After my conversation with Scout commander Nells, I waited for two days. During that time, my bones finished healing up, thanks to my high Fortitude and my healing ability derived from my attunemen...
2023-05-03 05:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent some time relaxing after her previous experiment. She got a few pastries from the kitchen, and then spent a few hours laying in bed with some light reading. Ethan had a few historical r...
2023-04-29 07:27:00 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at my oldest brother, who was lying on a cot in the corner of a doctor’s office, and frowned.
Jonathan was unconscious, but one of his arms was so badly mangled that it made even m...
2023-04-29 05:39:48 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Slight correction to previous chapter. I am bad at math. Miria has Grade 9 Agility, not Grade 10. 104+73+20 is 197, which is three points below the cutoff for the ...
2023-04-28 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke up, I could barely see straight. My body felt like… well, like an Orukthyri had fallen on me and crushed several of my bones. Even the parts of my body that weren’t broken felt like...
2023-04-26 00:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note:
All right, I have a confession and an apology to make, as well as a notification of a few changes to the two previous chapters.
As a writer, my fundame...
2023-04-22 07:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at the two Orukthyri, feeling desperation starting to claw at my chest.
Sallia and I were both injured. Sallia’s arm was broken, and after getting punched in the arm and flung arou...
2023-04-22 04:22:33 +0000 UTC View PostI took another look at the dead spiders on the wall, and grinned to myself as I scrolled through my System notifications. I had two of them that I cared about.
First, I had gotten my first ki...
2023-04-21 05:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Sallia reached the cavern, she looked at the chaotic battlefield, and felt a slight grin tug at her lips as her hand tightened around Felix’s sword. She felt a thrill of anticipation run th...
2023-04-20 05:15:16 +0000 UTC View Post“So who are these guys?” asked one of the [Guards], looking over the prisoners with curious eyes.
Alice frowned, before looking at Ethan to see if he had answers. It was increasingly obvi...
2023-04-15 07:40:33 +0000 UTC View PostOn the day that Ella and Lauren agreed to bring us to our first fights, Ella led me to one of the exits to the city’s primary cavern. I started carefully examining the exit tunnels to the city. T...
2023-04-15 05:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostYears passed by.
I spent a great deal of that time working with my teacher to improve my attunement, allowing me to improve my Extinguish spell, and also improving how effectively I used my a...
2023-04-14 05:29:55 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the basic introduction to how the spellcasting system as a whole worked, Matt got me started on forming magic circles, which needed to be created inside of the mind before one could cas...
2023-04-13 04:27:36 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the decision to pursue the unusual footprints was made, the group rapidly started packing up the camp. The group left a few notes, written in some sort of military code, placed in semi-hidden ...
2023-04-08 07:31:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter figuring out how to use ‘extinguish,’ I spent several minutes making the attack more and more effective, more and more mine. The attack was still very rough and unpolished, and i...
2023-04-08 04:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I take it you succeeded already?” said Ella, a few moments after I started grinning to myself and looking at her soul.
“I got my attunement!” I said happily.
Ella chuckled. “...
2023-04-07 04:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post“So far, you’ve only been exposed to Alteration magic by reaching into possible futures, right? I believe I’ve given you a very light amount of information about how attunements work, but it ...
2023-04-04 23:22:52 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the sea of souls, preparing for my next reincarnation. I grabbed Sallia’s hand in my left hand, and Felix’s hand in my right, and the three of us jumped into the river of souls.
... 2023-04-01 16:42:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few hours were spent in a strange mixture of tension and boredom. Nobody quite knew where the villagers had gone, and nobody really had a good way to find out, either. Which meant that the...
2023-04-01 05:28:53 +0000 UTC View Post“And that’s why it’s critical that young witches and shapers eventually go to the surface from time to time. Restraining bright young minds with the potential to recover lost knowledge is jus...
2023-04-01 03:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostAfter signing up for learning under Ella, the witch in charge of running the entire meet and greet disappeared for a few moments to make a final confirmation with Ella. Less than a minute later, sh...
2023-03-30 04:42:00 +0000 UTC View PostAlice uneasily glanced around, trying to pick out any potential threats. There was probably nobody else in Illvaria who had quite the same quantity of Perks and Achievements enhancing her vision an...
2023-03-25 07:39:26 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at Lauren for a few moments, considering what my first question should be, before I spoke.
“Is there a way to combine shaping and spellcasting? Ella mentioned that having the two w...
2023-03-25 04:59:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt took several minutes for the Witch to begin arranging meetings between potential students and teachers. She already had a list of who was interested in who, but everyone still needed to roughly ...
2023-03-24 04:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostHeads up on scheduling stuff:
First of all, my schedule for the next week MIGHT be a little wonky. Some follow up to the big project from a month or two ago that I probably should have realiz...
2023-03-23 05:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnise smiled even more widely as I shook her hand, and then she gave Sallia and Felix blinding grins of their own.
“What about you two?” asked Anise. “Will you also be my friends? What ...
2023-03-23 04:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice agreed to go, Ethan quickly smiled at her, before nodding.
“I’m glad to hear it. Get ready then. I sent word to a few other Mages, especially those who have some extra resista...
2023-03-18 08:17:23 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, as I mused to myself about the nature of Alteration Essence, I heard the shaper’s voice rise in surprise, cutting me out of my thoughts.
“Two?” said the shaper. “There are tw...
2023-03-18 04:39:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe witch led everyone to another room. In this room, several blue cubes were set up on a row of tables, stretching from one end of the room to the other. And standing inside of the room was a man ...
2023-03-17 04:08:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe witch led everyone to another room. In the room were six wooden sticks, each of which was situated on a different table.
The witch cleared her throat. “As all of you have likely heard, ...
2023-03-16 05:23:23 +0000 UTC View Post