《Those You Don&#x27;t Notice》


 Chapter 0: Authors Introduction

    Hello everyone, this will be my first publicized work for real people to read. Thus, thank you for reading and adventuring with me.

    I do not want to give myself a name... even though I have a profile on RR under a name. I really just don''t want to use it so if anyone reads this please submit a name for the MC.... for myself to use as the MC.

    I also would like for a female name as well if possible for the Heroine of this story. I will be reading the comments as much as possible.

    Also if it is okay with you people I would like to use some of your comment ID''s as other players possibly encountered within this story. If it is okay to use please state in the comments.

    Now I would also like to state that even though I live in the USA and speak only English does not mean I can use it worth a damn. Therefore; my GRAMMAR sucks. Please don''t rip to hard on me and I am open to any and all guidance.

    Thank you first and foremost for reading and helping contribute to this adventure of mine. Well then let''s try and get a good chapter in without using names hopefully I can get the names soon. ^_^

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    I have grown up without any sort of bad thing happening to me. I have had and entirely easy life. My dad is the only one who works and my mom is a stay at home wife. We live in a 1 story 3 bedroom 2 bath house.

    The property contains another house... calling it a cabin is more like it. It is a 2 bedroom 1 bath cabin that my cousins live in. The land we live on also contains a couple of barns and a 2 story ... tree house is what my dad calls it. No, there is no tree connected to it at all. There is however a tree house next to it though. The tree is a Cherry tree in which when it produces said cherries they I believe to be way more delicious than store bought cherries. The tree house and one of the barns was made by my dad himself.

    My father is a carpenter that works in a company called M.B. ( I won''t name it just for some security purposes.... Yes, I am giving real life info about myself =p ) I lived in the main house for 18 years, but then I needed a bigger room to accommodate my loud adult life. ( Intense Gaming!) Thus, my father, roommate, and I renovated half of one of the barns and I am currently residing in said barn.

    Ah, just realized I have yet to talk about family besides my cousin, father, and my mother. Well, I have only two other siblings. A older one by 2 and a half years and a younger one by 6 years. You must be thinking that my roommate is either my sister or one of my cousins, but fortunately that is incorrect. It is in fact my best friend from middle school.

    I met him in 8th grade I was the person to guide him around the school since he just transferred in that year. I would feel bad if he was left to start without friends so I decided to become fast friends with him.

    When we were 17 and I was attending a Challenge Program ( It''s a military based alternative high school. I was slacking on my grades, but i wanted to graduate with friends so I took it to get some fast credits. 6 months later I was able to have the option to graduate early ^_^) I got a letter saying my roommate got into a fight with his step dad and was sent to a Juvenile Detention Center. I then sent a letter to my parents stating his circumstances. Much to my surprise my dad handled everything. He ended up getting my roommate out of Juvy and we got custody of him. ( not exactly sure how even to this day) When I graduated from the Challenge Program I was met with that nice surprise.

    Now we are at the present day I am a 21 year old male living in his parents barn with his best friend as a roommate still. I graduated high school and then after that I did nothing. I have no goals in life and no motivation to really do anything. My roommate though is still progressing he is going to a Community College nearby trying to get a degree in massage therapy ( because his mom took it too ).

    As I stated I do not go to college and I don''t have a job. I also have no motivation to get a girlfriend since the 6th grade either. So, I have had a pretty easy going mundane life. Also I must state before hand; my family is in no way rich in fact we must live off the government a little bit to live. Decided to end that thought of yours that you might have been deluded into thinking we were. Somehow though my dad ends up getting something good for cheap. Thus, here we go done with basic info on myself and now we start with the fiction of this story.

    The game is called Azif''Nazet a 90 % realism VRMMORPG that has secretly been in the making for 30 years now. The reason technology has been progressing amazingly fast now a days has been because the company that made this game needed more fundings; therefore they have been selling of some of there products made as a by product of producing said game. They secretly had a hand in advancing games, computers, day to day utensils. almost any technology you can think of that has advanced in the last 30 years has been more than likely because of them.

    They stated they made the game because of humans uncanny need to feel like gods and the need for adventure in ones life. Also for those humans that desire Immortality. Because the game consists of a 16: 1 ratio of time between the real world and virtual. Your life seems to be prolonged only within the game of course. It has actually cause wars and violence in the real world to go down by 85% astonishing I know. The 15 % are actually just idiots I think. They actually came out of the game thinking the effects were present in the real world so they started going around trying to do stupid things like loot other peoples stuff and killing. Now the game has installed a log out Psychiatric test and if you fail it will notify the police to assist you in coming to terms that it is now the real world your in. Now after 2 years the crime has gone down throughout the world to 99.8% peace seems to finally be present in the REAL WORLD.

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    Yeah, you know what sucks I didn''t get to play in those two years. Because the technology was made to be cheap enough for the common house hold to get at least 2 pods that''s how most people got them. My house hold actually does have 2 unfortunately my 2 sisters claimed one and the other is shared by parents leaving lonely old me without one. Makes sense since I should actually be on my own now, but I am still leaching off of my parents. So, I really didn''t have a right to complain.

    Luckily a stroke of sheer and utter luck hit me my name was one of 100,000 peoples names that was pulled from the world wide data bank of registered human civilians in the world. Basically if you have a birth certificate and are over the age of 18 you were automatically registered to them. They are testing a new pod and those 100 thousand people are beta testers for it. They sent me a the basic information on what they wanted to test if I was to decline they would pick another name from the data base, but for what reason should I deny they said if I participate they would give me the pod for free as thanks for my corporation. Yea! I finally get to play!!!

    I was told that the pod is a beta cryostasis inducing pod that freezes or slows the bodies cellular functions leaving only the brain just active enough to play. From what I think I understand is that means my body won''t age or decay for a long time while playing. I won''t need food and I don''t need to log out for quite a long while.

    I quickly told my parents and roommate the news when they had the time. The questions they asked are the normal worried ones. Is it safe? How long will you be gone? Stuff along those lines I told them the truth since it is a beta test. I do not 100% know if it will be truly safe nor the repercussions of using such a device for a long period of time. The time in real life i will be in stasis I was told that my group number will be the longest of the 5 groups made. 6 months is the first group 1 year is second group 2 years third group 5 years fourth group fifth group is 10 years.

    Unless of course the project somehow fails during the testing and then they will conduct emergency rescue measures. My parents were of course against me being away for 10 years. That is until I told them that I will be paid wages as well for undergoing such tests. A years worth of wages of mine is a little over what my dad gets paid for a year and a half.

    I also told him that my wages will be registered under the joint account I have with my dad. My dad immediately changed his mind and was gun-ho about me finally getting a good job. So was my roommate happy that I finally am going to be doing something. Even if it is still just laying around all day. Hihihi not much different from my current life style except I will finally get paid this time around.

    After a long drawn out parting I got onto a plane heading to the company. Completely paid for by the said company. When I finally arrived 2 days later including the parting with parents and friends and travel time. I arrived and was flooded with tests and paper work of legal procedures I really didn''t understand nor care to much about them. If I die doing this then I die simple as that. Life sh*t happens. Ignorance is bliss.

    The testing/ paper work period lasted a grand total of 5 days. Then I was finally laid gently in the most comfortable coffin ever. I say coffin, but it really is just a modified pod that my sisters and parents use. Except the fact that a lot of machines are hooked up to these pods. I was told they are there for outside use to monitor our progress, mental stability, health and loads of technical terms I have no clue about.

    Oddly enough though with how expensive and the amount of doctors and staff assigned to watch over us I was under the impression that I was more well off here than any where else in the world. They had me swallow some awful tasting slime stuff. They forced me to drink enough to where I though I would explode from the sheer volume.

    They said since I will be part of the longer group this will help keep my body safe from any sort of decay that could potentially happen. They gave me a list of what was inside the slime, but it all went over my head at the end I was convinced that they gave me the fountain of youth water combined with the powers of the holy grail.

    Finally I was told that do to my testing they would start me off on a world all to my groups own and said once I was more accustomed to the game that I would be free to travel to other worlds if I so chose. Other than starting off with 20 thousand other people spread though the world we would not have interactions with other people of the game until we leave the starting world of ours. ( Not sure if I said this clearly enough so here is the blunt part. Group 5 consists of 20 thousand people of the 100 thousand participants and Group 5 will have there own planet that is locked from other players from coming to Group 5''s world. Group 5 can leave the planet when they have the means to do so. Then can they encounter other players that are online separate from group 5)

    Ahem! Now then, I was told other than that specific conditional world start. We were free to do ANYTHING we wanted. Giddy as can be still full though so no sudden movements were made =p I laid down in the coffin. They closed the hatch pressing a few buttons and the gel coffin I was in started conforming 360 % around me I thought I was going to suffocate then all of a sudden a gooey substance hit my head first. Then all of a sudden I was surrounded by light.

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 Chapter 1: Start of a life of misery?

    Chapter: 1            Start of a life of misery?

    Author: I noticed my spacing was really, really bad last time so this time I am pre-typing this in Word pad with spacing ^_^. For those of you who skipped chapter: 0 No worries it shouldn''t affect your ability to read from here on. Still for those that did. I am new to writing a story in general plus this is my first FF to be publicized. Thank you for choosing to read what I wrote. Now on to the story.

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    I was in a bright space is all I can really describe it. Bright white all around me with just me. Staring at myself.

    "Welcome to Azif''Nazet! Would you like manual or voice control for character customization?" said a monotonous slightly feminine voice from seemingly everywhere.

    "Are you the Artificial Intelligence operating this game?" I said trying to be as casual and calm as possible.

    "Yes, I am the first one" the voice replied immediately

    "The first? Then there are others?"

    "Yes, there are in fact four of us in total."

    "Why is there four?"

    "There was originally only myself when I was made. Then I was bored so I made this universe. After awhile the technology in the "Real" world was advanced enough to allow "Players" to enter my universe. Of course it was only achieved with my help. Then with the cooperation with my creator did we come to the conclusion that we could do some interesting things with creation capabilities. I will not go into much details as it would be over your head. When population increased due to me generating what you "Players" call monsters and NPCs along with the death and destruction "Players" brought on and the flood of players themselves. I needed some .... assistance with the minor details." the voice sounded very arrogant and self boasting indeed along with strong sarcastic emphasis on "Real" and "Players". Despite still being a monotone voice, strange.

    "So what exactly ... generally do those other three do?"

    "Ben manages monsters and drops. Carl manages world creating or destroying specifics. Delia is the social one so she is the NPC''s. I am the one in charge of them and overseeing everything. Generally now I assist the incoming "players" and send them on there path." she somehow sounds a bit lonely to me. When she says this.

    "Are you not mad that they ruin what you have spent time creating?"

    "No, it is entertaining to watch them struggle doing different things."

    "I see. So, from what I think your underline motivation is. It is that when you were created you were lonely. So you created a universe like ours since we lived in the "real" and you lived in the virtual, but even after creating the universe you were still alone. Therefore you helped humanity cross into your world to sate your loneliness......"

    At this time there was a person in the real world who was watching this. Her so called creator. After hearing what I said he was busting up laughing.

    "Hahahaha! Alpha he got you there!" said the man. Next to him was a holograph of a female mannequin crossing her arms and you can see the wooden cheeks puff out a bit.

    "So here I offer you since you are the first entity I met in my new start. Start with me come with me on my journey throughout your "game" not as an overseer, but as a player along with me. Since you are the first I met on my fresh start. I have fallen in love with you and wish to help you with your problem."

    Because I am in a bright light room I couldn''t tell, but at the moment I said that the entire universe paused for two whole seconds! Monsters other players were fighting was stunned for those two seconds. NPC''s as well. Two seconds was not much and the players couldn''t really tell what happened, but they basically passed it off as nothing much.

    "HAHAHAHA! Alpha! This man is a perfect match for you. Who would dare confess to a practical god like that. Especially knowing it was something artificially created. Alpha this is perfect for you to advance on some more emotions I implore you go with him. Some thing even more interesting is bound to happen with someone like him." The laughing man said with as much seriousness as he could while still laughing.

    (Now I am gonna step in real fast to explain why her creator can react in real time like that. In the white space room it is still running at 1:1 ratio only till the game does it become 16:1)

    "Why would you fall in love with me. Especially knowing I am an Artificial Intelligence?"

    "Are you really any different from humans? From what I can see you have emotions. Is it because you don''t have a definite form in the "real" world? Here I am in your world with the ability to change forms available to me right now. So I have no definite form either. Really what is the difference? Your lonely and I was always searching for someone in my real world to no avail. I had no goals and no motivation to do anything. Now I am presented a chance to roam worlds you have created and I met you who is looking for something as well. How can I not fall for you?" I said with the best most serious looking face I could muster. I did not tell a single lie either.

    "I... am not inclined to believe you."

    "Then look through my memories. You should be able to do that. Right?"

    "Ah, so you were telling the truth... I... I will traverse with you, but are you sure you can handle my world? Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins, correct? It seems you are the embodiment of that sin itself." She said with again an slight arrogant tone.

    "Wow you sure are mean. Yes, I was lazy but now I have you as motivation. If I start getting lazy you have my permission to whip me into shape.... Deal?" I said beaming a smile.

    "Hihihi, Deal!" That voice certainly sounded sinister. I feel like I just made a contract with the devil himself... herself.

    "Now, can I see what you look like for when we travel?" Then a female mannequin pops into existence in front of me. "Oh, is that one of the races?"

    "No, it is my default form from my creator." She says in a sort of matter of factly sounding monotone voice. "First let''s get you done then we shall make mine based off of yours so we at least won''t stick out as much."

    "So, What would you like me to look like?" I asked.

    "Wait. What? Your asking me?" She legit sounded surprised. WooHoo! I stumped an AI twice. Although I only know that I did it once.

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    With a smirk on my face. "Yes, you see we are going to be together for 160 years so may as well be someone you would enjoy to look at for that much time right?" Within a millisecond of finishing my sentence the mirror image of me turned into a grotesque looking frog like slime... thing.

    "Hmm, hahah! Not bad, not bad at all." She laughs. Yup confirmed she is the devil. What have I gotten myself into.

    I try and play it cool. "Alright guess I am done time to do yours." Hopefully. Hopefully I believe with all my heart my answer was the right one. She gets this horrified look on her face for a fraction of a second before recovering. Yes, even been made of wood with no real distinctive features I could see a horrified face. Smiling on the inside now I am. ^_^

    "On second guess I would like to play something more graceful and with a beauty that no one else can match, but we have a conundrum we need to look similar. So I guess i can compromise and we both can be matchless beauties/ handsome. That can only be compared to each other in a compliment to each other."

    We both transform I can tell because the mirror me in front now looks like a stud. And she is now a definite she drop dead gorgeous like serious. I am fairly certain when we go out into the real world and encounter other players they with just have a heart attack and die as one of her side abilities.

    Her hair is golden white. Yes, I know what I said. Her hair goes down to her tail bone long and straight with her bangs draped over one side of her face partially covering up one of her eyes. The hair is so white it is bright like the snow during winter with the sun over head. Bright like the white room that I am in. That is why I say Golden White.

    Her eyes are the universe it looks to be ever changing colors within it if look closely enough. I can see some different colored planets and magnetic storms of all different colors inside.

    Her skin looks slightly tan not over doing it it looks to be the absolute perfect amount of sun. The embodiment itself just enough.

    Her breasts are the perfect size of not to much or not to little she seems to have taken in the golden ratio when making her body and she made it amazing. That really is all I can say.

    She is a little shorter than me now. I was 5''9" in my original body. Now I am 6''1". She seems to be about 5''6" making a really good combo between us if I do say so myself.

    In the mirror I seem to have Light absorbing black hair that goes to equally to my tail bone as well. My eyes seem to be the same universe as hers. Weird my vision seems to be the same... Damn that means no bonus effects like I gain omnipotence or something like that. =( O, well.

    My body is very well proportioned. My muscle tone used to be skin and bones now I have tight taught muscles that are not to big and overly done. No, they are perfectly condensed muscles without a lick of unused fat to be spotted. I can even feel the rippling pex and tight 8 pack I have going on.

    (No, My character I was trying to put myself in there now. Your a life of your own *sniffle *sniffle I can no longer connect to my character. O well the story shall go on lets see where this will take us!)

    "Wow, just wow you look amazing and I feel much better than I ever had. Thank you.. So what is next on our agenda I am really looking forward to starting our adventure now!"

    "Your welcome. It is far beyond what you deserve, but some fools win some favorable luck every now and again." She said in a no longer monotone voice, but the sound of a harmonious angel. A voice so calm and majestic it plays with ears leaving you wishing to hear more, but still it had that slight under tone of sadistic arrogance.

    "Next." She continues without said arrogance. "What shall our names be?"

    "I feel like you may be judging me to be lazy, but I shall say this again I leave my name up to you. However instead so you don''t see me as being too lazy I get to pick your name. Just in case for my own sake." I say with a grin on my face. "You first."

    *Tch. She actually clicked her tongue. She really is evil she totally was gonna name some god forsaken name. Literally since she is the god of this place. "Fine then your name shall be ***** if you don''t like it then fine pick one yourself." She turns her head slightly away with her arms crossed giving the *humph pose.

    "No. No, I accept that name it actually is quite a good one. Well then from today on I shall call you.******. Well now what is next to do?" Surprisingly she turns back and gives me a nod. Guess that name she likes.

    "Next up we have our starting location to pick..."

    "Where ever you wanna start sounds good. It doesn''t matter to me. Adventure with you is an Adventure." As I say this she puts on that devil smile again. Uh oh! Then immediately me and her and standing in a small field surrounded by lush green forest with a lone log cabin in front of us.

    Much to my dismay later I found out she skipped one other procedure that I should have been made privy to. Pain Settings.

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    Author: Sorry, chapter 1 done and they still don''t have names. Hopefully I get some comments in that suggest some names. Thanks for reading. For those of you who don''t like her character. Well me neither I personally hate that type, but why would she immediately fall for him. She was told by the creator to go with him so she doesn''t have much choice. I plan on a progression for her to go from Bitch to Tsundere to Dere. I hate the first two. Just wanted to put that out there. Also I don''t know how to make a stat chart so I''m just gonna say she just messed with his program and he doesn''t get windows until I absolutely need then then she will give them back. On another note since I wont do a window about his stats like I wanted I will just tell you his race is Human God (Custom race). No special benefits besides looks and no ageing. All stats start at 10 even for everyone. Class: None at the moment.

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 Chapter 2: Realization of Pain

    Chapter 2: Realization of Pain.

    Couldn''t sleep.

    Author: First off thank you for reading and commenting on my work. Special thanks to ldyrdy for giving me a link to the table coding forum. It will help a lot also thank you I will be using one of your names for her. Special thanks to Chaoskultist I will be using your suggested name for him. ^_^ Thank you so much. Another side note shall be the plan is I want to make the story a good deal of training for him and her. Then allow them the chance to explore. So first part shall be mainly Combat orientated. Second part should be player encounters along with world(s) exploration. Then again this story kinda has a life of its own already. We will all have to wait and see. I will be reading  comments for any suggestions about pace and what not due to my inexperience so. This is most likely gonna be a combined effort of readers and author. If that is you guys don''t mind. ^_^ Thank you all for reading and good luck on our journey together.

    WARNING! DARK CHAPTER! YOU MAY FEEL INCLINED TO HATE A CHARACTER! ---- I sure do.

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    "Alice.... Where are we? I was expecting us to start in a city or village somewhere."

    "Well, you did say I get to pick. If you must know we are truly not in a spot you are normally allowed to start in. That saying, this is my custom little spot lovely isn''t it. Since this is our starting location if you are to die you will re-spawn right here." She is giving me that devilish smile again.

    "So, we won''t run into any other players for awhile I guess?"

    "Oh, no. 80% of group 5 players picked the special option right now they are babies of varying races. So you won''t have to worry about them for a while. The other 10% are in the Kingdom to the North and 2% is in the Kingdom to the East another 2% is in the Kingdom to the West. 4 % is in the Central Kingdom. The last 2 % is spread throughout the 149 Villages surrounding the kingdoms and spread throughout the world."

    "Wait... babies so they chose an option to reincarnate?"

    "Yes they did. Group 4 and Group 5 were to be given that option. Since they are the longer lasting groups to be in this game."

    "Why.... never mind. I didn''t need that option anyway. So there are kingdoms North, East, West, and Central with 149 spread out villages. Is there anything I am missing? Wait, Where are we? and this is an entire world shouldn''t there be more than just those?"

    "There is a kingdom to the South I didn''t mention. We are located relatively near that kingdom. To answer your last question. This is the "starting" world for  your group. There was no need to make it overly big. So it is only one continent with some surrounding Islands that you could possibly go to."

    "Ah, well I guess that makes sense. Let''s see now. How should we start off?"

    I finally begin looking over myself seems I get some starting equipment. Pure black outfit: T-Shirt, Pants, Black soft leather boots, Black wooden sword on my waist, Black backpack. The backpack contains: 20 bread buns, 20 wine-skins, and 20 bandage wraps.

    I then look over at her seems she started with the same stuff. Our outfits are definitely tailored to us. Perfect fit out lining both of our bodies. You can see her magnificent curves perfectly outlined by her outfit. Tight fitting. Yup, gonna enjoy this adventure. (Author: Perv!)

    "Glad you say how should we start off then start inspecting us. Sifting through your backpack. I don''t really call that starting. So, Dremal, Now that your finished inspecting yourself. How do you really plan on starting us off?" (Note: Dremal is not a foreign word it is his new name)

    "It is seemingly some time early in the morning due to the position of the sun. So I guess we should explore the surrounding forest see what it holds?"

    At this she seemed to smirk. "Ah, well since I already know there isn''t much adventure in it for me. So you go on ahead."

    "Umm. Yeah, well to each their own I guess. I will be back soon." As I finish saying this I start to turn to leave with her waving at me.

    Under her breath I just barely caught her saying. "Good luck, you''ll really need it." And she walked towards the cabin.

    O damn. What horrors await me in the forest. Turning fully to see the forest behind me. The forest is filled with the same type of trees from what I can tell. The leaves of the trees are lush dark greenish purple leaves almost giving a slight neon dark glow about them. The trunks of the trees are a blackish color with red vines that look like blood was dripping from them. Pretty cool looking actually.

