Greeting reader, TKOP here with another overdue chapter. I´m not dead... just very much a sloth. thank you for your patience and understanding. on another, happier note i want to thank you all so very much for giving this story 100+ followers and over 11000 views all time, you guys and gals are the best. if you want to share a thought or an idea with me, please write it in the reviews. anyways ON WITH THE STORY.

Chapter 12: timelines reset

You look at your hand. It is covered in red. Crimson red. Blood red. You look down and see why. Through the left side of your chest, right where your heart should be, is a gaping hole with a diameter of roughly 20 cm. you move your hand to your back and realize that the void in your chest goes all the way through. "Heh" you manage to say before coughing violently, splattering the pavement in more of your blood. You look up at your killer, vision blurred and black spots rapidly growing. "Nice shot… old man" you slowly finish before falling unto your back. What is left of the blurred world vaporizes as it becomes one with the null of the void. The last thing you see being a smug grin and a quite cool hat.

Slowly and painfully you open your eyes and you gaze into an infinite abyss. You twist and turn but you cannot see anything save the infinite darkness of wherever you are. You flail wildly as you slightly panic at the thought of being in an endless void for all of eternity. You turn to the author and kick him in the ankle as you do not have the patience to wait for something plot related to happen. As suddenly as you did that, a text box opens.

YOU ARE DEAD. CONGRATULATIONS. YOU DONE GOOFED.

You decide to start cursing in Danish at the recent revelations. "Bare lige så I ved det så er forfatteren ked af forsinkelsen" You say. I SAID:You start cursing in Danish. "Kæft hvor er det noget lort at du kan bestemme hvad jeg gør" you say. "Sorry most people probably understood nothing of that" you apologize, annihilating what shards of the fourth that was left as you do so. The author suddenly realizes the minor mistake in killing of the main character in the middle of the story and therefor decides another fate for you.

Another text box opens in front of you. Your gaze is cast upon the object of your eternal salvation.

YOU WILL BE REINCARNATED. REBORN. RETURNED TO THE POINT JUST MOMENTS BEFORE THIS STORY STARTED.

YOU WILL KEEP THE PROGRESS YOU HAVE MADE WITH YOUR ABILITY PUT EVERYTHING ELSE WILL BE RESET.

EVERY TIME YOU DIE YOUR OLD WORLD WILL BE RESTARTED AND THROUGH THIS YOU WILL GAIN THE POWER TO SURVIVE LONGER, AND LONGER UNTIL YOU OUTLIVE ETERNITY.

EVERY TIME YOU COME HERE YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND DOINGS WILL BE RATED IN A POINT SYSTEM THAT ARE STORED UNTIL YOU USE THEM FOR SOMETHING ELSE.

POINTS CAN BE USED TO PURCHASE SKILLS AND NEW WORLDS TO USE AS YOUR PLAYGROUND.

EVERY WORLD THAT YOU PURCHASE IS TO SOME EXTENT DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL AND SO IS THE MULTIVERSE CONNECTED TO EACH OF THEM.

BEFORE PURCHASING A NEW WORLD YOU WILL BE ABLE TO REVIEW THE MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN EACH OF THE WORLDS YOU HAVE VISITED.

NOW, BEFORE YOUR JUDGEMENT, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? IF SO PLEASE WRITE THEM IN THE REVIEWS.

LET US START THE TRIAL.

You look over the obnoxiously long and detailed text box and press the next button.

POSITIVE

YOU WERE BORN – CONGRATS YOU SURVIVED BIRTH - +1 POINT

YOU MADE A FRIEND X121 - +50 POINTS (6050 TOTAL)

YOU MADE A FRIEND IN A MAIN CHARACTER X8 - +500 POINTS (4000 TOTAL)

YOU CHOSE THE PATH OF THE HUNTER - +2000 POINTS AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU BECAME THE GAMER - +5000 POINTS AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU BECAME A NECROMANCER - +500 POINTS AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU ENROLLED AT BEACON – ACTUALLY CONGRATS ON THAT ONE - +1500 POINTS

YOU ONE PUNCHED A BOSS X2 - +2000 POINTS (4000 TOTAL) AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU KILLED A SMALL GRIMM X413 - +20 POINTS (8260 TOTAL)

YOU KILLED A BIG GRIMM X14 - +200 POINTS (2800 TOTAL)

YOU GOT ONE YEAR OLDER X17 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY - +100 POINTS (1700 TOTAL)

YOU TRAVELED THE MULTIVERSE INTO ANOTHER WORLD - +5000 POINTS AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU BROKE THE FOURTH WALL - +44 POINTS AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU WERE IGNORED BY THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - +400 POINTS

NEGATIVE

YOU NEVER HAD A GIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIEND – YOU SAD LONELY KID - -1000 POINTS AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU BRUTALLY SLAUGHTERED A PERSON X2 - -1200 POINTS (2400 TOTAL) AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU DIED - -20000 POINTS AND UNLOCKS NEW SKILLS FOR SALE

YOU KICKED THE AUTHOR – THAT ACTUALLY HURT -7855 POINTS

FINAL TOTAL

10000 POINTS – CONGRATS YOU AUTHOR KICKING MANIAC

You take a look at the text and take a moment to face palm at the fact that kicking the author cost you that many points, and that the point cost was so specific. You press the button to continue.

