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Legends Online Universe
The Complete First Arc of the LitRPG Series (Books 1-4)
Jonathan Yanez
Ross Buzzell
Contents
Stay Informed
Genesis
1. Good Morning ViewTube
2. Sliders
3. Tanner’s Folly
4. Home Base
5. Boots are Made for Walkin’
6. Lapideous
7. Market
8. A Night to Remember?
9. Hunter or Hunted
10. Hunter
11. Alpha
12. Trade In
13. Armors and Lives
14. Returning Home
15. Gearing Up
16. Helping Hands
17. Caves
18. Arachnophobia
19. Where Others Failed
20. A Request of Friends
21. On Another Quest
22. To Lapideous and Beyond!
23. Horseback
24. Pressing On
25. Through the Night
26. Corruption
27. Legendary
28. A Walk in the Woods
29. Always Plan Ahead
30. Never Anger a Dwarf
31. Justice
32. Freedom
33. Mobrebalku
34. To Catch a Killer
35. Explanation
36. Racing Home
37. War
38. Sometimes Dead was Better
39. Gearing Up
40. Traversal
41. King’s Castle
42. Bridges
43. Into the Castle
44. Truth Comes Out
45. Forward
46. The Dark King
47. Respawn
48. Next Step
Epilogue
Dungeon of the Gods
1. Reunion
2. Another Adventure
3. Acheri
4. Swamp
5. Hastur Round I
6. Toxins
7. Omni-Lingual
8. Re-Equip
9. Poison Control
10. Heart of the Issue
11. The Children
12. Dungeon of God I
13. Dungeon Crawl
14. The Guard
15. The Fate of Ibura
16. Gods
17. Hastur Round II
18. Mire
19. Paying Pirates
20. The Boat Man
21. Sirens
22. Fire & Ash
23. The Muse
24. Dungeon of God II
25. Deeper
26. Library
27. Demogorgon
28. Feather
29. From the Ashes
30. Quests Completed
31. I Have 12% of a Plan
32. How to Train a Dragon
33. Home Sweet Home
34. True Skill of a Dwarf
35. Griffins
36. Track-down
37. Wave One, The Field
38. Wave Two Artillery
39. Dungeon of God III
40. Hastur Round III
41. Goodbyes
Epilogue
Pathfinder
1. Scout
2. Rescue
3. Return Home
4. Regroup
5. Dressing for a Feast
6. The Feast
7. Plain
8. How to Kill a Dragon
9. Pressing On
10. Sigtuna
11. A New Mission
12. Into the Wild
13. What Comes at Night
14. Riddles
15. Catacombs
16. Deeper
17. Phoenix
18. Total Recall
19. Lights in the Dark
20. The Library
21. Whomsoever is Worthy
22. Two Down
23. Refugees
24. The Test
25. Return
26. New Skills
27. A Good Book
28. Return to Form
29. Bad News
30. Drap
31. I Am Become Death
32. Valka’s Heart
33. The Great Serpent
34. The Great Turn
35. Good Zombie Bad Zombie
36. Find a Way Through
37. Yggdrasil
38. Ragnarök
39. Incoming
40. Face the Music
41. Banished
42. The Road Ahead
43. Tribute to a Friend
44. A New Home
45. Settling In
Epilogue
Ultima
1. Glitch
2. Canyons
3. Xlotos
4. The Aid of a Necromancer
5. Manama
6. Guardian
7. Truth of the Matter
8. Through and Out
9. Oasis
10. With Friends Like These
11. Scouting Party
12. All Luck, No Skill
13. Keepers
14. Goddess of Love
15. Words of a Mortal
16. God of Death
17. New Village
18. Night Flight
19. New Oasis
20. Order of the White Moon
21. Moon Forge
22. Boat Ride
23. Returning the Favor
24. Returning Home
25. Repel
26. Dragon 2.0
27. The Price of Treason
28. Scars
29. Love of a Brother
30. Order of the Phoenix
31. Ocean Breeze
32. “Ghost” Town
33. Vampire Masquerade
34. War of the Dead
35. Yo-Ho Yo-Ho
36. High Seas
37. And Monsters
38. Escort Mission
39. Moot
40. Stubbornness of a Dwarf
41. Home
42. Reunion
43. The Field
44. Charge
45. War
46. Of Gods
47. Endgame
Epilogue
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Note from Ross
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Genesis
Legends Online Book Two
1
Good Morning ViewTube
The old
car’s brakes squeaked as Ray came to a stop in front of BranCo Industries. Grabbing his handheld video camera, he opened his car door. It started to sag ever so slightly. After stepping out, Ray lifted the door in an effort to close it.
Pressing the “lock” button on his car fob out of habit, he heard no beep. It hadn’t worked for months now. Ray smirked at his old, beat-up car. He’d owned it since high school, and fifteen years later, it still served him well. They’d been through hell and back together, only the car showed more of that adventure than he did.
Ray glanced at an enormous hangar-like building before him with a BranCo Industries logo plastered on its corner. A high fence with razor wire encircled the structure. The logo was a shield with a cross in the middle. An armed guard approached as Ray walked up to the fence’s gate. Ray eyed the man’s rather large weapon and laughed to himself.
These guys take their games really seriously! he thought to himself. Do they really need firearms or do they just like wearing them because it makes them feel cool?
Ray reached into his jacket pocket, pulling out a formal invitation for a site visit. The guard took one look at the paper and grunted, waving Ray into the fenced off area around the structure. Ray gave a sigh of relief. He was by no means a small guy and was more than capable of handling himself, but compared to the guards that patrolled this facility, he seemed to be a shrimp.
