After we finished cleaning out all of the information we could find in the admissions office, we moved deeper into the castle. There wasn’t
After we finished cleaning out all of the information we could find in the admissions office, we moved deeper into the castle. There wasn’t
After we finished cleaning out all of the informati...
2025-07-30 06:51:57 +0000 UTC View Post“It just… opened?” asked Ethan, as he blinked in surprise. Alice was also stunned.
This wasn’t how she had imagined this process going at all.
The System doors were clearly meant to keep people and monsters out of the System. Alice thought that was quite reasonable. After all, the System was practically the lifeblood of human...
2025-07-25 22:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostAt first glance, the room we had secured entry into seemed disappointing. I had been hoping for a room filled with power-ups. If it had cont
At first glance, the room we had secured entry into seemed disappointing. I had been hoping for a room filled with power-ups. If it had contained a new way to create new physical bodies, that would ha...
2025-07-25 05:40:20 +0000 UTC View PostOur first steps into the castle were blessedly silent. No monsters leapt out at us as we strode into the castle. That being said, while we w
Our first steps into the castle were blessedly silent. No monsters leapt out at us as we strode into the castle. That being said, while we were free of monsters, I noticed several other oddities about...
2025-07-24 04:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostWith our purchases in the mall made, it was clear that we had mostly cleaned out the outer districts of the Market. There might still be a f
With our purchases in the mall made, it was clear that we had mostly cleaned out the outer districts of the Market. There might still be a few smaller boosts laying around, if we could find them - but...
2025-07-23 05:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs the group drew closer to the great wall of System mana, the boat started to slow down. As the boat continued to slow, Alice started to frown. She rushed to the deck of the ship and looked for one of the Immortals. It didn’t take her long to find Ethan’s mother, Myra.
“What’s wrong?” asked Alice. “Why are we suddenly slowing ...
2025-07-18 23:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the other things we had found while searching through the stores for supplies, I had high expectations for the final section of shops
After the other things we had found while searching through the stores for supplies, I had high expectations for the final section of shops in the mall. I still realized that we would get a lot less ou...
2025-07-18 05:38:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe item shops in the mall were numerous. Unlike many of the other shops we had encountered in the Market, these ones were clearly built to
The item shops in the mall were numerous. Unlike many of the other shops we had encountered in the Market, these ones were clearly built to cater to wealthier customers. While the prices weren’t quit...
2025-07-17 05:17:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two hours for the strange gas to dissipate from within the mall. During that time, I spent a few hours dedicated to improving my att
It took two hours for the strange gas to dissipate from within the mall. During that time, I spent a few hours dedicated to improving my attunement, while my friends searched a few nearby shops. I did...
2025-07-16 06:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group finally managed to wriggle free of the Sigmusi navy, Alice spent a few hours and some mana helping everyone on the ship deal with their level up notifications. There were still nearly one hundred and fifty surviving [Sailors], and Alice didn’t want any of them succumbing to Class-mana madness during the upcoming trials...
2025-07-11 22:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostI felt a wave of frustration as monsters poured out of the building. I hadn’t managed to gather any intelligence at all with my clone. With
I felt a wave of frustration as monsters poured out of the building. I hadn’t managed to gather any intelligence at all with my clone.
With my spatial sight, I saw the two wire-men swing down...
2025-07-11 05:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe continued to travel through the Market, searching for shops that could give us fourth-tier soul fragments. Unlike the previous times we e
We continued to travel through the Market, searching for shops that could give us fourth-tier soul fragments. Unlike the previous times we entered the Market, we ignored lower end shops. In previous v...
2025-07-10 05:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe process of buying Stats was the same as usual. After Anise repaid Felix’s Achievement loan, everyone ramped up our Stats to sixty. Our stats were now completely identical to each other, at least before including things like runes or items that modified stats.
Of the three of us who needed to finish buying stats, I paid the least. I h...
2025-07-09 05:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you do that?” asked Ethan, as he glanced at the screaming Immortal in the distance.
Alice nodded. “I gave him a mana baptism. It was a bit clunky and hard to pull off, and I’m almost out of mana in my compound seed, but it worked,” she said.
Ethan grinned, before firing a blast of Thermal magic at the screaming Immorta...
2025-07-04 22:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike me, my friends had a much easier time purchasing their new abilities. Anise had started our last world with only 16 of her 53 glut occupied, and her new Ability evolution had pushed her up 20 glut and 0 keywords. Anise was now at 36 out of 53 glut. This granted her the ability to ‘tier up’ her skills via practice, at the cost of even ...
