I hacked at my own webs with a dagger, trying to unstick myself from the dragon's fleshy throat as quickly as possible. It wasn't so much due to the large presence outside, but more that a few things that were easily ignorable in the heat of battle were now making their presence known.
It was pitch black and my normally reliable olfactory perception was struggling to pick stuff out through the pervasive stench of dragon halitosis. That same foul smell made me gag with every breath I too...
2022-02-09 06:07:07 +0000 UTC
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"Do you think we should risk it?" asked Cluma, looking into the distance, where my [Mana Sight] had picked up a nest of two dozen anacondas. They may not be the size of the anaconda emperor we'd fought on the tenth floor, but they made up for it in numbers. Furthermore, they were close enough to the edge of the jungle that there was no way we'd make it past them while following the chamber wall. We'd need to detour deeper into the jungle. Not far enough that I couldn't keep the edge in view w...
2022-02-08 06:01:56 +0000 UTC
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They did not, alas, want to fluff my new tail, so I followed them back to the little cluster of stone structures, feeling my tail swish behind me as I walked. None of my armour was going to fit now, but that was a small price to pay.
"So, not just the power of a dragon, but immortality, and, apparently, evolution?" asked Ortho, looking up at me as I entered. "I hope it wasn't our own forces that killed you that time?"
"No, the red dragon."
Everyone in the room gasped, from l...
2022-02-07 05:48:45 +0000 UTC
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The name Dafydd meant nothing. It was completely unfamiliar and didn't at all feel like it belonged to me. But all my thoughts and questions about the loss of my name suddenly took a back seat to something far more important.
"Mum... Dad..." I muttered, crying and shaking. "How?"
Why was I even surprised? Owen had reincarnated as Daniel, and if my brother had reincarnated, why not my parents? Why hadn't I considered the possibility before? They'd told me they were an elde...
2022-02-04 06:03:48 +0000 UTC
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"If we're going to end up fighting, can we at least move outside the town first?" I asked. "It wouldn't be fair for everyone to get caught up in it."
"Fighting?" asked the dragon, his maw curling into a smirk a bus could fit into, teeth on full display. "You think that if I wanted you to die, there would be a 'fight'. I see you possess the usual human levels of arrogance."
I thought back to the interactions I'd had with humans, but I couldn't really point at any as particularly ar...
2022-02-03 06:01:49 +0000 UTC
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Si'janrii, vulpes sagax
This race of intelligent monsters came about after a particularly bored draco rubrum taught their ancestors how to set things on fire, then decided that the result would be far more entertaining if they were intelligent enough to not set themselves on fire too, engaging in biomancy and animancy to boost their intelligence. This particular specimen has greater strength and endurance and slightly increased dexterity than is usual for the species, but has below ave...
2022-02-02 06:23:02 +0000 UTC
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The schedule for Feburary will remain unchanged. March will probably be 3x unbound soul and the ending of fetch quest, but it depends on what my backlog looks like at the time.
Teleporting back to Dawnhold before anyone noticed I'd snuck back into my old bedroom, I made myself breakfast and waited for Cluma to turn up. What was the point of buying a place of my own if I couldn't face staying there? It was a place to store stuff, but I'd never been lacking in t...
2022-02-01 06:19:56 +0000 UTC
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I have covid. :( Send fluffy beastkin for hugs and snuggles.
The schedule for Feburary will remain unchanged. March will probably be 3x unbound soul and the ending of fetch quest, but it depends on what my backlog looks like at the time.
Holy magic tolerance advanced to level 7
I woke up back in the capital, in the ruins of the castle. There was some amount of commotion going on, apparently directed at me. What did my res...
2022-01-31 06:34:39 +0000 UTC
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The tenth floor boss was, as expected, nothing on the scale of Dawnhold's. In fact, it consisted of only a single monster.
"That's a big snake," commented Cluma, and I couldn't help but agree. Fifteen metres long, perhaps? It was hard to judge, being curled up, but it was at least a metre in girth.
Anaconda Emperor, level 20
"Level twenty," I informed her. "I would advise against letting this one bite you."
"I didn't intend to."
It was the stron...
2022-01-28 06:10:46 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay. I've just had a rather interesting drive; my normal route was closed, leaving me needing to backtrack and pick out a different route, which turned out to also be closed. Thank goodness for satnav... Still, some of the little villages I ended up getting directed through were quite scenic, so silver linings everywhere.
For those who read the previous chapter early, note that Katie forgetting to stash her accessories was edited out. ...
2022-01-27 07:21:51 +0000 UTC
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"Shouldn't you be dealing with the real attack instead of trying to kill your own ally?"
