I'm going to be taking the 26th to 31st off for vacation. I've been writing for 6 months and for four of those month I was also working part time and I need top take some time to avoid burnout.
There will still be a chapter on Monday (25th) so you guys aren't going 9 days without a chapter.
2021-10-22 00:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been five months and I have finally completed the village's sewer system. It took a lot longer than I expected, simply because I was also focused on building my Bond skills’ evolution tree. I also told Chyzu, Esofy, Tana, and many other people that they should do the same, if only to level up their Bond more.
For my main attack, I w...
2021-10-20 22:32:58 +0000 UTC View PostWings sprout from my back, making my family gasp in surprise.
"So beautiful!" Mom exclaims.
It is the morning after I gained [Adorn Wings] and I am showing it off to my family.
"I want wings too!" Yafel says with starry eyes.
"Me too! Me too!" Yafe is almost bouncing up and down with excitement.
"Can't hold you down...
2021-10-18 21:40:48 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This short series will help explore parts of the world and other races.
Ground! Ground at last! Sweet solid earth! Yae falls to her knees, feeling the gritty, sandy beach beneath her fingers.
"Safe. At. Last. Lost. Ones" T'Joak N'Glarl, the colossal shelled creature, says in its slow, methodical speech. T'joak has six massiv...
2021-10-15 23:12:29 +0000 UTC View PostTing! Your Bond skill, Grace of Wholeness, has evolved into Blessing of Wholeness!
Blessing of Wholeness: Spend up to 100 mana to restore someone or something.
(Beauty) (Restoration)
Ting! Your Bond has obtained levels 394-397!
Considering I can simply channel the skill, I c...
2021-10-15 22:36:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt is significantly harder to compress the normal density of mana into solid mana than to uncompress liquid mana into solid mana, which is why it was faster and easier to make the airship: I was drawing mana from the Mana Arc for that. Now I'm forming solid mana from the air, which burns through my mana reserves a lot faster. Still, I expected t...
2021-10-13 23:06:12 +0000 UTC View PostI walk through the fully restored village with my family, observing everything. It's not how I remember it. Many things are in different places, the village layout is more planned-out now with clear residential, market, and industrial sections. Included in the industrial part of the village are production facilities, like the ones that produce b...
2021-10-11 22:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostTing! Sense Magic has obtained levels 568-579!
I meditate, feeling the beauty mana in and around me. While another mind is studying mana, this mind is forming a better connection to my Bond. There's way more to the Bond than I ever thought there could be. It's not a magical connection, but it is related to mana... or is it...
2021-10-08 23:04:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a few weeks now, and the village’s restoration has been progressing rather nicely. Everything has been cleaned up or salvaged, and now the village is actually being rebuilt. It's still amazing to me how fast a house can be built; with several houses being completed every day, it will only take one more month for the village to be ful...
2021-10-06 22:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostI wake up early in the morning with Mom and Dad coming into my room. We are still in the city, in one of the residential houses with an open-air forge workshop attached to it in a manner akin to a garage from my old life.
“Aly...” Mom begins softly. The tone of her voice tells me this is something important.
“We know that you w...
2021-10-04 21:53:22 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Edits are mostly just polish, nothing major changed.
I wake up in an unfamiliar place, a city with pristine and well-decorated stonework. Rows of houses line roads arranged in a grid, with sewers running beneath. There are tens of thousands of magical items: furniture and jewels, tools and books, clothes and artwo...
2021-10-01 22:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostAN: The level of pain Tolerance should be lowered, this is to reflect what it should have been and it will be retroactively fixed when I edit the earlier chapters.
"I must say that you exceeded my expectations," The Guardian says, raising her head. "You have treated over thirty thousand in just under two years. I thought it would have...
Three Tailed Mana Immune Runalymo Sage:
(Major) (Unique)
Race Trait 1: Mana Generation
Having traded the now unneeded physical boosting trait of their parent species the Runalymo have instead gained a 300% heightened mana generation rate and a 25% boost to their mana capacity.
Race Trait 2: Sense Mana (566...
2021-09-21 22:14:34 +0000 UTC View PostSafyr stares at the child, carefully studying her. She is set on saving her people, her family; she is just like Kayafe in that regard.
Safyr knows what her concerns will be. If it's her mind component being used to restore the others then will it just be her mind in another's body or not?
"That will work." Safyr says, "The mind comp...
