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MAZE - The Endless Quest
As all kids do, Hera wanted to be an explorer. Sadly when she turned 18 she discovered that her stats and lack of skills made her fail the requirements to become one, and she went to work on a bookstore.
That should have been the end of her story. But when she wins a lottery to have her level up she discovers a hidden skill and a rare one at that.
The system gave her dream back, and this time she is not letting it go.
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The story is about a world where game-like systems are the norm, Everyone has a level, status and even skills are a common thing.
If your stats are good you can even become an explorer, someone that ventures inside a place called MAZE, a dungeon of sorts filled with monsters creatures and things that the regular world is missing such as magic.
The story follows Hera, a woman who wanted to be an explorer but her status were too low to become one. One day she wins a raffle that allows her to level up for the first time giving her the chance to achieve her childhood dream.
It's more about how things work and what you can do with them than about power or revenge.
The rhythm might be a bit slow for some but that is the idea. I want to give sort of a slice of life feeling to most of it.
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- Prologue - Broken Dreams
- Someone sees you
- Hidden talents
- Sometimes things go wrong
- Not this time
- More surprises
- Returning to class
- Running Start
- Hit that dummy
- Unexpected rematch
- You have a hero
- New Toy
- Understanding skills
- Drawing Maps
- Where do we eat?
- How to hit a dummy
- Combat Training
- First Win
- Class Dismissed
- Good Morning World
- New Skill
- Rushing is bad for you
- Special place
- The price of a skill
- Plans that don't go well
- The demon awakens
- Not all shall pass
- The results are in
- Late breakfast
- Pastries and Fruits
- New training
- How to take a hit
- Hide and seek
- The test
- What you find in the dark
- Struggle
- Homecoming
- The olympics
- Brand new day
- What is a role?
- Crossing the 't's
- Dotting the 'i's
- The explorer's test
- Searching for a path
- Surprise Undead
- The first to go
- The road not taken
- Choosing a role
- What to explore
- New set of quests
- Time to Hunt
- Slime Frenzy
- New kind of lost
- Past Experiences
- Finishing an errand
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Hard Choices
- Unexpected skill
- Interview
- New Card
- Ready for prom
- Recruitment Mixer
- Gear up
- Entering the MAZE
- Brinefront
- The explorer and the toad
- A hunter's plea
- A better way
- Tiny Threat
- First night
- Breadcrumbs
- Magic Training
- Reason to fight
- Routine
- Group Fight
- Prize
- Leo's Result
- What lies within the ruins
- The Arcanist's Lookout
- The halls of the tower
- Elementals
- Someone left the oven on
- Weird Room
- The secret of the tower
- Quest Complete
- Moving Foward
- The Wall
- Taming a Toad
- I need a Healer
- Helena's Assistant
- Weekend Off
- The assault on the wall
- Reaction
- Brinefront's Guide
- Solo Hunt
- Goliath Toad
- Mark joins the battle
- Fighting with a full party
- Team findings
- Hide
- 100 CHAPTER CELEBRATION
- New Role
- The diference between tests
- Rinse and Repeat
- Underwater
- Growth
- Infiltrating the palace
- Assassin's Skill
- Divide
- The Frog Valley
- What shines in the pond
- Snakes, Frogs and Lizards
- Valley's End
- Dungeon Boss
- Tanika
- Veteran's Advice
- Farming the Valley
- Back Home
- Serious talk
- Moving In
- The drunken sailor
- Picking the Rewards
- Improvement
- Upgrades
- Assistant Job
- Going off the deep end
- Pangolins
- Field Research
- Collecting Samples
- Lurking
- The Panther
- Lured to a Trap
- The guild thanks you for your service
- The Ceremony
- After party
- Boredom
- Home Cooking
- A gift
- New Armor
- Carpon Caverns
- Fight like a Knight
- Monster Rampage
- Monster Waves
- First Shift
- Research Results
- Day 2
- New Concept
- Changes
- Unfair
- The last day
- Rampage Quest
- Things just keep coming
- Let's try it again
- Crimson Sky
- Heavy Price
- Down Time
- Back to the main topic
- Once more, with feeling
- Underground Forest
- Tendrils everywhere
- The fall
- Handbook
- Missing one
- Where is he?
