All Chapters of Avid Gamer In The Apocalypse : Chapter 331
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But little Orion was not listening to reason. He was ten years old. He was looking at a sea of scary, dirty faces yelling at him.He remembered his father's words. “Peasants are dangerous animals. If you show them weakness, they will bite you.”Panic started to rise in the boy's chest. His breathing got faster. He felt a hot, scary feeling in his stomach. It was pure, childish terror. He thought the monsters were going to break the glass and come eat him."They are going to break my toys!" Orion screamed. Tears formed in his eyes. He backed up until he bumped into the golden throne. "I am the Lord! I am the master! They have to listen to me!"The glowing blue ring on Orion's finger reacted to his extreme panic.Because of his Bloodline Authority, the System listened to his emotions. The System did not care that he was just a scared little boy. The System only saw a Level 10 Noble who felt threatened.A massive blue holographic control panel popped up in the air right in front of Orion
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Tobis let out a breath of pure relief. He sat up. He had survived. Then, he looked around.The street in front of the Glass Gate was completely destroyed. The ground was scorched black.And there were hundreds of people missing. Where they had been standing, there were only burn marks on the stone. There were no bodies, because the System weapons had completely deleted them. Fathers, mothers, children. Gone. Erased from existence in thirty seconds.The surviving people began to wail. It was a sound of absolute, broken heartbreak. Women screamed for their husbands. Children cried for their mothers.Tobis sat in the mud, holding his daughter tightly. He stared at the beautiful, shining glass of the inner city.Inside the city, little Lord Orion sat on his golden throne. He was shaking. He had watched the red lasers on the screen. He saw the people disappear."They... they went away," Orion whispered. He looked at Varis. "I made the monsters go away, Varis."Varis stared at the screen. H
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The sky over District Four was a thick, dirty gray. It always looked like it was going to rain, but it only ever rained dry, black ash.Everett walked through the narrow, muddy streets. He wore his long, dark cloak. The heavy chain-sword was strapped securely to his broad back. His boots made a soft, squishing sound in the mud. Squish. Squish. Squish.He was completely alone.An hour ago, back in the dark underground bunker, Lyra had grabbed his arm. She had seen the cold, dead look in his green eyes. She knew where he was going. She knew what he was going to do."Let Silas and the Dust Runners go with you," Lyra had begged, holding him tightly. "You cannot fight a noble house alone. They have the Bloodline Guard.""No," Everett had told her gently, pulling his arm away. "Silas has a good heart. You have a good heart. If you come with me today, your hearts will break. What I am going to do... it is not for good people to see.""You are a good person, Everett," Lyra had cried."I used
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Out marched the Bloodline Guard.There were ten of them. They did not look like normal soldiers. They were terrifying.They wore armor made of black steel and bright gold. They did not wear helmets. They wanted Everett to see their perfect, beautiful, arrogant faces.Floating above each of their heads was a glowing blue System panel.Everett read the panels quickly.NAME: Guard VaneBLOODLINE: Minor NobleINHERITED TRAITS: Titan Skin, Lightning Step.NAME: Guard KaelenBLOODLINE: Minor NobleINHERITED TRAITS: Fire Blood, Weapon Mastery.These were not men who had trained for twenty years. These were young men, maybe twenty years old. But they were born with elite, stacked genetics. They had been given the strongest skills in the world simply because of their last names. The System had turned them into living, breathing genetic weapons.The Captain of the Guard, a tall, handsome man with blonde hair, stepped forward. He held two long, curved swords that glowed with purple magic."You s
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The bloodline system had not created gods. It had created arrogant, foolish children who did not know the value of a human life, including their own. They were just meat shields for the rich."Stop!" the Captain of the Guard screamed.Only the Captain and one other guard were left alive. They were backing up toward the heavy wooden doors of the palace. They were shaking violently. The purple magic on the Captain's swords was flickering."My trait is Lightning Step!" the Captain yelled, panic completely taking over his mind. "My trait is Titan Skin! I am a Level 80 Noble! You cannot kill me!""Your traits are just lines of code," Everett said slowly. He walked toward the Captain. Blood dripped from Everett’s face. His dark cloak was still smoking from the fire. The chain-sword roared in his hand. "Your code does not know how to suffer. Your code does not know how to survive."The Captain screamed and used his Lightning Step.He vanished into a blur of purple light. He was incredibly fa
