Atrophying

Cahira was never good at being a war elf. She was weak, bad at fighting, and just wanted to become a bard. So she leaves. But on her journey through the Eternal Forest and to the capital, she realizes that fighting skills would have definitely come in handy. After running into a cranky raven, she meets someone who will change her goals and her life forever. It's up to fate to decide if it's a good thing. Cover Art: x.com/kiyoudaya

Never-ending parade of new doctors and specialists was his normality. Slow loss of muscle control and pain were like constant background buzz. All this was irritating but easy to get used to in the long run. What really led him to ending things was the face of his mother. With each new treatment ending with a failure and sometimes with even more rapid decline. His mother's eyes were becoming a little bit more empty. With every day she had to observe her son slowly waste away. Her face became a little bit more worn. Once beautiful and cheerful women from his memories, become a shell of herself. Last straw that broke Camel back was overheard conversation between his mother and doctor. According to recent lab results his muscles were atrophying with such speed that it was a matter of mere days when his limbs stop working, leaving him unable to even scratch the itch, let alone take care of his daily needs. He knew his mother. She for sure without batting even an eye would take on this new role of caretaker, tending to him with wholehearted dedication. But he couldn't let her carry this burden. This was too much for a single mother to handle. So he convinced the doctor to perform euthanasia on him in secret. Mum will think her only son died from complications brought on by a lifelong disease but he passed away in his sleep, peacefully without the pain. This will soften the blow, at least he hopes so. Everything went according to the plan. And then came this pervasive witness and complete silence. But he didn’t have time to enjoy any of it. [ Hello player! Would you like to become a Hero and save The World?] [Yes] [YES!] ------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you mean I am the last hope for the world from a novel I read!?!

An invasion from another dimension is shut down by an Empire's traitor and the world has a scant few decades to build the strength to resist a multidimensional Empire. How will the world fair when no one even knows its doom is one barred gate away? Fortunately, the traitor has a plan. Maybe with a bit of luck and planning, he can build a force to defend the world without anyone realizing it. Author's Thoughts: What is litRPG (From wikipedia) - LitRPG, short for Literary Role Playing Game, is a literary genre combining the conventions of MMORPGs with science-fiction fantasy novels.[1] LitRPG is a literary genre where games or game-like challenges form an essential part of the story. A LitRPG work simultaneously narrates the story of characters inside and outside of the game-world. At least some of the characters in a LitRPG novel therefore understand that they are playing a game: they are 'meta-aware'. So, while Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is a fantasy novel, a book about people creating avatars and interacting in a Lord of the Rings MMORPG would be a LitRPG novel. Why do I read them? You know, I am not too sure. I love MMOs. I played them, quit them, joined up and repeated the cycle. They are fun! They are a massive waste of time but so are most games. Do I want to read about someone else playing them? Sort of? The advent of VR and the possibility of VR someday becoming so immersive that you can't tell them from reality sets the imagination on fire. What if this could be life? But most stories fall short. At the end of the day the protagonist hangs up his VR helmet and goes to have dinner with his mom and dad or other family and it becomes meaningless. It's like the story that ends because the main character woke up and nothing you read matters. There have been some books that explore the concept of the intersection of reality and total immersion VR. Enders Game is a classic. There were a few others that escape me but they exist, however, the cross between the game and reality is weak. So what if the game was real? The technology needed for total immersion VR is so advanced that by the time we reach that goal technology should have naturally evolved to include several items. You must have direct neural input. You simply can't have a total immersion (all senses and perfect presence) experience without this basic prerequisite. If you have direct neural access, you can probably do neat things like feed knowledge and skills directly to that person. You can undoubtedly do many horrible things as well. Muscles are controlled by the brain. If you control the brain why would you let the body just sit there and rot? A person that sits unmoving for 24 hours a day will have their body whither away just like a coma patient. However, if you control the brain you could control the muscles. On a basic level, this would be isometric impulses, working muscle group against muscle group to avoid atrophy. Taken to its logical conclusion you would be able to gain muscle mass and program muscle memory. The flip side is that you could remote control their body... but let's not go there. So what would people do if it were real? Well, they would probably limit and regulate it since the drawbacks are very obvious. Even if you look at the basic aspects of this you can see some negative possibilities. Look at the Sword Art Online anime. Personally, I think they missed the boat by putting a bomb in the VR helmet. Do you really need a bomb when you have direct access to the brain? So what kind of events would you need to have a situation where the obvious drawbacks haven't been explored? Maybe a society where the advancement of technology has so far outstripped the explorations of its applications that ignorance was truly bliss? Okay, so I had to put in an alien invasion to kickstart the premise, but that was just one of the possibilities.

