I hoped to get Bridget and Sakura back up to their old levels as soon as possible. I was a bit jealous of how easy those who could simply kill monsters had it with respect to leveling. I suppose people who fought monsters all day might be tremendously jealous of how I leveled with Fabulous Phallus and my Vampiric Soul skills. It might be one of those things where the grass was always greener on the other side.
Over the next two days, we fell into a routine. We'd wake up, eat breakfast, ...
2023-10-30 15:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Sakura and Bridget kept me busy for a good long while. By the end of it, I had gained four levels to my race. I was now level 49 and a good ways towards level 50. Bridget and Sakura were both back below level fifteen after all was said and done—though, fortunately, they kept all the bonuses for having reached D-Grade already.
I shook my head. "You two really shouldn't look so satisfied after losing more than ten levels a piece."
"Worth it," Sakura muttered, curled up against my ...
2023-10-29 15:00:01 +0000 UTC
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I spent the next few days intensely focused on crafting. I enchanted Mana Bombs, Mega Mana Bombs, Mana Swords, and a few odds and ends that showed up amongst my blueprints as I leveled. Nothing came up that would be immediately useful to Myrina, but there were a few trinkets I invented that would make things a whole lot easier here on Earth.
"Check it out, Bridget! It's an ambient mana generator, connected to a modern power outlet!" I waved my newest creation before Bridget's eyes in th...
2023-10-28 15:00:01 +0000 UTC
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When I woke, it was to warm hands fussing over me. I hadn't been as exhausted as I'd been the previous night in a long, long time—not since before the arrival of the System and all the extra stats it brought. I hadn’t even been this wiped out when I’d come back from the dead.
I was normally a light sleeper. It was rather startling to think that someone could sneak up on me like this, despite my new skills. When I heard her speak, I realized why this person could sneak up on me. It...
2023-10-27 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Rain sprinkled over the trees beyond the troll’s swamp. The forest seemed peaceful and sleepy, but that peace was a lie. Inside it, the ogres lay huddled around their campfires.
They had no tents or homes, relying only on their thick hides to repel the weather as the rain slowly doused their campfires, one by one. The slowly roasting human and troll bodies they'd been feasting on lay on their spits, only partially cooked. Most of the ogres drifted off to sleep in the rain, with only a...
2023-10-25 15:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Frank and Marcus were waiting for me on the hill with the rest of their men. The entire group was armed and had been ready to help fight off anyone chasing me.
"I'm alright, you can stand down," I told them.
"How did you make it out without getting messed up? Their leader is a tough bastard. I watched him beat the old Troll chief into the ground with his bare hands!" Marcus shivered.
He ran a hand across his cheek. One of his eyes was swelling up, and come morning he'd proba...
2023-10-23 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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"Let's start things off right. I'm Carter, and this is Frank." I gestured to myself and then to Frank behind me.
I waited a moment. A few seconds of silence passed before the man spoke again. "This is Martin… Boss Martin to you," the sentry said.
Boss Martin held up his hand. "Go back to keeping watch," he ordered.
"Yes, boss!" the sentry nodded diligently and soon vanished.
"We're the Vipers. At least that was our old name for ourselves, back in the cells. Now that ...
2023-10-22 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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We ran through the woods back to the position Frank and his men had taken on a hill overlooking the swamp. I had to stop a few times for him to catch up, but after the third time, I tossed him on my back and started carrying him. Between my proficiencies and my movement abilities, I could move a whole lot faster than he could.
"This is humiliating..." Frank grumbled as I gave him a piggyback ride to his men. "There they are, up ahead. Put me down! Put me down!"
When I set Frank on...
2023-10-21 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Margaret was busy, but when she found out who had come to visit, she flung her door wide.
“Carter! Sorry for the wait. I’ve been trying to get a radio broadcast up and running. Someone looted a long-range broadcaster from the city and I thought we might start an official radio channel for the settlement.” Margaret waved her hand at an assortment of wires and knobs that had likely been built sometime back in the 90’s.
Her enthusiasm was infectious. “It would certainly hel...
