AN: It's two cause Maria already had a chapter!
Maria sat on her bed, her hands clasped in front of her chest. She was praying once again, trying to talk to her Goddess. But, despite having learnt her name, she was unable to reach Aperio. No matter how she tried to call out, there was no reply; only silence. Was it a test? Or had she upset her Goddess somehow?
With a slight sniffle that she tried — and most certainly failed — to hide from Amelia, Maria slid out ...
2020-03-27 17:50:47 +0000 UTC
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AN: Beep bep. Chapter time.
Laelia gritted her teeth as she felt the white-hot mana of her Goddess flow through her. She could feel her bones breaking and her muscles tearing, but she could also feel a comforting warmth spread through her as Aperio did something to her soul.
It was almost the exact opposite of the induction ceremony she had partaken in to become a true paladin of Vigil. That one had only been filled with pain. Not from her body or mind as she ...
2020-03-25 18:08:08 +0000 UTC
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AN: This chapter contains plot. I also hope google fixed its export to epub. Stay healthy!
Aperio and her group appeared right outside the house of healing, in front of the group she had teleported here. Laelia was rubbing the bridge of her nose, trying to keep the sizable group of people calm, as she noticed her Goddess' arrival.
The followers of the dead God also noticed, murmurs spreading throughout the group as they eyed Aperio. Her attempt at venting had seemin...
2020-03-21 11:58:36 +0000 UTC
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AN: I hope everyone is as healthy and happy as one can be during these times. Sadly, not having to go to university or to work does not mean I have more time as I have to do both from home now. I still hope that I can sneak in a bit more writing time, however.
Caethya took a step back as her Goddess emerged from the portal she had created to Vigil's Dominion. The anger she felt was no longer a tiny buzzing at the back of her mind but a palpable aura that seemed to emanate...
2020-03-18 13:07:02 +0000 UTC
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AN: Remember to wash your hands!
AN2: As some people lamented Aperio's action, I tweaked it a little.
Aperio took a step towards the man she knew to be Vigil, noting in the back of her mind that neither Ferio nor Caethya had followed her into the traitor's Dominion. It was perhaps for the best, as neither of them would be able to fight a God in their own realm. Aperio herself was not burdened by such frivolous limitations.
She watched the traito...
2020-03-15 16:07:06 +0000 UTC
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AN: Pretend this entire chapter is filled with 60s radio crackle.
Aperio slowed down as she got closer to the moon, the celestial rock far larger than she had thought it would be. She knew how big it was as she had observed it through her aura, but seeing it with her own eyes from up close gave her a better understanding of its true scale.
She turned her head to look at the planet behind her, her wings obscuring her vision with every beat causing Aperio to fully tur...
2020-03-12 15:45:53 +0000 UTC
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AN: Hello, it be the first side story. Time wise, it's happening while Aperio is doing her space walk.
Kiro rolled onto his back, staring at the wooden ceiling. Who is she? The thought had not left his mind after he had been... He shivered and held his blanket a little closer. There was no proper term he could find for what he had gone through, no way to describe what it had felt like. What it had looked like. What it had sounded like when the winged Elf — ...
2020-03-09 17:07:02 +0000 UTC
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AN: Space... the final frontier.
Aperio knew where she wanted to go, and a thought was all she needed to bend reality to her will. She spread her wings as she felt the world shift around her, saw how her mana separated the threads that held reality together and wove them back together in new ways to bring her where she wanted.
A moment later, she appeared above the ruined city she had first returned to. Neither her daughter nor Caethya fell, as both were being held ...
2020-03-08 15:15:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello again!
This is just an update to inform you of the changes that will go into effect today.
$2 will get 5 chapters ahead and $5 will receive its planned change of wording; all chapters of the main story, as soon as they are done.
Now, the reception to the $10 one was a bit more split. While most people were in favour of the whole side story idea, some did ask if they would ever make their way to lower tiers. The short answer to that is, yes. The long ...
2020-03-06 08:31:40 +0000 UTC
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AN: This is a chapter! It also has another feature of emotions are hard™.
Caethya bowed her head slightly as her Goddess entered the Void — a name she was not sure she had heard before or simply knew because of her connection to Aperio — and closed the portal behind her. There were a great many things she wanted to ask, but her voice was currently struggling to make itself known. Ever since Aperio had revealed what Caethya assumed to be something closer to ...
