Sofia ordered the scouts to take some distance and only engage in battle if they were followed. Whatever they had found didn’t pursue them. From that bit of information alone, Sofia could guess that the enemy either hadn’t detected the skeletons or didn’t go out of its way to attack. So it ...
2023-05-31 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFever went down enough that I could work, not the most comfortable day of work but job's done, this is fresh off the printing press!
I wouldn't be surprised if I can't release quite on time for a few days, but chapters should come out either way unless I have a relapse. Anyway, thanks...
2023-05-30 16:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey, I have a bit of a fever, too much to write if I'm being honest. And this is currently the end of my backlog, so depending how my health evolves, there is a possibility that I could miss a day or two... sorry
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“Student, salute,” the Master ordered...
2023-05-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe last whirring sound was almost a death sentence. Not only the orbs all got generally faster again, but they had desynchronized. Dodging the orbs became a nightmare, and in no time, Sofia had touched at least three more. She couldn’t even begin to try dealing with their effects; all they did...
2023-05-28 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe orbs had started moving. All of them, in a circle around the obelisk, like the tiny planet they looked like. They were now in orbit.
They all moved slowly like small sluggish planets, barely a centimeter a second. That they moved at all made them infinitely harder to navigate through, h...
2023-05-27 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSofia was increasingly worried as minutes passed and the floor’s task did not complete. Did she mess up something? Was there a stronger hidden enemy incoming? She was back at full mana but still missing 40% of her health and could lose more if the wrong elves died. It made it hard to relax.
... 2023-05-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing the shield mage dying so gruesomely, one of the griffin riders fled. Pareth turned to look at the four others and prepared to jump. They all fled. One of them fumbled his reins somehow and blocked one of his griffin’s wings, sending him tumbling to the ground.
Since the Vampire Ske...
2023-05-25 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSome kind of slime? Water mage.
Behind Sofia, water quietly seeped out of the walls, gathering into a puddle on the ground.
Pareth was too big to come out in these tunnels, so she had to improvise. It was unlikely that any physical attack would work on the watery blob that wa...
2023-05-24 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSofia could have maybe broken through the shield and flown away, but she stayed to be able to trace the mana back to its caster. Sure enough, she managed to get a feel for the general direction of the spellcaster, who had to also be inside the shield. She looked in that direction, but all she cou...
2023-05-23 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThat’s another one of the five targets!
Sofia followed the signal to a big house that stood out from the surrounding buildings. Looks like they’re alone inside. In such a large house? Strange. She sliced the lock with her dagger and stepped into the entrance hall. ...
2023-05-22 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe easiest way to protect the key targets from harm happened to be the same way that Sofia intended to use. Destroy the army before it has any chance to march that deep into the city. And what was the best way to topple an army? Go for the leaders.
Unless they were level 300 and up, Pareth...
2023-05-21 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“There we are!” Sen exclaimed as he proudly welcomed the participants to a rickety iron platform leading to the true ‘Ranking spire’. In front of the group was a tower inside the tower. Everyone was awed at the sight, but Sofia was even more shocked at how much mana flowed through the inn...
2023-05-20 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I promise and I deliver, next chapter in half an hour.
Here's what the last poll's result got us, with Demon form Sofia winning over Zerei and Pareth with a whopping 57% of votes
Oh, and welcome back (* ^ ω ^)
2023-05-20 15:32:23 +0000 UTC View PostSofia didn’t quite understand how, but she knew Pareth wanted her to throw the bolts right then and there. And so she did. The bolts hit Mornn. The explosion was bright but weak. Pareth teleported to Sofia. Standing right before her, his weapon had become a giant pair of shears. He tried to sni...
2023-05-12 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMedical appointment screwed with my schedule, had no time to proofread this one at all, might be a bit dirty, sorry
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Sofia didn’t exactly know how Astelia would react to the blood, but she didn’t expect her to just freeze like a statue with a terrified expression.
The Knight crossed the hundred meters in half a second, and his Mithril war hammer came down at a terrifying speed. Sofia blocked with the blessed shield, which shattered under the hit but absorbed all the damage. The bone construct would repair itself given time, but for now, whatever was left o...
2023-05-10 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhy does the system exist? I’ve already thought about that a bunch, so…
“To help the people worthy of it to get stronger. Perhaps to prepare us to fight off something or someone, like the Phageid. For one reason or another, it wants to create an elite of strong people. So lik...
2023-05-09 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSee, I knew [Poker face] wasn’t such a terrible skill.
Goodbye ‘master’’. Won’t miss your strangulations but thanks for the advice and the fast pass.
Sofia was still recovering from the chokehold; she was now in another sm...
2023-05-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“The young adults mostly have brown belts… I’ll take a brown one too. I risk looking overconfident with this one, but with the other one, I risk looking like a child.”
I’m tempted to take a red one, but this is not the place to be taking such high risks. Not when I can get ‘...
2023-05-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSofia entered the code on exit door 7 and opened it. Her vision changed.
So that’s that done.
[Objective completed in 4 months 35 days 17 hours, teleporting to floor 5]
“Seven hours shy of five months. And I’m not even halfway done with phase 1....
2023-05-06 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe base plan was simple: lead the lesser dragon to a dead end at the end of a very long straight corridor at the edge of its territory by having it chase a line of birds.
There was a very nice T-shaped place she had found. She would block two sides of it with moving walls. This created an ...
2023-05-05 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSofia followed the map to reach the chest, noticing paths unexplored by the birds, and explored paths that existed on the map but not for real. This was obviously the work of the moving walls, but they didn’t seem to want to move much if it wasn’t to try to lead her to a dead end. Overall, th...
2023-05-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostShe had focused on the map for all of twenty seconds, and it had been enough for both paths to be walled. She turned around, searching for anything useful, but there was nothing other than herself in this isolated straight corridor.
Her first reflex was to check all of the walls for the har...
2023-05-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSofia yanked on the metal chains; they broke under her strength. With the stat candy, my body is starting to be crazy, even without the demon form. How long until I can do the same things with and without it?
“Status seems alright. Very little light in here, but that’s no probl...
2023-05-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis white orb safeguard... It feels like a trap. If you leave when you fall unconscious, it means you cannot sleep. But we can piece together that there is downtime between levels, and we have no indication of how long the trial will last.
But then again, it also allows you to...
2023-05-01 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“What is it? Are you going to fix my class? Get me out of scribe-only mode? Punish me for doing something wrong?”
“No to the first and the last; meddling with your class isn’t in my interest or authority, and there is nothing to punish you for. You do push the boundaries of what is ...
2023-04-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe middle of summer. Sofia, Alith, Zerei, and Astelia had gone on a boat trip from the southern coast of Couvauz to the Beastman continent. Teleporting past the sea was dangerous, and flying wasn’t much better, so they took the trip on the armored dwarven ship ‘The Metal-Head’. This had go...
2023-04-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note:
Hey!
Two quick announcements today.
First of all, I'm warning in advance that I'll be taking a one week break sometime this may, probably from the 12th to the 19th, so no chapters during that time.
Secon...
2023-04-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHow did I end up here…
Sofia was currently stuck in a narrow bone coffin of her own making, with only a few holes to let air in. She couldn’t open her eyes. Even if she kept them closed, she only saw white. Every bit of the coffin’s interior was covered in small ritual circle...
2023-04-27 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, the skills I cast without the system are much more flexible, but also weaker.”
“That is because our brains cannot keep up with the complexity required to make the skills so strong from the get go. The system-less way to get there is to start by designing a weak version, masterin...
2023-04-26 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post