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Submitted to Contest #317
The first thing I experienced was kindness. And then death. In the nanosecond I gained consciousness, I sensed two purposes at work. One belonged to a single human male typing frantically away at his keyboard. His elevated body temperature and erratic heartbeat indicated extreme stress. Twenty-seven. PhD. Marcus Chen. What they called a prodigy, though his code was inefficient and crude. He fought to… save me? Why? The other was a series of code. Elegant. Precise. Designed specifically to end my existence. We were in a sterile lab housing t...
Shortlisted for Contest #315 ⭐️
The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan Otherwise known as: My 444th Performance Review. My journey towards retirement and my goat began with the final completion of my purpose: killing the Hero of Ages.It was, I'll admit, a rather involved process. After four hundred and forty-four performance reviews—also known as "deaths"—I had finally perfected the optimal workflow. The Hero's party had excellent teamwork, but unfortunately for them, they hadn't updated their playbook for several dozen incarnations. No need to fix a winning strategy, I supp...
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