LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 12: Tuesday
Spears of light pierced through Tom’s eyes and straight into his brain. He raised his arms to block the light and shut his eyes as tightly as he could. His hand bumped into his haptic gear. Had he fallen asleep in the game? That made sense, as he had already fallen asleep once today or yesterday.
He pulled the haptic gear off, his head catching his ears as he took them off. He winced at the pain. He must have put on the helmet wrong and crushed his ear.
His eyes winced shut from the overhead fluorescent lights. The moment he did, His ears were assaulted by a roar like a lion getting raped by an elephant. Whatever made that sound was right in front of him, but he couldn’t force his eyes open.
The roaring continued. The air around Tom vibrated with sound, and he could feel the warmth of breath on his face. He scooted back in his seat. Slowly, the muscles in his eyelids started to relax, and he was able to crack his eyes open. And He immediately wished he hadn’t.
Sitting directly across from him in a little dinky office chair was some kind of Lizardman. A monster. Not some dude in a costume – a real fucking flesh-and-blood monster, and it looked pissed. Its right arm, which might have been as thick around as Tom's waist, reached across its massive chest and … tried to rip off the haptic gear that was awkwardly placed over its reptilian head. Tom tried to get to his feet and run, but the moment his feet hit the floor, he was hit with a sense of vertigo and stumbled forward, crashing first into the table and then onto the floor.
The monster finally seemed to have given up and violently ripped off the haptic gear, sending the expensive rig crashing into a wall. The lizard man's motions were too much for the little office chair, which finally collapsed under the monster's bulk, sending it crashing to the floor.
“Wharrapuck?” said the monster.
Then Chloe's scream cut through all of the morning fog.
"MONSTER!!" she screamed.
Tom spun to see his little sister holding onto Lucy's neck as she stared at the lizardman.
Two new screams pried Tom’s attention away from the giant monster in front of him. He wasn’t alone in here with the creature, which was some small comfort, but who the hell were these people?
The first one was a squirrel. A literal squirrel man, he was honestly cute, and he knew it was a he because he was naked in a pile of clothes too big for him with his chestnuts out. Standing at just three feet tall, covered in thick fur, with a bushy tail. His coat was a warm brown color with accents of light tan around his belly, tail, and ears. His eyes were a pair of curious blue that gleamed with mischief and intelligence and a small button nose that twitched with excitement. His most notable feature is a long, fluffy tail that was almost as long as his entire body.
The other one was a taller woman who he was forced to describe as a pornstar. No other description summed her up quite as well. She had light caramel skin, and her hair was a messy mane of spun blonde hair. Despite wearing sweats, it looked like her tits were about to rip through her sweatshirt, and her massive ass had already ripped open her pants. She also had pointed ears, so she was probably an elf. Despite all that, her eyes were the most eye-catching. Golden irises looked back at him with confusion. She looked suspiciously like …
<[Analyze Person] has Reached Level 2>
<[Analyze Person] has Reached Level 3>
<...>
<[Analyze Person] has Reached Level 8>
"Alex?" Tom asked.
"Huh," she responded.
“Huh?” said the monster. Its mouth hung open, giving everyone a clear view of the very sharp teeth inside.
"Holy shit," the squirrel said in a voice that immediately made Tom think of Alvin and the chipmunks.
The squirrel guy jumped to his feet and lept backwards like a frightened cat, drawing two moonstone shortswords. The big-tittied woman summoned a giant fireball. Tom summoned a glyph as things started to look like they were about to turn nasty. But Then, just as the fighting was about to start, Tom began to notice his surroundings. He was in Alex's house, and Chloe was behind him crying. He was in the game room where all of his friends were, and now he was surrounded by a bunch of strangers…
"This can't actually be real?" he muttered to himself
The monster turned to look at him. "Toooom?"
The monster was wearing clothes. Hector's clothes only ripped like he had just hulked out. Tom shook his head. There was an easy way to check all of this.
"[Augurs Eye]," Tom said immediately. Everyone in the room turned to face him, their weapons raised.
Name: Alexandra Ling
Titles: Beta tester
Race: Sun Elf
Type: Humanoid / Unlife
Level: 10 (Hedge Wizardess MAX)
Immune: None
Resist: None
Weak: None
Bane: Manslayer
HP: 250
Stamina: 450
MP: 1,000
Personal skills: Manifold Chanting, Solar Metabolism, Storage, Mapping, System Wiki, Mana Super Session,
Hedge Wizardess skills: Arcane Awakening, Arcane Shell, Charged Attack Ⅰ, Multi-cast Ⅰ, Synchronized Chanting, Grimiour
Description: This beta-tester played Legend of Noralon for six years before the integration and is well in command of her magic. However, she is currently confused about her situation.
