As Ethan stared at the ships in the distance, his lips curled into a snarl.
“Sigmusi Ships on the horizon,” he said. “Twelve of them. Unknown number of [Kinetic Mages] on board, but las...
2025-06-06 22:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe leviathan’s gaze swerved unerringly towards the next tree as Anise and I dashed forward. I tried not to think about how dangerous that was - it would have been better if the creature had kept...
2025-06-06 08:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostMy eyes flickered towards the catastrophe unfolding in front of my eyes. My brain finally started to reactivate.
The first problem was the giant swarm of monsters on the ground. They were the...
2025-06-05 07:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Schedule update (for just this week hopefully)
Remember how last week, I said we should be back to normal schedule this week, unless something goes wrong? Because I should have gotten a...
2025-06-04 08:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe group successfully sailed around the floating water - whatever it was, it didn’t trouble them. Unfortunately, the next day, the group found a new anomaly - and this one was far more mobile. 2025-05-30 21:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
As the sounds of a high-bell raid swept over the super-sanctuary, I felt my heart clench.
After the sanctuaries had united, we had pored over the history books to figure out why the number of...
2025-05-30 03:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next three months passed quietly. The most notable even was a five-bell raid that happened about a month after the Astral tides.
Normally, a four bell raid was a bit dangerous - after all...
2025-05-27 04:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day was calm as the group sailed through Illvarian waters. The group hugged the coastline, meaning that most of what they passed was uninhabited wilderness. After all, especially now that ...
2025-05-23 09:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I finished looking over my ability evolution options, I spent a few minutes waiting for Sallia, Felix, and Anise. Just like me, they had gotten various ability evolution options after the com...
2025-05-23 05:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostMy second Ability evolution was one that I was even more excited for than my first Ability evolution. This was because I considered my second ability, {Echoes of the Deep}, to be the true core of m...
2025-05-22 04:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe first System message I was was the basic Achievement reward. It was massive. Best of all, it didn’t even seem like this was the ‘final’ result of our efforts - it was a smaller r...
2025-05-21 04:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Alice found herself back on the same ship she and Ethan had originally taken to Cyra. At the helm of the boat was Ethan’s mother, a woman Alice hadn’t met since the tea party with t...
2025-05-16 23:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Last chapter, I forgot to give Miria her Achievement reward for forming her third absorption rune. This has been fixed - she now has 900 more Achievement than she ...
2025-05-16 09:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Elder Veridian sent word back, the four of us got to work.
The Sanctuary had promised us assistance in the form of essence and mages - but to take advantage of both, we needed to have th...
2025-05-15 09:57:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt took another month and a half before Sallia and Anise finished their trials. Much like me, Anise wasn’t able to complete all three parts of her trial. She finished the first two parts, thankfu...
2025-05-14 07:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group finished the audience with the [King], the [King] and his family left the audience chamber. Alice suspected they had gone to figure out what land to allocate to Jonathan, and to fig...
2025-05-09 22:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe centipedes chased after me as I ran. After a few seconds of sprinting, I realized that I needed to speed things up, or else they would catch me. I opened my umbrella and drifted into the air, b...
2025-05-09 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs I stepped back into the cave, I felt a sliver of unease. Even though I had killed the guardian of the area, that didn’t meant there were no creatures that could challenge me in the caves. Ther...
2025-05-08 05:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Error last chapter. I forgot to have Miria grab some drops of blood from the Chimera for use with {Dream of Hunger}. In my head, I was thinking ‘oh yeah, there...
2025-05-07 03:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt took another few days before they reached Metsel. During that time, Alice kept observing the countryside. No major incidents had occurred during that time, save for a single encounter with a mon...
2025-05-02 21:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe six baby centipedes charged at me, and I darted closer to the entrance of the cave. This wasn’t a fight I could win while enclosed in the cave System. I needed to get out of this cave - regar...
2025-05-02 04:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostI looked at the giant soul in the distance, and calculated how fast it was approaching. At this rate, it would reach me in three to four minutes. I squinted at it. I had already known my ‘stealth...
2025-05-01 07:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe first few steps of the centipede lair were unchanged from my previous visits. As I stepped back into the cave, I took some time to scan my surroundings with my soul sight and spatial sight. I d...
2025-04-30 07:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days of the journey back to Illvaria were blessedly quiet. Alice had been half-expecting something to go wrong during the journey. Perhaps they would run into an unavoidable swarm of m...
2025-04-25 22:08:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt took nearly a month for me to stop benefitting from eating the mushrooms. Every single mushroom I ate provided slightly less than the previous one, and every time I hit a new grade in one of my ...
2025-04-25 05:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the next few hours feeling out any differences in my body. The boost from the mushroom I had eaten had definitely made me stronger, but I vividly remembered the strange, feverish sensation ...
2025-04-24 03:11:41 +0000 UTC View PostMy first step into the cave was filled with the prickling feeling of setting foot into somewhere else. It felt as if I had stepped into a foreign world - one ruled by a creature that I couldn’t s...
2025-04-23 03:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215
Author’s Note: There is an error in chapter 214, one which stems all the way back from Chapter 199. In chapter 199, Alice uses {System’s Ambition} to create magic seeds… and...
2025-04-18 23:47:50 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke up the next morning, I felt a lot better. I tossed another Renewal at myself, and breathed a sigh of relief as my last few injuries from the previous fight faded away. My essence was st...
2025-04-18 06:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke back up, I felt piercing pain throughout my body. That wasn’t great - but at least nothing had eaten me while I was asleep.
I spent a few seconds analyzing my own condition, bef...
2025-04-17 04:26:29 +0000 UTC View Post