GD_Cruz

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

Note: Edited this chapter 18/10/23 - Updated the prose, dialogue, and made the ending more dramatic.

"I reckon this here's a relic you've just shown us, Will," Butch whistled appreciatively. "Either that or you've learned how to make something very weird."

He and Titania moved to stand behind me so they could look at the map over my shoulders.

"This is…" I let Titania's fingers brush the map's surface. "…it's made of skin."

"Human skin," Lieutenant Doyle piped up from his seat next to Mistress Lorelai. "I've already authenticated this wee item. It's the real deal."

"Which makes this young novice the real seller of the information LEPRCON sold all of us," the venerable Steel Fist Finlay presumed.

"Like the man once said, ain't nothing of worth ever going be free." Butch chuckled. He winked at me and added, "And you made a heck of a lot of money from us, didn't you?"

Lorelai's Army, Part 1