Tsaimath

Chapter 938

There were times at which I hated my inquisitive nature. After discovering that ominous glow in the crater deep within the Charland, my first impulse was to investigate and find out what the glow was and where it came from. To figure it out, to learn and maybe get a little more powerful in the pr...

Chapter 937

Sometimes, it was mindboggling just how much the world had changed. The system, strange monsters and general societal collapse, those were things I could somewhat comprehend and wrap my head around, even the magic I commanded was something I was learning more and more about each day. But then som...

Chapter 936

After making one last attempt at overcoming the Fire Elemental that was nourished by the Fire Node, I decided to give up. Unless I had some sort of incredibly useful idea, I just didn’t have the power to overcome its regeneration, especially with the environmental effects of the Charland helpin...

Chapter 935

Creating a way to prevent oxygen from entering the warehouse holding the node and its fiery owner turned out harder than I initially imagined. The biggest problem was that I had no way of identifying oxygen magically, nor any idea how to refer to it within a runic formation. Hel, I had no idea ho...

Chapter 934

Realising that the creature that had settled in the fire node was incredibly similar to the fiery guardian Sunna had set to protect the Soul Prison caused me to grind my teeth in cold fury. I wanted to tear the thing apart, to rip out its soul if I could and fill it with Ice and Darkness until it...

Chapter 933

Staying well away from the building, we moved so we could look into the now-open door. For once, Lia was taking the lead, with both Luna and myself ready to deploy magical protections at a moment's notice. There was a thin length of Hard Ice, with a few runes engraved, floating between Lia and th...

Chapter 932

It was a strange and deep irony that the first magical node I discovered on Terra was one of Fire, a location that poured out a constant, though not terribly potent, stream of Fire Astral Power. Why couldn’t it have been anything but Fire, I’d have much preferred Ice, Darkness, Water or Air, ...

Interlude: Survivors 601

“What are the odds that this is a natural hole?” Kevin asked, his voice filled with amusement. The rest of the small group that had decided to leave the farm together could only nod in agreement, knowing just as well that the highly symmetrical hole that just happened to be nicely sized for t...

Chapter 931

• AN: I've put a current sheet into the pinned post as I didn't go over every skill-up she received in this chapter. 

The Charland, as I had begun to refer to the burned industrial park, was fascinating. A part of me, the rational part of my mind, was insisting it wa...

Chapter 930

The more I learned about the burned industrial area, the more fascinated I became. After the Fireshell Tortoise died, we left the area to take shelter and during the day, with a nicely cool parasol made from Ice and Darkness, Luna, Silva and I explored the surrounding area a little more. Lia, in ...

Chapter 929

For a few moments, I could only stare at the rapidly spinning shell, especially when it got too close to a pile of rubble and a leg shot out, sending it careening away with renewed power. In turn, the pile of rubble was completely demolished, with small rocks and debris shooting away as if shot b...

Chapter 928

Moving deeper into the industrial complex came with more enemy critters. Rats, some small birds and sizable insects were our primary enemies, all of them fairly easy to detect thanks to their obvious fire attributes. Some were burning outright, like the rats, while the birds had bright colours, t...

Chapter 927

Given that I felt it was likely for this area to be another dungeon, there was ultimately no other choice but to head in. The ever-growing trait for exploring new dungeons was precious, to say nothing of the EXP and loot we could find within. Every magical item I came across was valuable, even if...

Chapter 926

The industrial complex we had come across was massive. A part of my mind was rapidly parsing through my memories, trying to figure out what exactly this place used to be. Sadly, it was fairly difficult to estimate where we were, as the change had shifted things more than readily apparent, to the ...

Chapter 925

Getting back down to the ground was a bit of a challenge. The Raven’s Shadow didn’t come with an instruction manual, so I had to make things up as I went, adapting the input of Astral Power in an effort to get the right output of lift. Floating up had been incredibly easy, nothing but applyin...

