The Eternal
A World of Ga’em Boxed Set
By Dhayaa Anbajagane
GATEWAY TO DANGER
The Eternal: Awakening
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
The Eternal: Dragonborn
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
The Eternal: Transcend
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
The Eternal: Infinity
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
The Eternal: Hellbringer
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
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The Eternal: Awakening
A World of Ga’em Novel
By Dhayaa Anbajagane
CHAPTER ONE
An infinite expanse of darkness.
That was all I could see. An empty void of nothing. Voices echoed through the black, reciting the sounds of words I could hear and yet didn’t know. Dots of faded colors formed before me, shades of deep sea blues and purple morning skies spiking my vision. They meant something. I could feel it, and yet I didn’t have the faintest clue what.
A wave of emotion passed through me, as though a blazing wind had shaken my very soul. The faint voices turned louder, power radiating with each sound that was spoken. The flow of unfamiliar words spun my mind, the archaic tones wrapping me like ropes of powerful poetry.
An unease spread through the darkness and the sounds suddenly stopped, without cause and without warning. One sole voice broke the silence, its tone ancient and powerful, its mysterious presence uttering but a single word. A word that I knew.
“Chaos.”
I gasped awake, my eyes wide, choking on the blood in my throat. Confusion riddled my mind, leaving it in utter disarray. I coughed hard and the metallic taste of the scarlet liquid filled my mouth. Pain thundered through my body as I lay on the ground, my mind and lungs competing to see which would collapse first.
I gritted my teeth as intense waves of pain radiated through my body. My hands clawed at the ground below me, the moist mud laying a chilling sensation on my skin. I turned my head to the side and coughed, spitting out the blood and opening up my windpipe. I relaxed all my muscles, focusing on just my breathing and nothing else.
Breathe in, breathe out. I calmed myself down. Puffs of air flowed through my body, rejuvenating it from within.
My pain slowly subsided with each passing moment of calm. My breathing returned to normal, giving my heart a fresh supply of air. I flexed my limbs but felt no pain, just discomfort.
I took in another deep breath and steadied my legs, hesitating for a moment before I stood up. There were a few purple bruises on my torso and shallow cuts on my limbs, but other than that I seemed fine. I felt much worse than I looked, though.
I squinted into the darkness, at the shadows all around me. Large trees surrounded me on all sides, their thick trunks not more than ten feet from one another. Moonlight filtered through the canopy, the gentle rays touching the ground only where the dense leaves let them in.
A forest, I noticed.
A chilling wind passed through me, cutting into my skin. The still trees did not look friendly, and the moonlit night only made them seem worse. Their leaf-studded branches stayed frozen and did not rustle, leaving an eerie silence in the air. My gaze shifted around the shadows, looking at the dark gaps between the trees. I wanted to find an exit, a way to leave this surreal place, but I could see nothing but black.
Just like before. I remembered the vision I’d had. A dream, I thought, but I didn’t believe it. My body shivered as the cold b
reeze blew over me once again, its blunt blades seeping into my cuts and wounds.
What am I even doing in this forest? I wondered, but I had no answer. I thought hard for a few seconds, and my eyes immediately widened. There was a greater question I was yet to answer.
Who am I?
I racked my brain, trying hard to find an answer, but none existed. I couldn’t remember a single thing about myself. Not who I was, what I was doing here, or why I’d woken up half-dead in the first place.
But it didn’t take me more than a second to figure out why that was.
I’d lost my memories.
A howl echoed through the sky, the tone resonating in the wind the way it broke into my distracted mind.
What was that? I shifted focus, gazing through the darkness.
The scurrying of footsteps broke the air, and a pair of faint red eyes emerged, glowing like blood moons. A shadow broke through the black and raced toward me. I turned around, ready to flee.
But it was too late.
One second I was on my feet and the next I found myself facedown on the ground, a heavy weight pinning me to the mud. Sharp teeth sank into my shoulder, digging into my flesh and bone. My mouth opened, but if I was screaming, I didn’t know it, for all I could hear was silence. A rush of blood surged into my ears, deafening me. The pain in my body peaked to unbearable levels and my senses numbed. Spots of white entered my vision, peppering the darkness around me.
I clenched my fists. I can’t faint here.
I lifted my head, shivering as I kept it raised and looked ahead. I noticed the ragged shape of a rock in the corner of my vision.
That. I reached out to the object, my weakened arm shaking as I lifted it up. My bloodied fingers wrapped around the rock, and I winced as its jagged edges dug into my skin.
I steadied my grip and jerked my hand back as hard as I could. A crunch sounded and a loud howl followed. The weight on my back eased up and I immediately scrambled forward. My hands brushed against the ground as I turned around, picking my head up and looking at my attacker.
A hunk of dark fur stood before me, a massive five-foot-tall canine frame. Its blood-red eyes glowed in the black night, and its fangs foamed as it looked at me.
A wolf, I realized. But something felt odd about this one, as if it were a wolf, but not a normal one.
The creature looked at me, its eyes the most haunting part of its presence. I resisted the urge to take a step back. Can’t aggravate it, I thought.
I looked right at the wolf, my eyes unwavering. The creature stood tall, its very presence intimidating me. I couldn’t run from it. It would come after me if I did, and come after me hard at that.
Let’s fight your way, then. I puffed my bloodied chest out, wincing as pain constricted me. I held my head straight, my eyes staring right into the wolf’s, my gaze bearing down on it.
The creature took a small step back, and its body language changed, its assertiveness quickly shifting to hesitation.
It’s working. I took a step forward. The wolf scurried back, now hunched over, its belly close to the ground. It looked at me for a second, its feet shuffling around, and then ran away, disappearing into the darkness faster than it had appeared.
