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

“All right.”

A portal opens to our left, and another of Tiamat’s waves of strength tosses us into it. How do they break the world’s rules like that? You’re not supposed to be able to use telekinesis on objects that have their own aura. You can lift corpses, but not living people. You can pick up a branch, but not a blossoming tree. But Tiamat and the devil both proved that it’s possible.

We have to head back to Tanatos. Reiji starts experiencing emotions, only now with the ability to control them. And he keeps following me no matter how much I try to tell him not to. Femida was able to rehabilitate herself and Ekron in the eyes of society, so she’s been helping get the seven gods’ alliance ready to move on Tanatos. But if Reiji is noticed and outed as my new companion, his new life will be ruined. Still, I can’t convince him to go his own way.

“I owe you, and I don’t care what other people think.”

There’s less than a month left before the strongest fighters in the seven gods’ army have leveled-up high enough to help with the portal. I spend that month getting ready to meet my potential adversaries with everything I have, building on my current advantages.

I grow seven or eight new locations for the herald of the creator achievement, turning to crazy paratrooper once it’s maxed out. Reiji gets a huge kick out of the name and the way you have to get it. As I go through the ridiculous experiment, he asks to keep me company.

How high can a tree grow when you spend a year actively feeding it and stimulating its growth with Life Magic? Not to mention the explosions of evolution it earns when I activate the resonance and use my panacea. I never would have thought that a tree could have roots forty kilometers long. It takes us days to climb up to the top, after which I use a gravitational well to send us flying seventy-five kilometers up into the mesosphere. We take continuous mental and physical damage, and I realize what killed Talamei in the Gray Lands. There’s no air and you can’t hear anything.

It’s time. A little more, and all this will be for nothing when we leave my tree’s zone.

Sagie, has anyone ever told you that you’re crazy? Who in their right mind would jump from the mesosphere, from seventy-five kilometers up? Gravity is barely holding us in orbit.

You forgot about acceleration, my friend.

What acceleration?

Fourth-order resonance activated

This acceleration!

My base speed is 5 m/s, my amplification spell gets me to 50 m/s, six streams of consciousness to 300 m/s, and activating the resonance…to 3 km/s.

Fourth-order resonance deactivated

Congratulations, Reiji! You’re going to be the first person to get the crazy space marine achievement.

You’re out of your mind! We’re almost at orbital velocity!

We dive head-first into the crown of my tree, shooting right through it. Reiji is out ahead of me to cut a hole in the mountain with his head; my feet come flying in behind him. The locals presumably think a meteor just struck. Reiji weighs around a hundred kilograms, coming in faster than a shell from a Gauss rifle. The second-and-a-half difference at the beginning results in a difference of four and a half kilometers at the end. In fact, I land in the rocky rubble his powerful head left behind.

Achievement received: Crazy paratrooper. Seventy-fifth rank.

Survive a fall from a height of at least seventy-five kilometers.

Reward: +750 to all attributes

Picking up a new cockroach rank would be easier than surviving a fall like that, so I decided to be done with it and spend the rest of my time writing this letter to you, Sagie. Humanity is going to have its fight with the keeper of the portal in the next couple days. It isn’t the future that scares me; it’s how uncertain everything is. There are too many questions, and the stakes are too high. So many factors go into saying what will happen after we open the portal. Death could use my parents as leverage to get me to do things; Leon and the old gods could send seekers to kill them again. Plus, there’s that thing that’s been watching me from the astral ever since I first noticed the energy coming from the cube. But what if it’s the one instilling in me the value I place on my family and parents, how much I care for their love, and how important they are to me? What kind of capability does it have in terms of emotional manipulation? What kinds of methods does it use? How do you tell the difference between emotions placed in you and the ones you feel naturally? If I love my parents, how do I make sure it isn’t because I’m being forced to? And why am I so tied to them? If you ever read these lines, just forgot about my doubts. Love isn’t experienced for the sake of it. It’s all about harmony, and parents and family create that harmony. We all have free essences that can be harmful when we don’t have a family or significant other to ground us. The desire to be recognized, to love, and to be loved is key to those free essences. People who can’t find an outlet for that desire retard their development, eventually even destroying their personality. A long time ago, Femida’s company saved me from becoming a bloodthirsty psychopath. Then, there was LJ and his undivided love for people regardless of the pain they inflicted on him. Reiji and Claude came after them, although I didn’t recognize what was happening at the time. I craved their recognition and love, I gave them gifts, and just enjoyed talking with them. But they were all just surrogates for my parents and a significant other. It’s your family that gives you harmony, that soothes your mind, and gives you