After Alice’s ascension to Immortality, she spent a few hours helping everyone process their own System levels. After all, a few more Perks on their side could be the difference between victory and defeat. After that, the group was ready to scout the power supply again.
Alice felt her breath catch in her throat as the group returned to t...
2026-01-23 23:36:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the enchantments she had put together got back to work, Alice felt a spike of anxiety worm through her guts. Even though Alice had already done so, she spent several seconds querying {Safety Analysis} to make sure she hadn’t made a horrible mistake. At the same time, monster cores that the Illvarian Immortals had supplied to her crumbled...
2026-01-16 22:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent the next several hours doing her best to ignore the corpse that had previously occupied this room as she worked on other parts of the System’s library. At her request, Doll and Ethan gave the corpse a dignified burial in the corner of the room - but that was about all they could do for him. Due to time constraints, even that had to...
2026-01-09 21:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostAnise felt the thrum of magic resonate through her body as she reached for the Sanctuary spell. For a moment, she worried that her friends wouldn’t be able to adapt to the spell quickly enough - after all, she hadn’t shown them this spell very many times. She had only occasionally mentioned it during their previous life as she worked to deve...
2026-01-09 02:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe next thing I did was focus on my communication bracelet. I had already sounded my warning - what I needed to do now was alert my friends to what was happening. I screeched a second warning into the communication bracelet as loudly as I could, since a mental shock would probably wake my friends up much faster than a physical sound. Since the ...
2026-01-08 02:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: So, it appears that in chapter 457, I made a mistake in how Miria’s Perception Attribute was calculated, by messing up the behind the scenes math for what Miria’s grade in Perception was multiplying versus what was being given by the local System. This actually creates quite a substantial difference in Miria...
2026-01-07 04:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s note: As a reminder, after posting this chapter I will be taking down Volume 3 from Royalroad, Scribblehub, etc.
The group marched through the empty corridors of the System again, with a new goal in mind. Find Alice the information she needed to transform into an Immortal. Then, the group would hop...
2025-12-19 23:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Strictly speaking, this is a cover for book one, and not the entire series, but... meh. I'm still excited for it. :D
2025-12-19 00:20:26 +0000 UTC View PostI watched through my dimensional sight as a swarm of rats moved closer to us.
“What does the swarm look like?” asked the [Sound Mage].
“The first thing I’m noticing is that the two swarms are actually coordinating with each other, and the effect is getting more noticeable as they approach each other,” I said. “It seems li...
2025-12-19 00:19:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, the clan alliance moved within range of our first target. Through the help of a variety of scouting feats, magic, and testing, we had eventually settled on a path that we would take through the territory controlled by the Universal Tree. With any luck, we would be able to reach the dimensional rift within two weeks, where our allia...
2025-12-17 23:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: I forgot to include Assists from the battle last time Miria totaled up her Achievement and assessed post-battle messages. She got 1300 Achievement total from assists, spread out over several instances of kills, bringing her final total to 183,174. My apologies for the confusion.
For the next ...
2025-12-17 02:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe first few System messages were largely as Alice expected. She had gotten a few levels in some Classes, which was about what she had been expecting.
You have leveled up!
Survivor: 80 -> 84, Reality Mage 3 -> 5, Kinetic Manabinder 64 -> 71
What Alice hadn’t been expecting was to ge...
2025-12-12 21:31:17 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next week constantly on the move. Our ember never stopped - it kept fleeing as if its life depended on it. Based on my observations, I confirmed that the rat swarm was moving about as fast as we were. They had a much higher movement speed than our village-bearing beasts, but unlike our villages, the rat swarm would stop and set up a...
2025-12-12 01:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I finished talking with my friends, I took a few hours to just sit and think. Of course, I still made my rounds in the medical tents, in order to make sure none of my essence was wasted - but since the situation was largely dealt with already, I prioritized my own state of mind.
Finally, after four hours, I felt ready to process my S...
2025-12-11 02:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe clan was on edge for the next several hours, as our beasts continued to run. Two village-bearing beasts had fallen already. Our clan’s population had also dropped by about a third. As I recuperated and healed the injured, I couldn’t help but sigh at the ridiculous losses we had faced.
So many of the people of the village had died d...
