Tsaimath

Chapter 965

Wandering into the primal forest that had taken over what should have been fields was a fascinating experience. Some of the plants were reasonably similar to those we had encountered in the forest ...

Chapter 964

The Charland should have ended my ability to be surprised by the changes brought about by the coming of the Astral River. And yet, despite knowing that the system had somehow brought an entire indu...

Chapter 963

With the Shrine done, there wasn’t all that much we could do in this area. Sure, the Charland hadn’t given up all its mysteries but I doubted we’d be able to probe them, simply because of the...

Interlude: Divine Insight

In a seemingly endless, silvery-grey expanse, three figures sat and stared into the void, their eyes easily piercing through layers of reality and allowing them to observe. Far away, their power wa...

Chapter 962

Amusingly, there were no dreams that night. I had expected a visitation from Hecate but unless I had managed to forget my experiences in Her strange dreamscape, there hadn’t been one. Instead, I ...

Chapter 961

Even for a relative novice, the design imparted to me by Lady Hecate had obvious Greek influence. A geometric arrangement of narrow columns to carry the roof, the walls more to protect from the win...

Chapter 960

Luna and I had taken a bit of time to find a good place for the shrine we had been asked to build. The biggest problem was that the area was fairly flat, with rather sandy and unstable soil, meanin...

Chapter 959

Studying the scattered dust didn’t get me very far. There wasn’t anything special about it, at least as far as I could tell, other than its exposure to a lot of Ice Astral Power, something fair...

Chapter 958

It took almost an hour of snuggling for Luna to have her fill of physical affection. During that time, she told me in fairly general terms how her time in Lady Hecate’s realm had been, making me ...

Chapter 957

Outside, I could finally focus on actively testing my new ability. While it was fascinating to study my companions with it and draw conclusions from the way the animating power of their bodies move...

Chapter 956

Walking around our shelter, I realised that only Silva was currently awake, keeping guard. A quick, somewhat onesided conversation between us told me that she had received her rewards but when I tr...

Chapter 955

Projecting my soul outwards was only the first step when it came to perceiving souls. Once I managed that first step, the next was to change the path I naturally channelled it through to the one de...

Chapter 954

The way out of the Charland was comparatively simple, compared to the way in. We didn’t run into any additional large monsters and even the number of smaller critters we had to face seemed to be ...

Chapter 953

“So, what did you find?” I asked Luna, once she was done with her meditation, or maybe calling it a prayer would be more fitting, given that I was fairly certain she had communed with her Godde...

Interlude: Survivors 602

If one could say one thing about the group of five that had taken over the cave near the lake, it was that they all were incredibly stubborn. Finding out that some strange creature made up of tenta...

Chapter 952

The death of the Serpentia Triad coincided with the completion of Luna’s ritual, possibly adding some EXP to the total I gained, and propelling me to reach level eighty. Nearby, I could see Silva...

Chapter 951

It did not take long for the source of the roaring to become visible as it was moving out into the open around the crater. That first glance made me blink in confusion for a moment, uncertain of wh...

Chapter 950

If there was one thing that was absolute proof of the importance Lady Hecate attached to the analysis of the central crater, it was the zone of protection Luna and Silva laid down before Luna start...

Chapter 949

Dealing with the poisoned ground was a chore and a half but it was also fairly interesting. It gave me some fairly interesting insights into the behaviour of mixed Astral Power, something I hadn’...

Chapter 948

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, depending on your priorities, the two Scorchipedes turned out to be sources of remarkably good resources, meaning we had to take the time to harvest them. Not d...

Chapter 947

As Silva bounded to the side, avoiding the skittering legs of the Scorchipede, its companion wasn’t idle and was already moving to engage. In an attempt to box us in between them and thus limit o...

Chapter 946

The initial parts of our incursion into the central area went remarkably similar to previous trips into the Charland. Sure, we tried to speed things up but ultimately, there was only so much we cou...

Chapter 945

There was a certain irony in the fact that I had taken the longest to prepare for our group excursion into the depths of the Charland, even compared to Alex. Granted, most of that came from the fac...

Chapter 944

“Mom, come on, wake up!” normally, I would have been quietly amused at Luna’s childish exuberance. Far too often, she tried to project a mature facade, far beyond anything a child of her age ...

Chapter 943

Two tasks, so simple and harmless when described. Well, one of them actually was fairly simple and harmless, it was just a repeat of previous actions, namely to establish yet another shrine with an...

Chapter 942

“Greetings, Jade,” the familiar, tritonal voice of Hecate addressed me before I had that important moment to gather my bearings. Before, the Goddess had always given me that moment but now, I f...

Chapter 941

By the time I got back to the others, the Sun was already high in the sky. Without my conjured parasol, I’d be in for a bad time, though my various traits were helping with that particular vulner...

Interlude: Survivors 407

• AN: Something went wrong with scheduling the post, my bad. Enjoy an interlude of people covering their backsides. 

To some, the gathering might have looke...

Chapter 940

After stepping back from the crater, I explored the area a little further but not for too long. Not only did I need to watch the time I spent before heading back, I also needed to conserve my Astra...

Chapter 939

The rest of my marathon through the night was fairly uneventful. A few more monsters tried to get their pound of flesh from me but I managed to evade them all with a combination of speed, stealth a...