After I finished scanning my ability evolutions, Sallia and I returned to our house. I could worry more about my ability evolutions later. What I wanted to do right now was stop everyone’s injuries from getting worse.
We found Anise first. She was sitting at the dining table with Ella, trying to eat breakfast. Because her jaw was still a...
2023-06-29 04:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: There was an error in the way Miria’s Achievement was calculated in chapter 104. I accidentally gave her an Assist for killing an Orukthyri Spellcaster, rather than a proper kill, which was what she should have gotten. In addition, Miria’s Achievement reward for an assist on the commander was a bit low as we...
2023-06-28 03:42:40 +0000 UTC View PostIlla, retired [Warmage], leader of the town of Cyra, and former mentor of a certain budding [Scientist] named Alice, looked at the air around her and frowned.
{Detect Danger}, a Perk from her [Warmage] Class, was very quietly ringing an alarm in the back of her mind. It wasn’t the immediate alarm that let her know she was in danger this ...
2023-06-24 06:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostI had always felt that healing was a major part of my potential abilities. When I had envisioned my ‘image’ of the ocean in my first life, I had pictured the life-giving surface of the ocean as a critical facet of the ocean, just as I had envisioned the madness-inducing depths of the ocean as another facet of the ocean. Both abilities were l...
2023-06-24 04:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took us a minute or two of walking to reach the Ministry of War after passing through the fort. Inside of the building was a man who was shuffling through a rather intimidating pile of paperwork. He gave us a distinctly bored look as we walked in, before turning back towards his paperwork.
“Refugees?” He asked, not even botheri...
2023-06-22 22:46:52 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Minor edit to previous chapter. Someone pointed out that it's strange Miria doesn't try to extinguish the mist in Felix's father's lungs, and after thinking about it, I agreed. The mist is doing something... a little more conceptually screwy than one might expect, but Miria should certainly still try to extinguish...
2023-06-22 05:35:56 +0000 UTC View PostEthan started leading Alice back into the palace, leaving behind Ethan’s mother and some of the [Nobles] who wanted to continue socializing.
“My apologies for the second [Princess],” said Ethan, as the two stepped back into the palace. “I didn’t expect her to be so… enthusiastic.”
Alice didn’t know what to say, so she...
2023-06-17 06:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we finally had a few moments to take a break away from the fog creature, we sat down to assess what was wrong with our bodies.
I winced, as I saw the strip of flesh between my knee and my calves now had a somewhat stony appearance. It was as if my bones were made of ice now, and the pain was bad enough that it made me want to slam my...
2023-06-17 04:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent a few minutes simply staring at the illusory ravine, lost in thought. None of us had a great idea for how to immediately kill the strange creature, and directly building a bridge across the ravine felt dangerous as well. Seeing Ella’s worried expression made me feel very worried, because I was starting to wonder if this was an insurmo...
2023-06-16 02:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group of adventurers left, I spent several hours thinking about what I had seen.
I still wasn’t sure what the origin of the cube was. However, I was certain that it was related to the ocean of souls.
I sighed.
I was suddenly very interested in trading for the cube itself, but unfortunately, our group didn’t have a...
2023-06-14 22:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Orin, several more [Nobles] came to dance with Alice. Most of them were male [Nobles] around her age, which made Alice a little uncertain whether any of them were trying to ‘get to know’ a future Immortal in a more intimate way than she was comfortable with. Alice wasn’t particularly interested in romance, so she had always been rath...
2023-06-03 06:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post“How many people are there?” I whispered to Sallia.
“Seven,” she said.
I took another look at the batch of silver-colored souls, and relaxed a little.
The Orukthyri had incredibly large, difficult to destroy ‘candles of life,’ which made killing them very difficult. Their resistance to magic amplified their already ...
2023-06-03 04:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'm pretty sure I mentioned this in the last announcement post, and I've also attached it to quite a few other author's notes. However, due to how some of the weirdness for patreons reading at lower tiers works out, I just realized they might not be informed of this.
Thus, quick reminder.
I'll be gone next week, from June 4th t...
2023-06-01 23:49:56 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at Anise, Felix, and Anise’s parents, all of whom were semi-conscious and in no condition to move. I frowned.
To be honest, I had nearly forgotten that diseases existed. My runes enhanced my Fortitude to the point where I would basically never get sick from regular diseases, and in our previous world, Sallia and Felix had been i...
2023-06-01 23:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two days were spent on the move. The group moved slowly and cautiously, avoiding fights with anything that Ella deemed too dangerous to mess with. This meant that we often ended up waiting for a while, or detouring around a certain area if Ella deemed it necessary.
However, that didn’t mean we avoided all fights. There were a fe...
