The next three days were spent working on freeing the dragon. I did wonder if it was possible to use general shaping to make chains ‘solid’ and use that to cut them in half, thus using alteration essence and not manifestation essence. However,...
2023-08-19 05:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe next five hours were a mind-numbing blur of repetition. Anise’s freezing spell was rather slow, and she took a small break after each cast to think about ways to optimize the spell, given her limited manifestation reserves and the large quan...
2023-08-18 05:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostA few things:
1. I’ve signed a publishing deal for Budding Scientist with Podium. I believe I mentioned in, like… February? March? Something like that? that I was working on something, and well, that was the edits for the next draft of t...
2023-08-17 05:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Orthanoids?” asked the dragon, in heavily accented old Orthan. Its voice was gravelly, and sounded kind of like boulders slowly being ground against each other. I wondered how its body produce the sounds.
I also noticed that it spoke Or...
2023-08-17 05:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlice quickly dealt with her level-up notifications before she went to sleep.
You have leveled up!
Survivor: 56 -> 58, Kinetic Manabinder 41 -> 42
Both her [Kinetic Manabinder] ...
2023-08-12 07:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you completely sure that it’s somewhere in this building?” asked Felix, after a few moments.
“I’m sure,” I said.
“Then let’s look for it. If we can break off the connection between the two dimensions, this world ca...
2023-08-12 04:27:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of us felt very excited when we found a door that hadn’t been turned into melted slag. We had spent most of our time in this building finding empty room after empty room, so the idea that there might actually be something to take in the...
2023-08-11 06:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we exited the building, we took a few moments to rest. The fight against the strange void creatures from room six hadn’t been the most dangerous fight we had ever been in: in fact, the hostile creatures hadn’t even had a chance to attack...
2023-08-10 04:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostAlice felt her heart leap into her throat for a moment, before she started to calm down.
She still felt a little afraid because the manor was under attack, but her training started to kick in. Ethan had explicitly taken her with him when the...
2023-08-05 07:55:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe fifth room was creepy.
Not in the same way I imagined the dimension of the black sun was, where, according to the research notes we had found, everything was alive in some fashion. Instead, it was like we had walked into a furna...
2023-08-05 05:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes later, the five of us arrived at the fourth major room. I had to admit, Sallia lugging around Sekundyrr as we walked through the hallways of the facility was a rather absurd sight. However, Sekundyrr seemed incredibly excited to move...
2023-08-04 07:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostThank you, sent the creature. Its previous terror was starting to fade, and it no longer seemed like it would pass out from fear.
I babbled a few ‘friendly/peaceful’ thoughts at it as Sallia retreated back out of the room. Meanw...
2023-08-03 07:26:46 +0000 UTC View PostNeither Alice nor Ethan said much on the way back to Ethan’s manor. The [Guards] also remained fairly silent, simply leaving Alice to stew in her thoughts.
Now that she wasn’t worrying about her new Perk, or the disappearance of the Syst...
2023-07-29 07:53:16 +0000 UTC View PostIn the middle of the first dimensional sub-chamber, a massive creature was chained to a table.
The thing had mouth, or any discernible head. It looked like somebody had chopped a fish in half, taken the lower part of the fish, and then graft...
2023-07-29 04:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter investigating the gravity chamber for a while longer, I couldn’t come up with an idea for how it actually worked. Despite the massive ambitions I had started to harbor for the final direction of alteration magic, there was something I was ...
2023-07-28 06:25:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy first impression of the building was that the interior was bland. There was a giant desk in front, littered with papers that had long since started crumbling to dust. The decorations in the room were minimal, and the only furniture pieces were ...
2023-07-27 04:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: This is a Markets and Multiverses chapter. I posted the chapters for each of my stories in reverse order today, so if you're only a Budding Scientist reader, check the other post I made today.
The four of us c...
2023-07-22 06:13:44 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This is a budding scientist chapter, not an MaM chapter. I’m posting them in a weird order today because that’s the order I feel like editing my stories in. MaM chapter later. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Alice did her best to fo...
2023-07-22 03:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe ruined palace and its outskirts grew closer by the hour as we continued traveling. It took two more hours for me to be able to make out the finer details of the buildings in the distance, and also helped me understand just how massive the buil...
2023-07-21 05:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we had our talk with Anise, the three of us continued traveling.
Now that the surface seemed depopulated, we ran into fewer monsters than ever before. The black sun posed the biggest problem for our travels: we had to spend every other...
2023-07-20 04:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlice felt her knuckles tighten into fists, before she forced herself to unclench her hands. Then, she laid a finger on the dying man’s stomach. As she did, she tried her best to think of the man as a patient, rather than a real, living person.<...
2023-07-15 08:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, Anise, I should probably start with the afterlife,” I said, as I sat down and motioned for her to do the same. “What do you think happens after people die?”
Anise paused, as if taken aback by my statement. “Is this relevant?...
2023-07-15 03:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 122: …And Plants
Author’s Note: Previous chapter error correction. It should NOT take 10 minutes to cross the patch of plants - I was doing some math based on average human walking speed, and realized that that w...
2023-07-14 06:19:36 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next three days traveling through the wastes, making sure to take shelter for a day after each day of traveling to make sure nobody got sick. We didn’t run into very many living creatures: whatever the black sun was doing, it seemed...
2023-07-13 05:29:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe two quickly made their way out of Ethan’s manor, before heading towards the healer’s shop where the unfortunate Mages were located. Ethan led the way, and Alice followed behind. There were also a few [Guards] with relatively high levels ta...
2023-07-08 07:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we stepped back onto the surface, I couldn’t help but wince.
The first time we had set foot in the wastes, over a decade and a half ago, I had noticed how strange everything was. The pink grass, the smell of charcoal, the ring-shaped ...
2023-07-08 03:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure you want to come with us?” I asked Anise, for the third time.
Honestly, I felt worried. Unlike Sallia and Felix, Anise wasn’t a part of the Market. In other words, after she died, she would return to the ocean of souls, w...
2023-07-07 05:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I created my new and improved healing spell, time passed.
I spent about two and a half weeks healing everyone’s injuries, starting with Anise. After Anise’s face was healed, I divided my essence equally between Felix and Ella to he...
2023-07-06 04:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Immortal Ethan, I would like to talk about my research,” said Alice, after stepping into the hallway and making sure there were no nearby [Servants]. “I feel that it will be extremely relevant in the coming days, which is why I am willing t...
2023-07-01 07:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post--------------------
Skill: Acquire [Basic] mastery of Ocean’s Duality duality magic
Achievement +500
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Since you have trained the concept of Ocean’s Dualit...
2023-06-30 04:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post