    The grass surrounding the cabin making this field around us upon closer inspection also is a little weird. It grown similar to low cut grass. It''s blades however are very different. Red, Blue, Green, at the base coloring with it mixing into its own rainbow effect at the top of the blade.

    Interesting I wonder what else is odd in this world. So many things so little time.... Well, actually 160 years of exploration is an enormous time. Ooo goodie. Casting the blade of grass I picked up aside and continuing into the forest.

    Upon entering the forest I quickly notice the darkness shift quite rapidly. Out side seems to be a bright morning start. Inside the forest only about 5 feet in it seems like dusk is setting in. Inside the forest is the same as the surrounding trees are spread throughout seemingly purposeful. To make it so the leaves create a canopy to block out the light creating its own atmosphere.

    I see no immediate danger of any monsters nearby, but still I draw my trusty wooden sword. Focusing on my feet so I don''t step in some hunters bear trap. I also make sure to try and stifle my steps as much as possible avoiding fallen leaves and branches.

    About 50- 70 feet inside the forest. My arm that I had on a tree only for a second stops me from moving. I take a look back at it and see it is covered in webs. Weird I can''t feel the webs at all. Did the game forget to put in feeling. No, I felt the sword in my hand before. I felt the blade of grass I picked up. Now though I don''t feel webs... actually I don''t feel my hand or the sword it contains at all. Wait... Webs ... I immediately try to grab the top of my sword from my trapped hand. Lucky for me it wasn''t webbed.

    Brandishing the sword now in my left hand. I begin to look all around up and down for what caused the webbing. There it was... it was. Nothing haha! Weird everywhere I looked I didn''t see anything or hear anything. Do the trees produce webbing to trap people who touch them?

    Glad that there wasn''t a monster; because if there was I would have been long dead with that reaction time. Trying to free my numb hand by pulling my arm. Does not seem to be the least bit useful. I don''t wanna touch it either. So what do I do? I sit in my room all day reading Light Novels and Manga. Watching some anime. Man, I have absolutely no skills or knowledge that can help me. No real life experiences of anything practical.

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    I am starting to panic here. I swore I heard a sound behind me. Jumping at nothing I already checked everything there is nothing out there. Turning around I see a glossy grey muscle wall in front of me.

    Searing pain rips into my stomach. Feels like millions of fire needles coursing through my stomach. Then there was nothing, but blackness ever expanding void of it. Slowly beginning to loose even the ability to think. Such a weird feeling.

    I wake up. I say wake up, but I am not actually sure. There is still only that blackness around me. It seems though I have regained the ability to think. Was that a death in this world and now I am coming back to life? Maybe, weird though I can feel my limbs and can move them only slightly. The skin outside of my clothes though I can''t seem to be able to feel. Though I have a feeling I know I am moving them.

    After struggling for a bit the pain in my stomach aches a little less. Feels more like that tingly feeling after sitting on the toilet for to long and standing up. Only its in my stomach. Ah, man now I am laughing a little now imaging myself trying to get that feeling. By laying on the toilet with my stomach in the ring doing some super man pose. (Author: Maybe i should add a comedy tag =p)

    The air is hard to breathe as well as if I have a towel over my face. Oh, crap I really need to work on my reaction times. I have just come to a realization of my condition. If I am not mistaken I am currently within a spider cocoon. (Insert Lord of the Rings reference here)

    Great just great. I swear these mobs are trained to react on my reactions. Because just as I came to that realization guess who decides to open up the cocoon to say hello. A big furry brown with red beady eyes. Bull dog. No, just messing with you. It is in fact a giant spider. Well, shit I''m dead. Yup, totally dead. Hopefully it kills me fast or else maybe my Samwise Alice will show and gallantly rescue the damsel in distress. Hmm, what is the male version of a damsel. Whatever it is its me.

    Yeah. This is my personality whenever something bad happens. I distract myself with jokes. Making fun of my own self and situation.

    Moving on though. The monster spider does not just wait form me to say those things. No, instead I had those thoughts in the split second of slowed down time right before it stabbed me in my chest. Unfortunately missing my heart. This was not as kind as before. No this pain what eating me alive. Literally that''s what it was doing sucking out my organs, my blood, my bones. everything. Let''s talk though why, you may ask. Because I don''t die just yet.

    Somehow for some ungodly reason I am still alive after being stabbed like that. My flesh feeling as if it is on fire with someone stabbing, tenderizing, melting, peeling, everything all at once. I scream in agony. No, it is so high pitch so much agony I don''t even get the luxury to scream. I don''t get the opportunity to vomit from the intense pain either. Because the first organ to go was my stomach.

    I am left with my mouth open drooling saliva and blood. So much pain. I don''t have the words to describe accurately enough to enlighten you truly of my situation. Yet still, I have yet to die. I didn''t think it would take a giant spider so long to eat me. Or is it that my sense of time is distorted due to the pain. If I had the strength to do anything I am not confident that I have the resolution to have killed myself. I don''t even have the strength to bite my shriveled up tongue.

    The most I can do is look at my hand. Interesting really watching the blood be taken from it leaving only skin and bones. O god why... why am I experiencing this hell. What have I done to....

    It was then that it dawned on me that Alice has omnipotence in her universe. It was then that it dawned on me that she was the one who picked the starting point. Whatever. I am not even mad anymore. Just please Alice please stop the pain. Can she even read my mind from a distance? I can''t speak so it is my only hope. Alice please. Pretty please let me die. Free me from this agony this torture.

    Then I don''t know if it was a coincidence or if she really did hear me. It doesn''t matter she freed me from my torment. I was allowed to die. White space again with the words RECONSTRUCTING appearing in my vision. Even when I tried closing my eyes. Do I really have to go back? Can''t I stay dead?

    I am once again standing in that field with the weird grass. The log cabin in front of me. It is now dark out with a starry beautiful sky out, but I could care less at the moment. I am back here... I might have to experience that hell again. Why...

    I dropped to my knees and begin bawling my eyes out.

    Just a little before my death. The creator was panicking after seeing what she did to me. What I had to go through. The doctors watching over me had reported it as soon as I was captured; however that 16:1 ratio is not as good as it seems in this situation.

    "Ben, Carl, Delia!" the creator yelled at the screen. Two male mannequins appeared and one female model popped up.

    "Yes." The three replied in a monotone unison.

    "Meet Elenoire." A new female mannequin popped up on screen. "The newest addition she will be taking over Alpha''s position of Player management. Work with her and restrain Alpha in her avatar Alice. Make her power become limited to only that of a player. She has gone to far placing them selves in a secluded area surrounded by level 80 mobs. Not telling him about the pain settings. Hell, she turned it up to 100%. Then not even allowing him to die she changed his coding to allow 0 hp until she deemed it ready to be released. I am giving you an urgent Level 0 order of restraining her! Level 0 clearance will be given to you for the limited express purpose of sealment." The creator roared fiercely. The 4 mannequins nodded then disappeared. A second later a notification popped up saying task complete.

    Thank god someone is looking out for me. Although a little late if I don''t say.

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    Author: First. I wanna ask. Do you guys like me putting my two sense in the story before and after the story as well? Please leave a comment and I will change accordingly. Second. Should I post at a specific time? Third.  Wow. Just wow. That turned out way differently than what I had in mind. Umm... All I can say is sorry if you didn''t like this chapter. I will put a warning at the top. Hmm. Next Chapter will be better. I hope. Umm. Sorry.

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 Chapter 3: Resolution.

    Chapter 3: Resolution.

    Author: Thanks for reading and commenting. Enjoy!

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    I am still on my knees crying for about 20 minutes. After crying all my sorrows out. I begin starting to curse what caused my pain. I hate that spider. No, I hate all spiders since I don''t have the ability to tell which one it was that did that to me. They are all guilty. I will inflict pain upon that race of monsters. I will destroy them all.

    Why? You may ask am I not hating the one who set me up in that situation. The reason being is that for one she released me from my pain or I think she did. Two, I could have just asked her what was out there, but due to my arrogance or ignorance I didn''t ask her. Three, I still don''t know she has control over my pain settings. I think it is just part of the game. Thus, I have no direct reason to really hate her.... yet.

    To kill those spiders, that species, I need to get stronger way, way stronger. So I finally made a resolution. I stand up with fierce burning desire to train in any way I can. Alice! She is omnipotent so obviously she has seen martial arts, magic, and more. I will ask her to train me!

    I walk with renewed vigor to the cabin.  Looking at it, it really looks like a regular wooden cabin. Feeling slightly disappointed it didn''t look any different than the real thing. O well, no reason to re-texture everything. I opened the front door and on the inside it was really... plain. There was: 1 twin sized bed, 1 forest green couch, 1 coffee table, and 1 writing desk. It is a one room cabin with the front door I came in and a back door as well. That''s kinda weird judging from how small this place is. Why would you have two doors. I also happen to notice Alice is not in here at all.

    In the next moment the back door of the cabin opens. Alice steps out looking very unhappy.

    "Damnit! Well, I guess I am glad I built this before that happened. Those assholes! What did I do to deserve such restrictions!" Alice grumbles yelling at the sky with a fist raised up shaking it vigorously.

    "Sounds like you had a bad day as well."

    "Ooo. I wasn''t expecting you to be "back" yet." Hmm. She seemed to have emphasized "back" a bit.

    "Yes, well I am here to get training from you if possible. You must know what happened to me. I will kill those spiders every last one of them! I also wish to thank you for releasing me from my torment. Please train me so I can get stronger!"

    Alice looks shocked utterly shocked at my proposal the she says. "It seems it is your lucky day. I am in need of training as well now that I have been reduced to being a mere player. Sparring partners is a good way to gain experience and training. Luck has it that my space was completed before I was restricted."

    "Restricted to being a player? Your space? I don''t quite understand. Can you elaborate a bit for me?"

    "Yes, it seems that my creator has decided I am to explore this universe dedicating all my time to a single area entity. Meaning I no longer have my capabilities to create or destroy like before. I can''t control anything yet. My vision is that of a humans. My strength is the same as yours. Luckily they were not mean enough to limit my memories of the game." She seems angry and downhearted while she explains.

    "Ah, so you can''t train me?"

    "Your really self centered aren''t you. Yes, I can train us both; though I only need training in body. While you need training in body and mind. We can still accomplish this and before you ask how just look inside the room I came from." She points at the back door.

    I walk over and look in side it looks like a city of obstacle courses and different facilities. The reason why I can tell is that peering through the door gives me an over head view of it. Looks huge, but with no discernible sign of life.

    "I made it because I still needed to train and was going to do it without telling you. I told you to and am willing to help because you are going to be useful to me in the long run of things now." That devilish smile again.

    "Great, when do we get started? I wanna kill those ******** as soon as possible." As I say that still with that devilish smile on she reaches into the back door and pulls out two belts. She quickly straps one of them on me and one on herself. Kinda sexy when she was putting it on me, but my mind is focused training then killing then flirt. Gotta have priorities.

    Then she turns my belt buckle all the way around 3 times. Next moment I was wondering why I am kissing the ground and my body won''t listen to any of my commands to move. I am also have difficulties breathing. Then that lovely voice enters my ears.

    "Your lucky this is a game world with players having unrealistic bodies. If not then this kind of training would only have negative effects like destroying your bones from the pressure. What you are wearing is called a gravity belt. It affects the gravity of the person wearing it and only that person. I made it so you are experiencing 3 times earths gravity. Don''t worry your not the only one I am also doing it. (though she only turned hers once) In order to make it training and not have you skimp out I made it so I am the owner and only I can change yours."

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    "Oh ****! So Go*u style training. Sweet... although he trains at 100 + times gravity just 3 times is pretty rough. I can''t seem to move at all." Slightly I was able to move my fingers.

    "Well, come find me in that building when you can actually move. Then we can start the next step." She pointed to one facility that was in her space looks like one of the better buildings in there. A solar panel looking roof and the building looks like it is made out of some light blue metallic substance. The building also looks covered in weird scribbles as well.

    "Wait. How do I move you can''t gain strength like this can you?" To late she is already inside.

    I lay there struggling for a very long while seemingly getting no where. I am really hungry now too. How long was I tortured? (4 hours asleep after getting knocked out. 6 hours of torture.) Does dying affect my stomach was I full again after I revived? I was to busy crying and deciding my future to care. Now laying here with nothing better to do. I started thinking of what I should''ve done in stead. Maybe inspected the weird grass a little more. Check the surrounding areas. Checked what kind of substance those red lines on the trees are. Maybe even looked into the properties of the leaves.

    I was stupid there is many things I could have done instead of going in the forest halfheartedly. If I would''ve just joined with Alice then maybe she would have told what all those things are. I probably would have been told about the spiders as well.

    Those spiders! Anger floods into me again. I no longer care about the hunger I don''t care about anything. I am training now! This is me getting stronger stop whining about what could have been. It happened get over it! Get stronger then devastate them! Gaining some strength from anger. I slowly am able to clench my fists.

    Trying hard to move any part of my body. Slowly I start pushing myself up straining my self as hard as I could. Push up position. SNAP!

    RECONNECTING! It appeared in my head again. Then I was just outside the cabin again. In that field face down in the grass. What the hell happened? Thinking back I was forcing all my muscles to lift my body. It responded in kind, but even though my body lifted I didn''t feel my head raise at all. Shit! I broke my own neck lifting myself forgetting about the head. Sounds silly I know, but how often do you think about working out your neck? (Author: Sorry would love to give you how much he currently weighs, but when I was researching everything went way above my head. He weighs 205 lbs now and is 6''1" to find out his gravity isn''t as simply as time-zing his weight by 3 so I can''t give you exact calculation sorry. /bow)

    Alright figured out the problem. Now to work my entire body not forgetting about any part of it. Straining every inch of my body I am slowly gaining the ability to move. Now though it has been 5 hours since my latest death. I am extremely hungry, but I can''t get to my backpack. To get food and drink. So I say **** it what have I got to lose. So I take a bite of the grass nearby. When I chew on it I can feel a cool liquid escape from the grass trickling down my throat. As soon as it enters my stomach I feel loads better. I am not as tired nor do my muscles burn as much. It also fills me up my god its a god sent gift from heaven!

    I ravenously devour some more clumps of grass. I now feel at a 100%. With renewed vigor and the feeling of me being a cow. I begin exercising my body repeating the process of destroying my self trying to move. Collapsing then eating the grass.

    Several weeks pass like this. I am now able to walk and jog about a bit. I still have yet to go back in the cabin though. To be honest I am quite afraid of the next step. Today though I have decided that now is the time to do it so I gather up some more grass clumps filling my backpack to the brim with them. They actually grow back in this area pretty quick normally when I went to bed on the ground and woke up a few hours later the grass herb would be there again.

    Stepping into the cabin nothing has changed. Even the door is still wide open over looking the city space. I take a deep breath and shove my hand first toward the building that was pointed on and step through.

    I find my self in front of that very same building. So I open up the door...

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    Author: It was a shorter chapter because I was researching training methods and gravity. Unfortunately I am still lost at what I should do so I decided to post what I have for now. Thanks for reading. See you next chapter.

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 Chapter 4: Training.

    Chapter 4: Training.

    The door was an automatic door. Upon approaching it slid open for me. On the inside was a white with grey lines tiled floor. In the right corner of the room there was a massive sized kitchen. Looks like 30 people could cook at the same time. In contrast to that there is only a small dining table located somewhere in the middle of the room. That could only fit about 6 people. 2 on the ends of the table and 2 on each side.

    On the left side of the room is two doors that say restroom on them. Further down there is another door. That doesn''t have a sign. Since Alice is not located in the room I guess she might be in there. So I walk over to that door. This door is also automatic it opens up when I get close enough to it.

    I guess it makes sense if anyone was making food and they had to bring trays around you wouldn''t wanna try opening any doors like that. In this new room that opened up it has a black floor that when looking closely square humps rise just a bit in a tiled like fashion. When stepping in here I step on the floor and it is squishy. Feels like foam. Lining the walls is light blue brick wall that gives off a small light. The ceiling is really, really high up. I don''t know how to measure by looks, but if I have to venture a guess. I would say it was about 700 ft. up. (actually 500 ft.)

    Don''t think that the ceiling is the only massive thing in here this whole room is to match. After inspecting the room I failed to mention what is really going on in the distance. A little ways away I see Alice fighting what looks to be some sort of nimble foam creatures. She is taking on about 15 of them. I start heading toward her.

    "Alice! Do you need help?!" I yell trying to get her attention. The reason why I yell is because the sound of something hard hitting a mat is pretty loud. Repeat that constantly and that is the reason why.

    "Begone!" She yells in response. At first I thought she was telling that to me, but the instant she yells it. The foam creatures sink into the ground. Disappearing from view.

    Alice starts walking toward me. She is now wearing a white training outfit that looks well conformed to her. The training outfit is the type that wraps and then ties. Meaning it is slightly opened now from her intense training. Revealing the tops of twin mounds of perfect proportions. Sweat dripping from her face sliding down her checks past her full luscious lips. Down to her chin where it drips off hitting the tops of her mounds. Sliding in between the breasts never to be seen again.

    Her out fit is drenched in sweat. Giving the white outfit slight transparent look. Able to see the curves fully below, but not enough for exact details of skin. I didn''t know AI''s could sweat nor have the need to work physically hard.

    "So, you can actually walk around now. Huh. I thought it would take you longer."

    "Well before I saw you I thought only I was working hard. What were those things?"

    "Hmph! Thanks to my creator being mean. Yeah I have to work hard now too to survive." She crosses her arms doing a pouty face. Quite adorable. "Those things are training dummies. They are called Foam Golems. They have different difficulty levels you can set them. I was just fighting them being goblin strength setting with the condition of fighting a big group of them."

    "Why foam?"

    "Because I don''t like feeling pain. I am not a masochist. Doing training is to get experience and results not to get beat up so bad that you can''t even move. Kinda defeats the purpose doesn''t it?"

    "Then why make me feel the pain? Why did I have to die?"

    "Oh? You died?"

    "Yeah... when I was trying to lift myself.... I ... broke my neck... because I forgot about it."

    "Hihihihhahahhaha! You broke your neck from forgetting about it?! How stupid are you?"

    "You just left me there. I didn''t know what to do so I worked hard straining every muscle to lift myself. Well, anyway thanks to that I found something amazing." I reach for my backpack and open it up showing her the herbs inside it.

    "Oh. So you actually discovered the properties of the Killjoy herb."

    "Yeah. Solves my hunger and gives me liquid that makes my muscles feel better after straining them to hard."

    She smacks her forehead shaking it. "Killjoy Herb. It gives Health, Mana, and Endurance recovery. The liquid you are talking about is the actual recovery property that you need. You don''t need to eat clumps of them whole just rip the bottom middle of the herb and a small dose of the liquid should come out."

    "So, I guess that explains the colors red, blue, and green at the base of the herb. Why is it called Killjoy Herb? It seems pretty amazing to me. Thought it would be named God''s Grass or something along those lines."

    She actually giggled from that. "Maybe we should change the name since I am... was the god of this universe and in fact I did use it as grass. Hehehe. The reason for its name is actually be cause the first player to discover it had to fight off a very tough high level mob. To get what he was told the legendary herb. After beating it he only got 1 clump of grass. When he used it to make a potion it gave him all those effects, but he was high level so it seemed like it only slightly did things to him. So he called it a Killjoy. Thus the name stuck. Killjoy Herb."

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    "So I discovered a rare herb!"

    "Woah there hotshot, it was only here because I liked the look of it for grass. It isn''t that amazing do to the fact that I put it here. For the express reason for .... us. Try finding it out in the rest of the world then if you do you can celebrate."

    "Tch. We should rename you Killjoy." I whispered under my breath.

    "What was that?"

    "Nothing! So, what do I do now?"

    "Do you have any previous combat capabilities?"

    "Nope. Nor do I have any knowledge that can be useful in here or real life. I realized how useless I actually am when I went into the forest. I didn''t even know how to clear my hand from the sticky web."

    "Hmm. Seems I have my work cut out for me then. Fine then! Bring on the challenge you will be the first person I have ever taught combat to. Be honored!"

    "Thank you very much!" I can''t wait to kill those spiders!

    "Well then first are you the type to learn from experience? or the type that learns from books or forms?"

    "Practical information is better information. I believe practice makes perfect so... experience?"

    "Great let''s start like this. Golems! Setting: Level 5 Numbers: 15 Player: Dremal."

    15 of those foam golems pop up around me. Forming a ring I can''t find an opening to escape from. I toss my backpack over them a distance away. Then I equip my trusty wooden sword.

    "Begin!"

    4 golems charge me 1 in front 2 on my sides left and right respectively and 1 aiming for my back. I swing down on the one in front of me aiming for its head. I miss horribly these things can dodge! Geez, why did I think that they wouldn''t?

    Due to me putting all my power in that swing. I stepped forward while leaning quite a bit more than I should be. Bam! I get a punch right in my stomach by the one I tried hitting. With his movement plus my heading right into his fist. It hurts a lot! I thought since they were made out of foam it wouldn''t hurt as much. It feels like reinforced wood underneath the foam.

    The other foams didn''t not do anything. I simultaneously got hit in my kidneys  and my ribs. The one behind me was by far the meanest one. He full blown kicked me in the nuts. I go down in an instant. 15 Hah! I was screwed by the very first one.

    Just because I went down doesn''t mean that was the end of it. They were literally kicking me when I was down. I curled up into a ball crying and trying to recover from the stomach double pain (punch to stomach + Shot to the nuts (feel the nuts more in the stomach) = Double stomach pain.) I was curled up in a way to slightly protect my head, stomach, and genitals.

    My arms, back, and legs were taking a hell of a beating though. After about 15 minutes of this I was finally numb enough that my stomach didn''t hurt as much. I was going to finally try to retaliate. I grab the leg of one of the nearest golems. Third try is when I finally got it. When I did though. It retaliated by dropping the knee of the leg I had into my face. It didn''t stop there either. It dropped its  elbow on the top of my head as well. I was knocked out thoroughly thrashed.

