《Battlefield NYC (LitRPG Apocalypse)》Chapter 38: Another Sane Man
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He returned his attention back to the hospital. They needed to find supplies for Sophie.
"How do we clear these rooms?" he asked aloud as he stepped through the open doorway.
Jacob followed him immediately, while Sophie lingered in the entranceway. She seemed reluctant to enter, like she wanted to make sure no one else would come in from the other side, so Lance stopped next to her and tried to think of a way he could help without endangering himself any further than he already had.
As before, the two men went into the first room on the left and quickly cleared it of any monsters who might have survived there.
There was a dead one lying on the ground, a grey lump of flesh around the size of a child.
"Do you know what kind of monster this is?" Lance asked aloud still wondering if they were dealing with more than just humans like them—maybe even people who'd had their abilities removed.
Sophie shook her head; she didn't seem too familiar with this particular type of monster: "I don't recognize it." Then she shrugged. "It looks like something that came out of a video game though—like it's some sort of mutant or genetic experiment gone wrong."
"Oh my God," Grace said upon seeing the corpse. "Was that a kid?"
Both Sophie and Jacob turned towards her at once, clearly confused by his reaction. Before anyone else could say anything, however, the door behind him opened up and someone else entered the building, which drew all three of them' attention immediately. It wasn't immediately hostile; in fact, he seemed to be holding a gun in his hand, but he was looking directly back down the hallway and hadn't yet seen the group of survivors.
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the guy was thinking.
Hm. Lance hadn't even consciously activated [Mindread].
He used [Assess] on the man, and...
[Ray Adams, Lv. 2 Human]
Ah. Had he just been hiding the whole time?
Jacob was already approaching from Lance's left with his fists at the ready while Sophie went around the other side of Ray—who had stopped dead when they had appeared—and started searching through the drawers on one of the beds. Grace came into view as well: she'd found a rifle like the one Lance was using--though she held it awkwardly with both hands—and was slowly turning it over in her fingers like she couldn't believe it was real.
"Oh my God, please tell me you're not one of the monsters," Ray said, finally noticing them. He held the pistol up, but his grip was shaky.
Sophie raised her weapon to point towards him before saying anything else. "What are you doing here?"
Ray flinched back, startled by how quickly the two girls could move, but he didn't raise his gun again. Instead, he lowered it to his side and turned away to hide behind himself so that he wasn't directly facing them anymore.
Lance nodded at Sophie and motioned for Jacob to step back too. Then he put his gun down and approached cautiously.
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Rune
In the world of Rune, there are two kinds of Players. The Crafters, and the Fighters. Fighters level their magic power, fueling the runic items from their own bodies, while crafters use the runes they bring back to develop powerful items using their knowledge of the electronic-like system. Not everything stays that simple, though, and Rune is no exception. Within each region, a number of guilds have sprung up, operating as the unaccountable vanguard of defense for the besieged cities. They don't care to deal fairly, and nobody else has the power to do much about it. (Harem is tagged but it's honestly polyamory. I hate the word harem but given that some people would interpret it as such, in it goes.)
8 208Death's Dancer
Death’s Dancer is the most powerful supervillain in the world. Or at least she will be soon. As the newest graduate of the world’s only academy for supervillains, she has one month to prove her skills by terrorizing the city of Toronto and defeating its resident superhero, Fireball. Should she fail, the powerful organization that paid for her schooling will make sure she remains ordinary, powerless Delphi Dunn forever. But Delphi is well-armed with a kickass evil ballerina costume, the ability to mentally alter inanimate objects, and a love of the spotlight. It won’t be long before the city is trembling at her feet. Death’s Dancer’s first day on the job starts with a bank robbery and a narrow escape from Fireball, and it isn’t long before she’s hijacking television broadcasts and blowing up buildings. But when Death’s Dancer’s crimes turn deadly, Delphi finds herself caught between her two identities. With time running out and Fireball hot on her tail, Delphi must decide if she has what it takes to be a supervillain. Hers is not the only deadly secret in the city however, and the choice might already be out of her hands.
8 105The Year Before Eternity
A retelling of the classic tale, Beauty and the Beast. After 100 years, Kieran Pietre Erik, Crown Prince of Gaerin, has lost his chance to break the curse that befell his kingdom. Now, he lives for all eternity as the beast. The only people left alive in the abandoned castle to keep him at bay are a maid, her child, and the Prince's guard. Stuck in an endless cycle, they've lost all hope of freedom. Until someone resets the curse. Astrid Delacroix is beautiful and intelligent - and vain. She longs to be free of her boring life in her small hometown, where she has to put up with the small-minded. She toys with the people around her; she knows she doesn't belong in their world. The only things keeping her from running are her ill father and their crippling finances. When her father, in a desperate attempt to steal a rose made of solid gold from an abandoned castle, is held captive by a beast, Astrid switches one form of captivity for another. But her attempts to gain her freedom trap her into the curse that imprisons the castle's inhabitants. Now, with a new addition to the curse, they are given one, final year to free themselves from this neverending nightmare.
8 215Cards of the Royal Guard
Within the laws of the world, only 16 people are allowed to obtain a given "name". The Gods deemed these 16 people as the rightful rulers of the world and demanded that any being who obtains a name would be punished. They designated one person to become the "Queen" of the 15 people. Once the "Queen" was chosen, "Queen" was then allowed to name 15 other people as the chosen ones to her Royal Guard. A chance encounter with Queen gave birth to King's name and with that he became the first to be named as one of her Royal Guard. Hidden beneath her smiling gestures of kindness towards King, Queen bears a daring spirit against the rules of God. Her agenda? To obtain the right for humans to give names to themselves so that everyone may be of equal value. But to do that, she must first find a way to break the ruling of the Gods and the various problems surrounding "names".
8 101Eternalite
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8 205King Trollex's Adventures: The First Rockfest
And they said being Transformed could not have got so wrong . . .Join King Trollex and Queen Barb as they begin the first Rockfest with a united Troll Kingdom. After the events of TWT, Trollex felt sad for Barb's World Tour not finishing with the end. so he decided to make the first ever Rock Zombie Fluids. Everything felt fine for Trollex, but what about the other trolls?
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