Whimsical Deity

B5 C33: A Feast

Structure does not match any currently registered Stygian Citadel schematics. Would you like to add a schematic?

The notification didn’t come as too much of a surp...

B5 C32: Restful Slumber

It was with great relief that I could confidently say Verin didn’t hate her surprise. Better yet, she’d regained her mana sense, and I’d even scored a portrait out of the entire thing.

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B5 C31: Seeing in Color

As the Lady Verin’Sylus lounged idly in her bed, she couldn’t help but reflect that two things were true at once.

Firstly, without a doubt, the past few months had been far better than sh...

B5 C30: Operation Verin Surprise

Construction has reached level 17!

“Aaand, we’re done!” Placing the final bit of exterior wood paneling, I let the system take over, signaling that I was finis...

B5 C29: Cal's Way

Flying through the air and clutching her chest, Cal cursed before slamming into the cloudy ground. On the one hand, the cushiony landing was much appreciated, but on the other, the flecks of red wh...

B5 C28: Heaven's Wrath

In fairness, if Cal had been thinking far ahead, perhaps she would have anticipated what the quest update was telling her. Unfortunately, she’d only come up with her plan to chop the tree down a ...

B5 C27: Cloud Tending

In general, Cal got the sense that quest updates were a good thing. They meant you were progressing, gradually uncovering more details about your system-assigned task. Unfortunately, after the dung...

B5 C26: A Thunderous Tribute

Having taken enough abuse for the time being, Cal slipped into the embrace of her Apex Shroud, shakily pulling herself to her feet before fleeing the scene. The enemies in the region were ...

B5 C25: The Perfect Kitchen

Haphazardly strewn about, dozens of wooden boards dotted the cabin’s common room, covering all the tables, a few chairs, and even the ground below. It was, without a doubt, a mess, and I could on...

B5 C24: Architectural Failure

Stupefied, I read through the construction notifications twice and then a third time for good measure before I found my tongue.

“Wait. So you’re not going to give me anything for...

Book 3 Audiobook Release + General Updates

Hi all! It's been a while since I had a non-chapter update.

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B5 C23: Convalescence

To say that I was bewildered with Verin’s actions would have been a dramatic understatement. From her mad dash through the prairie to her almost animalistic knife pilfering, I was caught off guar...

B5 C22: Etiquette

The very first thing Verin noted as she began to wake up was the surprising lack of pain.

Make no mistake, it was still there, but muted. Manageable. Certainly not the sort of thing that woul...

B5 C21: Trial Quests

Much to my delight, Sett had confirmed that the months I’d spent in the spatial region were enough to let me learn a new spell. Much to my dismay, I was severely limited in what I was ab...

B5 C20: Shifted

“Do you know what’s wrong with her?” Having been silently nominated as our spokesperson, I questioned the newly awakened grand magus as Verin lay at our feet. I’d summoned a mattress from m...

B5 C19: Journeyman

While it was hardly the original intention, two weeks turned out to be just about the exact amount of time I needed to finish my two major goals.

Much as my gut feeling had alluded to, my las...

B5 C18: Vitrified

When I awoke, sprawled out on the ground and with a raging headache, my first thought was that I must have drank too much moonshine the night before. Only slowly did the true details of the previou...

B5 C17: Fiery Rewards

Immediately upon opening the chest, I was gratified to see a full four items waiting for me inside. Better yet, two of the four were, in fact, rings, just as I’d hoped. Neither of the two were wh...

B5 C16: The Ring

One of the larger benefits of my enhanced Perception was that I had little trouble following the entirety of the battlefield. In turn, that meant that I tended to keep close track of how the others...

B5 C15: Fire and Frost

Contrary to what her companions might have assumed, the Lady Verin’Sylus was rather enjoying her time in the dungeon’s fire region. Gods only knew it was far preferable to most of the others sh...

B5 C14: Overloaded

In the end, I finished Overload Armor’s trial first. As was often true of my Armorist trials, it largely focused on hitting me over and over again. Pain, as it turned out, was a...

B5 C13: The Smith

Spell Adjustment has reached level 9!

Before I could start smelting metal and banging on anvils, or whatever else it was that blacksmiths did, there was one last iss...

B5 C12: Spatial Rewards

The very first thing we did once the space around us returned to normal was to summon Tal’Ket. We’d tried to do exactly that a number of times from within the region, but whatever effects had k...

B5 C11: Spatial Sight

At first, I was slightly alarmed by my newest ability’s sparse description.

Spatial Sight

Allows the user to visualize space.

B5 C10: A Way Out

Spatial Magic has reached level 26!

Mold Space has reached level 18!

Bend Space has reached level 12!

B5 C9: Frost, Fire, Space

Spatial Magic has reached level 21!

For what felt like the thousandth time, I picked at the boundaries of our spatial enclosure, trying to glean even the smallest of...

B5 C8: Elemental Assassins

Twelve hours later, my next class trial run turned about a bit better than the first. Admittedly, that was a low bar, but I was happy to prove that my previous failure was a fluke.

Into my cl...

B5 C7: A Stone's Throw Away

Rather than immediately reveal her suspicions, Cal asked us for a bit of setup first. From me, all she wanted was a small stone, an easy ask given my Summon Pebble cantrip. From Verin, she...

B5 C6: Unburied

Warring instincts fought within the Lady Verin as she sat ramrod straight in the common room of the cabin, idly casting off minor frost spells to further train her magic.

On the one hand, her...

B5 C5: Heated

For better or for worse, I’d taken a lot of earth-shattering blows since grabbing the Arcane Arsenal class. First had been the tsunami-like wave from Drawgin’s shower elemental. Then I...