The first few floors of the underground complex were just the usual black market. No assassins for hire anywhere. Drugs, weapons, and suspicious artifacts for sale. Sofia silently floated through the corridors, nobody strong enough to see through her title’s invisibility.
But if she...
2025-10-15 16:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostLater the same day Sofia was forcibly pulled away from the workshop as something unusual happened. The Abereth had been silently hovering next to her, ominous as ever, when it had suddenly disappeared with a loud bang.
Erredis was too busy working on the helmet to even notice, so Sofia and ...
2025-10-14 16:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostA few days later, Sofia was with Ihuarah and Erredis in her workshop, standing around a mannequin wearing the work-in-progress mithrium helmet.
“If we want to make it a divine essence, the essence needs to be bound now,” Erredis explained, “Are you certain Sorrow’s essence is compat...
2025-10-13 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostA month later. Sofia and Alith stand at the bottom of a large silo, in front of them multiple headless skeletons fall on top of a huge pile of bones every second.
“This is really ridiculous…” Alith commented, watching the constant rain of bones.
“Eve called this design an xp t...
2025-10-10 16:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostAllows one to return to darkness.
Consuming three beads will lead to irremediable consequences.
“The three beads thing must count both those and the others,” Sofia said.
“Yeah, we can leave but if we ever come back we’ll be trapped in th...
2025-10-09 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You will have to be careful while using that,” Sofia noted, looking at Pestle’s new skill, “It looks like it could be dangerous.”
“Hmmhmm, Pesle understand. Sofia not worry! Pesle not is Sofia, not kill self!” she enthusiastically affirmed.
“... Can’t really argue w...
2025-10-08 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Pesle purpose?!” Pestle repeated, seemingly more surprised to be asked a question than by the question itself. “Pesle is do thing. Often leg!” she proudly answered right away, hands on her hipbone, ”Purpose is do thing, thing always purpose!”
The beast’s neck elongated, appro...
2025-10-07 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Who could've guessed that we’d end up in a forest again,” Saria commented, observing the surroundings as the group advanced through the long winding path.
Sofia shrugged, “All things considered, that’s not too strange considering the other places I’ve explored until now. I don...
2025-10-06 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostSaria held out her hand, “Gimme one.”
“You’ve already decided you’re going to eat it?” Sofia asked, the beads firmly in her grip.
“Consume three and you can’t reverse the effects, right? That means whatever happens, a single one is safe. But if you’re really worried ...
2025-10-03 16:00:43 +0000 UTC View PostSome quick testing revealed that moving the statues around was likely to be the answer, but no matter how much the trio stared at the carvings on the door, they did not get it. Saria came to the conclusion that they were probably missing some relevant knowledge. That left them with two solutions,...
2025-10-02 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, you got it already. Should’ve gone with a hint a bit less obvious. That’s right the silhouettes are–”
“Sunless,” Sofia completed.
“That’s right. Thus is Cerberus beta,” Saria said, pointing at the larger of the four circles, “And those are its three moons....
2025-10-01 16:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostSofia silently followed Saria through the wide trees of the spirit forest. She had to be careful to keep her aura and mana senses in check, to prevent the creatures above from noticing them. At the same time, she was able to notice just how many of the smaller trees in the forest were fake. The H...
2025-09-30 16:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostAfter leaving Zangdar, Sofia had to put all of her plans on hold to deal with city issues that required her immediate attention. As it turned out, even with a few talented people helping out, dealing with a camp of several thousand people of different races and a constant stream of new arrivals, ...
2025-09-29 16:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe spell encyclopedia is just basic descriptions… No numbers, no schematics… It’s better than nothing I guess, but unsurprisingly pretty outdated. Basically none of my skills in there.
I’m most interested in the last section anyway.
Hidden features!...
2025-09-26 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the house was pretty standard, of course Sofia and Pareth struggled to understand what half the things they were looking at were at any given moment, but they recognized some of the furniture from the other admin house. The three bedrooms had little decorations, and generally the enti...