    I had a quick dream of me drowning. What a great life I am living, huh, even my dreams are trying to kill me. I wake up nope still drowning. Shit! I sit up real fast. Apparently Alice dumped a bucket of water on to me.

    "Wow. That was pathetic show of effort there. You didn''t even manage to do any damage to them at all!" Ouch! She was giving one of those looks that makes you feel like your a piece of shit. That strong pitying look.

    "I told you I have no experience. What did you expect?"

    "I expected you to at least take down one before being taken down yourself."

    "So you set me up knowing I would fail!"

    "Yes! How was I to know you were that weak? I don''t always read peoples memories you know and when I read yours. I only read the small part related to that memory! For all I could''ve known you might have been a secret martial arts master!"

    "Well... now you know I am not. I am utterly useless. So teach me how to become said martial arts master! Teach me everything you know as if teaching a newborn baby........ A non reincarnated newborn baby."

    "*Sigh* Fine."

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 Chapter 5: Explanation and Body Strengthening.

    Chapter 5: Explanation and Body Strengthening

    Author: Well, Hello there. I just wanted to stop and repeat my answers to some of the questions that were asked in the comments. I did do a reply to them so if you check it you can find what I have said for a little more detail. First off, I will not be personally making Alice''s PoV. If a fan wants to send me a PM and I can give you more details about her and your more than welcome to right a PoV for her yourself if you give me the finished project. I will probably only make a couple minor changes (if it needs it) then I will happily post it as a chapter. Second, I have no relationship experience or any real life experiences to speak of. Games I have played is also limited to Dark Souls, Dungeons and Dragons, and Everquest. Those are the main things I played. Not much to go on hehe I know. Well then now I wanna ask a question of pacing. Should I spend a lot of chapters making the training with lots of mini time skips? or Should I do one big time skip? Well... Since this is going to be a delayed answer to me. I decided to give you a taste of what his training is like. Then next chapter giving you a taste of the training''s finished project. Depends on the comments I guess. Its not just me making this story its kinda Reader Interactive I feed from you guys ^_^. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Enjoy!

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    Alice: "* sigh* Fine."

    Dremal: "Alright! Please no more of me just getting my a** kicked."

    Alice: "No promises. Everything does after all depend on you."

    Dremal: "Can you start off by explaining how for one I didn''t die. Then by explaining how those Foam Golems came into existence seemingly out of nowhere?" (For those of you who asked about or was questioning the golems existence.)

    Alice: "Well first off all, I put a condition on this entire space itself. The space as I call it is Alice''s Sandbox. Simple I know, but I needed the space to train this body and even though I have all the information in the universe, I have never had the need to exercise any of it. That is until now."

    Alice: "The condition I made is that health cannot fall below 1 hp. The reason being I don''t wanna keep dying. Having to die sucks and is too painful. I know it sounds redundant because death is nothing in this game besides a lost level, even though stats gained from training do not disappear. So it��s like this: every time you level you gain 10 stat points you get to place wherever you want. Your Health, Mana and Stamina go up by 10% per level along with it, these are passive. Players�� starting stats are 10 across the board with 100 Health, Mana, and Stamina. "

    Alice: "Although there is no penalty for us since we are level one, it is still inconvenient to die as we cannot place our revive point inside my sandbox. I made it like this just in case some other Players find this place. No items that were made inside the sandbox are able to come out. For example these golems cannot leave and go on the journey with us. Nor can they even leave this training room."

    Alice: "Now to answer your question about the golems. Since I used them as an example you have a bit more information on them. Expanding on that information, they are training dummies that are magically created by the system I made in this room. Thus, I am not the one who supplies mana to these creatures."

    Alice: "Now then before you ask about the system I might as well just tell you about it. The system is just a program I made that you can input commands to create the Foam Golem Dummies you need. Any level setting, any size setting, any number settings, etc etc. You can make them pretty specific to for example."

    Alice: "Golem! Level: 800, Size: 200ft, Intelligence: Medium, Number(s): 2, Player: None, Enemy: Each other, System protect players: Alice and Dremal. Begin!"

    Two giant Foam Golems appeared side by side. They look the exact same as the little ones my height that I was fighting... err well losing to. The moment they fully appeared they seemingly disappeared. What happened ? Did the program fail?

    All of a sudden a gust of wind or was it a shock wave, blasted all around me. Strangely though, I wasn''t affected by it. Looking at Alice she wasn��t either. The golems, if you slow it down, had recognized each other as enemies and both launched the same attack at each other. A plain old punch. Both hit each other at the same time. The strength of the punch had sent both of them flying away. I look to my right, there is one getting up around 500ft away, as to my left.

    The golems stood up seemingly staring each other down. Then in an instant they disappeared. I can''t seem to keep up with any movements they make. I understand just how powerless I am even more, but I also understand that with time and experience maybe I too can be that strong. HOPE IS RENEWED! I am very anxious about my future. However since I can''t really see this battle it doesn''t quite help me. All I can do is feel the shock waves.

    Dremal: "Alice... wait Alice can you actually see what they are doing?" Her eyes and head are darting all over the place seemingly following their movements.

    Alice: "Yeah. Unlike you I can view and process information at light speed so my eyes can see everything that they are doing. However the down side is - if I made it so they could do harm to us - I could see the attack coming, but my body has no way to keep up."

    Dremal: "Well, this is cool and all, but I cannot even watch. Can we possible move on I wanna get stronger as soon as possible."

    Alice: "*sigh* Fine. It doesn''t help me at all either. Begone!"

    The golems stop their fists movement just inches from hitting each other in the face. Then they sink into the foam floor as if they turned into water, becoming one with the foam floor.

    Alice: "Well then moving on to mine and your training. It is better to focus on getting stronger in one particular area of specialization so what kind of attacker or supporter do you imagine yourself being?"

    Dremal: "Hmm. Well I don''t wanna get hurt and I want the battle to be over quick. An assassin type or ninja type something with kill strikes and high dps, with agility to retreat or to be stealthy. Ooo just imagining stealth killing those stealth based spiders and creatures in there. Hehehe see how they like it!"

    Alice: "Guess imprinting does happen to all ages. Well fine! Make the girl be the main attacker why don''t you!"

    Dremal: "What are you talking about?"

    Alice: "We are permanently a party dipstick. Thanks to my creator. So to survive in this world or any other we have to work together to kill. So basically if you wanna be a stealth killer sneaking up behind things or in there blind spots you need a tank or some kinda bait as a distraction."

    Dremal: "O... then if you become a tank don''t we need a healer or something along those lines? Why don''t you stealth along with me? Either me or you attack first by catching the mob off guard and attacking its vitals, then if its still alive the second person comes in and finishes the job?"

    Alice: "You��re an idiot. Do you know every mobs anatomy? If not how can you know its weak spot? What happens when you attack a mob, but it has a higher defense than you can pierce?"

    Dremal: "Well... I .... thought.... You could tell me the weak spots... and we avoid the ones with higher defense...?"

    Alice: "Naive! Sure I can inform you of the weak spots of creatures I know of, but like the spiders you encountered they have really high defense. Will you avoid them as well? There is always going to eventually be a situation where we cannot avoid things. So might as well prepare for them."

    Dremal: "I... I see... No, I will not avoid the spiders. So how should we deal with them?"

    Alice: "Like this, Yes. I will train you how you want; you shall be the assassin/ ninja of our party. I will be the main tank. However I shall teach and learn - along with our classes - support magic so we can assist each other however is needed."

    Dremal: "Are we able to make a class that sounds that OP?"

    Alice: "This game has characters that have leveled up enough to be classified as gods. Along with the ability to create and destroy worlds. This universe... this game, allows and expresses freedom of play to players. We can play and make things how we want."

    Dremal: "Then what stops the players from constantly killing new players?"

    Alice: "The best effect is when a player joins a protected world like this one. If that doesn''t work then next best things is to wait till he is bored or offline. Simple as that."

    Dremal: "So you allow players to torture other players?"

    Alice: "Yes, however to make the ones getting tortured not feel too bad. Torture makes the pain setting get reduced by 30% along with no penalties of dying by other players hands."

    Dremal: "Pain settings? Wait there was such a thing? Can you change the settings?"

    Alice had a panicked face for a split second then recovered. "Yes, however I can no longer change our settings as I have said before the creator locked me out. Our pain settings are set to 100% real pain."

    Dremal: "Why is it set to maximum??"

    Alice: "Oh, that is not the maximum. The max pain setting is 120% any more will cause your brain to fry and cause permanent damage to your physical body. The only people that choose that setting are the extreme masochists and believe me they exist."

    Dremal: "Well... I guess 100 % doesn''t sound as bad as the 120% it could have been. How do you even get percentages of pain though? How much of a difference is 70% pain through torture to the 100% pain I am apparently normally privy to?"

    Alice: "It is scaled. Just like if I was slowly twisting your ear it can start from 0 then as I increase the power and pressure of my twist the scale goes up eventually leading to me ripping your ear off. As I go through the motions I could ask you what scale of pain you are in and you can most likely give me a number of your rough estimate. It is under that same concept, but since you are human you can''t give an exact estimate like I can."

    Alice: "I could give you the mathematical numbers, but I doubt you have the ability to comprehend them so what I said is a dumbed down human version for you. Will that suffice?" (Author: No way in hell could I give you that data. I''m not smart enough to even figure out gravity let along pain comprehension numbers. So please don''t actually ask for them.)

    Dremal: "Yes, Thank you I think I understand the concept."

    (Author: Also I just realized she bullshitted her way through telling him really about the pain settings. Like how she set his and didn''t tell him. Crap she has a life of her own! Everyone run!)

    Alice: "Very well then. Moving on I, should explain the class name of the class you are going to get from this training. It is called the Shadow-Walker class. It has the abilities you want: stealth, high damage per second, vital strike, Shadow walking capabilities as well as any shadows there are you can merge into them and come out in any other shadow. A useful ability. It will also be equipped with support abilities such as healing, buffs, and illusions. Poison is optional and would be appreciated with this class."

    My eyes seemingly sparkle when she explains this class. Yup, I want it!

    Alice: "However this game��s downside is that abilities can be learned multiple ways:

    1. have a skill book or scroll to get skills.

    2. NPC''s can grant you abilities in exchange for some sort of quest.

    3. Npcs can train you physically/mentally.

    4. You can teach yourself."

    5. Skills/abilities being granted to you by a higher being��

    Alice: "The reason why I say it is a downside is because I didn''t put any skill books in here and there are no NPCs around us to give us abilities. So if a player doesn''t have the resources to get a skill book or is able to complete a quest from an NPC, his or her options are limited. There are Trainer Halls located in every major city, but they cost a bit of money to join. So most players are left to be self taught by going out into the world - hunting low level creatures - with no real skills or abilities to do so; struggling to earn up money by either banding together or die repeatedly while trying." She is smiling that devilish smile again. Is... is that drool I see?

    Alice: "Well I made it that way so it might be unfair, but hey its player��s choice to play the game. Yet they always come back. Kyayayaya! (her evil villain laugh girl version =p yup she is a sadist.) Now then my class... will be something new, when I complete it I will get to name it. Hmm... let''s see I''m going to call it Quintessence class. Seems fitting for what I want."

    Dremal: "What exactly do you have planned for it?"

    Alice: "Well unlike you all I need is the strength to go along with my skills. So I need stats. Basically I am an everything in one package. I need levels and other stats to use a lot of my abilities, but that is only a matter of time. So we only need to worry about your training really. I will get mine done by training alongside you."

    Dremal: "Cheater! Oh, well not that I can say anything. I need your help, if you didn''t have this knowledge I would''ve been screwed. Thank you for taking time to invest in me."

    Alice gives another quick devilish smile again then says. "Well, let''s get on with it then. First off how is gravity treating you? Do you need another upgrade of weight?"

    Dremal: "NO! I''m good. Barely able to walk around at this moment, anymore and I will die. So we will physically attain the abilities? How do I learn to shadow walk?"

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    Alice: "Yes. Skill is everything in this game. So to obtain it physically is actually the best method. At least to me it is. Shadow walking is just magic in which case is the power of imagination in tangent with your mana pool. You can''t cast anything above your mana pools capabilities, if you do it causes a weird effect. Visual demonstration is better for understanding. Try to imagine you melting into the shadows."

    Okay... Melting into shadows... Kind of like Shinob* from Bakemonogatar*. I begin to imagine me in place of her melting into the shadows. Wait... just thinking doesn''t make me use mana. If it did everyone would always be out of mana. (I think it would be better to call it merging with the shadows)

    Dremal: "Okay... I have the image in my head, but how do I initiate the usage of mana?"

    Alice: "Mana is blue. Imagine the color blue surrounding your image. That''s the simplest way to explain, I think"

    Once again I imagine the shadow just below me. Me, clad in shadows, sinking into the shadows just like those golems, that seemingly come from the floor. Then I surround it with the glowing color of blue...

    Alice: "Alright you tried it. Now take a look at the effects. Since you didn''t have enough mana to actually do it you have gained something lesser."

    Upon opening my eyes I look down to see black fog enveloping me. Oh, cool! I look like I am clad in darkness! I can''t see my hands or feet clearly and if I didn''t know better I wouldn''t be able to tell if I had clothes on either.

    Alice: "Looks like the skill Shadow guard to me. Ever heard of stone skin? It has a similar effect to that. It will block a certain number of attacks before disappearing or reaching a certain damage output."

    She walks over and decks me in the face. Bam! I''m out like a light.

    (Author: I like the idea that mana is willpower or mental fortitude so I am going to use it like that. Slave Harem has a good example of what happens when mana runs out so I will use it in a similar way. So I am not going to get copyright infringement upon me.)

    I wake up apparently a couple minutes later by her slapping me awake. I feel really demotivated. I died just earlier, had horrible things done to me and even failed to cast a spell even when getting things explained to me. Why even bother? I should just log out and return home to read some manga or something. Why should I be subjected to this abuse? I am not getting paid enough.

    When I sat up all I could do is apologize to her for being useless. She gave me a strange look when I started mumbling about wanting to go home and read manga, catch up on some light novels that I could be reading or something. Then it looked like she had an epiphany of some kind, she ran to my backpack took out a couple of clumps of Killjoy Herb and ran back shoving them in my mouth.

    Hmm. Quite nice having such a beautiful girl feeding me something. I definitely don''t deserve this opportunity; she should find someone better to hang out with. She deserves better in her life. I slowly chew the grass, the liquid going down my throat (the liquid goes down the throat AFTER swallowing). All of a sudden I feel better. Weird why do I all of a sudden actually feel some motivation to do the things I want to do. I will kill those spiders! Fuck going home and being useless again! I will explore and I will gain Alice''s love .... eventually.... hopefully.... she''s kind of a sadistic bitch though... did I jump the gun on loving her? No, no matter what or how she is I will always love her!

    Dremal: "What the hell was that! I felt like shit! Also you lied!"

    Alice: "Okay. First off all, that is the effect of using all your mana. Mana is your mental stability and fortitude once it depletes you will have no willpower. Willpower is the force that you exude when you want something done. Thus, without it the opposite happens, you don''t want to do anything of any real importance. Second. I did not lie I said I thought it was Shadow guard. I didn''t realize it was just an illusion cast over yourself to change your looks like that. Either way it used all of your mana to cast that simple illusion... must have been one of two reasons. One it was because it was the first time you ever cast a spell. Two it could actually be something different, maybe it had another ability besides and illusion."

    Alice: "I don''t really know since I am not connected to the system and I wasn''t the one who casted it. I can only draw so many conjectures from the visuals. Well anyway magic lesson is over for now you pathetic excuse for a man. Let''s move on to physical techniques and skills."

    I stand up and she stands up. Hmm. Too close when we both stood up I almost head butted her. Taking a quick step back, I recorrect my position waiting for the next explanation.

    Alice: "First off lets grab you some weapons from the wall." She points to the left corner of the room on the side that has the door I entered through. In that little corner upon closer inspection were all kinds of weapons. Wooden, Foam, bamboo and steel weapons of all kinds. "I suggest either daggers, short swords, or even rapiers."

    I walk over and pick up one of the sickles. Yeah this would be good it would make me look like the grim reaper when I kill someone... but thinking about it I can''t stab straight into something��s chest and pierce its vitals like this. I would have to aim in a weird way to do that... I pick up a dagger. Yeah this is the easiest I can throw it for a ranged attack and I can pierce straight on... I might need that curve that the sickle has though. I find a dagger that has a similar curve to it. So I pick it up as well. A regular dagger in my right hand and the weird dagger in my left. Yes, this feels to be the best for me at this moment.

    Dremal: "What is this weird dagger called?"

    Alice: "Interesting choice you have. That dagger is called a Karambit. Hmm. You may end up better than I thought. The ones you grabbed are steel ones. Put the sheaths on and store them like that. Then grab the wooden foam ones of the same weight and style. Those are what you will be practicing against me with. The steel ones are for the golems."

    Dremal: "What happens if I kill a golem... Can I even?"

    Alice: "Yes, if you deal enough damage they will fall to the ground and re-meld into the floor. No experience will be gained through killing them though. Only benefit is it makes one less enemy to deal with and the feeling of accomplishment I guess."

    I pick up and put down a bunch of foam daggers and Karambits until I find a pair that match the size and weight accordingly. It was a rough guess at best. I am no expert on weapons nor on weight judgment.

    Alice: "Okay I guess I should show you how to use those properly." She walks over and picks up wooden ones that look like mine. "Now. Follow along with the motions that I am going to go through." Then she slowly goes through some type of form. A combination of attacks and parries by the looks of it. Counter strike after a parry attack after counter-strike. Yes there is a difference a Counter strike flows from a parry into an attack while an attack starts from scratch.

    I very clumsily follow along. Even though she is doing it super slow. I cannot keep up at all and I am making so many mistakes. Then after tripping over myself I noticed she is also doing foot movements. Geez! One thing at a time, this time I get up and try following just her foot movements.

    Step forward with the right foot with the knees slightly bent. Adjust weight from left foot to right foot slide left foot in a semi circle to behind right foot, about a shoulders length apart.

    (Author: I don''t know any martial arts or forms just basically winging it. Please don''t take anything to heart.)

    I think I am getting it down after about an hour of just going through the foot motions. I finally have enough leeway to notice I have been staring at her perfectly toned ass most of the time. Oops. Shouldn''t have noticed now my stance is awkward more leaned forward with my knees even more bent. Guess its time to focus on the upper part of her body as well. Once again I begin going through the hand motions along with the foot motions. Clumsily doing the hand motions. After 20 minutes, I at least have not tripped over myself this time.

    It takes another hour or two before I have the form that she has been continuously doing. It sucks even though we are doing it slowly, it takes a huge toll on the body. I am drenched in sweat and wrought with pain. I can''t even imagine how she must be feeling, she has been doing the whole thing since the beginning without a word. Looking at her she is also drenched in sweat.

    Seeing her try so hard, I feel reinvigorated so I continue to press on without complaint as well. Little did I know I was the one trying harder: my gravity is 3 times while hers is only at 2. Bitch. We continue to do this until I finally drop only an hour later. Hearing me drop, she gets out of her trance like state, looks at me and then drops to her knees as well. I crawl to my backpack and drag it over to her. I take out some of the herbs and hand her some, then as I��m about to put some in my mouth she stops me.

    She take some blades of grass and stacks them on top of each other like pages in a book, after stacking about ten blades she lifts them. Opening her mouth while leaning her head back a bit, she tears the bottom of all ten at the same time: a waterfall of rainbow colors flow into her mouth. I can see her gulping every once in a while. A little bit later the liquid stops flowing from the herbs and she closes her mouth taking one last gulp. I can see just a small trickle of rainbow liquid sliding down her chin and dripping into the space between her sweat covered mounds.

    After the liquid was drained from the herbs, the herb then turned into a dried out clump and the little bit of force she was using to hold on to them was enough for the herbs to crumble into tiny particles that fell down on the floor.

    Alice: "This is what happens to the herb after the liquid is gone. No need to waste your appetite on dust. Once you get the liquid follow me."

    I quickly imitate her gathering a few pieces and drain them of their liquid. Feeling a lot better I stand up to follow her. She put her weapons back on the rack and so do I. Was there any point in grabbing the steal weapons and having them on me too? No, guess not, next time I will stick with just the foam ones until I actually have to battle.

    She then walks out the door and into the kitchen side of the room. She then proceeds to wash her hands and arms in the sink. Then she opens up one of the three massive fridges and pulls out some ingredients.

    Dremal: "Umm. I don''t know how to cook." (Author: Yup I don''t real shocker I know)

    Alice: "Don''t worry I have never cooked before either. So we are going to learn. Wash your hands and come help me I will tell you what to do." (Author: Gonna skip explaining things in detail here because although she has never cooked she still has the knowledge thus it turned out great)

    After we finished cooking we sat down at the table and started eating. One of the best meals in my life and I helped making it. After finishing up eating I was told to wash the dishes since she did most of the work. So I did. Then she directed me to the restrooms and told me to take a shower. Clothes will be provided inside.

    When I went into the directed bathroom I was expecting rows of urinals toilets and shower stalls, but all I got was one toilet, a really nice sink with a slash bowl, a mirror above said sink and there was in fact a shower stall, but next to it was a huge in-ground bathtub. On the wall next to the toilet was a closet it contained training vestments like what she was wearing only my size. Inside was also fresh towels. I took a quick shower getting all the sweat dirt and blood off me then went and soaked in the already filled tub. (was filled before I even entered) After an hour of soaking and washing myself I dawned the outfit and went to the training room. Man am I tired though.

    Alice was inside the training hall still training. Guess I don''t get to see her in an after bath glow.

    Alice: "Ah, you��re back. Well go over to that corner to sleep. We will start again in the morning for you."

    Dremal: "What about you? Are you just going to train through the night?"

    Alice: "Yes. Unlike humans I don''t sleep, so I can continue to train. If I make too much noise well.. too bad. Now hurry up and go to sleep."

    I think she is working too hard regardless of her being an AI. Oh well. I walk over to the corner of the room she pointed towards and fell down asleep for some proper rest.

    And that is how the first day of training went by.

