The journey back to the city was uneventful, to Alice’s relief. Part of her still expected the situation to be some sort of elaborate trick. Her mind kept throwing out scenarios where the Society leader hadn’t actually died, and attacked them when they had their guard down, or scenarios where a monster swarm attacked the group before they co...
2025-02-22 00:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostAs the creature charged towards the trunk of the tree, I could see the souls of the other defenders shifting. Their movements transformed, swapping from an evasive style of combat to a more confrontational one. Previously, they had moved like a swarm of bees, dodging and stinging the leviathan. Now, they moved in front of it, as so much essence ...
2025-02-21 03:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe first difference between the raid and regular raids was the fear. By now, I had gotten used to the usual raid bells. I barely even thought about them anymore - raids were pretty manageable at two or three bells, and it was rare for even minor injuries to appear through the city during a two bell raid. I usually thought of raids as an inconve...
2025-02-20 04:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed by like a river flowing downstream.
Sallia, Felix, Anise and I kept learning more about the world as months turned into years. A lot of information was limited to us, because we were still considered ‘children’ until we were well into our thirties. However, we still managed to fish out bits and pieces of information. The be...
2025-02-19 02:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Allira, can you send a few shadows to make sure there aren’t any physical traps located right under this thing?” asked Ethan, as he pointed at the Artifact.
Allira started singing, and a few shadows started checking over the room again. After a few minutes, she gave Ethan a thumbs up, and Ethan crammed the artifact into his storage ...
2025-02-14 22:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the picnic with my parents was peaceful. We had a nice lunch, and then we strolled around the field of flowers. Our parents encouraged Anise and I to play with the other children we met along the way, and so we were pressured into joining a few other children playing some sort of ball game. By the end of the game, I still didn’t en...
2025-02-14 05:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Anise and I took a few more moments to admire the staircase with some kind of powerup on it, our parents seemed to get tired. They took us on a leisurely stroll around the greenery, before we finally settled in a secluded garden area. Unlike most other parts of the green field surrounding the trunk, this one had a higher density of flowers...
2025-02-13 03:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Anise woke up, she started adapting her own actions to suit her age. She quickly spoke her ‘first words,’ before she rapidly progressed her linguistic skills to meet my own. My parents seemed delighted that Anise was finally ‘catching up to her older sister.’ Anise and I started to carefully coordinate her ‘mental development,’...
2025-02-12 04:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostImmediately after the Society leader fell, Alice got a few System notifications.
You have gained an achievement!
Death of an Immortal (Rarity: 9)
You directly contributed to a battle in which an Immortal fell.
+200% growth speed for all combat-related classe...
2025-02-07 22:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostMonths started to flow by. I finally achieved mastery of the language, meaning I no longer had awkward parts of each conversation that I didn’t understand. At the same time, I worked on progressing both of my primary magic systems. I was still a bit curious about this world’s various magic systems, and if I liked the local alteration and abs...
2025-02-06 23:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post“In the old days, while the four essences were still limited, it was far more plentiful than it was now,” began my father, as he looked into my eyes. It almost seemed like he was trying to figure out how much of his words I understood.
<So mana has always been a limiting factor in this world,> said Felix, as he watched the ‘sto...
2025-02-06 03:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy father and I returned to the bakery, where we found my mother sitting in one of the upper windows. She had a half-emptied quiver of arrows next to her, as well as a bow that laid near the side of the wall. I looked at her, to make sure she was safe - but I didn’t see any wounds on her. I breathed a sigh of relief. If my mother was injured, ...
2025-02-05 04:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Number of Society near-Immortals and Immortals mentioned last chapter decreased from 5 to 4. One of them died around chapter 150, but for some reason I didn’t add that to his character sheet, so I thought he was still alive and added him to the count. This has been corrected. No zombie mages allowed!
2025-01-31 22:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post
<Oh, so I’m not the first one awake,> Felix said. <My Intelligence is almost exactly average given my modifiers. You must have gotten a pretty good Intelligence score to beat me?>
<I got 165 total,> I said.
<Ah, that explains it. I’m sitting at 162 total,> he said. <102 from my roll, and 60 from my soul...
2025-01-31 04:05:05 +0000 UTC View PostThrough one of the arrow-slits in the house, I got my first good look at the physical forms of the creatures that had landed in front of the house.
They were some of the most bizarre and creepy-looking monsters I had seen, and that was in comparison to the madness of the Market.
The first monster looked like a ball of hands, all clut...
