Welcome to the Upward Bound System, V.2 Fantasy Sci-fi Action Adventure Supernatural Slice of Life
Technically abandoned. I will be reposting an updated version of the story one chapter at a time.
When the System came to Earth, it changed everything.
It is a grand thing used by gods and men alike.
What had once been fantasy was now a reality.
People believed and so that belief gave ideas the strength to manifest.
"Welcome Founder of the SCP Foundation"
It stirred the gods from their deathly slumbers.
Stirred by an almost mechanical voice promising them new life, and followers as countless as the stars.
All it asked of them was for their help.
Help with what though?
The old gods, the forgotten gods, and the new gods drew breath, and then made their voices heard.
On a day like any other Dante was home from college watching the Presidential inauguration with his parents. Little did they know that this day would turn out to be anything but ordinary.
That this was the day everything changed.
Dante is not your typical MC. While he has a troubled past, he looks forward to the future. Follow Dante, his parents, and the new friends he meets along the way as they traverse this new system world.
However, before they can explore this new world they must complete, the Tutorial.
(Please note: This tutorial will be part of the story. Rather than a skim of the information, you will get to experience it in depth. So the tutorial will last a good while.)
A much slower style of LitRpg than what you would normally find.
Follow Dante and his party as they find their world taken over by the system.
Welcome people of Earth to the Upward Bound System!...
With the system's arrival so too does great danger come...
The tools of your survival shall be granted upon you by the system...
Please note, I don't own the art.
Please enjoy the story, and if you don't please leave a comment and I will try to improve the story for you.
This is the second version of this story, so feel free to check out the original and compare the two.
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Chapter Selections
1. Chp.1, The Day Everything Changed, The Road ahead is Treacherous
2. Chp.2, Virgil, Welcome to the Town of Beginnings
3. Chp. 3, Night on the town, New friends
4. Chp. 4, Pocket dimension, Dreams of Crimson
5. Chp. 5, Sorting through the noise
6. Chp. 6, Distributing points, Second Breakfast, Tutorial continued
7. Interlude 1, The first 12 hours of the System, The Founder
8. Chapter 7, Mages Guild, System Rep.
9. Chp. 8, Cleansed of Corruption
10. Chp. 9, System information and a bit of shopping
11. Chp. 10, Inner World, Tower of Babel
12. Chp. 11, Of Men and Monsters
13. Chp. 12, Of Shadows and Light, Mages Guild part 2
14. Chp. 13, System learning, a Cat?
15. Chp. 14, High Priest of Rosana, A cat named Tom
16. Chp. 15, A small collection of short-ish tales
17. Chp. 16, Will to rehabilitate
18. Chp. 17, Halls of the Dead, Skill training, A fellow Priest
19. Chp. 18, Adventure's guild Part 1
20. Revision notice, (NOT another do over), Non chapter
21. Non chapter, Notice
Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu
High school student Misumi Makoto is called into a fantasy world by the god Tsukuyomi, in order to be a hero. However, the Goddess ruling the world isn’t as thrilled to have him there, and kicks him to the edge of the world. Tsukuyomi declares that Makoto is free to find his own way after Makoto is abandoned by the other Goddess.
8 219Deliverance
Villains still exist on this place. Even when Justice calls for blood, these Heros they call themselves, still refused to act the righteousness that needed to be delivered. Heros... They bastardized the term of the word "Hero". With a new player joining the game, its time for the world to remind them what a true Hero means... Overlord x Boku no Hero Crossover (Self Insert OC, No Ainz or Nazarick)
8 296In Memoriam
A Warhammer 40,000 Fan Novel Serving as an Acolyte of the Inquisition, Carrell Vestulus finds himself without the people he has spent his past years relying on, confronted with xenos, heretics and a force beyond his comprehension that seems to harry him at every turn, he must draw on powers not of his own to strike back against the horrors of the galaxy and protect those that he fights and serves alongside.
8 201Adrift To Stranger Land
Games, anime and manga, things and hobbies that Neil Simmons often given time to spent, till the strange occurrences got him so bad that he found himself transported to strange world of magic without guidance or God conversation, but as long as it aim for survival, the guy got the trick or two by his gaming and anime knowledge and experiences applied.
8 413Adam & Eve: A Romantic Sci-Fi
After hundreds of years traversing the vastness of interstellar space, the ship's artificial intelligence begins gestating frozen embryos. It will raise and educate the men and women who will colonize a new world. Unfortunately, the gestation chamber fails after only two children are birthed. With questions to homeworld requiring years for an answer, the AI is uncertain how to continue the mission as their destination looms closer. Meanwhile, alone on the ship, the two children grow into adults under the watchful eye of the AI and its robotic avatars. ------------ Release Dates Prologue — 2022 June 24 Chapter 1 — 2022 June 24 Chapter 2 — 2022 July 01 Chapter 3 — 2022 July 07 Chapter 4 — 2022 July 14 Chapter 5 — 2022 July 21 Chapter 6 — 2022 July 28 Epilogue — 2022 August 04 [end] STEM Puzzles — 2022 August 04 Copyright © 2021, Mark Wilkinson. All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, psychic, copying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. Published by MarkWilx, MarkWilx and the MarkWilx logo are trademarks owned by Mark Wilkinson. Cover image: Composition by Mark Wilkinson via Affinity Designer by Serif; background, “GOODS/ERS2 FIELD,” by Hubble Space Telescope; public domain; credits: NASA, ESA, R. Windhorst, S. Cohen, M. Mechtley, and M. Rutkowski (Arizona State University, Tempe), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Observatories), N. Hathi (University of California, Riverside), R. Ryan (University of California, Davis), H. Yan (Ohio State University), and A. Koekemoer (Space Telescope Science Institute). Text: Title text is Edwardian Script by International Typeface Corporation. Header text is Myriad Pro (sans-serif) by Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach, Adobe. Body text is Minion Pro (serif) by Robert Slimbach, Adobe; and Courier (fixed-width) by Howard “Bud” Kettler, IBM. Font appearance may vary in electronic presentations. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. The author does not imply an interpretation of, nor does he contest, the account of Adam & Eve contained in Genesis, The Holy Bible, which can be found at the website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or other Christian faiths. He invites all to read and ponder this book of scripture, and to seek divine inspiration in discovering its teachings. Disclaimer: This book is also available for purchase as a DRM-free ePub or Mobi from Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Drive-Thru Fiction, Google Play, and Rakuten Kobo.
8 321Huh....... neat. (Apocalyptic Realm x male "Latino" reader)
This will be my second story so far. But don't expect to get chapter every week.
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