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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

Study

My finger lace around the barren and empty space I reside myself in, the walls that are supposedly inside me still have resigned and no longer hurt. I haven't any idea on what happened, but as long as I have time, I should spend it improving.

My only thoughts are improving.

Pick weeds, collect apples, kill wolves, craft item, kill ants, craft item, tame creature, do event, summon creature, harvest players for xp, wipe a raid, craft item, wipe a dungeon, craft item, sell item, do quest, do quest, try and get materials... then die, try again, and later I'll have to try again.

I... I've done nothing but kill and craft, no matter how I try to pull myself away from it and just enjoy the game... its nothing but a pattern... Kill and Craft... Kill and Craft.

Well... its not hard to break habits as far as I heard, but I'm not certain is this is a habit or an addiction at this point. But, I'll try. I'll take it easy... right after I finish studying, and get materials to make a new set, and leveling to max, and killing.... well, fuck.

Life is a bitch...

Well, I guess study is the first on the list... the faster I get through this the better.

...

Ah, somebody figured out how to actually put souls in weapons organically now... an interesting method too, its just plain mana... so anyone with the slightest amount of magical ability can do it.

Looks like a lot of people are starting to use materials for things other than equipment, such as... castles and such. Its weird, but I guess I can see why... as far as I know with items being tiered down it light be better just to use it like a cheap building material.

The Car blueprint I gave out is apparently mainstream now, after somebody stole it from Crunch... that must suck.

...

New info... Chant magic works better when the user makes their own chants that specifically operates around them.

That might be useful when I do combo cas-... fuck, I haven't done that in a while.

I've been too busy flexing the dual magic circles technique to remember to use chants with them!

Fuck, its not like I can practise magic here either... I can't do anything! No mana, No Alchemical Power, this place is a wasteland! A magic user's nightmare!

... I guess I could... pretend to be casting magic, so I don't accidentally fuck up a chant or something while I spew bullshit.

I need a Chant then... I want it to be memorable, simplistic, badass... but not edgy or aloof, it has to be... a good chant.

Involving other beings into the creation of magic chants have good effects so I've heard, and talking about emotions and companions are effective too... apparently especially so if the mentioned allies recently fell in combat.

I'm not going to involve anyone in my magic, its my own power and I'll use it myself... I don't want some God or whatever coming out of the woodworks to give me a +5% damage increase, because I don't want to involve myself with those types of beings anymore.

Within technicality... I'm still mortal, I can be deleted, blacklisted, scorned and shunned, or... forgotten. Beings like the System, or that Neolithid... as far as I can tell, aren't able to be deleted.

If I remember the Lore about Neolithids, it was surrounded by their attempts to do something inside of the H.U.B. and eventually started harming it. I believe the System recreated the Morris Worm virus, only with visual aid this time!

I wonder how they killed the one I got my hands on though, and what is that doing now?

Maybe its functioning as... Anti-Virus maybe... An Artificially Intelligent Anti-Virus? It could be just asleep or locked away too... oh! New things on the forums!

... purple worm...

Destroying...

GAMES?????

HUUUHHH????

Is that... The one I made or the old one? Oh fuck... what did I do...

Ah shit... fuck...

NOT ENOUGH INFO

THE ONLY THING ON THE FORUMS LEFT IS PICTURES OF ME-

wait... pictures of me?

... Oh hey, I guess... that might be... like, huh... why is my body there?

That's me. Like, hair...eyes... everything is the same, but I'm in a weird.. water bed? Well, it isn't a bed... its like a shallow fish take filled with glowing liquid.

My height seems different too.

Beyond that... in the photo is a bit of... objects, Various items... like a banner, its a little weird.

I wonder who posted this...

... Tungsten ...

Who was that again?

I swear I heard that name before, but I'm not liking the idea someone of Origin Guild got a hold of my... body.

I assume Tungsten is of Origin Guild, after all... its got a mineral name.

Well, I wonder wha-

Oh, more pictures!

...

I've been kissed by this Tungsten person, whoever it is... sleeping beauty my ass, that's my first kiss that was stolen!

... well, at least this person is trying to experiment a little besides fairy tale type situations.

She's analysing my body... oh, Scanning it with a Battle Lens too? Interesting, this player might be at least somewhat important.

Apparently nothing much of results, but it fills me with wonder... how does the system write these descriptions? All that is really known is that they change over time, usually surrounding big events for that entity.

Such as artificially creating creatures beyond the power of the video game its residing in.

You know, the usual.

...

Looks like no more information about that, I guess its time to work on chants... or maybe I can figure out how to access a library tab or something from here and read some books... instruction or theory, either would be nice.