I blinked. That was way too easy, I thought, but I wasn’t going to complain about it. Even if it wasn’t the best way to deal with a wolf, I was still alive and that was all that mattered.
My legs went numb and I collapsed to the ground, the fall opening wounds all over my body. Blood trickled down my skin, wetting my limbs. Damn it. I gasped in pain.
Breathe, I thought, taking in a whiff of air, but that wasn’t helping much.
The forest floor was damp beneath me, and the wet mud left a faint trace on my skin. I lay there in my twilight of pain, feeling burning coals under my skin one second and nothing the next. I let out a groan as my fingers ran over my arm, wet from the blood streaking them. I felt a sharp end poking out from behind my shoulder.
My eyes widened. A tooth? I felt around it a bit more. Ugh. A tooth. The damn wolf left this behind.
I had to get it out now. Leaving it embedded in my flesh wasn’t going to do me any good. I nervously felt the tooth, my fingers gripping it as hard as they could.
This isn’t going to feel good. I jerked on it and slid the sharp object out in one fluid motion. The numbness I’d felt before disappeared, and pain burst through my upper body. My free hand clasped my mouth, holding in my screams.
DING!
A noise sounded and a rectangular screen of translucent white faded in in front of me. I breathed heavily for a few seconds and let the pain in my shoulder subdue before looking at the text before me.
Warning!
You have reached critical health. Take evasive action immediately.
The Ga’em prompts. And then I blinked. Why the heck did I just think that?
A series of beeps resonated in my head. A hollow rectangular bar emerged in the corner of my vision. A small sliver of red filled the left side of the shape, and the color pulsated every second, in sync with the beeps.
My health bar, I thought, and then blinked a few more times. First the Ga’em prompts, now the health bar. Why do I know what all this is called?
A sharp burst of pain wrenched through my shoulder once again and I clenched my teeth. I needed to treat my wounds first. Intellectual contemplation could wait.
I pulled myself up from the ground and leaned on the closest tree. My feet wobbled, but I could hold my body up now, albeit with some support. Luckily for me, the trees were not that far from each other, which meant my next peg of support was only a little bit further than an arm’s reach away. I pushed myself off the trunk I was on and leaned on the one in front of me, holding myself there for a few seconds and letting my legs stabilize.
I kept doing this over and over, slumping from tree to tree as I moved through the forest. I’d gone about ten minutes and a hundred yards when a faint blue glow came from my right.
Interesting. I moved towards the light, still using the trees for support as I pushed myself.
A minute later, I stopped, the glow now much brighter than before. I peered ahead and my eyes immediately widened.
A spring, I thought, but that description did no justice to what I was seeing. A pool of glowing blue water stood before me. Wisps of warm vapor emanated from its depths, emerging from the liquid and dissipating into the winds. From where I was standing, I could still feel the warmth touch my wounds, soothing my pain.
DING!
The screen popped up.
Congratulations! You have found:
Spring of Healing!
The water from a Spring of Healing is said to hold mystical powers that can enhance an individual’s physical and/or mental prowess.
The Spring of Healing. The phrase rolled in my mind. I felt the urge to jump in, and I did not resist. I released my grip on the tree. My body stumbled forward and into the water.
I expected to feel heat on my skin, especially through my open wounds, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. A gentle warmth soaked me, like it wasn’t hot water pouring onto my skin, but a warm, fluffy cloth wrapping around me instead. My feet found the pool’s floor and I brought myself up, lifting my head above the surface.
DING!
You have been blessed by the Spring of Healing. All wounds have been healed. Mana Regeneration increased by 10%. Health Regeneration increased by 10%. Effects will wear off in 12 hours.
What? I stared at the screen. Mana Regeneration? Health Regeneration?
I looked down at my body. What the hell? A gasp left my lips. My wounds had all disappeared, as if they had never been there in the first place. I traced my fingers along my skin. What’s going on here?
A branch snapped. I froze, and my gaze pierced the darkness. My hands stayed still, unwilling to cause even a ripple in the water. A low growl ruptured the silent air, and by then I knew exactly what was coming after me.
The wolf.
D
ammit, I cursed. I waded to the far end of the spring. Can wolves swim? I wondered, but I already knew the answer to that.
Footsteps came from behind me and I hastened my movements. I jumped out of the water, and the cold winds licked my wet skin. I rushed away from the spring, legs flying over the ground. I didn’t look back even once.
Moonlight caught the drops of spring water falling off me, and the rays refracted into my eyes as beautiful midnight rainbows. I smiled, amused that something so mystical was forming in what was arguably the tensest moment I could remember.
Then again, I couldn’t really remember much.
A flurry of blue surged from behind me and stopped a few yards ahead. The sparkling lights died down, and the forms emerged from the darkness. Ugh. I’d made a very bad estimation about my attacker.
It wasn’t a wolf.
It was a whole pack of them.
A line of red eyes stared at me, the gray hunks growling. They stood twenty yards away, and their bodies were all encompassed by a light blue hue.
A speed buff, I thought. And then I frowned. This again?! Why the heck do I know all this?
The beasts stood their ground, not tearing their gazes from my body. I scanned their forms as well. If I was right in my conclusion, the wolf I’d attacked before was part of this pack.
Shouldn’t have hit it with a rock, I sighed. But I knew the fact that I’d done that was the only reason I was standing here alive.
For the moment, at least.
Another streak of light surged in, from the other side of the forest this time. The streak was a radiant red and stopped right before the wolves. A boom sounded, like a gentle clap of thunder, and a large wolf appeared from within the red. Its body was much darker, and it was about twice as big as the others. It raised its head to the air and howled, the tone reverberating through the forest floor.
Beads of sweat formed over my lips. The muscles in my legs tightened and I charged away. A chain of howls flowed through the air, crying out behind me.
I need to hide, I panicked. It’s the only—
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