The world moved on. The death of Miria and Anise went almost unnoticed in history. The two of them had never made a huge impact on the world, after all.
Felix was a different matter. Felix’s efforts to bring industrialization to Zanna were well-remembered by the people. After Felix’s death, the new Minister of Industry in Zanna declare...
2024-10-25 07:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I turned fifty-seven, Felix died. I had been expecting him to live a little longer, with our Market stats supporting us. However, the year he turned fifty-four, he started having organ problems. One after another, his organs tried to shut down. I healed them, of course - but the problems kept returning. I couldn't find any reason for his or...
2024-10-24 06:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostMy prediction came true.
By the time we turned fifty, I was starting to feel the frustration of being an old lady. My joints started to hurt, my muscles started to deteriorate, and my absurd senses started to drift back towards ‘normalcy.’ My Market stats were doing a lot to supplement my physique and health… but I could feel that th...
2024-10-23 07:35:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe group made their way into Demor’s manor. True to Ethan’s words, many of the enchantments in the mansion seemed to be focused on containing things in the basement. Alice ignored those as Demor showed the group upstairs.
“There are some rooms available here for all of you,” he said, nodding at them. “The two rooms closest to th...
2024-10-18 21:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostTime continued to pass. Years turned to decades.
After years of hard work, I finally identified the root cause behind Maela’s illness. The problem was the binding essence in her body. The way the digestive system worked in this world was quite unusual. After the intestines absorbed nutrients, binding essence dragged them into a series of...
2024-10-18 04:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Felix departed, life in the town settled back down. Our town was still unimportant, so nobody bothered us. However, Anise and I kept an ear out for any news from the war. We were curious to see what others thought of Felix. We also wanted to see when the war finally ended.
The news we heard was promising.
The monarchist faction...
2024-10-17 01:50:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you think the fighting will finally stop?” asked Maela, as she sat next to me on the porch. Over the years, Maela and I had grown close. Not close enough for me to tell her everything. She still didn't know about the Market, or Felix and Anise's specialties. However, I had shown her my 'second ability.' She had grown into a...
2024-10-16 07:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe lands of Morendia were rather similar to Fendrallia, if considerably less extreme. After all, Fendrallia bordered Morendia. However, Alice couldn’t help but notice that the lands were a little bit warmer now. Even though her body was largely immune to moderate temperature differentials after the effects of all of her Perks and [Endurance] ...
2024-10-11 21:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Old Mo’s death, I stopped interacting with other people for several days. I still healed others and worked at Trish’s clinic, but I withdrawn. The world felt gray. I didn't feel like talking to people. Even though I had known that Old Mo would die soon... I still wasn't prepared for it. Being left behind while someone I knew disappeare...
2024-10-11 05:35:13 +0000 UTC View PostOld Mo didn’t look good. That was my first thought as I stepped into his room. His physical body looked like a withered, rotten apple. The skin on his arms and legs was wrinkled and desiccated, and his stomach was shrunken. I resisted the urge to grimace.
I had been healing for years Old Mo to keep his body in peak physical condition. Ho...
2024-10-10 04:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs the months continued to pass by, the civil war began to intensify. Small conflicts became large, and soon, the rebellion grew to the level of a civil war. The native Zannan people rallied together, with the goal of kicking out the corrupt colonial government. At first, Felix thought that the old government would lose instantly. However, the c...
2024-10-09 07:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs the group rode forward, Alice went back to working on her mana gem. Her image of a fully functioning mana gem was nearly complete, and by her estimation, it would only take three or four hours before she totally finished it. Now that there was nothing else to do, Alice was eager to get to work.
The next three and a half hours were spent...
2024-10-04 20:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post“So the Zelyrian continent faces near total extinction,” said Felix. As he scanned the morning newspaper, he looked contemplative. “I suppose it didn’t completely fall, but enough people died that it's a near thing. Ennalia is the only country from the continent that is still functioning. With these kinds of losses, the colonial era is o...
2024-10-03 23:48:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two hours to finish healing the elder's daughter. The process started out slow, as I tried to what was wrong with her body and maximize my healing efficiency. However, after an hour of constant failure, I only had a rough understanding of the situation. I could tell that her body had two problems. The first problem was lack of cartilage ...
2024-10-03 03:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostThree days passed. Trish and I continued our healing spree, and in that time, we saw over a hundred patients. Most of the problems we treated were on the smaller side. With a population of only 7,000, there weren’t exactly thousands of injuries a week. Of course, there were still emergencies that cropped up. We lived in the middle of a rainfor...