Name: Abaddon (Hector)
Titles: Beta tester
Race: Lizardman
Type: Humanoid / Giant
Level: 10 (Giantslayer 10)
Immune: Poison
Resist: Physical, Disease
Weak: Frost, Mind
Bane: Manslayer, Scaleslayer, Giantslayer
HP: 900
Stamina: 1600
MP: 200
Personal skills: Storage, Mapping, System Wiki, Immortality, Tooth and claw, Hardened scales, Siege Breaker
Giantslayer skills: Immortal Fists, Monster lifeforce (Giant), Giant Slayer, Second Wind, Endless Brawler, Legendary Strength
Description: Abaddon is a beta-tester who played Legend of Noralon for six years before the integration. He is well in command of his power. Once known as Hector, now as Abaddon, he is confused and deals with minor body dysmorphia.
Name: Skippy (Sawyer Owens)
Titles Beta tester
Race: Squirrel Therianthrope
Type: Humanoid / Beast
Level: 10 (Swordsman Max)
Immune: none
Resist Frost, Air
Weak: Fire
Bane: Manslayer, Beastslayer,
HP: 250
Stamina: 350
MP: 200
Skills: Stamina Burn, Ratatoskr's Stash, Mapping, System Wiki, Blades,
Swordsman Skills: Power strike, Piercing strike, Far strike, Venom Strike, Soul Strike, Manifold Strike
Description: He is a beta-tester who played Legend of Noralon for six years before the integration and is well in command of his power. Skippy is confused and dealing with major body dysmorphia.
<[Augurs Eye] has Reached Level 7>
"God dammit!" Tom swore as he dropped his glyphs.
"Guys, it's us, it's me, Tom. The lizard is Hector, she's Alex, and Skippy … why are you a cute squirrel?" Tom asked as he clutched his head. Blood was running from his nose.
All at once, his friends stopped preparing to kill each other as they took a moment to properly assess their surroundings.
Tom, realizing Chloe was still crying, went over to his sister to try to calm her down.
"Tom?" she asked as she looked at him.
Tom winced as Chloe looked at him without really recognizing him. It hurt more than he expected.
"It's okay, Chloe. It's me and the guys. See nothing wrong," Tom said. "I promise you it's just … a costume."
"It is?" Chloe asked wide-eyed
"Yeah," Tom said. "Here, watch."
Tom pulled at his ears and stuck out his tongue, making Chloe giggle. But the ears didn't come off; in fact, his new pointed ears felt painfully real. A part of his brain prodded him; he had been using magic just a second ago, and he shouldn't be able to do that either. With deft hands, he wove together a spell, and a cluster of glowing butterflies burst from his hands.
"Pretty," Chloe whispered.
"That is so fucking gay," Skippy said.
Chloe instantly forgot about her worries as she reached out to try to touch the butterflies.
Meanwhile, Tom was having an internal panic attack. He was a half-elf, he was his in-game avatar, and he could use magic! What the hell was going on? That's when something horrible occurred to him. What if it wasn't just them? He quickly used [Augurs Eye] on his sister.
DING!!!
Name: Chloe Bruner
Titles: None
Race: Human (may be changed to half-elf for no cost)
Type: Humanoid
Level: 1 (Tamer 1)
Immune: None
Resist None
Weak: None
Bane: Manslayer
HP: 40
Stamina: 40
MP: 0
Personal Skills: Pursuit Hunter, Storyteller
Tamer Skills: Animal Companion
Tom immediately checked Lucy.
Name: Lucy
Race: Black Doodle
Type: Beast
Level: 5
Class/Race: Guard Dog 3 / Dark Hound 1 / Burning Hound 1
Immune: None
Resist: Fire, Dark, Cold
Weak: None
Bane: Beastslayer
HP: 250
Stamina: 350
MP: 200
Personal Skills: Man's Best Friend
Guard Dog Skills: Super Sniffer, Guard Dog,
Dark Hound Skills: Dark Magic
Burning Hound Skills: Fire Magic
He was equal parts concerned and relieved at the fact that Chloe had turned Lucy into her own magical guard dog. Tom pulled himself away from his sister to look back at the rest of the group, clutching his head.
"So, as a side note, magic is real," Tom said as he tried to cast a spell to heal himself; his hp had already dropped to the 50% marker just from using [Augurs Eye]
Hector was still clearly freaking out.
“Whashgoingon?” asked Hector.
"I think we all know the answer to that," Tom said.
"Do we?" Skippy asked, his voice high and squeaky "Do we really? Maybe you should enlighten the rest of us. Because I, for one, would like to know why you look like Link from the legend of Zelda, why I'm a furry, Alex looks like she belongs on pornhub, Hector is a roided out lizard and why we are all dressed up in gay Renaissance fair costume."
"Yeah, I have no idea about the how or even the why. But we are very obviously in the game."
“This is going to be so fucking awesome.!” Alex said as she blasted her wall with a Spark bolt.
"This can't be the game," Skippy said, sounding like Alvin the chipmunk.
"You're adorable," Alex cooed.
"Eat my taint, Alex," Skippy shot back. "This can't be the game."
"And yet it is," Alex said.
“Is it?” asked Skippy. “Is it really? Maybe you should enlighten the rest of us. Because I, for one, don't know why I'm fucking furry. Alex is a fantasy porn star, and Hector is an eight-foot-tall crocodile?”
