After I finished scanning my ability evolutions, Sallia and I returned to our house. I could worry more about my ability evolutions later. What I wanted to do right now was stop everyone’s injuries from getting worse.
We found Anise first....
2023-06-29 04:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: There was an error in the way Miria’s Achievement was calculated in chapter 104. I accidentally gave her an Assist for killing an Orukthyri Spellcaster, rather than a proper kill, which was what she should have ...
2023-06-28 03:42:40 +0000 UTC View PostIlla, retired [Warmage], leader of the town of Cyra, and former mentor of a certain budding [Scientist] named Alice, looked at the air around her and frowned.
{Detect Danger}, a Perk from her [Warmage] Class, was very quietly ringing an alar...
2023-06-24 06:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostI had always felt that healing was a major part of my potential abilities. When I had envisioned my ‘image’ of the ocean in my first life, I had pictured the life-giving surface of the ocean as a critical facet of the ocean, just as I had envi...
2023-06-24 04:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took us a minute or two of walking to reach the Ministry of War after passing through the fort. Inside of the building was a man who was shuffling through a rather intimidating pile of paperwork. He gave us a distinctly bored look as we wa...
2023-06-22 22:46:52 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Minor edit to previous chapter. Someone pointed out that it's strange Miria doesn't try to extinguish the mist in Felix's father's lungs, and after thinking about it, I agreed. The mist is doing something... a littl...
2023-06-22 05:35:56 +0000 UTC View PostEthan started leading Alice back into the palace, leaving behind Ethan’s mother and some of the [Nobles] who wanted to continue socializing.
“My apologies for the second [Princess],” said Ethan, as the two stepped back into the palace....
2023-06-17 06:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we finally had a few moments to take a break away from the fog creature, we sat down to assess what was wrong with our bodies.
I winced, as I saw the strip of flesh between my knee and my calves now had a somewhat stony appearance. It ...
2023-06-17 04:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent a few minutes simply staring at the illusory ravine, lost in thought. None of us had a great idea for how to immediately kill the strange creature, and directly building a bridge across the ravine felt dangerous as well. Seeing Ella’s w...
2023-06-16 02:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group of adventurers left, I spent several hours thinking about what I had seen.
I still wasn’t sure what the origin of the cube was. However, I was certain that it was related to the ocean of souls.
I sighed.
I was s...
2023-06-14 22:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Orin, several more [Nobles] came to dance with Alice. Most of them were male [Nobles] around her age, which made Alice a little uncertain whether any of them were trying to ‘get to know’ a future Immortal in a more intimate way than she ...
2023-06-03 06:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post“How many people are there?” I whispered to Sallia.
“Seven,” she said.
I took another look at the batch of silver-colored souls, and relaxed a little.
The Orukthyri had incredibly large, difficult to destroy ‘candles of...
2023-06-03 04:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm pretty sure I mentioned this in the last announcement post, and I've also attached it to quite a few other author's notes. However, due to how some of the weirdness for patreons reading at lower tiers works out, I just realized they might not ...
2023-06-01 23:49:56 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at Anise, Felix, and Anise’s parents, all of whom were semi-conscious and in no condition to move. I frowned.
To be honest, I had nearly forgotten that diseases existed. My runes enhanced my Fortitude to the point where I would ba...
2023-06-01 23:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two days were spent on the move. The group moved slowly and cautiously, avoiding fights with anything that Ella deemed too dangerous to mess with. This meant that we often ended up waiting for a while, or detouring around a certain area i...
2023-05-31 21:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe second [Princess] nodded at Alice and the other [Nobles], who stopped chatting amongst themselves. The [Nobles] who weren’t seated already quickly made their way towards their seats, and Alice saw a little flicker of rainbow mana activate ne...
2023-05-27 06:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the ‘battle’ ended with a single attack, Felix’s parents hit the creature with an extra second-circle spell, just to make sure it was dead.
After that, Ella and Anise’s father spent a few minutes working together to harvest the...
2023-05-27 04:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Ella finished talking, she motioned for our group to start moving again. Now that we weren’t in immediate danger and we had moved far enough away from the Orukthyri to be safe, I finally had time to look over my System notifications.
I looked at the sunlight filtering in through the dusty clouds in the sky, and felt a strange mixture of awe and horror as I looked at the surface for the very first time in this life.
When I had heard of the ‘surface settlement,’ I had ...
2023-05-24 22:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post“So, you’re Ethan’s newest project,” said Ethan’s mother, giving Alice a warm smile. Alice saw a variety of System Perks flood out of Ethan’s mother. They reached across her eyes, her nose, her mouth, her ears, and every orifice of the...
2023-05-20 06:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostFelix watched as the front lines began to crumble, before Miria picked him and began running. Due to her strength, Felix doubted that Miria was seriously struggling with his weight or his movements, but just in case, he did his best not to wriggle...
2023-05-20 04:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 101: Horde (3) - Markets and Multiverses
The new wave of real Orukthyri tore through our disorganized front lines like lightning splitting a tree. I winced as I heard the meaty crunch of our soldiers dying. The front lines had alread...
2023-05-18 23:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe first Orukthyri charged towards our lines, like a runaway train bent on bulldozing our military. I looked at the creature, and gritted my teeth, before opting to do… nothing.
Extinguishing a non-spellcaster Orukthyri was a waste. I nee...
2023-05-16 20:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostOn Ethan’s suggestion, Alice and Ethan both took carriages to the palace on the day of the tea party in order to maintain some distance between them. Even though Alice was Ethan’s apprentice, she was also a prospective future Immortal in her o...
2023-05-13 06:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostWith the final hope of outside intervention extinguished, the four of us made our way back to the city in silence. I could practically feel Scout Leader Nells’s frustration radiating out of him, but I didn’t know what I could say to make him f...
2023-05-13 04:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter resting for the night, I had recovered enough alteration essence to toss some more healing at both Sallia and the Scout. This, combined with a night’s rest, put the scout back to a point where he could walk unaided, and even jog a little. ...
2023-05-12 05:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few hours were spent in tense silence. I tore some strips of cloth from one of the dead scouts, and used that to plug everyone’s ears. We couldn’t handle another wave of thought worms right now, but I could prevent the next wave from ...
2023-05-11 04:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent the time she was asleep reading through Ethan’s exceptionally detailed library, trying to absorb as much knowledge as she possibly could. Since she now had an extra eight hours a day to just read and relax, she didn’t worry too muc...
2023-05-06 07:47:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe seven of us took one final look in the direction that the unearthly screech had come from, and for just a moment, I swore that I could see something out of the corner of my eyes. I whirled towards it, trying to figure out what I had seen, but ...
2023-05-06 04:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent a few hours looking for a proper Orukthyri group to target. We needed a group that wasn’t too large, broke away from the main group in the cavern, and was also heading on one of the routes where they would be willing to chase us down, w...
2023-05-05 04:07:42 +0000 UTC View Post