2025-09-25 16:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you even notice a difference at this point?” Sofia asked, grabbing her scepter and letting it go.
Saria shook her head, “Nope. 30% charisma, no visible change.”
“What’s even… Charisma is going to become my main stat at this rate. Does it even do anything? Like, beyon...
2025-09-24 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days, the city expanded explosively, from only the half-completed workshop of Erredis, to hundreds of rudimentary buildings and structures, all made out of bones, and a lot more ‘house skeletons’, leaving space for the walls and roofing to be made of more conventional materi...
2025-09-23 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi! Hope your day is going well! I was feeling inspired, so I wrote a little something. If you've been here a long time, this might not be the first time you have seen me post a first chapter for a new story. It's the same deal as usual, I'm not compromising SSS to write something else, but I'm s...
2025-09-23 06:12:40 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending just a few minutes alone with Pestle in the meeting room, the fairies politely bid Sofia farewell without raising a fuss and departed toward the east, having found no foul play with Pestle’s genuine wish to follow Sofia.
“Pesle is name Hateful One, they said,” Pestle an...
2025-09-22 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostSofia’s head was just about ready to explode after meeting with people for the entire day, some wanting to stay in the city, others offering trade deals, and many trying to recruit her in some faction or another. Finally, in the middle of the night, Erredis entered the meeting room again.
“See? Trust me now? The other names I’m a bit wary still though,” Cecless whispered, leaning a bit over the table, “The queen especially is a bit freaky. Wouldn’t recommend. But if it’s my love! I can call him anytime! Though he rarely answers…”
“Right… I’ll tell...
2025-09-18 16:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Erredis came back with a handful of tiny translucent wings, the sight of which made Sofia more than a bit sweaty, the group split up somewhat. Pareth went with Bookie and Saria to make a census of the ‘normal’ people wishing to settle down, while Sofia was alone in a soundproofed bone ...
2025-09-17 16:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing Kuli’s instructions, Sofia stopped by Drakron before returning to her ‘city’. She briefly met with Karlson and his wife Karin, to congratulate them on the birth of their son, before leaving by herself to meet ‘someone else’ at a rather decrepit-looking pub in a back alley.
... 2025-09-16 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostI feel like… Natural Champion Reading could be good.
If it can just give me a processing bonus, it would be an incredible start for a skill fusion. I could work toward another [Dodge-me] tier skill. Not to mention they are the three keywords...
2025-09-15 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostMunching on a dessert Kuli had brought from the nearest town, she and Sofia’s conversation continued, eventually looping back to the subject human continent itself.
“You know,” Sofia said, “Now that I’m there, I’m surprised there aren’t more high-level people here. There were ...
2025-09-12 16:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostSo they just handed me down an old cursed artifact?!
And what about this is Heavenly, huh?!
… It is an interesting ‘skill’, though. The Abereth… Does that mean it’s Deep-related?
Could be from the lost epoch, then? Something a previous Ma...
2025-09-11 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostSwitching back to her Lumian body with no effort or side-effect, Sofia quickly sorted through her clothes to find something casual to wear, and seeing Pestle eye her enviously, made a small bone replica of the same long robe for her to wear.
“Let’s go. Just give me some time to find how...
2025-09-10 16:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe air in the room was cold, freezing mist flowing from Pareth’s bones, he looked taller and sturdier than before, but was stumbling about like a child learning to walk, his bones shaking.
Take your time, try to walk around the room, you’ll be used to it in no time. Cl...
2025-09-09 16:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to the real world, lads! So, who’s gonna go first?
Sofia opened her eyes in an unfamiliar room, laying on some kind of stone table, a strange feeling in her chest, she looked around, seeing two other person in the room, notably, the one who just spoke.
...
2025-09-08 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostSofia looked at the master item Pareth had bought for himself, it wasn’t primed yet, but he had still been able to customize it.
[Tournament Master’s Adaptive Cuirasse]:
Carefully crafted from the rarest materials by a genius craftsman, the master cu...
2025-08-22 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post