Chapter 160: A Coward and Some Ice
/Hey everyone and welcome back to this system sucks! Today’s topic? Getting mana affinities to stick.
Last time, we covered how to get an...
2023-09-02 03:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 159: A Little Help
Seeing an old lady carry someone so easily threw Mercury off for all of two seconds, until he remembered that by now, he probably wouldn’t exactly have...
2023-08-26 02:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 158: Causing a little Havoc
Things began happening very, very rapidly. Mercury felt his fur stand on end as adrenaline flooded his body. He banished all fear from his mind....
2023-08-19 01:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 157: Party Crashing
Berthorn found himself panicked.
Now, to be fair, there was not much special about that. He tended to panic fairly quickly.
Despite that, he...
2023-08-12 03:43:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 156: Dragons
Days passed. The dragons’ most skillful crafters came together, working on an item of power. The greatest smiths, to forge the metal, enchanters, to carve ru...
2023-08-05 02:54:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 155: Little Plots
/There are many events I consider tragic in my life, but perhaps the hardest one to stomach was the breaking of Trinitarum, the greatest Mages’ Tower of...
2023-07-29 03:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 154: Dealing with Spies
Staying at Zyl’s the second time was even nicer than the first. It was also different, in a lot of ways.
He and Zyl didn’t sleep in the sa...
2023-07-22 02:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153: Mercury and Zyl
“Hey Zyl,” Mercury said.
For a moment, the dragon felt his heart drop. He just sat there, mouth agape, staring at the mopaaw in his doorframe...
2023-07-15 22:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 152: Destinations
Mercury paused, his eyes slowly trailing from the bit of spittle up to the person who’d spat at him. Then he kind of just stared for a minute. It was an...
2023-07-07 15:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! I thought this might be needing a post by me lmao. I realized that quite a few of my patreon fellas may no longer be looking at my posts on RR.
So. I started a second story! Lik...
2023-07-03 15:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 151: Lesson
/The Hunter had failed to kill the Thing, and their compass pointed elsewhere. They nursed themselves back to health, and went back to the hunt. But it was no l...
2023-06-30 15:34:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 150: Promise to a Bishop
The bishop’s face turned red with fury as he pushed himself off the doorframe. Immediately, Appy whispered to Mercury about the older man’s sta...
2023-06-23 14:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 149: Old Friends
The rest of his dream was spent calmly. He told Uunrahzil some of his stories. The new people he’d met, and the fact that he finally found one of his com...
2023-06-16 16:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 148: Star of Hope
/Names are curious things, and their importance in different cultures is even more curious.
To the golems, your surname is everything. Whatever your...
2023-06-09 14:18:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 147: Boy Cat and Scientist
/The oceans are deep, dark and treacherous. Lady Gahna and Lord Leyvo may protect those who sail across it, if their mood is right, but rarely wi...
2023-06-02 15:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostSide Story: Uunrahzil’s Memories
Old Uunrahzil liked going through their memories. Times had been beautiful back in the day. Back when their memory was not yet patchy, back when ...
2023-05-31 22:14:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 146: Evolution part 3
/On its last nameless day, the Thing had committed unspeakable acts of violence upon the demons. For a rather short time, that is.
The rulers of...
2023-05-26 17:22:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 145: Enjoying the Calm
Mercury woke up early the next day. He’d slept better than in ages. There were no nightmares to haunt him, no bog to trap him, no nexus to test him. It was ju...
2023-05-19 18:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostSide Story: Walking Disasters
Walking Disasters. Now that was a name and a half. Zyl scoffed at the alias in his status screen. They hadn’t really done all that much to deserve i...
2023-05-13 00:23:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 144: Back Home
Mercury could tell that there were dozens of notifications waiting for him in the system, but he pushed them all aside. They were still there, ready for him ...
2023-05-12 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 143: Last Stand
He didn't have the time or luxury to read through the stats he gained, but a quick glance told him <Vast Mind> had levelled up to 5. A new quest rang ...
2023-05-04 22:53:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 142: Past the Golden Days
/The Thing eventually arrived on a red wasteland. It had grown larger during its journey through the ocean, engorging itself on leviathans. Its gr...
2023-04-29 17:17:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 141: Rewards
Now then, what should he evolve first? Wait, did he even have enough points for both evolutions? <Appraisal>?
[<Sneak> evolution cost: 300 Skill points....
2023-04-29 12:13:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 140: A step towards Freedom
Walking along the island was strange. There would be long stretches of silence, with nothing at all around him, before violence suddenly came crashing in. ...
2023-04-29 12:12:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 139: A Miscalculation
/Once the Thing was becoming more aware of its surroundings, it questioned a lot of what it saw. Why did so many of the creatures it ate attempt to escape, when ...
2023-04-29 12:11:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 138: Destination
/What really is Exp?
Clearly, it is something we need to become better, to improve ourselves. It is to us as mastery is to our skills, something we gain to leve...
2023-04-29 12:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 137: Lost in Thoughts
For having nearly died at the start of this ashen adventure, Mercury's latest couple days had been excessively boring. He'd met who Jirluc called their "crafter"...
2023-04-29 12:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 136: Reunion
Ruvah listened to Mercury quite closely. Mercury decided to leave out most of the parts before he was transported to this world, but his newfound friend didn't seem to mi...
2023-04-29 12:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 135: All that Glitters
Jirluc was looking at the mopaaw in front of him confusedly. How had it - he, Jirluc corrected, survived for so long in the wasteland? Finding a way of getting ...
2023-04-29 12:08:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 134: Talking it out
For some time, Mercury's journey was uneventful. Twice, storms of ash whipped across the landscape, forcing its denizens to seek shelter or be swept awa...
2023-04-29 12:08:06 +0000 UTC View Post