Titan: A LitRPG Adventure (UnderVerse Book 4) Jez Cajiao (top ten books of all time TXT) 📖

better than she had been. She was worn out still, but it seemed more like extreme exhaustion now, rather than the near death-like state she’d been in.

I smiled at Miren again, more genuinely, and frowned at Arrin, who’d clearly given up and had gone looting instead of meditating.

“Arrin?” I said quietly as I stepped over to meet him a few feet away where he’d been stripping a gold ring off the finger of a corpse.

“Hey, boss,” he said casually, straightening up and holding the ring up to the light of his magelight, then grinning and dropping it in a pocket. Then he looked at me and swallowed as he saw the look in my eyes.

“What happened to meditating?” I asked him in as even a voice as I could manage.

“I… uh, I couldn’t get it, so I figured I’d be better off searching the dead, you know, looking for mana potions and stuff,” he replied, looking away.

“And did you find any?” I asked, my voice cold.

“No…” he said, sagging.

“No.” I repeated. “And did you think that a glass vial of magical elixir was likely to be found on walking corpses? Corpses that were commanded by a Lich?” I pressed, and he shrugged, refusing to meet my eyes.

“I didn’t...” he mumbled.

“You didn’t consider that the Lich would have already gathered things like that to him, or you did, and you decided to ignore my order to meditate? An order I gave you because we need all the fucking mana we can get right now, and you decided that looting the bodies of the dead was a better use of your time?” I asked through gritted teeth.

“I… I…” he stammered, looking around at the floor and walls, basically anywhere but at me.

“We’ll talk about this later,” I growled, and turned, walking across to where Yen was standing, ostensibly checking over the loot that everyone had piled together. I glanced over it and noted the gold, jewelry, weapons, and other random shit that made it up. The lack of anything that was obviously valuable or any potions made me sigh, as I marked down the need to speak to Arrin about the fact he’d been pocketing the rings, rather than putting them together the way the others had for me to go over.

“I don’t have any healing magic…” Yen said quietly. “But I do have an Identify spell, and I checked these two over. Your naginata is down there when you’re ready for it.” She gestured down to the swordstaff piled with the rest of the gear, then held out her hand. I reached out, and she dropped a pair of rings into my palm. The first was black, solid black; it looked like someone had made a damn ring out of the darkest part of the goddamn night, while the other was a simple golden band with a gently glowing red ruby in it. “Here…” she said, and I saw my notifications pulse again as she did something.

“Fuck, give me a few seconds to work through these,” I muttered, pulling them up.

“It’s fine, I’ll come back if you need me to share it again.” She stepped away, leaving me to read.

Congratulations! You have killed the following:

11x Gnome Badunka Riders of various levels for 47,150xp

29x Feral Gnomes of various levels for 63,115xp

14x Crazed Gnomes of various levels for 53,875xp

16x Insane Gnomes of various levels for 23,430xp

1x Crazed, Dominated Human for 7,150xp

114x Undead of various levels for 28,158xp

1x Bartholomew the Lich for 18,350xp

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A party under your command killed the following:

3x Gnome Badunka Riders of various levels for a total of  22,130xp

6x Immature Leviathans of various levels for 53,140xp

1x Crazed Cavern Dominatrix Human for 11,750xp

1x Grant; ‘Master’ of the gnomes 0XP awarded due to SkinWalker’s survival

278x Undead of various levels for 57,111xp

Total Party exp earned: 114,131xp

As party leader, you gain 25% of all experience earned

Progress to level 19 stands at 432,266/265,000

Congratulations! You have reached Level 19! You have 7 points to invest in your stats.

You are now at 167,266/305,000 Exp toward Level 20

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Congratulations! Through hard work and perseverance, you have increased your Strength by one point. Continue to train and learn to increase this further.

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Congratulations! You have made progress in your Quest: ‘Fix the Fixers’

You have discovered the chilling secrets of the Prax ‘Glorious Retribution,’ discovered a working, if unpowered, portal, and killed the ‘Master’ and his unwilling servants. Due to the level of difficulty involved, and the bravery shown by your acceptance of the realities of your situation, the Goddess Jenae has increased your rewards, and altered the Success Conditions of the Quest.

1)     Recruit the Gnomish Survivors: 21/27

2)     Recover sufficient manastones to power the ship ‘Interesting Endeavors’: 17/40

3)     Eliminate Bartholomew the Lich: 1/1

4)     Find and prepare the ship ‘Interesting Endeavors’ and use it to escape.

5)     Bonus Condition: For each SporeMother killed, receive an additional 10,000xp.

Reward: Improved technological capacity in the Great Tower, Possible technological boosts to the fleet, Survival , Gnomish exploration vessel ‘Interesting Endeavors’, ‘ 500,000Exp

A member of your team wishes to share information with you. Do you accept?

Yes/No

It wasn’t exactly rocket science who and what that was referencing, so I mentally tagged ‘yes’ and watched the screens bloom for me.

Ring of Darkest Desire

Further Description Yes/No

Details:

This Ring grants the wearer +5 Charisma and a 10% bonus to Intimidation!

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Highly Rare

Yes

57/100

N/A

Ring of Bloody Brilliance

Further Description Yes/No

Details:

This Ring was forged in the depths of antiquity by the sadistic creator Ivanna Humpalot. This ring feeds on the life energy of its wearer, providing a +4 to both Intelligence and Endurance, but inflicts a -5hps wound on the wearer.

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Highly Rare

Yes

34/100

N/A

I looked the rings over, shaking my head in amazement at the Lich. It’d been an absolute asshole, and that was with an additional five points of Charisma? I snorted and popped the black ring on, guessing that the boost might be useful in negotiation, and it never hurt a guy to draw a little attention in the right way.

The second ring, though… hell no. It would boost my Mana and Stamina