“Sir?” My father asked. “Is there something wrong?”
“Direct order from the Lord Prince Gerald Halcyon, Lord Healer,” the guard said apologetically. He leaned in closer, lowering his voice to a whisper. “It’s exam season for most of the guilds, so the city is much busier than...
2025-10-01 14:07:14 +0000 UTC View Post“There is something deeply wrong with that man,” Mizuki muttered.
I couldn’t help but agree. We were on our way out now, having been processed by their receptionists and assured that Matias would be back to normal within a couple of days. It was well after midnight now, and I wasn’t...
2025-10-01 04:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostI was having the same dream again, except not quite. I was familiar with how the dream visions began now, always showing me my mother. This time was no exception. She stood before me in what looked like a castle room in a style I didn’t recognize, tearing her knives out of an unmoving, bloody b...
2025-09-30 03:37:19 +0000 UTC View PostMana surged through me, infusing my entire body and bringing nearly as much a shock to my system as the initial contact with the slime had brought. All the fatigue that had built up over the course of my deadly swim through a Master-tier creature’s body washed away in an instant, the revitalizi...
2025-09-29 04:54:46 +0000 UTC View PostMaster-tier.
The words didn’t feel real. Up until this point, practically everything I’d dealt with in and around Liaren had been between Beginner and Adept, be it monsters, wild animals, or humans. It had gotten to the point where I mentally classified “regular life” into ...
2025-09-28 05:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone from both sides stood in shocked silence, watching blood trickle out of the gut wound.
Okay, not everyone. Marcie’s scream had tapered off, but she was still making worried noises.
Aren’t you a healer? I thought, more annoyed than anything else. They’d all been...
2025-09-27 23:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Guild?” Mizuki asked.
“Yes.” Matias sounded like he’d bitten straight into a raw lemon. “Those are Federation colors.”
I recognized the name. The Federacy was one of the top ten guilds on the content in terms of manpower and influence, and they’d been a dominant force...
2025-09-25 15:53:36 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, it took more than a few days for us to actually enter the dungeon. We were all focused on rebuilding the clinic first, which was a fairly involved task given that Vallis had purchased the building from a previous owner and thus had no blueprints of any sort for it.
The time requ...
2025-09-24 20:16:33 +0000 UTC View PostI emerged from the basement with the sun fully set, a lifeline in my hand, and my system still urging me to pick skills.
Up to this point, all of the skills I had gained had been through intentional practice, as were my spells. I had figured that the kind of system-granted skill that I migh...
2025-09-23 04:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostBeyond the door lay a familiar darkness. Unlike the rest of the house, which had mana-powered lighting or natural firelight, the stairs downwards had nothing.
I took an apprehensive step forward, hand finding the wall. For a basement that hadn’t been opened a single time since I’d been ...
2025-09-22 17:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostVallis nursed a growing headache. He had been working at the Lord Prince’s palace all day, dealing with a new brand of plague supposedly originated by the remnants of the Nightmare. Unlike most diseases, it evolved in time with the healer trying to combat it, and it had been a very close thing ...
2025-09-22 05:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post“I was expecting you to take me to a back alley or a dump or something,” Mizuki said, looking around. “Aren’t you a little young for this?”
I settled into the booth. I didn’t come here often, but I’d come enough to be familiar with the worn fabric, the way there were dead spot...
2025-09-20 17:14:32 +0000 UTC View PostFireball lvl 0 -> lvl 1
In retrospect, I probably should have just used Heat Ray.
Okay, maybe not. Heat Ray had mostly proven to be a surprisingly useful utility spell, but I had never really gotten good lethality out of it.
Then again, using the lower-tier s...
2025-09-19 18:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostAdrenaline didn’t affect me the same way it once had. I’d undergone two very near-death experiences as a child, and it had permanently shaped how I approached life. Training never brought me the kind of terrified rush it had in the early days, and even now, I felt oddly disconnected from the ...
2025-09-18 16:57:45 +0000 UTC View Post“That’d be me,” I called out, making my way into the waiting room as I spoke.
The owner of the voice and the accompanying aura was its only occupant.