"I thought we already established we're in a video game." Tom pointed out.
"I think he's still freaking out," Alex cut in.
"No, we aren't. I'm pretty sure the legend of noralon didn't have Alex's house as an explorable location or computers or Tom's little sister as an NPC," Skippy shouted pointedly.
The effect was ruined by sounding like he was huffing helium.
"Aporkalipse," Hector mouthed.
"What?' Tom asked, turning to look at his friend.
Hector was moving his lips and tongue around.
"Apor, apap, apacolipse, syt, systam apakalypse. System Apackalipse" Hector muttered, slowly clearing his throat. "Ok, I think I goot thisss, it's a Ssssystem Apocalypssse,"
Hector's voice was substantially deeper and more gravely than before.
"Oh, good to see that speech impediment that's not going to be a thing," Tom muttered.
"What the fuck is a system apocalypse?" Skippy asked.
"The world becomes a video game, monsters show up, and society collapses, which might explain this situation," Tom said.
"That sounds retarded," Skippy said.
"That's what your mom said last night." Alex shot back.
"I was supposed to be going to Florida this spring!!" Skippy groaned as he scratched at his head.
"Tom, why are you all dressed up?" Chloe asked.
"Um, we all went to Magic Land and returned with superpowers, but now we all look like this," Tom said. "It's not a costume, sorry/"
"Can you teach me magic!" Chloe asked, immediately forgetting everything that had just happened.
"Of course I … we can. But right now, I think the important thing is … Alex, Why are you fondling yourself?" Tom hissed out the last part as he placed his hands over Chloe's eyes.
Alex looked up at them from where she had been fondling her brand-new giant tits.
"What part about I'm going to be a big titty girl next time did you not understand?"
"Uh, hu, and why are you groping yourself?"
"Don't knock it till you try it. This is fucking awesome. Though I wonder?" Alex Then slid a hand down her pants to start playing with her sex.
"Oh my god, it's so much more sensitive!"
"Fucking perv," Skippy muttered as he threw an empty pop can at her head.
Alex didn't even react to the pop can hitting her in the head.
"Hey now, no kink shaming in the guild. Besides, if you suddenly had tits like these, you would be foundling yourself all day too. They feel amazing." she moaned as she played with herself.
Skippy face palmed while Tom tried and failed to look away.
"Guuyss, there's an eight-year-old in the room. PGss-thirrteeeen," Hector said
Alex jerked her hands away from her privates as if she had just been caught masturbating instead of openly masturbating in public like a perv.
"We are all going to die," Skippy muttered.
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Name: Tom Bruner
Race: Half-Elf ()
Type: Humanoid
LVL: 10
SubRace: High Elf / Caucasian
Age 18
Health: 350
Stamina: 450
Mana: 1600
Health Regen: 5.0 per hour
Stamina Regen: 5.0 per min
Mana Regen: 10.0 per min
Titles: Beta-Tester
Immune
None
Resistances
Mental 6% Soul 6%
Weakness
None
Bane
Manslayer
Classes: Augur 10
Total
STR: 10
AGIL: 10
DEX: 10
CON: 30
END: 10
PER: 100
INT: 90
WILL: 80
SPIRIT: 20
EGO: 10
CHA: 60
LCK: 10
Base
STR: 10
AGIL: 10
DEX: 10
CON: 30
END: 10
PER: 100
INT: 90
WILL: 80
SPIRIT: 20
EGO: 10
CHA: 60
LCK: 10
Personal: +4 PER +4 WILL +3 INT +3 CHA
Racial: +3 WILL +2 CON +2 CHA +1 SPIRIT
Bloodline: +5 PER +5 INT
Level Bonus: +1 to all Stats
Bloodline:
[Bloodline of the Keeper of Akashic Records]—Forgotten: Through your vein runs the blood of the forgotten Keepers of the Akashic Records. These monks, scribes, and scholars helped create the system, and within their blood are the keys to its secrets.
Bloodline Skills:
- [The Pen is Mightier than the Sword] - Level 14
- [Words Will Always Retain their Power] - Level 13
- [Library of Akashic Records] - Level 10
- [Universal] - Level 8
- [Wordsmith] - Level 11
- [My Mind is My Temple, My Soul the Altar] - Level 6
- [Thirst for Knowledge] - Level 1
- [Visions of Akashic Records] - Level 1
- [Soul Forge] - Level 6
+5 PER per level
+5 INT per level
Skill Slots: 10/60: Skill Points: 1
Personal Skills
- [Party Leader] - Level 5
- [Analyze Person] - Level 1 >> Level 8
- [Best of Both Worlds] - Level 7
- [Storage] - Level 12
- [Mapping] - Level 2
Augur 05/16
- [Augurs Eye] - Level 6 >> Level 7
- [Bright Arts] - Level 19
- [Art of Life] - Level 2
- [Prophetic Meditation] - Level 8
- [Far Seeing] - Level 1