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Ch. 97 - Calm

Calm

Alice’s madly-pumping chest only slowed after a good ten minutes spent resting down on the shivering grass that grew over the massive carapace of the Rhinoceros Beetle.

As she rested, the huge crystalline spike she had just extracted from the titan’s flesh, and that was lying on the ground just a couple of meters away from her, slowly began sliding a bit further down its sloped shell with every one of its twitches and shifts, the creature still reeling fr...

Ch. 96 - Favors (II)

Favors (II)

As she let her consciousness meld with her biological system, Alice sank into the largest and most visible organ of her body, her skin; a complex and multilayered sub-system that interacted with countless others while protecting the organism in the meanwhile.

Just the epidermis, the outermost, thinner strata, was composed by at least five different sub-layers working in symbiosis to maintain that thin defensive bastion safe from any external danger, be...

Ch. 95 - Face-off

This took a lot longer than expected but I'm already writing the following chapter at least. I'm going to take a couple of hours of break and then go back to Discord. It's the first night I have some time.

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Face-off

The next morning, Alice woke up with a yawn in a much different environment from the one that had surrounded her the previous day, her face scrunching up in confusion when, upon looking around, she found he...

Ch. 94 - Favors (I)

Favors

The creature moved its lumbering body around the clearing, maneuvering with its six trunk-like limbs until its head was less than three meters away from her restrained body, the joints of its legs creaking loudly as they started slowly bending, lowering to the ground the carapace they were supporting.

A few long seconds later, the grass-covered exoskeleton finally impacted with the trodden soil with a dull thud that reverberated throughout the ex...

Ch. 93 - Beetle

Feeling a lot better today. I think i'll try reading the comments, even if I do feel almost ill doing so.

I hope you will enjoy the chapter. I'll try to pump the next one as quickly as possible, I had to change a bit of the progression but everything should still end the way I envisioned it. Not much longer.

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Beetle

“What the hell am I going to do?” she numbly asked as she watched the huge beetle s...

Ch. 92 - Hill

I've gone missing again. Great. I really wanted to deny it but it seems like my yearly depressive episode is on full swing and being all alone isn't helping. Can you call it depression? I don't know. All I know is that I've literally spent 4 days looking at my computer and finding myself unable to write or even check on the site. I've always suffered from anxiety and I always have some times when I feel worse. I would have preferred not talking about it but I can't avoid it now that I have yo...

Information for the next Months.

First of all, I'm sorry for the numerous delays. I've honestly been really struggling between the writing and the rest of my life which has become a lot more hectic during the last few weeks.

I'm going to be working on ways to prevent these things from happening again once I get to writing the next volume but let us proceed by importance.

Next month there won't be no billing like this one and possibly the one after that as well.

This because I don...

Ch. 91 - Hides

Hides

The first thing she did after crawling back into the small, room that had been excavated by the marmots was sealing back the outside access once more to avoid being ambushed while she was hunting.

After that, Alice proceeded to gradually enlarge the tunnel through which the first marmot had managed to reach her, using the Lumen to make a hole that was quite a bit wider than her body and that would allow her access to the few chambers she had sensed beneath w...

Ch. 90 - Rest

Rest

Alice lay panting between the tall grasses that covered the undulating prairies around the forest, her back pressed against the ground as she slowly caught her breath after the frantic escape from the horrid creatures that had been following her.

Her silken rucksack was strewn right beside her, along with the long metal spear that she was tightly clutching in her right hand, the left one still holding the small piece of monolith that had somehow saved her but...

Ch. 89 - Surprise

Surprise

The last, barbed spike clattered on the ground together with a few droplets of her blood and Alice exhaled a sigh of relief as she willed the wound close with a trickle of her magic, the blood vessels tightening and the blood itself congealing within a few seconds, the last one of the dozens of scabbed-over boreholes that were already being slowly sealed from the inside by the ever-working cells of her body, a good portion of the corridor marked by a continuous...

Ch. 88 - Eel

Eel

Alice stood perfectly still in her position near the center of the room as the creature slid the rest of its long and swollen body through the gate, blocking her only way out with its bulk before extending two elongated sensory organs that were incredibly similar to a squid’s tentacles, their pads covered in strange, darker membranes that constantly shivered and twitched in the air as the being tried to orient itself in the new space it had entered.

The rest...

Chapters delayed to tomorrow due to migraine.

Hi sorry every chapter will be delayed to tomorrow because I can barelty think today.

I have been having headaches for like two days and if it keeps going i'm going to the doctor.

Ch. 87 - Meeting

Meeting

Alice quickly moved through the short and perfectly straight hallway that had welcomed her as after crossing the armored gate, its walls lit up by multiple, glowing squiggly lines that she wasn’t able to translate given the absence of images or symbols that could aid the process.

Despite that, she did spend a few minutes trying to inspect the glyphs on the wall, soon growing frustrated and deciding to ignore them for the time being, her feet bringing her...

Ch. 86 - Door

Door

Leaving behind the locked metal gate, Alice quickly sped through the halls and rooms she had walked through just a few minutes before, now ignoring anything but the road ahead, her mind working hard to retrace her steps until, after a couple of wrong turns that pushed her further into the labyrinthine structure, she finally found herself in front of the round opening that led into the damaged glass tunnel, cringing only slightly as she moved inside once again, forc...

