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The Divine Dungeon: Dungeon Born
For eons, conquering dungeons has been the most efficient way to become a strong adventurer. Although, not everything is as straightforward as it seems. Several questions have always plagued the mind of those that enter these mythical places of power: Why are there so many monsters? Where does the amazing weaponry and heavy gold coins come from? Why does the very air fill with life-giving energies?
Cal has all of the answers to these age old questions, for a very simple reason. He is a Dungeon Heart, a soul forced against his will into a magical stone. After several lonely years, Cal was able to regain sentience, allowing him to form new memories while slowly growing a dungeon around himself. With help from a friend, Cal learned how to create monsters and traps, increasing his power and size quickly.
When a threat to his existence rears its head, Cal decides that he will do anything to stay alive and become stronger. Unfortunately for treasure-seekers, the fastest way for Cal to achieve his goal… is to eat anyone that enters his depths.
The Completionist Chronicles: Ritualist
The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far more literal. After making the decision to become a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn’t take him long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted. In fact, if the wrong people gained knowledge of what he was capable of, assassins would appear in droves.
In his pursuit of power, Joe fights alongside his team, completes quests, and delves into the mysteries of his class, which he quickly discovers can only be practiced in secret. Ultimately, his goal is to complete every mission, master every ability, and learn all of the world’s secrets. All he has to do is survive long enough to grasp greatness.
Pixel Dust: Party Hard
Before the online game Carpe Noctem hit the market, the average person wasted a third of their life sleeping. Now, instead of lying in bed dreaming about showing up late to class in their underwear, players step into a breathtaking world of fantasy and adventure. For most users, this is a dream come true. For players like MaxDamage24 and his sidekick Kirabell, it is about to become something else.
After being fired, one of Noctem’s creators sets into motion a plan to bring the system crashing down. To stop the collapse, Max and Kira will have to gather their most trusted friends and embark on a quest that will push them to their absolute limits. Together they’ll face creepy dungeons, impossible bosses, and their own nightmares, all while doing their best to stay alive. With a mission this big, none of them will be the same after. The real question is… how much will they be forced to change?
Only one thing is certain — if they want to survive, they’re gonna have to Party Hard.
A Touch of Power: Siphon
Jade has spent her life fighting boredom in the terminally ill ward. Surfing the net or reading, she always envied the ability of others to go out and experience the world. She knew her wish to live a normal life was far beyond her reach, but after waking up one morning without the sounds of her life support, she opens her eyes and finds herself with a weak but healthy body in a magical world.
As blue game-like system notifications fill her vision, she knows that she’ll have to adapt quickly in order to survive… but this is all she ever dreamed of, so Jade is up to the challenge. She will soon realize that you need to be careful what you wish for.
This is Andara, where her true adventure finally begins.
Peaks of Power: Beginnings
There’s always somewhere to go, someone to defeat! At least that’s what Ryan believed until he ran out of challenges, adventures, and stories. Bored with his life as a casual player, he slipped easily into the lifestyle of a professional gamer.
After reaching the pinnacle of success, an email arrived from the mysterious Beta Academy. With his best friend and self-proclaimed bodyguard, Dimitri, he decides to take a chance and accept the strange offer contained within. Overconfident in his skills, Ryan thinks he’ll defeat this game as easily as every other, but that confidence is shaken and shattered within the first fifteen minutes. This wasn’t a standard game with haptic chairs or gloves; this was the real thing.
Ryan and Dimitri must learn the heights of the Peaks of Power… and what it will take to achieve their summit.
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Mission District, San Francisco, California
Shelly used her sleeve to wipe the sweat off her forehead. She had managed to climb up to the top of the building, but the bay breeze wasn’t quite strong enough to cool her down after the exertion. She paused as she activated mental scan, searching for a sign of her prey. She was dressed in the thick black leather armor she had stolen from one of the horde, and whatever it was made of, it somehow managed to stay clean despite the copious amount of green blood that had soaked it.
The scan extended outwards, slowing when it was more than fifty feet away from her. It took another two minutes for them to catch up to her; they were slowly walking up Florida street. She was crouched on the roof of three buildings that had been joined together decades ago, creating a strange amalgamation of rooftops that merged into a flat outer edge, a perfect place to lay an ambush. She stretched her limbs, getting ready for the attack.
From the stories, she would have assumed gnomes would be better at this hunting prey thing. After all, the ugly things were supposed to be part beast. She couldn’t see their shape, not with mental scan-which showed them as small orbs of mental energy, but she knew there were three of them. They were all that was left of the two-dozen strong patrol she had been slowly tearing chunks off for the past three hours. It had been a good chase throughout a large portion of the mission district as she used her skills and xatherite to take out the stragglers and the weak.
Army crawling to the edge of the roof so that she could look at them. These last three were the strongest. One stood about four and a half feet tall. His bright pink hair looked silly, but the strange wickedly curved khopesh blades it dual wielded were no laughing matter. The other two were a few inches shorter. The blue haired one carried a shield and short spear, while the one with green haired gripped a glaive in both hands, which he had almost killed her with earlier.
Shelly intended to save that one for last-his death was going to be slow. They finally got to the intersection of Florida and 20th St and stopped, looking around. The blue one had some sort of scent ability. He’d been the one tracking her most of the night, but he didn’t seem to understand how her trail had just disappeared. When the pink one started arguing with the blue one, she activated her drake jump xatherite. She spun through the air, reveling in the freedom of movement as she fell the three stories to the street below.
She landed on the blue haired one. Her foot braced against the nape of his neck and she could feel the snap of his spine as the skill transferred the force of her fall to her target. He smashed into the asphalt with an audible crunch, and she wasn’t sure how many bones he had just broken, but she knew from experience it was enough to take him out of the fight. She grinned at the other two, who were stunned by her sudden entrance. She flicked her wrist and the pink one sprouted a dagger four inches into his skull via his left eye. She hadn’t even needed to activate a skill to kill him.