《if i told you so。↠ michaeng》PRESENT (XIII)
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Chaeyoung went to the field while waiting for her bestfriend, Dahyun. She's still holding Mina's strawberry scented-handkerchief though.
"I wish I could stay like this forever." Chaeyoung said the rushing wind while fixing her ruffled hair.
She took her cellphone out to text Dahyun.
Luckily, Dahyun texted back as she heard her ringtone.
Chaeyoung streched her tiny legs up and saw a bruise on her left leg.
"Ahh, what the hell is this from?" Chaeyoung asked herself.
Her head starts to ache so hard as she slowly remembers the things that happened before.
"Chaengyoung-ah! Your leg!" Jeongyeon shouted as she commanded the others to retreat.
"It's okay, I'll take care of it!" Chaeyoung replied.
"Aish! Come over here, I'll put some bandages on you!" Jeongyeon said.
Soldier Chaeyoung started to crawl to prevent bullets coming from the other side.
"AHHH! What the-" Chaeyoung froze.
She didn't mind that 'flashback'. She just sat down and watched the cheerleading team as they continue to practice their stunts.
"Chaeyoung-ah!" Jeongyeon shouted from afar.
"OH! Annyeonghaseyo Jeong!" Chaeyoung said as she waved at the older.
"Oh, you guys knew each other now?" Nayeon asked Jeongyeon as she continued to fix her pom poms.
"Yeah we're chingus now." Jeongyeon said while smiling.
"Aigoo, stop smiling! You looked like a jerk." Nayeon said as she hit the older one's biceps.
"Aish Nayeon-ah! That hurts!" Jeongyeon said.
"Fine fine fine, I'm sorry." Nayeon replied.
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This is a slower-paced "experiment and dungeon building" web novel that tries to use the idea of peer-to-peer communication with Dungeon Cores instead of Dungeon to slave monster communication to break up the detailed dungeon building. Rank 1 description: (minimum met for system initialization...detailed description as follows) Each race was given a system by the gods to make up for their shortcomings and balance their place in this world. Humans: Abysmally bad at understanding and using magic unable to use more than the lowest of magic were given the "Skill System" magic in the form of premade skills with use, study, and mastery tied to experience. Elves: Intuitively understand magic and have long lives leading to vast knowledge and skill in their chosen fields. However, as a species, they have nearly zero sex drive and less than low fertility, so they were gifted the "World Tree System" with experience gained through the care of natural areas – gifting the chance of children to increase their numbers without dirty copulation. All “natural” or “wild” monsters are given an "Evolution system" designed around killing and consuming as many creatures as possible, slowly increasing strength and, at thresholds, allowing mutations to alter them multiple times. Dungeon cores are different. Unlike humans, they can see, manipulate and live off mana. Unlike Elves, they naturally crystallize after extended periods of time in high mana level areas. However, they cannot easily move or communicate and typically go insane without companionship. As a species other than the odd eccentric they are unimaginative. Brute forcing solutions without the drive to truly innovate. Thus they have been gifted with the "Dungeon Connection System" a magical version of the internet accessible by their peers that allows them to barter and sell: bait, traps, monsters, and knowledge, as well as entertain each other with “adventure streams” using exciting recorded battles and humorous reels of arrogant chumps biting off more than they can chew to often fatal effects. This is the casual story of a dungeon unluckily spawned far from potential adventurers forced to innovate beyond its peers to find its place in this world. Rank 2 Description: Justification. I've been on a dungeon core kick for months and while I love the genre – it's sparse with entries. Often the forced conflict gets repetitive and frantic solving of threats "power levels" the protagonist to god levels to progress the plot – taking away the nice steady progression fantasy I'm looking for. (Progression in this story is linked to how strong of monsters/traps/whatever he can create not his "level"...this is demonstrated by some of his newer monsters beating his older monsters not with discrete "this monster has 10 attack this one has 40") Additionally, the focus on 3rd parties with their drama takes away from the reason I’m reading dungeon core novels in the first place – I'm looking for magical crafting, experimentation and kingdom building – not defence from higher and higher levelled enemies looking to steal/destroy/control the MC. This novel is kind of just me writing the story I wish I could read. I like thinking about the experimentation that can be done in fantasy settings using 'mana' as an excuse to make up rules and try to keep them internally consistent. IE once I define how a rule works, I'm going to commit to keeping it – no breaking hard truths I've given when it's convenient, even if it backs me into a corner. Hopefully, that should make the story interesting to read even if it's SOL and less action-oriented. There will be problems to solve and a clear progression in strength (of created monsters and knowledge) however due to not wanting to force conflict for the sake of conflict the general theme will be closer to slice of life with few action sequences and no overarching goal so please keep that in mind when picking this up as the genre is not for everyone. Finally, I have a clear goal of what I want from this story (not an endless romp but a series of arcs and then a conclusion that's a couple of dozen medium-sized chapters long) I want to commit to finishing it or at least bringing it to a point of rest. I hate all the engaging stories that stop with a “hiatus” indefinitely so in the event I lose motivation I'll work to end this even if the ending becomes rushed/unsatisfying just to give a sense of closure. I’m planning on including several polls in terms of direction and taking feedback heavily into account if I get enough readers (but may choose to ignore it if it deviates too far from the direction I want to take this as in feedback like: “The MC needs a cartoonishly evil arch-enemy that wants to enslave him and force the mc to pump out magic items” or “the MC needs to make a body and learn teleportation then live with humans” will get shot down without consideration.)
