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Red mana particles formed a bright halo around my head, and the crowd stepped away, freeing up a circle around me. [Foresight] told me it was a mere marking spell, so I ignored it for the time being and focused on the prompt that floated between Holst and me.

System Quest - Kill Lord Robert Clarke, Thane of Farcrest.

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The tunnel went on for a long time. Without [Foresight], I might have lost track of time. Other than the occasional scratching sound of the rats against the stone floor, there was complete silence. Holst moved like a shadow, and Talindra had silenced her hooves with leather sandals. At some point, and without a word, Jorn’s agents took a side ...

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“We’ll be fine!” Firana said, pushing me into the carriage.

Although she was at least fifteen levels below me, Wind Fencers had a greater strength growth than Runeweaver Sages.

The day of the anti-nobility rally arrived quickly. I wasn’t planning on taking any of the kids with me, and I had expected some resistance, especiall...

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AN: I don't know how so many grammatical mistakes made it into the last chapter(I damn you, Grammarly). Fixed a lot(all?) of them. Hopefully, this one is more sanitized for your eyes.

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I read the invitation to the anti-nobility rally for the tenth time. [Foresight] had already burned it in my memory, but I felt unease. The relati...

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AN: Edits. I don't know how so many grammar mistakes went through this one.

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“Leiv Fletch is dead,” Prince Adrien said as he walked around the room.

I had discharged myself from the House of Healing, but before I could leave the royal palace, Adrien’s personal guard had ambushed me and ‘invited’ me to a reunio...

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I was alive, and I had tinnitus.

Sunlight entered through a window, and the room was warm, but my vision was blurry, and I could barely tell the shape of the things around me. I blinked repeatedly and, to my relief, the room slowly came into focus. White walls, shelves with Alchemist’s tools and potions, the sharp sting of disinfectant. ...

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The prompt floated before my eyes.

Leiv Fletch. Human. Location: 50 meters, south-southwest.

“Don’t turn around,” Prince Adrien said.

My [Foresight] drew a crude map of the cathedral’s layout based on what I saw from outside. The cathedral’s entrance faced east. Twenty meters south-south-east from our...

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I wasn’t beating the allegations anytime soon.

The baby faun cried for a minute before deciding it was too much trouble and falling asleep instead. His cheeks were perfectly round, his hooves firm but soft, and his horns wide and stubby, encompassing a good chunk of his scalp. Talindra said he would have huge, beautiful horns. His hair w...

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Astur aimed his modified telescope at the sun. He had been working on the contraption for half a decade, but somehow, he no longer felt the tingling sensation he used to get when he tested his ideas. The light passed through a narrow slit and the diffraction grating, projecting a rainbow onto the absorption sheet. He counted to ten, closed the t...

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AN: edit - wrote the title incorrectly

Ilya’s Spirit Animal dropped a small note in my hand. There was no suspicious movement on Byrne’s side. Now that we knew his plan involved installing a hundred enchanted metal plates, we could easily surveil him. If he wanted to surprise us, he would need a hundred helpers installing the plates al...

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Ghila, Holst, Rockman, and I took turns to fight the cadets until Holst’s teaching assistant, an old elf with a similarly dry personality, joined us. The cadets had to survive for thirty seconds, and although the fights had been mostly unilateral, I was happy with the grit they had put into the exercise.

By the end of the session, every ...

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I woke up late. 

The astral trip had taken hours of real-life time, and I had barely been able to exit Prince Adrien’s quarters at dawn without being detected by the guards. If I had been alone, it would’ve been easier, but I couldn’t just leave Althea behind without raising suspicions. Everyone had seen the two of us leaving th...

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Prince Adrien and Althea cowered like little children. Their natural confidence slipped away the moment they realized what I truly was. [Foresight] highlighted the details of the scene. Color returned to Prince Adrien’s face, and his heart raced; the pain and exhaustion lifted from his body as adrenaline shot through his veins. Althea clutched...

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“Why do you have the key to the room of the most powerful men in the kingdom?” I asked as I peeked through the door gap into the waiting room. 

It was pretty clear that Evelisse wanted us to be left alone.

“I will have you know I was Adrien’s favorite cousin even before Prince Ragna’s death,” Althea replied, full of ...

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I spent the morning in the Library, digging through piles of land grants.