2021-09-21 00:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostMy head breaks the surface of the water, and I gasp for air. The tsunami has carried us far, but by the looks of it, most of us have survived; however, about a dozen people are trapped in the landslide and four of them are already dead.
We Runalymo can survive without air, but it will eat into our mana generation. The longer we go without ...
2021-09-21 00:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostI watch the bare-bones airship fly around the village. It is very simple in design, but that can easily be changed after this coming crisis. The pilot and crew are currently practicing flying the airship; after months of being unable to fly, they need a refresher.
While the crew practices their flight, everyone is packing their things. Nec...
2021-09-20 23:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post"It's just one thing after another," Tusile says, after Alysara has left.
"We can use this. As manipulative as it sounds, we can simply tell the truth. The priestesses disturbed the ruins and awakened a monster that the Guardian is currently holding back. This will help limit the support the priesthood has." Guklaro says, hand on her chin ...
2021-09-20 22:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostClairvoyance retaliation, how does it work exactly? I muse.
Let's start with how sensing skills work. Sensing actively feels out for whatever you are trying to sense. For mana, I ‘feel’ the mana around me; it's like a metaphysical touch, for [Mana Manipulation] this ‘touch’ become a real force for which it manipulates ...
2021-09-17 21:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post"You don't have to do this," Tusile says. "You've done enough for us already."
I am once again sitting in front of three elders; Tusile, Guklaro, and now Verako.
"But I want to," I reply. "I like discovering and inventing new things; I don't just want to open a dress shop and live a simple life; I want to learn more about mana, spell...
2021-09-15 19:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostIn my mana signature, [Sense Mana] ignites, like a nascent star reaching the tipping point and beginning to fuse matter. It immediately outshines all my other skills, a beacon that nobody with the appropriate mana sensing breakthrough will miss. The only upside is that it will be hard for anyone else to notice my other skills, plain and dim as t...
2021-09-13 20:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostTusile frowns. The letter in her hands details the events of the previous day, when Papuyo was overthrown. They will be banishing her from the Nexus today and are inviting the Elders to witness the event; to signify the end of the war, although one could not really call it a war. Hostilities were open, yes, but there had yet to be a battle.
<... 2021-09-10 23:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostMy hands shake from the adrenaline rush. That was a close one; I only had barely enough time to escape before the assassin was at my room's door. If she had known which room was mine, she'd have caught me jumping out of the window.
I had thought my laser warning system foolproof, having set it up like the spy movies from my past life, exce...
2021-09-08 22:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostYae swims to the half-constructed warship. The heretics are building them in several locations, and all it would take is just one being finished to doom the fledgling Order of Myrou and all they've been working towards. In order to prevent the destruction of their faith, Yae’s mission is to burn the warships down, destroy the spell crystals, a...
2021-09-06 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe daily grind. Wake up, go to work, go home and kill time, only to repeat the next day. I worked all week only to live for the weekend; I filled my free time with surface-level entertainment that left my soul hollow and unfulfilled. Day in and day out, year after year. Getting angry at politics as if my voice could change anything, letting...
2021-09-03 22:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a new (permanent) link to my discord for anyone who wants to join and hang out.
2021-09-03 00:28:28 +0000 UTC View Post"Elder Yukika and many others are dead, murdered by Priestess Papuyo's supporters. They ambushed us with the intent to kill. They show no remorse in their actions and continue in their excessive zealotry." Tusile speaks at the end of the Lojyo, just before everyone goes to the baths, with Guklaro at her side.
"They will not let us access T...
2021-09-01 23:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post"Listen, Erandur, as a newly spawned being, you must train your skills. You only have your intuitive understanding with the skills and breakthroughs you are spawned with, so you only have three levels in knowledge and nothing else; you are weak." Safyr lectures the tiny red dragon.
Safyr has settled on a large island far in the Eastern oce...
2021-09-01 03:15:05 +0000 UTC View PostSpeed essence seeps into my body, filling every cell, infusing me with quickness. This is a dangerous technique, one that requires giving oneself mana toxicity and so is unusable more than a few times by those without the required immunity.
It has taken me dozens of minutes of concentration, but now I am ready. In an instant, I blitz acros...
2021-08-30 23:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostI track Yafel’s mana signature trail; although the ambient mana currents disrupt some parts of it I quickly catch on again. Like a bloodhound, I track my sister all throughout the village. She has left quite a confusing trail, doubling back several times, but with the help of [Inquisitive Perfection], I easily work through the puzzle she has l...
2021-08-27 23:25:56 +0000 UTC View Post