Sixth Realm Part 2: A litRPG Fantasy series (The Ten Realms Book 7)
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Repair the Wood beast-controlling formations (3/3)
Repair the containment formation
Repair containment formation sub-arrays (0/12)
Repair the Wood floor’s main control formation
Repair the Wood floor’s secondary control formations (12/12)
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Rewards:
+1,200,000 EXP
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Quest Complete: Restoring Beast Mountains Dungeon Part 5
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Congratulations! You have taken control of the Beast Mountains Dungeon. Its condition isn’t the best and it will require work to repair. I hope you brought a hammer! Or crafters.
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Requirements:
Repair the main Mana Gathering formation
Repair the secondary Mana Gathering formations (10/10)
Repair the Water Beast controlling formations (3/3)
Repair the containment formation
Repair containment formation sub-arrays (0/12)
Repair the Water Floor’s Main Control formation
Repair Water Floor’s Secondary control formations (16/16)
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Rewards:
+1,200,000 EXP
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It descended like a god’s hammer, passing through the center of the elemental pillars. While much smaller, but it’s mana density was much higher.
Egbert watched it descend through the Water floor’s main formation.
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Quest Complete: Restoring Beast Mountains Dungeon Part 6
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Congratulations! You have taken control of the Beast Mountains Dungeon. Its condition isn’t the best, and it will require work to repair. I hope you brought a hammer! Or crafters.
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Requirements:
Repair and Control the Metal floor
Repair and Control the Earth floor
Repair and Control the Fire floor
Repair and Control the Wood floor
Repair and Control the Water floor
Repair and Control the Living floor
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Rewards:
+1,200,000 EXP
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Quest Completed: Dungeon Master
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Your Masters have returned your dungeon to its former glory. Advancement quests are unlocked. Grow your dungeon’s power!
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Requirements:
Increase your dungeon core’s grade to Sky Grand
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Rewards
60,000,000 EXP
Dungeon Master Title V
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Nothing happened for a few seconds. Then the entire floor shook violently; ice cracked, and the seas shuddered.
“What?” Egbert yelled.
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Quest: Upgrade the First Realm
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Well, it looks like you took the hammer route! For the greatness of the Ten Realms, you are forging ahead! With your contributions, we will all become stronger!
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Requirements:
Continue drilling into the depths of the First Realm.
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Rewards:
Ten Realms Dukedom
Receive a Four-Star Hero Emblem; must be collected from the Tenth Imperium’s Quartermaster
+400,000,000 EXP
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“WHAT!”
“Egbert, what the hell is going on? I just got a quest!” Delilah yelled in her office.
Egbert was always looking for people calling him, so he picked up on it immediately.
“Shit.”
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Quest: Dungeon Master
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Your Masters have returned your dungeon to its former glory. Advancement quests are unlocked. Grow your dungeon’s power!
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Requirements:
Increase your dungeon core’s grade to Celestial Common Grade
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Rewards
100,000,000 EXP
Dungeon Master Title VI
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“No, no—it can’t be true.” Mistress Mercy stared at the name on the page. A shiver ran through her.
She read it out once again. “Domonos Silaz from the First Realm. Recruited by Elder Hui in Chonglu city at the Annual Beast Mountain trial. Reached the Third Realm. Found to be stealing from other Willful Institute students.”
Mercy remembered the young man she had whipped after her competition with the Stone Spear sect. She had taken out all her anger on that young man. His face was always bruised or cut.
“It couldn’t be.”
She glared at the information.
“Could it?”
She placed the page on the table. Unknown and unseen, one of the three answering statues within Vuzgal’s underground that recorded everything that touched any Vuzgal surface, with a priority on anything around the Willful Institute representatives, activated.
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Across Realms, Across Worlds
“You miss him, don’t you?” Fred sat down next to Racquel.
“I do,” Racquel said. “Though I want to explore as well.” Her vertical slit eyes reflected the turquoise sea.
Fred took a deep breath, watching the boats that entered the port city below.
The waters boiled over as a beast as large as a whale charged a ship getting close to the shore.
A formation activated. Wind cut through the ferocious beast, and its blood stained the water.
The ship passed without sparing a second glance.
Comparing it against the whale-sized beast, the ship was the size of twenty whales from tail-to-mouth long and five wide.
It wasn’t a ship but a mobile city.
“Well, you have to pick one.” Fred’s hand turned into tree limbs, scratching the back of his head.
“There are so many wonders in the Eighth Realm. Even demi-humans from the Fourth Realm seem boring.”
