As Ethan stared at the ships in the distance, his lips curled into a snarl.
“Sigmusi Ships on the horizon,” he said. “Twelve of them. Unknown number of [Kinetic Mages] on board, but last I knew they typically put eight [Kinetic Mages] on each ship. That should mean around a hundred enemy Mages in total.”
Ethan’s mother curs...
2025-06-06 22:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe leviathan’s gaze swerved unerringly towards the next tree as Anise and I dashed forward. I tried not to think about how dangerous that was - it would have been better if the creature had kept attacking the Mages.
<Ready?> I asked Anise as I moved.
<Yup. Let’s hope this works,> she said.
I grabbed Anise’s h...
2025-06-06 08:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostMy eyes flickered towards the catastrophe unfolding in front of my eyes. My brain finally started to reactivate.
The first problem was the giant swarm of monsters on the ground. They were the first obstacle that needed to be dealt with if we were to stave off this crisis. They were far more threatening than other swarms of monsters, mostly...
2025-06-05 07:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Schedule update (for just this week hopefully)
Remember how last week, I said we should be back to normal schedule this week, unless something goes wrong? Because I should have gotten all of the nonsense sorted out and I was just waiting for stuff to go through in other people’s systems?
Basically, something went wrong in a s...
2025-06-04 08:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe group successfully sailed around the floating water - whatever it was, it didn’t trouble them. Unfortunately, the next day, the group found a new anomaly - and this one was far more mobile.
Alice was the first to see it, due to how much mana it radiated. At first, Alice didn’t even think that she was looking at a physical object - ...
2025-05-30 21:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostAs the sounds of a high-bell raid swept over the super-sanctuary, I felt my heart clench.
After the sanctuaries had united, we had pored over the history books to figure out why the number of Sanctuaries in this world seemed to be decreasing so rapidly. After all, during the time that we had spent on the Sanctuary, I hadn’t seen anything...
2025-05-30 03:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next three months passed quietly. The most notable even was a five-bell raid that happened about a month after the Astral tides.
Normally, a four bell raid was a bit dangerous - after all, the raid was weak enough that the city was hesitant to use big spells to handle the intruders, but it was large enough that it could hit and kill so...
2025-05-27 04:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day was calm as the group sailed through Illvarian waters. The group hugged the coastline, meaning that most of what they passed was uninhabited wilderness. After all, especially now that Illvaria was concentrating its forces in the North, the south, which had already been desolate, was practically uninhabited again. Even though these w...
2025-05-23 09:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I finished looking over my ability evolution options, I spent a few minutes waiting for Sallia, Felix, and Anise. Just like me, they had gotten various ability evolution options after the completion of the sun. All of us had gotten at least one Ability evolution. Felix had I had both gotten two, since my alteration magic and Felix...
2025-05-23 05:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostMy second Ability evolution was one that I was even more excited for than my first Ability evolution. This was because I considered my second ability, {Echoes of the Deep}, to be the true core of my abilities.
You have accomplished something exceptional with {Echoes of the Deep}, and have acquired a significant amount of Achievement...
2025-05-22 04:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe first System message I was was the basic Achievement reward. It was massive. Best of all, it didn’t even seem like this was the ‘final’ result of our efforts - it was a smaller reward, with the potential to be much larger if things continued to work out.
Influence: Create hope in a Dying World
... 2025-05-21 04:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Alice found herself back on the same ship she and Ethan had originally taken to Cyra. At the helm of the boat was Ethan’s mother, a woman Alice hadn’t met since the tea party with the second [Princess] all those months ago. Standing next to her was someone Alice had never seen before. She looked… mousey. Her hair was thin and b...
2025-05-16 23:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Last chapter, I forgot to give Miria her Achievement reward for forming her third absorption rune. This has been fixed - she now has 900 more Achievement than she did when I originally posted the chapter.
The next day, our parents wished us good luck, before the four of us brought the core of...
2025-05-16 09:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Elder Veridian sent word back, the four of us got to work.
The Sanctuary had promised us assistance in the form of essence and mages - but to take advantage of both, we needed to have the first step of the sun-creation project completed.
In short, we needed the core of the sun to be built.
This wasn’t something that we c...
2025-05-15 09:57:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt took another month and a half before Sallia and Anise finished their trials. Much like me, Anise wasn’t able to complete all three parts of her trial. She finished the first two parts, thankfully, but the last part of her trial had a massive difficulty spike. The first two parts of her trial had at least been manageable for her - e...
