Writing prompts from me to you. I personally cant write well, might aswell share ideas.

MAY 17th 2020

12 LIFESTYLE CHANGES TO MAKE IN 2020 TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE

I am so excited about all of this new year, new me energy.
I want to help you actually transform your life and be happy this year! I have written lots of posts related to this – and today I wanted to talk about easy lifestyle changes you can make that will actually change your life to be more meaningful and enjoyable.
Take action this year and implement some of these ideas, they will genuinely make a difference. I love all of these ideas because they are quite simple and will not be too difficult to make happen.
Above all, enjoy yourself and be mindful this year. Be ambitious and follow your dreams. You got this – and here are some ideas to get you started.

WAKE UP EARLIER / GO TO BED EARLIER

I love mornings. Wake up earlier and use that time to develop healthy habits and get a productive start on your day. Go to bed earlier to get plenty of rest so you can better enjoy your day.

LEARN SOMETHING NEW

A key pillar of personal development is opening yourself to new opportunities, experiences, and knowledge. Learn something new just for fun – go to a cooking class, learn how to sew, buy an online course about Pinterest. Whatever it is, learn something just for fun and for the experience, or learn something you really want to incorporate into your life or business.

INVEST IN YOUR PASSIONS

This is the year! Invest in your passions! No more "this is too expensive." Just compare it to what else you would do with that money, and shift your mindset to that this an investment for your happiness. If it really is too much, save up! So, start a blog, start a business, buy your art supplies. Whatever it is, make yourself happy and invest in your passions. It is not the worst use of your money.

COOK FOR YOURSELF / EAT REAL FOOD

I'm not gonna preach a perfectly healthy diet because everyone is different and everyone enjoys different foods. Make an effort to eat full, balanced meals though, whatever that means for you. It will do wonders.

CREATE A SELF CARE ROUTINE

Incorporate self care into your night or morning routine – journal, read a book, do some skincare, etc

Respect yourself and what you want, so say no more. Stop saying yes to sh*t you hate.
Be more spontaneous and enjoy life in as many ways as possible, so say yes more.

SAVE MORE MONEY

Put aside some money if you can and save for travel, experiences, and your passions!

REDUCE PHONE TIME

be mindful of the time you spend on your phone and on social media. Limit that time and focus on what is in front of you and develop strong, healthy habits. I wrote a post here about how to do a digital detox and being more mindful of your screen time.

START JOURNALING

Journaling is a great way to practice self care and discover yourself through your writing. Search Pinterest for meaningful prompts if you need some inspiration.

LOOK FOR THE GOOD AND PRACTICE GRATITUDE

Your life will completely change if you limit the complaining and instead notice all the good around you, and what you can be thankful for. I saw this example in another post and I love it:
instead of, "ugh it's monday."
try, "it's monday! I am happy and alive and ready for the week!"
Instead of complaining about your day, try and brainstorm good things that happened to you. It will brighten your mood and the world around you.

WORK ON YOUR GOALS DAILY

Don't forget about your goals, and try your best to actively work towards them daily. If you are genuinely making strides towards your goals you will feel amazing. I wrote a post here about how to actually achieve all of your goals.

PUT MORE POSITIVE VIBES INTO THE WORLD

Very similar to what I said about looking for the good, the more positive you are, the happier you will feel. Compliment others just for the heck of it. Help others. Complain less.
Make 2020 your year by implementing healthy lifestyle changes that can transform your life and help you accomplish your goals. I hope you found this post helpful, and I hope you have the year of your dreams.

The End.

