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Chapter 333: Whispers Drifting in the Wind - Markets and Multiverses

Each leap of the monstrous spell-spider made my heart quiver. I had thought we were out of the woods for a moment, but this thing had other ideas. Worse, whatever relay the thing used to communicate with its main body was eldritch in nature. My clone was the only eldritch ability I had, and while I hadn’t checked m ySystem notifications yet, I could probably only make one clone before I ran o...

Chapter 332: Translucent Terrors - Markets and Multiverses

The moment my clone got in range, it dumped a huge chunk of its absorption essence into my second rune ability. A portal appeared right in front of it. My clone leapt through it. The portals I could open were too small for me to move through - but my water clones had far more adjustable size and shape, since they were made of water. Even though it was a tight squeeze, my clone managed to slip t...

Chapter 199 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

Alice continued staring at her new Perk for far, far longer than she should have, before she shook herself out of her thoughts. She had one more new Perk to pick, and two Perks to activate. Then… it was time to take her new Perk out for a spin, and see if she could finally make a [Fisherman] Class seed that worked as it was supposed to.

When Alice opened up the options for [Careful Ench...

Chapter 331: Control - Markets and Multiverses

The spider army surged forward, methodically searching each street. Meanwhile, our group’s anxiety continued to spike. If we stayed here, we would probably die. If we moved, we would also probably die. I swapped between my soul sight and my spatial sight, to see if I could find a solution to our dilemma.

As I stared at the spiders, I noticed something unusual. The spiders all had a sort...

Chapter 330: Tricksy Tricksy spiders-es - Markets and Multiverses

After discussing Sallia’s plan, the four of us agreed that it had enough merit to be worth trying. None of us were sure if it would work, but we didn’t have any better options. We only had two worlds left, and we needed to grow stronger. Even if going deeper into this building was risky, not going deeper into the building was also risky. It was a question of whether we preferr...

Chapter 329: Final Abilities and Decisions - Markets and Multiverses

After Felix finished using the bed, a total of twelve hours had passed since I had made my clone stop the collapse of the nest earlier in the facility. Sallia took a quick look, but decided that any Ability she wanted was outside of her budget. That meant that the four of us were done with the bed.

Felix had purchased several new tricks. First, and most interesting, he had grabbed a ‘sp...

Chapter 198 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

That night, Alice and Cecilia stewed in anxiety while they waited in Demor’s mansion. Alice’s worries about how to finish her last few problems had been tossed to the back of her thoughts. The Society’s appearance – or, perhaps more accurately, their reappearance, cast Alice’s thoughts into disarray.

About two hours before Alice usually went to sleep, Allira and Ethan k...

Chapter 328: Spatial Abilities- Markets and Multiverses

Author Note -  HUGE error last chapter.

So, to explain what the issue is, I need to go into a bit of an explanation about how my editing process currently works. Obviously, I’ve changed the way I edit chapters a bunch of times, as I experiment with new ways to get chapters written, figure out what’s easier, what makes better chapters, etc. But right now, I start ...

Chapter 327: Hints - Markets and Multiverses

Now that I knew what everyone had as their final ‘setup,’ I started my final session with the bed. I had 5,332.09 Achievement, and I was pretty comfortable spending down to about 200 if needed.

This time, I focused on the ‘Hints’ button in the bed’s menu.

Hints - Have the bed scan your Keyword Abilities to give you hints on the ‘best’ paths forward for...

Chapter 326: Group Changes - Markets and Multiverses

Author’s Note: Math oopsie in chapter 324.

For some reason, while I was editing the chapter, I was utterly convinced that Swordsmanship cost 4 glut, not 2. Thus, when I removed the ability, I subtracted 4 glut from Miria’s total and 40 Achievement, instead of 2 glut and 20 Achievement. I was redoing everyone’s char sheet this chapter, since I needed to check what ab...

Chapter 197 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

The moment after Alice processed what they were looking at, panic started to set in. There was blood on the floor. Something looked like it had entered the house and hurt the owner. There were signs of a struggle. Had a monster broken in? Had someone succumbed to a class-mana related madness that pushed them towards violence, then hurt someone? Or had something else happened?

Either way, ...

Chapter 325: Skill Customization - Markets and Multiverses

The Skill I decided to focus on was Endless Hunger of the Ocean. It had a lot of fragmented Keywords, which I suspected would give me interesting results.

The next moment, the System screen moved to the Skill customization menu. It was... complicated. When I looked at the Skill Customization menu, it didn't look like a clean list of things I could change. Instead, every time I focused on ...

Chapter 324: Skill Removal - Markets and Multiverses

The first thing I did was click on the ‘remove an ability’ option. Before messing with ability customization, I needed space. That meant getting some Glut free, to see what I was working with. I also needed to make sure the bed wasn't broken after centuries of neglect. Thus, I wanted to see what happened if I tried to remove basic-grade swordsmanship. This ability had long outlived its usef...

Chapter 196 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

The morning after Alice’s first magic seed experiment, she was in a good mood. She had finally made some progress towards making an artificial magic seed. She was still missing several things for a ‘full’ class seed, and she wasn’t entirely sure how to solve some of the problems she had… but she had a rough idea how to move forward, at least. She started out the day by filtering the r...

Chapter 323: Skill Center (3) - Markets and Multiverses

I reached out with my alteration essence and touched the string of fraying essence. Nothing else happened. The string of essence continued to fall apart. I felt a wave of panic as I realized something.

The thread of essence that was unravelling in front of us was meant to collapse the moment the spider died. I had always thought that the spiders could hear particularly well....

