The monster barreled towards me like a freight train, and I heard the crunching of trees as the monster punched through them like they weren’t even there. I froze as the ominous crackling and rumbling drew towards me.
This thing could run through trees like they weren’t even there. If it hit me, I was dead. Worse, the monster had way too much life force. Extinguish could weaken it, bu...
2025-04-16 05:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostAlice took a few moments to look over her rewards for all of her enchanting work. Over the past few weeks, Alice had done quite a bit of enchanting - which, naturally, came with a set of rewards in terms of levels.
You have leveled up!
Careful Enchanter: 50 -> 54
Sadly, Alice hadn’t quite hit the break point for another Perk yet. Alice wasn’t entirely sure what she was ...
2025-04-11 21:45:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment I activated the trial, I was met with a flash of blinding white light. At first, I thought it was meant to be some sort of transition effect, but a moment later, I realized I was wrong. Threads of essence spread out towards my surroundings like the web of a spider. I had the strangest feeling that reality itself was being made and unmade right before my eyes, and my essence sense str...
2025-04-11 00:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we all confirmed the way that rewards worked for the hero trials, Felix had asked us to wait until he ran some tests on what rewards we could get. After several minutes of questioning the AI, he confirmed a few things.
First, he confirmed that we couldn’t just ask for a small sun or star core, or anything of the sort. The rewards menu treated any variation of a sun as a ‘banned ...
2025-04-10 04:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostAs I stood at the top of the staircase at the foot of the great tree, I felt a twinge of anxiety. I looked at the ground below us, and saw hundreds of people clustered around the base of the tree. I could barely see them, but something about the undulations of the crowd made me feel uneasy. These were the people of the Sanctuary. They knew that I was a hero. Many of them knew that Felix had mad...
2025-04-09 04:43:21 +0000 UTC View PostAlice and Demor spent the next several days trying to find ways to get an enchantment or Artifact to work the way Alice now envisioned it working. Of course, that opened up more questions from Demor. Alice was hiding things about the System, and he knew it, and some of those secrets were actually needed by him.
Alice decided to take a breather a few times, and asked Ethan what he thought ...
2025-04-05 01:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed.
Felix ended up choosing one of the already-fleshed-out magic systems of this dimension - the one that I had witnessed shortly before Anise woke up. He decided to gain the ability to sing materials into existence. From Felix’s perspective, he claimed that the ability to generate useful materials in new dimensions could sidestep a lot of early materials shortages. In most dim...
2025-04-04 07:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after the battle ended, I spent a few hours checking over my own gains during the fight. I hadn’t managed to identify any weaknesses in the flesh-clouds, unfortunately. They weren’t like the giant sky-leviathan, where it had obviously struggled to counter one of my primary combat abilities. Thus, I had decided to act as support during the battle. I healed people and used my spatial ...
2025-04-03 06:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostAlice looked at the typo-ridden, error-laden script, and frowned.
What the heck was even going on?
She turned towards one of the Sigmusi troops, who she was supposed to be fighting, and then gestured towards him. “Wait a minute, I’m not quite sure what we’re supposed to do with the scrip,” said Alice.
“Is there a problem” he asked, dropping his ‘fierce’ express...
2025-04-02 08:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Father,” said Felix, as he tried to contain his surprise. He had expected to need to explain the fact that he was a hero to other people - that was half the point of this stint. There was no good way to meet up with Miria without that, since the city was now watching Miria and Anise like hawks. That also meant that his family would discover the truth sooner or later. He had just assumed it...
2025-04-02 08:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Alice returned to Demor’s research lab, she found the man hunched over the Artifact they had recovered from the Society. The Artifact didn’t look particularly different from the last time she had seen it. It still strongly resembled a plate of spaghetti gone horribly wrong. She sighed, before she knocked on the side of the wall to get his attention.
“Demor? Are you free right n...
2025-03-28 22:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostFelix felt the crackle of energy as his essence surged in his body, and resisted the urge to grin.
It had been too long since he had a real chance to show off his abilities.
Last world, he had spent decades playing the political game to farm Achievement. It had been lucrative, but he’d had few opportunities to put his real skills to the test. Now, he had a chance to do a fight on ...
2025-03-28 04:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe next raid took another month to come. During that time, Anise and I continued to train, while Sallia and Felix prepared for their own debuts as heroes. Felix said that he was working on a ‘special surprise,’ and refused to elaborate on it. Sallia, meanwhile, continued polishing he weapon skills and her midair maneuverability. She had already trained swordsmanship and archery up to advan...
2025-03-27 04:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed, as Anise and I buried ourselves in research and training.
Elder Veridian was more than happy to help Anise and I test the limits of ‘sunlight.’ In some respects, she actually seemed even more eager than Anise and I. While we saw it as a good way to help the sanctuary and harvest a bunch of Achievement, but Elder Veridian seemed to see it as a real hope for the future. She...
2025-03-26 04:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe next set of Perks that Alice focused on were the two Perks from [Legendary Organic Healer]. The first set of perks she had seen from that Class had impressed her quite a bit, and Alice had very high hopes for her next Perk choice.