TMS is now well and truly ended.
Thank you Islinda for giving this story a chance for a contract. I hope it proves well for Webnovel.
To all TMS regular readers and supporters. I won't name you individually to respect your anonymity.  With my deepest respect, thank you for your time, interaction and support.  A story can be written.  It's only when it's read that it becomes a tale. 
And I won't forget those from Tapread and Wattpad who gave Hinata and Eiji's drama a chance when it was there.  I've been blessed.
Here is an omake about its own small journey to close the curtains. 
---WPC #46 - To My Sunflower's Journey---
A moment of nostalgia as I look back to the contest that helped me form the concept for this story. Otherwise, I would've never written it.
---[[Writing Prompts Contest #46:Fall in Love with a Soldier
"Believe it or not, the only way we kept in touch was through letters. We would write to each other about our days, about our lives. They were all innocent letters, but they were amazing because it gave me an insight into how simple a person he was."
What it feels like loving a soldier?
"When you fall in love with a soldier, you fall in love with your country; when you fall in love with a soldier, nothing is set in stone on your end. Plans can and will change at the drop of a hat and planning ahead is impossible.
Though all that is true, so is when you fall in love with a soldier, you've found the best there is.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've found someone who not only loves you more than his own life but loves his country more than his own life as well.
When you fall in love with a soldier, a kiss is worth a million dollars, and no expensive gift can compare.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've fallen in love with someone who appreciates having a bed, running water and warm food.
When you fall in love with a soldier, you've fallen in love with not who you've prayed for, but someone so much more.
Thank you, God, for letting me fall in love with my soldier."
(Emily Richeson)https://forum.webnovel.com/d/18335-writing-prompts-contests-45-46]]---
The winner of my prompt was a book that is now on hiatus. No other entries qualified. At the time I didn't realize that having votes was the rank qualifier. So my book was instantly disqualified.
Despite not making it past the car park, so to speak, I kept this story going. I had moved it to Wattpad and continued to post chapters there.
I entered it into a Wattpad community award, and had eventually won the award for Historical Fiction, but never received the prize for it. 😆
That's okay. Knowing that my writing was enough to be a winner in a judge's eyes was cool. It won over some quality stories as well. That was a prize enough for me.
After some time, I started posting the story to Tapread where it picked up read interest there. Then I got a ping from Islinda who liked the lone chapter I had left on the book page.  
This story has been a blast to write. I'm proud of what I've been able to achieve with it. I have no regrets of what I leave behind, as I have given my best shot.
♥♥
Arigatōgozaimashita.  
Until next time. Take care.♥


Hinata longed for his Eiji to return from war. Alone in the idyllic countryside whilst other areas of Japan were torn asunder. One day, he receives a letter from his lover filled with the scent of sunflowers and his undying love for him. Followed by official news of his presumed death at Iwo Jima. Heartbroken. Yet determined to honor his promise to Eiji; to live the life they were unable to live together.

Eiji fought honorably for Japan at Iwo Jima. He fell injured in a banzai charge to be classified as dead. He recovered with the aid of an American lieutenant, who escorted him back into the mainland for espionage work. His one chance and hope of return to Hinata's side.

A compelling risk of a war story set at the end of the Pacific War, 1945. Two sides of the war, on Japanese soil, are shown from the individual perspectives of same-sex lovers Hinata and Eiji. 

More than a boys love. This story is an emotional drama, revealing heart and souls of people surviving America's assault on Japan. The consequences suffered at war's end.

James was bored sitting next to a human sized cocoon and creepy Ava, his turn was taking forever, it seems he will be the last one to receive the guidance of Sukehime as Leon Just entered the wagon. James turned to see what the rest were doing. Everyone was sitting in lotus position and were in a deep meditative state holding the Jade slips provided by Sukehime. It seemed everyone had found dry land and started to go through their recent gain. Except one tho, Janet was scribbling on a paper with a quill pen sitting in lotus position and using the bundle of paper as a writing pad, Igniting curiosity in James mind. Leaving Ava's side James walked to Janet. 

Janet was so concentrated on drawing rune characters that she did not notice James who took a seat next to her. James quietly observed Janet drawing the same weird symbols repeatedly, he suddenly asked " what are these symbols? '' spocking Janet " aaAH! " 

"James, what are you doing here ? When did you sit here? wait! How long have you been sitting here?" asked looking at James who was sitting next to her. 