A part of the port city rose, glowing with runes. It floated up, and Wind mages activated their grand magic. The entire floating city picked up speed.
Smaller air ships weaved across the sky, landing at the port city or heading off to other locations.
“I wonder if we had seen all of this before we were locked inside the dungeon if we would have been able to last for so long.” Fred waved his hand,s and it retracted into a human hand.
“I wonder how the Alvans, how Erik and Rugrat, have been.”
“Do you think that Rugrat could win in a fight?”
“You have spent too much time inside the arenas. You’re getting quite the reputation for yourself. Does it matter if he can win against you in a fight?”
Racquel’s eyes moved side to side.
“You’re looking for an excuse to go and see him. We owe them a great debt. While there are many grand things in the higher realms, one needs to warn them about the truth. About the empire, about how the Ten Realms was created, and about the dungeon lords.” Fred’s expression turned serious.
Ships as large as towers crossed the waters, and the skies and continued on their journeys.
Even this forest is a small park here.
Fred contemplated the city that spread in every direction. The distant mountains that had been taken over by the smiths. The rolling fields and layered growing houses that the alchemists worked in. The grand towers that reached into the sky, surrounded by flying devices as formation masters claimed this technological marvel.
A pyramid of three cities stacked upon one another created its own mountain.
Associations had sub-cities within the sprawling metropolis that covered the land, weaving between the mountains. Sects claimed entire ranges as their own. Islands created by the inhabitants dotted the sea, harvesting beasts or resources d
eep under the sea.
Fred’s eyes fell on the simple towers that dotted the land. The buildings were ancient, standing for countless centuries. Around them, the land had been cleared away, with lines of people waiting to enter.
“I never imagined it like this,” Racquel said.
“There are still many mysteries in the Ten Realms.”
“Momma Rodriguez, did you hear about the fighter’s competition?” A large man covered in scars and with large, bulging muscles said as he entered a simple restaurant.
“You just walked into my restaurant, and you are already yelling!” a woman’s voice came from the kitchen in the back of the restaurant.
“Sorry, Momma Rodriguez!” The large man cowered slightly, as if he were about to get hit.
“Good that you are learning some manners. Haven’t you had more girls talk to you now you don’t have those piercings?”
The man’s face turned red as his companions stared at him with raised eyebrows.
“I came with some guests!” he pleaded.
The door opened, and people might think that a dragon would walk out from the kitchen by the way the man reacted.
A smaller lady walked out with a wooden spoon.
“Ledell, why are you so scared?” one of the people in the group asked in a low voice.
Ledell stood taller, as if defending the woman he had been scared of just moments before. “Momma Rodriguez is a fierce lady. Don’t cross her.” He stared into all their eyes, and they were more confused than before.
“I hope you are all hungry! I have been working on tacos, though I’m not sure if you’ll be able to handle my hot sauce!” She gave them a kind smile and patted Ledell’s arm. She didn’t even reach his shoulders, but, somehow, she was even more intimidating.
There was a sadness in her eyes that disappeared as soon as it had appeared.
“Come on, grab a seat. Lusia, five iced teas!” Momma Rodriguez headed into the back of the restaurant.
“Why didn’t you join in on the Vuzgal fighter’s competition?” one of Ledell’s friends asked him.
“Join in? I think I would just be asking to be humiliated. They were the elites from the Fighter’s Association and our Adventurer’s Guild. I don’t have even half the power of the branch heads and their enforcers.”
“Did you get to see the mysterious lords?”
“I saw them through screens. They wore masks and cloaks, so it was hard to see what they looked like.”
“I wonder what they’re like,” a lady in a blue robe said as Lusia served them iced tea.
“Five tacos, side of hot sauce,” Ledell asked.
“Coming right up.”
“I can take it,” a woman wearing a purple shirt said.
“I’m sure you can. Just test it out first,” Ledell said.
“No one sees them since they defended Vuzgal and the associations. There are rumors that say they are fighters and crafters. That they are stronger than anyone of their level.” A man in a green shirt leaned forward, excited to share his gossip.
“What do you know?” Ledell snorted.
“I know that there are two leaders of the Vuzgal military, that one of the forces marched off somewhere and have not been heard of since. At the same time, people who are trained up by the Dragon Regiment disappeared through the totem.”
“What are you saying?” Ledell frowned.
More people entered the restaurant and quickly took a seat. Lusia served them.
“Wow!” The woman wearing the blue dress looked at her iced tea in surprise, making those glance over. She gazed at her iced tea as if it were the nectar of life.
