“How much Achievement do you have left?” I asked Sallia, turning towards her after I finished processing the gains from the end of the battle.
“I have 129.64. Why? How much do you have left?” asked Sallia.
129? Why did she have so much more than me? I had only been in the city for an extra hour or two compared to her, so I co...
2022-10-28 23:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello?” I asked, looking at the skeleton and hoping that, despite all odds, it wouldn’t be hostile. Since our bodies were incredibly weird, maybe it was intelligent and friendly.
The skeleton’s hate filled gaze locked onto me, its eyes glowing with frosty hunger and emptiness. Its jaw clacked, and even though it had no lips, I cou...
2022-10-27 22:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello?” The girl called out again. She sounded close – she was probably just outside of the house. I looked around for a moment, before I grabbed the best weapon I could find nearby – a metal frying pan. Even if it wasn’t great, I could still slam it into someone’s face if this turned out to be a trap.
Then, I slowly crept out...
2022-10-26 22:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostMoments after I reached the outskirts of the city, the golden lasso that had pulled me to this place disappeared. I looked at the ruined buildings and broken flying islands, trying to process what had just happened. Was this city really my destination?
Before I had further time to process my thoughts and emotions, a set of words unfolded i...
2022-10-25 23:38:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Thanks for helping me move things about, Isabella! I really appreciate it!” said Maria, as with a groan and a final heave, we dragged the last box into her new apartment.
“No… no problem,” I said, gasping a little as I leaned against the wall. “I’m happy to help out. I’m a little confused though – don’t you usually ask...
2022-10-25 00:23:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe next hour was spent tensely waiting with Ethan, as more people slowly trickled into the house. A few of them paid attention to the ruined floorboards or the signs of a recent fight, and gave Ethan a slightly confused look before shrugging and ignoring the damage. Apparently, while they were curious, they didn’t care enough to ask.
Me...
2022-10-22 07:25:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe following day, the school’s more gossip-prone students were finally starting to spread word about Samantha’s disappearance. Samantha had been missing since Monday, and it was Wednesday now. Even though there hadn’t been any public announcements similar to the ones after the hunting trip, Samantha’s disappearance wasn’t a private ma...
2022-10-15 07:19:37 +0000 UTC View Post[Knight] Arin looked at Alice with a bit of confusion, giving her a sideways glance as he took in the sight of the partially ruined street around him. Alice also took a look at her surroundings, wincing a bit as she took in the aftermath of the fight. Cobblestones were missing left and right from the street, chunks of house and roof tile had bee...
2022-10-08 08:18:47 +0000 UTC View PostAlice felt waves of panic cycle through her thoughts as she checked through Samantha’s house again, hoping to find Samantha in a spot she had missed. However, in her heart, Alice already knew she wasn’t going to find her. A heavy feeling of dread weighed down on her as she searched Samantha’s house again and again, before the realization t...
2022-10-01 06:22:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice finished dealing with all of her upgrades, she visited Boris for the week. Now that she had a more extensive list of ideas and guesses about class seeds, Alice took this visit as an opportunity to observe Boris in greater detail, to see if she could verify any of her guesses about the nature of class seeds. She had already observed t...
2022-09-24 06:34:13 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice came to her hypothesis about the nature of class seeds, she felt a whirlwind of excited thoughts start to spin around in her head. If classes were actually magic seeds that had been altered in some way, she had made a huge step towards understanding how the System worked. She had never previously come across the idea of clas...
2022-09-17 06:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostOn Friday, Professor Feliza requested for Alice to join her during her office hours after Alice’s classes. After some deliberation, Alice accepted Professor Feliza’s offer, and found herself in the steely woman’s office again the following day. When Alice entered the [Teacher]’s office, she barely had time to find a chair before professo...
2022-09-10 05:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent the next week practicing her healing skills, before finally reaching a point where she could heal a small cut in the practical test for her healing license. Her organic magic skills were still far from good enough to use when she could just activate {Moderate Tissue Regeneration} or one of her enchanted rings, but she was at least go...
2022-09-03 06:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice returned to Metsel, she began to work on a few new projects, in hopes of figuring out what was going on with the recent decline in successful mana baptisms and Boris’s increasingly strange behavior.
First, Alice continued combing through the library in hopes of learning more about magic seeds and the System, as a form of prep...
2022-08-27 07:05:48 +0000 UTC View PostLife settled back into Alice’s usual routine. Alice continued to help Cecilia form a magic seed without the help of the System, go to classes, work with Ezrien’s team, build enchantments for Cecilia’s shop, and spend Saturdays playing board games with her friends before visiting Boris and Natasha. As the group got tired of The Settlers, ev...