2020-03-05 16:56:18 +0000 UTC
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First things first, I want to thank everyone who has decided to support me in this creative endeavour. While I still think my work is not deserving of the attention it gets, it has performed way better than I had initially hoped it would.
Now for the reason this little post.
Currently, the tiers that exist don't really make sense outside of the $5 one. So I took a bit of time and thought about what I could give each tier to be actually worth the money. The new tiers I hav...
2020-03-04 16:17:47 +0000 UTC
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AN: This chapter contains plot. Maybe. Probably.
Aperio tilted her head. How strong is the strongest monster here? Then she dismissed the notification that lingered in front of her. That the System was following rules she had set possibly aeons ago did bother her, but not as much as she had thought it would. In the end, it was just a reminder that she did not understand her creation. With a silent sigh, she directed her attention at the two mortals who accepte...
2020-03-03 18:01:20 +0000 UTC
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AN: Beep bep.
Aperio dismissed the notifications with a thought and stored her weapon in her Void before she set her eyes upon Caethya. Her first choice for someone to look over the dungeon was either her or Laelia, but she somehow doubted either of them would want to do so. Perhaps they shouldn't. She still liked the idea of watching them ascend to Godhood, something an appointment as Overseer for a dungeon would probably slow down.
Nonetheless...
2020-03-01 15:33:44 +0000 UTC
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"Dungeons are known to create, not to take the belongings of others," the horned man said. His voice was still apprehensive, but it was clear he did not believe the dungeon would have anything that belonged to Aperio. His next words were mumbled more to himself than the winged Goddess. "What could a dungeon even take?"
Aperio took another step forward and pointed her weapon at the core. “It is made from my mana; taken without my consent. I <...
2020-02-27 16:23:29 +0000 UTC
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AN: Now you are thinking with portals.
One they had reached the bottom of the stairs, Aperio motioned for her daughter and Caethya to stop. "I will take us the rest of the way."
Ferio seemed to have an idea of what Aperio planned to do as she simply nodded in reply. Caethya on the other hand shifted her gaze between the Goddess and the vast expanse of green before them. She obviously wasn't quite sure how Aperio intended to bring them fifty...
2020-02-25 16:49:23 +0000 UTC
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AN: Psssh, it's a chapter.
"You dare to challenge me?" Aperio asked, her voice slamming into the Human like a physical force, causing him to crumple into a heap. "You are weak."
She brought her outstretched arm down in a sharp motion, reality itself seeming to split apart in its wake. A heartbeat later, reality shifted again. The ground reached for itself greedily, knitting itself back together. The air, too, seeme...
2020-02-22 13:45:49 +0000 UTC
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As soon as Aperio stepped through the portal, she was greeted by a sword that was pointed at her face. The only reaction the blade managed to get out of the winged Goddess was a slight tilt of her head. "That blade will do you no good."
While she might not yet have had the silvery-blue metal used against her, Aperio chose to trust the feeling at the back of her mind that told her that the weapon would do nothing. Only a God has managed to hurt me thus far… And some trees....
2020-02-21 10:07:59 +0000 UTC
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AN: Hello, yes this is chapter.
Caethya breathed heavily as she stared into the endless dark below her. Her lungs filled with nothing, her hands and knees somehow found purchase on ground that did not exist, and her mind struggled to comprehend what her eyes saw and her aura sensed. Despite not being able to truly understand what surrounded her, Caethya was intimately familiar with it. Every night, in her dreams, she had seen this very thing.
At first she had though...
2020-02-17 16:18:41 +0000 UTC
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AN: Uni stress is mostly over now and I will now try to devote more time to writing so I can hit my actual goal of 10 chapters ahead.
The man took another step back as reality stitched itself back together behind Aperio and Ferio; her portal idea had worked better than expected. Could I teleport without going into my Void? It was an idea that she would have to investigate at a later date, as for now she had to deal with a rather scared Human and an approaching gr...
2020-02-15 14:45:24 +0000 UTC
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AN: This chapter is brought to you by mush-brain, pain and a hatred for doors. As always, it had one DuckPass™.
The monsters on the third floor had only increased in strength by a few levels, proving Aperio's assumption to be correct: it was just as boring here as it was on the two floors above. The tiny boost to her 'enemies' was nowhere near sufficient to offer a change to their abilities, nor was it able to let them survive a single swing from her sword or the most tent...
