Just as Bellod had promised, despite Asher turning down the more than generous offer to venture to the Hojon Empire and become little more than a living source for Spatial enchantments, they received their payout for the greater demon corpse once they’d finished up with their meeting. Though with Samantha continuing to refuse to touch the shards earned from the sale of the greater demon, the vast majority of their newfound wealth went into his own pockets.
Shards: 13,149,617
2026-01-08 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Despite how tired he was from staying up for two straight days reading about artifact creation, the first thing Vin did as they left the library behind them and returned to the surface of the fragment, courtesy of Slow Fall, was tell everyone all about Ophena Becomes the Sky and his discussion with the librarian.
As he’d expected, reactions were divided.
“Really?” Shia asked, staring wide-eyed at him as they slowly drifted toward the ground...
2026-01-08 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The librarian seemed to realize that she’d gotten her point across, as the golem stepped back a few feet, giving him space to breathe as it continued staring at him. Vin slowly pushed himself up in his chair, his heart hammering away in his chest at the librarian’s true motive finally came to light.
“It’s sounding less like you think I might become a God, and more like you’re banking on it,” he said carefully, not wanting to anger the woman with a few hundred golems under he...
2026-01-07 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Asher could do little more than gulp as he stared back into the dark eyes of Groln before him. The man had an intensity about him that was so powerful, Asher couldn’t shake the feeling like he was going to cut himself if he moved too quickly in his presence.
“What sort of deal?” he managed, thankful when Samantha took his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
“She has interest in recruiting you,” Groln explained, pulling out a sheet of paper from a pouch at his side and...
2026-01-07 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“The Brian party!” Bellod said, welcoming them into a large sitting room with a warm smile. “It’s so nice to see you both again so soon. No Brian today?”
“He’s got… school?” Asher went with, realizing at that moment he knew absolutely nothing about the school system in this world, let alone the capital city. Either he’d gotten lucky or Bellod decided he didn’t want to call him out for being an idiot, as the auction master merely nodded his understanding.
2026-01-06 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Vin stared at the final image of the book, looking at Ophena as she glowed a brilliant golden light and hugged an impossibly fluffy cloud, high up in the sky with the shocked farmers down below. If the metaphor of the golden light and old woman becoming young again weren’t heavy handed enough, the final drawing of the farmers certainly drove the point home.
The farmers were no longer shouting at her, demanding she give up on the sky and help them with more mundane tasks.
They we...
2026-01-06 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Almost immediately, there was a hurried knock on their door before Bellod let himself in. The auction master looked frantic, as though he didn’t have a second to lose.
“Bellod?” Asher asked, looking away from the hesitant host on stage who didn’t seem to know what to do. “Is everything okay?”
“No time for that, would you be willing to meet with the winning bidder as requested?” Bellod asked, huffing as if he’d just run a marathon. “This is incredibly unorthodox...
2026-01-05 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The librarian didn’t exactly give them an estimate on how long it would take her to figure out what went wrong with Alka and fix her, so they decided they might as well take advantage of the outstanding opportunity that had been handed to them. Just like the last time they’d come to the library, there were individual worker golems waiting for each of them as they entered the library proper, though Vin noticed one difference immediately.
The golem assigned to Scule had what looked li...
2026-01-05 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Asher wasn’t sure what was more surprising. The fact that nobody seemed to want to purchase the castle, or the fact that he technically could have purchased it if he wanted to.
“What the hell was up with that?” he muttered as not a single person put in a bid on the keep that Brian had pointed out before the day’s auction kicked off. The host somehow managed to keep a broad smile on his face and act like nobody meeting the starting bid was totally normal, but based on th...
2026-01-02 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Vin stared at the ominous white square, wondering what exactly the librarian’s game was. Upon revealing that they’d returned with her stolen golem in tow, he’d expected to see anger on her face when she’d first spotted them, or for a dozen massive battle golems to come sprinting across the island with weapons larger than his entire body raised above their heads.
What he hadn’t expected was clinical indifference as the librarian gestured toward the artifact.
“Step onto ...
2026-01-02 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“Sam!”