8 258Cybernetic Dragon
Idea Seven, or Inter Dimensional Explorer Automaton Unit-7, has had a bit of an accident. Hijacking the egg of a dragon rather than its intended target of a bird egg, it isn't fully in control of its host brain. Rather the two, dragon and cybernetic AI interface, must work together to survive in a hostile world of magic, dungeons, beasts and adventurers. The AI must deal with being a machine from a world of science trying to carry out its mission of exploration, while the dragon, Rex, must deal with being a cyborg living with symbiotic nanotech that sets him apart from other dragons. What adventures await them? Author Note: I tagged this story GameLit because it contains concepts like levels, classes, and dungeon/beast cores. But, it isn't tagged LitRPG because no one has status screens, other than occasionally Idea Seven who likes to organize data into blue boxes. It isn't a natural function of the world to display level ups or skill ups with an announcer voice. I mention this to set expectations, because otherwise I feel like LitRPG fans might be disappointed by my lack of LitRPG elements while others might be turned off thinking I have a lot of LitRPG elements. I think that if you approach the story with an open mind you will appreciate the gradual way in which the main character learns and expands his understanding of how the world works, but the game mechanics aren't meant to take center stage to the actual story.
8 402RENAISSANCE. A Constantine Palaiologos Self insert story
RENAISSANCE is an alternate history science fiction novel/Wikipedia.55-year-old American book sales executive and ex silkscreen craftsman Michael Jameston wakes up in the body of Constantine Palaiologos, Despot of Morea, and soon to be the last Byzantine emperor.James initially wonders whether he is dreaming or delusional, but he quickly accepts his fate and sets out to survive. As a silkscreen printmaker, antique weapons collector, and alternate history geek, he has enough understanding of various devices used before his time but after the fifteenth century to be able to reproduce them by the means available.Let's explore together the new world that our protagonist will create!
8 73My job and adventure as a Technomancer
Alduin Vul, a 6th year college student, who was minding his own business while running towards his residence, so happens to die from a plane crash.Waking up, he finds himself unhurt, but with different changes which he discovered soon after. He looks around, seeing that he is in an abandoned resident. Not long after, he opened the inventory which has a gift box inside it. Opening it, a series of cheat like objects were given to him.Follow the adventures of Alduin Vul where he would coincidentally find himself in a couple of conspiracies along the way.
8 144Path
Ancients exist. Gods battle. Relics are treasured. Races with different innate abilities.A world where options aren't bound by fate or destiny. Everyone can twist their road of life as long as they have power.People who have special abilities are called [Anomaly] that can be said to practice the gods techniques and can forge a body alike to the gods.But what do you call someone with abilities that exceeds an [Anomaly] ?Behold the story of Draenol as a being that exceeds an [Anomaly].-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(I would highly appreciate it if you guys give me some reviews, even if it's not a constructive one or just something like a rant about how I write the story.)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'll be doing chapters around 1k words each now because I think I've finished laying out the foundation of the story. However, if you guys think that it needs more dialogue, I'll be happy to input that. Although I say that, the following chapters that I'll be uploading will be more or less straight to the point to give a faster feeling for the plot. Don't worry though, I'm not going to abandon writing the intricate details, especially the ones that you guys need to know in order to have knowledge of the world that they're in, and the lore that I'm weaving.
8 65Lost In the Void. (Monster Evolution LitRpg)
Lost little light given to the Void as a sacrifice to the monsters. He wanders through the broken reality trying to survive the monstrosities that roam around fighting and killing each other. Chaos rules in the abyss of the Void. Hope is all this little light has, can become strong he become strong enough to thrive, or will he be devoured? Beware of the Mother, For she always watches. And Nothing can escape from her sight. By Deven. C. Kelly LitRpg Monster Evolution
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