As Alice continued to look through the Society’s documents, she found more and more records of strange medical cases popping up recently. The Society’s later documents did include some of the things Alice was expecting – namely, records of horrifying experiments, kidnappings, and people’s agonizing deaths after being kidnapped and used a...
2022-12-03 01:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostPratian, leader of the fourth Megailian war party, frowned as he looked over his battle-weary and injured troops. Then, with a sigh, he turned to look back at the island he and his troops had found themselves on. The islands here were lush, filled with a bursting kind of vitality that was hard to come across when back on the mainland. At least, ...
2022-12-02 22:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, I went to sleep anxious, wondering what the future of the village looked like. So much depended on the attitude the villagers and the outsiders had towards each other, and I had no idea where this was going. I tossed and turned, unable to sleep properly until well past my usual bedtime. I woke up groggy and exhausted, before I went t...
2022-12-01 18:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs the outsider boats reached our shores and our flying boats returned, I looked for Olav and my father. I hoped that they hadn’t gotten injured during the fight with the sea creature, because I didn’t want my father to get hurt, and Olav was both a vital source of information and a family friend. I also scanned the flying boats returning to...
2022-11-30 19:37:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Say, Felix, are those boats on the horizon?” I asked, looking into the distance.
“Indeed, they are…” he said, before he trailed off, looking uneasy.
“Why are they so big? And so different from the boats we use here?” I asked, also squinting as I eyed the massive sails. I already felt that I knew the answer, bu...
2022-11-29 20:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, I went to Arne’s house and rapped quietly on the door at the appointed time. A few moments later, the door swung open.
“I’ve got everything ready for you. Come with me to my workshop,” said Master Arne as he stepped out of his house. I followed behind him as he strode through the village. A few minutes later, the two ...
2022-11-28 17:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a few more days for the other kids to get their first kills. After each successful hunt, the village chief would congratulate each kid before the villagers took the fish corpse away for processing.
Interestingly enough, the fish corpses no longer gave me the sense of twisted geometry once they were dead. Whatever it was that made t...
2022-11-28 00:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostMy father, along with Sallia, Felix and I walked towards the beach, where Olav’s fishing boat was waiting for us.
“All right, a few things I want the two of you to keep in mind,” my father said, stopping for a moment as he turned to face us. “First, as you already know, we’ll be hunting one of the great fish today. However, it mi...
2022-11-27 19:12:53 +0000 UTC View Post“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” After Ethan’s Organic mana made its way into her brain, Samantha jerked awake with a scream. Alice took a step backwards as Samantha wildly thrashed around, and for a moment Alice was afraid that Samantha would fling herself off of the cot Ethan had placed her on and hurt herself. As Alice tried to figure out how to c...
2022-11-26 08:33:16 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the land beast attack and its aftermath were dealt with, the village began to rebuild. Destroyed houses were reconstructed, injured people were taken care of, and those who had died were given a death ceremony. This ceremony consisted of the islanders tying strings of pearl, flowers, and other objects around the wrists of those who had fal...
2022-11-25 23:19:56 +0000 UTC View Post“How many injuries or deaths have the hunters sustained?” Asked the village chief, turning to the hunters of the village.
“Not too many injured here, chief. A couple hunters got hit by the creature’s limbs during its sprint towards the ocean, but most of the injuries aren’t fatal,” said one of the hunters. “I don’t think an...
2022-11-25 03:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post
All right, first thing's first. As you can see, this is a picture. Markets and Multiverses has an official book cover now! Yay! It's pretty cool. Or at least I personally think it looks pretty neat. We have the three main characters looking over the Market. I was personally hoping the theme of 'ruined Market' would be a little bit more prevalent...
2022-11-24 02:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe festival continued for another two days before it ended.The speeches and ceremonies all took place at the start of the festival, so the rest of the festival was just relaxing, dancing, and singing. Sallia, Felix and I toured around the festival, eating food and enjoying ourselves as much as we could. All in all, it was a pleasant way to spen...
2022-11-24 01:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostOn the day of the festival, all of the villagers gathered in the village center, waiting for the arrival of the village chief to officially begin the celebration. Mothers and fathers stood with their children, holding their hands and smiling as they talked and laughed with each other. Children played or stood with their parents, buzzing with ant...
2022-11-23 01:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe storm season passed quietly. After the first day, where Olav had introduced the Storm season to us and our parents had allowed us to watch the Storms, we had been mostly locked indoors again. In small doses, watching the storms and resisting the Call of the Ocean could strengthen one’s will. However, long periods of exposure could instead ...