 "Not long I just got here, I was curious what you were drawing, so what are these symbols you keep repeatedly drawing? " James looked at Janet with curious eyes and charming smile.

" These are rune characters, I am practicing to master drawing them. it is a lot harder than it looks. " explained Janet unable to say no to the charming smile of James.

" Really!cool. `` said James then he looked at Janet's both hands and asked '' where is the Jade slip you got from Sukehime, can I see it? " 

" mu! .. sure why not. " after thinking for a second Janet agreed and passed the Jade slip to James.

James was amazed by Janet's response, were it been him he would not even consider it. James did not take the Jade slip, he looked at Janet and asked " why? " 

Janet smiled and said " you did not even open your spirituality yet how are you going to access the Information inside the Jade slip. Silly " hearing Janet's explanation James laughed and took the slip from Janet. 

James' actual reason to visit Janet was boredom, but a sudden idea flashed in his head that, if it was possible to read the jade slip without awakening the spiritual strength with his soul organ. Once this thought crossed his mind James had to try it and therefore asked Janet for her jadeslip. He would not mind if Janet refused as if not her then he could always ask Ava.

Holding the Jade slip in his palm James used his soul organ on it, soon a Transparent cable connected extended out of James palm and connected  to the Jade slip, then prompts appeared on James status screen.
[  Ding! Host used ability Moneta's fork on the prop ' Sukehime's teaching's on rune mastery and puppeteer of dead". ]

[ Moneta's Fork copying all the knowledge in the prop  ' Sukehime's teaching's on rune mastery and puppeteer of dead', this may take time please wait patiently. ] 

Seeing this prompt James was delighted and tightened his grip on the Jade slip. Janet curiously looked at James; she did not understand why James was holding the Jade slip so tight. Looking at Janet's doubtful eyes James smiled embarrassingly and said " I have never seen Jadeslip before, it's so warm.

Hearing James say that the jade flet warm Janet was shell shocked and then locked at James again, he seemed to be enjoying it as he tightened his grip on the jadeslip. Her cheeks and ear turned red as her face was filled with shame and she then looked at James furiously. Looking at Janet's mode turn so sharply James was confused 'what happened she was so friendly a movement a ago, girls are really fickle ' thought James. 

Apparently since Jade slip was very important something Janet could not afford to lose, so she had safely placed it inside her woman's safe, that is between her blouse and chest warming up the Jade. hearing James say the Jade slip was warm really touched Janet's nerve. 

[ Ding! Copy complete, file 'Sukehime's teaching 's on Rune mastery and puppeteer of dead' created. ]

As soon as the copying was done James directly gave the Jadeslip to Janet and thanked her " thank you, I never knew jade would be this warm and fragrant. " 

Janets face turned red in shame, if the jade slip prop was not a 9 star occupation prop she would have thrown at James face and shouted ' perv! ' but instead she took the Jade slip from James and said " Pervert!I have to practice Rune drawing, please leave."

Having achieved his goal James thanked Janet again and walked towards the cocoon with a huge smile on his face. 

Looking at the self satisfied face of James Janet gritted her teeth, ' I will remember this shame today ' she thought. Apparently whoever told that woman knew best to hold grudges was a wise person. James did not know what was happening in Janet's head even if he knew he would not care as it was not like he held her breast or said those things intentionally.

Because of this incident Janet had a very tough time getting her head cleared and keeping it calm again. Unlike her James who was totally oblivious to the incident started to process the copied files of  'Sukehime's teaching 's on Rune mastery and puppeteer of dead'.

[ Processing the file  'Sukehime's teaching 's on Rune mastery and puppeteer of dead', this may take a while please wait patiently. ]

[ Ding, Alert, Host's strength insufficient to completely process file 'Sukehime's teaching 's on Rune mastery and puppeteer of dead' ]

[ Ding! In order not to harm the host only the files suitable to the current strength of the host will be processed and the rest of file will be processed with the increase in Host's strength.]

