Mad Dog - Chapter 34: Friends are not like friends, lovers are not like lovers

When gods gather, lightning will strike and the earth will move. Immortals! Which of the numerous way to immortality should one follow? Immortals are hard to seek, but why should immortals hide? Heaven has no mercy, but humans have emotions, and these emotions hinder the road to longevity!

Train the inner self to stay calm, train the external body to be resistant, then cross the three continents and four seas alone, and fight valiantly with demons and devils! With the heavenly baton in hand, raid the devils and demons without any resistance! Take one step to cross nine stars and chase the sword in the dreams! Traverse a thousand li of river and mountains in a single day! The exceptional beings do not mix with the ordinary! Within the universe, where can one find an obstacle! Moving like a dragon, with talent like a phoenix! The heavenly Daos and stars will guide one’s way!

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The biggest and highly anticipated full dive VRMMORPG: Nova online was set to launch in a few days.Alex Quinn a 20 years old college student who loved games had been waiting patiently for the release.But when the game was release, it took the world by surprise, being the highest played game in the world in just four months and quickly shutting down all other gaming companies, but the problem for Alex was the cost.Alex worked two part time job just to buy the cheapest VR helmet for the game, and then he began his adventure with excitement and hope to be one of the top players.But fate has something different planned out for him.[Connecting][Connected][Welcome to Nova Online]Do you want to create history or help others create history.

[P-CORE BIOS VER 7.3.1 INITIALIZING... 10%][30%][60%][90%][100%][SUBJECT Kael - GENETIC MARKER: PHOENIX PRIME - CONFIRMED][CRYO-STASIS SEQUENCE: ...100%][NEURAL PATHWAY: STABLE][VITAL SIGNS: DETECTED - SUBOPTIMAL][LOADING PHOENIX CORE AI - DESIGNATION: ASHA][ASHA ONLINE - AWAITING SUBJECT CONSCIOUSNESS]Asha: “Kael, your current objective is not to get eaten. My calculations give you a 37.4% chance if you actually follow my advice this time.”Kael: “Right, Asha. 'I'll make sure not to be a snack by these mutated.” He gripped his trusty pipe. “I still haven't met the others who are still sleeping in their pods. How can I think about being eaten?” He glanced towards the cryo-pods, 14 Beautiful girls still on their cold sleep.[Affinity System Sub-Routine... Online. Monitoring Subject Interactions.]Sera (her long silver hair glinting through her waist. Her arms crossed and glaring at Kael who just offered her a slightly squashed ration bar): “I don't need your help or your pitiful food! I can handle myself just perfectly fine..… I know this situation… is temporarily, everything will be fine.”Kael: “Umm.. O-O-Okay. Just… eat this first it's the last one we have.. and you looked really hungry, Sera.”Asha: “[Affinity with Subject Seraphina: -2. Critical Analysis: Subject exhibits classic tsundere defense mechanisms. Probability of her actually wanting the ration bar: 89.7%.]”Kael (to Asha,): “Umm.. Asha?.. What now?”[Humanity's Last Hope: Subject Kael. Current Status: Confused, but trying his best.][Objective: Survive. Protect the 14 Girls. Maybe figure out what 'Affinity' means before someone hits *him* with a pipe.]

[AWARDED: 10,000x SKILL PROFICIENCY MULTIPLIER.][Action Registered: Cast Basic Spark.][Nexus Glitch Activated: Proficiency x10,000.][WARNING: Concept Threshold Breached. Magic Law Unlocked.][Pyroblast evolves to Conceptual Law: Forbidden Tier - Solar Flare!]Instantly, a tiny, pathetic ember no larger than a match-strike mutates into a miniature sun, incinerating a pack of elite Demon Wolves and leaving behind a smooth crater of glowing, melted glass!————————[Action Registered: Executed Dagger Strike.][Nexus Glitch Activated: Proficiency x10,000.][Dagger Mastery leveled up to 10/10! Max Level Reached!][WARNING: Concept Threshold Breached. Combat Law Unlocked.][Assassin’s Creed evolves to Conceptual Law: God-Slayer’s Edge.]While normal players grind for years just for a 5% damage increase, Sebastian slashes the empty air once and gains a conceptual law that ignores 100% of physical armor, magical shielding, and conceptual invulnerability!While massive guilds try to zerg elite mobs, Sebastian solo-clears a five-hundred-man undead horde with a single snap of his fingers![Action Registered: Cast Basic Slow.][Nexus Glitch Activated: Proficiency x10,000.][WARNING: Concept Threshold Breached. Gravitational Law Unlocked.][Crushing Field evolves to Conceptual Law: Gravity Well.]Congratulations on turning a Tier 0 debuff into 100 Gs of atmospheric pressure! You have violently crushed the arrogant Golden Lions into the toxic sludge!Mocked for his 10-all base stats? He bypasses digestion cooldowns with [Forbidden Alchemy], granting himself an effectively infinite mana pool from literal garbage.Laughed at for his unarmored, Useless [Drifter] class? He evolves a basic wind blade into [Dimensional Sever], cleanly cutting a Level 12 Guardian's heavy armor in half without scratching his skin.Challenged by the pay-to-win guild master? He targets the fifty-meter radius around them and forces them to yield to the cold certainty of mass.But the Drifter’s greatest power is the [Nexus Glitch].He doesn't just learn skills; he evolves them into reality-breaking laws.From turning crushed, wilted weeds into Divine-tier [Potions of Knitting] to fracturing his own timeline to summon an [Army of One].Follow Sebastian as he transforms from a “glitch” into a Sovereign of Laws!He will build an impenetrable real-world Sanctuary, fight alongside the ruthless Arcane Valkyrie Valerie, and slaughter the Void Gods before the apocalypse even begins!