As time passed and the sun set, moon rising through the sky, I approached the guard outpost that housed my last use of the Arcane Spell Crystal. Last up was Gravity Well, something with a unique enough effect that I was pretty interested in seeing the different directions the Upgrade options took it.
By the time I saw the outpost appear th...
2023-07-19 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I made my choice for the Ethereal Armor Upgrade, Erani and I went out in the early morning to kill some Gloomspurs. Once again, we were pretty much just waiting for a party to accept our request. The receptionist said that we’d probably get a taker in a day or two, given the sum of money listed as a reward, but that we’d most likely no...
2023-07-17 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra long chapter!
After a long day’s walk, I arrived at the guard outpost that held the Arcane Spell Crystal. I’d arrived slightly ahead of schedule due to my own underestimating of how fast Expedite could work on me when I didn’t have to worry about using it on anyone else, so it was around nine thirty right now.
As I ap...
2023-07-15 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOnce we finished sorting out the paperwork, we headed back out into the main guild lobby. In order to receive the first half of our payment, we’d need to find the other party we’d be working with so we could officially sign up for the job, so that was goal number one.
We’d come up with the idea to kill the Young Dragon ourselves on t...
2023-07-14 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra-long chapter!
Erani and I walked into the city and straight to the guild lobby. It may have felt like a full day’s worth of time had passed to me, but because of Time Loop, we’d in reality pretty much just taken the job, walked out of the city, went to the forest, and then instantly come back....
2023-07-12 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAsmo sat at a table in a quiet, simple room. She was waiting in the war room for Winic to come meet with her and discuss the topic of Enchanted items once again.
The ones she already had made—the earpieces for the VIPs—functioned well, and were proof enough that Winic knew what he was doing. And she already had him working on his first...
2023-07-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dragon atop its hoard took a step forward, growling at us. In the massive room, it almost looked small—or, smaller than a typical Dragon was—but that did nothing to take away from the primal fear the sight struck into me.
I held out a hand and bowed my head. “M-my apologies, uh…”
“Wealthhoarder, Slavedriver Neenix,”...
2023-07-08 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra-long chapter!
We took some time to look around the area of the Goblin base, ensuring we knew everything about the location. We’d technically gotten a description by our two prisoners, but with the language barrier and the possibility that they’d lied to us about something, I wasn’t going to ...
2023-07-07 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I've been writing a good bit extra as of late, so I decided to go ahead and post an extra chapter today, free of charge! Hope you all enjoy :)
(Also, it's an extra long one)
We all bent down to examine the Goblins, who we just realized could apparently speak Human.
“Ainash,” I m...
2023-07-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra long chapter!
I arrived back in the previous timeline around an hour before we’d gotten the Bond Rank and decided to split up. Though, of course, the Bond Rank still stuck around, and as such, so did Ainash’s memories.
She fell to the ground the moment I arrived back in time, which surpr...
2023-07-05 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostErani and I crept through the overgrown forest in search of the Goblins that seemingly controlled the area. So far, we hadn’t seen any sign of them, but they were apparently pretty nonconfrontational—at least, they were until they saw a moment of vulnerability in you. But ideally, one of us would find their main home before that happened. 2023-07-03 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Erani and I walked down a road after exiting the city of Salvation. We were currently on our way to meet up with Ainash and head off to do the Goblin extermination job. So, with the sun moving to soon crest in the morning sky, we traveled. We were planning to meet Ainash in the middle, so it wouldn’t take more than an hour, maybe half to get t...
2023-07-01 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra long chapter!
The gold-degree adventurer stared at me, dead serious. “Goblins are as dangerous as they come.”
“So what do they do?” I asked, getting honestly quite irritated at this point at his refusal to elaborate.
He sighed. “I’m not some sort of expert. And you’ll be ...
2023-06-30 15:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post“What if I could do the Mana charging for our teleportation on my own?” I asked the old mage in charge of the teleportation circle.
“Oh, that would be a great help. Do you have a team that could work on charging, or something?”
“Uh…” Technically, Erani and I consisted of the entire “team” I’d be using, but with Ex...
2023-06-28 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra-long chapter!
A shout jolted me awake. I instantly sat up, throwing the covers from myself and looking around. Was it a monster attack? Demon invasion? There was nothing in the dark room, but the shout had come from downstairs, in the lobby. Hurriedly, as another thud echoed from the ro...
2023-06-26 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra-long chapter!