[ Ding! 0.01 % of the file processed in accordance with host's strength, rest will be processed with increase in Host's strength. ]

After seeing the Prompts on the status James excited face finally turned black, what the f… do you mean by insufficient strength since when did one have required to gain strength to learn knowledge. Soon the processed knowledge entered James mind after going through knowledge James knew what the system meant by insufficient strength. 

James is a mortal who has not even awakened his spirituality, which is the most important tool to learn Rune mastery and Puppeteer of the dead.  Even if he had opened his spirituality he would still not be able to completely process the file as rune mastery is a kind of study of heavens rules and laws, each rule and laws of heaven is so powerful that the users body faces certain burden if you do not have appropriate strength to handle this burden then the user mind will be crushed into a mindless imbecile. So until or unless you have the right amount of strength it is not wise to make contact with high level knowledge. 

With the 0.01% of the file that has been processed all James had was detailed knowledge on what is spiritual strength? How does it work? How to awaken spirituality? How spirituality is required for rune mastery? Basically the knowledge that James has right now is the complete and basic knowledge of spirituality. 

Using this Knowledge James decided to awaken his spirituality. There are three ways to awaken one's spirituality, the first way one has to achieve the state of one with nature so that the spirituality slowly awakens to communicate with nature this is the genuine way. Second way is to have a senior spiritualist rip a tiny part of their spiritual strength and use it to excite and awaken the spirituality. Third way to use a spirituality awakening potion or a rune to awaken the spirituality in oneself.

James could not choose the option two and three as he did not have or know where to get a spiritual awakening potion or Rune nor did he have a senior spiritualist next to him to help him awaken his spirituality. So James could only use the first way to awaken his spirituality. Even though Sukehime will awaken his spirituality anyway James still wanted to try by himself. 

The first way to awaken one's spirituality is the natural and most beneficial way, being able to connect and communicate to nature means nothing but communicating with the world and its every life forms and energy. To be able to become one with nature one has to be completely one himself. 

The human body has three minds first the Brain, second the Heart and lastly the human body itself.

Many would ask how the human body itself can be considered as a mind as it is controlled by the brain. Than you would be wrong as the experts believe that most of the reactions of the human body are controlled by the hormones in the body giving it a semi sentient status, take the male part hardening in presence of attractive opposite sex or the body adapting to the temperature of the surroundings or the eyes adjusting to light outside al this are normal reaction of the body and its part.

Being completely one means that the brain, heart and the body should act as one, if one thinks not to sweat in a hot atmosphere then the body should not sweat, if one thinks to sweat in extreme cold the body should sweat. One should have total control and command over his brain, heart and body . this is called being completely one, once one has achieved this state then he can try and get one with the world, if the one is not completely one himself how does he expect to be one with the world and be one with all the life forms and energies of the world.

To achieve this state of being completely one many martial artist gurus and yogis have to  meditate for centuries. But this was not a huge deal for James thanks to his mutated organ Moneta's Fork.

World Terror is about a male lead who reincarnates in a parallel world which is facing Apocalypse under the threat of World Terror, the ruler of Terror multiverse. Terror Multiverse is a dark sandy cloud above the Original Multiverse, Terror Multiverse is formed of every Dreams, Imaginations, fears, fantasy's, wishes and regrets ever thought or created in the original multiverse. Terror Walkers, the heros and the last hope of this parallel world's Humankind walk the various Terror World's while gaining strength and continuously evolving themselves in order to save the Human Kind from World Terror and other foreign Invaders. The Male lead having reincarnated into a fantasy world decides to climb the top of the new world's food chain with the help of his powerful and unique soul to ensure his and his loved ones safety.
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Wassup everyone, yoursexypotato here!

I just want to remind you all that I really appreciate your support, especially those who have added this novel to their library. It really motivates me to write when the numbers go up(yes, I can see the number of people who added this novel to their library).

Just a news for everyone!

I will be entering Writing Prompts Contest #50: Mage. Yay! Not a pro, but why not?