2023-10-20 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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We wasted an entire morning the seventh day I was here in town, training behind the inn. I say wasted, but any time you can get an expert warrior nearly three times your level to train you, it can hardly be called a waste.
Myrina was helping Sakura up from the ground for the umpteenth time as she explained what the Oni had done wrong when the message I’d been waiting finally appeared... sort of.
Your stay on your patron’s world of Themyscira has been extended to ten da...
2023-10-18 15:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Myrina, Sakura, and Bridget got along much better than I’d worried they would. I feared that was partially because I'd asked them to save whatever the female equivalent of dick measuring was for later. At least the three of them were talking just fine. And they had a lot to talk about—though the only thing the three of them had in common was me.
"Does Carter still make that weird squeak when you pinch him?" Myrina asked.
"Everyone makes a weird noise if you pinch them unexpect...
2023-10-16 15:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Myrina stayed cuddled up to me all the way back to her room. The healer followed us, tending to the two of us until we were both as close to fully healed as we could be without time to rest.
"So... did you have any plans today, Myrina?" I asked when it was apparent she had no intentions of climbing out of my arms. "More training? More quests to complete?"
"Not anymore." Myrina rubbed the top of her head against my chin and her cheek against my chest.
"Any reason why?" I aske...
2023-10-15 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Myrina and I stood across from each other in the Samhain Clan's arena once again. This time, the stands weren't empty. Someone must have noticed the two of us squaring up to one another and gone in to ring the bell.
"An official challenge? Is someone challenging Myrina?" I heard one of the servants call out.
"Not an official challenge," Myrina was quick to reply. "Just a friendly sparring match. Don't make a bigger deal of it than it is. And please stop ringing that bell!"
R...
2023-10-14 17:08:59 +0000 UTC
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The first thing we did after squaring things off with Misa, was to get Sakura and Bridget a room in a local inn. I’d picked one of the nicer ones, since we had more money than we knew what to do with, and would have even more when the next batch of Mana Bombs sold.
Nicer turned out to mean more spacious and in a better neighborhood... and not much else. The two of them accepted the room without hesitating. While it lacked some of the modern conveniences they were used to, both of them...
2023-10-13 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I've gotten a lot of questions about this, so here's the official preorder! Coming out soon! I will do another announcement when it goes live.
2023-10-13 02:40:03 +0000 UTC
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It took me a few minutes to find the orc woman Myrina favored. I worried that she might be off-duty and that I'd need to use someone else, but after a bit of scouting around, I found her.
I hadn't realized it before, but the teleportation center was less a business or organization and more a place where a lot of people with teleportation jobs gathered together to work, setting up shop in the same location. It seemed a bit odd to me that people who specialized in getting people from plac...
2023-10-11 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Our next quest from the Samhain Clan proved easier than the first, but I personally would have preferred fighting more monsters and bandits. I had to lug Myrina around town and slowly pry from her which ale houses she'd visited and which dress shops she'd placed orders with. It took the rest of the day before we got them all.
By the end of the day, Myrina looked more wrung out than she did after an entire day's training. "Finally done!" Myrina yawned. "What do you say we wind down with ...
2023-10-09 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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"The pile was huge! You should have seen it!" Myrina gestured wide, miming hugging a pile the size of a table. "And that wasn't even all of it. Cyra transferred her entire balance with the Auction House first."
"I had to give them a few items as collateral, too." Cyra sighed. "Hopefully mother reimburses me. The rest can go, but I really liked that shield."
"I'm sure she will. Unlike me, Mom trusts you with the family purse." Myrina elbowed her sister.
"I'm sorry I missed it...
2023-10-08 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The truly wonderful thing about unlocking the Charisma stat was how easy it made clean up after a battle. A bandit had exploded, and the merchant we saved was covered in gore. And yet Myrina cleaned herself up to near-perfect condition by simply pouring a flask of water over her own head.
The blood and viscera flowed out of her hair and onto the ground as if it didn't dare spoil her flawless features. She passed the flask to me and I discovered it did the same for me, though not quite t...
2023-10-07 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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We dropped off Cyra's food with the courier, much to Myrina's disappointment. After that, Myrina went to check in with her mother.