The man, after some prodding, handed over his valuables. It felt nice, turning a mugging around on the robbers, even though he didn’t actually have much coin on him. Well, not much objectively. But to us, the five one-hundred-eyt coins he put in my hand almost doubled our haul from...
2023-06-24 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a mugging?” I stared at the group of people. A few stood up front—a woman and two men—while another dozen stood behind them, doing their best to look menacing.
One of the men shrugged. “Call it what you want.”
“We just need compensation. Compensation for your brutal attack on our companion.”
I frowned, ...
2023-06-23 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra-long chapter!
We checked out of the town relatively easily. The guards even gave us a little ticket for adventurers on jobs saying that, if we came back within a week, we wouldn’t have to check in the normal way—we could use a smaller side-entrance instead to skip any lines that happened to fo...
2023-06-21 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra-long chapter!
Erani and I walked through the gates and entered the town of Salvation. It was evening, probably around seven in the afternoon, so we needed to get our living accommodations sorted out. We’d need someplace to sleep, after all, and for that, we’d need money. Lyr, or eyt, or whatever the people here called the cur...
2023-06-19 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This chapter is extra-extra-long! It's technically long enough to be two entire chapters, but I decided to keep it bundled together into just the one anyway. Hope you enjoy!
Carison stood on the sidewalk of a crowded, dirty street. He was right next to the crime scene he’d created, beating ...
2023-06-17 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This chapter's extra-long! Hope you enjoy :)
Keiki stood at a door in a dank, cold sewer. After tailing several suspicious individuals in the city of Fronttown, this was the only place of interest she’d found. Everyone else retired to their homes for the night, or something similar. But one of them ca...
2023-06-16 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAsmo sat at a desk in a damp, dark room. She sat at this desk alongside Winic, the table sprawling with magical implements and ingredients that she didn’t understand. This place was his study, where he not only created magical items himself, but also had his students work for him on things he wasn’t Classed to create on his own. Currently, t...
2023-06-14 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra long chapter today! You’ll actually be seeing a lot of extra length chapters in the near future :P
Hope you enjoy!
(Also, I am currently uploading this from my phone in a candle-lit room because of a power outage. So please let me know if there are any formatting errors and I’ll fix them as soon as I can. Thanks!)
The three of us walked down the path, approaching the town we’d just arrived in. It was well into evening by now, with the sun setting behind us, so I was more than ready to just get in and retire—though we’d probably have to find some way to make at least enough money to get a room for the night, first. We could probably just find a quick...
2023-06-10 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhile we waited for Ainash to wake up, we decided to see how Distortion Strike worked when it came to altering Erani’s appearance. So, she toggled it on, and…
“Woah.”
Index had been right, it certainly changed her appearance to a point where she was unrecognizable. But it wasn’t anything like a simple makeover. The moment s...
2023-06-09 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostErani sat with her eyes closed, having been keeping in her meditative state for what felt like forever, as she heard Arlan take a seat next to her.
“So, you mind telling me what your options are?” he asked.
“Oh, right, I forgot you didn’t know yet. I guess your Index thing already knows everything about the Sorcerer Class?”...
2023-06-07 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostErani sat, meditating and trying to figure out which Talent to choose. Between Elemental Embrace and Expanded Capacity II…ugh, she didn’t know. But she was leaning toward Embrace. She just needed to give it some time and come back to the problem with a fresh set of eyes.
For now, she still needed to also look at her Spell Choice, anywa...
2023-06-05 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAN: just fyi, formatting in this chapter might be weird. I’m staying the night at someone else’s house, so I had to do all the formatting on my phone. It should be readable just fine, but if there’s anything wrong I’ll fix it when I get back to my computer. Hope you enjoy!
Erani closed her eyes as w...
2023-06-03 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostArlan’s fully-expanded character sheet as of now:
Minute Mage Basic Progression Path
-Every 1 Level: +1 Endurance, +2 Conjuration, +3 Stat Points, Time Loop Rank Up
-Every 3 Levels: Spell Choice
-Every 5 Levels: Talent Choice
-Every 10 Lev...
2023-06-03 11:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs I sat and meditated in the early morning twilight, I considered what might be waiting for me in these Spell Upgrades. Sanguine Bond was the first, but it wouldn’t be the last. And neither would the rest of the three Arcane Spells that I could use this Crystal on. Over the next few days, I’d of course work to Rank them up, but then after t...
2023-06-02 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post