Chapter 234: Sacrificial Summoning
"Can you teleport inside?" I asked Vee.
"Nope, I tried already," Vee answered. "[Spatial Sense] shows the entire area as blocked off. I don't think my [Rift Thread] is getting in."
Despite Vee's guess, she tried to see if she could penetrate the barrier. Unfortunately, her fears were confirmed, and her thread struck across the barrier, causing magical sparks on contact but otherwise being fruitless in penetrating.
K...
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Chapter 37 - Mana Cycling
"Arakil!" Lily said excitedly as she hastily pulled the book from beneath her mattress and placed it on her desk.
She only had a brief moment, so she needed to get her questions out of the way before she went to classes. If she didn't, they would eat at her all day, not to mention that she wanted to confirm that her extra meditation wouldn't be harmful in any way.
"I just finished with my doctor's checkup. He didn't mention ...
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Chapter 36 - Health
After catching up with Rose some more and having dinner, Lily was technically supposed to go to bed. The only issue was she was struggling to sleep thanks to the excitement of her mind bouncing around from topic to topic.
Since Lily was lying there with her eyes closed anyway, she decided to take the opportunity to try the meditation technique and hoped it would settle her down. At first, she did a full cycle of the regular one to help calm h...
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Chapter 233: Black Sun
To my surprise, Vee had taken out the crazy black flame mage with a flawless assassination. I could only dock her points for her timing. If she had been a little faster, I wouldn't be staring down such a massive spell that was rapidly destabilizing itself.
Why couldn't the spell just disappear when its creator died. Why does it have to stick around like some doomsday weapon?
My mental complaints went unanswered, and now I ne...
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Chapter 35 - Results
Rose began retelling the events of that night. Lily was tapping her finger along the spine of the book, listening. She had no idea that Arakil had put a secret message in the inscription he had claimed was a spell to secure the ritual.
Technically, it had secured the ritual, but Lily wasn't about to admit that as she was still feeling disgusted by the fact that she had not only drunk blood but blood from someone else. That was all k...
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Chapter 34 - Awakening
Swirling images flew by. Stars were being sucked into an ever-growing void. Spiraling and spiraling until collapsing into a silvery sphere. The sphere exploded into a burst of iridescent light.
"Guh!" Lily exhaled as she bolted upright.
Then she began coughing. Her throat felt absolutely parched, and as she fumbled around weakly, she noticed someone had left a pitcher and glass of water on her bedside table. She didn't remember going...
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Chapter 232: Spider Time
Damn, that's useful. Vee thought as she watched her two gas spells be blown straight towards the enemies.
Magic had many useful applications, and Syl was a real Swiss army knife with various spells and abilities. If Vee was honest with herself, she had given up trying to catalog or put a number to the multiple forms of magic or slime abilities that had been displayed.
And all I got is [Corrosion Magic] and [Dimension M...
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Chapter 33 - Slumber
"Lily!" Rose screamed when she saw the tiny girl's body begin to glow and convulse.
Rose rushed over to Lily's collapsing body as fast as possible, completely panic-struck. She cradled Lily's limp body and quickly began to check on her. Her body still pulsed with that glow, almost identically to the rhythm of a beating heart.
"You bloody book! If anything happens to Lily, I'll throw you into the ocean!" Rose snarled.
Rose first c...
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Chapter 32 - Contingency
Rose managed to snap out of her stupor and remember what she needed to do. She already had the page in hand, so she quickly ripped it in half. The page burst into magical flames, and that was when magical writing began appearing in front of her.
[Hello Rose, this is our first time conversing, although it is slightly one-sided. As Lily has introduced, my name is Arakil, and we've found our fates intertwined.]
"Hello...
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Chapter 31 - Ritual Start
Thanks to their well-practiced routine expeditions they made it back to the glade in no time. While some small monsters were roaming about the forest, unlike their daytime treks, nothing had approached them, thanks to their shadowy cloaks concealing their presence.
As they stepped into the small forest glade, a sense of tranquility enveloped them. The night was quiet, save for the gentle rustle of leaves and the distant call of an owl. ...