2020-02-10 17:31:42 +0000 UTC
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AN: A chapter is here. I am also entering the last stretch of exam-hell so hopefully stress levels will go back down soon.
Aperio squinted at the window she had brought back in front of her. So it gained levels when it got angry? Did not really make it more of a challenge, though. She mentally dismissed the window and returned her focus back on the stairs leading downwards. Be...
2020-02-06 18:06:28 +0000 UTC
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The darkness that filled the hallway she was walking through posed no trouble for Aperio's improved eyes, a fact that only managed to briefly stay in her mind before it was discarded as useless. She could see, that was all that mattered.
The first inhabitant of the first floor she laid her eyes on was a large, slimy-looking worm that started to writhe and spasm as she got closer. When a silvery flash of light appeared above the worm, Aperio paused. It was, clearly, the now-famili...
2020-02-02 14:50:48 +0000 UTC
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AN: Uni stress is still at an all time high so continued delays are sadly to be expected. I will try to get the next chapter out by Monday.
Their landing caused less of a stir than Aperio had expected, as the people nearby simply took their presence in stride, making the small detour to walk around the two Goddesses. Maybe if I still had the sword out they would've have noticed. It only took her a moment to figure out why the people were paying less attention than o...
2020-01-29 18:44:38 +0000 UTC
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AN: If you have a better idea for a title, let me know. Also, as I am approaching exam season, updates may slow down a little over the coming couple of weeks.
The door to the house of healing shook as Aperio knocked lightly on the wood. Fearing it would break, she ceased the movement and hoped that her barrage had been enough. She was about to ask Ferio to knock for her when the door was opened from the inside.
The man opened his mouth to greet the two Goddesses whe...
2020-01-24 23:40:27 +0000 UTC
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As soon as the pair had appeared in the Void, Aperio spread her wings and let herself fall backwards onto the soft nothing – simply hanging in the inky blackness was more comfortable than any bed she had been on before. And it doesn't squish my wings.
"Exhausted?"
The words caused Aperio to sit up and direct her eyes towards her daughter and give her a slight nod; she was exhausted. Mentally, at least. Her physical self, in comparison, felt as good a...
2020-01-21 14:09:22 +0000 UTC
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AN: Chapter with one DuckPass™, as always. Was also hard to write and I am not that pleased with it.
Aperio regarded the crowd for a moment longer before she closed the small distance that separated her from the unconscious heap of a man that was Natio. A small wave of her hand righted the bound man and caused him to float just above the ground. The robes that restrained him had lost a bit of their heat, probably so Natio would not be cooked alive. Not the he doesn'...
2020-01-17 14:53:57 +0000 UTC
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Aperio hesitated, not quite sure if she really wanted to enter Natio's Dominion. If the System could classify it, she should have authority over it, shouldn't she? But what if I don't? ...How do I accept it, anyway? Her question was answered when a warm sensation enveloped her and another silver-framed window faded into existence.
What needs to be prepared? She th...
2020-01-13 15:42:13 +0000 UTC
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AN: It had one DuckPass™, as always.
Laelia stared at the tip of her spear. The fact that the being that was now her Goddess had shrugged the attempted attack off with nothing but a tiny scratch to show for it, while the spear itself was now slightly bent and chipped from the effort, still gave her pause. She knew that the Gods were far beyond what a normal mortal could achieve but had never quite believed it until she saw it. How can she even move if her skin is harder t...
2020-01-09 17:42:42 +0000 UTC
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The feeling of home that surrounded her as she entered the Void was something that Aperio sorely needed after what she had learned. Taking a deep breath of the nothingness to further calm herself, she looked at the distant river of lights – it had gotten more lively yet again – and shuddered. Just touching them ruins their lives.
"Mother?" Ferio asked, her voice hesitant.
Aperio did not immediately answer or react to her daughter’s voice. She was focuse...
2020-01-06 15:50:19 +0000 UTC
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AN: Happy new year and all that.
Aperio tilted her head as she felt a change in the mana that resided inside her well. It had coincided with an action Maria took, and upon further inspection showed that it was not just her that had done something. She had a theory as to why it was happening, but it didn't explain the influx of mana into her well.
Focusing on a slight condensation of mana that Aperio felt hovering in front of Maria revealed it to be the [Status] of t...
2020-01-02 15:02:20 +0000 UTC
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