Hi everyone, posting this for two reasons:
First, sorry for the missing Monday chapter! I was sick for a couple days back there, and simply was not able to get it out. I should've posted an update explaining, but I was really trying to get it done just a little late anyway without interrupting the schedule, but clearly that just didn't work. So I'm sorry again for that!
Second, I'm ...
2023-09-27 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLoik stood in the middle of the field by the forest, staring at the group of two adventurers. That man with the creepy black armor stared right back at him, Loik just barely able to make out the whites of his eyes—the only thing proving he was Human—through the visor. And next to him stood that woman with the black wisps of smoke surrounding her, obscuring any particular detail from his per...
2023-09-23 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Erani and I left town to go meet up with Ainash. We had a new job to do—figure out what happened with those deserted border guards—and this one would likely benefit from her presence, much like most of the other jobs we’d done in the past. However, this one would also probably take a few days at least to do; getting to the border alone normally took around a day, so going out ...
2023-09-20 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA Devil sat at a desk in a damp, dark room.
He wanted to leave.
The Devil wanted more than anything for something to happen. Ever since he’d gotten that one visit from his superior, it’d been nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nobody came through the hall he monitored, there were no more meetings, no more excitement, not even a passing footstep heard through one of the doors....
2023-09-19 04:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostI mentally reached out and made my choice.
You have learned the Spell Curse of Echoes.
Curse of Echoes was clearly the best pick here. The other two were good, for certain, but they simply didn’t fit into my toolbox. Living Death was difficult to use, and would likely require me to completely shift by build around it if I wanted t...
2023-09-15 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThreshold reached. 3k XP.
Your Level has increased to 21.
Due to achieving Level 21 in the Minute Mage Class, you have been granted the following benefits:
AN: Chapter's a day late, but I still got it done!
Over the next few days, we continued doing jobs, making money, and charging up the Mana Batteries for the teleportation to the capital. Aliss and the rest of her crew ended up asking us to work together again, so most of what we did was teamed up with them. I wasn’t sure what ended up making Aliss change her mind...
2023-09-12 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJon Mourn sat at a desk in a calm, quiet room.
That peace was immediately interrupted when the door opened and one of his currently least favorite people walked through.
“Hello, miss Asmo,” Jon said as the woman walked in, back straight and silver-blonde hair falling down her spine.
“Greetings, Jon,” Asmo said. She stopped walking in the center of the room, facing him....
2023-09-08 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
I'm just putting this here to say that I'll be going on a short break. There will be no chapters from today through Wednesday of next week. Due to a mixture of me going out of town for that period, plus me still needing to do all of my schoolwork during that same time, I do not anticipate being able to find time to write on top of it all. Sorry if this is disappointing to ...
2023-08-28 06:53:07 +0000 UTC View PostA Devil sat at a desk in a damp, dark room. This room was one he had spent the past while in. It’d been days—no, perhaps weeks, now. A month? He couldn’t keep track anymore. Especially with so much of his past time being spent going back and forth between Overworld and Underworld time, he had basically no innate sense of time passing anymore. And sitting in this room, almost completely un...
2023-08-25 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This chapter is super extra long! It also may have been one of my favorite chapters to write. Stayed up until like 5 am working on it though, so let me know if you see any errors, as I am way too tired to spot them currently. Regardless, hope you enjoy :)
Erani and I sat in a tent out in the hills beyond town, near the Goblin forest. We’d found a nic...
2023-08-23 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re gonna be looking through your valuables. We probably won’t take much, though, so don’t be worried. Just window shopping, you know?”
Artil’s heart began racing when he heard the word “robbery,” but be frowned when he heard the rest of the statement. What was the game here? He’d never heard of thieves going “window shopping” before, and certainly never heard ...
2023-08-21 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWith the room cleared out, Erani and I were free to rifle through the documents as we pleased. We quickly located the correct metal drawer and looked through the contents until finding the stack of future job postings. They ranged from being slated to go up the next day—that was the majority of them—to some of them that were planned out in advance from people like nobles or business owners ...
2023-08-19 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostErani and I walked into the guild lobby. We’d come up with a general plan of action on our way into town, and now we just had to do it.
The lobby was bustling with activity—it typically became most populated around noon, when most adventurers came in to accept jobs or hand in the ones they’d already completed in the early morning. As such, there was a long line headed to the recepti...
2023-08-16 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Erani and I left town to go meet up with Ainash in the early morning. I had something I needed to do, after all.
I’d looked at my Spell choices the night before, and while they were good, it simply didn’t compare to finally being able to bring others back in time with me—especially when I wasn’t actually giving anything up, just slightly delaying when I’d be able t...
2023-08-14 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Since school's starting back up for me, I'll unfortunately no longer be able to do four chapters per week for Patreon, so I'll be moving back to what it was originally, at 3/week. I won't be able to post a chapter today since it's been so hectic getting everything set up (sorry for the late notice) but I'll still try my best to post additional chapters as often as I can! I...
