I sat on the back deck and read a book about earth magic. Yes, unfortunately, a wizard wrote it, which meant it was stuffed to the brim with metaphors, similes, analogies, symbolism, hyperbole, all...
2025-07-20 16:20:55 +0000 UTC
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Half a day past the fashion-mad city, the flying ships appeared in the sky again in greater numbers. From the direction they came, it looked like they had flown around the scary forest and, along t...
2025-07-17 13:40:22 +0000 UTC
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After we left the town with the refugees, we lowered the sails completely and pushed the motor as hard as the river traffic allowed, skimming across the water. We didn’t discuss it or even...
2025-07-15 15:15:25 +0000 UTC
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The next seven days of sailing after clearing the fever-dream frozen portal passed without any special incidents. I piloted the boat at night, slept for a few hours, and worked on the lootin...
2025-07-13 14:16:44 +0000 UTC
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After three days of moping around, I went back to doing stuff. When I first saw the description of Creativity at level 50, my looting spells immediately came to mind. I opened the descriptio...
2025-07-10 15:25:14 +0000 UTC
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We walked from the slums north, heading toward the stairs that led down to the water. The city looked better now. The air had cleared of ash, and there was no more debris cluttering the stre...
2025-07-09 15:10:23 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Today's chapter will be posted tomorrow. Summer vacation has officially begun, and today I hosted a D&D "tournament" at home with fourteen twelve-year-olds. I tried ...
2025-07-08 17:26:25 +0000 UTC
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After grabbing a few hours of sleep, I made my way back to the central square. A few injured folks were already waiting near my treatment spot. A few more arrived during the day, but it didn...
2025-07-06 21:38:49 +0000 UTC
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Before going to heal people, I finally checked my blinking red light.
Like I thought.
Level up
+3 intelligence, +3 wisdom, +2 vitality, +3 free points
Cl...
2025-07-04 12:33:26 +0000 UTC
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Mahya went to the guild to handle whatever it was that needed her attention, while Al vanished into his lab to brew more health potions. He'd been muttering about running out since yesterday. Rue w...
2025-07-02 12:33:32 +0000 UTC
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While I sat in the park, breathing in mana as fast as possible, a feeling of worry, or maybe concern, reached me through the connection in my mind. It didn’t have to say anything, or more ...
2025-07-01 13:14:23 +0000 UTC
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When we walked out of the guild, my stomach flipped a couple of times, my heart skipped a beat, my mouth went dry, and I shuddered. A wave of cold passed over my skin, despite the warmth in ...
2025-06-30 14:30:40 +0000 UTC
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I was just getting ready for my second obstacle course run of the day, stretching my arms and hopping in place to get the blood flowing, when I heard my name echo across the hall. I turned, ...
2025-06-29 13:59:50 +0000 UTC
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The obstacle course looked completely different the following day. Some obstacles were the same, like the stupid flying magical stones, but the rest were different. Bummer. I hoped ...
2025-06-26 10:52:34 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
According to the news (and hopefully they’re right this time), the mess over here is finally behind us. Thank the Guiding Spirits for that! Life is slowly retu...
2025-06-25 12:17:24 +0000 UTC
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Two days after I finished with the library, Rue and I reached the southern outskirts of the city. We took our time, wandering along the riverside path, with the breeze carrying the briny sce...
2025-06-23 18:01:56 +0000 UTC
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The reply I got from the core kept bugging me. On one hand, Mahya and Al insisted the core wasn’t sentient, and even Lis mentioned it once. On the other hand, something about the way it re...
2025-06-22 15:02:55 +0000 UTC
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A couple of days after the circus, I lounged on the porch with my feet dangling in the cool water. The morning sun warmed my back, and the scent of fresh flowers drifted from somewhere upriv...
2025-06-18 18:07:25 +0000 UTC
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In the morning, we made our way to the teleporter. I was genuinely excited; this was going to be my first time teleporting, and I had no idea what to expect. The building was situated quite ...
2025-06-16 17:17:30 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to give you a quick update, especially for those wondering about tomorrow’s chapter.
Over the last two days, things here in Israel have taken a turn for the wors...
2025-06-14 20:11:33 +0000 UTC
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When we got back to the inn, a note from Al was waiting for us.
“I have relocated to the Alchemists’ Hub and secured rooms at the Dreamy Bloom Inn.”
2025-06-12 14:49:56 +0000 UTC
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Al and Mahya disappeared somewhere in the morning, so I went to explore further.
The first interesting place I found was another dungeon dimension filled with fields. I stepped through...
2025-06-10 15:49:52 +0000 UTC
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At a crossroad of life, I tore the veil,
Magic whispered from my lips, fragile and frail.
A new road unfolds through the twilight pale,
Guiding my steps on starlight’s trail.
In sacre...
2025-06-10 15:47:16 +0000 UTC
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Our first priority was gear. After the dungeon, Al’s armor looked like a sad bundle of leather straps barely hanging on beneath battered mithril plates. His didn’t have the handy “self...
2025-06-08 10:54:19 +0000 UTC
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2025-06-05 15:53:30 +0000 UTC
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The train was both interesting and ridiculously expensive. Just getting to the next outpost set each of us back five mithril coins. Prices in this world were just... insane. I mean, who char...
2025-06-05 15:42:06 +0000 UTC
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Dinner at The Plucky Spearman was stew again, but a different kind this time. Thick chunks of red roots, black fungus caps, and slivers of something that looked like meat but shimmered faint...
2025-06-03 15:39:14 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Vacation’s over, and I’m back—hopefully with fewer burnout symptoms and a few more brain cells firing in the right direction.
While I was away...
2025-06-01 17:11:50 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note
Hi everyone,
I already paused billing yesterday, May 1st, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging with an open mini arc. So here’s a bonus chapt...
2025-05-02 12:57:41 +0000 UTC
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After the long-awaited lunch—at least, according to Rue—we stepped back into the pink fever dream. We waited a few minutes, expecting the lightning, but the landscape just... sat there. ...
2025-04-30 14:03:17 +0000 UTC
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