- Camping is easy
- Turtles
- Rescue Mission
- Turtle Eggs
- Reason
- Mock Battle
- So? What do you think?
- New arrangements
- New arrangements
- Possible Path
- Back to the rave
- The Light of the Forest
- Photoshoot
- Hidden Knowledge
- Forest Origin
- Skills and Rest
- Meeting the crafters
- Meeting the crafters
- The New Dawn project
- The New Dawn project
- How many runs does it take?
- How many runs does it take?
- Kobold Field
- Kobold Field
- Kobold General
- Helping Galva
- Helping around the camp
- Night Shift
- The Wolves Attack
- Feral Kobolds
- Life is a stage
- The dragon descends
- Sound the drums of war
- Kobold VS Kobold
- Kobold VS Kobold
- Dragon Kin Victory
- Dragon Kin Victory
- Kobold Supplies
- Kobold Supplies
- Getting ready for battle
- Getting ready for battle
- Entering the battlefield
- Entering the battlefield
- Greeting a wolf
- Greeting a wolf
- Before the storm
- Before the storm
- Sabotage
- Restless Giant
- Ups and Downs
- The chasm
- One way out
- The path leads to
- Boothudurn Peaks
- Capri
- The city under the mountain
- Healer's Hut
- Meeting with a King
- Blue's recovery
- What will the humans do?
- First day on the job
- The difference in strength
- Training Partner
- Giving up a dungeon
- Lunch Break
- Wooly Plains
- Wool Everywhere
- How dwarves level up
- Hope Lost
- How we enter the dungeon
- Are griffons birds?
- Chicken Dinner
- A mage's suggestion
- Strategy Meeting
- Strategy Meeting
- Master Armorsmith
- Ready, set
- Unexpected Result
- Before the test
- Role test
- Role test
- Desert Biome
- Desert Biome
- The first plaque
- Next Hunt
- Dealing with the monkeys
- Dealing with the monkeys
- Jungle Biome
- Jungle Biome
- New Attempt
- Moving Mountain
- Hunter Biome
- Hunter Biome
- Reason to hunt
- Reason to hunt
- Watch Party
- Hunter Skill
- Boothudurn Doorway
- Sky Ruler's Spawn
- Cloud Barrier
- The Frenzy
- Hidden Boss
- Starved Ruler
- Boon from the clouds
- Hard Mode Dungeon
- Bloodbeak
- So many rulers
- Carrion
- Nimbus
- Nest
- Egg
- New party member
- Grief
- It's time
- Setting up the board
- The Sky Ruler
- Third Legacy Piece
- How the mighty fall
- First Key
- Are we interns?
- Living Fence
- What about the flowers?