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Chapter 30 - Preparations
Arakil was conflicted as he paced up and down the miniaturized world inside the book. On the one hand, their preparations were making extremely good headway, but he was agitated by the lack of direct impact he could have once the ritual was underway.
It would be entirely beyond his control once the two girls headed out during the next full moon. Not to mention, he was not looking forward to the consequences of his slight deception again...
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Chapter 231: Healers First
"You know... Now that I'm on this side, it's funny how nobody actually knows what Syl is," Vee said.
"It's hilarious," Trixie agreed.
"It's certainly beneficial, but now dragon or demon? What's next?" I sighed mentally.
I was rather annoyed that whatever spell was cast to protect the mage had ejected him to safety after I had broken it. I eyed the holy woman angrily and knew she would be my next target.
"Whatever she ...
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Chapter 29 - Foundation
"So this is the spot?" Lily asked, looking around curiously.
It had been a week since Rose originally discovered the hidden glade, and now they were heading out to make the initial preparations. Rose had made almost daily trips to the location to ensure that no monsters overtook it and that Lily would be safe enough to be escorted.
Not that Lily was entirely helpless. She still held the attack spell inscription that Arakil ...
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Chapter 28 - Planning
Lily gasped when she saw Rose. Judging by her ragged appearance, she looked like she had wrestled with the entire forest. But surprisingly, there was no blood or visible wounds on her.
But that wasn't the cause of her gasp. No. Rose was now sporting a massively large tail!
What was once a small, almost cute, tadpole-like tail had transformed into a thick, long appendage. The red draconic scales that now covered it gave it a rather int...
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Chapter 230: Squires
The trail led us away further from the battlefield. I was beginning to wonder if we were being led on a false lead, but Trixie urged us to continue following. Vee was recovering well after her rushed experience, and it looked like we would be in tip-top shape to face whatever we were about to meet.
The trail went through a large formed pillar, and so we went around it as quickly as possible using [Wind Step], hoping not to lose the trail. Wh...
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Chapter 27 - Rose's Outing
Rose was having a good day. She really hadn't expected her weekend to be this exciting.
Her task was simple: find a remote location in the forest for this so-called ritual. The forest itself wasn't that dangerous due to its proximity to the town, so the monster population was routinely culled down to an acceptable level.
Not that any of the monsters could stand up to a dragon!
Her body seemed to revel in this. What fe...
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Chapter 26 - Compromise
The rest of the day went by without much trouble, although Lily felt like she had a knot in her stomach for the entirety of it. Camilla must have noticed it and even asked what was wrong eventually during work.
Lily hesitated at first but decided opening up wouldn't do any harm.
"Rose is going to Regarth early… She will be leaving without me," She explained.
Camilla seemed slightly surprised initially but soon recovered as s...
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Chapter 229: Even Stranger
"Okay... What the hell is going on?" I asked, staring at the nearly identical monster group before me.
"What? No way, almost perfectly identical monsters that you've previously defeated... What a weird coincidence!" Trixie declared, dripping with enough sarcasm to drown someone.
"I hate that she has the answer but refuses to tell us..." Vee grumbled.
"It's certainly vexing. I can only assume it has somethi...
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Chapter 25 - Haste
[What do you mean Rose is going away?]
"She said they are sending her to Regarth early," Lily worriedly explained. "It's a boarding school, so students live there! Lady Desthu said it would be good for her to leave early and get settled, and that horrid woman claims she's worried about controlling Rose's temper!"
Arakil sighed bitterly. Why did dragons always have to be such moody creatures?
He understood ...
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Chapter 24 - Grounded
Rose stirred, feeling a throbbing pain in her head. She slowly sat up from the bed she was in.
When did I go to bed? Wasn't I in class?
Her memory felt fuzzy… She recalled being extremely bored, angry, and red—a surge of conflicting emotions, a battle within herself.
She grumbled, rubbing her head and checking for injuries. As far as she could tell, she looked in perfect health, besides a strangely splittin...