Standing before the hangar-like structure was a Japanese man dressed in an expensive suit that probably cost more than Ray made in a month. The man offered Ray a warm smile.
Oh crap, am I supposed to bow? Ray wondered. Is that racist?
Ray stopped short of the man with an awkward half-bow that he hoped was sufficient.
“Mr. Matsimoto, it is an honor to be here.”
To Ray’s relief, Mr. Matsimoto bowed back. Ray stood head and shoulders above the man, but while Ray had height on him, Mr. Matsimoto had billions on Ray.
“The honor is mine,” Mr. Matsimoto said with another warm smile. “Your reputation precedes you and we feel with your viewership and track record, the worries about our new product will be laid to rest.”
Mr. Matsimoto’s accent was thick, but Ray was able to understand him just fine. Holding his camera up, Ray flipped open its viewing screen.
“Would you mind if I did a live stream of your facilities?” Ray asked.
Mr. Matsimoto motioned for Ray to enter their facilities.
“Please, be our guest.” Mr. Matsimoto replied.
Ray pulled a jerry-rigged selfie stick out of the inside of his jacket and attached his camera to it. Ray synced the camera to his ViewTube account for a live stream, noticing that out of his fifteen million subscribers, almost two hundred thousand were online. Holding his stick out, Ray framed himself with the BranCo Industries facility set as his backdrop, making sure to get their logo in the picture.
“Good morning, Sunbeams! I’m Ray Robbins coming to you live from sunny southern California at BranCo Industries, where I will be taking you on a tour of the newest step in video gaming technology. With me is CEO Hiro Matsimoto, who would like to fill us in a little bit about what I will be showing you today.”
Ray swiveled his camera to Mr. Matsimoto, who gave a toothy smile and waved.
“Good morning. Today, you will be seeing the newest innovation in video gaming technology. We have designed a completely immersive virtual experience from the ground up. But telling you about it is the boring part. I will let Ray show you.” Mr. Matsimoto kept his intro brief while waving for Ray to follow.
Ray kept his camera rolling as they entered the facility.
“Mr. Matsimoto, what kind of games do you have lined up for your players?” Ray asked as they entered the significantly darker building. “I’m sure they’d love to know as much as you’re willing to share.”
“Right now, it is an RPG with the most advanced A.I. programmed for the NPCs so that no two playthroughs are the same,” Mr. Matsimoto continued as they wound through a maze of hallways. “It’s something truly remarkable, if I do say so myself.”
“And how is the immersion?” Ray added to his list of questions.
“We have a day-to-year system integrated into our games. One real world day is equal to one year in game. We are constantly tweaking to enhance that mechanic for our three levels of immersion,” Mr. Matsimoto responded. “In game, where there is no difference from a Virtual Reality set, immerses where you put on a motion-capture suit and move on a track pad and life.”
Life. Now that sounds like an interesting setting. It piqued Ray’s interest.
“And what does the ‘life’ setting do?” Ray’s words were tentative, not wanting to push too far too fast.
Mr. Matsimoto waved Ray forward as they approached a set of double doors.
“Why don’t you find out?” Mr. Matsimoto teased as he pushed the double doors open.
Ray stepped into a much larger room. Ray’s jaw hit the floor so hard, it could have registered on the Richter Scale. A sense of awe washed over him as his gaze, and his camera, followed the miles of wire that fed from all corners of the room into a singular reclined chair.
It reminded Ray of the bed used by the bad samurai guy in one of Hugh Jackman’s hero movies before his character’s powers were stolen. Ray’s heart pounded in his chest out of excitement.
Never before in his thirty-three years had he seen anything remotely close to this. Like a child on Christmas Day, Ray looked over at Mr. Matsimoto for permission to approach. The businessman nodded, complying with his visible wish.
“What is this thing?” Ray marveled.
Ray climbed the small platform the gaming system sat on and ran his fingers over the cool interface.
“I am the Neural Gaming Interface, or N.G.I. for short. Would you like to run a demo?” a robotic voice called out from speakers hidden within the room.
Ray panned his camera around. His viewership spiked to nearly a million people viewing, with hundreds of thousands of likes and comments on his live feed. Ray waved one of the guards over to him. Mr. Matsimoto nodded, allowing the smaller of his personal bodyguards to approach Ray. Ray handed the camera off to the guard.
“Okay, just keep me in frame, and if Mr. Matsimoto or one of your techs wants to talk about what is going on, then go ahead. There’s no such thing as too much information,” Ray exclaimed.
As Ray climbed onto the cool recliner, he felt it contour and morph around him before changing to a temperature at which he hardly felt the contouring device around him. A light beamed down from the ceiling as a technician spoke in the background. Ray’s heart pounded so hard in his chest, he hardly noticed what the technician was saying.
“We are now scanning Ray’s body for automated projection into our virtual world. On ‘life’ level immersion,” Mr. Matsimoto explained, “the scans even duplicate an individual’s brain waves to aid in complete immersion. Mr. Robbins, you may feel a novel sensation. It is completely normal.”
Ray nodded as he closed his eyes. The moment he did, white words that read “LOADING” seemed to project onto the inside of his eyelids. A strange tingling sensation washed over his body. After several moments, Ray could swear he felt a breeze on his face, something that should have been impossible inside of a closed-off hangar bay. A small blip of light crested on the horizon before growing brighter and brighter with each passing second. It was a sunrise.
Ray took several steps forward. His brain told him everything he was seeing was digital, but his eyes were struggling to differentiate reality from the game.