The next three days were spent working on freeing the dragon. I did wonder if it was possible to use general shaping to make chains ‘solid’ and use that to cut them in half, thus using alterati...
2023-08-19 05:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe next five hours were a mind-numbing blur of repetition. Anise’s freezing spell was rather slow, and she took a small break after each cast to think about ways to optimize the spell, given her...
2023-08-18 05:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostA few things:
1. I’ve signed a publishing deal for Budding Scientist with Podium. I believe I mentioned in, like… February? March? Something like that? that I was working on something, an...
2023-08-17 05:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Orthanoids?” asked the dragon, in heavily accented old Orthan. Its voice was gravelly, and sounded kind of like boulders slowly being ground against each other. I wondered how its body produce...
2023-08-17 05:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlice quickly dealt with her level-up notifications before she went to sleep.
You have leveled up!
Survivor: 56 -> 58, Kinetic Manabinder 41 ->...
2023-08-12 07:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you completely sure that it’s somewhere in this building?” asked Felix, after a few moments.
“I’m sure,” I said.
“Then let’s look for it. If we can break off the co...
2023-08-12 04:27:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of us felt very excited when we found a door that hadn’t been turned into melted slag. We had spent most of our time in this building finding empty room after empty room, so the idea tha...
2023-08-11 06:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we exited the building, we took a few moments to rest. The fight against the strange void creatures from room six hadn’t been the most dangerous fight we had ever been in: in fact, the host...
2023-08-10 04:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostAlice felt her heart leap into her throat for a moment, before she started to calm down.
She still felt a little afraid because the manor was under attack, but her training started to kick in...
2023-08-05 07:55:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe fifth room was creepy.
Not in the same way I imagined the dimension of the black sun was, where, according to the research notes we had found, everything was alive in some fashio...
2023-08-05 05:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes later, the five of us arrived at the fourth major room. I had to admit, Sallia lugging around Sekundyrr as we walked through the hallways of the facility was a rather absurd sight. Ho...
2023-08-04 07:56:03 +0000 UTC View PostThank you, sent the creature. Its previous terror was starting to fade, and it no longer seemed like it would pass out from fear.
I babbled a few ‘friendly/peaceful’ thoughts at ...
2023-08-03 07:26:46 +0000 UTC View PostNeither Alice nor Ethan said much on the way back to Ethan’s manor. The [Guards] also remained fairly silent, simply leaving Alice to stew in her thoughts.
Now that she wasn’t worrying ab...
2023-07-29 07:53:16 +0000 UTC View PostIn the middle of the first dimensional sub-chamber, a massive creature was chained to a table.
The thing had mouth, or any discernible head. It looked like somebody had chopped a fish in half...
2023-07-29 04:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter investigating the gravity chamber for a while longer, I couldn’t come up with an idea for how it actually worked. Despite the massive ambitions I had started to harbor for the final directi...
2023-07-28 06:25:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy first impression of the building was that the interior was bland. There was a giant desk in front, littered with papers that had long since started crumbling to dust. The decorations in the room...
2023-07-27 04:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: This is a Markets and Multiverses chapter. I posted the chapters for each of my stories in reverse order today, so if you're only a Budding Scientist reader, check t...
2023-07-22 06:13:44 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This is a budding scientist chapter, not an MaM chapter. I’m posting them in a weird order today because that’s the order I feel like editing my stories in. MaM chapter later. 2023-07-22 03:27:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The ruined palace and its outskirts grew closer by the hour as we continued traveling. It took two more hours for me to be able to make out the finer details of the buildings in the distance, and a...
2023-07-21 05:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we had our talk with Anise, the three of us continued traveling.
Now that the surface seemed depopulated, we ran into fewer monsters than ever before. The black sun posed the biggest pr...
2023-07-20 04:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlice felt her knuckles tighten into fists, before she forced herself to unclench her hands. Then, she laid a finger on the dying man’s stomach. As she did, she tried her best to think of the man...
2023-07-15 08:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, Anise, I should probably start with the afterlife,” I said, as I sat down and motioned for her to do the same. “What do you think happens after people die?”
Anise paused, as if...
2023-07-15 03:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 122: …And Plants
Author’s Note: Previous chapter error correction. It should NOT take 10 minutes to cross the patch of plants - I was doing some math based on ave...
2023-07-14 06:19:36 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next three days traveling through the wastes, making sure to take shelter for a day after each day of traveling to make sure nobody got sick. We didn’t run into very many living crea...
2023-07-13 05:29:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe two quickly made their way out of Ethan’s manor, before heading towards the healer’s shop where the unfortunate Mages were located. Ethan led the way, and Alice followed behind. There were ...
2023-07-08 07:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we stepped back onto the surface, I couldn’t help but wince.
The first time we had set foot in the wastes, over a decade and a half ago, I had noticed how strange everything was. The p...
2023-07-08 03:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure you want to come with us?” I asked Anise, for the third time.
Honestly, I felt worried. Unlike Sallia and Felix, Anise wasn’t a part of the Market. In other words, after s...
2023-07-07 05:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I created my new and improved healing spell, time passed.
I spent about two and a half weeks healing everyone’s injuries, starting with Anise. After Anise’s face was healed, I divid...
2023-07-06 04:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Immortal Ethan, I would like to talk about my research,” said Alice, after stepping into the hallway and making sure there were no nearby [Servants]. “I feel that it will be extremely releva...
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Skill: Acquire [Basic] mastery of Ocean’s Duality duality magic
Achievement +500
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Sinc...
2023-06-30 04:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post