Asher could only smile as Brian all but tackled his big sister, for once beating her to the punch and pulling her into a spine-creaking hug as he began talking fast enough that Asher was afraid he was going to pass out.
“You wouldn’t believe everything I’ve done the past week! I’m not allowed to talk about a lot of it, or even the names of my instructors or other people I’ve met in there, but it’s all been super fun! I got to practice archery with a...
2026-01-01 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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After their recent trek through the no-gravity bubble fragment, the slightly lowered gravity of the floating library didn’t seem all that impressive anymore. Vin knew it would be a bit more noticeable the closer they got to the center of the fragment and the higher up they went, but until then, it did little more than give him a slight unease in his stomach.
“Careful of the craters,” he told Kym as they began making their way toward the library. Just like the last time they’d be...
2026-01-01 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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While Asher did teleport the three of them back to the palace, after briefly Recalling to Talon’s penthouse to collect his fallen daggers and search for anything valuable, he and Samantha managed to convince Moxy that they needed a break and got out of her desired sparring match. In response, the warrior had merely shaken her head and wandered off, declaring that she’d just find her own partner to fight against if they weren’t up to the challenge. In desperate need of both a bath and a ...
2025-12-31 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to Lumel and her ability to peel away the barriers in the Underside preventing people from traveling to fragments they hadn’t visited on Edregon proper before, the team was able to quickly make their way straight to the necromancers’ compound despite the fact that Kym hadn’t been anywhere near the fragment before. Forcing her way through four barriers in quick succession made her a little winded, but it wasn’t anything she couldn’t handle. When asked if she needed a breather,...
2025-12-31 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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I suppose I need to keep leveling Eternal Regeneration anyway… Asher thought, trying and failing to convince himself that this was a good idea as he looked back at the bone monstrosity desperately chasing after him with its jaw snapping. Before he could talk himself out of it, Asher let his movements start to flag, pretending to be far more tired than he actually was. He dodged the bone construct two more times, before letting it finally catch him on the third.
He didn’t ha...
2025-12-30 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“You’re just the best at ruining a guy’s day, you know that?” Scule asked, standing on the common room table with his arms crossed. “Seriously, I want you to know that. It’s an impressive skill. You invest skill points into it or something?”
“I’d flick you off the table if this wasn’t so serious,” Shia said, frowning as she clutched her staff and stared at Vin. “Are you sure about this? You really don’t want to check in with Deorer first? Maybe Erik could help?...
2025-12-30 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The next day began just like any other. Vin barely managed to win the war on sleep as he pulled himself free from a snoozing Lumel and went about his morning routine. He splashed water on his face, briefly contemplated fixing his wild hair before deciding against it, and brushed his teeth with some of Project Ark’s provided supplies. He’d been mocked by Alka and Scule for the habit, until Shia had surprised them all by revealing that the elves of the Sacred Forest actually did something s...
2025-12-29 17:15:02 +0000 UTC
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Asher roared in pain as he was dragged into the sky, the unexpected sensation of having been impaled from behind causing him to drop his daggers and actually stunning him for a moment until it was too late. By the time he’d gotten over the shock of the surprise attack and having two new, fist-size holes punched through him, he and Talon were already far enough up in the sky that a drop from this height would almost assuredly kill him. He was capable of quite a lot, but he still didn’t hav...
2025-12-29 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The rest of the afternoon was spent working with the Herbalists and Shia to create the perfect flower capable of thriving within the horrific conditions of the inside of a volcano. Vin had been surprised to learn that creating a magical plant was far more complicated than simply imbuing a spell into a seed and calling it a day. More often than not, the plant wouldn’t pass down the magic in its seed to the next generation. He and Shia ended up having to work together to continue imbuing the ...
2025-12-29 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Vin saw no reason why he should wait, so the rest of the day was spent in isolation as he put together his two newest spells. Despite Ronald’s spell being in the second tier, neither of them were all that complicated at his current level, and both were welcome additions to his magical toolbox.
New spell learned! Tier 2 Fire spell (Warmth)
New spell learned! Tier 1 Water spell (Firm Water)
Naturally, his days of receiving experience for lea...