"To get you the best rewards for clearing out a few bandits, we need Mom to make it an official quest. Just wait here a second, okay?" Myrina asked.
I nodded. "Done."
Myrina departed, but the moment she did I rummaged around her things for a pen and paper. Looking around her room, it was quite clear that on the spectrum of jock to nerd, Myrina wo...
2023-10-06 17:59:01 +0000 UTC
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It's been a while since I've updated the release days, but my chapter backlog goes up to chapter 60 now, which should be enough to cover editing time and still give you guys stuff to read, while also accounting for potential delays.
That means I should be able to safely move up to a consistent 5 chapters per week! Yay!
I can't promise I'll follow this schedule exactly, but please respond with the 5 days you are most likely to eagerly await a new chapter. If it's dramatically dif...
2023-10-05 15:34:13 +0000 UTC
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I got quite a bit more work done on my Mana Bombs before I finally heard from Myrina. It wasn’t until late the next morning when the token I still wore around my neck began glowing.
Your Patron wishes to contact you.
Do you want to allow communication?
"Gobgob, you have things from here," I said to the goblin. I jogged out of the goblins’ workshop, putting my little Mana Bomb factory behind me and ran into the house.
Bridget was co...
2023-10-04 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Artwork is from Dutch again. He liscensed some commercial stock images and then I think edited them with AI.
2023-10-04 00:49:40 +0000 UTC
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The first thing I did when Bridget, Sakura, and I returned to my farmhouse was check on my stats. I'd gained a few levels and had points to allocate. I quickly spent them, bolstering my Intelligence stat once again. Both my class and race were coming along, albeit slower than before.
My level might have been much higher without my death curse forbidding me from getting experience points from monsters, but most of that missing experience had gone to Bridget and Sakura. If I wanted to, I ...
2023-10-02 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I joined the battle to find the fighting well underway. Chuck was bruised and battered, but with his regeneration, he'd be alright. He must have taken a club to the side of the head. Kyle was the one I was worried about, slumped against a tree as he was.
Rick, the axe-wielding militiaman we'd brought with us was dead. That was a shame; he'd been a promising trainee. Kerrie, the archer, stood back and used her bow to land what clean shots she could. Bridget fought the tusked ogre.
...
2023-09-30 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Chuck's team guarded our rear, waiting to reinforce us. I carried on ahead with Bridget and Sakura at my sides with the other two militia behind us. The woman, Kerrie, held a bow, and the man, Rick, an axe. Their anxiety was evidenced by how their fingers gripped their weapons with white knuckles. They weren't exactly being silent, but I was reasonably sure these ogres didn't have perception-based builds.
If they did, the only one who was getting close to their camp would be Bridget. In...
2023-09-29 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I spent the next few days putting in a good chunk of the day patrolling the area around Crownhill and helping various teams who'd joined up with the militia gain some levels. Though I couldn't gain any levels from the fighting, Bridget and Sakura picked up plenty—which was all the same to me. I honed my proficiency levels quite a bit, too. My leadership bonus climbed faster than anything else.
The faces in my group changed from day to day, but the two I never failed to find in my grou...
2023-09-27 17:27:18 +0000 UTC
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I came back outside to find nothing but crumbs left on the table from the food Bridget and I had laid out. "I guess the people here really were hungry!" I said with a laugh.
"They liked it. I'm glad." A soft smile lingered on Bridget's face as she looked over the camp.
"I take it you gained some good job levels?"
"That, too," she admitted with a blush.
I wrapped my arm around her waist, giving her a quick peck on the cheek. "I'm sure they're all very grateful. Just don...
2023-09-25 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sakura wanted to show me her leatherwork before we did anything more entertaining—or what I at least thought would be more entertaining than admiring animal and monster hides.
"Look, Carter!" Sakura showed me a large hide on one of my spare workbenches. Looking at the tools laid out across it, it would probably be more accurate to call it Sakura's workbench from now on.
"What is it?" I asked.
"It’s a cloak for you! It matches those robes Myrina must have given you. Since...
2023-09-23 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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