Alice first confirmed that the metal disc on the leather cord was what was providing her with a stat buff. Even if Alice could just look at the rainbow mana popping out of the iron disc, since others couldn’t see rainbow mana Alice was forced to prove the iron disc was what provided the System enchantment. She decided to treat this as good prep work for grounding her assumptions in reality, r...
2022-04-30 05:42:33 +0000 UTC View Post“You said that it doesn’t matter if I get boring results, right?” asked Alice, turning to Ezrien.
“Indeed. It doesn’t matter even if you discover nothing at all. The only requirements for my challenge are that you investigate something you find interesting, and that you must not have researched it before. Ah, I say you can’t have researched it before, but it’s fine if it’s...
2022-04-23 06:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostAlice put on her new semi-formal dress before going to the meeting. The [Waiter] confirmed her identity before moving her to a private room, where an older man was waiting.
He had lower [Charisma] than Alice had expected. On Earth, people were born with their looks, meaning that people’s attractiveness tended to vary quite a bit. In this world, [Charisma] was a stat that was easy to imp...
2022-04-16 05:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Alice returned to Cecilia’s workshop, she started getting ready to work on enchantments. If she was going to make it into a magic academy, she needed to make the most of every minute she had left before the semester started. She had about a month left before registration started. Registration would take another week, and she could sign up anytime during that period. After registration en...
2022-04-09 02:19:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter being ushered into a room on the second floor, the store worker poured Alice a cup of tea and sat her down at a table in the center of the room. The woman gave Alice a wink and a friendly nod, before she turned around and left. Alice noted that the table she sat at was obviously expensive, even though she didn’t know much about furniture. She couldn’t tell what wood it was made out of...
2022-04-01 21:44:30 +0000 UTC View PostMy grandfather will not make it. As of today, it has been a week since he was admitted to the hospital, and today we received news that he’s not going to get through this. He’ll survive a few more days at most.
I thought it was likely that he might not make it, but I was really holding on to hope that he would get through this. I was thinking that he was really strong, and maybe he wo...
2022-03-15 21:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlice and Cecilia spent the rest of the boat ride relaxing and talking. After another day or two of sailing, Alice decided to follow up on one of her earlier ideas. On the boat there was also a fairly high level [Merchant] who had a storage Perk. After talking to the man for a bit, Alice was happy to find out that he was in the habit of stuffing random bits and bobs into his Storage. This inclu...
2022-03-11 22:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs the boat sailed up the river, Alice took time to admire the view of the river gently drifting by. A sight that was only occasionally marred by a special [Archer] shooting a Lurker, a strange plant-like monster that Alice had briefly seen during her flight to Cyra. Apparently, they were more common in this part of the river. The arrows seemed completely unhindered by the water they travelled ...
2022-03-04 22:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe last week that Alice spent in Cyra passed by slowly. Alice went to and from the docks each day, converting her kinetic energy into silver suns and the right to keep training with Illa for a little bit longer. At the same time, Cecilia’s shop continued to pack up or sell its last remaining items. Upon seeing Alice’s attempt at making a marketable enchanted ring, Cecilia offered to sell t...
2022-02-26 04:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a night spent inside of the manaless room, Alice’s mana deprivation symptoms didn’t get any worse. This more or less lined up with what Alice had experienced and seen so far. It seemed that there was no difference between half an hour and sixteen hours inside of a manaless environment – once the mana deprivation symptoms reached a certain ‘maximum’ threshold, they did not seem t...
2022-02-19 03:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Alice walked into Cecilia’s enchanting shop, many of the less popular items had been packed up. It was obvious based on the emptied shelves that people were coming into the shop more frequently right now. Once Cecilia left, it might be a while before another dedicated [Enchanter] came to Cyra. Therefore, the people who were able to afford enchanted items had obviously been buying up ever...
2022-02-12 06:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, when Alice went to the docks for work, she was caught off guard.
The reason for this was simple. The broken mana in the docks had, rather naturally, built up over the time she had been working there. [Kinetic Mages] moved things around, [Organic Mages] occasionally popped in to heal injuries on the dock workers if needed, and on rare occasions enchantments would also be used...
2022-02-05 06:38:07 +0000 UTC View PostPre Chapter note – there is an ERROR in chapter 56. Alice received a notification that she went from level 19 to level 23 in Student of Kinetic Magic after the group finishes hunting down vinebears. This is incorrect – she was already level 23 in chapter 49. Alice started chapter 56 at level 23, and should have become level 25 at the end of the battle. This also puts her at the maxi...
2022-01-29 02:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe scouts spent about half an hour cutting apart the vinebears, searching for valuable materials. In the meantime, a few spidercrab packs wandered into the area, perhaps attracted by the mana leaking out of the vinebear corpses. Alice and the other mages quickly shredded them apart, if the [Guards] didn’t shoot them down first. Alice was sure she was pretty close to {Monster Hunter III}, tho...
2022-01-22 05:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe group of [Soldiers] and Mages spent a few hours travelling through the woods before they found the swarm of vinebears. In that time, Alice mostly chatted with the other Mages, though a few of the [Guards] travelling with the group also ended up joining into the conversation sometimes. Apart from the occasional swish of [Archers] dispatching overly adventurous spidercrab packs, the group mar...