"Ally? You killed Richard!"
Which one was Richard? I hadn't been bothering to appraise them, but perceive presence told me everyone I'd hit was still alive. "No I didn't; he's fine." Well, if Richard was the one in the moat, 'fine' was pushing things a bit, but they probably had healers. I'm sure that arm could be reattached with no problem. "Besides, you're trying to kill me...
2022-01-26 06:37:43 +0000 UTC
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"All done," called Cluma, dropping from the ceiling, where she'd somehow managed to suspend herself while nailing a cabinet to the wall. "Any more furniture?"
"Nope, I think that's everything. It's not like I need much storage space, anyway. I keep everything important in [Item Box]."
"It's a house! You have to have furniture. Sheesh, if it was up to you, I'd bet you'd just dump your mattress on the floor instead of a bed-frame!"
"Huh? Name one person in the village...
2022-01-25 06:01:16 +0000 UTC
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"And you're definitely just a normal villager, and not some evil witch or something?" I asked.
"Yes! For the thousandth time, yes!" exclaimed the irate woman. "How many times do you need to ask?"
"It's just that I have really poor luck when it comes to trying to 'save' people. When I swooped in to rescue some kidnap victims from bandits, I kinda expected to discover they were actually just rough-looking adventurers who had captured some heinous wanted criminals."...
2022-01-24 06:06:07 +0000 UTC
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"I know you could get hurt," commented Cluma out of nowhere while I was extracting the cores from a group of giant pythons, floor eight once again being a repeat of the previous floor, except with scaled up monsters. The poison contingent consisted of grey cobras, which were the first snakes in the dungeon to not rely on sight. Not that it helped them any.
"Hmm? Where did that come from?"
"I've been thinking about what you said. I know you can get hurt. You couldn't even feed your...
2022-01-21 06:24:36 +0000 UTC
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"You can't be serious!" yelled Craig. "She..."
Ortho didn't even speak, a glance in the man's direction being enough to silence him. Unfortunately, that meant the snort of laughter that escaped me as I read his appraisal results was clearly audible. His full name was Craig Slecher, and the appraisal description literally described him as having 'no redeeming features'. What was he doing here, then?
"Well?" Ortho asked, turning back to me.
"I don't have enough information to ...
2022-01-20 06:35:47 +0000 UTC
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The fancy knight melted under my torrent of flame, as did the wall behind him and several more beyond that. The screams of the fox-kin were joined by the screams of humans, most of them very brief, as I swept my flame from side to side. I caught sight of Kevin teleporting away before I hit him, though. I suppose he'd summoned me, so I shouldn't have been surprised he could do actual magic.
Something I'd failed to consider was that melting long gashes in a structure's supporting walls te...
2022-01-19 06:51:03 +0000 UTC
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I winced as I made a deep cut on my arm, not with a knife this time, but with my short sword. As expected, the artificial arm split open, developing a similar wound. I'd aimed the cut to slice straight through the runes that made up the body affinity enhancement, and through [Mana Sight] I watched the enchantment splutter and die out.
Unlike the steel knife, my sword was very enchanted, and didn't struggle to slice through my arm. Combined with the unwieldiness, I'd cut quite a...
2022-01-18 05:59:59 +0000 UTC
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So, in my original plan, the human arc was supposed to be a relatively brief thing of five or so chapters, where Katie simply kicked arse because nothing in the world could stop her. Then the demon arc ended up shorter than planned, because there wasn't a lot I could do with a town of friendly NPCs, and this grew longer to compensate. The result is a bit... I dunno. It's definitely something. Not sure yet if good something or bad something.
When I returned to ...
2022-01-17 06:30:15 +0000 UTC
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Artificial human right arm (Quality: 50)
- Enchantment: Durability (Rank 4)
- Enchantment: Body affinity enhancement (Rank 4)
- Enchantment: Biological integration (Rank 4)
- Enchantment: Irremovable (Rank 4)
"Body affinity enhancement?" I queried.
"It seemed like an interesting thing to test," shrugged Grover. "We don't know if your spell will work at all, and if it does, we don't know what will be transferred. Will a durab...
2022-01-14 06:31:16 +0000 UTC
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I stood in front of the daemonium semideus, circulating mana from my core throughout my entire body. With my new dragon-sized mana pool in use for body enhancement, I could see each twitch of its muscles and pick out each individual jeer from the crowd. Its face was twisted in the same smirk these demons always wore. It didn't see me as a challenge. It was little surprise; I was unarmoured, my finest crafted centipede and silk armour offering no more protection than my nightie in the face of ...
