The journey back to the city was uneventful, to Alice’s relief. Part of her still expected the situation to be some sort of elaborate trick. Her mind kept throwing out scenarios where the Society...
2025-02-22 00:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostAs the creature charged towards the trunk of the tree, I could see the souls of the other defenders shifting. Their movements transformed, swapping from an evasive style of combat to a more confron...
2025-02-21 03:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe first difference between the raid and regular raids was the fear. By now, I had gotten used to the usual raid bells. I barely even thought about them anymore - raids were pretty manageable at t...
2025-02-20 04:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed by like a river flowing downstream.
Sallia, Felix, Anise and I kept learning more about the world as months turned into years. A lot of information was limited to us, because we w...
2025-02-19 02:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Allira, can you send a few shadows to make sure there aren’t any physical traps located right under this thing?” asked Ethan, as he pointed at the Artifact.
Allira started singing, and...
2025-02-14 22:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the picnic with my parents was peaceful. We had a nice lunch, and then we strolled around the field of flowers. Our parents encouraged Anise and I to play with the other children we met...
2025-02-14 05:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Anise and I took a few more moments to admire the staircase with some kind of powerup on it, our parents seemed to get tired. They took us on a leisurely stroll around the greenery, before we...
2025-02-13 03:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Anise woke up, she started adapting her own actions to suit her age. She quickly spoke her ‘first words,’ before she rapidly progressed her linguistic skills to meet my own. My parents se...
2025-02-12 04:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostImmediately after the Society leader fell, Alice got a few System notifications.
You have gained an achievement!
Death of an Immortal (Rarity: 9) 2025-02-07 22:47:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Months started to flow by. I finally achieved mastery of the language, meaning I no longer had awkward parts of each conversation that I didn’t understand. At the same time, I worked on progressi...
2025-02-06 23:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post“In the old days, while the four essences were still limited, it was far more plentiful than it was now,” began my father, as he looked into my eyes. It almost seemed like he was trying to figu...
2025-02-06 03:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy father and I returned to the bakery, where we found my mother sitting in one of the upper windows. She had a half-emptied quiver of arrows next to her, as well as a bow that laid near the side o...
2025-02-05 04:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Number of Society near-Immortals and Immortals mentioned last chapter decreased from 5 to 4. One of them died around chapter 150, but for some reason I didn’t ad...
2025-01-31 22:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post<Oh, so I’m not the first one awake,> Felix said. <My Intelligence is almost exactly average given my modifiers. You must have gotten a pretty good Intelligence score to beat me?>
... 2025-01-31 04:05:05 +0000 UTC View PostThrough one of the arrow-slits in the house, I got my first good look at the physical forms of the creatures that had landed in front of the house.
They were some of the most bizarre and cree...
2025-01-30 05:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Minor edit to last chapter. Specified that the shortsword Miria’s father is using is made of a dense black stone. I intend to get a bit into rock types in this w...
2025-01-29 08:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe twitching, shivering mass of stone looked at them, and Alice shivered as a strange sense of disquiet settled in the pit of her stomach. It was like no living thing she had ever se...
2025-01-24 22:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I saw when we set foot outside of home was the tree. It was so massive that it dominated everything. The sky was nearly covered in leaves. The branches of the tree blotted out the r...
2025-01-24 02:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostAfter seeing Anise roll back over, I smiled. I moved a little bit closer to her, and with some difficulty, managed to give her a nice hug. I checked Anise’s ears, and confirmed my suspicion. Anis...
2025-01-23 03:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Math error (from like 30 freaking chapters ago)
So, a while ago, someone found a math error from the end of World 3. It was a specific note about how I was m...
2025-01-22 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe depths of the Society base were different from what Alice was expecting. The previous Society base had been like a makeshift fort. Most of the important bits were above ground, and while there ...
2025-01-17 22:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Mistake in chapter 336. Forgot to actually give Miria the Achievement she earned from killing the Pustule of Unwoven embers. She has 1K more Achievement than befor...
2025-01-17 02:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostEven after walking up to the entrance of the cabin, we still hadn’t seen any monsters. This made me more than a little nervous. All of the other pools of reincarnation were swarming with monsters...
2025-01-16 02:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next few days searching the Market for an appropriate pool of reincarnation. We didn’t stop to raid shops anymore. We avoided monsters, because the rewards from a fight didn’t outw...
2025-01-15 07:41:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe march through the forest was slow, and a large part of that was due to the inefficiency of the [Mercenaries]. Alice had never before appreciated just how much of a difference training made on t...
2025-01-10 23:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post“All right, what do we need out of our next world?” I asked. “We should make a plan before we start wandering around the Market again. We have… a week or two? Before our bodies start decomp...
2025-01-10 03:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Anise showed interest in the shop, I used a clone to check it out. Inside, I saw a lump of glowing, orange green-flesh that looked to be about the size of a person.
“There’s a ...
2025-01-09 04:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the next few weeks raiding lower-level shops. We had two objectives in mind - first, acquire a good stock of Achievement, in order to shore up any weaknesses in our stats or abilities. We ...
2025-01-08 06:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two days were a blur of activity. Alice spent most of each day monitoring Jonathan’s condition. Now that she had given him a new version of a ‘Class Seed,’ she desperately wanted to ...
2024-12-20 09:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Small correction to last chapter - Miria references being able to make two clones in a emergency. However, she doesn’t read her System notifications until T...
2024-12-19 23:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post