NEW GAME

SHOP

OPTIONS

You look at the text box and decide to press shop.

WORLDS

SKILLS

TOKENS

The tokens menu finds your interest as there hasn't been a mention of it before. You press the tokens button.

BRIMSTONE TOKENS – 2000P COST – BRIMSTONE TOKENS WILL RANDOMLY APPEAR NEAR YOU (UNCOMMON)

STEP 1: PLACE TOKEN ON YOUR TONGUE

STEP 2: CLOSE YOUR MOUTH

STEP 3: TAKE IN A DEEP BREATH THROUGH YOUR NOSE

STEP 4: OPEN YOUR MOUTH

RESULT: RED MOUTH LASER

D4 TOKENS – 4000P COST – D4 TOKENS WILL RANDOMLY APPEAR NEAR YOU (VERY RARE)

STEP 1: SWALLOW TOKEN WHOLE

RESULT: +1 TO 4 TO A RANDOM STAT

You look at the two a few times and instantly buy both. Mouth lasers and stat buffs, sweet deal. You exit the token menu and go into the world section.

PEACEFUL – 20000P COST – NO GRIMM, NO CRIME, NO ACTION

-100% MONSTERS AND CRIME IN ALL WORLDS

-95% POINT AND XP GAIN ON ALL WORLDS

REALLY BORING

HARDCORE – 25000P COST – IF YOU SURVIVE A DAY I LOSE A BET

+150% MONSTERS, CRIME AND APOCALPTIC EVENTS IN ALL WORLDS

+150% TO ENEMY STATS

+100% POINT AND XP GAIN ON ALL WORLDS

+100% LOOT DROP RATE AND RARITY

THIS IS ACTUALLY SUICIDE

Peaceful and hardcore… polar opposites. Is the first thing on your mind the next thing being the ridiculously high point costs. The next thing you do is look at the skill menu.

[SWORD MASTERY] LV.1 (PASSIVE) 1000P COST

THE ABILITY TO WIELD A SWORD BEYOND THE ABILITY OF MERE MORTALS

+5% DAMAGE WITH A SWORD

+5% ACCURACY WITH A SWORD

[RIFLE MASTERY] LV.1 (PASSIVE) 1000P COST

THE ABILITY TO WIELD A RIFLE BEYOND THE ABILITY OF MERE MORTALS

+5% DAMAGE WITH A RIFLE

+5% ACCURACY WITH A RIFLE

[THE BODY] (PASSIVE) 1000000P COST

FEEL ALL

NEGATE ALL NEGATIVE PHYSICAL EFFECTS

+200% HP

[THE MIND] (PASSIVE) 1000000P COST

KNOW ALL

NEGATE ALL NEGATIVE MENTAL EFFECTS

+200% MP

[THE SOUL] (PASSIVE) 1000000P COST

BE ALL

NEGATE ALL NEGATIVE SPIRITUAL EFFECTS

+200% AP

[MARK OF THE FALLEN] LV.1 (ACTIVE) 2000P COST

THE ABILITY TO EMPOWER UNDEAD TO DO GREAT DEEDS

MP COST: 150

CAN ONLY BE CAST ON UNDEAD

+5% TO ALL STATS FOR 5 MINUTES

[PUNCH] LV.1 (PASSIVE) BOUGHT

THE ABILITY TO PUNCH BETTER

+20% DAMAGE WITH BARE HANDS

+10% ACCURACY WITH BARE HANDS

[OPEN BORDERS] (PASSIVE) 5000P COST

THE ABILITY TO BRING A FRIEND

YOU CAN BRING OTHERS WITH YOU THROUGH PORTALS, MULTIDIMENSIONAL OR OTHERWISE

[SUGGESTIONS] (PASSIVE) BOUGHT

THE ABILITY TO TAKE SUGGESTIONS

THE FIRST REVIEW OF EACH CHAPTER IS ALLOWED TO MAKE A SUGGESTION TO SOME OF THE CONTENT OF THE NEXT CHAPTER, THE SUGGESTION HAS A FLIP OF A COINS CHANCE TO MAKE IT UNLESS I DIRECTLY DISLIKE THE IDEA

[FATALITY] LV.1 (ACTIVE) 5000P COST

THE ABILITY TO FINISH OFF AN OPPONENT

MP COST: 500

CAN ONLY BE CAST ON OPPONENTS WITH 5% HP OR LESS

[ETERNAL] (PASSIVE) 500000P COST

THE ABILITY TO STOP AGING

IN EACH LIFE, EVERY TIME YOU REACH YOUR PRIME, YOU STOP AGING AND CAN THEREFOR NOT DIE FROM OLD AGE

You look at the much longer list of things for sale and decide to buy the masteries and the mark of the fallen for your remaining points. You are content with what you've bought and decide to go into the options menu.