2022-01-13 06:34:04 +0000 UTC
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Picking at scabs, Do'myrith had called it, and I had to admit that I found the accusation hard to deny. I walked along the empty streets of the fox-kin settlement, the houses cold and silent. The defensive wall was in place, along with the outer barrier, but it was protecting nothing but a ghost town. Perceive mana showed no reactions; the structures were empty shells, lacking even furniture. Not that I was in much of a mood to loot, even if there was anything. Would the survivors be happy to...
2022-01-12 06:44:43 +0000 UTC
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"So—and correct me if I'm wrong here—you are deliberately going to cut your arm off, and want me to be around to stop you from bleeding to death when it all goes horribly wrong?"
"Well, I'm not going to cut it off. It's a skill. And it's 'if' it goes horribly wrong, not 'when'."
Raymond was sitting with his face resting in his hand, in a sort of resigned depression. He looked very much like I imagined myself looking back when I was trying to explain to Darren...
2022-01-11 06:04:30 +0000 UTC
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I stared down the daemonium vindex I was facing in the arena, another red-skinned humanoid demon. It was only a head taller than I was, wearing nothing but a few metal plates strapped to his body. A codpiece did at least do something to protect his modesty, but I couldn't help but feel like it was the male equivalent of bikini armour. It certainly did nothing to hide his beautifully chiselled abs or biceps.
If I was into men at all, I might have been tempted.
The biceps were made ...
2022-01-10 06:39:51 +0000 UTC
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"Boring," complained Cluma, no more than two minutes later.
"What were you expecting? We're only on floor five."
"That was fast," said Michael as we emerged from the portal. "Did everything go okay?"
"Yeah. They couldn't do anything about Cluma's [Stealth], so it wasn't a challenge."
"But there were grey cobras in there. They're blind, so [Stealth] wouldn't have any effect."
"That's what enchantments are for!" exclaimed Cluma, hugging him from behind. She'd accep...
2022-01-07 06:00:54 +0000 UTC
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Pain immunity advanced to level 37
I was glad I'd decided to sit for the next hour rather than stand, because a couple of minutes after picking my class, once the mild delirium of having my brain screwed around with had faded, the migraine had set in. I was reduced to lying on my silk mat with my eyes closed. Light was supposed to be bad for migraines, so shouldn't that mean that the inverted light cast from the black torches would help them? The logic was all well and good, bu...
2022-01-06 06:09:05 +0000 UTC
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Fungi fun-guy remained unchanged and perverted masochist hadn't reappeared. Symbiont of the devourer was gone though, again implying that my pet murder tree was not having a good time. Bondage aficionado was, of course, still there, and worse, the description had grown to include my latest escapades.
Available class: Bondage aficionado (Rare)
Just how, exactly, do you keep ending up in so many compromising situations? Bound by the roots of an angelica vorax, cocooned by an aranea...
2022-01-05 06:47:07 +0000 UTC
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"Why are you so eager to get to the dungeon?" asked Cluma from her bedroom the next morning, where she was in the middle of changing.
"I'm not, in particular," I answered from their living room.
A cloud of thoughtful silence was the only response for the next minute before she left her room and stared at me.
"You're embarrassed about something," she declared with absolute confidence.
"What... What makes you think that?" I asked, panicking slightly.
"Because your ...
2022-01-04 06:14:25 +0000 UTC
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One day, I would like to wake up in a bed. A proper one. Not just the silk mat on the floor I'd used on the rare occasion I'd actually gone to sleep willingly since getting trapped in this world, but something with a nice, thick mattress, and soft and squishy duvet to snuggle into. Maybe with some fluffy plushies to keep me company.
Alas, today was not that day, so I forced my stiff body off the rock-hard ground and into an upright position, thanking my pain immunity while trying to wor...
2022-01-03 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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"I'm... full," said Cluma, head tilted in confusion, with a third of her giant meat skewer still left on the plate in front of her. "I think?"
"What do you mean, you think?"
"I don't know. I still feel hungry, but looking at this meat, I can't face eating any more of it. It's weird."
Strange indeed. It's not like she normally makes a habit of overeating, but she does tend to make the most of things when eating out. Doubly so when I was paying. I'd seen her eat lumps...
2021-12-31 06:25:12 +0000 UTC
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Evolution conditions met: Mana toxicity tolerance ranks up to mana toxicity resistance
Most living creatures require water to live, but that doesn't mean they can't drown. The same applies to mana, and even the most powerful arch-mage will still burn if trapped in a dense ocean of magic. What sort of twisted location you managed to find that possessed a mana density sufficient to break down your body by its mere presence is a secret known only to you, but it was enough to earn this upg...
2021-12-30 06:36:28 +0000 UTC
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