Synopsis and Starting Chapter 2 Patching Up Tory
3 Old House Old Memories
4 Oasis Online And O-Pods
5 Entering Oasis
6 Mcp Chip
7 Oshos
8 Bounty
9 Lifespan
10 The Botched-Up Op
11 Rationalizing Death
12 Kamikaze
13 Axela
14 Lazarus Pods
15 Meta Vs. Non-Metahuman
16 Insidious Attack
17 Whistleblowers P1
18 Whistleblowers P2
19 Full Circle
20 “I’Ll Be The Architect Of My Own Destruction”
21 Screech. Crash. Boom.
22 Seek And Ye Shall Find
23 Death-Like Slumber
24 Waking Up
25 Memories Flooding In
26 Rankers
27 Digesting Memories P1
28 Digesting Memories P2
29 What It Feels Like To Feel P1
30 What It Feels Like To Feel P2
31 Stardust Guild
32 Scare Tactics
33 Miranda Bloom
34 Adjusting On-Job Routine
35 Brush Up On The Basics P1
36 Brush Up On The Basics P2
37 Loving The Process
38 A Divergent Way To Learn
39 The Crane’S Nest
40 An Easter Egg
41 Siphoning Life Essence
42 Absolute Control Vs. Destructive Freedom
43 Walk The Rankers' Path With Unwavering Grit
44 Successful Warrior
45 Packing A Punch P1
46 Packing A Punch P2
47 A Philosopher Of Bullshittery
48 Formless
49 Countdown
50 Breakthrough Into Official Rank
51 I’Ll Begin My Journey In Infinity. In Infinity, My Journey Shall End
52 Infinite Mana Core
53 Spell Stacking
54 “Look What You Made Me Do”
