Inertia: Beneath The Starlit Veil Chapter 118: Chapter 118: Totem Games Pt. 6

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Chapter 118: Totem Games Pt. 6 A note from KenKaizen Reincarnated as a Noble Son Frontier Guild Master Kingdom Building • Strategy • Frontier Politics Six months until exile. So Bradley founds the world's first Adventurers’ Guild. Once he managed collapsing corporations. Now he's the disgraced son of a dying frontier house . No allies. No inheritance. Only six months before exile. Instead of hunting monsters, he builds a system: the first Adventurers’ Guild. Then the goblins change. They probe defenses. They carry forged iron. They retreat instead of dying. Something in the southern ruins is teaching monsters to wage war. What to expect • Tactical combat grounded in logistics • Political maneuvering and institutional pressure • Economic strategy and frontier management • Gradual visible progression • Monsters that adapt No systems. No cheat skills. Just structure versus escalation. 📖 Chapter 1 📚 Fiction Page New Chapters Monday–Friday • 05:17 PM GMT Cyrus Solaris I left Voen while he was sleeping I hadn’t slept in three days since. Growing my totem count wouldn't have been possible if Voen were still with me. Our deal was done. No goodbyes, no lingering words. I already wasted enough time on him. The only upside was the blade I managed to carve from the stag’s horn. It was currently the third night. I had found some success the night before stealing totems from students who were sleeping, increasing my total to twenty. Compared to first place, my score was meaningless. One hundred was the top score, likely from a team effort. Every time I looked at the standings, my jaw throbbed, sore from grinding my teeth at the leaderboard. I knew my uncle’s guild was watching; even with my mother's last name, he would know who I was. I was doing a horrible job of displaying what was coming for him. I needed to change that. Darting from branch to branch, high up in the forest. A sudden ripple in space caught my attention, a human-sized distortion. Based on the distortion, the body was stationary. The closer I got to the source, the more I could feel a faint hum of cosmic energy permeating. My next target was acquired. I slowed my movements, reducing the noise I made brushing past leaves. When I arrived, it was just as I expected. I knelt next to the student and realised the boy was sleeping. As I was rummaging through his dimensional storage, I found it weird that the kid didn't stir or even wake up. My past targets did. Curious, I examined the student's core. I noticed his reserves were nearly depleted. I tried to sense the camera that should be following him, but it wasn't close; instead, it hovered far into the moonlight. I wondered whether the staff would get him, since he was in rough shape. But I pushed the thought aside when his body stirred. I went through his dimensional storage, hoping for an easy score; sadly, my strategy bore no fruit. No totems. As I deactivated the student’s dimensional storage, I felt several new distortions in gravity around me. Several distortions bent the air between the trees. Shapes moved inside them, fast, coordinated. Another chance to collect some totems. I darted from tree to tree in pursuit of my prize. I needed totems. This was my chance to gain some momentum. When I arrived at the source of the distortions, a few things caught my eye. Five students circling another student like a pack of wolves, but all I saw was six totems. Channeling cosmic energy into my legs, I exploded down from my perch. Hurtling through the air, one of the students from the pack noticed me, the astral tattoo on his arm glowing green. Before I knew it, an invisible force smacked me out of the air, sending me crashing down into the ground. Whatever hit me gravisence didn't pick up, a troubling situation. “Hey guys, looks like we got another. Stravos is gonna love this,” the kid said, another force striking me in the chest, pushing me further back into a nearby tree. I had no words for them, the announcement of that name dri