“Right?” Ledell grinned.
The others drank from their drinks, showing surprised and pleased expressions.
“Lusia, another round!” Ledell said.
“Coming right up!” she yelled back. More people were coming in for the evening rush. It was a modest restaurant, but there was always a line that ran down the street when dinner time came around.
“I’m saying that the whole of Vuzgal is mysterious. Half the army is who knows where, crafters popping out of nowhere, sworn to Vuzgal. People say they are a force from the association, that the whole attack was staged to showcase their power!”
“They wiped out three sects completely and auctioned off their cities.” The lady in blue shivered.
“Vuzgal is interesting.” Ledell thought of the strange buildings, of the crafters, and even the basic facilities. “I don’t know of another place like it in the Fourth Realm.”
The tacos arrived shortly. Everyone tried to pull the soft tacos together, but with their inexperience, they left food all over their plates. They didn’t care for their appearances, and they kept eating.
“I thought there were a few places in the Fourth Realm that sold actual food. Doesn’t Vuzgal have places that sell food?”
“Bah, the Sky Reaching Restaurants might sound impressive, but they are nothing compared to Momma Rodriguez’s food!” Ledell said.
“You said their deep-fried chicken was to die for,” the lady in purple said.
Ledell waved his arms, holding her mouth shut.
“Fried chicken?” A voice came from the door into the kitchen. Momma Rodriguez stood there, staring at the table.
“I spoke wrong—” Ledell started.
Momma Rodriguez walked over, but she didn’t seem to hear him. She stood at the edge of the table. “They had fried chicken, deep-fried cornflake chicken?”
“Y-yes, though it was not as good as your homemade dishes!” Ledell looked as if he wanted to cry or hide in the folds of his seat.
“What is this Sky Reaching Restaurant?” Her eyes fell on the man in green.
“It showed up in the Third Realm first. They say they are associated with the city lords.”
“These city lords. What are they like?” Momma Rodriguez asked.
“They don’t show themselves. People say that they are crafters and fighters.”
“What do they look like?”
“They wear masks, and they haven’t been seen in public much. One is tall; the other is shorter. They both have a lot of muscle.”
“What are their names?” Momma Rodriguez looked as though she wanted to climb over the table and shake the man in green. He was starting to sweat.
“They, uh, the first one, Erik? Uhh his last name was,” He tapped his head.
“West? I think and the other was Rugrat?”
Everyone’s faces turned pale as they felt Momma Rodriguez’s aura run out of control and begin fluctuating.
They cowered as Momma Rodriguez shook, tears running down her face.
“Is something wrong?” Ledell asked, unafraid.
“This place. Where is it?”
“Vuzgal, the independent city?”
“Have you been there before?” she asked.
“I have.”
“Take me there.” Momma Rodriguez took off her apron and tossed it into her storage ring.
“Now? Why are we going to Vuzgal? You can’t beat up the cooks for their fried chicken!” Ledell said, following her.
“I’m going to find my boys!” she yelled, marching out the door.
“Lusia, watch the shop!”
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Table of Contents
1 King’s Hill Evolution
2 Sixth Realm Position
3 Across Dungeon Lands
4 First Annual Crafter’s Competition
5 Rudimentary Design
6 Rest and Recuperation
7 Conqueror’s Armor
8 Lord’s Return
9 Alva Production
10 Applying Pressure and Incentives
11 Calm Before the Storm
12 Chapter: Alva’s Technology Sector
13 Congregation of Experts
14 Military Actions
15 From the Tiger’s Mouth
16 Light at the End of the Tunnel
17 Truths and Misdirection
18 Earth Knowledge Meets Ten Realms Reality
19 Rise of the Beast Mountain Range
20 Raising King’s Hill
21 Insight into Body Cultivation
22 Tactics Transformed Through Technology
23 New Tempering Path
24 By Land, by Air
25 Cultivation Maniacs
26 Unrest in the Institute
27 Taking Resources
28 Calm Surface, Raging Depths
29 Fall of a City
30 From Afar
31 Keeping Up Appearances
32 Rear Echelon
33 A United Front
34 Progress
35 Gearing Up
36 Vuzgal’s Second Annual Fighter’s Competition
37 Qualifiers
38 Cooperation? Aren’t We Cooperating Already?
39 A Small Force?
40 Breaking into the Top 100
41 Beware the Unseen Enemy
42 Committed
43 Turbulence for the Willful Institute
44 Level Heads
45 Meokar