55 Take No Prisoners
56 Confide
57 Grind Is Real
58 Rookie’S Test
59 Battlemage
60 Experimenting
61 To Hell With Circumstances. I Create Opportunities
62 Surpassing Expectations
63 Realizing Shortcomings
64 Entering Gilaahan
65 City Of Ludan
66 Death And Taxes
67 Possible Solution?
68 First Mission
69 Mia Silver
70 Dokkaebi
71 The Mammoth Hunt P1
72 The Mammoth Hunt P2
73 Karma
74 Multi-Stage Breakthroughs
75 State Of Epiphany
76 Artifact Smithing
77 Explore More Expect Least
78 The Bare Necessities
79 If It Doesn’T Open, It’S Not Your Door Yet
80 Hexers
81 The Hexers' Creeds P1
82 The Hexers' Creeds P2
83 Malcolm Merlot
84 Battlemage 101
85 Investment
86 The Wolf’S Creed
87 Back To Earth
88 Underground Fights
89 Eren Vs. Tegan
90 High Profit Margin
91 Rog Bandalwild And Jacob Jenkins
92 Leading Rog By The Nose
93 Believe In The Dead To Keep A Secret
94 Blitz Shard
95 Spirit Beast Spell
96 Real Knowledge Is To Know The Extent Of Your Ignorance
97 Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like A Bee
98 One Ring To Repel Them All
99 Benefiting From The Dead
100 Alfem
101 Demonic Rankers
102 Flesh Golems
103 Something'S Off
104 Uninvited
105 Roland’S Compromise
106 Collecting Raw Ingredients
107 Eren Vs. Jario P1
108 Eren Vs Jario P2
109 Baited
110 Gilaahan’S Blessing Once Again?
111 Forbidden Technique
112 Bulal Blood
113 Elevated Stats
114 Bulal’S Uninvited Guests
115 Undying Cockroach Vs Ariadne
116 Using Fire Element
117 Homing
118 Escape
119 Purpose Behind Guards' Infection
120 Flesh Golems Appear
121 Escaping Traitors
122 Red Runic Array
123 No Gall No Glory
124 Patience Is The Art Of Concealing Your Impatience
125 Gains
126 Securing The Bounty Reward
127 A Place To Return P1
128 A Place To Return P2
129 Straight Face
130 Picking Up From Where They Had Left Off
131 Coffee And Cuddles
132 Viktor Vs. Keith
133 The Ax Effect
134 Besting Keith
135 Unexpected Invitation
136 Trying Hex Gear Set
137 Entering The Hexers’ Testing Grounds
138 Puppets
139 Alfem And Blitz Shards Combo
140 Flesh-Altering Spell And Taranbiest
141 The Bear Trap
142 Kino
143 Mediocrity Is The Final Enemy Of Prosperity
144 Hexers And Freedom
145 Downsides P1
146 Downsides P2
147 Hex Spell: One Up
148 Slaadi
149 “Success For Me Is To Go Out There And Dominate”