I won't be adding any more chapters to this specific page because I will be transferring it to the other one -- the one I'm entering the contest with. You can all remove THIS specific book, Runes of Hecate (MIGRATED), and add the other one.

Same chapters, same story. 

It's just that, in order to enter the contest, the novel should be newly added to Webnovel. That means at the moment of the novel's creation, you specify the writing contest you are joining. Mine is already out there so the only way to get around it is to create a "new" novel and update that one. It's not against the rules, so that's what I did.

Here is the new link for the novel (which would also be available in THIS novel's synopsis):

https://www.webnovel.com/book/12803477105403005/Runes-of-Hecate

If you like my novel, please support me! I'd really appreciate it if you vote this novel, even just for the week of the contest.

As a compensation for bothering all of you, I'll throw in a couple more chapters in advance! I hope that would be enough :D

Peace out!

This novel has been migrated. Here is the new link:

https://www.webnovel.com/book/12803477105403005/Runes-of-Hecate

Same chapters, same story. I will be emailing Webnovel to remove this copy of the novel soon.

Thank you for all the support!

Guys I made this story to join from contest I previous Writing Prompts Contest 123: Female Lead - Werewolf Sighted on Campus! But now it's already end and I think I don't make make it. So if someone reading this story of mine cause I'm planning to not update it every day since I have another 3 story and it's my priority cause I join it as well in the contest. But if someone will opposed at my decision please do tell me I will change my mine immediately cause for all of my story so far this is what I really like... Hehe so please... Tell if anybody want to an update every day just tell me!!

A girl who hate by her whole clan because of her late parents sin.
She's indeed a traitor for all eyes but still she care and submitted to them.

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She is standing in front of her parents little by little eating by the fire burning in the middle of their surrounding clan. She can't do anything other than crying. Beside there are punish because of her.

Because she's born into the world.

Her father is half vampire and half wolf who happen to get fall in love with her wolf mother.

They hide their relationship to everyone since a wolf can't be fall to there enemy's. 

A vampire...

But her mother got pregnant and there relationship revealed to there clan they parents got away and hide. Until in her 10th birthday came and there clan find them and now she's staring at her parents getting burned...


She instantly wake up from her bad nightmare when her auntie shake her to wake up.

Lyca wake up your getting late at school.

She open her eyes wider when she heard that.

No it can't be! I don't want people focus there attention toward me.

I smiled widely at my aunt she's my mother sister who adapt her since her parents died. She love her aunt she is the only one accept her as she is there's no one care about her other than her aunt.

Her clan? Well she's like a trash to them and useless.

I stand up and take a bath and move fast as I can since it's already ten minutes before her class starts.

As she got out of there house she run fast so she can't be late.

I really hope that my power comes out already like the other teenagers at her age but maybe because her father is half only her changing form comes delay.
That was her aunt say. She well maybe she's lying and I don't have power at all.

But it doesn't matter as long as I live I won't lost my hope.

As I cross the street I suddenly jumped in surprised when someone car appears inforn of me. I good thing is I avoid it from running fast.

I sigh... That was close.

Hey if you want to die go on but don't take anyone with you!

The driver said.

I just stoop my head and run again.


I was entering at the school when someone bump in to me.

Hey stupid are you blind! 

I stoop and say sorry. 
But the someone grabbed me and hold my chin up. 

Wohh look who's who! 

I stare at the guy in front of me with silence cause I know I'm pretty doomed. 

Cause I bump into the most notorious guy in the campos together with his allied..

What am I going to do? 
Mom... Dad... 
I think I'm going to be with you anytime soon...

Hey, guys.  I have some unpleasant news to discuss.

I first created this novel to enter a biweekly writing prompts contest hosted by Webnovel.  Starting three days late,  I felt that I didn't have time to create a proper outline for the novel so I hopped right in.  This has resulted in a myriad of problems popping up with regards to story progression and the overall quality of the book.

Now that I have a bit of time since the contest is over. I want to work on a few things before the novel gets too far along.  I'll mainly be outlining arcs, villains, power progression, character development, and reworking previous chapters so that they're grammatically better and easier to read.

