Epsilon Twilight

31. Growth

It was just a drop of blood, she had shed many others if just to set ablaze the Blossomflame, yet this one in particular tired her to no end. Aloe collapsed on the ground on her bottom, her eyes still locked with the sprout before her.

"Something's wrong," she peered at her hands, which slightly trembled. "There's more here than just putti...

30. Army

His position involved a lot of document shuffling. Not only were most people in Loyata illiterate, but they were also quite stupid. For better or worse, Hassan was among the few who could write in common Loyatan and the only one in Asayn. People didn't care he was using a Ydazi dialect instead of the nomads' historical one, not even state docume...

29. Plantation

To say that Aloe was motivated was an understatement. She felt as if she was in the heavens above, but she also knew not to put the ceiling before the walls.

"Okay, let's make you grow," she whispered to the Aloe Veritas seed.

This was her second time seeing Aloe Veritas seed even if it was one of her most used evolved plants, and sh...

I am a goldfish

Hi there,

Here's your favorite writer with the memory of a goldfish. I want to publically thank RR user PlueRyvius for their contribution by letting me know that Aloe had evolved an Aloe Veritas on Book 2 to test if she could.

I had totally forgot about it.

This realization hasn't meant many changes mainly chapter 9. Mur...

28. Namesake

Even with these many boons, Aloe didn't let her hopes get too high. Soon enough she detected a critical problem, sunlight, or the lack thereof.

"Plants need sunlight to grow," this wasn't just common sense talking, but some of the scripts and treatises she had read from time to time in the library of Sadina, both from the palace and the un...

27. Soil

Aloe woke up with a wet face. Humidity was ever-present this close to the Tehen River, but as she wiped her visage, she noticed the source of her wetness wasn't humidity but tears.

"Haha…" She let out a wry and dry laugh as she wiped her tears.

No words left her mouth, only half-thoughts that blossomed and withered before they coul...

26. Camp

Acuity allowed her to dispel the darkness of the chasm to a degree, but that didn't mean she possessed night vision. Alas, no stance granted her such abilities. A fleeting thought led her to wonder if the stealth stance could grant her that as stealth was heavily linked to night as a concept, but she had already tried that stance when performing...

25. Underground

Only two epithets were needed to describe the bottom of the chasm: damp and cold. More than once, Aloe thought of changing to toughness to gain a bit of body heat, but she continued to push onward as she considered it a waste of time.

"What infusion would boost body heat?" She realized she didn't have the answer for it. "Would it be toughn...

24. Hope

Hope was an insidious, lying bastard. It always whispered warm and comforting words, to never give up and to hold your dreams, but as the rope tightened to your neck… did that even matter?

Those were the thoughts going through Aloe's head as she lay on the ground of a humid and cold chasm next to a corpse.

No more sunlight made its...

23. Scribe

Change had come to Sadina, mostly in the shape of more work. Naila Asina could train for hours on end, but the moment she had to work for someone who wasn't herself, then a single hour was a torturous sentence.

For a girl who preferred the sword over the quill, office work was not for herself. Unfortunately, the abrupt departure of the scr...

22. Viciousness

She didn't outright die from the breakneck-speed collision as she was able to shift to toughness, but that didn't matter when a heartbeat later she was falling to her death.

In a panic, she grabbed the rock walls of the chasm. That didn't do much to stop her fall, she mostly hurt her fingers as they started bleeding profusely from the fric...

21. Chasm

The cultivator had no pretensions of power or delusions of grandeur. The only reason why she hadn't fallen to the clutches of assassins was because of the Blossomflame.

In other words, luck.

The evolved flower was her weapon, yes, but its overwhelming lethality was none other than the product of luck. She had only managed to stay ali...

20. Agony

Aloe didn't have time to react as the assassin lunged at her. Not only did the surprise assault block her thoughts, but the weird shadow magic they employed made it impossible to guess where they were.

So she kept herself in the move.

What was keeping her alive right now was the speed stance, so switching out was a last resource as i...

19. Fight

After getting a well-deserved rest, Malik and his team rushed for the fortress town of Selen. Instead of going in a straight line like they guessed Ayad was doing, they diverted their route for the south.

The reason why Ydaz's coastline, at least the northern one, was awful was because of the Ridged Highlands. This uneven and rocky terrain...

18. Stepping

"This is not working out, man," Zayyan protested behind him.

"I hate to agree with that fucking moron," Dareen started, always the eloquent woman, "but we've got no trail left to follow, Malik."

