Limitless, John Gold [best novels of all time .TXT] 📗
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I sprint toward the only spot my opponent can’t get into: my mine. It won’t be able to crawl in, and there’s a chance he’ll forget about me. The noise behind me disappears as I’m already in the air. He’s regained control, he’s looking at me with his X-ray eye, and I’m a goner.
LJ panics, and I grab hold off some roots just in time, leaving me hanging right at the edge of the hole. I can physically sense the darkness moving at the bottom. Evil, happy voices are murmuring away down there — I can’t go any lower.
Suddenly, it gets dark, and the air quivers with someone’s breath. The snake hovers in the air above the mine, looking down at his cornered prey. His rage and satisfaction strangle my consciousness. The bastard is so strong! Even my mental resistance isn’t enough to fight back, and the darkness at my feet starts to move. The snake opens its mouth to cut loose a ray of death.
“Dead star! Maximum!”
A black sphere of cooled magma shoots out of my hands. Using the borrowed health wrenches my wrist backward, and I fall into the abyss as I watch the pinnacle of Fire Magic.
“Leap.”
The farthest I have the strength to send myself is to the very edge of the mine. The snake is already rearing back, ready to use its strongest attacking ability.
“Gravitational well! Maximum!”
I’d rather die from falling than from the snake or the dead sun. As I soar up into the sky, I see my spell scoring a direct hit on the gigantic monster. Its head explodes, its eye is torn out of the socket, and its health quickly falls to zero. Father taught me quite a bit. One thing was the importance of looking for the vulnerable points on your opponent’s body, and the snake’s were his eye and his mouth during attack.
Level 2877 unlocked
5 attribute points available for distribution
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Level 2896 unlocked
95 attribute points available for distribution
Achievement received: Titanbane. Thirty-ninth rank.
Kill an opponent 1950 levels higher than you.
Reward: +195 to all attributes
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Achievement received: Titanbane. One hundred and forty-second rank.
Kill an opponent 7000 levels higher than you.
Reward: +710 to all attributes
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! That was unbelievable! I picked up 19 levels and +520 to all my attributes. All the attribute points available for distribution go straight to my intellect.
“Attribute window.”
Name: Sagie (Almark)
Level: 2896
Experience: 889660/30015620 (28192060 left until the next level)
Race: Human (demigod [unavailable])
Class: Mage
Basic attributes
Strength: 2271
Agility: 2271
Stamina: 10634
Intellect: 24542
Available attribute points: 0
Additional attributes
Speed: 500
Survivability: 1695
Derivative attributes
Physical damage: 1135.5 (strength/2, but no less than 1)
Carrying capacity: 5677 kg (strength*10/4)
Overall strength: 121590 (stamina*10+15250 from tattoos)
Mana: 91193 (overall strength*0.75)
Health: 30398 (overall strength*0.25)
Health and mana restoration: 16950/minute (mana*2)
Running speed: 184 km/h (1+speed/10)
Who wants a piece of this? Who wants to get shredded? I’m thrilled to see that I completely recover in just three minutes and can carry around more than five tons.
I love it when I can do the impossible. It’s been nine months and three weeks since I got to the Gray Lands, and I’ve gone beyond simply surviving to becoming much stronger even with an empty bag and my bare hands. My intellect is 25% higher; I know a bunch of new spells; I have new abilities, and a couple gifts have even found their way into my corner. I’m flying up in my gravitational well as fast as I can.
A kilometer in the air, my tree’s branches start, and I step off the “elevator.” I don’t have time to keep going higher.
When I get back down on the ground, I collect my humble trappings, including the table, the four chairs, the torches, and the wooden dishes. I’m a gourmet from now on!
I fill the mine in completely, worried that some kind of evil will emerge from it and come looking for me. No, it’s better off staying where it is.
After grabbing what I need for an altar, I dash over to the spot where I do all my experiments. It’s time to make some chimeric pets.
The bone hounds and wraiths are the fastest of the chimeric undead, so I make eleven dogs, each two meters at the withers. The perfect height for attacking humanoid races.
Undead, Hellish Bone Terror, Level 2896
They’re angry creatures, but they’re fun. And now, it’s time for my final preparations.
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∞ ∞ ∞
I’m tired.
After sleeping for twenty hours and then swimming four kilometers, I’m surprised to observe that I’m enjoying the swimming. Even the two extra kilometers I have to do for missing appointments don’t exhaust me. I decide to permanently bump my daily quota up to four.
∞ ∞ ∞
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When I was working on my magic, I sometimes ran experiments for two or three days straight. I did that for a reason, developing my ability to tolerate rage in preparation for this exact moment.
Grunt, Ownie, the hirelings, the library, different tournament entrants, and a variety of other evil characters I’ve met during my travels all come at me. Extortionists, crooks, thieves, and marauders, they’re all here—the filth of the earth I was dragged through way back when. yet it worries me that I haven’t come across Leon, Bernard, or Rachel. Even Leon’s head of security, Nate’s ugly mug pops up, all the way at Level 9587. He has some kind of unique scout/killer class, though I’m still able to sense him. But where is Leon?
I’m so engrossed in my thoughts, trying to quell the rage and find a logical answer to my questions, that I don’t notice an unusual stone wall in front of me. If I didn’t have such strong resistance to physical damage, I would have broken my nose and cracked my skull. What’s a wall doing here?
Sometimes, it’s better not to know that the wall in front of you is actually the ankle of a giant 500-meters tall.
Titan, Bernard, ???, Large Pantheon God
The stone moves, and I realize that there’s no way I can win. I’m not good enough to kill a god from the large pantheon at the zenith
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