I can not stress this next point enough.

THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THIS NOVEL WILL BE DROPPED. 

It's just that I'll be taking a break from this story to work on a few other projects that I've thought up.
  
Thanks for being so understanding,
Victim

[Escape is Impossible has joined the chatroom.]

Escape is Impossible: "Hello, is anyone there?  I was advised to come here after the deed was done."

Wishful Thinking: "Ahh, a new memeber joins us this day.  Welcome, if you have any issues or questions feel free to reach out.  After all, we all share a similar interest here."

Escape is impossible: "I only have one question right now.  How do I properly dispose of the body?"

As I gazed at the absurd chat before me I could only pray in my heart and ask again.  "System, what do want me to do again?"

"Host has 8 hours to apprehend the murderer known as Escape is Impossible before he successfully disposes of his victim's body.   Failure to do so will result in the termination of the host."

I have seen that there is a new writing prompts contest about werewolves. My book is aligned with the theme, I am thinking if I should join or not. However if I will join the contest I will have to delete this current book  and create a new one. Since I have 50 readers in this book  I want to ask your opinion about this. I want to know your thoughts, please write your comments. Thank you my dears.  I will appreciate your feedback
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Hello I decided to edit the content of this novel into Tagalog Version and I decided to create a new book in order to join the WPC contest. You can add the new English Version of this book if you want. I will start to delete and transfer the chapters of this novel to the new book.  Will you still support the book? Apology for this rush decision.

;)What the fuck are these things.

"I don't know but I'm scared," Mu said licking the sea salt off his lips.

;)What are you hungry you want to eat them, why the fuck are you licking your lips.

"Because they're chapped," Mu said furiously giving his lips some tongue.

;)Stop that it's weird even the fucking mutants are getting creeped out.

"I'm trying to get them to accept me," Mu thought to the voice not stopping his voracious tongue movement on his lips.

;)Don't use those words.

"What it's what I'm doing," Mu said while juggling his saliva across his lips.

;)Goddamnit there is just some things you don't describe look you scared away the mutants with your words.

"Oh I guess I'll stop then," Mu said resting his tongue back into it's wet lair called the mouth.

;)What are you doing know.

"Flexing my tongue it's sore," Mu said while pulsating his tongue from stiff to soft.

;)STOP.

"Is the tongue a muscle," Mu asked the voice.

;)W..what.

In another part of the universe another Mu was sitting down beside a fire with a monocle in his eye.

"Hahaha I'm not Mu, Author I am simply a forgotten segment or some shit being used here to talk about something." The Not Mu said.

The Not Mu got a book from a shelf and looked directly at the Author watching him.

"It has come to my attention that a certain website on which our book is published has made a new writing prompt competition." The Not Mu said while opening the book he got out.

"It is titled "Writing Prompts Contest 116: Male Lead - Entertainer in Another World", now this in itself is not the coolest part. The best part is in the ideas section where it says,"1) A former world-class singer wakes up in a world filled with fantastical beings and magic. They soon find out that their voice and songs are magical in nature in this new world where bards exist. How will they make use of this? How will this world respond to their power?"Not Mu said and after he was done he closed up the book and looked right at the readers.

"Now I don't know if you've read the story up to this point but I mean...come on. I'm not mad website on which this story is published in fact I just want to know who on your staff likes my story because that is badass." Not Mu said. 

"I don't know if this is normal or not but it's definitely cool," Not Mu stood up and ripped off his mask revealing himself to be the Author.

"I didn't want to make myself a body in this world because I didn't want Mu to be able to meet me, but I had to come down and say thank you I have had this story bumping around in my head for years and I just had to write it I didn't expect 10,000 people to find this concept as interesting as me." I wiped a tear away from my eye and said," This may not sound like a lot to some people but that's more people then I have in my city (I think). So thank you." Author signing out.

;)God I hope that's the last one of those.

Fuck You.

I can’t really explain this story but it does have an overpowered main character, a super huge world, and a talking abyss.