- Decorations
- Ring the wedding bells
- Tarot
- Human advice
- Professional Work
- Over the edge
- Dungeon Surprise
- Roaring Flames
- People don't make sense
- Source of flame
- Long track home
- Violent Greeting
- Honey, I'm home
- Catching up
- Meeting the folks
- Slumber Party
- Back to the mountain
- The new Sky Ruler Nest
- Human influence
- Rematch atop the mountain
- Big decisions
- The other side of the story
- The three Heroes
- Perks of discovery
- A Loving Family
- Seems about right
- Unfortunate coincidence
- Ironic Talk Show
- The Order's goals
- A thread to follow
- Ugly Feelings
- Shaper of Mana
- Enter Shane
- Augmented Simulation Zone
- Dangerous Idea
- Bitter Medicine
- Reinforcement
- Explorer Gossip
- Final preparation
- Into the unknown
- 5th Layer
- Forest of Dreams
- Elemental Spirit
- Forest of Dreams outpost
- The (un)Lucky
- The Wailing Valley
- Search for the Ruins
- The room beneath the room
- Getting Answers
- The other side of the chasm
- The naga people
- The bunker
- The battle at the passage
- Hidden Crypt
- The story in the mural
- Calling for help
- Odd behavior
- Run to the narrow path
- Silver block
- Spell Circle
- Missing rune
- A hero's crypt
- Stars in the ceiling
- Legacy door
- Red naga
- Blockage
- Journal
- Stacking rewards
- In the depths
- Ninleyn returns
- The lost court
- Choosing a Thread
- Chasing a Legacy
- A small reprieve
- Coincidence? I think not
- Back on the road
- Clear Water Lake
- The Tip of the Iceberg
- Trouble on ice
- Years went by
- Unusual Reward
- Spirit Party
- Elemental Spirit class
- Understanding the spirits
- A spirit's plea
- A spirit's plea
- Assessing the situation
- Assessing the situation
- Trapped
- Trapped
- It's just that easy
- Level up like a human
- Level up like a human
- Private room
- Archeology Camp
- Scholar's research
- Trip
- A very old friend
- The path up
- Babysitting
- Lunch and a show
- Gathering breadcrumbs
- Babysitting part 2
- Chika
- Goodbye
- A celebrated return
- Outburst
- Outburst
- Opening ceremony
- Big surprise
- Big surprise
- Fallout
- Stepping up
- Stepping up
- Boothudurn Rampage
- The lake
- Brown Fin Snapper
- Homemade Sashimi
- Dangerous Quest
- Wendigo Lair
- Kill it with fire
- Time to travel
- Getting ready for the next room
- Getting ready for the next room
- On my way
- Three rooms and a bus
- Murder of crows
- Post battle discussion
- Steps of heaven
- Moon Station
- Moon Dungeons
- Sea of Nectar
- Snow in the moon
- Going up
- An unique guide
- Higher Layers
- Saltandeer Woods
- Run or get stuck
- Waperath Kingdom
- A far away struggle
- The end of a war
- Bookworm
- Not found
- A different option
- The new jungle village
- Charting a raft
- The heart of the jungle
- Kirouhebi
- Deciphering a poem
- Curse
- Barren Room
- Test
- Researcher Role
- Increasing ones knowledge
- An important meeting
- The last theory
- Wrong research
- A way out
- Meeting Room
- Party like a Guide
- Back at the temple
- Blademaster Legacy
- A sword, an axe, or a dagger
- The Court of Blades 1
- Court of Blades - 2
- Shopping trip
- Jungle Hunter
- Glimmer
- Loginue
- Opportunity
- There is no place like home
- Misunderstanding
- Not excatly healthy
- The sky ruler nest revisited
- Domain of the storm
- Nuking the nursery
- Next Up
- Leaving Again
- The city of doorways
- Pick your poison
- Dinner Party
- The hunt beggins
- A crazed trapmaker
- Unexpected Tower
- Trapping a trapper
- Court member
- Talking to the order
- Guide of the doors
- Engraving a weapon
- The No Hotel
- Housekeeping
- Housekeeping
- Find the statue
- Test after test
- Alone in a hotel
- Finding the room
- Dzviery in danger
- Madness ensues
- The tower thunderdome
- Party Issues
- Interrogation
- Traveling to the Lab again
- Guide Support
- Charrings Wastes
- Lava Spirit
- A clash of interest
- War Table
- Scouting Report