2023-05-31 21:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe second [Princess] nodded at Alice and the other [Nobles], who stopped chatting amongst themselves. The [Nobles] who weren’t seated already quickly made their way towards their seats, and Alice saw a little flicker of rainbow mana activate near their ears. It seemed to somehow inform them that the tea party was starting?
A few [Servan...
2023-05-27 06:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the ‘battle’ ended with a single attack, Felix’s parents hit the creature with an extra second-circle spell, just to make sure it was dead.
After that, Ella and Anise’s father spent a few minutes working together to harvest the sleep-inducing needles of the plant monster. Ella felt it wasn’t a bad idea to have them laying a...
2023-05-27 04:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Ella finished talking, she motioned for our group to start moving again. Now that we weren’t in immediate danger and we had moved far enough away from the Orukthyri to be safe, I finally had time to look over my System notifications.
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Slaughter: Kill an Orukthyri Spellcaster for the first ...
2023-05-26 06:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at the sunlight filtering in through the dusty clouds in the sky, and felt a strange mixture of awe and horror as I looked at the surface for the very first time in this life.
When I had heard of the ‘surface settlement,’ I had been expecting some sort of relatively ordinary middle ages village. I hadn’t really known what th...
2023-05-24 22:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post“So, you’re Ethan’s newest project,” said Ethan’s mother, giving Alice a warm smile. Alice saw a variety of System Perks flood out of Ethan’s mother. They reached across her eyes, her nose, her mouth, her ears, and every orifice of the top half of her body. It seemed as if literally her entire body, and every sense, was being improve...
2023-05-20 06:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostFelix watched as the front lines began to crumble, before Miria picked him and began running. Due to her strength, Felix doubted that Miria was seriously struggling with his weight or his movements, but just in case, he did his best not to wriggle around too much. He didn’t want to put more strain on Miria if he could avoid it, and he was also...
2023-05-20 04:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 101: Horde (3) - Markets and Multiverses
The new wave of real Orukthyri tore through our disorganized front lines like lightning splitting a tree. I winced as I heard the meaty crunch of our soldiers dying. The front lines had already been a disorganized mess as they had worked to surround the Orukthyri and drag them to the ground,...
2023-05-18 23:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe first Orukthyri charged towards our lines, like a runaway train bent on bulldozing our military. I looked at the creature, and gritted my teeth, before opting to do… nothing.
Extinguishing a non-spellcaster Orukthyri was a waste. I needed to save my energy for the real problems.
A few moments later, I saw arrows start to whistl...
2023-05-16 20:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostOn Ethan’s suggestion, Alice and Ethan both took carriages to the palace on the day of the tea party in order to maintain some distance between them. Even though Alice was Ethan’s apprentice, she was also a prospective future Immortal in her own right, and so Ethan said that it was important to send that Alice was someone to be remembered on...
2023-05-13 06:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostWith the final hope of outside intervention extinguished, the four of us made our way back to the city in silence. I could practically feel Scout Leader Nells’s frustration radiating out of him, but I didn’t know what I could say to make him feel better. Frankly, I was also disappointed. I knew that many cities relied on their patron deities...
2023-05-13 04:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter resting for the night, I had recovered enough alteration essence to toss some more healing at both Sallia and the Scout. This, combined with a night’s rest, put the scout back to a point where he could walk unaided, and even jog a little. He still couldn’t quite reach the ground-eating pace he had set when we traveled to the Orukthyri ...
2023-05-12 05:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few hours were spent in tense silence. I tore some strips of cloth from one of the dead scouts, and used that to plug everyone’s ears. We couldn’t handle another wave of thought worms right now, but I could prevent the next wave from slipping into our thoughts in the first place. At least, if my earplugs actually worked. Eyeing my c...
2023-05-11 04:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent the time she was asleep reading through Ethan’s exceptionally detailed library, trying to absorb as much knowledge as she possibly could. Since she now had an extra eight hours a day to just read and relax, she didn’t worry too much about only reading information relevant to her research. Instead, she was more than happy to read ...
2023-05-06 07:47:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe seven of us took one final look in the direction that the unearthly screech had come from, and for just a moment, I swore that I could see something out of the corner of my eyes. I whirled towards it, trying to figure out what I had seen, but I couldn’t make out anything unusual.
“Any idea what the heck that sound was?” I asked o...
2023-05-06 04:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent a few hours looking for a proper Orukthyri group to target. We needed a group that wasn’t too large, broke away from the main group in the cavern, and was also heading on one of the routes where they would be willing to chase us down, while still having a low enough ceiling that it would be possible for a weaker person to stay ahead o...
2023-05-05 04:07:42 +0000 UTC View Post