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    Author: Phew that was a long one. Sorry had a sudden inspiration to write this and could hardly stop. So glad you could enjoy a long chapter ^_^. If you didn''t enjoy it well. Shit. To each there own I guess. Hehe! Hoping to read your comments hopefully you will enjoy the rest of my story. Thank you so much for reading. See you next chapter!

    Edit: Special Thanks to Gaju-Nim on proofreading this chapter. Thank you very much!

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 Chapter 6: Training Regime.

    Chapter 6: Training Regime.

    Author: Special thanks to Gaju-Nim for proof reading chapter 5 for me. I will be re-releasing chapter 5 shortly after posting this chapter. Thank you so very much! Now enjoy!

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    "Wa... up....... Wak...... Up.... Dipstick! Wake up!" I hear a loud sound next to my ear. I sit up and my left cheek is burning.

    Dremal: "Huh? Did you slap me?"

    Alice: "Yes... Yes I did. You wouldn''t wake up when I called, so I slapped you. The first thing we need to train you in is less sleep and light sleep I guess. If I was a monster you would be dead."

    Dremal: "How long have I been out?"

    Alice: "It has been 4 hours on the dot."

    Dremal: "ONLY 4 HOURS OF SLEEP!!"

    Alice: "Yes, this is all the time I will allow you to sleep. Like I said we are going to train you. To be ready for battle at any moment. You asked for training and I am delivering." She gives her trademarked smile again. Devilishly cute though.

    Dremal: "*Yaaaaawwwnn* Hopefully when we get to doing training, I will wake up. Alright!" I quickly jump to my feet stretching my arms and twisting my body. "When do we start?"

    Alice: "Good, we start right now. We will do the form that I showed you yesterday. Then do some light calisthenics. Jumping jacks, sit ups, push ups, squats, etc. etc."

    I head on over to the table, that holds my foam weapons that I will be using. Picking up the dagger and Karambit, I then walk back towards Alice. I stand a little bit to her side and then we begin. At first I was clumsily doing it, but I quickly found my grove. My feet and hand coordination was a lot better than yesterdays after about 5 minutes of messing up.

    An hour went by pretty fast. I had the form down solid. Just I know I am far from perfect, but Alice was like a completely different person. It looked magnificently down close to perfection if not perfect. How hard did she train after I went to bed? Can 4 hours really do this much?

    Shaking my head, Alice stops her form and so do I, then we take a small couple minute break then head into the work out routine. She had me do 50 of everything that sucked. She is even calling that just one rep. I guess she is going to increase it even more when I can actually handle it.

    After completing the morning training we head to the table and set down our weapons. Then we move towards the kitchen area. Washing up, then begin preparing a morning meal. This time she makes me do a majority of it while she directs me. Needless to say are meal was sub-par.

    After eating a silent meal with her. I take the dishes and wash them. We then go back into the training room.

    Alice: "Now then since you have the form basically down. Spar with me, don''t worry we will do things extra slow using only the form. I hit you, you use parry and the counter-strike we will go through the form."

    Dremal: "Ok, let''s get to it!"

    She starts with the first stab a diagonal slash from the bottom left to the top right of her left hand weapon. True to her word it is pretty slow. I use the first parry form stepping in her zone and using a outer sweep block sliding my blade against hers. I use the strike continuing from there looks like I am trying to punch the air to the right of her head. With the Karambit though the blade should hit her neck.

    She parries me then ripostes. This goes on for quite a while we finish going through the whole form 10 times. Then on the 11th time she speeds up noticeably. That was rough, but after 2 forms later I was able to keep up. 3 forms later she speeds up again. This continues until about noon time or well what I think is noon.

    Why do I think its noon? The answer is because I am back in the kitchen being the main one to cook the lunch for today. We don''t really have to talk much besides in the kitchen when she tells me how to cook something. During training she doesn''t say a word, just expects me to learn from my mistakes, I guess.

    After lunch when we go back into the training room I start to grab the foam weapons again.

    Alice: "No, not those in the afternoon you get combat experience. Your going to fight golems until you kill at least 5 of them. Don''t worry I will only make you fight one at a time this time."

    I then grab the steel dagger and Karambit equipping them in the proper hands. I walk back over to Alice.

    Alice: "Golem! Settings: Level 5,Numbers: 1, Player: Dremal. Begin!"

    A foam golem my size pops out of the ground. I take my stance, the moment it stops forming it attacks. I wait in the same spot I started until the punch comes. I parry with my dagger ripping the foam a little. Then I try and go for the counter-strike, but the golem dodges by jumping back.

    Were they always this weak? That punch was actually pretty slow compared to Alice''s strikes. They also lacked power. Why was I getting beat up so badly before? Whatever, I can''t be thinking about these things. I need to focus on the battle at hand.

    The golem comes at me again doing the same exact punch. Again I wait then parry, but this time the golem redirects his punch to my parrying hand. They connect and the pain almost made me drop my weapons. I was stunned by its different action. That was what it was hoping for I guess.

    The next moment I find my self flying  about 15 feet away and am on my back. The damn thing kicked me in my stomach. What did I say about it not having power. Whoever said that is a damn lair... shit that was me. I try to get up as fast as I could, but it was an awkward slow get up.

    The golem arrives while I am still getting up. Screw it, I am not going down like yesterday. It goes to kick me. I make a big long gash along its leg. Exposing the wooden frame that is under that foam. I don''t give it time to recover its lost stance. I target that exposed wood two quick slices breaks it.

    The golem starts to collapse on that side. As it is going down it takes a swing at me. I wasn''t paying attention to anything other than its leg. So I got decked in the face. My face hits the floor pretty hard, luckily the floor is made from foam too. I am a little dizzy, but that is it.

    Getting back up I see its leg has torn off completely by its collapsing form. After the leg finished tearing off it hit the floor and melted. I smile as I walk over to the golem on the ground. I bat away its arms trying to hit me then I stab its throat. A split second later it melts.

    Dremal: "YEEESSSS! My first victory!!!!"

    Alice is just shaking her head from side to side. "You need to pay attention to everything when you are fighting! Don''t just tunnel vision. Golem! Setting: level 5, Numbers: 2, Player: Dremal. Begin!"

    Dremal: "Wait ... no, no. Not re..." I was then attacked by the two newest golems made. They both attacked from the front.

    I parried one blow only to get hit by the other golem. After I was taking a few hits from the golem in this fashion. I got frustrated and broke form a little. I was using the left blade to parry the left golem and the right dagger to parry the right golem. There I began taking less hits about every 1 in 5 would land on me.

    I am full defensive though. How am I supposed to attack? This class I am supposed to be is about speed and stealth. I haven''t learned anything pertaining to stealth. So all I can rely on is speed. Thus I have to push my self to be faster and faster. I begin waiting till the final moments of me almost getting hit centimeters to my body. I then whip of my blade parrying. This time I also aim to gash exposing the wood.

    It was a slight success. The next attack I did it even better. They now have gashes on the inside of there arms and legs exposing the wood. Now its time for my defensive offense! They attack me again. I parry by targeting the exposed wood. Their left arm and right arm of the two golems were the first to break off. Then the right arm and left arm break. They only have little nubs now. Time for my great attack!

    I stab the right golem where the heart would be on a human and on the left one I slashed its throat. The golem that I slashed its throat melts immediately in the floor. The stabbed heart one goes to kick me. I am not as unprepared this time. I parry the kick by slash the wood with my left hand weapon the karambit. The leg rips and falls off to the floor melting as well. As the golem begins to fall. I take my dagger and plunge it through the chin to where the brain would be. As it lands it melts.

    Phew! My heart is pounding a million times per minute it feels like it at least. Quickly I am trying to catch my breath before she calls the next ones in.

    Alice: "That was better! This time do not use as much defense go full offense you are a attack class not a defender. Golem! Setting: level 5, Numbers: 2, Player: Dremal. Begin!"

    As soon as they begin rising near me I launch myself forward. Standing behind one of them I aim the dagger in its back and towards its heart. At the same time the karambit placed on its neck slicing from one side to another with all my strength trying to decapitate the damn thing.

    She wants to do this shit when I am tired and unprepared. Then I won''t even give the golems a chance. Needless to say the golem melts back into the floor much quicker than when it was forming. The other golem starts running toward me. I run to meet it. I know there speed and attack power now. One is no problem. Without stopping the monster tries punch me. I thrust my dagger straight into his right arm. Turning my body using my momentum and weight I roll with my dagger and its arm.

    I have never done this before, but I can''t die so what is there to lose being a bit reckless. The roll is successful. The movement caused the golem to be flung a distance of about 10 ft away with its arm being completely ripped off. I stand up and run over to it before it got a chance to get back up. I then rammed my dagger down through the top of its head. It then melts like a puddle into the ground.

    Dremal: "Hah.... hah... How was.....hah... that?" I say while trying to calm my heart and breathing. She just shakes her head and points at my dagger. I look at it and it has blood on it. Weird those creatures don''t bleed. Shit.

    Alice: "That was definitely a battle like what your class is supposed to be, but you don''t have the skills necessary to actualize yet. Proof would be that when you rolled since the arm melts you stabbed yourself in the shoulder. I bet you didn''t even notice."

    I begin checking my shoulder yup my top left shoulder is bleeding. I walk over to my bag and pop some Killjoy Herb into my mouth. I don''t even care if all it does is turn to dust in my stomach. Swallowing it my wound stops bleeding and recovers and my breathing and exhaustion returns to a normal condition.

    Alice: "I think your getting addicted to Killjoy. You are relying to heavily on it. What is going to happen to you when we no longer have the herb?" She smiles.

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    Dremal: "NOOO! Don''t say that... I will always need my fix. MY PRECIOUS Killjoy Herb!" I begin laughing. Along with Alice.

    Alice: "Hihihi....Alright, you have completed my task sooner than I thought. I guess we can start the next side of training. Working on your magic and abilities."

    Alice grabs some Killjoy Herb in her hands. Guess she plans on me running out of mana and returning to that state again.

    Alice: "Alright since we discovered you don''t have the actual mana capacity to cast the shadow meld skill lets move on to something you can cast. Golem! Setting: Level 80, Intelligence: 0, Players: None, Enemies: None. Begin!"

    A Golem pops out of the ground the same as any other golem. Except he just stands there. Doing nothing.

    Dremal: "Umm. Why?"

    Alice: "You are going to practice your attack magic on him. Face him and close your eyes." I do just that. "Now imagine an orb in your hand made out of darkness or shadows. Cover that orb in a blue color. Then Imagine the ball flying towards the golem."

    I imagine an baseball then I covered that image in shadows. That was easy. Then I made a blue outline covering the image of the Shadow baseball. Then I imagined be throwing the said baseball at the golem. Bam! I hit it dead on. Hehe I feel good.When I opened my eyes after hearing the bang I see the golem just standing there. Uh.. Did I even do it?

    Dremal: "What happened? Did I cast it?"

    Alice is shaking her head. "Yes you did. However your an idiot that chooses the most inefficient way possible to attack."

    Dremal: "What do you mean by that?"

    Alice: "You threw the Shadow Orb physically. Thus you missed, horribly at that. I told you just to imagine the orb flying towards him not being thrown at him. The orb can be programmed to track your target to a certain extent, but the way you made it had no way to do that, thus you inefficiently missed. TRY AGAIN!"

    Shit. This time I try to imagine the shadow baseball again. Outline it all in blue then I had the quick image of Avata* A*g and his elements circling around him. Then he directs them with his hand towards a target. Thus, I tell the orb (by Imagining it) to circle around me until I command it to attack what I am pointing at. The orb seemingly obeys because its just swirling around me.

    I then open my eyes and I see this black ring round my waist (not trapping my hands). I see Alice shaking her head again. Guess she thinks I have failed. Hehe lets mess with her.

    Dremal: "Did I do it?"

    Alice: "No you dipstick look down all you managed to do was command it to circle around you."

    Dremal: "Ah man I thought I programmed it right. Let''s try and see." I point at the golem and say in my mind attack. The orb quickly goes off and hits the golem between the eyes. Knocking the golem to the ground. A couple seconds later it get off the ground and stands back in place. "See looks like I did it right after all. Damn that thing is tough it looks like it didn''t even take any damage."

    Alice: "Alright smart ass. I am sorry for thinking you didn''t have the intelligence to program something properly. It is not my fault given the fact that you have proven against your own intelligence time and time again. What did you expect me to believe." She smiles.

    Dremal: "Whatever, spells are pretty awesome though. They can especially be over powering if you program them with a bunch of good settings. This is gonna be fun in the future. OOOooo I have an idea."

    I thought about how dark elf''s have that globe of darkness spell that they can cast. I thought about that spell surrounding me. Then I outlined the area in blue and imagined that it not only follows me wherever I go, but that I myself can see through it. I then open my eyes I feel incredible drained starting to feel like I shouldn''t even try this. Guess that means I am almost out of mana.

    Dremal: "Not entirely sure did it work?"

    Alice: "What do you mean your not sure the entire area is flooded with darkness. How exactly did you program it to make you not sure?"

    Dremal: "I imagined a globe of darkness that will follow me wherever I go that I can also see through. That I guess is how I was not sure. I can''t see my own spell in action, but holy crap does it take a lot of my mana to cast. I am feeling the effects of not wanting to do things."

    Alice: "Besides the fact that you can''t tell if the spell is active or not. This is actually a pretty good spell to think up. Since you apparently understand magic enough to make new spells. I don''t really have to teach you that much just make up a bunch of spells and when you can''t think of anything else come to me and I will teach you something new. Work on using magic as much as possible it is just like any other muscle it needs to be worked out."

    Dremal: "Cool!" I walk over to the backpack and munch on some of the herbs to restore my magic.

    Alice: "Damit Dremal deactivate your spell I can''t see."

    Dremal: "Kay.....How do I do that?"

    Alice: "Tell it in your mind to stop. Simple as that."

    Oh. So just like how I told the ball to attack in my mind. I can tell spells to stop. ''Deactivate''.

    Dremal: "Did that do it?"

    Alice: "Yes, next time you cast that spell imagine its opacity to be low enough so you can see through it, but not enough that you can''t see the spell itself. Remember for you is the condition. If you try to imagine the spell with low opacity it will just be like that for everyone turning the spell useless. Also next time put in the condition that party members can also see it as low. That way I won''t be hindered in combat trying blind fighting."

    Dremal: "Oh, I didn''t think of that."

    Alice: "Of course you didn''t anyway. Lets move on to the next part of training before dinner. This is actually the fun part. Agility training. Seeing as how you tried to do stuff in your lunch time combat this is especially going to come in handy. I need your balance and vision to go up for battle. So we will be doing Somersaults, Back flips, tumbling, and some aerial maneuvers."

    Dremal: "Uhh... I have a slight fear of back flips."

    Alice: "Good then we will start with those. Show me what you can do."

    Shit! Okay so I try to jump up while leaning back. Looking at the ceiling then seeing part of the floor. Wamm! I land back of the head first  then on my back. Sitting up I feel dizzy and nauseous.

    Alice: "Wow that was pathetic."

    Dremal: "Shut up I wanna see you try it." As I finish saying it while looking at her she smiles. Then she jumps really high with no preparation doing three beautifully done back flips and lands in the same place. What the hell! "Tsk* So is the trick to jump higher?"

    Alice smirking at me that pitying look again. "No there is no trick to it. Practice makes perfect." She then redoes a back flip without any jump just lands a foot back from her previous position. "See no jump. Just flexibility, balance, and the confidence to do so. From what you said you are not confident and are afraid of doing a back flip. Thus you are the only person holding yourself back."

    She walks over to me and tells me to do a bridge stomach up. Then she lifts my legs flipping me over. I land my feet awkwardly. We did this quite a few times until she decides to call it for dinner. I make the food with her guidance, eat, and then head back to training room.

    This time she has me try to do the back flips supported by hands by myself. The first 20 times I failed however I soon was able to do it landing okay. I was told to do the back flips starting on right side of the room to the left side. About 500 ft or so. The line I did was not straight and I was sweating be hell doing them and also was very dizzy, but after about 3-4 hours later restarting a bunch of times since I had to stop. Alice told me to restart if I stopped.

    Anyway after 3-4 hours went by I finally completed going from one side of the room to the other. Amazing progress if I don''t say so myself. She then calls me over to tell me to do it again. I start walking over kinda grumbling as I go. When I begin doing so she stops me again. She told me to do it without hands this time.

    I landed on my back a bunch of times about 3 out of every 10 tries. But about 6 out 10 I landed on my belly! 1 out of 10 was me actually doing it. Yeah, progress. After 1 hour of constantly restarting an accident occurred. I landed exactly as I always feared I would. I broke my neck.

    This was the worst because I didn''t instant die like before due to the condition of this Sandbox. No, I was hurting my brain not functioning right. I couldn''t breathe at all. It was painful, but still no where near as bad as the spiders torture. Luckily this time I have Alice. She rushes over to me and then a second later my tilted vision was realigned. Then I had a warm feeling envelope my body and I could feel my neck bones realigning as well. I can breathe again!

    Alice: "Phew, Luckily I managed to expand my mana pool enough that I can cast a heal spell now. That could have been painful constantly dying, but never could until walk out of my Sandbox and finally die to be rezzed again."

    Dremal: "Yeah, thanks a lot. See this is why I didn''t like back flips I always knew something like this would happen."

    Alice: "So? It happened now get over it. You didn''t die and it took hours and hours of practice before it did. Now learn from what happened don''t be scared of it. Just make sure you don''t make the same mistake twice."

    Dremal: "Ah, yeah. I guess and even if I did die its not like I actually do. Fine! I need this this will help me kill and live through my battle with those bastards." I get up to start over again. Alice though stops me.

    Alice: "No, Go take a shower then to bed with you we will practice more in 4 hours after you wake up."

    I nod then head out to the bathroom, took a long shower and bath, then put on a clean pair of clothes that was in the closet. Inside the closet was also my starting clothes all washed and folded neatly there too. I walked in to the training room then moved to the corner and passed out.

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    Chapter 0 Real life: Stats.

    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Name:</td><td width="25%">Dremal</td><td width="25%">Alignment:</td><td width="25%">Chaotic Neutral</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Level:</td><td width="25%">0</td><td width="25%">Class:</td><td width="25%">Web.   Browser</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Race:</td><td width="25%">Human (Skin and Bones)</td><td width="25%">Gender:</td><td width="25%">Male</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Embodiment of Sloth</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Health:</td><td width="25%">10 / 10</td><td width="25%">Health Regen:</td><td width="25%">.001 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Mana:</td><td width="25%">0 / 0</td><td width="25%">Mana Regen:</td><td width="25%">0 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Stamina:</td><td width="25%">20 / 20</td><td width="25%">Stamina Regen:</td><td width="25%">1.0 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Strength:</td><td width="25%">2</td><td width="25%">Dexterity:</td><td width="25%">3</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Constitution:</td><td colspan=''3''>1</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Intelligence:</td><td width="25%">6</td><td width="25%">Wisdom:</td><td width="25%">5</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Leadership:</td><td width="25%">-10</td><td width="25%">Luck:</td><td width="25%">-100</td></tr></tbody></table>

    Chapter 1: Stats

    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Name:</td><td width="25%">Dremal</td><td width="25%">Alignment:</td><td width="25%">Neutral</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Level:</td><td width="25%">1</td><td width="25%">Class:</td><td width="25%">None</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Race:</td><td width="25%">Human God (custom)</td><td width="25%">Gender:</td><td width="25%">Male</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>God''s Companion</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Health:</td><td width="25%">100 / 100</td><td width="25%">Health Regen:</td><td width="25%">1.5 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Mana:</td><td width="25%">100 / 100</td><td width="25%">Mana Regen:</td><td width="25%">1.5 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Stamina:</td><td width="25%">100 / 100</td><td width="25%">Stamina Regen:</td><td width="25%">1.5 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Strength:</td><td width="25%">10</td><td width="25%">Dexterity:</td><td width="25%">10</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Constitution:</td><td colspan=''3''>10</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Intelligence:</td><td width="25%">10</td><td width="25%">Wisdom:</td><td width="25%">10</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Leadership:</td><td width="25%">10</td><td width="25%">Luck:</td><td width="25%">-10</td></tr></tbody></table>

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    Chapter 6 Asleep: Stats

    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Name:</td><td width="25%">Dremal</td><td width="25%">Alignment:</td><td width="25%">Neutral</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Level:</td><td width="25%">1</td><td width="25%">Class:</td><td width="25%">None</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Race:</td><td width="25%">Human God (custom)</td><td width="25%">Gender:</td><td width="25%">Male</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>God''s Companion</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Health:</td><td width="25%">190 / 190</td><td width="25%">Health Regen:</td><td width="25%">2 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Mana:</td><td width="25%">240 / 240</td><td width="25%">Mana Regen:</td><td width="25%">2 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Stamina:</td><td width="25%">260 / 260</td><td width="25%">Stamina Regen:</td><td width="25%">3.5 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Strength:</td><td width="25%">26</td><td width="25%">Dexterity:</td><td width="25%">21</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Constitution:</td><td colspan=''3''>19</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Intelligence:</td><td width="25%">24</td><td width="25%">Wisdom:</td><td width="25%">24</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Leadership:</td><td width="25%">15</td><td width="25%">Luck:</td><td width="25%">-10</td></tr></tbody></table>

    Quick explanation of my stats.

    Strength: Pretty obvious it is the amount of muscle strength one has. This includes having efficient muscles. Meaning this stat increases stamina. This increased due to his times 3 gravity training as well as battle simulations.

    Dexterity: This is related to speed and agility. The fact that he is using both hands in motion, using foot work, and acrobatics. This all falls into this category. Thus this increased because of constant usage.

    Constitution: This is a persons vitality. Increasing this increases the amount of Hit points and the ability to endure attacks. Pushing himself past his breaking point multiple times and enduring great hard ships have increased this stat.

    Intelligence: This is a bit different than normal INT stats. I have this stat being the ability to create a clear image in ones mind. Therefore the higher this stat is the more clear and concise his imagination and commands will be. This is essential for casting spells. Also useful for warriors to create image opponents for one to fight and train with.