Ch. 85 - Forest

Forest

After stepping down the hill, it didn’t take long for Alice to reach the edge of the forest, her muscles never tiring despite having to wade through the sea of tall grasses that tried to entangle her, her pace never faltering and her breathing barely speeding up as she crossed the gentle undulations that separated her from the cluster of trees, the uneven ground she was stepping on surely hiding countless treasures in the forgotten buildings that laid beneath i...

Ch. 84 - Ground

I made some changes to the end of the previous chapter and i'm going to post them here so that the new chapter makes sense. I'll remove them in the next days after I'm sure most you guys read the new chapter.

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The object was a crystal, no larger than her hand and with a multifaceted surface that was covered in cracks and chips, as if something bigger had been shattered and the fragment in front of her eyes was just one of the few that remaine...

Ch. 83 - Fragment

Fragment

It didn’t take long for Alice to descend the rest of the tree, repeatedly planting the pick into the wood while using the previous indentations as handholds, a process that took her far longer than before, when she still had access to the pitons.

On top of that, the new routine was much less forgiving on her body, forcing her to hang from a single hand while swinging the weapon with enough force to pierce the wooden flesh of the wisteria, her muscles tr...

Ch. 82 - Descent

Bottom

“Ow,”

The barely audible whisper came from the dimly-lit upper floor of one of the many houses that had been built along the massive wall of the domed city, the thick curtains of wisteria leaves trying to conceal the flickering light of a small fire shining through the glassless windows of the building, the smell of burning wood mixing with the delicate scent of flowers and moss that hung in the air, barely disturbed by the gentle breeze that was making...

Ch. 81 - Muscles

Muscles

Alice was so tired that she was barely conscious when she finally reached the first house occupied by the fluffy yellow birds, their chirping calls echoing from the openings in the upper floor of the building, leading her on like a very off-key siren’s call.

Without an instant of hesitation, she forced her weary legs to move once again, her body on the brink of collapse as she tiredly climbed the steep stairs, took a few steps in the small corridor of th...

Ch. 80 - Smoke

Smoked

After a bit of hesitation, Alice started dragging the carcasses over the rubble until they were all lined up in front of her, eight corpses ready to be harvested for meat and other resources.

As she was dragging the ninth body, however, the girl was suddenly aware of the barely visible movement of the creature’s chest, her eyes widening and her hand immediately going to the knife, ready to plunge it into the monkey at the first sign of aggression it showe...

Ch. 79 - Humiliation

Humiliation

The large male pushed itself off its throne, muscles rippling and short fur puffing up as it stared at its subject, busily playing with the glinting objects in its hands and completely unaware of the attention it had garnered with its actions.

In the meanwhile, not immediately noticing the change in the mood of their leader, the current ‘performer’ continued its game of repeatedly slamming a dying ferret against the ground, an ecstatic expression o...

Ch. 78 - Red

Red

Alice stared in horror at the practically-empty room she was in, her ears filled by the rustle of disturbed undergrowth and trampled leaves that was coming from outside, rapidly approaching the ruined building she had just managed to reach.

Fuck! She exclaimed in her head as she frantically scanned her surroundings, uselessly searching for an escape route or a spot where she could hide between the few small piles of rubble and the blanket of moss that...

Ch. 77 - Empathy

Empathy

(Warning. This chapter contains actual Animal Cruelty. You have been warned.)

It didn’t take long for Alice to finish descending the plant-invaded stairway, pushing past the confusing jungle of vegetal tendrils and finding herself in another, larger cluster of broken structures, the leaves of the massive wisteria tree forming a green canopy that stretched from structure to structure, obscuring the sky above them and bathing the world below with a soothin...

Ch. 76 - Signet

Signet

For the first time in many, many weeks; Alice was woken up by the sun shining past her eyelids, its light turning a warm red as it moved through those thin layers of skin and blood before painfully flooding her retinas with far too much sensory information for such an early hour.

Or, at least, so thought the young woman as she turned on her side with a groan, using one arm to block the pesky photons and get a few more minutes of restful slumber.

That ...

Ch. 75 - Feathers

Feathers

“—it!”

Alice had just the time to drop onto the ground and curl up in a ball before the literal cloud of birds descended on her, their ear-shattering chirping pounding at her head while their sharp talons scratched at any exposed spots of skin, their beaks sliding on the smooth silk of her armored dress or painfully ripping at her hair.

As she laid there, assaulted from every side, the still-surprised biomancer found herself in need of a way t...

Ch. 74 - Ruins

Ruins

From the small ledge she had just found herself upon, Alice stared slack-jawed at the scenery that lay in front of her still-blurry eyes, the low-light receptors contained within her retinas slowly turning off while the ones that worked best with a high level of brightness started activating, bright colors soon flooding her starved brain.

Despite the small twinges of pain that the excessive lighting was causing to her nerves, the young woman didn’t even en...

Ch. 73 - Sky

Sky

The words were already in their spot when she realized she was in the black void of her mind.

You have reached Level 27 in the Biomancer of Symbiosis Class.

You have changed your bones to be as resilient as yourself, able to ignore the blows of your enemies and proceed forward. You have learned the skill Enhanced Body: Bones. Your bones will heal quicker and you’ll also be able to temporarily strengthen your skeletal system aga...