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Melina sat on Sienna's back, carefully looking through the rockpine forest for signs of any cooking ingredients or other valuable materials. Whistlewisps flew all around them, sometimes s...
2025-06-12 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Melina had expected plenty of resistance from Gilbert. She had expected the Guildmaster to completely reject her request and perhaps even send people to watch her to make sure she wouldn't sneak aw...
2025-06-10 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Heiliger and her priests left Sunglow the very same day, departing on the first ship that sailed south. Melina felt intense relief when she heard the news. She had somehow managed to avoi...
2025-06-08 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Although Heiliger along with other priests had left, Melina couldn't help but feel uneasy. People around her cheered, presuming their victory but she didn't believe they had won yet. The ...
2025-06-06 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Melina's heart thundered the whole time she was making pastries in the morning. The more she thought about it, the more holes she found in her plan. Her hands trembled while she kneaded t...
2025-06-05 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Melina didn't know what she had expected to see beyond the locked doors—a storage room, a library, or maybe even some equipment for Gilbert's secret hobby. One could never know who secretly harbo...
2025-06-03 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"Why didn't he come this morning?" Melina muttered as she swept the floor of the bakery. Sienna was scuttling about on the ceiling, chasing the spiders out of their cozy corners and burning up the ...
2025-06-01 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"Oh, Melina is—" Leon began but Alistair cut him off.
"Leon, we should be paying attention to our surroundings, not spreading rumors," Alistair said coldly, glaring at the mage. He noticeab...
2025-05-30 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
For Alistair, Melina was a mystery he couldn't solve. She tamed an ember wyrm with nothing more than a tart and readily accepted it as her familiar just a few minutes later. She stabilized a passag...
2025-05-29 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I cannot go to the Monster Realm. I cannot go to the Monster Realm. I cannot!
Melina kept repeating this chant in her head from the moment she opened her eyes in the morning. She kne...
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2025-05-25 06:23:08 +0000 UTC View Post
"Help them with my rolls?" Melina asked in horror as she looked down on her vile creations. There were so many reasons going through her mind to let Sienna incinerate the damned things where they s...
2025-05-25 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
"Find the shamans!" Alistair ordered as he lifted his shield to protect himself from a volley of incoming arrows and rocks.
A horde of goblins was spread throughout the forest, attacking the ...
2025-05-24 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Melina had a hard time concentrating on her work. She had <Mask of Deceit> activated the whole time, making her forced smile appear more natural. But she couldn't help but feel worried. Alist...
2025-05-23 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
When Melina opened her eyes early Tuesday morning, the sun was already peeking from beyond the horizon. The sun rose earlier each morning, signifying that summer was coming close.
"Good morni...
2025-05-22 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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"Melina, you're a System user?" Alistair asked Melina with a pained expression. She shook her head in horror, but couldn't bring herself to answer. "And you were hiding that from me? ...
2025-05-21 06:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Alistair was tired of sleeping. He had been doing nothing but that the whole day, as everyone insisted that he needed to recover. But in his opinion, his injuries were blown heavily out o...
2025-05-20 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Melina didn't care that she had left the bakery without a word. She didn't care about the strange glances the townspeople gave her as she ran past. She even didn't care about the guards s...
2025-05-19 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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It probably needs no mention, but Master Gilbert was not happy when Melina announced that Alistair was waiting for him in the kitchen downstairs.
"What does he want?" The old baker ...
2025-05-18 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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[Congratulations! You have reached Level 37.]
Alistair dismissed the System message in haste and rolled behind the tree as a troll threw a rock in his direction. It...
2025-05-17 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
"Look at that, Sienna! I can't believe it." Melina was crouched down over one of the garden beds, watching the tiny sprouts. Sienna looked at her curiously from her spot on the large rock in the su...
2025-05-16 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Alistair activated his Lightning Dash ability and rushed towards the marsh boar, holding his sword firmly in his hand. "Lightning Strike!"
As his sword collided with the boar, a huge cracklin...
2025-05-15 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
"One berry tart and a dozen pear rolls for me, please," said Mieve, an older woman who was a regular at Sunglow Bakery, her expression glowing with anticipation.
"Of course," Melina sai...
2025-05-14 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
"Wasn't feyfruit toxic for humans?" Alistair asked dubiously, as Melina cut one of the smaller fruits and threw it in a pot with a bit of sugar.
"Only in its raw form," Melina said, wat...
2025-05-13 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
On her way to the Adventurer's Guild, Melina encountered Alistair, dressed in a fresh set of clothes. He was a bit puzzled when he saw her heading into the city, but when she explained that she was...
2025-05-11 06:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"Master Gilbert, please take me along!" Melina pleaded with the old baker as he was about to set off on his weekly supply run.
"What are you plotting this time, Melina?" Gilbert glanced suspi...
2025-05-11 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This has to be the most unpleasant dinner I've been a part of, and I've attended plenty of unpleasant dinners in my time. I even had to sit at a table with a noble who had clearly poisoned my f...
2025-05-09 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is irritating. But why is this so irritating?
Alistair was eating lunch together with Melina, Milo, and Gilbert. The old baker and Melina were all smiles when the carpenter's ap...
2025-05-08 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
If somebody had told Melina that she'd be going to the market together with Leliana, Barrett, and an ember wyrm on her shoulder a week ago, she would have called them crazy. Leliana clearly didn't ...
2025-05-06 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Melina looked at the row of sludgy tartlets in horror. They looked far from appetizing as the beef and feyfruit filling looked like a brownish-purplish sludge and the chili walnuts on top did littl...
2025-05-04 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post