- Initial Strike
- A tribe's desire
- Volcano Day
- Bonpei strikes back
- Attacking the city
- Last ditch effort
- Last ditch effort
- Changing the court
- Four months later
- The other side of the war
- Invading the tribe
- Reverse Ambush
- Court meeting
- Flame princess
- Titled blade
- Reunion
- Moving Day
- Fatherly advice
- Secret Meeting
- A plan never to be used
- Showoff
- Old Friend
- First Timer
- R&D Opening
- R&D Opening
- Gather Up
- The plan
- The plan
- Centaur Advance
- Fight of the strongest
- Fight of the strongest
- A chieftain's way
- Past teacher
- Spider Galore
- A group of Naga
- A group of Naga
- Calling the Explorers
- Calling the Explorers
- Group Meeting
- Surprise landing
- A helping hand
- Starting the hunt
- Can't read a map
- End of the tunnel
- Rewards all around
- Twin Adders
- Parallel Worlds
- Searching for a doorway
- An old promise
- Royal Seal
- Shtylla Archipelago
- Creating an island
- Landscaping Massacre
- Paying the gardeners
- Unfortunate Circunstance
- Strange Meeting
- The right combination
- The right combination
- Villainous ambitions
- Here comes the backup
- Gathering the expedition
- Far from a league under the sea
- Snakes on the water
- A tunnel inside the reef
- The Seven Islands
- The four sisters
- The four sisters
- Grilled fish by the beach
- Unexpected Opponent
- A snake burgular
- Hera VS Guides
- Challenge Results
- The tower roundtable
- Final stretch
- First challenge complete
- Nactilan Island
- The secret of the cave
- The bottom of the well
- A touch of mana
- What is a name
- The second challenge
- A long day
- Mana touched court
- Guide Race
- Fight for first place
- And the winner is
- Challenge number 3
- Flower Galore
- Inside the tunnel
- Forge, materials and blueprints
- Zoned out
- Ruma
- Next step
- When you stare into the abyss
- ...The abyss stares back
- 12th Layer
- A glimpse of a threat
- Meeting under the rain
- We are on a boat
- Things get weirder
- Deciding a new skill
- From 0 to 100
- Brand new blade
- Unexpected findings
- Crystal Fisher
- Spa day
- Overcharge
- Night in the raft
- Second meeting with a guide
- A deal
- Searching the floatilla
- Town Hall
- Sky City
- Winged Serpent
- Naga Temple
- Survival of the Fittest
- Welcome to the jungle
- Who rules over a King
- It has to be a dream
- Spirit Bound
- Accolades
- It's time to duel
- Restfull Night
- Strange lab
- Invaders
- Magic Cube
- Final Boss
- Slime Net
- What went wrong to with the world?
- Theory of the past
- Post Game Analysis
- Gift
- Betrayal
- Preparation
- Naga Journal
- The depths of the abyss
- Abyssia
- Gotta Run
- Anemoray
- Safe or in danger?
- Hope with a sprinkle of despair
- Convincing the cursed
- Fight for Entertainment
- Yellow Team
- The barrier drops
- Black and white room
- Shane's Turn
- When a plan comes together
- Scoreboard
- Teachings of a Queen
- The mind of a reporter
- Infiltrator extraordinaire
- Bird, dogs and a turtle
- Gettining the Data
- Red Dunes
- Ancestor
- Ascencion
- Opening a relic
- Odd mana path
- Elemental Symbols
- New Relic
- Hera is back
- Shiretaa
- Temple of Sands
- Confession
- Thirmal Waters
- Preparing for a Session
- Phsychodelic Therapy
- A jungle in the past
- Hidden Village
- Test of endurance
- Combat Marathon
- The Vanguard
- An ancient Legacy
- The end of a long day
- Split up and search for clues
- Witch Doctor
- All who hunt
- A friendly duel
- Culprits everywhere
- Unexpected meeting
- Yet another test
- Power beyond measure
- Visible scars
- After a hunt
- Village Chief
- Wrong History
- Preparations
- Trapping the Night River
- An unexpected battle
- Plans that come together
- It's all the same
- Rebels
- Grilat
- A long way back
- Licking their wounds
- New Chieftain
- Inheritance
- Code Red
- The difference of mana
- A mistake
- Ant Army
- Anthill
- The origin of the curse