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Chapter 23 - Incident
Time flew by for Lily, a testament to her unwavering dedication to her studies. Her relentless pursuit of knowledge made each day feel like a fleeting moment. She would blink, and suddenly, she'd be forcing herself to reluctantly go to bed, her mind still buzzing with the day's lessons.
After introducing glyphs, her job at the shop became far more enjoyable. While she never hated it, and sometimes the lessons were interesting, now she was a...
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Chapter 228: Strange Monsters
I could effectively ignore the hedgehog and hawk, but that centipede was another story entirely. It needed to die immediately, and I wouldn't give it any more chance to attack my shadow.
Seriously... Shadow abilities seem to be damn annoying. First, the elf assassin, and now this bug, I'd almost assume they were related if it wasn't for the fact it's a monster.
I knew the shadow creature would be intangible, meaning t...
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Chapter 22 - Tests
With most of the work done, they cleaned up after first eating a small lunch Camilla had prepared. Camilla was busy putting away her raw ingredients, which left Lily mostly to herself.
Lily was curious about one thing after drawing so many of these blood glyphs.
Arakil said you can activate a glyph by placing a drop of ink on the primary crest… What's stopping me from doing the same thing with blood ink?
The questi...
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Chapter 21 - Potions
Lily was quite excited to go into Camilla's atelier. Now that it involved actual potions rather than herbal remedies, she found it far more magical and enticing. Entering the room, Lily first noticed that there were already five bottles of blackish-red ink.
It caused Lily to gasp in surprise. "You made that many already?"
Camilla chuckled. "Girl, if you knew how simple it was to make the blood ink version, I think you'd be rat...
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Chapter 227: Salamander Squad
With a pop, I canceled my enlarged [Bubble] spell and began casting a normal-sized one in addition to [Zephyr Shroud] on Vee. As the spider had said many times, she was not strictly fireproof, and I didn't want her to take any unnecessary damage. It appeared that when working together, these salamanders could really turn up the heat.
As if instinctually understanding my intent, Vee used [Blink] to leave my shoulder as soon as the fi...
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Chapter 20 - Ink
Lily began precisely drawing out her designed glyph. Although well-practiced with every component, she hesitated to put it all together. Not to mention, she was doing it for real with genuine glyph ink.
Rather than use her recently bought pen, she continued using her original, as it had already used the glyph ink, and she was perhaps a little paranoid that it would negatively affect it.
Maybe I should buy myself another pen…&nbs...
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Chapter 19 - Misunderstanding
Lily was startled by Rose's sudden hostility.
"No! Rose, it's a misunderstanding!" Lily tried to calm her down.
"The only misunderstanding will be when I put my fist in her wrinkly face," Rose growled.
Lily threw herself at Rose, tightly hugging her side.
"It was happy tears! Happy!" Lily attempted to reason with the angry dragon. "I finally got glyph ink! I drew my first spell!"
Lily ...
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Chapter 226: Artillery
"Oh wow, the temptation to just turn into a giant slime-worm and go barreling through them is almost overpowering," I chuckled.
"Please don't..." Vee replied nervously.
"Please do!" Trixie countered with a massive grin.
With a shoulder angel and devil, I decided to keep my sanity and not succumb to temptation. It would have been glorious, but that would be the end of Syl, the adventurer. I wasn't ready for that commitm...
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Chapter 18 - First Glyph
Lily tilted her head as she looked at Camilla's surprise.
"I can explain in more detail, but I think it would be simpler if I just redrew this," Lily said as she pointed to more and more uneven lines and erroneous shapes.
Camilla was truly taken aback. When she eventually recovered, she simply pushed the bottle containing the blackish-blue liquid and slapped a blank piece of parchment on the table.
"Be my guest!" Camilla scof...
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Chapter 17 - Truth
Despite Rose being back, Lily's routine remained relatively the same. Rose was kept rather busy catching up on her missed studies and extra lessons, the content of which she kept a secret. However, they spent all three meals together and the afternoons of their weekends since Camilla still only worked the mornings.
In the evenings, if Lily was busy with practice or scribe work and Rose wanted to hang out, she would lay on the bed and chat or o...
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