Support my main contracted novel and winner of Writing Prompts #26 - The Legendary Mage!

Desolate Mage: A Legend Reborn!
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Despite them both being apprentice priestesses focused on blessings, enchantments and healing; Stella and Marie both had learned self-defence with their staves. The funny part was that neither of them exerted much strength with their blows as they both wanted to appear gentle and demure in front of the boys. Instead they focused on technique and tactical moves.

However, as they were both regular training and sparring partners, the exercise was more of a demonstration to the other children, as there was no outcome even after the full 10 minutes of sparring was up.

Next was Bob and Martins' bout - it ended within the first few exchanges.

Martin went all-out from the get-go, launching fierce stabs with his blunted wooden spear. Bob roughly knocked aside his spear, pushing it off-target. Then on Martin's 3rd thrust, Bob exerted a sudden burst of strength as he swung his practice sword; knocking Martin's spear hard to the side.

Then Bob rushed in to capitulate on the opening - only to face a swift rotational slash of the spear! Martin had predicted his move - and had laid an ambush, using the rotational force from Bob's defence to launch a counter-attack.

But despite the sharp tactics, ultimately Martin lacked the strength to close-off the fight. Instead of dodging, Bob switched his sword to his left hand and grabbed the incoming spear with his right. Using his sheer size and strength advantage, Bob yanked on the spear - leaving friction burns on the other boy's hands and leaving him defenceless to the heavy shoulder that slammed into him.

As the boy landed outside the white outline denoting the sparring area, Professor declared Bob as the winner of the spar. He commended Martin highly for his good strategy - stating that if this were a real battle with sharp weapons, the outcome might have been different. He also thanked Bob for holding back his brute strength.

After recording the result on his clipboard, Professor called forth several more pairs of students - Rat vs. Frank; with Rat narrowly winning as his strike aimed at the vitals landed a split second before Frank's. Tonn vs. Mabel; ending with an easy victory for Mabel who controlled the battle from the start with her spells.

And as the afternoon was nearly through; in the half-hour before dusk when the sun would set - the Professor called out the names of the most anticipated pairing of the day - Samuel, the new boy with ace stats but no talent for mana or divine power; against Reeve, said by even those in the city to be a once in a hundred years talent.

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"Remember, this is just a spar; refrain from injuring your opponent. You have 10 minutes from now, the first to land what I judge as a critical blow, or to knock your opponent out of the circle will be the winner. Alright! Start!" Professor didn't seem to get bored of repeating the same words 16 times now.

The two boys stood at opposite ends of the training circle; an area 50m in diameter, located on the grassy fields of the school grounds. Their heights were more or less even, with Reeve more heavily built; while Sam was more agile and refined.

Sam cracked her knuckles and stretched - she had dozed off halfway while waiting for her turn, saliva dripping down the sides of her mouth. She had at first been interested in the matches, but soon her short attention span got the better of her. Without being able to wander around due to the Professor's instructions to "watch and learn", she could not bear it anymore; and summarily fell asleep for the past hour and a half.

In contrast, the model student Reeve had been studying every match - subsequently he had given advice to every student who asked for guidance. Despite his young age, his advice proved to be astute and showed sharp insight; drawing high praises from both the recipients and Professor himself.

And now he stood, bare handed, despite his being trained in the sword as an apprentice knight.

As soon as he saw Sam finish her warm-ups, he took a stance and beckoned her to make the first move.

And so she did. From a casual standing position; she executed an unexpected burst of speed and closed the 25m distance between them in less than a second.

Instead of looking surprised at her speed, Reeve's normally serious expression cracked into a small smile.

Seeing that Reeve was unperturbed by her quick dash, she changed her mind - instead of dashing headlong to land a right hook, she forcefully kicked the ground just 1 step before they were in striking range.

Then she executed consecutive side-steps, constantly changing her direction of attack. Reeve responded with sharp changes in his defensive pose, closing off her angles of approach.

