show itself amongst the mess? Can't wait for tomorrow! Come to think of it, does the ATI have any emblems or motto to themselves? like the SAS's sword logo and motto "who dares win"