Sofia watched the bolt launch forward like a bright tear in reality as she was flung backward by the recoil. The moment stretched before her as time itself seemed to slow down. The instant before the bolt hit its target felt like it lasted forever.
A thunderous roar echoed through the entir...
2024-10-07 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostSofia walked in the dark tunnel past the graveyard, there was no light, and the tunnel had some stagnant water in the middle, which Sofia walked in with light steps. She found the sound of her footsteps in the shallow water relaxing.
“Oh right, I didn’t even Identify the shovel.”
<... 2024-09-25 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSome faint dots of blue light started to appear close to the ground around Sofia after she chose not to summon anyone for help. They were blue flowers, opening one by one, revealing their luminescent petals. Like a wave spreading from Sofia’s position, the flowers opened up, lighting up the cav...
2024-09-24 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhat a mess.
Too bad I had to smash him up that much, he would have been a nice skeleton for Bookie.
[Scrambled Mana-Heart]: The Mana-heart of swordsman Rekosi Lengstone. Its sudden removal created this scrambled pattern. Perhaps your first real ...
2024-09-23 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note:
TLDR: No chapters from sept 26 to oct 6
Hi! I always hate to announce that I'm taking time off, but this couldn't be avoided. Book 3 should've been out on amazon since august and... It's still far from ready... I need time away from writing to focus on ro...
2024-09-20 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostHeavy. Sofia thought as she picked up the contents of the small chest which turned out to not be a mimic.
[Unlabelled ritual book]: A book containing many antique ritual circles, there is no title, author or explanations. The cover and bindings are made of a mithri...
2024-09-19 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSofia reappeared inside of the mimic three seconds later, her lower body completely regenerated and already soaking in what remained of the corrosive liquid. The space inside of the mimic was very cramped now that it contained her entire body.
While Sofia was hastily covering her legs with ...
2024-09-18 16:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post(Quick note : I need to go out tomorrow, chapter might be late)
Aside from the sewing zombies, which, funnily enough, were mostly zombies of muscular bearded men, the room had two more doors, one on Sofia’s right and one straight ahead, while the wall on the left was obscured by a ...
2024-09-17 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostElectricity started to gather around Sofia’s staff and in the choir skulls’ mouths. The light was getting suppressed by the palace’s strange darkness, but the crackling electricity existed nonetheless, and before the ghost got to even do anything, the wide array of Sirhellion skulls showere...
2024-09-16 15:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostI can’t even see myself in this darkness, but at the very least it seems to not be doing anything dangerous besides hindering my senses. I have two runes up so surprise attacks are not the most worrying, let’s stay in the dark for now. I’ll follow the wall on the left I guess… 2024-09-15 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I got hit by the surprise insomnia once again. Won't be able to write today. Will write a chapter this weekend to make up for it, as soon as I manage to get some decent sleep.
Have a sneak peak at the WIP cover art for book 3 as an apology.
2024-09-13 10:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostSofia woke up to Pareth drying her tears with a handkerchief. The others asked if she was alright.
“I’m… I’ll be alright. We should get going.”
Not wanting to go over what she had just gone through, Sofia pushed the others to quickly enter the next room, though she mentally ...
2024-09-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSofia’s thoughts were sluggish.
The person singing had to stop often, she sounded short of breath, always trying to catch more air whenever she could, yet she kept singing while rocking the crib for long minutes as the sun started to come down.
Someone opened a door, interrupting th...
2024-09-11 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing is ever accomplished without leaving something behind,” Cinthia read out loud for Sofia and Ihuarah.
“Not what I expected,” Sofia commented, “but it is fitting, and always true. No matter what, you’re always spending time, at the very least.”
“This wisdom is t...
2024-09-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“The layout of this place is quite something,” Everelle commented as the group took another turn which revealed more of the same long and narrow corridor. They had been following that single long and winding corridor for a few hours now, making slow progress as they needed to check for traps,...
2024-09-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note:
Thank you everyone for the birthday messages yesterday <3
I feel like I often post late so I thought today I might as well post early since I can, for once.