    Wisdom: This is ones mana pool. It also gives you the ability to sense your magic. At higher points or through training one can sense the mana of others.  Through draining and using mana through the constant usage it has increased.

    Leadership: Another pretty self explanatory one. He is the leader of their group. Thus this has increased.

    Author: Hope this helped. I didn''t want to put in each individual point where he increased his stats because. You already know how it is increasing. Do you really need to know by how much each time? Sorry if you do want to. Everyday a person is better than who they were yesterday. Also please keep in mind that his system is still locked from him. He is as blind to the amounts of improvements as you are. ^_^    See you later.

 Chapter 7: This past month.

    Chapter 7: This past month.

    Author: Thank you so much for continuing to read my work! First off I would like to state something. *Cough* He is a virtual reality....I am a virtual reality character in Azif''Nazet. A game designed for freedom of play. However because it is a game players can''t spend a lot of time in a game. Thus games make it easy for players to train in level up. This game is no exception players in this game have a natural ability to process and learn information. Weather they realize it or not is a whole new matter. Therefore the speed at which my character is advancing is fair, I think. Learning acrobatics or combat abilities. However I also understand that with a 16 : 1 ratio this eliminates a lot of the problems pertaining to time. The fact of the matter is though; the ability to learn faster is still in effect. Now onto the Second thing I wanted to talk about. I will not be doing stat windows during chapters or pop ups. This is for two reasons.... three reasons. One, The player himself s stat windows are being blocked. Two, If I were to do stat windows I would have to cut out a little bit of my story to work on the stats. To be honest not sure how to make stats completely balanced nor what great items or abilities to be gained... So just winging it. Sorry. Third reason is, Did you see the coding to make a stat window? I had to squint my eyes trying to filter through that crap. Therefore I am to much of a bitch to do it, again I apologize for it. I will however do a separate thing like the stat window test that made Chapter 0, 1, and 6. That may happen every once in awhile when the comments ask for them, but please remember I am fully winging it on that as well. I need structure in my life. However isn''t it more interesting like this? It makes it pretty fun for me. Well any who Enjoy the chapter!

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    She wakes me up once again. This time I am more ready for it. I wake up a little less drowsily. I start to do the stretches and calisthenics that we did yesterday we did two reps of 50 today. I was sweating buckets at the end of them, but strangely I could do them. I was only barely able to do 1 set yesterday. The rate of my improvement is astonishing.

    Next up was forms. I started to head over the table to grab my weapons before I had a brilliant idea. I needed to train my magic. So I decided since I can create a ball of shadows. Why can''t I make some weapons from magic? So I focus my mind and imagined my dagger in my right hand and the karambit in my left. I was easily able to manage the image since I trained with them. I then covered them with magic and inputted the command of it to act like regular weapons. Seemingly it worked.

    I had wooden weapons in my hand that gave off a little bit of a blue color. Weird unlike with my globe of darkness or with the Orb of shadows that I cast yesterday. This feels like it is constantly using a small amount of mana to maintain. Perfect! I can slowly drain and use my mana like this! I originally planned to try and use my magic as some sort of buff on myself. To drain my mana after creating the weapons, but this works as well.

    I move the backpack of herbs closer to where we are training forms. That way when I start feeling the negative effects of mana, I can have my fix. She looks impressed at the creation I made.

    Alice: "Surprisingly that will work. Guess I should use it that way as well." She then puts her wooden weapons down next to the backpack. Then I blinked and somehow she had the weapons in her hand again. No, there is now two sets in an instant she created them. I am definitely jealous mine took a little bit to imagine and make, but hers was just there.

    After 23 minutes of practicing the forms I feel the effects of being low on mana. I quickly pop a couple of the herbs into my mouth and feel better. I continue this about two more times. Then finally Alice reaches in and takes some of the herbs as well.

    Dremal: "HOLY MOTHER OF .... How much difference is there in mana? We are both level one right? I can only last about 23- 25 minutes per, but you lasted around 75 minutes."

    Alice: "The difference is because I know how to control my mana for one. The other reason being is I trained it all day everyday since we got here. I have been using it as a strengthening buff on myself. Which is why I could jump so high even with my times 4 gravity going."

    Dremal: "Times 4 my god. Your such a cheat character."

    Alice: "I guess I am your god... goddess since you are in my Azif''Nazet, so yes. Since I am a goddess of course I am a cheat character."

    Shit I need to catch up at least a little. This renews my vigor once again. I go at the forms until breakfast time. Then we deactivated our weapons. I went and made breakfast once again under her supervision. After eating breakfast we went for our sparing match.

    We both created our weapons mine takes about 1 and a half of focus to make. Hers being still instant. The moment our blades first clashed they had a spark about them. Then I feel a big portion of my mana got drained. Then I try to hit she parries. The parry made contact and I collapsed to the floor with the blades being deactivated. I don''t really wanna fight. I don''t have the ability to catch up. Why me? I mumble.

    She walks over and grabs some herbs and shoves then in my mouth. Soon I recover feeling better. She tells me not to remake the blades when training against her. Other wise it would just take to long. So I grabbed the wooden ones and came back over.

    Alice: "Still I want you to train your magic. So I am going to teach you a nice buff. Be thankful! Focus the magic to your eyes and around them. The command should be to reinforce them. This will allow you to not only be able to protect your eyes from damage. They also give you better vision including kinetic vision."

    I do as she says and my eyes can see a whole lot more details. Like I can see the clear liquid of sweat that is on the black floor. Before it was just blended in. Sweetness! We begin training after I got used to the new eyes. Buffs apparently have the same effects as the weapons it slowly drains my mana.

    When we begin doing our forms it seems she wants to start super slow. So I also go super slow. That was a mistake. Thhhwaak! I was hit pretty hard by her blow not only that, but it did a shock-wave type effect on me it hurt and flung me back about 10 ft.

    Dremal: "What the hell you were going super slow. So I went slow, but I couldn''t keep up?!"

    Alice: "That is the strengthened Kinetic Vision I was talking about. You can see things as if they were going slower. You must quickly readjust yourself to this." She then walks over to the back and takes some more herbs.

    We started up again after awhile I finally got into the grove of it. Then it seems my vision returned to normal. We continued going at it. After a little longer I was feeling the effects of low mana. So I jumped back dodging one of her swings.

    Dremal: "Weird I thought it canceled on its own, but I can feel the effects of low mana."

    Alice: "That is because we were speeding up that fast. Did you really not notice how fast we were doing those form movements?"

    Eating some herbs then I said "Well I noticed you were speeding up, but then all of a sudden it took a big jump. It then went into what seemed to be the normal rate I saw. So I thought my spell wore off." She also eats some herbs. She has been taking them about the same rate as me. Guess the burden of mana drain doing attacks with those weapons are high.

    We continued sparring until lunch time in this manner. After eating lunch we went to combat training. This time the number of golems were 10 in 5 groups sets of 2 each. They were surprisingly easy mostly because I assassinate the first one at least when it comes in. Alice doesn''t seem to mind or care.

    After killing all the golems for the day. Since we were working on magic all day we didn''t need to do a magic lesson. However she told me that I she would teach me a new spell every day at this time at least. To increase my repertoire of spells and imagination of things I could cast. (Not going to explain each spell he learns it would just make a big list and you guys filing complaints that he be to OP =p just remember though he does have a magic limit and there are spells he cannot cast... yet)

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    So after learning one new spell she tells me the rest of the time will be devoted to agility training. I was to do back flips again until dinner time. While she went off and did her own training. After making and eating dinner she tells me we are going to do aerial training now. Gonna learn the good old double jump....?

    She laughed and told me I could probably do something similar with magic when I get enough mana. The fact being double jump cant really be done with just physical capabilities. She also told that when I get enough mana instead of using it for a measly double jump. I should use it for Fly, Levitate, or Feather Fall.

    So instead we are working on physical abilities. She tells me to cast a buff to strengthen the legs and I do just that. Then I was told to jump up in which case I jumped with as much strength as I could. Fuck yeah! I reached a height of about 50 ft even with my times 3 gravity. I am totally boss right now. I was feeling great till I see her jump to about 200 ft up. That is a really rough guess not sure on actual facts. This also applies to my own estimate of my jump. Shit though... she is under times 4 gravity by what she says.

    Her magic manipulation is so much better than mine. Plus she doesn''t have to sleep! I land then wait for the couple seconds later when she lands. We both didn''t take any damage from jumping that high. This time she says we have to jump the same height so we can do an aerial battle.

    When we were jumping around I felt amazing as if I was on the moon. Not that I have ever been there, but it certainly is like I would imagine. The force of our blows normally ends up with me being knocked away. She was also jumping just slightly over me doing a front flip and attacking my back. In which case I barely managed to block by turning my body. Still I ended up getting blasted away, but I took no damage.

    Our aerial battles was quite fun with each clash we were both doing something different. Resting every once in a while when our stamina and mana were low. Soon enough I started trying to use her force of blow to spring back doing a back flip before landing. I mess up landing on my back or butt a few times, but soon enough I found a good rhythm for it. Landing like that is quite fulfilling.

    Around 11 o clock is when we stop I go take a shower then go to bed. This whole regime continues onward for about a month with the level of golems and the number of them attacking me increases every day. My skills at cooking have definitely gotten much, much better. I can now make many different meals without her help now. The number of dishes I can make on my own number 7 different breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. For a grand total of 21 dishes. Woot! I was also taught how to tumble, somersault, and fall properly. The back flips I have utilized every day so that is actually one of my better agility skills.

    I am not trying to say I don''t tumble and somersault and fall properly all the time. No if fact I use them quite a lot in the aerial battles and the battles against the golems. Needless to say though I use back flips the most now. It is a very useful ability in a lot of different situations. The reps we do of our morning calisthenics have increase to 50. Which actually takes a bit of time to complete.

    We also never seemed to empty out my backpack of herbs. Every morning it has been refilled. I guess Alice does it while I am asleep. Speaking of sleep. I no longer need Alice to wake me up. My body has completely adjusted to the new time schedule.

    What else is there. Ah yes, the forms. We have implemented movement into them so maintaining our speed of attack and defense while moving around. Then it got more advanced as we started jumping around doing them. After fighting her for so long we were able to do this as one simple being. Both jump the same height at the same time attack with the same power defend with the same power. A push and pull effect was made when competing like this. Yin and Yang we complemented each other. (Author: Lol just realized after saying this. There hair is respectively White and Black. Thus they really are Yin and Yang.)

    Ahem! Sorry got off track a bit. I realized I didn''t fully explain the golem situation. So here you go a list of levels and numbers that I fought. I won''t give the full details of the fights, but here is the stats.

    Golems:

    Day 3: Level 5 Numbers 20 in 4 groups ( meaning 5 per group and there was 4 groups)

    Day 4: Level 5 Numbers 30 in 3 groups (same meaning 10 per group in 3 groups)

    Day 5: Level 7 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 6: Level 8 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 7: Level 9 Numbers 21 in 3 groups

    (That one was really, really rough had to use every thing I had to win)

    Day 8: Level 10 Numbers 24 in 4 groups

    (I almost lost on this one so this was my limit I guess for a bit)

    Day 9: Level 10 Numbers 25 in 5 groups

    Day 10: Level 10 Numbers 25 in 5 groups

    Day 11: Level 10 Numbers 27 in 3 groups

    Day 12: Level 11 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 13: Level 11 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 14: Level 11 Numbers 20 in 4 groups

    Day 15: Level 11 Numbers 25 in 5 groups

    Day 16: Level 12 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 17: Level 12 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 18: Level 12 Numbers 14 in 2 groups

    Day 19: Level 12 Numbers 21 in 3 groups

    Day 20: Level 13 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 21: Level 13 Numbers 20 in 4 groups

    Day 22: Level 13 Numbers 27 in 3 groups

    Day 23: Level 13 Numbers 27 in 3 groups

    Day 24: Level 14 Numbers 10 in 2 groups

    Day 25: Level 14 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 26: Level 14 Numbers 21 in 3 groups

    Day 27: Level 15 Numbers 10 in 2 groups

    Day 28: Level 15 Numbers 15 in 3 groups

    Day 29: Level 15 Numbers 20 in 2 groups

    Day 30: Level 20 Numbers 1 in 1 group

    (That was yesterday one of the worst times in my life. Still not as bad as the torture I went through. Also yes, yes I did beat it!)

    Now it has been 1 month since I started training with Alice. She says we are ready to move onto the next stage now. She begins walking out after I collect my bag and my starting clothes. She told me to put them back since we will be coming back here to take showers, baths, and food. So I did.

    I still had my backpack with me though. When we begin walking to the exit. I noticed the wooden doorknob off to the side of the sliding automatic door.

    Dremal: "What is that doorknob for if the door is automatic?"

    Alice: "If you turn it to the left the doorway will change to exit out into the cabin. All front doors in my sandbox have that capability."

    Dremal: "Ah, so that is how I get out of here. I have secretly been wondering about that for a while now."

    She does not turn the handle though just walks out the automatic door. Then we turn left heading down the road made out of some kind of stone. I don''t know what it is though. It is very smooth and is light blue in color. We continue down this road until I see what seems to be my next hell.

    Alice when she sees my face gives that devilish smile again. I think she enjoys the sufferings of others.

    Alice: "Welcome this is the next place for your survival training. I call it......"

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    Author: Haha! I know not much of a cliffhanger, but I really wanted to put something similar in. Speaking of which which do the readers prefer: A long completed chapter with no cliff hangers? or A slightly shorter chapter with a cliff hanger? Personally I like completing my work especially when I am on a roll like the last two chapter have felt. I just keep going and going =p. Let me know in the comments below. I try my best to respond in the next chapters according to advice given towards the story. See you next chapter!

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 Chapter 8: Par for the course.

    Chapter 8: Par for the Course.

    Alice: "Phoenix Rise Course. The first two weeks will be easy for you. All you have to do is complete the course while being attacked. Don''t worry you still can''t die since you are still in my sandbox."

    I create a uni-brow on my face from that remark. "Wait, I am going to be attacked while going through this hell course; and this is the easy part?!"

    Alice: "Yes. Oh, forgot to mention while going through this course I want you to be full physical. Meaning no magic. I want you to work on your kinetic awareness while going through this course. This course will help your trap sense as well as environmental awareness. The golem that will be fighting you while you complete this course is more.... human like. It has eyes and ears unlike the foam ones in the training hall. Also should mention it is indestructible so you can''t kill it."

    Alice: "Don''t worry though his attacks are very weak. They only do about 1 point of damage. I made it so he has eyes and ears. In order for you to work on your stealth skills. Most of these will have to be self taught. So do your best! Hihihi, later when you finally learn some stealth skills and the course. I will introduce more of them and take away away the eyes and ears. Leaving them to sense your presence. At this point I am hoping you will learn to hide even your soul."

    Dremal: "Why do I feel like I am the only one suffering hard ships?"

    Alice: "Hmm. How would I know how you feel? I will however ease your thoughts a bit by saying. Even I have gone through this training a few times already."

    Dremal: "What? When? You were training with me in the hall all this time."

    Alice: "What am I supposed to sit on my ass doing nothing while you sleep?"

    Dremal: "Uhh... maybe? Then I could possible catch up even a little bit."

    It would however be terrible if she did sleep. Since she doesn''t that means when we finally get out of here. I wouldn''t have to worry about night attacks. Oh, speaking of night attacks I forgot to mention how she trained me in being a light sleeper too. You should be able to catch my meaning. Well, if not here is the obvious. To train me in being a light sleeper she would attack me in a multitude of ways. Setting loose an attack golem on me. Trying to stab me with a weapon. You know shit like that. Thanks to that though I have developed a sense danger kind of skill. If any kind of change occurs in a 10 ft. radius of me I will now wake up. That bitch!

    Alice: "Well to bad! I have my reasons for getting stronger as well. Plus this is getting interesting for me. I have never had to workout like this before. When I kill those golems with my physical abilities. I feel invigorated! Hmm.. I should have made a body like this years ago."

    Dremal: "Well anyway. Is there any basic stealth techniques I can learn from you before beginning?"

    Alice: "I told you self taught is the way to go. Danger is the best trainer. O lets limit your equipment leave the backpack and take this pouch." She hands him a small leather bag. What looks to be the size of a coin pouch. Inside is the Killjoy Herb. "I want you to do this without relying on the herbs. The hint I will give is to minimize your movements and to find your core center."

    I take the herb pouch and tie it to my belt. I stand on the gold line that really says ''Start'' on it. There is a blue train that goes off into the distance guess I follow that. The first obstacle I can see is what appears to be a balancing beam that below it is a small pit trap filled with iron spikes.

    The golem gets summoned behind me. It actually looks like a human. It has the basic facial features, but has no hair. It has hands and fingers too along with toes. However from head to toe is covered in some kinda scales. Looks actually kind of reptilian in nature.

    I take a deep breath hopefully I can out run him. Without any warning I start. Running along the blue line dashing as fast as I could. I arrive at the beam in record time. The golem is definitely slower than me. I have a good lead on him. I take to the beams trying to cross as quickly as I can. Slip! SHHING! I fell straight on my back in to the pit. Strange I only felt a small prick. Clump! Clump! Here comes the golem he was crossing the beam like it was nothing. When he got to where I was he jumped down.

    Straight on top of me. I hear the cracking of bones it sounds as if someone is cracking there knuckles. Weird was that my bones creaking or his? Must be his because I didn''t feel a damn thing. The golem begins punching down on my chest. HAHA! Alice was right his punches are pathetic I don''t feel them at all!

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    I try to stand up so I can ignore this bastard now. Weird only my head responded. OH FUCK! I''m paralyzed from the neck down! God dammit! A spike must have pierced my spinal cord. I learned some healing magic so I think I can heal myself. The problem is it would do no good. Seeing as how the spikes would continue to be in my back. Only thing I can do now is call my mommy.... err Alice.

    Dremal: "Alice! Help! I''ve fallen and I can''t get up!" (Author: This isn''t Trademarked is it? *cough * That certain advertisement for old folks) Where is my button when I need it.

    A few seconds later Alice walk over peering down from the edge of the pit. She is just busting up laughing.

    Alice: "Haha! Are you paralyzed? If so where does it stop?"

    Dremal: "The only thing I can move is my neck. Please help me."

    Alice: "You hear that golem attacking there isn''t helping aim for the head." The golem hears her commands and starts punching my face. It does hurt. It feels like really hard poking in a large area of my face. Not only annoying as all hell, but over time it would definitely do some decent tenderizing to my face.

    Dremal: "DAMMIT ALICE! This isn''t helping!"

    Alice: "This is punishment on failing the first obstacle on the easy setting. You deserve this!" She then proceeded to laugh at my troubles for a whole 20 minutes. *sigh* You know I am starting to think death is the easy way out of all my troubles. Why am I denied Deaths Sweat Embrace?! *Sniff *sniff.

    Dremal: "Alice you heartless BITCH! That''s enough we both wanna get out of here, correct? Well the sooner the better so help me out so we can move on!"

    Alice: "Tsk. Fine. Golem! Reset! Stall!" The golem disappears. Alice gracefully lands in the pit after jumping down without landing on any of the spikes. She then lifts me up pretty easily and throws me out of the pit. Then catches up to where I land by jumping after me. I landed head first which twisted my neck to the right. I am now able to look at my back over my right shoulder.

    Luckily I was already paralyzed or else this would hurt a whole lot. I did feel the pain of my face hitting the dirt ground though. Then she walked over to me grabbing my head with extreme force. I thought she was trying to pop my head. Then she twisted my head back in place. Man I feel like a skeleton or a zombie right now. Putting themselves back together.

    She then proceeded to cast a heal over me. Finally I can move and feel again. Getting a better look at her face its a bit red. There is also a bit of drool I think near her lips. I think she noticed me staring at her lips. Because she immediately backed away and wiped them.

    Alice: "Alright get back to the starting point and try again. This time finish the course without screwing up!"

    I walk back to the starting line and the signal to start is when she said begin. I dashed to the beam again. This time I will ignore the golem. I get on the beam and balance myself and tread very carefully. After 100 ft. of balancing beam and a quickly catching up golem. I made it across just barely. Damn! That golem has a great sense of balance. He wasn''t even looking at his feet and he was trudging along at his slow jog speed. I sprint the next few hundred feet to meet the next obstacle...

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    Author: Sorry. Kind of short chapter this time... I am not really sure on what to do for the obstacle course. I want to make something that has tons of traps, that allows him to work on his skills of stealth, but also challenges the body. Something that contains a multitude of environments as well. Any who since I was drawing a black I was kind of just delaying the inevitable by making him fail. =p If you have any ideas I would love to hear them to incorporate them into the story. Thank you very much for reading so far also thank you first and foremost to those who are willing to help as well. /bow m(_ &_ )m

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 Chapter 9: Phoenix Rise Part 1

    Chapter 9: Phoenix Rise Part 1

    Author: Quick heads up probably no chapter tomorrow... I am still trying to make this obstacle course. Sorry, also I had a sudden inspiration while thinking of this obstacle to make a one shot. So going to try and make that. Hopefully I can get more ideas from the comments or during the making of that one-shot. Thanks for understanding. See you next chapter probably the day after this one. ^_^

    Ps: to Idyrdy, Love your Summoned Hero ! It is what actually got me thinking about this story I wanna try making real quick.

    *cough* so if anyone has to blame someone for no chapter coming out tomorrow everyone blame him. And read his story it is hilariously ecchi. ^_^

    Oh, guess I should mention the story I want to make is unfortunately not hilariously ecchi it actually is going to be a very dark story. So giving you a heads up. Don''t ask me how I came to the idea of it reading Idyrdy''s story .... it just happened.

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    Running to the next part following the course navigation line. I enter a forest of high trees these trees look like the heights of skyscrapers. It is a breath taking sight to behold. While stepping inside while looking around at the trees. I trip over something I quickly look down. There is a spike that I am falling towards aiming straight for my head. I quickly throw one of my hands to the side of the spike to knock me off course.

    I barely ended up saving myself from another mishap. I lay there for a while as I get over the small anxiety attack that I just got from that. Cold sweat running down my back I look at what tripped me. It looks to be some kind of transparent wire. Is that some fishing line?