2022-01-15 07:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Alice recruited Milo for help in experimenting, the rest of the day went by quickly. At least, it would have – if Alice didn’t still have gloppy chunks of colored mana whirling about every time she looked around her. The fact that the world was now made of rainbows made even walking distracting. Alice was getting seriously frustrated by how hard it was to concentrate on other things w...
2022-01-07 22:36:40 +0000 UTC View PostA few hours later, the [Innkeeper] politely rapped on Alice’s door a few times. With the help of some sort of noise-enhancing Perk, Alice woke up.
Only to find that the world looked a rainbow cloud had fallen over it. For a brief moment, she wondered if she had somehow wandered into the Aurora Borealis back on Earth. Every single inch of air, floor, and wall was covered with color and l...
2021-12-18 07:24:24 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Alice returned to her inn room. It was noisier than her room at Illa’s mansion had been, but it had been reasonably clean and tidy. On the bright side, Alice could deal with a bit of noise, and she still had meat with every meal. Monsters being present everywhere seemed to make meat a surprisingly cheap commodity in this world, so long as one wasn’t too picky about what kind of ...
2021-12-04 05:20:04 +0000 UTC View PostAll right, so right as I was trying to get back into a positive mindset my fucking computer died. I can no longer see the chapter I spent the last week working on, may need a new computer, and am kind of panic attacking right now. I have spent the last hour troubleshooting everything I could think of, but unfortunately the computer will simply no longer turn on. I am hoping that somehow a mirac...
2021-11-26 04:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostAs Alice was wrapping up her thoughts, she started to go through her classes and pick her Perks. She had unlocked a total of five over the course of the experiment, which was a record high for her. She was more than a little eager to see what she had available. Survivor was the easiest pick, since she had already decided roughly what she wanted a long time ago, while reading through the list of...
2021-11-20 03:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostAlice watched as mana poured into her body. It was far more than she had ever seen before. It wasn’t just a trickle, or even a stream.
Instead, this time, it was as if a veritable tsunami of mana was surging towards her. System notifications started popping up left and right.
And Alice, filled with curiosity, tried something else. It wasn’t something she had directly prepared to...
2021-11-13 02:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostAlice entered the manaless room. Cecilia closed the door. For the first time since Alice had arrived in this world, she was completely out of contact with mana. She had suspected for a long time that being cut off from mana wasn’t lethal for humans, but now that the time had finally come to test it, she couldn’t help but feel nervous. She took a deep breath, then released it.
So what ...
2021-11-05 03:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two weeks settled into a comfortable routine. Alice had discovered that Milo also worked at the docks, which made Alice feel much more at ease in her new job. Milo was more than happy to show her the ropes, which made her integrate smoothly into the crowd of workers there. A lot of the work Alice needed to do wasn’t particularly complicated. It mostly involved lifting heavy objects, ...
2021-10-29 01:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostAlice spent the next day detailing her plans to Illa – she asked a lot of questions about the north, and Illa was more than happy to provide Alice with crucial information.
First, Alice was told she should expect tuition to cost around 100-200 gold suns for a year. Magic academies usually awarded a certificate of completion after a certain level of proficiency in magic was acquired. Unl...
2021-10-15 02:32:56 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Alice went back to sleeping in Illa’s mansion – she felt nowhere near as nervous about doing so as she had last night, so she didn’t mind taking advantage of Illa’s generosity for a few more days. That night, Illa’s maid quietly hinted that Alice should start looking for lodgings on her own. Alice had taken this in stride. Since Illa no longer needed Alice to keep a lid on...
2021-10-07 23:55:29 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Alice successfully formed a pure mana magic seed. The formation of the magic seed itself went well – she formed a 10% mana conversion seed, which was the maximum she could possibly get from her {Three Seeds} Perk. However, Alice’s attempt to observe the process of forming a magic seed was far less successful. The simple reason for this was her inability to divide her attention e...
2021-10-01 05:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostThrough Training, you have increased an attribute!
Willpower +1, Magic +2
Through training, you have increased a skill!
Basic Enchanting +6
You have leveled up!
Explorer of magic: 34 -> 37
“Your encoding is ...
2021-09-23 23:08:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s see… if I recall correctly, you wanted to focus on consumable enchanting, but learn both types of enchanting, right?” Asked Cecilia, looking at Alice. Her twitchy and nervous expression slowly faded as the topic of enchanting came up, and Alice could see that the girl was truly passionate about the subject.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought made the most sense – you said y...
2021-09-16 23:49:08 +0000 UTC View PostCecilia dropped the wire, staring at the pile of rubble. She turned to Alice, and for panic surfaced in her eyes.
“It… it broke? What? But there was no problem – I checked it with my Perks and there was no –“ Suddenly, the panic in Cecilia’s eyes faded completely, replaced by an oddly emotionless and mechanical expression. Alice started to wonder how widespread emotio...
2021-09-09 22:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Illa, servant of the crown, greets Allira, immortal of song and shadow,” Illa said, her voice falling upon the area surrounding the town’s entrance gate. It was a strange sight for Alice, to see Illa bowing her head and greeting someone outside of her own city.
“It has been a while, hasn’t it? How have you been, little Illa? Are you surprised to see me?” The beautiful woman g...
2021-09-02 23:36:11 +0000 UTC View Post