150 Twin-Star Arts And Igni Series Spells
151 Igni Lotus
152 A True Fire Domain
153 Being Followed
154 Retrospection
155 Spied On
156 House Of Spiders P1
157 House Of Spiders P2
158 Prince Charming
159 Whatever Doesn’T Kill Me Had Better Start Running
160 Bigger Threat
161 Mia Escapes
162 Dual Kill
163 Let This Rain Wash Away All My Pain Of Yesterday
164 Bloodfest
165 Green Prison
166 Extreme Fear Can Neither Fight Nor Fly
167 There Is No True Genius Without Some Touch Of Madness
168 No Greater Danger Than Underestimating Your Opponent
169 Choices And Consequences
170 Aspect Fusion
171 Contract Bound
172 Awakening Potion
173 Breakthroughs P1
174 Breakthroughs P2
175 Encashing Kills
176 In Spontaneity Lies The True Beauty Of Life
177 Wild Forest Wind Trapped Inside Four Walls*
178 Unspoken Competition*
179 Ready Or Not*
180 All Yours*
181 Incredible And Unbelievable
182 Walk A Mile To Avoid A Fight
183 Seeing The Tip Of Something Dreadful And Evil
184 Violence Is Not The Answer
185 Baiting A Wolfpack
186 A Bit Of Progress Each Day Adds Up To Big Results
187 Yana Shiran And Raina Regan
188 Profit Is The Ignition System Of Any Economic Engine
189 Bad Guys Vs Bad Guys P1
190 Bad Guys Vs Bad Guys P2
191 Meeting Ariadne Again
192 Talk Between Two Survival Specialists
193 Destroying Spider Golem
194 We Can Live With Dignity; We Can’T Die With It
195 Dread
196 No Power Is Worth Losing Self Control Over
197 Adelman'S Ring
198 No Hard Feelings
199 Plans To Form A Merc Team
200 Same Brand Of Delusional
201 Aiming For Spiders’ Loot
202 Escaping Spiders
203 Assassinating The Assassin
204 Ambushing Behlam
205 Slaying Behlam
206 Multi-Element Artifact Forging
207 Soul Mark
208 Regaining Control Over Hex Spells
209 Clearing Second Stage
210 Having The Patience To Wait For The Right Moment
211 Anemoi: Model Elephant
212 Elemental Aspects & Spell Integrations
213 Fusion Flame
214 Bonus Stage: Wyvern Hunt
215 Battle Trance
216 Signs Of Soul Sense Awakening
217 Controlling Wrathful Summoned Creatures P1
218 Voice Of Reason?
219 Conversation With Aleph In A Near-Stagnant World
220 Controlling Wrathful Summoned Creatures P2
221 Overwhelming Rewards P1
222 Bonus Stage Reward: Kiamat
223 Steady Growth For Six Months
224 Confronting Gian
225 Eren Vs Gian P1
226 Eren Vs Gian P2
227 One Up + Hex Spells + Deviant Casting
228 Igni Lotus Collapse
229 Fine Line Between Genius And Insanity
230 Death And Insanity
231 Recruiting Yeti
232 Guild War Breaks Out
233 Battlefield Chaos
234 Jilly
235 An Illusionist'S Achivements
236 Of The Streets, By The Streets, For The Streets
237 Mind Control Through Illusion Spells
238 Arto
239 Ambitious Plans And Necessary Sacrifices
240 Using Debuff Potions & Being A Man
241 “I’Ll Be The Architect Of My Own Destiny”
244 Breakthrough Into Awakened Rank
245 Yeeting From Gilaahan
247 Meeting Malcolm Again
248 The Last Spider’S Origin Story
250 Eren Vs Sofiya P1
251 Eren Vs Sofiya P2
252 Eren Vs Sofiya P3
253 Eren Vs Sofiya P4
254 Defeating Sofiya
256 A Freelancer'S Dreamjob
257 Sofiya Onboard
258 Building Trust
259 Collecting The Bonus Test’S Reward
260 Forming Spirit Contract With Tiamat
262 Aleph'S Demonic Possession?
263 Discovery Of An Elder Seed Artifact
264 [Bonus Chapter] Beast Companion Technique Of Amazonian Origin
266 Elder Seed Inheritors
267 Diverse Paths To Power
268 Evokers, Elementalists, Body Cultivators, And Soulweavers
269 Planning For The Future
270 Elder Artifact: Adelman'S Ring
271 Unveiling The Distinctions: Transcendent-Grade, Hex, And Elder Seed Artifacts
272 Mapping The Path As An Artifact Forger
Categories Genre: All, Fantasy, Ongoing Status: Ongoing ______
Total Chapters in book: 265
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
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LIST OF LAST 10 CHAPTERS:
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Fernando Torres was critically injured!
“Shit Tori, what do we do? Let’s take you…”
Viktor started panicking after seeing Tori’s condition. He wanted him to take the truck to any medical facility while assuming that the latter was against it. But Tory shut him up before he could say so:
“Viktor, we can’t afford to take me to any hospital or infirmary in our current situation. Maybe we should…”
…
“Are you fucking crazy, Tori?”
Viktor saw his friend’s blood spreading across his clothes and started getting desperate. As he hastily searched around for anything that might help him help Tory, he spoke up. Anything that he could use to stop the blood loss.
“We can’t go to the ER you say? Do you want to die because of this botched-up job?”
Vik then looked outside the window while trying to remember everything that had happened after the shit hit the fan. He took his time before continuing.
“Listen to me, Tory. They don’t have anything on us. We’ve made sure of that. Just some circumstantial evidence, maybe?
But so what? We’ll be back in no time. If we cooperate..”
Vik looked like he was trying to grasp at straws. The panic had consumed his rational mind. Thankfully, the one who was injured was in a better mental state than the former.
“Hijo de puta, Vik.
Who said anything about dying? What do you think I am? A wuss?
I’m saying we should head to my aunt’s place. She is an ex-nurse. She’d fix me up in no time. Now give me that first-aid box from the back.”
Tory didn’t panic after seeing he was shot. Luckily, he was wearing an all-purpose Kevlar inside his clothes, which negated the major impact of the laser bullet.
But the injured area was close to the heart. And then there was the non-stop blood loss. He’d be dead before they reached his aunt Avril’s place if they didn’t apply first aid.
The duo unceremoniously took out the first aid kit that their “borrowed” truck’s cabin had and started temporarily patching Tory up.
The first aid kit came with an ionizing light that Vik used to disinfect the wound. He then gave Tory a shot of syringed medicine to stabilize his condition.
The kit also had an insta-synth skin generator that’d coat any wounded area with a layer of pseudo-polymerized skin.
Tori’s condition was stabilized but he needed medical care. And for that, they had to drive for another two hours.
Vik took the reins from Tory and told him to rest. Their crisis wasn’t over. The cops must have thought that dispatching four high-class vehicles boarded by a bunch of Metas was enough to take care of them.
However, they will send an aerial patrol once they learn about the condition of those vehicles. And it won’t be long before the chase resumes.
Vik didn’t want to take part in a race with a flying machine he knew he’d lose. Therefore, he got off the expressway and chose a service road that would make their journey longer and yet relatively safer.
