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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

  Stay Informed

  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.