As night started to fall, Alice was startled out of her stupor by the loud clang of a bell that shook her out of her thoughts, ringing seven times before falling silent. She realized that she was sitting around and moping at a terrible time – she needed to find a place to sleep, as well as somewhere which hopefully had a hot meal. She hadn’t had anything to eat for several hours, and her st...
2021-04-16 16:46:07 +0000 UTC View PostAlice stared at the sign, trying to comprehend what she was looking at. The… church of the System? How the heck, what? The System is – huh.
Alice thought about what the System had done so far. It had ‘blessed’ her with attribute points when she worked for them, granted her knowledge and abilities beyond what she had access to whenever she ‘achieved’ a level, granted h...
2021-04-12 19:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter that, Alice briefly debated her options, trying to figure out if it was better to head towards a tailor first or find somewhere to take a bath. Eventually, she settled on heading towards a tailor first – she hadn’t been able to take a proper ‘bath’ during the entire winter due to fear of freezing to death, but she had at least been able to take a wet rag with some boiled water and...
2021-04-12 18:10:17 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Alice stepped through the gates and into the city, her first impression was architectural chaos. At least in the outer region of the city, the buildings were strewn about like a giant had casually tossed markers in random directions and people had then built exactly where those markers landed, regardless of how much sense it made. Much of the town was still under construction, with people ...
2021-04-12 18:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostRealizing that it was time to leave, Alice grabbed the supplies she felt she needed, such as food, and stored them in her basket. She also grabbed her spear, stone hatchet, and stone knife, because having some weapons on hand in case she ran into something else terrifying might be critical. She spared a glance at her cave, which she had slowly worked to transform into a somewhat cozy home, befo...
2021-04-12 18:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostDay 37
While she was logging, she finally saw the ‘monster sense’ ability of {Sixth Sense}. It quickly flipped her opinion on the Perk, changing from useless to incredibly valuable. The moment a spidercrab walked within about 200 meters of her, she instantly noticed its mana fluctuation – it felt kind of like a bright candle had suddenly been lit up in the middle of a dark night. Sh...
2021-04-12 18:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostWith her first monster successfully slain, even if she had suffered a wound during the fight, Alice felt a lot more confident in her survival as she went about her routine. She had made a few mistakes this time. Even so, this was her first real fight against a monster, and she had managed to survive and win! At the very least, instead of a far-off fantasy, Alice genuinely felt prepared for the ...
2021-04-12 18:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostAlice settled into a routine over the next week as the temperature continued to drop. In the morning, she would wake up and train her magic, moving objects around and trying to improve her proficiency, as well as training {Sprinting} and {Spearmanship}, since those seemed to be relevant to combat and easy to train. She also tried throwing stones at herself using her magic to train {Dodge}, but ...
2021-04-12 18:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostShe spent the rest of the day anxiously making preparations, however futile those preparations might be. She peeled several roasted nuts in advance, in case forming a magic seed was really demanding on her calories and she needed a quick resupply partway through the process. She also filled her bowl with boiled water, just in case she needed it, either to drink or in case her first attempt at m...
2021-04-12 18:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostAfter nearly getting eaten, Alice had to re-evaluate her priorities. She had a hard time keeping track of how long she had been in this dimension for, but she was sure that it had been a little under a week. In other words, within less than seven days of arriving on this world, she had nearly been eaten by a monster on top of all the other problems she had encountered.
Obviously, this did...
2021-04-12 18:04:47 +0000 UTC View PostWhen morning came, Alice was freezing. She hadn’t dared to light a campfire, afraid that whatever had killed the man in the river would find her if she made herself more visible. However, after several hours of nothing happening, her frayed nerves were beginning to restore themselves. Cautiously, she poked her head out of the cave, before slowly scooting her way back into the sunlight. After ...
2021-04-12 18:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the day passed uneventfully, with Alice occasionally going to get a few more tree branches to peel whenever the fire started to run low on fuel, but she mostly stayed near the fire and occasionally ate some of her berries. They weren’t very filling, but they were far better than nothing.
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Alice slept poorly - she was used to sleeping in a silent bedroom, and now that she was farther away from the massive area of dead trees and messed up animals she had first arrived in, shuffling sounds and animal calls kept her on edge throughout the night, making it hard for her to stay asleep. Alice woke up the next morning feeling groggy and irritable when the sunlight started creeping throu...
2021-04-12 18:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning was cold and miserable, and Alice realized how little warmth the open ground of the forest floor provided. She looked at the remains of her attempts at lighting a fire, as well as the fish that had now been laying in the dirt for several hours, and sighed. The core of heat inside of her chest left over from her mana baptism thrummed with heat, warming up her chilled limbs, but it wa...
2021-04-12 17:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostFor every Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking in the world, there were probably hundreds of people who could have achieved similar heights of knowledge if they had the right questions and resources. Albert Einstein had spent many of his early years struggling to even get by before he had finally had the time and insight to begin making scientific discoveries, catapulting his position from a drop...
2021-04-12 17:58:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe night was dark and quiet, with few souls passing through the dark and desolate forest. For most forests, even at night, the area would be teeming with life as animals hunted each other, foraged, and did their best to survive to the next day. However, most of the wildlife that had lived inside of these once-green fields had died or deserted this area.
One of the magically gifted would ...
2021-04-12 17:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post