CHALLENGES

DIFFICULITY [LOCKED]

POWER OVERWHELMING MODE [LOCKED]

UNIMPORTANT SETTINGS

You look at the four options and after taking a quick look in the unimportant settings menu and deciding that it is entirely unimportant and not in any way relevant or useful you go into the challenges menu.

A CUP OF TEA {INACTIVE}

HEAVYWEIGHT {INACTIVE}

40 TO 1 {INACTIVE}

ONE ARM ON YOUR BACK {INACTIVE}

BOOK ON YOUR HEAD {INACTIVE}

CHAMPIONS {INACTIVE}

BOSS RUSH {INACTIVE}

BLINDED {INACTIVE}

MAGICAL NULL {INACTIVE}

You take a look at the lot of them and decide that it isn't worth it as you´d rather focus on staying alive. You take a look at all the menus again and find yourself with only one thing to press; new game. You press the button.

"Raven, can you come do the dishes?" your mother calls from the kitchen. "Oh it is good to be back" you say to yourself with a joyous smile. "Yeah I'm coming" you yell as you march downstairs toward the kitchen. A wave of nostalgia comes crashing down on you as you smell the delicious bacon your mother is making. In an attempt to recreate the scene that you wanted when you were here the first time you utilize your sneak skill which is now at the respectable level of 16.

THE SKILL [SNEAK] HAS GONE UP A LEVEL

Once again you are surprised and shocked enough by the sudden text box that you fall onto your ass. The rest goes on as you remember it. You decide to continue doing what you did and take a stroll into the forest toward the temple and the lone grave. Strapping Shadowfury onto your back you walk into the grey of the forest, the figure trailing you however, goes unnoticed.

You reach the temple and as you draw Shadowfury to take care of the massive arachnids you know lurk inside you hear a noise. A faint but close noise. You hear breathing, rough and heavy. You hear scraping, like sharp metal against metal plating. You hear growling, like a ferocious animal waiting for an opportunity to strike. The sound does not however come from the temple. It comes from the forest behind you. You turn and look, and even though you see nothing you point Shadowfury at the wild growth of bushes and the likes. "Reveal yourself at once, or I shall strike you down where you stand" you shout as you swing the massive blade in your hands as to demonstrate your ability to defeat your hidden follower.

The undergrowth rustles and you prepare your blade for head on combat. You are surprised however as a soul shaking shriek sounds from behind you and as you turn you feel jagged blades cutting cleanly through your Aura and through your cheek. At the same time you feel a body swiftly rushing past you and out into the clearing in front of the temple.

You turn quickly as you feel blood at shreds of flesh fall from the side of your head. Your eyes fall upon your adversary and you recoil in shock at the monster before you. It seems humanoid but is however but a grotesque abomination in the shape of a human. It is sickeningly thin and its eyes shine with an inhuman hunger. You stare into its mismatched eyes, one being a crimson red and the other being a sickening green, and see a drive to fight you. The eyes are constantly moving, attempting to find advantages in the surrounding area. The monster itself has transparent skin, allowing you to see muscle, bone and organs cleanly through. Its lower jaw seems to be made from metal and instead of teeth there are jagged, sharp, mismatched metal blades. The fingers on its right hand also seem to end in jagged metal blades, dripping with your fresh blood.

It licks its bladed fingers, drinking in the taste of your blood. Suddenly its head snaps up to stare at you. "You" it rasps out as it growls like a starved animal. "You reset the timelines!" it barks at you, getting continuously more furious. "You halted our cleansing, our righteous judgement" it continues, now being loud enough to yell. "For that we´ll make you suffer" it yells before crouching down into a leaping position. "I am Famine and I will make you pay" it shrieks as it lounges at you with superhuman speed.

OMG I´m fighting Famine - Raven

Oh - Yang

Oh what? - Raven

"The four" are the four horsemen of the appocalypse - Yang

Oh - Raven

Exactly - Yang

And it cuts through Aura like it would cut through butter - Raven

Nah, thats just you being a weak little kid - Yang

Don´t call me little you´re only 1 inch taller than me - Raven

I´m still taller than you - Yang

Screw your logic - Raven