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Chapter 17: Numbers Go Up
Chapter 17: Numbers Go Up
The rock had understood something new. Silence sounded different now, because it had not known the contrast before.
Silence and song. Beauty and... destruction.
The rock had been flung through planet's crust, out of its temporary shell, still hard as diamond..
It sank deeper and deeper, trying to escape the silence and the destruction. Up on the surface was destruction, but down below was silence. It did not want to hear either.
There was no escape.The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))
Level up!
1/1 Philosophical breakthrough!
You have reached Cultivator Level 9!
You are now in the [Planetary Domain] Realm.
Stats up!
Energy Level (E) = 1 000 000 MW
Core Heat (T): 5000K
Domain size (d): 10 000.0 km
Progress to next realm = ???
Its domain grew, expanding out and out, and once more the rock heard the destruction above. Shattering earth and sundered mountains.
Not the music.
It wanted the music.
It escaped deeper, sinking further toward the center of the planet, away from it all. But it found more silence.
The shockwave finished travelling around the planet.
Splash damage calculated:
201 021 321 x [Civilian] & 51 223 001 123 x [Bird] and ERROR_INTEGER_OVERFLOW
Resolving...
Level up!
ERROR_INTEGER_OVERFLOW / 20000 xp
Discarding overflow xp
You have reached level 12!
You are now a level 12 [Planet]!
Beginning planetary fusion process...
It accepted the prompt, just to make it go away faster. But it did not look at the results. It did not look at the new numbers. It did not observe itself growing and growing, merging together with what was around to become the biggest of all.
Right now, it did not care.
Nothe rock clung to one thing only. It had lost something, so it would need to gain something. There was balance in this world, right? A certain amount of energy becomes a certain amount of momentum. That it understood. The world worked with balance.
It had spent all this effort struggling for its quest. And the quest was still processing. Waiting to be fulfilled. The distance indicator was bottomed out, but the quest was taking a lot of time to unlock.
Sosurely the reward would be fitting.
The rock clung to hope. Could the quest bring back the music?
It did not shed tears. It did not despair. Because it was a rock, and those things were not in its nature. The rock had always had a simple solution to most issues.
So it waited.
And waited.
And waited.
But the music did not come back. It kept hearing it, at the back of its mind.
And so the rock finally understood the true essence of loss. Because waiting had never before felt difficult. Now it could not wait. That was wrong.
It was supposed to be easy.
Natural.
So it struggled as it waited, and the planet rumbled above, merging closer and closer with the rock.
But then, finally
Tutorial Quest
Roll out
Reach the bottom of the mountain.
Current Altitude: 0
Difficulty: Legendary
Rewards: ??? (Legendary)
Resolving...
The wait was over.