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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
分數不夠
222 Chs

Prelude

Warping back and forth from the Demon Compound and Asura's meeting rooms was quite fun. Got to kill a few of the people that were hiding under the floors... again. And I taunted Asura by constantly flickering around him, always avoiding his attempts to attack me.

Warping is pretty fun! I could do this all day! But, as we know. I can't.

I'm just too distractible to continue to do something for more than a few seconds. It's just not in my nature...

Well, that's primarily been the case since I've met Arch, before that my thoughts were more streamlined and calculative compared to now. I've gone from Lawful Evil to Chaotic Good... to reference the popular alignment chart.

Actually, that reminded me. I never aligned myself! I'm basically a mercenary!

... Wasn't I supposed to do something?...

What was it... think Avery think!

Hrrrrrnnnnggggg

* Ding *

I got it!

I was supposed to destroy the barrier, how could I forget?

System, warp me to the barrier!

| Warping... |

| Warp complete |

I... didn't expect so many people to be here? What's going on?

| Call from: Mordova |

Pick up?

| Now speaking: Mordova |

" I've sent some other people to help you out at the bosses, why haven't you broken the barrier yet? "

- " I uh... got distracted? I was searching the place I got the key for anything that might help. "

" Alright then, go ahead and open it already. "

| Mordova Disconnected |

" Alright... Dice, Anise, you ready to fight a few bosses? "

( In Unison ) " Yes master! "

- " Good. "

I walked over the giant, blue barrier that stood between the grassy plains we stood at now and a Fire filled Hellscape, I pressed the key into it without paying any attention to the people who surrounded me now.

| Barrier is being broken. |

| Warping all nearby players to the Boss room. |

| Boss spawning in 50 seconds |

50 Seconds? Way to much preparation time...

System, summon the maximum amount of turrets I can using mana.

| Denied |

| Turrets require binding, and the limit is 5 |

| This is due to affiliating it with Summoner class |

How do I bind it then?

| Bindable via Mana Crystal |

Bind them then? Can you do simple stuff like that for me in the future please?

| Bind complete |

| Answer: No, I rather wouldn't |

Alright, then. Summon the turrets then.

* Beep *

* Beep *

* Beep *

* Beep *

* Beep *

][ Summoning Complete ][

][ Scanning environments... ][

][ Scan complete ][

][ Summoner detected, Enemy not detected. ][

The boss will Spawn soon, I hope these guys that Mordova brought will be up to snuff compared to my turrets.

][ Summoner, Grant authorization to Fire? ][

Fire at what?

][ Pre - Emptive fire, target spawning detected, using skills available can create environmental hazzard. ][

Sure?

* BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG *

Four giant icicles shot out of the turrets, wich now actually stand at 4 feet tall, impacting the middle of wherever we are and freezing the place instantly. Just in time too.

}{}{ Boss Summoned }{}{

}{}{ Hell Knight Summoner }{}{

{ Asi detected nearby. }

{ Memories returning, Cause of sanity loss is now fixable }

{ Confirmed }

| Unique Event Created |

| Save Asi |

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A lukewarm sensation filled my mind, the process of it alone hurt me more than and least 2 needles, maybe three. To be serious, I remember what hurt me so know, all the memories of me and Asi... she's probably the reason why I consider my tamed creatures family. If it weren't for the interactions between the three of us back then I couldn't possibly considered Dice anymore than a Pet.

But now, I'm starting to feel something else. Something more primal than any other feeling i've felt since first playing this damn game.

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