The journey back to the city was uneventful, to Alice’s relief. Part of her still expected the situation to be some sort of elaborate trick. Her mind kept throwing out scenarios where the Society leader hadn’t actually died, and attacked them ...
2025-02-22 00:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostAs the creature charged towards the trunk of the tree, I could see the souls of the other defenders shifting. Their movements transformed, swapping from an evasive style of combat to a more confrontational one. Previously, they had moved like a sw...
2025-02-21 03:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe first difference between the raid and regular raids was the fear. By now, I had gotten used to the usual raid bells. I barely even thought about them anymore - raids were pretty manageable at two or three bells, and it was rare for even minor ...
2025-02-20 04:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed by like a river flowing downstream.
Sallia, Felix, Anise and I kept learning more about the world as months turned into years. A lot of information was limited to us, because we were still considered ‘children’ until we were ...
2025-02-19 02:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Allira, can you send a few shadows to make sure there aren’t any physical traps located right under this thing?” asked Ethan, as he pointed at the Artifact.
Allira started singing, and a few shadows started checking over the room agai...
2025-02-14 22:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the picnic with my parents was peaceful. We had a nice lunch, and then we strolled around the field of flowers. Our parents encouraged Anise and I to play with the other children we met along the way, and so we were pressured into join...
2025-02-14 05:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Anise and I took a few more moments to admire the staircase with some kind of powerup on it, our parents seemed to get tired. They took us on a leisurely stroll around the greenery, before we finally settled in a secluded garden area. Unlike...
2025-02-13 03:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Anise woke up, she started adapting her own actions to suit her age. She quickly spoke her ‘first words,’ before she rapidly progressed her linguistic skills to meet my own. My parents seemed delighted that Anise was finally ‘catching ...
2025-02-12 04:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostImmediately after the Society leader fell, Alice got a few System notifications.
You have gained an achievement!
Death of an Immortal (Rarity: 9)
You directly contributed to a battle in ...
2025-02-07 22:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostMonths started to flow by. I finally achieved mastery of the language, meaning I no longer had awkward parts of each conversation that I didn’t understand. At the same time, I worked on progressing both of my primary magic systems. I was still a...
2025-02-06 23:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post“In the old days, while the four essences were still limited, it was far more plentiful than it was now,” began my father, as he looked into my eyes. It almost seemed like he was trying to figure out how much of his words I understood.
&...
2025-02-06 03:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy father and I returned to the bakery, where we found my mother sitting in one of the upper windows. She had a half-emptied quiver of arrows next to her, as well as a bow that laid near the side of the wall. I looked at her, to make sure she was ...
2025-02-05 04:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Number of Society near-Immortals and Immortals mentioned last chapter decreased from 5 to 4. One of them died around chapter 150, but for some reason I didn’t add that to his character sheet, so I thought he was...
2025-01-31 22:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post<Oh, so I’m not the first one awake,> Felix said. <My Intelligence is almost exactly average given my modifiers. You must have gotten a pretty good Intelligence score to beat me?>
<I got 165 total,> I said.
<Ah, ...
2025-01-31 04:05:05 +0000 UTC View PostThrough one of the arrow-slits in the house, I got my first good look at the physical forms of the creatures that had landed in front of the house.
They were some of the most bizarre and creepy-looking monsters I had seen, and that was in co...
2025-01-30 05:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Minor edit to last chapter. Specified that the shortsword Miria’s father is using is made of a dense black stone. I intend to get a bit into rock types in this world later on, as well as a few other oddities in ...
2025-01-29 08:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe twitching, shivering mass of stone looked at them, and Alice shivered as a strange sense of disquiet settled in the pit of her stomach. It was like no living thing she had ever seen before. The bits of chaotic rainbow mana it ema...
2025-01-24 22:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I saw when we set foot outside of home was the tree. It was so massive that it dominated everything. The sky was nearly covered in leaves. The branches of the tree blotted out the rest of the sky, making it nearly impossible to tel...
2025-01-24 02:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostAfter seeing Anise roll back over, I smiled. I moved a little bit closer to her, and with some difficulty, managed to give her a nice hug. I checked Anise’s ears, and confirmed my suspicion. Anise had pointy ears, just like some of the other peo...
2025-01-23 03:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Math error (from like 30 freaking chapters ago)
So, a while ago, someone found a math error from the end of World 3. It was a specific note about how I was missing about 1K Achievement. Someone found it - ap...
2025-01-22 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe depths of the Society base were different from what Alice was expecting. The previous Society base had been like a makeshift fort. Most of the important bits were above ground, and while there was a basement, it was small. It had mostly been u...
2025-01-17 22:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Mistake in chapter 336. Forgot to actually give Miria the Achievement she earned from killing the Pustule of Unwoven embers. She has 1K more Achievement than before, giving her a total of 9,302.98 instead of what ...
2025-01-17 02:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostEven after walking up to the entrance of the cabin, we still hadn’t seen any monsters. This made me more than a little nervous. All of the other pools of reincarnation were swarming with monsters. This was true for even the weakest and least spe...
2025-01-16 02:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next few days searching the Market for an appropriate pool of reincarnation. We didn’t stop to raid shops anymore. We avoided monsters, because the rewards from a fight didn’t outweigh the danger of not finding the pool of reincar...
2025-01-15 07:41:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe march through the forest was slow, and a large part of that was due to the inefficiency of the [Mercenaries]. Alice had never before appreciated just how much of a difference training made on travel speed. The Illvarian army that she and Ethan...
2025-01-10 23:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post“All right, what do we need out of our next world?” I asked. “We should make a plan before we start wandering around the Market again. We have… a week or two? Before our bodies start decomposing with us still inside of it. We have enough t...
2025-01-10 03:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Anise showed interest in the shop, I used a clone to check it out. Inside, I saw a lump of glowing, orange green-flesh that looked to be about the size of a person.
“There’s a guardian,” I said. I checked it over with my sou...
2025-01-09 04:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next few weeks raiding lower-level shops. We had two objectives in mind - first, acquire a good stock of Achievement, in order to shore up any weaknesses in our stats or abilities. We could always make one final round of purchases bef...
2025-01-08 06:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two days were a blur of activity. Alice spent most of each day monitoring Jonathan’s condition. Now that she had given him a new version of a ‘Class Seed,’ she desperately wanted to spend every moment observing it and seeing if it w...
2024-12-20 09:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Small correction to last chapter - Miria references being able to make two clones in a emergency. However, she doesn’t read her System notifications until THIS chapter. She also hadn’t gotten her last few...
2024-12-19 23:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post