Limitless by John Gold (best e reader for android txt) 📕

My astral source is still half full, so I keep going toward Tanatos. I am attacked by six natural gods, two more raid bosses, and a whole flock of giant seagulls. The latter actually cheer me up, as seeing them means I’m getting close to land.

The Tanatos shoreline is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. There are enormous statues visible from several kilometers away, standing at least five hundred meters tall and sculpted to look like humans. It’s not the first time I’ve seen art pieces like that, though I haven’t been able to find any mention of what era they were made in or by whom.

The entire shoreline is one steep cliff that makes the statues look even taller. I have to climb up to get to the island of the gods.

Great place of strength

Mana restoration speed +200%

Global event: A human stepped foot on Tanatos for the first time.

Global event: The great monsters from the ocean deep have been awakened. The world’s monsters have begun to invade.

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Plezara was a residential area in one of the colonies on the face of the Moon. The people living there were high-income even by Moon standards, and it was built as a four-kilometer circle of spacious apartment buildings around a park that duplicated the flora and fauna found on Earth.

Figiraldina Elmaro pulled herself out of her med capsule with difficulty and headed toward the kitchen. Regardless of how mentally exhausted she was, she had a proud smile on her face. She’d witnessed a global event and even directly participated in it. In fact, as soon as the global message had gone out, Leon had sent her a generous reward. The young god apologized for the inconveniences he’d caused her, wished her the best of luck in her future endeavors, and promised military aid if she ever needed it. It was only then that Fiji realized that Leon also had his mind set on a trip to Tanatos. Rumors were going round about his interest in the location, and there was even a department within the Golden Hand focused solely on preparing warriors for an attack on the island. Leon hid the whole thing behind the banner of preparing for war with the other gods, the only problem being that the warriors had been training for awfully specific types of conflict that had nothing to do with the other gods. Leon couldn’t declare open war on the natural divinities and the population of Tanatos. They could have destroyed him and his clan if they so desired.

When Fiji turned twenty, she moved out of her parents’ house and rented an apartment in Plezara. She met her other half, Akane Kitoji, or Ekron, half a year later. When Sagie left for the Gray Lands, the girls started spending all their free time together, and the trust they shared gradually grew. Ultimately, Roni admitted that she was from the second generation, a citizen of Lunar. She had incredible amounts of inborn strength, but Fiji had already grasped the difference in their development potential. Ekron’s was almost at the ceiling already. In fact, she’d started her path in Project Chrysalis in order to raise it. Fiji had also started her path in Project Chrysalis, though more because she didn’t have a choice. And after she met Sagie, she was able to go much farther than her own potential would have taken her. Figiraldina Elmaro was part of the fourth generation, with just a minuscule portion of the abilities previous generations had, not to mention a miserly development potential. But she had worked hard, investing heavily in her future and the person she could end up becoming. In her eleven years in the game, it had meant constantly leveling-up, building her survivability, and mastering the art of battle. And all this was just a foundation she could use to become someone in the outside world.

The smell of freshly brewed coffee pulled Akane from the bed, bringing her tiptoeing quietly to the kitchen. She embraced Fiji tenderly, kissed her on the cheek, and playfully nibbled at her ear. Any man who saw her would have assumed she was no more than twenty, though the more experienced among them could tell by her speech that she was much older. Her body was strong. Agility and grace coupled with a delicate feminine love for all things beautiful and fragile. And compared to her, that’s exactly how Fiji looked. The couple brought together strength of character, extensive life experience, childlike inquisitiveness, and a love for the whole world.

The day before, both of them had left the waters that washed ashore on Tanatos and gotten to Airis Castle just as an ancient divinity had bolted out of the abyss. It was an enormous dragon with stumps in place of wings. That was perfectly fine, however, as no wings could have been powerful enough to lift its island-sized hulk up into the air. It was pitch-black, and it fell asleep as soon as it crawled out of a fissure in the planet’s crust on the Ovidius shore. Lava trickled off its body; its health bar dropped down to 30%. But two hours of rest regained it another 20%, and that was apparently enough for the ancient divinity to fly off in search of cities and villages to destroy. It ate anything that lived as if they were tasty snacks. It gobbled up villages and scorched fields. The council of young gods put together a continent-wide quest, collecting all available players and mercenaries, requesting aid from the magic societies in all the nations, and pulling nomadic tribes into the cities. Even their combined might turned out to be too little, however.

Mage swordsmen and paladins came after the dragon, but they just didn’t have enough resistance to the fire aura the ancient divinity was putting out. Even Margul never had that kind of size or survivability. Niamir, which was the dragon’s name, could regrow the scales in his armor faster than the mages