2025-12-26 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Vildelph’s Assassin’s Guild, or ‘the Dark Guard company,’ that they’d used to hide in plain sight, didn’t take their full-frontal assault lying down. Almost immediately, assassins began flooding in from other areas of the building, attempting to dispatch the unexpected intruders and potentially make a name for themselves.
Instead, the three of them ensured that the only names anyone would be making anytime soon would be those carved atop the head of a gravestone.
“On...
2025-12-26 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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For carrying out an assassination, usually, the best thing to do is to wait until nightfall.
For carrying out an assassination on an assassin, anytime between dawn and noon is pretty much fair game.
Getting up early the next morning, Asher, Samantha, and Moxy all Recalled back to the end of the noxious tunnel in Vildelph’s underground fighting ring. Unsurprisingly, not a single soul could be found wandering the arena grounds. Having been participating in the fights hers...
2025-12-25 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The following day was spent running around town dealing with some of Vin’s many responsibilities related to Terra that often got delayed while he was out on his adventures. As urgent as finding the missing Earthers was, it had been days at this point since they’d first come to Edregon, and Vin felt rather confident in his earlier assumption.
By now they’d either managed to find safety and would be hanging in there until he found them, or they’d already perished.
To start, ...
2025-12-25 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Vin stared in shock at the sobbing pulmon, trying to figure out what had happened. Lumel had gone from happy to see them to wracked with sobs in the blink of an eye, and Vin had no idea what caused it. Realizing he was just standing there staring at his crying girlfriend, he quickly stepped closer and pulled her into a hug.
“Hey, it’s alright! Whatever’s wrong, don’t worry, we can tackle it together,” he said, doing his best to comfort her. To his dismay, his words only seemed...
2025-12-24 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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“So you did decide to go the team route after all. Huh. This should be interesting.”
Asher could only roll his eyes as Donvath peered over his desk at Moxy, looking her up and down as he set down the sheet of paper he was holding. It seemed Donvath couldn’t help but rub it in all their faces that he had future knowledge nobody else did anytime they spoke with him. While it was remarkably useful when he deigned to actually share any of it with them, it got grating rather f...
2025-12-24 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“It’s mainly more of those monster eels, as well as some annoying ball-like fish that swim at you and then puff up like five times their size, with spikes going everywhere,” Alka explained as they stood under the floating bubble containing the dungeon. “While the water is murky and dark, it’s not quite pitch-black. You can still see about a dozen feet in front of you, but no more than that. So yeah, don’t let the eels wrap around you, and don’t like the small fish get too close....
2025-12-23 17:00:17 +0000 UTC
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“I don’t think this is going to work,” Moxy said, standing with her arms crossed as she stared at the chalkboard Asher was drawing on. “I can’t believe I didn’t see this before now, but this whole idea was flawed from the start.”
Shaking his head, Asher sighed as he crossed out the name of another one of Vildelph’s senior assassins that Moxy had offered up. While he’d been working on it, he was no closer toward figuring out where the lich or demons were hiding than he ...
2025-12-23 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“Stop! You’re under arrest!”
Scule could only snort and shake his head as he ignored the cries of the low-level guard behind him and continued to run with his latest haul held high over his head. He wondered if any Rogue, anywhere, had ever actually listened to a guard shouting at them to stop.
Ignoring the law was sort of how being a Rogue worked.
Running around the corner, Scule pulled up short, clicking his tongue as he found himself face-to-foot with a sec...
2025-12-22 17:15:02 +0000 UTC
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With his friends watching over him and ensuring none of those creepy eels would attack him while he was distracted, Vin wanted nothing more than to dive into Introspection and get to work on trying to put together his newest spell.
However, there was something he needed to take care of before that.
Level 45 means another passive point, after all this time, he thought, grinning at the gleaming point in his interface. Alright, System, let’s see what you have for me, s...
2025-12-22 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The look on Moxy’s face when Asher pulled her out of his Personal Rift and had her look out the window of their private room of the palace overlooking the capital was something he’d remember for the rest of his life. He was used to calm certainty or deranged excitement from the warrior, which made the look of shock and disbelief on her face all the more entertaining. Finally, after a solid few seconds of staring out over the vast capital city before them, Moxy managed to close her jaw and...
2025-12-22 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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