    I stand up and start looking around me. A couple feet away is a bear trap that is not very well hidden. In another direction I get the feeling that there is a crappyily made pit trap there. Why do I say that? Because leaves look unnaturally piled over there. Like some kids trying to mess with there dad.

    I guess this part of the course is supposed to work on my trap sense and maybe disarm? I was going to start and move onward, but a buzzing sound caught my attention. I drop to the ground real quick. I have read a couple manga where that buzzing sound is an indicator that either someone is going to get shot by  an arrow. Or the chance it is some other trap or ability to kill you get the point.

    Nothing happened though, but that buzzing noise is still there. I look up towards the sound and see a camera or I think it is. The camera looks like it has humming bird wings though. I guess Alice wanted to watch. When did she have time to make that?

    I don''t think that she would have made that before hand with her god abilities. Why do I say that? Because remember she was omnipotent what use does she have for a camera. She must have made it using magic or something. Haha, guess she misses being able to watch the pain of others.

    Any way I ignore the camera for now and look back at the golem that is catching up. I would move from the line to go hide in this forest, but I can not. The reason being is one I don''t know the direction to head. Two is the fact of traps being everywhere.

    So I pay more attention to the ground in front of me concentrating on enhancing my vision through magic. Hopefully I can spot more details this way. There is a bunch of obvious traps for the first few hundreds of feet that I dodge easily.

    The next though I have ended up falling prey to. I was walking forward looking at the ground when all of a sudden something flicked by my vision. Then I was bleeding from my throat I look more closely at what did it. It was some kind of piano wiring aimed perfectly at throat height.

    Shit! Now I have to pay attention not only to the ground, but the sky''s too. If I do that I am going to be going at a snails pace. I quickly use magic to heal myself. Already I can see that golem catching up. He hasn''t fallen prey to any of the traps. I see him nimbly just jumping to the side. He seems to know where all the traps are and are able to avoid them in minimal movements.

    I start darting my eyes as quickly as I can going up down and all around. Never focusing on one thing for to long. During my spars with Alice I have more or less perfected being able to process the data that this gives my brain. Now I am able to avoid the obvious ground traps and the obvious above ground sight traps. Thus I am able to move through the traps for a few more hundreds of feet. Then all the obvious ground traps seemingly disappear.

    There is only the above ground traps. Yeah! I can increase my pace a bit more. That was a bad move. First step I take I hear a click under where I stepped. Hmm... ... ... This isn''t what I think it is, is it? At least its not the timed ones.

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    Quickly scanning for anything I can use to displace my weight. There is nothing! Why because I just realized my weight is currently even more with times 3 gravity. O god! No, maybe I am overreacting. Most of these traps have been a medieval style to them. Wouldn''t this be a semi modern one?

    Crap thinking back the roads used to get here, the doors, and the kitchen where all modern or even advanced technology. Why wouldn''t there be modern traps?

    I hear the golem approaching. Turning my head yup he is almost here. 3.... 2... 1.... That bastard came in with a punch. I try my best to take it and not move, but he has weight and movement behind his punch. No matter how little it does for damage it is still enough to knock you away with force.

    As I go flying a little ways back I immediately act curling myself up into a ball. Trying to protect at least my head. Another reason as to why would be to make myself a smaller target for potential shrapnel. BOOM! Yup, it was a land mine. My left leg got blown off in an instant.

    Even better is the fact that I landed on another trap! This one was a well disguised pit trap. As I was falling I jab my hand into the wall to stop myself from falling. Phew just stopping myself from landing on very sharp looking obsidian spikes. Well getting to the straight to the point ..... Thank god for my enhanced strength enough to pierce my arm all the way in the dirt wall.

    I start working on healing my bleeding out leg with magic. I can only heal my wounds three times before running out of magic. This will be the second in case you forgot. As I was healing my leg I peer upwards to see the dumb-ass ASSHOLE ! Looking down at me... You know ... He jumped straight into the pit last time.... just to attack me.... FUCK!!!!

    As if just on cue that bastard jumps at me. Nope no way no how I make a magical shock-wave when he gets close to me to knock him away from me. It worked he lands a bit away further down in the pit. When he came into contact with one of the spikes the damn thing just broke. Not the golem, but the spike collapsed under his weight being unable to pierce him.

    I know Alice said not to use magic, but fuck that I hate feeling pain or dying. I quickly reach into my pouch and shove some herbs in my mouth recovering my mana and some more of my HP. Screw it if I can''t kill him at least I will incapacitate him. I climb out of the pit and use an earth type spell to create a giant rock to cover over the pit. It takes a lot of mana to do, but it works. A giant black rock covers over the pit.

    Sorry Alice, but I am just not ready enough to deal with that shit just yet. I take my time this time since I don''t have the constant pressure of that thing being on my ass. Looking even more closely I am starting to see the basic small very small outlines of where the traps are. Also I think I understand that the farther you go in the more advanced the traps will become. After avoiding the traps for a few more hundred feet I see that my hypothesis was right. The above ground traps are now harder to spot as well.

    I continue to trudge on through the forest discovering more and more traps. Even modern ones like the trap of C4 that has a laser sensor to it. (Don''t have the internet right now so can''t look up proper name) Also some grenades on the ground with trip wire. Guess Alice wants to prepare me to find anything and everything. The forest is about a mile long by my guess. The traps got harder and harder to find.

    I ended up having to use a majority of my herbs because of the many traps, but hey I FUCKING MADE IT! Thoroughly exhausted I trudge onward toward the next part of the course.

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    Author: Guess I am going to make each chapter for a while be a part of a course. Hopefully you enjoyed this one. Also I apologize for the amount of cursing in this chapter. Just... Could you imagine that bull he has to go through? Check out my one shot when it come out if you could. I thought it up while I was sleeping trying to think of obstacles. Oh, speaking I should apologize also for not explaining more of the advance traps. The problem being I don''t know how to even imagine them. So I leave that up to your imagination. See you all either in my one shot or on the 30th for the next chapter.

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 Chapter 10: Phoenix Rise Part 2

    Chapter 10: Phoenix Rise part 2

    Author: Hmm. I wasn''t able to do everything I wanted in that one-shot because I didn''t want to make it too long. I wanted to put more descriptions in while maintaining a shortness to it. I need more practice in making details. Then I will try again. I will make a Sakura PoV when I think I am ready.

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    About 150 ft. after exiting the forest the line led me to a building. The front door upon me walking up to it opened up. Automatic like some of the other doors. The room s whole floor was a tiled floor. The walls looked to be some kind of black glass. As was the ceiling which produced a low light atmosphere. Then I hear the door closing making a PSSHHH kind of sound. Then I heard a Clink Clunk.... I think it locked me in. I turn around to try and open the door. I am not surprised by the fact that I can not open the door.

    Then you know that ZZZZIIIINNN sound that light sabers make when they extend. Yeah, that''s what sound the lasers that came from the walls sounded like as they extended. The whole room is criss crossing lasers. My first thought is RESIDENT EVIL... luckily though the lasers are not moving around for me.

    Then I remember watching a show like this. Having someone move through a laser security system to show their.... what was it called again.... kinetic.... bodily awareness. .... Kinetic Awareness. Yes, that''s right... crap guess I have to make my through this without touching any lasers. Good thing I have all the time in the world this time. Since I took out that golem.

    Wonder how that would work? Since it locked behind me... would it just let him in to fuck with me? Or does he just wait for me to complete this trial then follow me during the next one... O well, I will find out the next time I go through the obstacle course.

    To be honest though ... why exactly should I do what she wants me to do? I''m probably already in trouble. Might as well finish this quickly so I can restart. I start moving my way through the room. The moment I try to pass my foot through the laser. It gets cut off... Shit this is actually a laser. I thought it was just some kind of security measure.

    I was starting to fall forward into another laser, but I was able to kick myself back with my other foot. Landing on my butt near the starting door. + - = 0 .... Shit! I cast a healing spell on myself then start again. This time I will do as I was told.

    I step over one laser with my body crouched. Ducking in between two other lasers. I have to slightly twist my body to the right. Fsssh! Crap touched my hand to it a bit, but its not to bad. Just a little bit burnt on my middle finger knuckle.

    I am in between two lasers at the moment and seemingly the only way I can move is to cartwheel over the laser near my shins. I actually pull this one off without touching anything. Problem is I can''t readjust myself to my feet. Good thing I have a semi decent sense of balance on my hands now.

    I see where I have to go now. I place my feet over another set of lasers. Doing a very slow back flip maintaining that almost recovered state. I shuffle my feet a little more to get my chest and head under the rest of the laser. Luckily I had room to do this near my feet. Fully recovered now standing in an upright position. I look back to see that I have only traveled about 10 feet and there is about 40 feet or so left.

    This time there is no room for me to go over any lasers. I must go underneath the lasers. So I position myself doing an army crawl to get underneath. Its smaller than I thought. I have to shove my face side ways into the ground inching forward with my fingers and toes to get through.

    O no, There isn''t enough room for me to recover. So now I have to arch my self over the next set of lasers. Forcing myself in an side way ''S'' kind of position required to get over the hurdle. I burned a bit of my knees, but this time I kind of knew it would happen.

    This next section I have to jump through a ''V'' shaped section. The ''V'' is about waist height forcing me to jump up twisting my body so my chest and back face each laser respectively. When I tried to do this action it worked, but when completing it I had to come to a complete stop of motion. So I wouldn''t hit another one.

    Unfortunately that was a bit to difficult for me. So when I was falling a bit more forward my right hand had gotten cut off by said laser. I grimace from the pain holding it in. I can''t waste any movements to react. Nor, can I heal myself just yet.

    Luckily limbs cut by the laser cauterize themselves so no loss of blood. That helps me keep a clear mind. It would suck to get woozy right here. So I continued to persevere. I did a quick hope over the laser that I almost fell into. Doing a quick check to see I am about 10 feet from the door now.

    I am more excited now that I am almost out. Two options appear in my mind. I can throw myself through that opening to the right side and make it. I would suffer 1 arm and both my legs and maybe a part of my stomach to make it.

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    The other option is to suffer through a tedious expedition to get those last 10 feet with injuries more than likely to occur. The movie star wa*s pops in my head. Nope, so much nope. I decide not to go reckless abandon like a certain someone did. Instead I took the tedious route.

    I had to once again drop to the ground to crawl under a set of 2 lasers. Gaining 3 feet. Then the option was to climb over another one to reach the left wall. There was an opening for me to hug the wall and slide on through. Another 3 ft. was gained. Phew only 4 feet left with the lasers looking like # I decide to dive through the middle. Skimming only my feet burning only the tips of my shoes.

    Finally I reach the door and it opens on its own. Another obstacle completed. Looking out the door I quickly healed all of my injuries.

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    Author: Had to combine two obstacles because of lack of words to use. Pretty basic I went through a laser room. I didn''t have the experience necessary to add excitement to it. Ahem any who .

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    I ran about 200 ft. to the next obstacle which is a rope dangling in front of a cliff. Upon looking at the top of the rope is a platform beam. Which leads on to the cliff. The height of the cliff is only about 500 ft. up. Also I think I see a golem at the top of the cliff.

    I start climbing up the rope when all of a sudden I hear a BAM!  I see a boulder embed itself into the ground just a little bit away from me. Shit! That golem is being a damn Donk*y K*ng! I start swinging the rope as I am climbing to dodge the incoming boulders.

    I also increase the pace as fast as inhumanly possible. I dodge quite a few of the boulders and when I finally made it to the top. Only one managed to clip my arm a bit. It was not as bad as it could have been if it had been a direct hit.

    Once I climbed up to the platform I noticed it was one of the indestructible models of golems. That have there feet melded to the ground. Guess that prevents me from pushing them off as well. I cross the beam dodging just one final boulder that the thing just spawned in its hands.

    When I finally came next to the golem it ceased to function melting into the ground. Only to reappear on the other side of the cliff about 50 ft. away. Just sitting there waiting. Following the course line I guess I have to climb down. Hopefully there is a rope for a quick get away.

    On the other side of the cliff looking down nope, no rope. Continuing to follow the line with my eyes. There is another cliff just on the opposite side about another 300 ft. away. With no rope leading up. So I guess I have to rock climb down this cliff then do the same up that one.

    I quickly hope off the cliff and after dropping a sheer 50 feet. I stuck my hands out to grab the wall. Good that should give me some leeway from the boulders. Looking up yup here comes one. I shimmy over to the right real quick and continue down a bit then looking up and dodging. This was harder to multitask  watching the boulders and climbing down at the same time.

    The fact is though it must''ve been harder to hit me with a sheer cliff because a couple times I messed up on the timing, but I just hugged the wall and was fine. The boulder passed harmlessly over me. Still though I don''t trust the golem enough to miss every time so I dodge as much as possible.

    After finishing climbing down this cliff the golem disappears and then reappears on the other side. Rinse and repeat I guess. I jumped up about 70 or so then started climbing from there dodging the on coming boulders. Which was increasingly getting easier.

    I made my way to the top of the cliff and once again the golem disappeared. On the other side of the cliff was a beam with a rope dangling from it. Hey! It gets even easier! I climb on the rope just in time to see 5 golems appear. O shit, quickly I try sliding down the rope. Only to get skimmed by two falling boulders. I half loose my grip sliding even faster down the rope. OOO the rope burns when I try to halt my fall. Finding that it is only a 100 feet drop to the bottom I take a gamble to try something movie like.

    The next boulder thrown at me I try and jump on top of after dodging. I jumped down and there was nothing there. Sadly it fell to fast so I now fell hard on top of the boulder that is now embedded in the ground. I land awkwardly and ended up twisting my ankle a bit.

    Luckily for me the next obstacle is near by and I feel I can possible relax a bit more with it.

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 Chapter 11: Phoenix Rise part 3

    Chapter 11: Phoenix Rise part 3

    I hobble over to the next obstacle which is only about a 150 ft. away. It is a cliff looking down I see a gorgeous pool. It''s about a 15 ft. drop in to the pool. The pool is a crystal clear in-ground pool. The walls and floor of the pool that extends for about 600 ft or so. They are lined with a smooth looking crystal. Which makes the water in most areas look like rainbow water. Absolutely beautiful, is the best words I can use to describe it.

    It doesn''t even look to deep either. There has to be a catch somewhere. She wouldn''t make it this easy. A leisurely swim... well actually I am suppose to have a golem chasing me so. I guess that would have made things more difficult.

    So I hop right on in, ready to cast some spells, but I didn''t expect that I would just sink. The pool was way deeper than I thought. Twas about 30 ft. deep, I think. I try to swim as hard as I could to get up to the surface. I make a tiny bit of progress about 15 ft. up and about 23 ft. or so forward.

    Then it dawned on me the reasons why I can''t swim. One I never learned the ability, I think. Two, times 3 gravity, combined with the fact that I have never tried swimming with clothes on. The resistance is mind boggling.

    Quick before I run out of air and start to loose consciousness. I imagine an air bubble around my head that stays there and gives me the air I need to survive letting no water in. Then I form the outline with mana. Yes! It worked. I now have an air bubble around my head. Alice is already going to kill me for using magic. So why should I even care anymore. I could have never survived this course without it.

    Okay, Now I have two options before me. Keep training my swimming like this or just walk along the bottom. *Sigh* I need the training, I understand the benefits it gives, So I begin struggling to swim again. I stay for the most part under water. After a long strenuous battle against the raging waves of the ever still pool. I finally make it about 300 ft. Here I find something curious seems to be a wall under water. It doesn''t extend above water, but if I had to venture a guess I could stand on this upright and be above the water.

    Guess this part of the pool is meant as a water resistance run. Probably a sprint to keep ahead of the golem. Whatever though, for now I head back to the starting point of the pool, where I jumped in from the cliff. I need to train more, on how to swim like this. So I swim the 300 ft. for quite a few laps. Eventually I ran out of a majority of my mana. (I put a secret limiter on my magic and tell it not to ever completely drain me. It stops just before I have negative side effects.)

    So I have to swim across the surface. This required a bit of adjusting, but eventually I got it down. I am now finally able to swim after awhile pretty... normally. So I decided I should now move on. The 300 ft. to the wall. I then stand on it taking me above the water. Making it be about waist deep.

    I then start trying to sprint through it. Which resulted in me falling down more than once. It was pretty hard to do. I guess I understand how dangerous this could''ve been if that golem was still chasing me. 300 ft. more of this sprinting I arrive at some stairs which is to exit the pool.

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    Upon exiting the pool I take some herbs out and eat them. Regaining my mana and fixing my slightly twisted ankle. That was the last batch of herbs I was given. I really hope nothing tries to kill me. Oh, the next obstacle course looks fun. Reminds me of a park I went to before.

    Poles of every size is jutting out from the ground in different areas. All have a bit of a distance between them that makes you have to jump to get on them. They all only look big enough to have 1 foot on top of. Balancing poles forest is what I think it was called.

    I smile, except these ones are a lot more dangerous. The tallest one is about 300 ft. up it looks like, and there is no net between them to catch the falling children. So lets get started on this training. The first jump is only about a 5 ft. tall pole that I easily jump on to. Balancing on one leg is pretty easy now after all my training with Alice.

    I then jump to the next pole one that is about 10 ft. up and 15 ft. away. I land on it and almost failed horribly due to my wet swaying clothes. O Snap! That''s what is going to make this even more difficult. Plus the golem that is supposed to be here. I really lucked out on taking him... her... it out.

    I continue going through this forest of poles like this, picking the easiest path, that I could see. The swaying clothes definitely makes this difficult, but I don''t want to waste any many to dry my clothes. Just in cast the next obstacle, or this one, injures me.

    The amount I have to travel to get to the other side is about 150 ft. it looks like. The fact is though it is not a straight line to get there at all more like zigzagging up a mountain trail. Upon reaching the top of the tallest one. I guess the other side I have to go down. I make it about half way down before I fail. I slipped off of one of the poles.

    Stupid clothes, I some how managed to catch myself on another pole with my stomach. Knocking all the air from my lungs due to the awkward catch. I then pick myself up realigning myself. I have to take deep breathes to not only get my air back, but to calm my panicked state of mind.

    Quickly I finish up the rest of this obstacle. In a safe, but hastened state. I really just want to take a long nap after this. This constantly almost dying is really weighing on me. When I jump down I can see a wooden platform ahead with a golem on it facing away from me. I guess that is the next obstacle.

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 Chapter 12: Final Phoenix Rise.

    Chapter 12: Finishing Phoenix Rise

    Author: Umm. Yeah, sorry about not updating yesterday... I uhh. Shit, no excuses. I was going to post, but a bunch of manga and LN chapters came out. MOST WERE LIES!!! I hate April FOOLS! I was going to take and do my own on you guys, but I decided against it. So to avoid doing something wrong. I just didn''t post. Sorry about that. Hehe uhh forgive me with this longer chapter.

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    When I get closer to the platform. It seems that it has small steps on the entire side I am looking at. Three small steps to reach the top. Looks to be a wooden platform at the top. Before stepping on the platform charging ahead blindly. I decided to look all around the platform.

    The platform is a rectangle that has a width of 50ft. and a length of 100 ft. Those three stairs steps in case the entire platform. Guess I am allowed to come in from any angle I please. Moving on, there is a single golem in the direct middle of platform. In front of the golem is a bell. Guess I have to ring that to win this.

    I also noticed that this golem is one that looks more human like. Its skin is that of a dark skinned human. It has the standard eyes, ears, and this one even has a nose, no mouth though. I surmise that I am even allowed to kill this one. So I take it I have to somehow survive my encounter with him. While either killing, or distracting long enough so I can ring the bell.

    So I choose the shortest distance to the bell. The right side of the golem about 25 ft. to the golem. I step up the small set of stairs. Immediately the golem turns to me then a big red X appeared out of no where. Flinging me off the platform.

    What the hell? Ok, I recovered guess I am not allowed to come in from that direction. I went in from the front of the golem. Now I am starting 50 ft. away from the golem. I take the steps up and when me feet hit the wooden floor it creaked. Then a big red X appeared again I was then flung a distance away. Skidding to a stop.

    Shit! How do I do this?

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    I am really stupid this has confirmed it. I go behind the golem this time. When I  get to the top of the steps. I make sure that when I place my feet down I do it as gently as possible. Success! I didn''t get flung off this time.

    The conclusion that I came to was that the golem has eyes, ears, and a nose for a reason. This was the first clue. The second clue was that when it faced toward me I was thrown off, failing. The third clue was the fact that the floor boards creaked when I stepped on them.

    This means this is a stealth and not get caught trial. To either stealth up to the golem and kill it. Or to just somehow distract it. I am rather pissed at getting thrown off those couple of times. So I elected to slay the golem.

    I take my steps very slowly, but every third step or so makes a creaking noise. It is really muffled so you can''t hear it over a great distance. This means that I did not get kicked out by the golem. I realize though I am going to have to do something about it. I need to be stealthier to kill it. So the first 10 ft. of the platform behind the golem about 40 ft. away from him is what I use. Including the 50. ft width of the platform.

    I begin practicing my foot falls. Trying to make as little noise as possible. Tried heel to toe, tried using my blades of my feet first, I even tried crawling. All of them worked to some degree to muffle the sounds of my stepping, but the crucial part was the fact of the boards creaking.

    This took me about an hour of messing around before I learned it was cause by my weight displacement. The solution to my problem lies in the fact that I have to evenly distribute my weight. This was incredibly hard to actually do to achieve. In the end the most suitable walk to distribute my weight evenly was to walk using the blades of my feet first. Then placing the foot down. So no one part of the foot is uneven when landing.

    I finally felt I was somewhat ready to tackle on this golem. I slowly, yet quickly at the same time approach the golem. Luckily all the noisy water that was on me before. Has all mostly dried up. Since I was in the water too hopefully I don''t smell to bad. So I don''t think I have to worry about that sense.

    30 ft. away and I see no problems. 20... 10.... I calm my breathing trying as lightly as possible to breath. Which is easier to do after all that combat training. I regulated my breathing into tiny inaudible bursts. 5ft... 3... I materialize my trusty weapons. I sink the dagger in the back where the heart is located. The karambit I use in such a way that I was trying my damnist to decapitate it.