2022-11-22 00:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next several months working on our runes. Apart from building runes, we spent a lot of time with each other, getting to know each other and learning to trust each other and work together more effectively. We also told stories about our previous worlds whenever the adults weren’t paying attention.
Felix relished learning more...
2022-11-21 00:10:46 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group found Samantha, Ethan wasted no time in turning back towards Alice.
“Is this your friend?”
Alice nodded. Ethan grinned at her.
“Well, in that case, congratulations. At the very least, we aren’t rescuing a corpse, the way I feared we might be. She doesn’t look like she’s in the best condition, but she...
2022-11-20 03:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostOver the course of the next few months, I asked for my mother's permission to “go play with my friends” more and more often. She always tagged along with me, because I was still too young to go anywhere by myself and the Ocean’s Call remained an ever-present threat. My parents did seem to be increasingly aware of how little influence it ha...
2022-11-19 00:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the other two Transmigrators, barely able to suppress my grin. The two of them looked absolutely nothing like they had back in the Market.
Little Six now looked positively skinny, nowhere near the towering mass of muscle he had been back in the Market. His entire frame had shrunk tremendously in this life. Before, he had looked...
2022-11-17 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, my mother took me out of the house for the first time. I was incredibly excited after I realized this might be my opportunity to check on Sallia and Little Six. I had been wondering how they were doing all of the years I had been reincarnated in this world without being able to leave the house, and if I was about to see other kids ...
2022-11-16 23:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe next five days were spent under my father’s supervision, trying to figure out how to sense the mana inside of the fish stone. It was difficult for me to keep my focus and motivation up, even with my Grade 6 Willpower, but the thought of learning how to do magic kept pushing me forward.
Besides the excitement of learning how to do mag...
2022-11-08 23:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two years were spent slowly adapting to my new mind and body. As I grew older, the time I was able to remain fully conscious became longer, and my intellect and clarity of thought grew closer and closer to normal. I also realized that I wasn’t fully ‘unconscious,’ even during the times I had a terrible headache and couldn’t rema...
2022-11-08 00:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostI felt a strange jerking sensation as I sank into the inky darkness. I gaped like a fish as I tried to touch my arm, which had already stopped hurting, even though the limb was destroyed beyond repair. Then, I realized it wasn’t just my ruined arm - all of my limbs were growing colder and harder to move. I felt familiar with the sensation of b...
2022-11-07 00:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Society members who had survived the first engagement with Illvarian troops gritted their teeth, looking at the troops that had crept up behind them as they tried to assess their current situation. After the chaotic melee with the Illvarian front lines, as well as the losses from the ranged battle earlier, perhaps twenty of the original sixt...
2022-11-05 06:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostAs we walked up the street and towards the temple, we started to come across the same signs of ruin and bloodshed that littered the rest of the Market. Corpses were tossed about left and right, destroyed skeletons littered the streets, and pools of lava, chunks of frozen or cut up matter, shadows that seemed disproportionately sized, and all man...
2022-11-04 22:07:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt took less than an hour of careful wandering for the three of us to find another interesting building. Closer to the center of the city was a building that looked like a massive Greek temple, made of pure obsidian. The entrance to the building had no doors – it was instead an open archway that stretched into the sky like a cavernous mouth, d...
2022-11-03 22:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Hello? Is anyone there?" A man's voice called from outside of the shop.
Sallia and I glanced at each other, before we quietly crept back towards the front of the shop, weapons at the ready. We slipped behind the counter before peeking through one of the smaller holes in the wall.
On the street in front of the shop stood a large man....
2022-11-02 22:29:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Sallia and I looked over the soul fragment cubes, the two of us continued exploring the shop.
The most interesting thing we found was a small piece of paper at the back of the shop. Hovering above the piece of paper were two pens. Each pen had a different color ink, and after a bit of experimentation, Sallia and I realized that we co...
2022-11-01 22:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a few minutes of struggling before Sallia and I got to the top of our chosen roof. Or, more accurately, Sallia reached the roof in twenty seconds flat while I struggled along for another two minutes. After that, we spent some time investigating my chosen roof, before we came to the conclusion that the tiles on this roof weren’t loose e...
2022-10-30 23:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe boulders sailed through the air, before gravity dragged them towards the Illvarian troops around Alice. Alice waited until the boulders were within range of her tendrils before she reached out to stop them. She nearly dropped one of the two boulders near her, because they were much heavier than she had been prepared to handle. Luckily, she s...
2022-10-29 06:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post