2023-08-12 05:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostA Devil awoke on the stone of a damp, dark hole.
Where was he? What…what was going on? How long had it been?
The room was small. Or, no, it was actually quite large. It was just that the room had been filled to the brim with other Demons. The Devil himself was closer to the door, so he was actually touching the floor, but there were so many bodies piled up further in, tossed on to...
2023-08-11 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAliss walked with Boy to a run-down stone-and-wood building located on the edges of town. It was dirty and in need of repairs, with a couple broken windows that’d just been boarded up for now, and some clearly rotting planks on the walls that definitely needed to be replaced. Aliss could see Boy deflate when he walked up to it, gazing at its exterior.
“Think we have enough to fix the ...
2023-08-09 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we finished resting, we all headed back into town, bringing one of the Dragon’s teeth with us to verify we’d completed the job. The tooth was a little too big for us to fit it in any equipment packs we had, so instead I just had to carry it in my hands on the way back.
I decided against telling Ainash and Erani about the Tribute thing Index had told me about just yet, since we w...
2023-08-07 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I awoke, my first thought was why in the hells I thought that was a good idea.
I was alive, sure, and got away from the whole thing with just some bruises and burns. But good gods did it hurt. The entire side of my body I landed on—and, honestly, most of the part that I didn’t land on—ached so horribly I was surprised I was still able to move.
I took a few breath...
2023-08-05 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Young Dragon carried me far, far into the sky, the flames on its back causing enough pain to distract it from me, gripping tightly onto its leg. Or maybe it did know I was there, and it just planned on taking me up high enough that it could drop me back down and kill me with the fall. But I had a plan for that.
Once we’d gotten so high I could barely see the ground below us, I made ...
2023-08-04 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra-long chapter!
Step one was to blow up the building.
Erani was the one in charge of that. We circled around the Goblins’ base, using Index to find the spot with the easiest path through to the Young Dragon’s lair, and then once we found it, we all got into position, and Erani struck.
Erani’s Explosive Firebolts tore through the l...
2023-08-02 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re going to be killing a what?!” Sylvie leaned forward, hands gripping the table between us, when she heard me describe the job.
We were currently sitting in the living room of Boy’s house, a quaint little place housed in an out-of-the-way neighborhood. I sat with Erani on a dusty couch while Entismo, Aliss, and Sylvie each sat in chairs they’d brought over so we we...
2023-07-31 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe four Classers stood in front of me, waiting for an answer. The pale woman with the black hair stared at me. “We’re looking for Annor Ton. The foreigner. Is that you?”
My breath caught in my throat. Had they seriously caught onto my identity already? Maybe I was wrong to trust Bon. I thought I’d cleared things up with him—and left behind a nice intimidating impression even if...
2023-07-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOnce I was on the road, heading back for town, I decided now was as good a time as any to practice Gravity Well. It was still at Rank 10 while my Soft Cap was Rank 11, which meant I could easily push it up by one more.
So, as I walked, I decided to go ahead and do that. Gravity Well required a target, and there was nothing else around to hit, so I just used it on myself.
The moment ...
2023-07-28 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Long chapter!
I spent the rest of the night by the guard outpost, making sure they never decided to turn me in. I listened for any sign of them waking up and talking, and Index also watched and listened, itself, which was especially useful during the times I dozed off throughout the long, dark night.
I had to wake up and move around semi-frequent...
2023-07-26 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Very extra-long chapter here! I really enjoyed writing this one, hope you like reading it :)
Before the time reached midnight, I went ahead and absorbed the Spell Crystal for myself and used Time Loop to reset, pushing my final Arcane Spell to its first Upgrade.
Threshold reached. Gravity Well XP has reac...
2023-07-24 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we finished talking, the guards went back to their outpost and I went on my own way, heading back down the road I came from. Only for me to instantly double back and sneak straight over to them once again and listen in on their conversation. We may have struck a deal, and they seemed genuine enough when they told me they wouldn’t say anything, but I certainly wasn’t about to trust the...
2023-07-22 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at Bon, who was holding me at swordpoint in the dark night. When he randomly stormed out of the outpost in the middle of their conversation, it’d caught me off-guard, and I couldn’t get far enough away before he saw me and yelled out for the others.
In truth, the fact that his sword was drawn was borderline not even worth mentioning, considering how little of a physical threa...
2023-07-21 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Posting an extra chapter today! Hope you enjoy :)
Asmo stood in front of two men in a damp, dark room. She stood calmly, assessing the two of them as they stared back at her.
She turned to the smaller one. He was short, slouched, and had a messy mop of hair atop his head. “Thein Zannir. You have been offered a promotion to second-in-...
2023-07-20 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post