2025-12-10 03:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostNotice: If you haven’t already noticed the fact that I changed the title of Budding Scientist in RR and Scribblehub, please ALSO keep in mind that Volume 3 (up to about chapter 188? Maybe it was 190? The chapter where they arrive in Morendia) will be coming down on December 19th, the same day I start my vacation. It’ll be up...
2025-12-06 02:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe fall of the first village-bearing beast was like a spark hitting dry wood. I saw a few survivors from the collapsing village-bearing beast leap off of their beast and start fleeing for the woods, many of them holding children or infants as they tried to fight off the harassment of the rats.
Some of them leapt onto other village-bearing...
2025-12-05 07:03:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe other warriors of the clan cheered as the upper half of the giant’s body disintegrated into component monsters. While there were plenty of disgusting, writhing monsters made of flesh, muscles, and bones, it was obvious that none of these monsters were capable of existing independently. The tendons writhed and squirmed, but couldn’t actua...
2025-12-04 02:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe first attacks that whistled through the air were from our side. Mages and our small squads of archers started to shoot at the horde of rats, as well as the giant - but their attacks were undirected. I grimaced. It seemed like the commanders of our side weren’t dong their job - perhaps due to panic, or perhaps for some other structural reas...
2025-12-03 08:03:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe spider that had ducked behind a conveyer belt for golem parts leapt towards the group, one of the mages sent a spray of glittering metal towards it. The creature whirled out of the way, but mid-dodge, Ethan sent another blast of lightning into the creature. This time, the creature didn’t dodge fast enough. The blast of lightning caused the...
2025-11-29 00:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post<Where are you guys?> I yelled into the communication bracelet. With giant cracks in reality appearing in the sky, it was clear that something had gone horribly wrong. I had no idea what - but I knew that things were about to get bad, unless another timely rescue arrived. I wanted to be near my friends in case that rescue didn’t...
2025-11-27 03:58:25 +0000 UTC View PostMy options for Feats were unusual this time. I had honestly been expecting something that enhanced the magic I had used frequently during my time in this world. I had also been expecting ways to enhance my skill growth, or perhaps ways to boost my immediate combat power and shore up my weaknesses.
Instead, it seemed that the local Sy...
2025-11-26 06:36:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe group retreated back to the portal that had remained after their journey to the power room of the System. After they returned to the dormitory, they spent a few hours checking the area and making sure that no spider monsters had crept into the area during the time they were away. This was something that Ethan insisted on, to make sure that m...
2025-11-22 00:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Chapter 470 yesterday had a slight goof in the version I originally uploaded. I forgot to state which of the four Feats Miria picked, after noting the first two feats that she ruled out. Whoops!
This has been fixed.
After the strongest members of our tribe left, our clan felt strangely ...
2025-11-21 06:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the chaos had finally settled, I took a few moments to look over the System messages I had ignored during the fighting. I had stopped paying attention to my System notifications after I got my new Skill, but now I had time to process all of the rewards I had missed while trying to figure out the dangers of the current situation. Especia...
2025-11-20 00:20:23 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re a travelling clan of wandering village-bearing beasts,” said the mayor of our current town. “We happened upon this battle while we were travelling, and our ember veered towards the battlefield of its own accord. After that, as you can see, we joined the battle against… whatever these things were.”
The man looked at our e...
2025-11-19 04:16:06 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the monster nest was cleared, Alice took a look at the mana-conducting pipes that traversed the System and carried mana from one place to another. Most of the framework was still intact, despite several days of occupation from the monster horde - however, there were major, obvious holes and flaws in the framework too. Alice suspected they w...
2025-11-14 20:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostWith my newfound lightning ability, I immediately confirmed that I had a good way to contribute to the battle. I still wouldn’t be able to totally swap the course of the fight, but at the very least, I could contribute.
I dumped all the free stat points I had gotten from levelling up into mana. My [Vitality] and my other stats just didn...
2025-11-14 07:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment the first flying eagle-like monster swooped towards us, I felt my heart sink. I could see several more eagle monsters divert their attention from the town towards us, and in moments, we had nearly fifty monsters flying towards us while our ember dragged us closer and closer to the battlefield.
I tried to estimate how much...
2025-11-13 07:45:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe town in the distance was smoking like it had been set on fire, and giant glowing eagle-like monsters were constantly dive-bombing the town. I resisted the urge to blink in confusion as I observed the monstrous catastrophe in the distance.
The first thing that surprised me was that we could see a proper, settled, sedentary town in the d...
2025-11-12 08:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post