Chapter 924

Flying. Ever since I had gained the ability to experience Lenore’s memories and feel the sensation of flight within them, I had been hooked. I had flown within my dreams, eventually, I had flown by hitching a ride in my Hallow and, near the end of my journey, I had been able to glide using a wi...

Chapter 923

After feeling the cool silky-smooth fabric a little longer, I wrapped the cloak around my shoulder, replacing my old one. A part of me considered whether I might be able to enchant the new piece as I had done with my old cloak but I doubted it would work. Just from feeling the cloak, I knew it wa...

Chapter 922

Nodding to myself, I ran through one last check. The ritual I had been thinking about for over a month now was as prepared as it could be and the only thing stopping me from actually going through with it was the risk to unique and priceless materials if things went wrong. Chances to get another ...

Chapter 921

Once again, we continued on our travels. Still moving further away from the town I once called home, still heading northwest following that siren’s song of a possible distant Nexus. I wasn’t quite confident of its location, it might be on a different continent and I’d have to cross the ocea...

Interlude: Survivors 406

Some people could be utter fools. It was a truism Wu Chunhua, also known as Mrs Wu, had learned to accept a long time ago. That there was nothing a sufficiently confident fool couldn’t make themselves believe if only it fit with their idea of how the world should work. It shouldn’t surprise h...

Chapter 920

Luckily, Lia turned out just fine after her experiment backfired on her. A little exhausted and complaining about a brutal headache, but compared to the vampire cat, she was in perfect condition. Sadly, neither of us really knew how we might be able to improve the process of creating new vampires...

Chapter 919

Studying the unconscious cat up close didn’t reveal anything new. It was still a mangy thing that desperately needed to be washed but other than that but other than that, it was nothing special. Feeling the thing with my Blood Magic, I could detect some damage, mostly from Lia’s capture of it...

Chapter 918

The hissing and pacing of the caged cat continued for a little longer, it even tried scratching the bars of its cage, confirming my suspicion that Shadow Cats had some way to magically augment their physical attacks. The faint, dark energy around its claws didn’t do anything to the solid steel ...

Chapter 917

“Mother, I would like to ask you for help,” Lia’s request, right after the shrine's completion, was a bit of a surprise. While Luna and I had been busy building it, Lia had roamed around town with Alex and I had no idea what they had done. Some combat, that much I knew and Lia had asked me ...

Interlude: Holiday Chapter 2023

Douse the flame, children, this is the Pale Lady’s night. No fire shall burn tonight, nothing to disturb Her, nothing but memories and tales of magic. Tonight, we honour Her, as she watches over us from the dark, standing between us and the things out there. She is a denizen of the night, shunn...

Chapter 916

Watching the locals walk through the completed shrine was fascinating. Luna, Kyle, Sarah and I were officially, whatever that meant if there was no real society, turning over the shrine to the people. They had seen a bit of my work from afar but as I had requested, nobody had ventured inside whil...

Chapter 915

There were few words I could use to describe the way Sarah and Kyle went about claiming the shrine of Hestia for their god. Few of those I could use were words I actually wanted to use, mostly because a primary emotion within me while watching was envy. I was extremely doubtful that the two cleri...

Chapter 914

It was fascinating, how two places with such huge differences could end up feeling so similar. Part of it was undoubtedly the blessing of Hecate Luna had called upon but a far larger part came from some innate quality of the space. Some time during the creation, as I had dug the few rooms of the ...

Chapter 913

Finding the right spot for the shrine turned out to be surprisingly simple. Luna and I wandered around the area for a bit, discussing what we both were looking for and contrasting it with what we knew about the two deities the shrine was supposed to serve. During that time, we decided that the sh...

Chapter 912

My conversation with Luna continued for quite a while after the initial part about my previous actions. Mostly, I explained to her the importance of guest rights and why the Gods themself had decided to step into the matter before we ventured further afield. Still, magic remained the centre of ou...