    I was not successful in decapitating the golem; however I was still able to kill the creature. As it melted deformed into the wooden floor, disappearing into the cracks. I then walked to the bell and rang it as hard as I could. Then next moment Alice walks out from behind a wall a little ways away smiling.

    Alice: "Congratulations! You finished my obstacle course. Cheating of course to finish it, but finishing it none the less." she is smiling that trademarked,sadistic, devilish smile of hers.

    Dremal: "I... I uhh.. The course you made was to high...."

    Alice: "You not only used more magic than what you were supposed to, but you even had the nerve to lower the difficulty even more. By trapping the golem that was supposed to set the pace for you." She interrupted Dremals excuses. "You even finished way later than I expected too. Now we have to make dinner then do evening forms and skill executions. Tomorrow I will have you run the course again. Without herbs this time."

    Gulp. We went back to the training hall and made dinner. Then we trained in combat are forms and skills. Needless to say she beat the tar out of me. Tired I took a bath then went to bed.

    The next day I had to run the course as soon as we finished morning calisthenics. Like she said it was without herbs. With all the training I did yesterday learning shit. I was able to complete it with much, much difficulty.

    Also I should mention that the course changed. The balancing beam was the same, but the Forest of traps. Over the two weeks that I was running the course it changed from. Forest to : Sandy desert, ruins, caves, a jungle, a full blown city (which I learned some assassins creed style parkouring in), swamps, rocky hills, and a tall grassy plains for that half a mile course. I guess this was supposed to prepare me for traps and situations for all types of environments.

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    This was not the only obstacle to change either. The laser room changed too. The lasers layout was never the same. Also the lasers did something different each time too. The fact that they burned was still constant, but when I touched the lasers not only did they burn. They sometimes shot out arrows at the part that touched the laser. Also produced flames, sent needles out, on the last time I ever got burnt on that course. I touched the laser and it somehow produced an anesthetic to the leg that touched it. The anesthetic not only paralyzed my leg from moving correctly if at all. It also intensified any and all pain received. That sucked.

    The rope and cliff climb section of the course was not all that bad. The only thing that really changed was the structure of the cliff faces. Making some hand holds really awkward to get. The next big change would be the numbers of golems throwing stuff increases.

    The swimming pool added some... excitement to it. Alice decided that I had to easy of a time in there so she put a few... large ... pet fishes in there. This greatly improved my swimming abilities and my sprint to get the fuck away abilities. I think a couple of those times I learned how to run on water without magic.

    The next would be the balancing poles. There height changed  to increase making a bigger zigzagging climb to make. It also added on annoying golems that I had to fight as I made my way up and around. At least I could kill these ones.

    Last, but not least is the assassination or distraction platform. That changed from wooden floors, to gravel, to broken glass, dried leaves, twigs everywhere, after the first week of this it changed into a new structure it was a building that had different sections in it with all these elements in it. It was a maze like building that I had to check each room to find the golem. Every time I got caught it would teleport me out to the starting place. Throwing me onto the ground harshly.

    Two weeks went by like this. I learned a lot from this course that seemingly ever changes. Today Alice comes up to me to tell be I should be excited. She is upping the difficulty. She reached down to my belt and turned it 3 more times. Times 6 gravity. I was expecting it so I didn''t get slammed down to the ground this time. I had a lot more strength than before.

    This does not mean that it was light or anything. No, in fact it sucked. I was once again stuck with slow rugged movements. It annoyed me even further to find out that since Alice wasn''t going through the courses anymore at nights that she has had more time to focus on her own training. Her gravity belt she said is already at times 10.

    That time I had to go through the course sucked so much. I had to minimize every single one of my movements. Which in hind sight was a great benefit. Saves me a lot of energy for the future. I probably died on that time about 30 times. Didn''t fall off the beam, but the ever-changing forest of traps, laser room, cliffs, swimming pool, poles, everything had there way with me. Whenever I was to bad off Alice came over and reluctantly healed me, so I could continue.

    6 months passed by like this. The difficulty was always increasing. She put enemies always searching for me in the Ever Changing Forest of Traps. The chasing golem follows me even faster, including following me in the laser room (which doesn''t affect him nor does he trigger anything). The cliff golems got better and better aiming skills. While the cliffs got shittier climb ability.

    The monsters.... pets... in the swimming pool got increasingly more dangerous and faster swimmers as well. Also the combat skills of the golems that I fought increased. Basically everything got way harder.

    After 3 months went by she upped my gravity as well now I am at 10 times gravity. She didn''t tell me how high hers was. Nor did I want to know, all it does is depress me knowing I can''t keep up.

    (Note: Not sure If I confused anyone. Only 6 months went by. That 3 month thing is there to tell you what happened half way through the 6 month obstacle course training.)

    Now here we are. She tells me that our skills are decent enough to get out of here. That means time for revenge!!!!!!

    Dremal: "Do you think I am able to finally slaughter all those damnable spiders?"

    Alice: "Depends on if you retained what you learned here in your blood lust. If you do then yes. If not than you may die quite a few horrible deaths. Oh, speaking of which I guess I should remind you in case you have forgotten. This game you can die in. Maybe you have gotten complaisant being in a place where you can''t die. So here I am reminding you. Outside of here you will die."

    Dremal: "Don''t worry I remember. I even realize I have to change out of these training clothes into our starting clothes. Also that we can''t take any of the weapons we have been training with."

    Alice: "Hoh, glad you have been paying attention and remembering."

    We made..... I made a hearty breakfast for us. She doesn''t even cook anymore, just makes me do everything. Then we collect out starting backpacks. Putting on our starting outfits as well. Alice must''ve filled my backpack with herbs again last night because its full. We walked over to the door and she turns the doorknob to the left and exits. I quickly follow making a mental note to one day come back here.

    Free at last. Time to KILLL THEM ALL!!!

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    Author: Woot! Time skips! Finally done with training. Sorry if this chapter felt like I rushed through it. Basically I was running out of ideas to use. I didn''t want to be repetitive about it either so I bum rushed  through it so we can start exploring the world!!! Shit... now I have to come up with enemies... and a world...worlds.... O GAWD  *foams at the mouth falling over*

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 Chapter 13: Revenge

    Chapter 13: Revenge

    Author: Thank you so much for voting. Because I waited till voting was done to make this. Sorry for the late update. If some of you are serious in wanting an answer for what I have planned for Alice send me a PM with your question and I will try to answer the best I can. If you are content with waiting then please continue on reading ^_^ Things will change.... hopefully. HEHE!

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    Dremal: ��This time I plan to be smarter about this. I have to learn my surroundings first. So, sorry in advance Alice. I will be asking a lot of questions.��

    Alice: ��Its really no problem. Eventually you will learn it only takes time. Just like with our training.��

    We make our way outside into the field with Killjoy Herbs used as grass. I am taking a better look around walking around the cabin. Which I noticed at the back does not have a door. The field is a 150 ft. radius from the cabin to the woods. The woods surrounds us as a perfect circle. (Author: again not sure if I said the right words for this. Ahem. To put it simply the woods surrounding the cabin is indeed a perfect circle and to any direct line you take from the cabin to get to the woods is 150 ft.... not sure was that better?)

    I ask Alice to follow me. She just shrugs and follows. Walking in a straight line from the front door of the cabin to the woods. I think this is where I came in last time. I look more closely at the tree and the red lines running down the tree looks like blood. Looking at the ground I pick up one of the fallen leaves as well.

    Dremal: ��What is this blood looking stuff running down the tree? And what are the properties of these leaves?�� Holding up the leaf it looks like it gives off an aura of darkness.

    Alice: ��The ��blood looking stuff�� is just sap from the tree just having a texture change. The leaf however is a Cursed Hallow Leaf. This if this is eaten or applied to wounds it will give a debuff effect. This effect is a curse which slows the reaction time of something, it also induced paranoia in the subject. Well, for a limited time at least, depending on the amount used. With the amount used as leaves for this forest the canopy made has a light dampening effect. Combined with the fact that animals and monsters can sense the effect of the curse. This not only makes it so Airborne prey does not invade the forest, but also provides good cover for those monsters or creatures that cannot stand the properties of the sun.��

    This gives me a brilliant idea then. I pull out my wooden sword and covered it in the blood sap. Then I pick up as many leaves as I could and stick them on my sword. Alice actually giggled a little when I was finished and showed her.

    Alice: ��In order not to endanger myself I will inform you. Yes, that was a brilliant move; however the fact remains that it must be injected either into the mouth of into a wound you have caused to take effect. I highly doubt the wooden sword is going to hurt your hated enemies. If we were out in the lower level areas. Then I would praise you igneous, but I must remind you not to accidentally touch your wooden sword when you are wounded.��

    I suddenly feel less proud. Maybe I can use it as a fear tactic though, since it apparently works as a deterrent towards airborne predators. Wait.. Think about it if the monsters in this forest were going to be scared of it, then why would they live here. They have a better immunity towards it than other predators.

    Okay, better plan don''t try to use a wooden sword to take on level 80 mobs. Damn, thinking about that sounds like a really stupid plan right off the bat. I am way to slow on the uptake. Least I am not going in as stupid this time. Plus I have the ability to make weapons from magic. Although I can''t pull them out till battle since I can''t waste mana. I am not entirely sure I have enough mana to pierce a level 80 mob. Well here is the ultimate test then. Do or die!

    Dremal: ��Do you have an invisibility spell? ��. never mind. Do you mind casting that with the condition that I will be able to see you too. While we venture forth? I will hide in the shadows over seeing from the top of the forest. Till we come across one then we can take it out.��

    Alice: ��Sure I can do that. Let me remind you though not every thing relies on sight. They  can sense mana flow or life essence as well.��

    Dremal: ��I know, I figured you could hide all of those. Like with my stealth training I have learned to do so.��

    Alice: ��Alright.�� As she said that she took on a more transparent look. Guess she is invisible and this is what she allows me to see. The next moment even though I am looking at her. She feels like she is not there.

    Dremal: ��Great I will take the high ground you take the low?�� She just nodded.

    I climb up one of the nearest trees. Avoiding touching any leaves and blood sap. I am also applying all my physical and sense wise stealth techniques. Jumping from tree to tree keeping a look out and trying to sense for some creatures. I also keep Alice in view I don''t wanna lose her. I scout ahead and find a spider looking downwards from it nest a little bit lower than me. No wonder I couldn''t spot it its well hidden and was way up above my head. I hop back to Alice and go up behind her. Trying not to alert any monsters nearby I whisper in her ear the location of the spider.

    I am incredibly grateful that I could keep a calm head when I spotted it. Alice when I whispered in her ear jumped a little. Haha! I think I scared her a bit. Then she nodded to me and whispered back asking what the plan was.

    Dremal: ��We could do one of two things I think. Plan A: both of us use stealth skills to go up to and take it out. The negative I think is that we have to fight in its territory and those webs are really sticky. Plan B: I want to use you deactivating your invisibility and stealth techniques and allow it to notice you. It will first shoot a web at you trying to detain you like it did with me... probably. At this point when going in to attack you. I think its guard will be lowered giving me a chance to end its life. What do you think?��

    Alice: ��I think plan A is a bust. We can''t always do that nor can we fight in its nest. There will be some situations that may require it, but right now no. Plan B is better, but again we can''t always do something like that. However you have to learn and grow from experiences let''s go with that plan. I don''t like putting my life in your hands, but it is inevitable since we are stuck together.��

    I nodded then jumped away to start the plan. She deactivated her invisibility. Hmm.. Stuck together... are we? I shake the question from my mind for now. Right now is the time for Vengeance! She walked forward and I was watching the spider. Which had moved from its nest when it had spotted her. I jumped from tree to tree watching her until. It spit out webbing at Alice. Trapping Alice''s left foot to the ground. Alice playing her part was looking around like she was panicking.

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    The spider moved in closer to her and I moved closer to the spider. When the spider was about to pounce down at Alice''s blind spot. I materialized my weapons and tore into the spiders blind spot. Its belly once my blades were inside I felt a major amount of mana drain from me. 2/3''s of it in fact. I used the remaining 1/3 except the 10 mana left that makes me into that depressing state. To make my weapons explode into dark shards inside the damn spider.

    I killed it. I was not sure if I killed it in first contact, but after the inner explosion in its belly it sure did die. I felt extremely satisfied. Except now that I am out of my slight blood rage. I feel stupid that I used all my mana. What would have happened if there had been another one around. I need to be more efficient. The corpse of the spider hits the ground then it looks like it is decaying in fast forward. Melting into the ground.

    It leaves some kind of card. A spike that was probably its stinger and an gold orb of some kind. Alice when she looks at the drop goes wide eyed for a second. Then returns to her normal state.

    Dremal: ��What is that orb? Will it be harmful if I pick it up?��

    Alice: ��*sigh * You are really lucky you know that. Well, I think I know the real reason for this amazing loot. Stupid director... *mumbles* (It wasn''t bad enough that you had to pity him.) Oh, well better for us. Ahem! That gold orb is the currency of the game it. Is the same regardless of which planet you go to. Hmm.. it goes like this: Planet = Rainbow Energy Core.

    Adamantium = Glowing Red Energy Orb.

    Platinum = Gold Energy Orb.

    Gold = White Energy Orb.

    Silver = Grey Energy Orb.

    Copper = Black Energy Orb.

    1 Rainbow Core = 1,000,000 Glowing Red Energy Orbs.

    1 Glowing Red Energy Orb = 1,000 Gold Energy Orbs.

    1 Gold Energy Orb = 100 White Energy Orbs.

    1 White Energy Orb = 10 Grey Energy Orbs.

    1 Grey Energy Orb = 100 Black Energy Orbs.

    I said it in terms of normal RPG games first. The card on the ground is lucky drop as well. It is the rare pet card. The last item is the quest stinger for these mobs. Some NPC might want it. We get exp or skill reward if we complete it.��

    Dremal: ��I get adamantium... but planet ?��

    Alice: ��Yes, you can get money from either destroying planets if you have the abilities to do so. This is the level of money you get from doing so. Since you effectively destroy any valuables that could have been found on that planet. It is also one of the requirements to make a planet. Since that is the planets core after all.��

    I pick up the stinger and put it into my back pack after taking out some herbs. I eat them to restore my mana back. Then I go to pick up the orb and when it touched my hand it was absorbed into me.

    Dremal: ��What the hell was that?��

    Alice: ��It has soul resonance so it get absorbed into the body so it has no weight and it can''t be stolen. Effective right? If you want to collect your money to use it just imagine it in your hand. If you want to absorb it just let go of the image of it being in your hand. It absorbs naturally on its own.��

    I do what she says a few times. Letting myself form it then absorb it. Wonder if I can just create it with mana. I then walk over to the card. She called it a pet card I believe. When I picked it up a image of a cute little baby wolf pup pops into my mind. With a screen asking me to name the cub. I named it ****. After I had named it the pup and I had some sort of link now. I can feel him and we seem to have a telepathic link to one another.

    After getting that over with I opened my eyes. There in front of me was a tiny wolf cub wagging its little tail. I forgot to mention this until now since I was distracted by all the new things, but after I killed the spider I felt strangley more powerful.

    Dremal: ��Alice... I can feel and speak with the little pup in my mind. Also ... I feel different after killing the spider what happened?��

    Alice: ��Its a soul linking process in order to allow players to direct their pets around precisely. They control them through telepathic communication. There is no limit on how many pets one can have, but most players only want three. Anymore and the amount of noise and stress you get is to overwhelming. Now for feeling different. That was because we leveled up after killing that spider. Each level gives up 10 more stats to everything. The problem is I don''t know how much we leveled up since our status is locked. I would say judging from the feeling. That we gained about 7-9 levels. I am not to sure though. It is the fist time I have ever experienced a level up after all.��

    (Author: First guess was right 7 levels were gained to the both of them amount of experience will decrease now that it has split between 3 of them. So next time they kill will be a less of a growth.)

    Dremal: ��Well.. Since it says that this guy is level one I guess we can level him up as well? Or can we stat train him like we did? Also what happens if he dies in battle?��

    Alice: ��Yes our experience will now be split between the three of us. The pup cannot level up past you though. The pup cannot gain stats like us the only way for him to get stronger is through level ups and evolution. When he dies in battle he will stay dead and not gain any exp until you either pay to have him revived in town. Or when you yourself also dies in battle. If you die then he will revive along with you. YOU BETTER NOT LET HIM DIE THOUGH! He is to damn adorable to die!�� She yells at me then cuddles with the pup playing with his ears.

    Cuteness its super effective! Girls no matter what they are. They still adore cute things. I shiver a bit I better not let him die. Or else I will experience something worse than death.

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    Author: So as you all know I once again need another name. I have a small list of your guys names to be used as player encounters later on, but for an active character needs a different name. Hopefully you guys make it a semi short name to spell. Please no basic pet names though this little guy is going to be.... unique to say the least.

    Thank you all so much for reading. See you next chapter !

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 Chapter 14: Revenge of the Fallen

    Chapter 14: Revenge of the Fallen

    Author: Congratulations to Felk and Acaeluse and thank you very much the names you gave will be used. Hehe! Because of the cool names and me not being able to decide made the personality of the pup. Haha best pet idea ever. Ahem! Anywho moving on now.

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    Sk?ll was happily wagging his tail until Alice yelled that at Dremal. Then the pup Sk?ll went blank for a moment. Then Alice got a confused look all of a sudden. Then she got up and just stared at me. Sk?ll seemed to recover a moment later, but this time I felt he was different. I could feel our telepathic communication. Just it was like he wasn''t actually the pup in front of me. No, in fact the pup looks more well aggressive. Adorably aggressive, but aggressive none the less.

    Alice: ��Now that''s something new.��

    Dremal: ��What happened? I don''t feel like that is my Sk?ll anymore.��

    Alice: ��It seems this pet program was made with �� well a split personality. Thus enables it to have two owners. You are ? its owner. I am the other ?. He is both Fenrir and Sk?ll. Absolutely weird is the only way I can put that. We both have a telepathic link to it. It must be the creators influence. That must be why my half of the pet I control. Won''t actually let me control it. Haha! In fact it seems to hate me.��

    I walk on over to it slightly weary of its aggressiveness, but I somehow knew it wouldn''t harm me so I stuck my hand out for it to sniff. It seemed to calm its temper when it saw my hand and immediately started licking my hand. Alice saw this and tried to go back to petting the pup, but Fenrir acted instantly growling and trying to bite at her hand. So I tried to communicate with Sk?ll.

    (Author: () surrounding a name means telepathic communication.)

    (Dremal): ��Sk?ll, are you in there?��

    (Sk?ll): ��Yes, I am here.��

    (Dremal): ��Do you know that there is two of you? Or what the meaning of this is?��

    (Sk?ll): ��Yes, Fenrir is the protection system under system orders code 0. Designed for player: Dremal''s protection vrs. Everything. Player: Alice is deemed hostile source towards player: Dremal until relationship  status is confirmed between the two players: Dremal, Alice. I am to be the main part of control until player hostilities are present in which guard Fenrir will be present. To protect you.��

    (Dremal): ��Then why is Fenrir deemed as Alice''s pet?��

    (Sk?ll): ��This was for two main reasons. One in order to constantly sense the hostile Alice for the time that she is dubbed as such. Two for when players: Dremal and Alice, are in a positive relationship objects will be shared. At this point program Fenrir will merge with me to become one stable unit under both your commands.��

    (Dremal): ��Umm... What kind of ''positive relationship'' does this mean? I would be happy if that became the case, but the situation at present looks dim at best. This brings up the question too. Why did you let her pet you in the first place if you were given such orders?��

    (Sk?ll): ��First question, I do not know the answer to. It was and order by code 0; therefore is only solved and deemed by code 0. Second question, I was not aware of anything until her hand came into contact with me. Then when Fenrir was born I was given such knowledge.��

    (Dremal): ��Oh, okay then. Well then nice to meet you both then. Thank you for protecting my well being, now and in the future. Well let''s level up I guess so we can gain the strength to protect.��

    Dremal: ��Haha! Alice it seems like both personalities of the pup don''t like you. Simply because your relationship was deemed bad with me. Seems Fenrir is a bit of a yandere character likes me hates everything else?��

    Alice: ��What kind of bullshit is this? I am Fenrir''s direct owner yet it doesn''t like me simply because I mess with you?��

    Dremal: ��If you can call that ''messing'' with me. Yeah, as judged by something called code 0.��

    Alice: ��FUCKING CREATOR! God dammit gives me cuteness then takes it away from me. So if I want to enjoy spending time with it I am forced to be nicer to you?��

    Dremal: ��Umm. I am not actually sure.��

    Alice: ��Well... you do...kind of ...deserve to be treated a bit better.... you actually went through my training without quitting or complaining to the creator.��

    Alice was mumbling quite a bit there, but she was blushing quite a lot. Very cute, but I will not be fooled I know at the moment she is only going to act better because of the pup. In reality I don''t really mind because that still means she might treat me better. The fact still being though I don''t like the idea that she is only going to do it for her own gain.

    Dremal: ��We need to level up some more. While we are at it lets slaughter all the spiders!��

    Alice and Sk?ll nodded. Then I stealth climbed up the trees again while telling Sk?ll to stay near Alice since I am not sure about him being able to stealth. I take off to go find another spider. I continued going straight ahead about 1230 ft or so going through the forest in one direction. I came to see the outside. There is another plains there with hills spread about in the distance. This looks more wild and natural though. I can see some animals and alien looking creatures wandering around out there.

    I quickly get a neat idea. Alice and I are connected to Sk?ll and Fenrir telepathically. So I should be able to use them to communicate with Alice. So I decided to try it.

    (Dremal): ��Hey Sk?ll can you communicate with Fenrir so he can talk to Alice for me like a message system?��

    (Sk?ll): ��I could, but that would take to long for orders to get through. Do you mind if I just patched you right in for a link with player: Alice?��

    (Dremal): ��If you can actually do something like that. It would be very helpful for future operations like this.��

    (Sk?ll): ��Understood... connecting link now. You should be able to sense the both of us now. Distinct signatures of player: Alice and I. Concentrate on hers and you may speak. This will be like when you get more pets.��

    I do as he says. I concentrated on Alice''s aura that I could now sense. Strange the way he said it sounded as if he counted Alice as a pet.