Also I want to ask a question, for after you read this chapter, do you feel it's too slow? The arc will pr...
2024-09-06 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note:
Hey! Sorry about being late today again... I don't like how common it's becoming but today is my birthday so it was kind of inevitable.
Should have warned in advance but I had forgotten about my own birthday... lol
Anyway, happy reading aye (｀• ω •´)b
Sofia walked on the floor where the light drew a door, then back, then on it again. “The floor is definitely hollow there. I still can’t get through or feel anything beyond my footsteps sound different.”
“Then breaking through is likely the actual solution,” Everelle commented, ...
2024-09-04 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Postauthor note:
Hey! In case you missed it, there was a bonus chapter yesterday. (Me staying up late to write it being the reason today's chapter is a bit late...) Go read it before this one if you haven't yet!!!
2024-09-03 16:15:17 +0000 UTC
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Author's note:
After some of your comments, I thought the story could benefit from something like this, so here's a late night chapter I wrote while forsaking sleep.
It's meant to go right after Mr.Scribe's explanation about the level up process in chapter 520. Not the cleanest way to...
2024-09-03 01:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostWIth Ihuarah’s guidance and the group’s overall power, it was not such an arduous task to find and activate the four obelisks, even when four Ochiaran chiefs showed up together as they neared the last one, they were dealt with cleanly. These mud ghosts were simply not strong enough to push th...
2024-09-02 16:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ochiarans looked strange, like three meters tall, dried up humans with dark blue skin. They wore primitive clothing made of woven plant fibers decorated with sheets of elastic tree bark, and wielded all sorts of primitive-looking weapons of sticks and stones.
They appeared around the gr...
2024-08-30 16:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe group entered the jungle at the first rays of dawn. The vegetation here was a lot denser than in the volcanic jungles north of Skyreach and Sovuln, the canopy only letting rare streams of light shine through here and there. There were vines and colorful exotic plants and flowers growing every...
2024-08-29 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter listening to Mr.Scribe’s extended explanations, Sofia felt the need to activate her Sixth melody music because she was starting to get a headache.
“Let me try to summarize this… First we need to make a wide Mithril coffin, encase it inside of a big Midenicite block, and bury it ...
2024-08-28 16:52:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe lift slowly brought the group to the higher floors of the tower, and Sofia decided to just say what she wanted to.
“I thought it was harder for the Recessed to come to the physical plane.”
“Much harder,” Ridoni said with a laugh after a few seconds of silence, “but not i...
2024-08-27 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostPhillip transformed, producing a thick deluge of mana not unlike Erredis when she transformed on the moon, despite being of a similar shape, he was about twice her size, and his scales looked like giant cut and polished emeralds, shining with vibrant green hues.
A bubble of green light appe...
2024-08-26 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSofia was flying next to the skeleton Quetzalcoatlus from Bookie that Cinthia was riding.
“You really need to get a flying skill of your own. What did you even ask as a reward for your bonus task?” Sofia asked, as she flew backwards to be facing Cinthia.
“You weren’t there whe...
2024-08-23 16:22:36 +0000 UTC View PostSofia, Cinthia, Pareth and bookie were all waiting at the bottom of a dungeon, in front of a large sealed door.
Sofia grabbed the dagger from her belt, “Since everyone says it’s safe, let’s reconnect, I’d like to use another title here.”
[Title changed to ‘<...
2024-08-22 15:58:31 +0000 UTC View Post“How is that going to work? Sun basically just sent me hers and I barely felt the difference,” Sofia asked, keeping her eyes closed.
“I will be giving them to you one by one, it might feel strange but please try to stay still. Thanks to Cinthia I am able to observe how your real body ...
2024-08-21 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah… I also want to apologize…” Sofia told Death while keeping her eyes tightly shut.
“Apologize? What for?” Death answered calmly, sounding more curious than anything else.
“Well… I did turn down your blessing for Sun’s when I had to choose, and there was also the <...
2024-08-20 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post