Chapter 322: Skill Center (2) - Markets and Multiverses

As I read the sign in front of the skill center, I thought about what we needed.

Removing Skills had potential, but also came at a cost. Removing an ability or part of an ability would weaken us. However, it would also free up more room for other abilities or Keyword abilities that we needed. It was also likely much cheaper than buying stats to create more glut. In addition, this downside...

Chapter 321: Skill Center - Markets and Multiverses

Now that we had a rough idea why the spiders were so terrifying, we didn’t need long to think up a countermeasure. The spiders had an obvious weakness. Their ridiculous speed and offensive power were reliant on their [Agility] and [Manifestation] stats. Both were temporary. If we kept them in a noisy environment, they would become very manageable foes. All we had to do was to stay away from t...

Chapter 320: Hunted - Markets and Multiverses

As I saw the horde of spiders dart towards us, I resisted the urge to start swearing in frustration.

One spider was stronger than most guardians for better shops in the outer district. It had access to offensive magic, healing, incredible speed, plant control, and some way to create footholds and maneuver around in midair. Worse, it was intelligent. Every time I used a certain trick or ab...

Chapter 195 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

With her mana penetration improved, Alice got back to work. After giving her new Perks one final read-through to make sure she wasn’t missing anything, she activated her new Perk. In an instant,{Burst of Multitasking} created five new magic tendrils.

Contrary to her expectations, Alice didn’t ‘see’ things through her new magic tendrils. Instead, any time her new magic tendrils tou...

Chapter 319: Speed - Markets and Multiverses

The first step was simple. I created a water clone, using the smallest possible amount of my soul that I could, and then sent it into the Spatial Fair with an instrument. This instrument sounded kind of like someone banging a metal bat against a bag of marbles. However, even though it sounded awful, it was noisy. That was all it needed to be. As it walked into the spatial fair, the clone strumm...

Chapter 318: Preparation is Key - Markets and Multiverses

Author’s Note: Notable typo last chapter. Miria states that her Achievement was at 12,7034.85 Achievement… which is absurd. I must have accidentally hit 2 number keys at the same time when I was writing, thus resulting in this highly improbable number. This has been corrected to 12,703.85 in both the previous chapter, and this one. I double checked it with the number in cha...

Chapter 194 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

Alice’s new plan was simple. She knew for a fact that the System was somehow helping people create artificial magic seeds. She couldn’t imagine any other way that Class Seeds could have plausibly come into existence. Furthermore, unless she was seriously misinformed about the rarity of materials, there was no freaking way the System used them for class seeds. Not only had Alice seen zero ev...

Chapter 317: Malice - Markets and Multiverses

Our group spent several minutes backtracking, before we met up with my clone. During that time, I had my clone cycle between soul sight and regular vision. Despite my efforts, I couldn’t find any enemies or traps in the area. Based on what I knew about the Market, there was no way the inner district didn't have a defender or ten. Since I couldn’t find the danger, that meant it had yet to re...

Chapter 316: The Inner Districts - Markets and Multiverses

After we confirmed that we were ready, we started sprinting. Our bodies didn't get tired or sore, so there was no reason to walk. Meanwhile, I sent my clone in a different direction. I didn't think that it would find an inner district, since it was less mobile than us and had to avoid skeletons. Our group could just blast through them as if they were minor obstacles, while my clon...

Chapter 315: Ability Testing - Markets and Multiverses

Author’s Note: In my infinite wisdom, in chapter 314 I forgot to apply Miria’s extra stats from Swordsmanship and her mental stats from her first rune. I also forgot to list ‘Fungal Resilience’ under her abilities list. Those are now properly applied to her status screen.

After integrating my new ability into my soul, I also gained an instinctive unders...

Chapter 193 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

The next few days were mostly repetition of the same thing. Alice woke up, had breakfast, and then watched Demor create Artifacts. Then, she experimented with the few remaining manaborn monsters, or returned to her Dream Library to review Demor’s actions. Alice kept hoping for some kind of revolutionary change to take place, illuminating the way forward. However, after three days, Alice had y...

Chapter 314: Guardians of the Market - Markets and Multiverses

Author’s Note: Small error last chapter. Miria tried to prepare an extinguish during the fight with the skeleton, which is usually fine… but she doesn’t have her affinity rebuilt yet. I forgot that while writing the chapter XD. Since her affinity isn’t built, she cannot try to use an Extinguish. This reference in the previous chapter has been replaced with an attem...

Chapter 313: Young Again - Markets and Multiverses

As usual, we drifted towards a city on the railing. Our souls drifted closer to the ground, until finally, we were just above the street. Then, mana swarmed my soul. Seconds later, I was in the middle of a fresh physical body. A few System notifications appeared.

Welcome newly Deceased!

You have been detected to be (dead), and your soul was no longer housed inside of a physical vess...

Chapter 312: Planning - Markets and Multiverses

When I came to, I was floating in a sea of darkness and souls. A golden lasso of energy appeared, and began dragging me forward. I spent a few moments adjusting to my situation, before I checked my surroundings. To my left were three other golden lassos. I relaxed. We were returning to the Market again.

But this time, there was something different about our journey. The journey back to th...

Chapter 192 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

The process of squishing all of the materials into an artifact was… complicated.

Alice watched in mute fascination as Demor started weaving together the three materials in front of her.

Alice had always vaguely felt that enchanting resembled coding from her previous world. Most enchantments resembled if/then statements from a code. Of course, there were plenty of differences betwe...