What if forces were shapeless entities that guided the delicate balance of nature? What if forces constantly battled each other similarly to the way many mammals fight to stay alive? In this story, forces such as the structure of disease and atrophy are that of a shapeless being. One in which hopes to devour a boy named Samael; however, challenges do arise when there’s more than one force looking for a meal.

Qiao Lan transmigrated into a novel. She became a cannon-fodder who was rescued by the heroine after being bullied. But was jealous of the heroine because of her love for the hero and ultimately ended up miserable. When she first entered the novel, Qiao Lan met a cannon fodder more pitiful than her. He was bullied, severely autistic, and had crippled legs. Qiao Lan: … Thinking of the male partner who had only been able to live for two years, Qiao Lan had a distressed conscience and began to take care of the gloomy boy. Tan Mo is the most popular character in a best-selling novel. Fans are dissatisfied with Tan Mo’s bleak ending, so they wrote a fan-made novel featuring Tan Mo. In the book, Tan Mo had crippled legs when he was a child and was bullied. Later, he stood up again and became a powerful businessman. Many years ago, Tan Mo was still the gloomy young man who felt inferior because of his body. A friend laughed behind his back that he was a fool that could not stand. Tan Mo clenched his fingers on the wheelchair until they turned a stark white. Suddenly, a thin girl rushed in from the crowd and punched the laughing friend. Later, the girl gently pressed his atrophied legs, Tan Mo’s face turned pale, “Don’t look, it’s ugly.” Qiao Lan looked carefully, “It’s not ugly at all.” “Will you always stay with me?” “I will.” Tan Mo clasped her waist fiercely, “Then never leave me.” Qiao Lan nodded because Tan Mo only stayed alive for another two years. Two years later, Qiao Lan was hugged tightly by Tan Mo who was struggling to stand up. At that time, Qiao Lan realized that there seemed to be something wrong. She seemed to have transmigrated into the wrong book.

"With your wealth, I'll be an excellent father to your children," are the words of the unscrupulous doctor Saitski, who starts blackmailing Lavski, while at the same time he makes love to his wife. * If you wish for a book to make your heart beat faster If you wish for a mind blowing adventure If you wish to learn what true love is And why we would all do everything for someone we love… Then AGONY is the book for you * Ilarion Lavski, an eccentric millionaire, in the sixth decade of his life, in the dawn of the communist revolution, meets a young and ambitious journalist in unusual circumstances; he finds her unconscious in the park near his villa. Thrilled by her beauty he offers her a job as his personal secretary and assistant with an intention to keep her by his side. Accepting the job offered, Rakita Rodenska tries to forget the unsuccessful affair with doctor Saitski. The affection that is born in her towards her employer even more nourishes his wish to tie her to himself, he manages in this in exile, after they leave the country in a hurry the day before the bloody communist revolution. Their children are born abroad. Two twins. Their happiness is blurred when they find out that one of them is ill with epilepsy and neural muscular atrophy. Different from Emmanuel, the sick twin, the other son, Venjamin, shows intelligence above the average. The long years of expatriate life are finished with the collapse of the communist system, after the sudden death of the communist dictator. The family decides to come back to the fatherland. The father and the son prodigy leave as advance. Not long after their return to the old family house, they are visited by their relative, Solomon Pavski, theatrical director and actor. By the way, Pavski discovers that Ilarion Lavski is the author of the text he had been preparing for a theater play. On his way home he forgets his book. Tomorrow, on his way to the airport to get his family, Lavski goes to Pavski to return his book. He does not find him home, but he is met by his wife, Alexandra Pavski. In her, Ilarion Lavski recognizes his ex girl friend from the far away youth, and recognizes the awful truth, that he had married his own granddaughter, the child of his daughter from his relationship with Alexandra Pavski. Namely, Alexandra Pavski leaves him while pregnant and leaves abroad. The momentary thought to kill Alexandra Pavski is disturbed by the appearance of her guests. Broken by the size of the tragedy he drifts off the road in his car and hits a tree. He takes his hurt wife to hospital, and his sick son home. And while he considers the steps he should take to keep his family from destruction, his daughter (who still does not know he is her father) comes to his house. He still manages to kill the old woman, but not to hide the hideous truth. "With your wealth, I'll be an excellent father to your children," are the words of the unscrupulous doctor Saitski, who starts blackmailing Lavski, while at the same time he makes love to his wife.