Inertia: Beneath The Starlit Veil Chapter 119: Chapter 119: Totem Games Pt. 7

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Chapter 119: Totem Games Pt. 7 A note from KenKaizen Abducted: Jon the Spider Part 1 by _Otto__Webb_ Book 1 complete, book 2 in progress, 200k words completed *** If Jon doesn’t watch himself, he won’t be asking what’ s for dinner. Instead, he’ll be asking who . He had a good life: a fulfilling job, a happy marriage, and two great kids. Then he was abducted by aliens and transformed into a giant spider. Everyone in his new world has an angle, whether it’s his unseen audience or the ‘friends’ he makes as he struggles to survive. A game-like system gives him magical abilities which let him stun foes and manipulate their senses. Jon will have to learn to use these quickly to endure his odyssey. Yet each time he uses his new powers, he is possessed by intrusive instincts. Instincts to maim, to feed, to kill. As Jon combats the degenerate impulses of his carnivorous form, he'll have to wonder: if he can return home, will it be him, or the monster he has become? ---------- What to expect: -No Harem. Just a hungry spider trying to sort friends from food. -Monster evolution with a dark psychological twist and gradual power growth (with occasional spikes) from a strong starting point. -Primarily one viewpoint character with only occasional variation. Royal Road and Patreon will have the newest chapters and releases. If you find this work elsewhere, it’s pirated. Release schedule: Daily for the first two weeks. 3 chapters a week on M/W/F after, with advanced chapter options available on Patreon. Chapters will be generally be 2000-3000 words Cyrus Solaris The familiar glow of magenta light radiated from my chest; my gravity now crushed the girl who stood before me. Her amber eyes narrowed as she desperately tried to find a way out of her invisible shackles. Mustering all the remaining strength I had, I went through her dimensional storage. I didn't care for any of the mechanical trinkets she had in there; all I wanted was her totems. She had ten. Increasing my total to thirty. “No matter my condition, I will never let someone look down upon me,” I said as I knelt beside her. “The last guy that did isn't alive anymore.” I knew this was a game, but I also understood the importance of asserting my dominance; that's all everyone respects now. I just wasn't expecting to exhaust myself this much. Now I really understood what Head Master Naga meant. “Sharpen your soul like a blade…or get crushed under a thousand suns. It's quite fitting, don't you think, Mira.” “Piss off,” she spat. Feeling gravity well’s grip weaken, I activated it once more, slamming her into the earth again. “Enjoy your nap,” I said as I chopped her in the neck, causing her to black out. I dragged my feet; all I wanted to do was rest my eyes, with the lack of sleep and exhaustion finally catching up to me. I had overused Gravisense to the point that it was hard to process anything at the moment; I almost forgot that Mira had trapped students of the Kazehoshi clan. Two were still past out from the injuries I gave them, but the others still squirmed in their imprisonment. I walked over to one of the students and opened up his dimensional storage. “Earlier, you mentioned Stravos. Are you teamed up with him?” “Yes, we are, he's the strongest in the school, why wouldn't we?” My jaw tightened at the response, “He isn't." The kid laughed in my face. “My clan desires freedom over anything else. Anything that can chain us is a threat. We also know that to gain freedom, we have to sacrifice something. Here, it's easy to see who is strong and who isn't. You've got some power, sure, but it's nothing next to someone who is raised for this.” The kid was annoying me now. I wanted to use gravity well to shut him up, but I needed the energy to walk right now. “By the end of this game, you are gonna wish you asked to join me, I promise that. I'll even take your leader head-on to prove it, so Stravos, where is he?” “You sure you want to know?” “Yes, I'm trying to end the game as quickly as pos