Just like the first two times we had jumped into a pool of reincarnation, I quickly found myself ejected into the ocean of souls, along with my friends.
Unlike the first two times, when we had used more standard pools, this time I felt as if there was a massive hand holding me and controlling my destination as I drifted through the ocean o...
2023-10-07 03:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostWith the two flesh giants killed, I finally took a moment to look over the final System notifications I had gotten during the course of the fight. Some of the more complex notifications, such as skills, I simply hadn’t had time to process in the heat of the moment.
First up was the kill notification for the bone spider.
Sla...
2023-10-06 05:27:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe massive spider loomed above the street before me, like some sort of bone and flesh abomination, and I glanced back at the ongoing fight between my friends and the flesh giants.
We had yet to kill off three of the flesh giants, and most of the skeletal warriors and archers had been downed. We were still a minute away from cleaning up th...
2023-10-05 05:41:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Honored Immortal Ethan, Lady Illa is at the door of the manor. She has requested to see you, and also requested to schedule a meeting with her former [Student],” said someone from the shadows, startling Alice out of her discussion with Ethan.
“Illa?” said Alice, suddenly feeling very confused. The first person she thought of when ...
2023-09-30 06:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of us sat in an alleyway, just two buildings away from the patrol route of a group of the enemy. We sat there, hidden just behind a set of rusty metal crates as we waited for our prey to appear.
We had decided that if we wanted to get through this fight without any fatalities, we needed to be fast. Sallia had talked a lot about ...
2023-09-30 04:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next five days searching for pools of reincarnation. In total, we found four different pools of reincarnation. Three of them were just copies of the same pool we had been using up to this point: the very low entry fee, low quality reincarnation pools that gave us no particular control over our next life at all. They were the cheapes...
2023-09-29 04:35:50 +0000 UTC View PostAfter that, we spent several more minutes questioning the book. However, we couldn’t find any more useful information, no matter how many other questions we asked. We did get several rather useless advertisements, but there wasn’t anything of particular note within those advertisements.
Finally, Felix sighed.
“I guess that’s ...
2023-09-28 05:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostAlice woke up from her nap with an excited grin, and checked her class fractals.
Just as she had hoped, there were several chunks of mana stuck to her enchanting-related Class fractals, and her Class fractals had also grown by more than they normally would after several hours of testing ingredients.
Clearly, she could not only level ...
2023-09-23 06:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostI was ready to resummon the book once we were done swapping out items. This time, Felix wasn’t distracted, so instead of just Sallia and I, all four of us crowded around the book to listen to it and see what other information we could dig up about the Market, the past, and how we should proceed forward. I quickly caught Felix and Anise up on w...
2023-09-23 03:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostAnise’s new eyes were far from the only new, useful items in the shop that Felix and Anise had found.
The next item that caught my eye was a kind of elegant looking robe. It looked sort of like something that a wandering swordsman might wear while going on a journey - it was light and easy to move in, but also classy enough that one coul...
2023-09-22 05:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post“I feel quite woozy,” said Felix, as he clawed his way back to a standing position. He winced as he stood up, and nearly collapsed for a moment, before he managed to support himself against the wall. Then, he paused for a moment, and looked at the air in front of him, before he nodded. “I don’t have a notification that I died, so at leas...
2023-09-21 06:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter settling on her new plan to mitigate the impact of the System collapse, Alice finally took a moment to settle her new Perk from [Scholar].
Alice started out by scanning over her Perk combination options, as well as her options for new Perks.
After a few moments, she felt a flicker of disappointment.
She had really been ho...
2023-09-16 07:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up with a groan, and almost immediately afterwards, felt a perplexing mixture of dizziness and pain across my body. In a flash, I remembered the fight with the tree root, and reached towards my legs.
Just like before, they were cut off into stumps at about the middle of my thighs. There were strips of cloth wound tightly around my s...
2023-09-16 05:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing we needed to deal with was locating the tree root. If we didn’t keep track of it, it might pop out of space and assassinate one of us at the worst possible moment.
I spent a few moments trying to locate the tree root using my spatial sense, and after a moment, managed to locate a distortion in space creeping up behind me....
2023-09-15 06:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostSince we only had two to three months in the Market before our bodies started to decay, we wasted no time searching for a target. Taking one day to settle our emotions was already stretching the ‘optimal’ way to make use of our time, but I didn’t think it was a good idea to become so utterly locked into our fear of the future that we never...
