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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.

BreathingMoon · 游戏
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222 Chs

Casuality

Friggin spoilers!

I didn't know that was going to happen! I didn't even know that Dice liked me that way still! Damn... that would of been the perfect final log entry for my 200th journal... but it looks like I'll have to find something else, I'm still a few entries away from that point... maybe I can find something cooler?

Like uh... maybe when this war event will end?

It won't be long... maybe I could time it just right to make it?

Ugh... that would be a little annoying...

It would be worth it though!

...

What am I going on about?

I'm stressing about nothing again. Dang, maybe I should just... chill? After I check in with everyone I'll just take a rest today. No reason to not to, it feels weird to do it of my own accord still... but its probably the best option, I'll chill and wait for this event to finally end

That will be perfect, because then I'll have enough energy to go full throttle for a few days... I can only assume it will be weeks of work to catch up to the outside world's technology... after all, they cleared the Demon Lord scenario without equipment! There must be something unusual that they developed to contract it!

I'll have to also figure out transference a little more, if I can figure out how to properly use it... oh boy, there is lots of possibilities!

Hmm, well... while I'm walking, I might as well do a bit of catch-up with myself!

System, if you will!

| Confirmed. |

| Cobalt |

| Level 29 - Battle Alchemist |

| Title system currently suspended |

| Stats |

| Str - Slightly stronger than your average human |

| Dex - Accurate like an arrow. |

| Con - Weak and frail, but still human. |

| Int - Capable of hypercomplex thought, smart... but slow. |

| Wis - Like a child. |

| Cha - About as charming as a homeless man with too much makeup, but beautiful on the inside if that helps. |

| SPD - As quick as a... normal man. |

Those... stats. They look a little weird.

No numbers? Data? Nothing?

Weird, must be an update or something.

Continue on.

| Energy Prowess. |

| Elemental 20/100 | | Understood

| Complex 50/100 | | Proficient

| Mana 78/100 | | Mastered

| Alchemical 90/100 | | Mastered

| Void 10/100 | | Understood

| Ether -100/100 | | Incompatible

| Desolate 2/100 | | Used

| Tangential -100/100 | | Incompatible

| Negative 0/100 | | Unknown

That's... a lot of words I don't understand.

I assume elemental means fire, earth, ect...

Complex is probably black, balance, white, red, ect.

Mana... is... hmm, maybe blood and such?

Alchemy is obvious.

Void... huh, I can't remember using that.

Ether and Tangential are incompatible... not cool.

And... Negative energy, well... its description is right... I never heard of that. I could swear there were more types of power through, maybe a misunderstanding?

Whatever.

Anything else System?

| Display options for Transference available |

Oh! Oh Oh Oh! That's... awesome! Like, damn!

What's up with that System?

| Current available transference targets: None |

| Resinoid: None |

| Electricity stored: 0 |

| Void Energy stored: 0 |

| Desolate Energy stored: 0 |

| Powers Sacrificed: 1 ( Mind Interference ) |

| Powers Left: 3 |

..what?

Give me a moment, I need a second to translate this into usable data.

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.

.

OK I think I got it.

Transference targets reference available ' Vessels ' that I can take control of, like Nidus, for whatever reason... there are only certain beings or objects that apply in these situations.

I don't know what Resinoid is... but uh, Resin is a material used to like... preserve stuff, right?

Maybe its something that would deal with my body while I'm doing such a thing? That might be a requirement to do transference as well...

Shtick is, the System says ' powers sacrificed, Mind interference. ' yada yada, so... I think that ' powers ' are one time use abilities linked to transference.... mind interference must be why I took control of Nidus instead of... something.

Clearly, I'm not supposed to be able to do that normally. Also, despite questioning the system further it doesn't seem like I get to see the other powers, if they are different. So... fuck.

All that ' energy stored ' stuff doesn't make sense to me as of right now, but I won't let it get to me... either way, I can safely assume this will probably be my long term goal in relation to equipment.

Because... I had a thought. What if I made a living weapon, just like Syn and Fantasm, but it was Humanoid... and I possessed it, infused it with every amount of power I have... and pilot that.

Theoretically, if I can do that... then I'll never have to be worried about respawn timers, soul attacks, or pain that shows itself every so often.

That would be a huge boon in my search for Asi...

If I can't find her within 20 days of looking after I get settled from the end of this event, then I'll devote myself to making a small base of operations... and then I'll experiment with transference more, so until then... that's going to be on the back burner.

Now, onto more pressing matters... Tungston has just informed me of something that might be important, but then again... its Tungston... last I checked she isn't the brightest in the bunch, but maybe she did something cool! I'll give it a listen!