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Explore the realmsverse, battle monsters of myth and legend, die trying... and then come back to life stronger with the advantage of hindsight! Rinse and repeat.

Death holds no power over Will Wisdom, a boy who’d once been sacrificed to the altar of the gods of death only to reincarnate moments later. Will’s a teenager stuck with Extra-Life, a curse that lets him relive the same day of every death with all the gruesome details of his latest demise intact to help him survive in his next run of whatever realm, dungeon, or adventuring class he’s decided to challenge next.

Returning to life after each harrowing encounter is a useful hack for a teenager enrolled in the legendary Academy, a school that teaches young adventurers to become the kind of heroes who chase after the big monster bounties and uncover the great mysteries of the Realmsverse. Mysteries such as finding the cult of evil ljósálfar who’d cursed Will with Extra-Life in the first place, and then exacting his revenge on these bright elf bastards! 

The Academy is the perfect place for Will to achieve his hopes and dreams too. Assuming he does well in Swords and Sorcery, Apprentice Alchemy, Dungeon Excursions, P.E., and a whole host of crazy training courses in his novice schedule. Will may need a little help with that. 

Welcome to the Academy, Will Wisdom—hope you live to see graduation day!

*** Aside from daily chapter releases, I will release extra chapters every Sunday depending on power stones earned during the same week. 200 stones = 1 additional chapter!

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Adventure Academy

While Mistress Lorelai and Mistress Grimsever kept Circe busy in a serious display of fireworks and steel clashing against black magic over at the other end of Grendel's lair, my raid team and I spent the brief reprieve rechecking our condition.

"Is your magic replenished yet?" Liara asked.

Sure, I'd regained some of my magic while we strolled through the dungeon floors, but the speed of our passage from the dungeon's entrance to its heart meant there wasn't enough time for a more thorough arcane recovery. At best, I had enough juice for three spells, one of which I'd already used when I cast 'Fire Fist' to block the Beowulf revenant's attack earlier.

The PBR I consumed earlier helped me regain my stamina, although the revenant's focus on me sort of increased my fatigue levels past fifty percent, and I was admittedly breathing heavily while I leaned on Liara's shoulder.

A Dungeon's Beating Heart, part 1