2023-09-14 05:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlice had always wondered why dimensional mana behaved the way it did. She had heard, multiple times, of the tragedy of Allenheim – where a bunch of dimensional Mages had effectively nuked their kingdom into the ground by polluting it with dimensional mana.
For a while now, Alice had been tossing around ideas for how this worked. Her mos...
2023-09-09 07:11:21 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Sallia and Felix were awake again, Anise and I had started to recover from our poor moods. Sallia and Felix both glanced at us, and seemed to realize what we had been thinking about, before they opted not to say anything. Instead, all four of us exchanged a few hugs and had a quiet breakfast, taking comfort in each other’s company....
2023-09-09 04:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostAfter finding Anise, the four of us spent a few hours preparing to raid some nearby stores for alcohol, snacks, and other supplies we needed to take a day off. We had just died pretty horrific deaths, and then spent days running through the Market to catch up to Anise. All of us could use some time to unwind.
As we got ready for the food r...
2023-09-08 05:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith location tracking turned on, we finally had an idea where we were supposed to be going.
As it turned out, we had gotten slightly off-track while trying to head towards Anise. Luckily, we hadn’t overshot her, so correcting our direction was quite easy.
As I started steering us to the left, I turned to look at Sallia and Felix, ...
2023-09-07 05:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the meeting with the [Priests], a few more days passed. During that time, Alice had numerous smaller meetings with [Priests of the System], all of which included both Ethan and Cecilia. Alice clarified and reclarified what she had seen of System mana, what specifically it did, and her understanding of how to handle the effects of its disap...
2023-09-02 05:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe three of us left the area, heading roughly in the direction we had seen Anise’s lasso. I was somewhat hopeful that she would simply find a way to connect to our friendship bracelets at any moment now, since that would make it much easier to find her - and would also confirm that the giant tentacle hadn’t destroyed her soul or something. ...
2023-09-01 23:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostBefore we left, I pulled up my Status Screen and took another look at it. It had been a while since I had taken a look at the version of the screen I had access to in the market, and there was a purchase I needed to make.
Physical
Strength: (20+100)
Grade 6
Agi...
2023-09-01 05:24:14 +0000 UTC View PostIf you’re reading this, I imagine you also read the deleted scenes for volume 1. You know the drill. These are all changes I made to the draft based on what-ifs and ideas I had that either got cut from the story, or that Miria and co. never got to see but could have potentially found if their stats were better.
Ahem.
First, a few i...
2023-08-31 06:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostWelp, for some reason, Patreon has removed the way Tags used to work, and instead implemented a 'collections' feature that does almost the exact same thing tags used to do. For some reason, they now sort by oldest post to newest post instead of newest to oldest. Not really sure if that's an improvement or not, but there doesn't seem to be much I...
2023-08-31 05:28:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I came to, I was floating in a sea of darkness again. As usual, a golden lasso of energy was dragging me along, pulling me towards a distant destination. It took me a few seconds to reorient myself and process the fact that I had truly died again, before I mentally sighed.
Frankly, given the creature we had been fighting against, dyin...
2023-08-31 05:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostEthan, Alice, and Cecilia walked into the room filled with [Priests of the System] while Alice tried not to feel nervous.
There were forty-four total people assembled in the room Ethan had set aside for this meeting. Forty-one [Priests] of the System, plus Ethan, Cecilia, and Alice. Ethan had judged that this crowd was good enough for Alic...
2023-08-26 07:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostElla looked at the entrance to the city, wondering when Miria, Sallia, and her friends would return home.
It had been almost two months now. She was starting to get a little worried. Surely they would have come back by now? Why weren’t they returning?
She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.
They were fine.
...
2023-08-26 05:06:32 +0000 UTC View PostAs we stepped closer to the metal door, I could feel something thrumming, just on the other side of the door.
I closed my eyes and listened to the beating of the alteration essence in the air. Unlike most other alteration essence I had seen manipulating the laws of reality, which simply hung in the air like a dead cloud, the pustule of spa...
2023-08-25 04:22:30 +0000 UTC View PostBefore we went to sleep for the day, Anise scooted over to me and stared at me.
“I feel like my control of manifestation essence is a little better than before,” she whispered. Even though she didn’t say anything, I could practically feel her excitement and nervousness radiating off of her.
Out of the corner of my eye,...
2023-08-24 05:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent the next day skipping school and observing the Church of the System’s reaction to the increasingly noticeable crisis of the System’s disappearance. She also took the time to use pure mana and unclog what parts of her class seeds she could unclog, although it was a very frustrating and tiring process.
You ha...
2023-08-19 08:49:01 +0000 UTC View Post