In the mountains of Switzerland, a middle aged killer with 500 ghosts at his call fights a teenage girl with a sword taller and she is, and three times as wide. The girl cuts through ghosts with golden flashing strikes.

  In the Las Vegas pyramid dungeon, a team stumbles onto a box of golden poker chips. They get them identified, revealing them to be cursed, all 500 of them negating the effects of Luck. The team is contacted by someone in the White House.

  In Texas, a guild leader finishes packing up his house. The moving men take his stuff 15 miles north. He doesn't tell them that it's because he's worried about a nuclear attack on Dallas.

  In Algiers, a family prays at a catholic church. The mother prays for safety from gang attacks. The father prays that his son behaves for 5 minutes.

  In San Francisco a father looks through his son's belongings, searching for answers that he won't find.

  In Mumbai, India, nine men infect themselves with Scourge using a captured monster. Then they walk out into the crowded streets. They look to infect as many as possible.

  In Los Angeles a detective walks into the Hollywood Sign dungeon and becomes a Detective. He shrugs as the system acknowledges what he'd already known.

  In Washington DC a team in the Pentagon coordinates with foreign forces, organizing against the most violent terrorist force the world has ever known.

  If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

  In Russia an elite strike force trains to destroy Americans. The team's leader worries that they're becoming too friendly with each other.

  In western Australia, a young man leads his robot army. They're the only thing standing between the ravenous monsters of a dungeon and several small towns. Each week he thinks about new ways to upgrade his cyborg body.

  In Vancouver, Canada, a showrunner is sent to an ongoing fan fiction of her own show that gets more views each week than the real thing. She contacts the author, hoping they can save her show.

  In Peru, visitors there to view the Nazca lines are slain as monsters spawn from the ancient sites. The Condor, nearly 400 feet long, immediately becomes an apex predator.

  In Makaha Valley, Hawaii, a cult prepares to call a great old one. They say he has been asleep for a long time, and must awaken.

  In Dubai, UAE, a Dracosys founder wakes up in an alley after he found himself locked out of his last bank account.

  In Pyramiden, Svalbard, drones are sent in, searching every building, home and alley. They find nothing of import.

  In Lyon, France, an Interpol agent works into the night, combing footage from several drones. She finally finds what she's looking for. Every second of footage was AI generated and fed into the drones. Her screens turn black, and she reads a message that tells her to stay silent or die.

  In Denton, Texas, a mathematician gets a message from a friend in France. It reads, “you were right.” The mathematician doesn't have time to celebrate.

  In Fukushima, Japan, the locals celebrate the closure of the nuclear plant dungeon. Rokuro, leader of the team that cleared the dungeon, still doesn't have the courage to confess to his crush.

  In Denver, Colorado, a man talks to his fiance about his new class. She says it takes courage to let power go. He shrugs, and admits that he discovered that he can actually use his Infinite Options perk to take any subclass he himself creates, allowing him to potentially create a loop of infinite ability stacking.

  She sighs, and says, “this is why people hate it when you multiclass.”

  END OF BOOK 2.