Chapter 328
The walk back to the refugee camp felt like a thousand miles. Everett moved slowly through the dark, cold desert. The dry ash fell from the sky, landing on his broad shoulders. His dark cloak was torn and burned. His right hand was covered in dried, dark red blood. It was not his blood. It was the blood of the Elite Bloodline Guards.He did not feel like a hero. He did not feel proud. He only felt a heavy, cold emptiness in his chest.When Everett finally reached the edge of the camp, the starving people stepped back. They looked at him with wide, frightened eyes. They saw the blood dripping from his heavy chain-sword. They saw the dark, dead look in his green eyes. Mothers pulled their children into their dirty tents. Men looked down at the mud.Everett did not say a word to them. He understood their fear. He was afraid of himself, too.He walked to the hidden metal door in the ground and climbed down the ladder into the underground bunker.Inside the bunker, the air was warm from t
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Rae typed a few commands, trying to look behind the message. She was trying to read the deep code of the System itself."Oh no," Rae whispered. She pushed her glasses up her nose. Her hands were shaking violently now. "Oh my god. I understand it now. I understand what the System wants.""Explain it, Rae," Everett commanded. His voice was calm, but his green eyes were dark.Rae turned her chair around. She looked at Everett with pure fear."Everett, we always thought the System was broken because bad people were using it," Rae said. Her voice was small. "But the System is just a machine. It does not have a heart. It does not know what 'good' and 'evil' mean. It does not care about justice.""Then what does it care about?" Silas asked angrily."Stability," Rae said. She pointed at the red screen. "The System was built thousands of years ago to save a dying planet. Its only goal is to keep civilization alive. It wants order. It wants rules. It wants everything in a neat, perfect little b
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"No!" Everett yelled. He moved faster than a shadow. He grabbed the barrel of Silas's rifle and pushed it down toward the floor."Everett, let go!" Silas argued. "They are going to kill you! They are a mob!""They are just hungry, desperate people," Everett said. His green eyes were completely calm, but deeply sad. "I just killed ten men today because they treated peasants like animals. I will not let you shoot the very people we are trying to save. I will not become the monster they think I am.""Then what do we do?" Silas yelled over the loud banging on the door. "We are trapped!""I will go out," Everett said smoothly. He let go of Silas's rifle. He reached back and unbuckled the heavy strap of his chain-sword.He took the massive weapon off his back and laid it gently on Rae’s desk."Everett, are you crazy?" Lyra cried. She ran to him and grabbed his arms. "You cannot go out there unarmed! They will tear you apart! They are blinded by the bounty!"Everett looked down at Lyra. He g
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"They are using you," Everett said, his voice dropping to a harsh, cold whisper. "They dropped the red lasers on you at the Glass Gate like you were trash. And now, they want you to do their dirty work for them. If you kill me, they will not give you a Bloodline Upgrade. They will laugh at you. They will take your daughter, and they will make her a servant for their own super-children. They do not share power, Tobis. They only build cages."The words hit the crowd like a bucket of freezing water.The fathers and mothers looked at each other. The spell of the golden bounty began to break. They remembered the red lasers. They remembered the cruelty.Tobis looked at the rusty pipe in his hands. He looked at the blood on Everett’s clothes. He realized that Everett had spilled that blood for them.Tobis let out a loud, broken sob.He dropped the heavy iron pipe. It fell into the mud with a soft thud.Tobis fell to his knees in the dirt in front of Everett. He buried his face in his hands a
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The Red Wastes were a terrible place. The ground was made of hard, dry red dirt and sharp black rocks. There were no trees. There was no water. The wind blew constantly, carrying sharp pieces of sand that cut the skin. During the day, the sun was a hot, angry eye in the sky. During the night, the air turned freezing cold, like ice touching the bones.Everett walked alone in the dark.He wore his dark, heavy cloak. The thick fabric was torn and burned from his fight with the Bloodline Guards at the Glass Gate. His heavy chain-sword was strapped tightly to his broad back. He walked slowly. His heavy black boots crunched on the dry red dirt. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.It had been three days since he left the refugee camp. He had walked away from Silas. He had walked away from Lyra. He had walked away from Rae and the thousands of starving people who had turned against him.He did not blame them. The giant red System Alert in the sky had called him a Destabilizing Variable. The System had