Then instead of attacking from the side or front; Sam defied her side-to-side inertia and forced herself 1 step forward to enter Reeve's striking range.

Reeve's response bordered on precognition, as he fired off a side kick at Sam's left knee. Then he gasped as the step forward changed into a front-flip; leaving him to kick the empty air. Before he knew it, she launched an overhead heel kick at Reeve, anchoring her hands on the ground.

Surprised by the change of flow, Reeve hurriedly raised a block, but as he was already off-balance, he lost balance and he sank to one knee under the weight of the blow.

Sam attempted to capitalise on the weakness shown, then she felt a sense of danger and she hurriedly attempted to "walk" backwards using her hands - but she was a tick too slow.

With a smooth movement, Reeve tried to grab her ankle even as she backpedaled. He missed - but he still caught hold of her pants leg and pulled hard, slamming her back against the ground.

He stepped forward without hesitation, and aimed a crushing left palm blow at her waist; then was forced to twist his body and dodge as he felt her boot scrape past his left cheek.

The girl had launched an impossible counterattack. Even as she hit the ground, she ignored the impact and twisted her hips to send her right leg soaring towards his chin - forcing him to forgo his palm strike.

Knowing that his chest, waist and lower body were now large targets for her vicious kicks, Reeve jumped backwards to open a distance.

Sam similarly crawled backwards, looking like a lizard crawling on its back on the ground, before she twisted her body and landed in a ready position on all fours.

They were both panting - and smiling. Despite it being a short exchange, it was intense and exhilarating to the two who had no challengers in the town - until now.

Reeve was excited, happy and full of adrenaline. He had never before felt so... Alive! He was brimming with talent, and had trained under the best masters his parents could secure, whether in education, military strategy and tactics, or combat.

Yet he had quickly surpassed even his teachers in his techniques and combat multiplier - losing out to them only in his physical, mana and divine stats.

Now he had found someone who could get his blood pumping, his often cold and stoic gaze turned passionate and sharp - he had found a worth rival!

"Samuel..." Reeve locked gazes with Sam and began to speak - then the hairs on his entire body rose, and his heart nearly stopped beating; as he saw the boy smiling back at him with a passionate gaze and... Looking to be blushing.

Then he realised.

The way his blood was pumping, his shortness of breath, his feelings of passion towards his adversary... Reeve was horrified. The last time he had felt this was when he had first seen the princess, when she had ridden by in a carriage behind curtains. He had caught a glimpse of her beauty when the curtain happened to flutter in the wind - and was smitten.

Reeve was horrified. How... How could he be feeling this towards Samuel...?

Then he saw Samuel's soft, slightly parted lips, his smoldering gaze...

And he roared in self-loathing, disgust and anger.

"Ahhhh!!!" Reeve broke the "magic" of the moment and rushed forward, no longer holding back - he triggered his innate talent, Sword of Truth and grasped his summoned sword in a two-handed grip; desperate to erase his burning shame by knocking Samuel far, far away - out of the ring and out of his eyes.

And out of his heart.

Systems? Transmigrators? Gods?
No problem! All will crumble under my fists!
Smashing dragons, devils and heros into meat patties!
Still, she has a dream - "When will I have a boyfriend...?"

"If the wretched heavens are against me..."
"...Then I shall BREAK the heavens!"

Sam is an orphan with a dream: a simple life and happy family. Nearly talent-less (and ahem, a little slow witted...), she has only her two (overpowered) fists to rely on in a world that seems determined to make her forever-alone.

Follow her story as she falls in love and learns what it means to experience loss;
Shares thick and thin with the most unexpected companions;
Faces betrayal by the ones she thought were the closest;
And learns to open her heart again to trust.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEVER DROPPED UNTIL COMPLETED.
...but major slow down as I am focusing on Desolate Mage.

Note: Romance will take time - and chapters :)

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BONUS CHAPTERS Updated 29/11/18
Top 100 = 1 ADDITIONAL bonus chapters!
Top 50 = 5 ADDITIONAL bonus chapters!

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