- Inside the ant nest
- Figthing the curse
- A battle won
- To the victor, the spoils
- Skills all around
- Purified
- Siege
- What to do next
- Private Workshop
- The Valley of Steam
- Steamweaver
- The old valley
- A lesson to be taught
- Steamweaver's Nest
- Trading Center
- Sammy's session
- A walk on the beach
- Fritz's Place
- Ghost in the Shell
- Golden Dragon Archipelago
- Last piece of the puzzle
- Flying Coach
- A room full of life
- A day as a Wyvern
- Big small changes
- Missing Pieces
- Wyvern Festival
- The Last Moonless Night
- Luna's Cave
- One last obstacle
- Welcome back to the internet
- Home
- Movie Night
- Hidden issues
- Change of jobs
- Livy
- Traninig the new kids
- Leviathan's Power
- Unexpected visit
- Those who are gone
- Path to freedom
- The lucky door
- The room of a prison
- The team gathers
- One last detail
- Clockwork Guide
- Infiltration
- Prisoner's Ward
- Prisoner's Ward
- Searching for Silah
- Daemon
- Escape
- Extra cover
- Victory at a cost
- Old City of Zaxalam
- Finding Hera
- Guilt
- One last lesson
- Meeting Tara
- Final Touches
- Test Run
- Ritual
- A new me
- Home is where you heart is
- A new room for the guild
- A new room for the guild
- Steps for the future
- Steps for the future
- A piece that might not fit
- A piece that might not fit
- Above my paygrade
- Comfort Zone
- The last Royal Explorer
- The last Royal Explorer
- Zaxalam
- Scryotra
- Good and bad news
- Guardian's Rage
- Path of no return
- Grocery Shopping
- The guardian unleashed
- Breaking Point
- Learning from the past
- Resentment
- Zaxalam's Guide
- It begins
- On a deadline
- Repetition
- Understandable Rage
- Hunting Party
- Inside old Zaxalam
- Stampede
- A shot in the dark
- Scryotra's Tomb
- One more party member
- Crimson and Viper
- Meeting a new party
- First assignment
- Krashak Plains
- Hunting Supplies
- Krashak Guide
- Priorities
- Underground Wendigo
- First Mission Complete
- Next Shift
- Getting to know each other
- Beast Armor
- Plans for a dungeon
- Monarch of the Glen
- Dungeon Art
- The second general
- Monarch Generals
- First round of rewards
- Try and try again
- Court's First outing
- Monarch's Full Power
- Sentinel's Fall
- A simple revenge
- Loren
- Cinderspire Citadel
- All eyes on me
- Volcanic Rampage
- Sector 3B floor 87
- Figthing in the tunnels
- End of first shift
- Warm and Cozy
- Guide metallurgy
- A spell to change the tide
- Cracks already appearing
- This is a rampage, right?
- Organized Attack
- The last day of a rampage
- Protect the forge
- Flight of the bumblebee
- Don't let them fight
- No time to rest
- Passkey
- Organizing the court
- Moving Fast
- Underwater Ruins
- Human's Arrive
- Lab Rats
- What's in the box?
- Laboratory Supplies
- Forge
- The dead need no pants
- What comes next
- You need a hero
- Old Connections
- Intelligence agency
- Setting up the rules
- Hidden path
- Steps to danger
- Unseen city
- Heading to the interview
- Trauma filled interview
- Unusual power leveling
- Dance battle dungeon
- An expert kind of help
- It's been a while
- A man on a mission - I
- A man on a mission - II
- A man on a mission - III
- A man on a mission IV
- Closing Act
- Noble Houses
- Sad upgrade
- Deployment
- On to a new mission
- Beach Episode
- Bad Call
- On the road
- Drowned bog
- A restless night
- Things going too well
- Human Ambush
- Army Camp
- Repairs
- Reason to help
- Encroaching Storm
- Delta
- Round Two
- An unfortunate meeting
- Brave Warrior Miller
- Breakfast meeting
- Guide meet up
- Unexpected Quest
- Is it enough?
- Meet Cute
- Frostmare Peak
- The muscle
- Grand operation
- Verdant Labyrinth
- Asterion
- Always turn right
- B&E
- Collision
- A guide's gift
- The Purifying Light
- The Astral Witch
- The Astral Light
- Alex and Bonnie - PI in training
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