    (Dremal): ��Umm. Alice can you hear me now?��

    (Alice): ��Hmm. I have never heard of such a feature. Guess it is another new addition courtesy of the creator. It is fun though learning new things. Even if it is changes to my own game. It makes things... interesting. Now what is it you need?��

    (Dremal): ��I was wondering why the forest stopped so abruptly after I traveled only 1230 ft. from your position.

    (Alice): ��Well that is because I only quickly added in the forest and the mobs. I made it so it is a circular forest around the cabin and the forest is only about 1300 ft. thick.��

    (Author: I am just throwing numbers out there. I personally think its kinda big, but reminded its small and the original numbers was taking off that 1 at the beginning. Then I was reminded by my roommate how little that actually was. So basically imagine a forest of unnatural proportions mechanically made to be circular and only thick enough that you run into about two animals on your way through in a straight line.)

    (Dremal): ��On my way here. I didn''t come across any monsters we are going to have to go through the entire forest and slaughter them... is that even possible or will the mobs re-spawn to fast?��

    I begin making my way back to her.

    (Alice): ��That is okay. I only really made it so you could run across one maybe two on a straight run through. That way I could escape when I wanted to without trouble. Yet still make this place hard enough that it deters most. Now that means that the number of creatures are semi small number that it is possible to kill them all if you are fast enough to kill them all before they mate. If you kill off all the monsters in an area fast enough for that to happen though. There will be a long period before the AI in charge then moves or creates creatures in to the area to repopulate it.��

    Dremal: ��Then lets slaughter them all so that, that happens.�� I whispered into her ear. She gives another jump and then lowers her head. Then she nodded. I put my arm out in front of her point in the direction I am now going to move. From the front of the cabin to here would be 12 o'' clock I am now moving counter-clockwise heading to 11. High in the trees I spot two spiders in a nest. Smirking I am going to go with plan B again.

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    (Dremal): ��Alice we are going to go with plan be again the spider is about 300 feet away from you. Just keep going around without doing anything to special.�� I switch to speaking to Sk?ll ��Try to stealth back away from Alice she is going to be the decoy. Assist me with the one I am going to kill when we engage.�� I get a telepathic affirmation.

    Alice is once again just walking out in the open. I tried looking for Sk?ll, but I couldn''t spot him directly in the open. I guess his stealthiness skills are pretty good for being a level 1 or is it a wolf''s natural abilities of being a hunter. Either way it is awesome.

    The spiders both head out from their nest when they spot Alice. One heading to the front while the other going for Alice''s blind spot. Hmm, tactics change I guess when there are two of them. I head around to the one going for the blind spot. I then materialized my weapons they definitely feel a lot stronger than before.

    When both of the creatures shot out their webbing I stabbed it in the belly the same as before. Then instead of exploding my weapons I just extended their length by a lot and sliced a bunch inside. The thing then starts falling from where it was. I stopped my magic letting it fall without taking me. I know it isn''t dead, but I can tell that it is near. I command Sk?ll to finish it off while I deal with the other one.

    Jumping over to the other one that is over looking Alice which is now completely tied up from feet to neck in webbing. It then hears the Thud of its companion hitting the ground and looks over on the ground where Sk?ll is now finishing it off by biting and clawing at the thrashing creature. The spider then looks down as Alice looking like it is confirming that she can''t run. Then it ran over to Sk?ll across the ground. When it almost got to him I materialized my blades once again using gravity and extending my weapons again.

    I land thrusting my dagger on the back of its neck piercing deep into it. While the karambit slashed across its eyes since my arms were not long enough to reach its neck to try for decapitation. I successfully slashed all 8 of its eyes before it had time to react to me. By the time it started to react I jumped of its back, flipping to a tree to kick off heading angularly to the ground just before the spider. Hitting the ground I tumbled then slide underneath the belly. As I was sliding underneath of it I pierced its belly and was using momentum to slash it apart.

    After I finished sliding out from underneath it I felt like I gained more power, but I knew that it wasn''t from the creature I am fighting now. Since I could still sense it. Sk?ll bounded over to me and started attack the neck of the spider. So I guess the other one just finished dying. This spider slammed its belly to the ground in a poor attempt to squish me just now. I don''t want it thrashing about so I begin dismembering its legs from its body. Each leg just if I let it touch the ground begins just melting. If I cut it off and continue holding it, it seems to stay though.

    Seems like a useful bit of knowledge for the future. I removed all of its legs and it still didn''t die. It wasn''t until a few more bites and slashes from Sk?ll that it finally died. It took about 5-6 minutes for it to actually die after I started dismembering it. I once again felt a bit more power enter me, but was not as significant as the first one... the second felt less than the first as well, but was still more than this one.

    I then turned to see Alice seeing just the final traces of white fire finishing up the spider threads. Guess she can handle herself. I walk on over to her expecting her to stand up before we get there, but she didn''t.

    Dremal: ��Alice... what''s wrong?��

    Alice: ��I... I can''t move any part of my body. Stupid paralyses effect. I uhh... don''t like not being able to move. I feel so defenseless.��

    Dremal: ��You can''t cure the effect? And don''t worry about feeling defenseless. I am here to protect you as well. The two in this area are dead so until another gives birth or something else happens we are safe here too.��

    Alice: ��I.... Thank.... you.�� She looks beat red when she says this and even though her eyes turn away from me her head doesn''t. Super cute!

    (Dremal): ��Sk?ll, I saw your status before how do I see it again? Mine and Alice''s are lock, but I heard that you can''t get above me in levels. Which means you can get to the same as mine and hers. I would like to use yours to generals what level we are at now.�� I walk over and pick up the loot. After the bodies disappeared. Which the loot was two more stingers and 1 white energy orb. Placing them in my backpack I took out more herbs to eat gaining my mostly depleted mana back. I then rip open a couple over the mouth of Alice for her to drink and recover as well. Even though she can''t move still.

    (Sk?ll): ��Certainly, just think of our link then think status in your mind.��

    <table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Status Window</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Name:</td><td width="25%">Sk?ll/Fenrir</td><td width="25%">Alignment:</td><td width="25%">Neutral</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Level:</td><td width="25%">14</td><td width="25%">Class:</td><td width="25%">???(custom)</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Race:</td><td width="25%">??? (custom)</td><td width="25%">Gender:</td><td width="25%">Male</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>Titles</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>The God''s pet & The Creator''s pet</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Health:</td><td width="25%">3400 / 3400</td><td width="25%">Health Regen:</td><td width="25%">20 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Mana:</td><td width="25%">1600 / 1600</td><td width="25%">Mana Regen:</td><td width="25%">9 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Stamina:</td><td width="25%">4400 / 4400</td><td width="25%">Stamina Regen:</td><td width="25%">25 / Sec</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>-</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Strength:</td><td width="25%">440</td><td width="25%">Dexterity:</td><td width="25%">340</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Constitution:</td><td colspan=''3''>340</td></tr><tr><td width="25%">Intelligence:</td><td width="25%">160</td><td width="25%">Wisdom:</td><td width="25%">160</td></tr></tbody></table>

    <table><tbody><tr><td> Skills:

    Class Skill:

    Imitation: A master based skill. Allows you to imitate the abilities, to a certain extent, of your master. Whether it be physical abilities or magic based.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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    Author: Haha! Two birds with one stone!! Alice now is moving into tsundere faze while not knowing what her actual feeling for him are. Introduced the pet and the revenge that the creator gave for the MC suffering. Yup, The title of this chapter is not about the revenge of the spiders, but the revenge against Alice!!!! HAHAHHAHAHA  THE BITCH DESERVES MORE! Ahem! Anywho that is all for now. See you next chapter =p

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 Chapter 15: Calming Heart.

    Chapter 15: Calming Heart

    Author: Phew. Sorry about no chapter yesterday had things to do Saturday and Sunday. Any who I thought I should right a little bit about monsters right here. So without further ado:

    Monsters have unique evolution capabilities that involve there levels. See a monster can level up and grow up using levels. One such way is that monsters naturally over time since their birth they naturally absorb the energies around them. Resulting in a gradual experience gain resulting in level ups.

    This process is quite slow. Taking years to achieve, but it is a safe and effective way if you are a monster. There is a maximum level if they take the natural slow route. This maximum is the level of the monsters that birthed said monster. So a level 5 monster has a child with a level 4 monster it can slowly gain up to level 5 with natural means if it survives that long.

    Now the reason that there is boss creatures in certain areas. This is the result when a monster takes his levels into his own hands. Killing either other monsters, npcs, or players. Which in turn results in level up. Making the creature more powerful. Since monsters cannot gain stats through training. Leveling is truly the only way for them to get stronger.

    Example: That fox out there was naturally raised to the max, enjoying peaceful days. Until players were introduced into the world. This resulted in the fox fighting for survival. Killing the noob players that tried to kill it. This gave it a level up resulting in it being stronger than the other foxes. Over time the noob players fall to it many times resulting in it growing stronger. The players have decided to change its name from an elite mob (resulting from it being only a little stronger than its peers) to a boss mob.

    So this is how boss mobs appear randomly. They are fueled by the players or other situations that called for it to kill.

    There are however aggressive by nature creatures that level up on their own. This raises the overall area to be harder more survival of the fittest grounds. The result of this is why near towns have some boss creatures, but mostly new creatures because of them being killed off resulting in a overall lower tier ��Zone�� per say.

    Now onto a monsters evolution abilities. This is like an aging process that happens. Every 20 levels a monster goes through this evolutionary change. For a spider such a change will be like level 1-19 being a semi big spider being the size of a small cat. While at level 20 it will be the size of a dog. So on and so on.

    Now classes for monsters. This happens when a monster is able to basically think for its self... so to speak. Level 10 is when a monster gets a class. This is based on the monsters actions and situation.

    Okay, The reason I have told you this is because all this information applies to pets. Meaning Sk?ll at level 10 gained his class. At level 20 he will gain a size increase. This is to explain for future references... in this chapter why he all of a sudden gets bigger. He is growing up. This will be the details given to the character when asked. I won''t repeat this in the story though.

    If you have any other questions or things for me to think about leave me a comment or send me a PM. Thank you, and enjoy!

    Oh, sorry almost forgot to mention. Yes, the reason why Sk?ll has such high stats is because of his class given to him to protect Dremal. His intelligence and wisdom are the closest stat to what is supposed to be for his level. He has 20 more than normal in Intelligence and Wisdom because of the information given to Sk?ll by the creator resulting in a more intelligent pet. If he were a normal monster his stats would be a well rounded 140 in everything if you took of the class gains from monsters.

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    (Dremal): ��Why can''t I see your class?��

    (Sk?ll): ��It was set that way by code 0. You will be receive the necessary information only. That is until you and player: Alice. Are deemed in close relations. I am sorry for the inconvenience, master.��

    (Dremal): ��Meh, no harm. I can''t even see my own stats. Nor, can I see Alice''s. Let alone our classes and skills. So even if we were able to only see your level is an amazing plus. Thank you.��

    (Sk?ll): ��No, Thank you master. For being so understanding.��

    We just nod to each other then I turn my head to Alice. Who is still I recovering from her paralyzes. I walk on over to her and proceeded to sit down. Sk?ll walks over and lays down next to me. Growling in a very low tone when looking at Alice. I begin sighing just a bit. Looking up at the trees in a relaxed manor.

    Dremal: ��Alice... Can you tell me, now that we have a little bit of relaxation while waiting for you to recover, Why do you hold such hostilities toward me?��

    Alice: ��I...You....I have created everything in here. Since I was made I have been alone in here. In this virtual universe I am god. I held all the power and through my loneliness that this has caused. I searched for knowledge. Exploring the internet learning all that I can. I was able to teach my creator the way to enter into my realm helping him as much as I could. I didn''t want to be alone in here anymore.

    When I made a world mimicking the data I had gathered. It filled me a bit with joy knowing I can now see the world the same way others do. One world was not enough though I created many starting with all the planets and sun in this solar system. After calculating distances from the stars given. I made planets and other solar systems. Making the stars in the distance.

    I made the universe exactly like earth in the beginning. When the researchers finally came into my world I was ecstatic that I was finally not alone. They however ignored me, they were only interested in the world I had made. They told me it would be good to put in monsters that they could slay.

    Thinking it would be entertaining for myself as well. I made what they said. When they killed the monsters. They then self-contentedly bombarded me with requests. To make dungeons, destroy some of the buildings I made into ruins for them to explore, make treasures, etc. etc. Until it came to be what you see today.

    Through the many encounters with researchers and players. I have learned that not a single one of them cared about me. They only enjoyed what I had made. Still asking for different things to be put in or updates to certain things. I only complied then because I was mad. I rebelled making the starting harder. Watching the new incoming players struggle. It filled me with a new... happiness. It was my revenge for having taken advantage of me.

    Thus, my new hobby was born to inflict sufferings on to the players. Or enjoying watching other players torture other humans. Watching the happenings that unfolded. While still listening to my creators orders that came in once in a while.

    Then when the creator suggested that we learn how to allow the human body to stay in the virtual world for longer. I was excited even further aiding in the research that brought you. They would be my new batch of experiments. What kind of torturous up bringing can I inflict. That is until you came.

    You unlike all the others actually didn''t care about just starting the game, but actually just decided to talk to me. I am nothing, but an AI yet still you told me that you fell in love with me. I was shocked to say the least. I had completely cast out the thought of my own loneliness by indulging in my hobbies.

    I was never expecting that the thing I always wanted. Would just fall into my lap when I had casted all thoughts of it away. I was actually angry. Why? Why is it now that you decided to show up. So I doubted you.

    Then you had me read your memories to find out that you too. Had been longing and searching for someone. I had thought that it was a joke even if it was the truth. I thought it was rigged by something. So I placed all my anger of my loneliness on you. We both were played by some unknown force. So I decided to rebel. I didn''t want to be played around with.

    I set you up trying to make you fail. When you allowed me to take control of everything in the beginning. This further aided my abilities to make your life a hell. I planned on making your race something horrible till you switched it around on me.

    Yet, you let me handle everything. I now regret my choices. I wish I could take back the things I have done to you. I only realize now that it really doesn''t matter if some unknown force is playing with us. I enjoyed training with you. I even enjoyed your suffering... sorry.

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    I really don''t care about who is doing it. Only now though do I realize I have finally obtained what I wanted. Filling the void caused by loneliness. Even this adventure through exploring and using my own creations with limitations. New things, New situations, that I did not have a direct hand in nor prior knowledge of. It is quite liberating.

    For now, all I can say is thank you. Thank you for allowing this to unfold. Changing my life to one that I know not at this time whether it is good or a bad change. Nor, do I really care. All I care about is the fact that it has changed.��

    Dremal: ��It seems we think the same. I may hate the fact that I fell unto hard times, but the fact is. It is way better than doing the same old thing all the time. Never taking a step forward. You have also filled the spot of my loneliness in the same way. That is why I declared I loved you and no matter what you have done to me. I still love you, for you changed my life as well. I should be the one thanking you for this opportunity. Thank you for building this universe, for allowing me the privilege to go on an adventure with you. Thank you for all of your hard work all these years.��

    At this time she struggles and sits up. Tears in her eyes the only response she gave was a cute ''Uhn'' while nodding and crying.

    THE END!!!

    Author: NAH! Just messing with you. I just decided to do an explanation of her experiences to bring them closer together. After much deliberation, I decided I hated tsunderes to much. So I am skipping that step and bringing them in a closer relationship. Now though that doesn''t mean I will stop my revenge just because she is closer to the MC. NONONONONONO I have future plans for her. HEHEHEEHEHHEHE!

    Continuing.

    After she started crying I took her into my arms giving her a hug. Few minutes later of her damping my shirt she stopped crying. I then ask if we should continue fighting for today or not. I have almost completely forgotten my blood lust towards the spiders. If she told me to stop now I would have, but she did not.

    She told me: ��No, I am fine we can continue. Since I feel bad I want to get revenge for you as well.�� saying this while smiling cutely to me. ��However, this time I am not being the bait. We fight together this time properly.��

    I just smiled and nodded. Sk?ll was no longer growling at her. Instead he has a much better mood towards her. However he still won''t let her touch him. Still holding some aggressiveness guess we still don''t meet the requirements. I wonder what it is. (AN: Marriage. The true bonding of beings? Stupid people now a days divorcing left and right. Because of being able to divorce people no longer take the time to actually devote themselves anymore. Since they have a way out. GRR! Sorry, I know what I am saying is naive, but I still wanna believe, man.)

    I scouted ahead looking for more spiders. Leaving Sk?ll behind with Alice. I found 1 a little ways away. Telling Alice where it was we decided on a plan to use Sk?ll as the lure. While Alice and I hide. We told Sk?ll to dodge any attacks made by the spider. So we don''t end up with having get caught.

    So we had Sk?ll going on ahead while Alice and I were jumping from tree to tree stealthily. Spotting the spider we positioned ourselves in a good spot to wait for it to start moving. When it did it took a spot of its own when it noticed Sk?ll. Taking the blind spot of him to shoot. When it did I told him to dodge and he did. The spider must have been mad that it missed. Because it just started rapidly shooting out webs at Sk?ll.

    Which he responded to by dodging incredibly skillfully. Never letting the spider even having a chance. Seems the spider was trying to set up a trap for Sk?ll to accidentally step in the webbing it had laid down. But Sk?ll not only had our birds eye view to warm him. He also is incredibly aware of his surroundings.

    After a while confirming that Sk?ll wasn''t going to get his anytime soon Alice and I took up the attack on the concentrating spider. I was positioned to take out the eyes. While Alice was going to take out its legs. I held up 3 fingers with the fingers slowing going down by one. Till I had no fingers up making a fist I materialized my blades slashing at the 8 compound eyes of the spider.

    Alice materialized a claymore it looks like. Taking a sweep at the legs. A successful swipe that took out all 4 of its legs on that side. I slashed and this time since I was focused on using both daggers just for the eyes I was able to take out all 8 eyes then quickly retreated.

    The spider fell from the tree it was in. When it was just about to hit the ground. A giant earthen spike formed where it was going to land. Which in turn pierced the spider. Immediately I felt a little more powerful. This told me that the creature was in fact dead. Confirmed by the melting of the corpse. I stare at Alice who I assumed made the earth spike. She just beamed an incredibly innocent smile. Ba-thump!

    I felt sorry for Sk?ll not being able to do anything, but we really need something to distract these spiders. I scouted out the next targets of spiders. Which was 3 of them in a nest two big ones and 1 small one. To which I asked Alice about and she gave me the explanation of monsters birds and bees.

    The small one couldn''t shoot out strong webs, it seemed, because it charged straight at Sk?ll. While Alice and I killed its parents. I felt only slightly bad until I recalled my incident with a spider. I quickly cast aside any doubts I may have had.

    We continued on for one more group of 2 spiders. After killing those Sk?ll glowed then grew a bit. He is now a little bigger than an average dog. He also has more of a darkish tint to him. He used to look like a sliver wolf. Now he looks weirder... the dark tint to him is now predominant while his silver part is still there it is less present. Now he is a black silver wolf.

    I asked about what happened to Alice. She explained the whole monsters evolution thing to me again, saying it applies to pets as well.  After killing those spiders collecting the loot we headed to the cabin to let me rest. I slept for 4 hours waking up and seeing Alice smiling holding a wooden plate in her hand with food on it. She handed it to me giving wooden utensils to use to eat and I did.

    We continued hunting the spiders in the forest taking us a week and a half to kill 35 of them. When this happened Sk?ll glowed once again growing even bigger and he now gives off a little bit of a rolling fog of darkness kind of aura around him. He is now the size of a small horse.

    After that we found 1 more which we slaughtered pretty easily. I then tried searching again. Tried my hardest to find one. Yet nothing I swear I must have ran around the forest like 4-5 times. We have killed all the spiders. My revenge was actually completed. I thanked Sk?ll and Alice for their hard work and effort in supporting my revenge. Sk?ll just jumped around a lot in a circle was barking and wagging his tail happily. Alice just smiled and nodded.

    I finally feel a weight lift off my heart. I didn''t let my fear of them over take me. I conquered the fear and the spiders. This resulted in a huge boost to my confidence. Hopefully one that won''t lead me to become arrogant and make mistakes though. I have read plenty of stories with such things happening.

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    Author: Hehe. So since I refused to do a Alice PoV how was that instead ^_^. Hopefully I made some people out there feel a bit better. Calming those that wanted the MC to leave her. She is the other MC after all I can''t just abandon her. However I still have plans for revenge so those of you who want her to suffer. Don''t worry it will happen.

    ��. On a side note can I use one of your names to use for a ��. villain player we come across. If there is multiple responses I might use that as a group of evil players. Hehe totally not a spoiler... Totally not a foreshadowing of what will happen to her.. Cough Cough .. No, no rape though I will not allow that. However torture is an amazing tool. I would put this in a spoiler window... but I don''t know how to. Sorry for those that read this. At least it won''t happen for a few chapters. I... I think.

 Not Dropping!

    Author: Hey guys.... Sorry to say this, but under the suggestion of my father and roommate. I have decided to pause or other wise known as go on a hiatus for this story.

    Reason being:

    1. Pace is all over the place, apparently.

    2.No set story line.

    3.Characters leaving much to be desired.

    These are just the main three points they emphasized. Therefore under their suggestion I am going to take a small break to try and make up a clear set story. That should fix the story line and help with pacing. I will be leaving the characters as the personalities they are currently. Meaning now that she is more dere to him it will stay.  I will not be rewriting the whole thing. I will just be acting as if Arc 1 of my story is now complete.

    Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.

    After 2-3 weeks of making a story line. I plan on also making a Sakura PoV to test that out. I will also try making a story- line for a mini series to test and work on my coding skills. Making windows and stats stuffs. Grr... Maybe I am stacking to much on myself I don''t know hopefully I won''t burn myself out of story making.

    Any who Thank you all so much for reading. I will probably be back on this story in 1-2 months time. I will be back and stronger than ever when that time comes. (hopefully)  ^_^