The next day was spent poking at the manaborn monsters more, as Alice tried to figure out what made them tick. Since ‘manaborn’ creatures were so new to this world, Alice still had a lot of hea...
2024-08-30 22:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostHours drifted on, as the Worldstriders attacked fort after fort. They avoided confrontation with the human reinforcements, but they never stopped their attacks. Twice, the worldstriders fled the mo...
2024-08-30 07:41:42 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next week, things started to improve on the front lines. The Worldstriders grew hesitant to ambush soldiers at night. During the day, humans hid in the forts, where the Worldstriders could...
2024-08-29 07:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next week, it became easier and easier to find soldiers who had fought with Nightsong. It wandered from battlefield to battlefield. Every night, there were at least a few squads that Nighs...
2024-08-28 07:02:17 +0000 UTC View PostShards of metal and hardened dirt crunched under Anise's feet as she followed behind the group of soldiers. It was dark enough that it was hard to see, but Anise was starting to get used to moving ...
2024-08-24 09:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe group woke up to a nice breakfast at the inn. Alice wasn’t entirely sure how the [Innkeeper] had done it, but he had made an omelet out of eggs that tasted faintly spicy, and had nice, crispy...
2024-08-23 22:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostAnise and I ended up sharing a room with two other female soldiers for the night. The room seemed like a repurposed broom closet - it could barely fit all four of us. It was unpleasant and cramped....
2024-08-23 09:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I ran out of essence, I got another System notification. I had once again influenced the war between the worldstriders and humans by a [Minor] amount. I had to admit, I was glad to see the no...
2024-08-21 10:50:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Umm… @*#$&%?” asked one of the villagers, as he observed the group.
“Hello! @3%#@ @#$&#,” sang Allira, in fluent in Fendrallian.
“Illvarian? Not spea...
2024-08-16 20:53:52 +0000 UTC View PostInside the fort, dozens of soldiers bustled about. The first thing I noticed was the weaponry. One in fifteen carried special shields, while about one in sixty had one of the eerie swords. The rest...
2024-08-16 07:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs we stepped off of the train, I noticed that we were right next to several other workers bustling about. It looked like they were unloading the materials the train had shipped to the forts. many ...
2024-08-15 08:57:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe three of us had a harder time than expected grabbing train tickets to the front lines. At first, I tried to go for an airship ticket instead. However, they were even more overloaded than the tr...
2024-08-14 08:36:38 +0000 UTC View PostMy grandmother on my father’s side died in her sleep last night. We’re still not sure why, but she’s gone. Half of my grandparents are now dead. I remember a few years ago, when I was just st...
2024-08-05 18:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group dealt with the outriders of the horde, Allira couldn’t sing the ship back into existence because she needed to keep the swamp monsters imprisoned. Alice suspected that once they g...
2024-08-02 21:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe news came like a bolt from the blue. The worldstriders had punched through the front lines? Part of me felt horrified… but another part of me wasn’t surprised.
There weren't enough we...
2024-08-02 07:41:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment I saw Old Mo crumpled over the counter, I rushed to his side. My vision started to turn black as terror wormed its way down my spine like tendrils of ice. It took me mere moments to make...
2024-08-01 08:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostA year passed. To commemorate Felix's achievements, the three of us held a celebration at Old Mo's bakery.
I was the first one to arrive. The moment I walked through the door and sat down, Ol...
2024-07-31 06:50:02 +0000 UTC View Post(This is just a rehash of my author's note today, so if you read that feel free to skip this announcement XD)
All right, quick heads up. It’s about that time again. Volume 2 of Budding Scie...
2024-07-26 21:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe group started to set up for a fight. Alice prepared on her own by pulling her enchanted items out of her storage Perk. Normally, Alice wouldn’t have worried very much about it, since there we...
2024-07-26 21:23:51 +0000 UTC View PostOne month after Dr. Trish's wedding, Felix stood in the middle of a large, open demonstration field. He felt a surge of glee as he waited for his friends and the onlookers to appear. It was almost ...
2024-07-26 07:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next day finding another Worldstrider camp. It took until sunset to find the next one. This one was situated right next to a ruined Vernese town, and from the stench of decay, I got th...
2024-07-25 07:08:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe two of us were a little closer to the blast than I had thought we would be. The gouts of flames and crackling booms were quite a bit more spread out than expected. Clearly, the wo...
2024-07-24 09:56:39 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: In Chapter 173, Alice gets a level in Scholar. I originally wrote that this pushed her from level 62 to 63… but Alice was already level 66 quite a few chapters b...
2024-07-19 20:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe next time a group of worldstrider soldiers exited the base, we followed them. The worldstriders seemed a bit more wary of their surroundings today. A few of them detached from the main group to...
2024-07-19 06:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, we set up camp quite a ways away from the Worldstrider camp. We didn't want to fight without my illusions and the ability to flee if able. When we returned the next day, we saw somethin...
2024-07-18 06:35:44 +0000 UTC View PostAs Worldstriders started to swarm out of their camp, my two illusions started to flee. A few moments later, they dove behind cover. In a moment of inspiration, I then had one of the illusions 'tele...
2024-07-17 06:07:04 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent the rest of the night desperately reconstructing the image of her rebuilt mana gem within {Magic Modelling}. The problem of ‘Alice’ mana had been solved by her, but that didn’t me...
2024-07-12 22:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostAs the group of worldstriders attacked my illusions, we stepped into the Worldstrider layer of reality. Then, I sent a few extinguishes at the worldstriders.
My extinguishes caught them compl...
2024-07-12 05:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Last chapter, Miria refers to herself as having Grade 11 Perception. This is incorrect. I usually make multiple copies of everyone’s character sheet, so that I c...
2024-07-11 06:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next few hours, Anise and I had a good time looking through the windows. It was interesting to see the land so far below us. We were far enough in the air that the town we lived in looked l...
2024-07-10 08:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post