Elise was floating on the ceiling of the cabin, watching as the scene from that night played out. She watched the warg shatter the cabin’s defenses and burst inside. She watched Corwin and Sylvanna’s futile attempt to fight back. Most of all, she watched herself trembling in the hall, doing absolutely nothing to help.
“Move!” she tried to shout. “Attack! Use {Suggest}!”
But her words were muffled and faint. The her on the ground didn’t hear any of it. She just ...
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“You can’t just absorb more mana,” explained Jens. “Not without a skill for it, at least.”
“Well, that’s how I do it,” said Sindri.
“It’s not,” said Jens. “That’s just how you think you do it. Absorbing mana is like putting a bottle in a river to fill it up with water. The water always flows in at the same rate. The limiting factor is how wide the bottle opening is and how much water the bottle can hold. You shouldn’t be trying to make the mana absorb f...
2024-10-06 22:57:41 +0000 UTC
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I am uploading all the new chapters right now. I'm still working on the edits to existing chapters. I was hoping to have them all done by tonight, but it's looking like I'm going to need to rewrite most of chapter 18 (the old chapter 18), so it might have to wait until tomorrow. All the edits will be completely done tomorrow though. Also, if you're reading this, would you mind commenting. I selected "All members" for the post availability of this post, and the new chapters 14 and 15, but ...
2024-10-06 22:56:36 +0000 UTC
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This is the first new chapter. As I mentioned in the note on the last chapter, this one should clear up some questions that were left unanswered in the original version.
“So far? Nothing. Nothing has been decided. It’s too difficult of an issue to be resolved in a single meeting.”
“What makes it difficult? Is it because I’m a fey?”
“Yes,” he said.
“I don’t think I fully understand. Why do the dwarves ha- mistrust fey so much?”
Hallb...
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Alright, saying "edited" is a bit of a stretch on this one. The only thing that changed was the end, and all I did was lop the end off and replace it with a single paragraph. However, despite being so small, this is simultaneously the biggest change because, as you'll notice, the timeskip is now gone.
The reason I got rid of the timeskip is mainly that it was a really terrible idea. Doing that time skip was a really really bad choice on my part. I just went "And then 3 mont...
2024-10-05 19:00:06 +0000 UTC
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This is one of the chapters I felt I would have liked to have the edits out before posting. It still works, but the manipulation that Elise is apologizing for wasn't shown a whole lot in the original draft. The new edits will show a lot more of that, but they're taking longer than I expected since I had to redo some of them, and it's also midterm week in school, so I'm busy irl too. I should still have them out this weekend though. Thanks for reading
The castle was exact...
2024-10-04 00:00:12 +0000 UTC
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I underestimated the scale of the edits. Or maybe I overestimated myself. Either way, they're going to take a few more days. Hopefully by the time the next chapter is out. I read through and edited this chapter a little bit, but it may see a few minor changes when the major edits come out. Thanks for reading.
“Lady Elise?” said one of the elders. “Are you alright?”
“I-I’m fine,” said Elise.
She was still hovering in the air right where she stopp...
2024-10-01 00:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Edit: removed former author's note regarding edits. Updated chapter to include Olvir's name.
Leaving a relatively defenseless rabbit alone in a room full of people who most likely wanted to kill her was not what Elise would have considered a good idea. She had no idea what Freddy was thinking. Was he thinking? Was he just completely oblivious as to what could happen if he left? Or did he do it on purpose? Did he want her dead, or was he just trying t...
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“Freddy,” said Elise.
“Hello, Elise,” he said. “I didn’t think we’d be seeing each other again so soon.”
“Neither did I.”
Elise’s mind was racing at a hundred miles an hour trying to figure out how best to handle the situation. She was supposed to not have any memories of Ostra. If she accidentally showed a bit too much knowledge in front of Freddy, he would notice immediately. But how could she know what she was and wasn’t supposed to know? Jer...
2024-09-24 00:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I'll have the current stat sheet out about 1.5 hours or so after this goes live. I forgot to screenshot it beforehand, and I can't do it properly from my laptop, so it will have to wait until I get home from class
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5 minutes earlier.
It had been centuries since Emilia had found herself in such a dire situation. In fact, as she flew away from her attackers toward the exit by the Mother Tree, she realized that she couldn’t remember ever ...
2024-09-20 00:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Edit: I have updated Fey Bargaining to level 14. More importantly, I have also retconned {Charm} to be much higher level. This leveling happened with the dwarves. This retcon is part of some of the developmental edits that I plan on making in the future, and it is also necessary to make the final chapters of Book 1 make more sense
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“Wh-where did they go?” said one of the drow.
The three scouts started looked around frantically, before getting in a defensive formation around Naomi. Elise glared at Emilia. She could still see the older fey just fine, and she could see herself, which meant Emilia was using her skill that hid them from the perception of others. She must have been lying when she sai...
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Elise had discovered with her experiment with Naomi that her divine power would last about ten minutes. That meant that she only had five minutes left to defuse the situation before she wouldn’t have control any more. She could always use it again, but she didn’t want to be dependent on it, in case whatever god was giving her that power had a limit to its generosity. Figuring ou...