2025-07-04 04:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant worm-like horror continued to stare at the Nursery for several more seconds. The four of us froze, staring at the abomination and wondering what we could possibly do to fight back if it came after us. Its speed was on a completely different level from the spiders we had fought last time we were in the Market. The creature was fast, mas...
2025-07-02 22:20:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual, the first thing I saw after I died was the boundless darkness of the ocean of souls. The four of us had debated trying to stick around a while longer in the world, to see if we got any final trickles of Influence Achievement from our influence on the world. However, we had decided against it. It was already obvious that our influence A...
2025-07-02 04:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostAlice observed the three enemy Immortals, and tried to swallow the anxiety building up in her stomach. Technically, the Illvarians had four Immortals on their side - but Doll wasn’t really a combatant, and any advantage her equipment granted them was outweighed by the number of Sigmusi arrayed against them. Alice hated even fights - they were ...
2025-06-27 23:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the death of Miria, the other three heroes died of old age shortly afterward. The deaths of the four heroes sent the great sanctuary into grief. Since they died of old age, their deaths had been expected for years - but many people mourned the loss of those who had given the Sanctuary a new path forward.
The entire sanctuary held a d...
2025-06-27 05:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostAs my father, Anise and I sat at the edge of my mother’s bed, she gently stroked my head.
“Miria… I think this is it for your old mom,” she said. Her eyes were murky, and her fox ears and tail drooped at the side. Her skeleton was withered and shrunken - nothing like the lively, proud, energetic mother from most of my time in this ...
2025-06-26 05:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs my death from old age grew closer, the four of us started to spend time touring the cities of the sanctuary in between research sessions and planning for the future. It was relaxing to tour the world we had put so much effort into saving - and it was also nice to see how our actions had changed the future of this place.
Unfortunat...
2025-06-25 05:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Illvarian ship finished laying out Doll’s trap, the two Sigmusi fleets drew closer. Alice started to sweat as Ethan, Allira, and Myra checked their equipment, eyed their surroundings, and prepared for combat. Alice glanced at the open sea behind the first Sigmusi navy, and sighed at how empty the sea looked.
The fog had not caught...
2025-06-20 23:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe following decades were spent focusing on research, preparation, and Achievement farming. I spent a big part of each day sparring with Sallia. Now that my rune toolkit was going to follow me from life to life, I wanted to be as familiar with it as I could possibly be. Every single hour I spent getting whacked by Sallia’s training sword coul...
2025-06-20 05:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the next few decades working on fleshing out my rune magic system. After Felix had made me such an incredible gift, I naturally had to take full advantage of it. The first thing I did was try to assess my ‘maximum number of runes’ that I could achieve in this life.
Based on my very rough estimates for essence count, I estimated...
2025-06-19 08:17:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe years marched ever onward. Before I knew it, we turned 150.
Most of the smaller rewards from assisting the Sanctuary in repelling the hive had dried up, as had most of our other Achievement rewards. Part of this was because our proportion of contribution to the sanctuary’s defense was rather small now - while we were still the origin...
2025-06-18 07:47:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe group continued sailing in anxious silence for another three hours. During that time, they occasionally caught a glimpse of the Sigmusi trailing after them. At first, Alice thought that the Sigmusi would outright attack them again. That would make the most sense, after all - the Sigmusi had clearly locked on to their group as some sort of ta...
2025-06-14 02:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostTime continued to pass.
By the time the four of us were a century old, the city had finally reached a proper level of self sufficiency. According to most scholars, the city now had four hundred times more essence than before. This was a truly mind-boggling amount, and guaranteed that the city council no longer needed to hoard every drop of...
2025-06-13 06:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs I saw the Leviathan’s corpse sag into the ground, I felt a surge of relief. I saw other Mages of the Sanctuary start to relax, especially near the back, where they didn’t even have to fight the weaker monsters on the ground anymore.
Even though there were still a fair number of monsters on the ground left to deal with, everyon...
2025-06-12 05:03:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Leviathan seemed surprised by the intrusion of a new wave of enemies. As the walls of the temporal prison collapsed, dozens of new eyeballs flickered into existence and scanned all of the reinforcements that had entered the area. Then, dozens of eyeballs narrowed in irritation, before a wave of essence surged through the creature’s wall of...
2025-06-11 07:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe creature roared in disgust as my clone landed on its back, and eyeballs grew along its flesh like plants sprouting after a rainstorm. A dozen pulses of green light tore at my clone, but I used a portal to drag it out of danger. My clone reappeared a few meters away.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a flash of ice appear, before it bu...
2025-06-07 06:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post