She… did not look like she belonged here. Why that was the first thing that sprang to my mind, I didn’t know, but it was true...
2025-09-18 04:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostI had gotten much more accustomed to the world in the six years I’d spent working as my father’s apprentice. Most of the regulars at his clinic recognized me, and most people let me heal them now if it wasn’t a serious affair. I knew Matias the best by now—he was in the clinic almost ever...
2025-09-17 18:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostI’d let the woman cook for a bit longer than I had thought I had. It was hard to see her face through the ash and dirt covering most of her head, but I’d burned or stomped off most of her hair, and there was blood mixed in with the soot dusting her.
A strange sensation stirred in my gut...
2025-09-17 02:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostErica hissed out a curse as she watched the twitching child—Ren Kane, apparently—come to a stop. He was bleeding where he’d hit the ground too hard and of course at the point where she’d roughly injected the refined sleeping poison with a thrown needle.
She fought the urge to vomit,...
2025-09-16 16:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostBasic Heal lvl 7 -> lvl 8
Cure Minor Infection lvl 5 -> lvl 7
Identify Illness lvl 1 -> lvl 3
Body Scan lvl 7 -> lvl 8
I didn’t heal everyone that came in, naturally. Not even close. For the ...
2025-09-16 03:01:17 +0000 UTC View PostI had been under the impression that all my father’s excursions to the city had been to deal with noble families. He’d mentioned doing so off-handedly once or twice, and I’d assumed that was the end of the matter. In that vein, I had been a little concerned about what standards I would be e...
2025-09-15 18:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostAria Kane was a force of nature. That was the best conclusion I could draw from her escort of me out from what I slowly realized had been a shallow local branch of the World Dungeon. At first, I thought the exit hadn’t been far away so there weren’t too many other beings that could have come ...
2025-09-15 13:20:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe difference between creating a core and advancing one was a little harder to quantify given the circumstances. While Locke hadn’t been the most effective at teaching me about spellcasting, there was a lot he’d been able to explain to me about the theory of magic.
With every inc...
2025-09-15 13:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostAria squeezed through a crack in a cave barely large enough to fit an elbow through, grunting as she pulled herself through into a dripping wet tunnel not that much wider. Clenched in her fist was a strangely familiar knife, magic imbued in the item to make it glow gently. Under the dim light...
2025-09-09 01:39:30 +0000 UTC View PostOne would think that having the experience of fighting a rabid wolf while substantially younger and weaker would have prepared me for a bear.
Not at all.
I’d never exactly been a fighter on Earth. The most I’d seen of grizzly bears were National Geographic documentaries and, on a ...
2025-09-09 01:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostAfter three years of only seeing my mother, my father, and Iryn with the occasional addition of a distant sighting of one of the other people in the village through one of the windows, seeing another living, breathing human being in the house felt wrong.
“Thank you for the drink,” Locke...
2025-09-09 01:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis spell does not work on humans.
I had already known that the spell that my father had used on me twice now had been a powerful one. Though I didn’t have any particular spell that allowed me to sense the power of the spell being cast, Rebind Soul’s mana had entered my veins ...
2025-09-09 01:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: Sorry, it's been a bit. Wrote some without posting.
This was more than a little awkward. I had been actively trying to avoid detection of my magic this entire time for multiple reasons, but there was no point in trying to hide it now. My parents typically wer...
2025-09-09 01:37:52 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike the house I’d grown up in, sliding doors weren’t exactly a thing here. Reading our house’s encyclopedia back to front had embedded the fact that this world was technologically behind in my mind, but the little differences often slipped my notice until they were suddenly important. 2025-07-30 09:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I couldn’t make my way into the locked basement just quite yet, unfortunately. Though I now had enough control over my physical facilities to stack a stool up and reach the handle, it was quite thoroughly locked. It was also slightly warm to the touch. Since nobody had used it recently, I guess...
2025-07-22 19:24:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I’d told myself that the books I was reading here wouldn’t have a full picture of what I should expect from this world, I hadn’t expected it to come true so soon. My situation clearly wasn’t normal enough to be described in an introductory book like this, and a quick scan of the othe...
2025-07-19 07:27:01 +0000 UTC View Post