2022-08-19 23:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice worked out some more specific details with Natasha, she took a moment to lament how bad her schedule was becoming. Anytime she managed to get a Perk boosting her work speed, it seemed like she immediately spent whatever time she freed up. Then, Alice sighed. After Ezrien’s team finished up their research, or when her one year contr...
2022-08-13 06:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Alice woke up a little earlier than usual. Since she had a bit of free time, she tried using her new Perk to start building her knowledge of organic mana. This was mostly for the sake of satisfying Alice’s curiosity. The System primarily used a mixture of organic mana, pure mana, and System mana to do most things, and right now A...
2022-08-06 05:46:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe group of [Students] and Arin looked at the group of children they had found inside of the bag, dumbfounded.
After a few moments, Arin snapped out of his surprise, giving the children a closer examination while frowning. “Well, that is certainly… unexpected.”
Alice also stared at the children, especially the one with the wei...
2022-07-30 04:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostAlice’s group of [Students], along with the injured [Knight] and the convulsing [Scout], made their way back towards the hunting camp in silence. Alice decided to reveal that she could discover the location of monsters with the help of [Sixth Sense], since the group no longer had a [Scout] and monster detection wasn’t exactly rare in this wo...
2022-07-23 07:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the group of [Students] arrived at a relatively flat area, the [Scouts] departed from the group to double-check the locations of various monster packs, scout for any abnormalities, and do a final patrol of the area. While the [Scouts] were gone, the [Teachers] had the [Students] draw lots to determine which groups would do their hunts first...
2022-07-16 07:29:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice got through her regular classes for Monday, she went to the classroom professor Tanmi had set aside as a meeting location. There, she met up with Erkki, Arsi, and Luka, before she quietly sat next to them. While she was much more familiar with Cecilia, the three were still friends she enjoyed chatting with, and she had come rather ea...
2022-07-09 03:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostTwo more weeks passed in relative quiet. Apart from being ludicrously inefficient, Alice’s new electromagnetic seed didn’t harm her in any way. Alice spent a few minutes every morning just running through whatever variants of ‘is this dangerous’ she could feed into {Safety Analysis}, as well as using her once-per-day usage of {Moderate T...
2022-07-02 07:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice’s experiment, she went to sleep for the night. The next day, after working with Ezrien’s team, getting through her first two classes of the day, and visiting the library, her self-defense class began. This week, the class had begun having the students duel each other.
“So we’re finally going to start practicing against ...
2022-06-25 09:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostAlice stepped out of the manaless room, and Cecilia, who had been waiting outside, looked at her with hints of anticipation in her expression. Mana started rushing towards Alice, but for now, she ignored all of the System notifications that were popping up. She would deal with them when she was done with the experiment.
Alice tried to exte...
2022-06-18 05:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostOn Friday, Alice finally got around to repairing the dice she and Anne had cracked during the last game of The Settlers, and reinforced the dice a bit with some leftover enchanting materials and some scraps of iron. It wasn’t perfect, but it should resist any major Mage-fights more effectively now. On Saturday, She, Cecilia, Anne, and Ezrien g...
2022-06-11 02:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice had adjusted used to her classes, life began to settle into a stable, but hectic, rhythm. The rest of the week passed quickly as she adapted to her new daily schedule.
In mornings, she would work with Ezrien’s team to perfect the kinetic plates, slogging through different builds and ideas as they tried to make each plate easi...
2022-06-04 07:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostAlice woke up the next day still tired, but at least she had enough mana and energy to get her day started. She absently wondered if this was going to be her routine, now that her academy had started up for the year – ending each day horribly exhausted. Still, she didn’t hate the idea. She was working hard to finally build a proper baseline ...
2022-05-28 07:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostBefore heading to the Library, Alice made a quick stop near another of the floating lanterns. She spent a few more minutes trying to observe how the metal hooks and the paired lanterns worked, before she finally nodded to herself and moved away. While she didn’t get any new ideas for the metal plates, she at least got a better idea how linked ...
2022-05-20 22:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe magic academy’s architectural design had obviously taken some level of inspiration from castles. Even though it clearly wasn’t actually a castle, each corner of the building was a turret tower made of stone instead of a more traditional building design. There were even crenels at the top of each tower, to allow defenders to shoot arrows ...
2022-05-14 01:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostAlice looked at the table which contained her (questionable) rendition of The Settlers. Cecilia looked at the board game, before turning to the third player Alice had managed to convince to join the group. She had invited most of the other researchers she worked with to join the game, but the only ones who had expressed any interest in the idea ...
2022-05-07 07:02:25 +0000 UTC View Post