Teleportation machines require hardware. A couple of small metal plates were enough to teleport a paper ball. However, the hardware required to teleport living beings over large distances scaled exponentially, and it had to be installed with extreme precision. <...

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“We need privacy.”

“What you need to do, Lady Talindra, is to ignore this bum,” Mildred replied.

Talindra stood her ground in silence until the grumpy doula left the room.

As soon as the door closed, I felt a tension lifting from my shoulders. It was hard to tell if that weird sensation was a skill prodding my mana pool...

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I needed to know the truth about Byrne, and to that end, I was going to infiltrate his study.

My heart raced, but I pushed forward. Byrne had the ability to teleport, so any speed I could exert thanks to [Minor Aerokinesis] felt slow in comparison. I moved as fast as I could, but the trail beneath my feet seemed eternal. Finally, after hou...

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Zealots didn’t learn skills like other classes. The System gave them the right tools to accomplish their Quests, which made them highly dangerous. 

I pushed Rup behind my back, wondering if the Zealots would get a power boost if I were deemed an obstacle to their Quest. There was only one thing I could do if the System decided to is...

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Leonie felt an overwhelming need to turn around. Her seventh sense told her to look at the dangerous presence behind her. Her jaw stiffened. No matter how hard she tried to speak, not a word came out of her mouth. Slowly, she turned around just to meet Instructor Clarke’s eyes. Mana surged through his body. The ground shattered under his boots...

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Leonie was barely managing to fend off the Ice Mage.

Two factors determined an individual's power: physical and magical prowess. Physical prowess began to become noticeable closer to the Lv.20 softcap. Magical prowess was more variable; even from Lv.1, it depended on the Class baseline mana, titles, and skillset. Leonie’s Lv.11 Sorcerer ...

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“You owe her money!” Fenwick shouted as they ran away from the dropouts.

Dolores croaked in Yvain’s hands, but it was almost impossible to determine a frog’s intent from her croaking alone.

“You are playing with me!” Yvain shouted back at Fenwick.

The Osgirians weren’t known for their humor, and since Yvain had gr...

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I paced nervously around the white monolith. Three cadets didn’t reach Station Six by their scheduled times. One of them was Odo, and the other two were cadets from the Basilisk and Gaiarok squads. They were supposed to arrive half an hour ago, even by my most pessimistic approximations. 

Things at Station Six weren’t looking pret...

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Two hundred first-year cadets departed with the break of the day, their badges pinned to their chests. A similar number of dropouts waited for them in the depths of the wooded hills that extended between the camp and the mountain peaks. The great distances between stations were a blessing and a curse. Even with all our preparations, there was a ...

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Ghila stormed into Astur’s luxury tent with the rest of the instructors glued to her heels. I exchanged a knowing look with Holst, and we followed inside. The tent was more spacious inside than its outer perimeter suggested, with armchairs and a coffee table. Maybe an expansion enchantment? If teleportation were possible, subjective spaces mig...

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AN: wow, those are a lot of chapters. As always, thanks for coming along on this trip!

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Ilya looked at me with disgust.

“I’m telling the truth. The baby isn’t mine!” I said for the tenth time since the caravan with the first-year cadets merged with the squads sent ahead to clean the area of mid-level monsters. After...

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The hairs on my nape stood on end. The environmental mana in the observatory buzzed as it reacted to Byrne’s runes, and the thin layer of water inside the granite bowl made small waves. I forced my body to stay still. The effect created by high-rank runes resembled the Lich’s area spells too much to be comfortable. An instant later, the sens...

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I read in the Book of Classes that Sorcerers were the most powerful magical Basic Class. Many people considered it as powerful as an Advanced Class, although its growth rates were similar to those of other Basic Classes. Sorcerers even have the disadvantage of not being able to cast elemental spells. However, their raw magic had an innate advant...

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I have seen Zaon frown in the past, usually when he was deep in thought or trying to bear self-inflicted embarrassment, but never out of anger. The girls of the Rosethorn Squad pressed against each other while Zaon lectured on proper sparring etiquette. They were shocked. Even the Cabbage cadets lowered their heads to avoid his anger. 

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I was starting to think that Scholars weren’t the homogeneous mass of bookworms and introverts I had envisioned in my head. Lip was neither one nor the other. He was the youngest of four siblings and the problem child of the Greymarch family. Our lunch was quick, because I had to return to the Academy, but it took me half an hour to realize wh...