2025-01-30 05:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Minor edit to last chapter. Specified that the shortsword Miria’s father is using is made of a dense black stone. I intend to get a bit into rock types in this world later on, as well as a few other oddities in how materials work here. This chapter also has a few hints about that, but I want to make the mentio...
2025-01-29 08:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe twitching, shivering mass of stone looked at them, and Alice shivered as a strange sense of disquiet settled in the pit of her stomach. It was like no living thing she had ever seen before. The bits of chaotic rainbow mana it emanated were unsettling. It looked like someone had tried and failed to create some sort of… half-ba...
2025-01-24 22:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I saw when we set foot outside of home was the tree. It was so massive that it dominated everything. The sky was nearly covered in leaves. The branches of the tree blotted out the rest of the sky, making it nearly impossible to tell what lay beyond its leaves. Water constantly fell from its lowermost leaves, single-handedly creat...
2025-01-24 02:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostAfter seeing Anise roll back over, I smiled. I moved a little bit closer to her, and with some difficulty, managed to give her a nice hug. I checked Anise’s ears, and confirmed my suspicion. Anise had pointy ears, just like some of the other people I had glimpsed in my brief moments of consciousness. My limbs were still clumsy and awkward, so ...
2025-01-23 03:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Math error (from like 30 freaking chapters ago)
So, a while ago, someone found a math error from the end of World 3. It was a specific note about how I was missing about 1K Achievement. Someone found it - apparently, in chapter 307, Miria got 2K Achievement for healing 1,000 Debilitating injuries… and th...
2025-01-22 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe depths of the Society base were different from what Alice was expecting. The previous Society base had been like a makeshift fort. Most of the important bits were above ground, and while there was a basement, it was small. It had mostly been used for storage.
At first, Alice thought that this base was similar. However, as the gro...
2025-01-17 22:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Mistake in chapter 336. Forgot to actually give Miria the Achievement she earned from killing the Pustule of Unwoven embers. She has 1K more Achievement than before, giving her a total of 9,302.98 instead of what was previous stated in the chapter.
The flight of stairs felt like it stretched ...
2025-01-17 02:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostEven after walking up to the entrance of the cabin, we still hadn’t seen any monsters. This made me more than a little nervous. All of the other pools of reincarnation were swarming with monsters. This was true for even the weakest and least specific of reincarnation pools that we had used in the past. This cabin was empty - and none of us had...
2025-01-16 02:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next few days searching the Market for an appropriate pool of reincarnation. We didn’t stop to raid shops anymore. We avoided monsters, because the rewards from a fight didn’t outweigh the danger of not finding the pool of reincarnation we needed. A unique guardian or two would give us a good chunk of Achievement, but it would a...
2025-01-15 07:41:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe march through the forest was slow, and a large part of that was due to the inefficiency of the [Mercenaries]. Alice had never before appreciated just how much of a difference training made on travel speed. The Illvarian army that she and Ethan had traveled with last time had moved at a ground-eating pace, travelling across well-paved roads w...
2025-01-10 23:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post“All right, what do we need out of our next world?” I asked. “We should make a plan before we start wandering around the Market again. We have… a week or two? Before our bodies start decomposing with us still inside of it. We have enough time to do some searching.”
“I think we should aim for a Tier 2 world,” said Sallia. “T...
2025-01-10 03:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Anise showed interest in the shop, I used a clone to check it out. Inside, I saw a lump of glowing, orange green-flesh that looked to be about the size of a person.
“There’s a guardian,” I said. I checked it over with my soul sight, and then examined the size of its ‘candle of life.’ Then I relaxed. “I can’t kill i...
2025-01-09 04:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next few weeks raiding lower-level shops. We had two objectives in mind - first, acquire a good stock of Achievement, in order to shore up any weaknesses in our stats or abilities. We could always make one final round of purchases before we reincarnated, and last-minute stat boosts were always welcome. However, our biggest objective...
2025-01-08 06:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two days were a blur of activity. Alice spent most of each day monitoring Jonathan’s condition. Now that she had given him a new version of a ‘Class Seed,’ she desperately wanted to spend every moment observing it and seeing if it worked or not.
At first, she was hopeful. At the time, she had felt like she might have really ...
2024-12-20 09:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Small correction to last chapter - Miria references being able to make two clones in a emergency. However, she doesn’t read her System notifications until THIS chapter. She also hadn’t gotten her last few notifications yet because she hadn’t earned them XD. This has been corrected, to Miria making a b...
2024-12-19 23:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post