2024-10-02 05:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostSo, as some of you may have noticed, a while ago, I posted a new version of Markets and Multiverses, chapter 181-185. This is because I could not find the previous chapters on Patreon.
This is because, for some reason, Patreon just randomly removed some of those chapters from the Markets and Multiverses collection/organization tool that I ...
2024-09-27 21:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Slight correction to last chapter. Experimental Magic is now noted to only be able to produce mana types that are NOT compound. Otherwise, ALice could set it to produce System mana, and while the Perk is supposed to be powerful, producing System mana would be... way too strong for a level 70 Perk XD.
2024-09-27 21:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
My plan was simple. Resentment against Damilius might explode soon. Since that was the case, we needed to build up goodwill with the locals, in case something went wrong.
What was a good way to make people like us?
The answer was simple: healing. Dr. Trish was a medical expert with years of experience, and I was no slouch eithe...
2024-09-26 23:39:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, Alice’s mana had regenerated enough for her to start doing things again. The first thing she did was filter all of her class mana, and then finally start looking through her System messages. She was no longer as exhausted as before, so it was a good time to pick new Perks and see what levels she had gained during the battle.<...
2024-09-20 22:22:08 +0000 UTC View Post“I agree,” said Trish, as she looked over the massive, sprawling slums that lay outside of the inner city.
"Really?" I asked, as I tried not to grin.
“Trish and I both agree. The current situation is unstable,” said Markus, as he grimaced. “This situation is a barrel of gunpowder. All it's missing is a match."
“I’...
2024-09-20 10:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after the refugees had joined our boat, I decided to demonstrate what I could do to the captain and sailors. After all, I didn’t want people to panic for nothing. After they settled down, I demonstrated how we could get food and water for the new additions to the boat. Of course, since I was known to have a healing ability, Anise was t...
2024-09-19 06:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostFor two hours, the sea remained calm. We watched as the continent faded into the distance, while Felix admired the binding essence coursing through the ship. The water surrounding us made me feel at ease, and with everyone I cared about with us, I felt good. The only complaint I had was our speed.
The ship didn’t move very quickly. I wis...
2024-09-18 04:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few minutes were a slog. Every single ‘communication disruption’ bullet took a huge amount of effort to make. She was getting faster every time she did it, because she was getting used to the way the different types of mana needed to feed into each other… but it was a very concentration-intensive process that made Alice wonder if ...
2024-09-13 21:36:52 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the patients woke up, I explained what I knew about the cracks in reality. I also did my best to emphasize its catastrophic nature on reality and people. A few of them seemed skeptical, even after I pointed out the black ‘fog’ in the distance. However, most of them seemed worried by my words, much to my relief. Even though the black fog...
2024-09-13 08:32:44 +0000 UTC View PostTrish was less than enthused by my plan to flee the continent. Part of that might have been because I woke her up at 2AM before dragging her to her clinic. Dr. Trish looked frazzled, and kept blinking and rubbing her eyes like an owl. But a the real problem was her ethics as a doctor.
“I’m not leaving until my patients are settled,” ...
2024-09-12 06:53:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe train screeched to a halt in front of us. Markus fiddled with the command token he now held in his hand, looking more than a little nervous as he did so. He looked... uncomfortable as he held it.
After hearing my words, Markus and the other soldiers had gone to pack their supplies. The fort commander had noticed them moving around, and...
2024-09-11 06:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t long before the rest of the monster horde still noticed their presence. The stone-controlling ants paid no heed to them – they continued swarming the wall, where the defenders desperately tried to fight them off. The nearest Vinebears proved to be the most immediate threat. Several of them broken off from the wall entirely, and whi...
2024-09-06 22:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostAs my brain finally processed what was happening, I felt a flash of horror. The spacequake that had dragged us into the pocket dimension had resulted in Sallia's death. I couldn't imagine this leading to anything good.
I swapped between my soul sight and my spatial sight, hoping to get some more information on whatever had just broken on t...
2024-09-06 09:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few weeks, things on the front lines settled down. The worldstriders no longer spent much time focused on regular soldiers. They had a much more important target - Project Nightsong. Every single day, they tried to remove the military's project before it ended them. They tried swarming it with numbers during the day. They tried cat...
2024-09-05 07:40:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, when I went to breakfast, I was glad to see Anise and Felix eating their meal together. Anise seemed a little tired, but I couldn't see any wounds on her. After I got my food, I moved over to her table and gave her a big hug.
Anise gave me a tired smile when she saw me, and then returned the hug before turning to her meal...
2024-09-04 05:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post