The duo had already taken care of the geo-tagging system present in the truck. And they had also made sure that their faces weren’t revealed. They were using bot-controlled facial enhancement masks after all.
Now they just need to hide the truck and hide underground for a while till the heat dies down. Aunt Avril’s place was only going to be a temporary resting spot. They would have to travel much farther to go off the grid.
***
“Hola, Fernando! Oh. Vik is also with you. What a pleasant surprise.”
The two guys who had set cops’ vehicles on fire not too long ago were welcomed by a lady who seemed old and gracious. She opened her arms in a welcoming posture and addressed the two endearingly.
“You should have…”
When she saw Tory’s condition, her face turned pale. The guy’s shirt was red all over and his countenance told her he wasn’t doing any good at the time.
Aaaah! Dios Mio (my god)… Nino.. what’s happened to you?”
Aunt Avril was left aghast after seeing her troublemaker nephew closely. He was being supported by Vik as they stepped in.
“Aunt Avril. I’ll explain things to you later. But you have to treat him first.”
Vik thought such an abrupt explanation from his friend would never work on an old lady. But he had obviously underestimated aunt Avril’s coping capabilities. She slapped herself before responding.
“You… you’d never stop being a troublesome nephew would you, Fernando Torres?
Who am I asking? Forget it. Let’s take him inside to another room, Vik. I have a nursing bed there.”
Aunt Avril thought that her anxieties were going to shoot through the roof of her old house after realizing she was going to operate on her nephew. She had been treating minor ailments of patients these days. That too illegally and under the table, since she didn’t have a license to practice medicine anymore. Carrying a license to practice medicine meant paying the city-state an exuberant amount of tax. Something she wasn’t willing to indulge in.
So treating her nephew with his severe injuries seemed quite overwhelming for her. But Tori’s assurance calmed her down.
“Calm down, Tia (aunt). I’m fine. Just remove the laser residue and treat my wounds. And give me something for the road. We can’t stay here for too long.”
It seemed that aunt Avril had seen her share of troubles in her life. After her initial episode of panic, she calmed down and took a deep breath before continuing.
“Al… alright!”
***
“What should we do now, Vik? We can’t return to Ainazi. And we are totally in the opposite direction from our drop site. Do we risk heading there or do we lay low?”
Vik was driving the truck this time. And Tory was resting in the space behind the front seat. Aunt Avril had done a pretty good job patching her nephew. She had also administered him a shot of synth-blood to treat his blood loss.
It won’t be long before the cops start questioning their relatives. Vik didn’t have any parents. And Fernando Torres only had aunt Avril listed as his next of kin.
But she’d be fine as long as she didn’t leave any incriminating evidence of their presence behind. The woman was running an illegal infirmary. She was a pro at these things.
Vik pondered for a bit before answering his friend.
“Well.. we can’t turn back for sure. This whole thing reeks of a conspiracy. It was like they were waiting for us to make our move. And they jumped on us without us tripping any of their fail-safes.
I will not accept that baldy had nothing to do with it.
But first things first. We need to hide this truck and ourselves for the time being. Until we can make sense of things that are.”
Vik said that while taking a puff out of his cigarette. He passed it to his friend in the back and looked aimlessly in front of him while driving.
“Where should we go then?”
Tory asked Vik without a second thought while taking the smoke from his friend. He knew Vik was a better planner between them. So he just trusted Vik’s guts.
Vik tapped onto the levitating control wheel he was in charge of and tapped it with his ever-restless fingers before answering.
“Let’s not waste time contemplating. We find an isolated and abandoned house away from any of its neighbors. And make a nest there.”
Vik said and practically snatched the smoke away from Tory. The latter cursed some more before adding up.
“Hahahaha! Vik, things aren’t as simple as you make them out to be. How can we find such a convenient place…”
Tory was planning to diss Vik for being naïve and unhealthily optimistic. Vik shut him up with a loud yell.
“There it is!”
Total Chapters in book: 265
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
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