Malik sighed and rubbed his eyes. It had been a few days since they had been following the trail left by the fugitive scribe, but no matter ...

17. Decision

It was probably the worst decision of her life – not that she had taken many – but Aloe decided to stay for another day. When she woke up the next day, she was still feeling awful, and it was most likely that the exhaustion of these last days had finally caught up to her as she was no longer able to outrun it.

She risked being detected...

16. Mortality

The first thing Aloe felt when she woke up was an impossible nausea. A jolt of dizziness assaulted her whole body into wakefulness.

"W-what?" She groggily woke up, but the moment she put her torso upright, her throat gagged.

The sensation was too sudden, and it didn't come alone. She barely had time to react and put her head to the s...

15. Rest

The day started poorly when Aloe decided to stretch her legs whilst still drowsy and almost fell as she forgot that she was on top of an arch. Sure, if that were the case she would have reacted in time and switched to toughness even when sleepy, but nothing could remove the fear induced by the scare from her heart.

To calm herself, she pus...

14. Selen

Aloe almost cried out of joy upon seeing the rocky ground before her, but that would have been a wasteful use of her very limited water, so instead she satisfied herself kneeling on the hard ground.

Then she instantly regretted it.

"Heaven almighty!" The cultivator clutched her hands in pain and noticed how there were several small c...

13. Highlands

Aloe woke up to the plucking of a burrowing owl that was trying to eat her eyeballs. All in all, she had way worse awakenings. Because she had passed out whilst donning toughness, the owl had no chance of getting her juicy eyeballs. Any shape or form of durability and defense was increased by the internal infusion, but apparently, tension and co...

12. Possessive

The news came as quite a surprise, but at the same time, she should have expected it. What person could have brewed such a potent and useful aphrodisiac if not an assassin? That left the question of why an assassin would deal with the sultanzade unanswered, but she had other preoccupations in mind.

Fatima Asina wanted more of that liquid g...

11. Djinn

The red person advanced through the darkness of the night, he – Aloe guessed it was a he as the torso was naked and showed no breasts, only barely defined abdominals – was partially obscured by a dune that hid his lower body.

Many thoughts ran through Aloe's head at a speed comparable to acuity, but one thing was sure in her mind.

10. Whistling

The cultivator's hands still trembled when she left the town. Even if she tried her best not to think about her heinous acts, her body remembered. A snapped neck left quite the impression as it would seem.

But biting her hands off was not an alternative, so Aloe just continued walking.

That was all she could seem to do nowadays.

Upload Update

Hi there,

I will be changing my upload schedule for this semester. The number of chapters will remain the same, I will just change the days which I post on. Right now - though it may subject to change - I am thinking: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

Also, check out the poll I put on yesterday. It looks I will be publishing m...

9. Murderer

"Ah. Ah…" Aloe grabbed her head as she hyperventilated. Upon gazing again at the unmoving body, she hesitated and took a step backward, which caused her to trip and fall down. "Oh, heavens…"

Even though she wasn't donning toughness, she didn't feel the pain of her butt hitting the ground. All she could feel and see was the death. She l...

New Story

Hi there!

As I commented before, I am writing a new story. In short, it's about aztec magic, time loops, and some litRPG elements. I have a few chapters written and I will not be publishing the story in a while on other sites until I am either nearing the end of Cultivating Plants or have the first book of this story written.

Having ...

8. Crack

Aloe's eyes snapped wide open the first moment she noticed the person before her, who might as well have been standing there for long as the regeneration stance dulled her senses, and that was without factoring in her deep sleep.

Quickly, the girl switched to the acuity internal infusion, her heart beating faster than it was healthy. The p...

7. City

As it would appear, nomads traveled very lightly and had very few resources to spare. The reason why Ibrahim's mother was willing to sell milk was because they were capable of producing it while moving.

However it may be, Aloe did get her hands on some pita, cheese, and jerky. Someone offered soup, but she turned down that offer a...

6. Nomads

Aloe instantly threw herself to the ground and forwent speed to switch for acuity. The people she had seen were far away and facing away from her, but she couldn't take enough precautions.

In a few seconds, her senses became enhanced, and her average sight became that of an eagle.

Even without her augmented sight, it was easy to dete...

5. Intrusive

Her headache had, in fact, not ceased. She tried doing everything at her disposal to calm the pain, but she had no medicine to do so, nor could she waste the little water she had to refresh herself, if just by soaking a rag and washing herself a bit.

The idea of forcefully growing a Flourishing Spring as she had done with the Blossomflame ...