2025-05-14 07:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group finished the audience with the [King], the [King] and his family left the audience chamber. Alice suspected they had gone to figure out what land to allocate to Jonathan, and to figure out the logistics for the reality mana artifact. Meanwhile, the group went to find Murim. It took a few minutes of navigating through the palace b...
2025-05-09 22:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe centipedes chased after me as I ran. After a few seconds of sprinting, I realized that I needed to speed things up, or else they would catch me. I opened my umbrella and drifted into the air, before tearing through the tunnels at a breakneck speed. When I had been fighting the spider-head of the chimera, I’d needed to be careful, for fear ...
2025-05-09 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs I stepped back into the cave, I felt a sliver of unease. Even though I had killed the guardian of the area, that didn’t meant there were no creatures that could challenge me in the caves. There were still a few hundred baby centipedes lurking around. Perhaps it would be better if I fled the area, and returned when my essence reserves were f...
2025-05-08 05:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Error last chapter. I forgot to have Miria grab some drops of blood from the Chimera for use with {Dream of Hunger}. In my head, I was thinking ‘oh yeah, there’s plenty of Chimera blood here! Hitting the activation condition for this item is really easy!’ and forgot to have Miria actually do it. This has b...
2025-05-07 03:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt took another few days before they reached Metsel. During that time, Alice kept observing the countryside. No major incidents had occurred during that time, save for a single encounter with a monster swarm. Unlike when the group was travelling through other countries, this time Ethan and Allira proactively wiped out the swarm before it could t...
2025-05-02 21:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe six baby centipedes charged at me, and I darted closer to the entrance of the cave. This wasn’t a fight I could win while enclosed in the cave System. I needed to get out of this cave - regardless of what happened afterwards. I had been trying to buy time for an opening to flee, but this guardian just wasn’t giving it to me.
A mome...
2025-05-02 04:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at the giant soul in the distance, and calculated how fast it was approaching. At this rate, it would reach me in three to four minutes. I squinted at it. I had already known my ‘stealthy thievery’ plans were a bit of a long shot, but I hadn’t expected them to go up in flames this fast. Was the creature somehow linked to the stone...
2025-05-01 07:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe first few steps of the centipede lair were unchanged from my previous visits. As I stepped back into the cave, I took some time to scan my surroundings with my soul sight and spatial sight. I didn’t want any surprises to crop up at the last minute. Fortunately, there weren’t any centipedes that could access me easily. The only nearby cen...
2025-04-30 07:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days of the journey back to Illvaria were blessedly quiet. Alice had been half-expecting something to go wrong during the journey. Perhaps they would run into an unavoidable swarm of monsters, and be forced to fight for their lives, or another piece of terrain gone rogue due to the influence of mana. Alice had also been expecting to...
2025-04-25 22:08:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt took nearly a month for me to stop benefitting from eating the mushrooms. Every single mushroom I ate provided slightly less than the previous one, and every time I hit a new grade in one of my attributes, I also felt as if my body had become increasingly resistant to whatever the mushrooms were doing to boost me. Finally, when I had gained t...
2025-04-25 05:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the next few hours feeling out any differences in my body. The boost from the mushroom I had eaten had definitely made me stronger, but I vividly remembered the strange, feverish sensation that had been swirling through me before I had dispelled it with a Renewal. I wanted a firm idea of what had or hadn’t changed before I ate another ...
2025-04-24 03:11:41 +0000 UTC View PostMy first step into the cave was filled with the prickling feeling of setting foot into somewhere else. It felt as if I had stepped into a foreign world - one ruled by a creature that I couldn’t see, but that I could sense stirring as I approached. I immediately stopped, and scanned the area. However, I didn’t detect anything unusual. Was I j...
2025-04-23 03:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215
Author’s Note: There is an error in chapter 214, one which stems all the way back from Chapter 199. In chapter 199, Alice uses {System’s Ambition} to create magic seeds… and holds on to two extra slots, for if she finds anything else she wants.
Naturally, since I have perfect memory and never make any mistakes, defi...
2025-04-18 23:47:50 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke up the next morning, I felt a lot better. I tossed another Renewal at myself, and breathed a sigh of relief as my last few injuries from the previous fight faded away. My essence was still far from full, but I had enough to at least toss out a fairly strong extinguish if I needed to, and my absorption essence could probably carry me ...
2025-04-18 06:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke back up, I felt piercing pain throughout my body. That wasn’t great - but at least nothing had eaten me while I was asleep.
I spent a few seconds analyzing my own condition, before I groaned.
I still had several broken bones, and my body hurt a lot. I felt like I had been hit by a train - even existing hurt.
Lucki...
2025-04-17 04:26:29 +0000 UTC View Post