2024-09-13 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 35 is going to be a couple hours late. I noticed a minor issue with it as I was doing a quick readthrough before scheduling it, but I have class in 15 minutes, so I don't have time to fix it right now. I'll get it done as soon as I'm out of class, and hopefully have it up no more than 3 hours late. It shouldn't take long. I just need to rework a couple paragraphs. Thank you for your patience.
2024-09-12 22:06:45 +0000 UTC
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About twenty seconds after she left Emilia, Elise realized that she had no idea where she was going. She knew Naomi had gone out, but where? There were dozens of tunnels, and she only knew what was at the end of a few of them, and none of them were what she wanted. She could check all of them one by one, but that would be so slow. If he wasn’t dead already, Hallbjorn definitely wo...
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Elise was in her classroom again, this time alone. The windows showed nothing but blackness outside, and all the lights were off save for the safety light above the door and the tiny red LED on the smoke detector. The air was stale and static, and all around, there was nothing but silence.
She was still a rabbit, unfortunately. She had been human in a few of her Earth ...
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Emilia didn’t seem to notice that Elise had woken up yet, so she took the opportunity to check her status window. Everything was the same as it was, except {Rune of Fate} had changed once again, and now had even more to its description.
[ {Rune of Fate}: A rune that !@#$%^&(). Allows the user to channel divine power !@#$%^&() ]
She glanced up at Emilia to make sure...
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“Since you have me all to yourself, why don’t we tailor the lesson to your needs,” said Freddy. “What do you know about humanoid law, and what do you want to know about it? And if you don’t know what you want to know, what kind ...
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“Lesson Day?” asked Elise, stretching. “What’s that?”
“Originally, this gathering was just so the members of Ostra could plan their next moves, but as it grew, some members started requesting resources on how to fit into humanoid society, and some other members volunteered to teach what they ...
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It looked exactly how she remembered it. It had the same pure white fur, the same pale red eyes, the same massive paws, and the same cold aura. Their eyes almost met and she saw flashbacks of the night when she had seen it last.
“‘Ey Jerry, look!” said a voice to her right. The speaker was a red frog wearing a suit. “The new guy’s almost as big as you!”
There was a deep rumble as the elephan...
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After two and a half months underground, the sun was blinding. It took Elise many minutes for her eyes to adjust to the sudden influx of light, and when they finally did, everything looked strange. They were floating above the same forest she had spawned in, but it all looked so unfamiliar. The greenness looked wrong compared to the black, blue, and red of the drow cave and the Dwarven grayscale.
Once outsid...
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Two Omnivorous Cyclops cows were glaring at each other in a field. Neither moved a muscle. Around them, the rest of their herd had formed a ring, and were watching closely to what looked like would become a deadly fight. The Mexican standoff carried on for a minute, with Elise furiously spamming {Suggest} to try to get one of them to make the first move. After another long minute, one of them pawed the ground and m...
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Hovering right behind her was Emilia wearing a broad smile. Elise leapt from her branch and used {Dash} to get away as fast as she could, until she looked back and saw that Emilia still hadn’t moved, and was starting to laugh. Somehow, the cows below didn’t seem to notice any of it, and were still peacefully lapping up water from the river.
Elise made her way back, glad that rabbits couldn’t blush. N...
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Elise now sits down to do mana meditation instead of doing nothing
Elise now gets Salome's permission to hunt the cows first (I had already made this change on the RR version, but forgot to push it here
The location of the tunnel was easy enough to find. It was a few dozen feet above the ground, but that actually made it easier for her to spot, since she was coming from the sky. She squeezed her way through t...
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That night, Elise dreamed of Earth. She was back in middle school, when the bullying was at its worst. It was before she got braces to cure her buck teeth, and before she started wearing her hair long to hide her ears, and before she hit any major growth spurts to look less like a child. Except she wasn’t in her human form. She was in her rabbit.
Children with faces shrouded in shadow all around her were la...
2024-08-20 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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This is the last of the decoded chapters. Thank you for your patience, and sorry for the notifications if you had them on.
This time around, Elise was able to get out of the city without a hitch. She got a few glares and a few rotten mushrooms thrown at her, but beyond that, there were no problems. There was only one guard at the tunnel to the lake, and though he looked suspicious of what was going on, the king’s note was enough to get him to look the other direction.
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Another dwarf head poked around the corner from the street, and Elise knew she needed to move. Since her stealth had already been blown, she saw no reason to remain landbound anymore, and summoned her wings and flew upward. The dwarf in the window grabbed at her as she ascended, but she was already out of his reach.
She floated in the air for a moment, trying to figure out what was happening. The alarm wasn’t for her, was it? The timeline didn’t make sense if it was. The guards or G...
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Elise barely had time to {Dart} away before a set of jaws with teeth as tall as she was closed around the air where she had just been. As the creature sank back into the dark water, she continued to fly up, as high as she could, until her wings were almost brushing against the roof of the cave. The monster leapt again, getting its full body out of the water– which was impressive, given its size– but it still wasn’t quite high enough to reach her.
[Darkwater Plesiosaur, lvl...
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