The first Perk that she saw was enough to reaffirm her high expectations.
Legendary Healer’s Resilience
Requirements: ...
2025-03-21 21:16:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhile we had decided on a final plan to move forward, we still needed assistance. I had already learned about how ludicrously expensive dimensional terraforming was, and creating a new sun wouldn’t be cheap. We needed help. The most obvious place to get help was our teacher. The next time Elder Veridian came to teach us, Anise and I decided to try out our first test.
“Elder Veridian, ...
2025-03-21 01:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostBefore we proceeded any further, Anise and I discussed what we had seen with Sallia and Felix. We needed to discuss our goals as a group - after all, Felix or Sallia might have a really good idea what our discovery meant, or how to make better use of it.
The conclusion the four of us came to, after some discussion, was that we were confused. Why had something that didn’t exist in ...
2025-03-20 02:43:13 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: It has been brought to my attention that I did yet another math oopsie. I forgot to update Miria’s stat sheet to include the extra 1 grade of absorption and 1 grade of Perception that she bought when I was doing her calculations for reincarnation in the fourth world. It was listed correctly in her 'parent' stat sheet, but for whatever reason the wrong numbers...
2025-03-19 04:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took a few moments for Alice to feel overwhelmed by the mana swarming into her class seeds. It was a collage of color and mana that left her vision looking like a confused rainbow. Alice started desperately filtering mana, because if she didn’t, her magic seeds would get hopelessly clogged in seconds, and unclogging the whole mess would become a nightmare. Even more annoying, the mana...
2025-03-15 00:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two weeks for me to get to a point where I could actually enclose a small area in my senses and start to read the ‘laws of reality’ with any level of precision. I learned much more slowly than Anise did, but I was quite happy with my progress, especially after Elder Veridian told me that she had taken nearly 6 months to learn the same. Part of my accelerated learning pace was probab...
2025-03-13 23:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Veridian spent several minutes going over visualization exercises, Anise got into the swing of things. She didn’t have a proper ‘illusory eye’ formed yeet, but she was at least heading in the right direction. Veridian seemed happy with Anise’s progress, so she turned her attention to me.
“Before we get started, just to confirm, you were also interested in learning an incom...
2025-03-13 03:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post“The first thing we should do is go over your options,” said Veridian, as she turned towards Anise. “Wait… actually, I have an idea. Normally, I would just teach Anise the Hylian magic system, and teach you the Alyndian magic system. But, while I haven’t discussed this one with the others yet, I think they’d love it. And it might let you really make a difference. Are you in...
2025-03-12 05:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Alice noticed a small, subtle difference in the world. It was slight, but she could feel… something different about her.
She checked her body, and utilized her various mana-senses to get a better idea of what had changed. A moment later, she grinned.
It was just a tiny thread of mana… but she could see small bits of belief mana gathering inside of her...
2025-03-07 23:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, our new teacher returned to the bakery. She was no longer flanked by two bodyguards - she looked just like any other middle-aged woman coming to our shop to buy a loaf of bread. Coincidentally, Anise and I were in the front of the store, so we saw her as she strolled in. She gave both of us a friendly smile.
“Hey girls, glad to see you again. How have you been?” she aske...
2025-03-07 05:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostVeridian strode into the meeting room, before she plopped herself down onto one of the soft, cushy seats with a sigh. She looked around, and confirmed that she was one of the last ones to enter the meeting room. They were still waiting on the two final advisors, but the King and the three Sentinel-Reclaimers were already here.
The others gave her polite nods, although Veridian couldn’t ...
2025-03-06 04:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostOne day later, someone from the meeting came to meet us. It happened right after I healed another two patients who had lost their hands during a previous fight. As they were making their way out the door, an elderly woman and two men flew to the front of our bakery.
The elderly woman appeared to be in her early forties… which meant that she was ridiculously old. In this wo...
2025-03-05 05:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post“So what exactly do you want from me?” asked the [Priest of the System]. “To put it bluntly, you don’t seem like a typical believer. It might just be a feeling, but I suspect you might not even be from the Church of the System. Someone from the Church of Mana?” He asked. Before Alice could respond, the man kept speaking. “Also, if I am not mistaken, the person who contacted me and a...
2025-03-01 00:29:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days were quiet. Our parents fussed over Anise and I even more than before, as if they were trying to reassure us that our status as heroes hadn’t changed anything about our family. For our part, Anise and I did our best to keep things normal as well. We spent time in the kitchen with our parents, especially when they were baking bread, and spent time around the shop when custome...
2025-02-28 05:43:44 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note:
I made a slight adjustment to the ending of last chapter, to imply that Anise and Miria are settling some things with their family this chapter. When I was reworking this chapter, I started to feel like it made much more sense to settle that now, instead of in the chapter after this - so I swapped around which chapter some things occur in. Given ...
2025-02-27 04:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe building quaked and shivered, as if we were caught up in the midst of an earthquake. Then, the building lurched upwards. I realized that the building had already sprouted legs and was trying to stand up. The building’s next movement sent me spinning wildly to the side, as the building did something that tilted the floor nearly vertically. I heard people groan in pain, as sev...
2025-02-26 05:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post