“Changed? What do you mean?” responded Elise quickly.
“It’s not {Rune of Fate} anymore! It’s Divine Restoration, and then in parentheses, (Rune of Fate)! And it doesn’t have any of that weird glitched text anymore!”
Elise took a moment to process her words. She had been expecting Jessie to finalize her own {Rune of Fate} sometime soon, so this hadn’t come out of nowhere. It really threw a wrench into her boring day, and she needed a few seconds to...
2025-12-27 07:04:44 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR'S NOTE>
Patreon did this silly thing a while ago and made it super easy to accidentally make chapters free instead of paid, which is why you probably got two notifications about this chapter. The worst part is that I made some significant edits on Patreon to the accidentally free version, and forgot what half of them were after I panic-deleted the post, so this version may have a few extra errors. I tried to find them all again, but I'm sure I missed one o...
2025-12-26 07:36:08 +0000 UTC
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Of the two people behind me, one of them is a beastperson like me. This one is a man, but he’s got cat ears and a tail. His fur and hair is black like mine, but his eyes are yellow, and he seems just as surprised to see me as I am to see him.
However, he is not the source of the intense gaze. That would be the person beside him, a woman with a face so forgettable I don’t even know how to describe it. Plain brown hair, plain brown eyes, ordinary features, and gray robes that lo...
2025-12-24 08:13:41 +0000 UTC
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After 800 years of travels and countless forms of mischief, Oberon and Titania finally returned to where it all began. The place of their birth. The mysterious valley where winter couldn’t quite reach.
The valley hadn’t changed much since they left. It was still just as green as ever, and though the animals and some of the plants had changed, the overall atmosphere was untouched. Almost.
The mountains nearby were inhospitable, and nearly uncrossable for most, but somehow, a gr...
2025-12-23 07:01:03 +0000 UTC
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“Titania and I were a part of the same spawn wave, though we were not the same species. You may be interested to learn that while she spawned as a fey, I did not. I was a mindless squirrel. True story. I supposed you could say that you and I have some kinship in our origins.
“Due to my species, I don’t remember much of my own early years, but I do have a few distinct memories. She befriended me, and the two of us worked hard to survive together. Back then, she was no taller than a...
2025-12-23 07:00:11 +0000 UTC
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I end up going to bed close to sunrise, and when I wake up in the early afternoon, I return to the twins’ house. They’re both busy working on individual projects when I arrive, so I have to entertain myself for a few minutes until they reach a stopping point. After expressing my concerns about Cecilia getting so caught up in her artificery that she forgets about the Guild Investigator, they promise to call her again that night and double check that she remembers. They also offer to let me...
2025-12-21 07:27:05 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR'S NOTE>
In case you missed the update to the previous chapter, I changed the last couple paragraphs. It's a very simple change that basically postpones the original ending where she gets to class and Jessie tells her about her Rune of Fate so that I can have Elise visiting Oberon here. I entirely forgot that I was going to do this scene with Oberon, and I need to thank Kaladin for reminding me, because I would have been kicking myself, as this scene ab...
2025-12-20 07:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“The Delicacies are actually a little bit more than just tourist destinations,” explained Cecilia. “That’s what they mainly are, but they’re also a teaching tool. In the past there were many chefs and connoisseurs that went and tasted them all to expand their horizons and get experience. They were originally discovered and defined by one legendary adventurer-chef a few centuries ago. He actually marked a total of twenty or so, but over the years, other experienced chefs and gastrono...
2025-12-19 07:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The looks on the twins’ faces are a little unnerving. The smiles themselves are actually pretty nice, but the fact that the only other time I’ve seen them smile was when they were blowing stuff up makes me mildly concerned. Still, I’m not gonna turn down a free tour of what’s clearly a super secret basement vault thingy.
“Sure!” I say.
“Just give us one minute,” says A.
“The second basement technically doesn’t exist, and while it seems it’s impossible t...
2025-12-17 08:22:32 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR'S NOTE>
I have edited the ending of this chapter, as I forgot that I was gonna do something next chapter that I could not do with the current ending. Sorry for that, and double sorry to anyone who read the OG version of this chapter, as I will be reusing the exact same cliffhanger.
<END AUTHOR'S NOTE>
Stop being such a nervous idiot! Sophie mentally shouted at herself.
She gritted her teeth as she crept thr...
2025-12-16 07:54:15 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR'S NOTE>
In case any of you skipped that chapter that I inserted (currently numbered as chapter 64), I encourage you to go back and read it, because it is relevant to today's chapter. The specific section that is relevant is the twins' PoV.
If you don't want to do that, here's your missing context:
Sophie’s question demolished Elise’s plans for the night, but she didn’t mind too much. Taking Sophie down into the Dungeon was no trouble at all, and in fact, she thought it was a very good idea. In the Bronze areas, Elise could easily protect her from any threat, and getting Sophie some practical experience in combat was important. Especially given Titania’s warning. She wanted Sophie to at least be able to defend herself when whatever calamity was coming arrived.
Irylax thoug...
2025-12-13 07:21:47 +0000 UTC
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Twenty one gods were gathered in the God of Games’ banquet hall in the divine realm. The one at the head of the table was the God of Games himself, while the other twenty were the participants in the sixth round of the game he had been fiddling with for millennia. The attention of all the gods present was drawn to a single screen at the far end of the table opposite the God of Games where a tense scene played out.
Standing on a hill was a behemoth of the eldritch persuasion, a vaguely...
2025-12-12 07:00:17 +0000 UTC
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“I brought you a present,” I say. “You don’t like it?”
“Yona this—! You’d better have a damn good explanation or I’m sending an emergency signal to the Guild right now!”
“Fortunately, I do have a damn good explanation,” I say, picking the head up with a mana hand. “Behold! The assassin! Annie, say hi.”
“Hi,” says Annie, sounding despondent.
“She’s alive?!” exclaims Lauren. “Annie, what—? Are you okay?!”
“No, ...
2025-12-10 07:10:00 +0000 UTC
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Unlike the first meeting in the empty classroom, this meeting took place on one of the University’s many training fields. There was no buffet this time, but there were snacks—fruits and pastries, mostly—and when Elise and Sophie arrived, most of the students were helping themselves.
Shawn greeted them, as he had the first time, and went into a brief explanation of how regular club meetings worked. Since it was a club and not a class, it was fairly unstructured, and the regular mee...
2025-12-09 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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“Fine," says Annie. "Just get this over with.”
“First…” I start, staring down at her bloody neck. “How are you talking?”
“Seriously?”
“Well, you’re not attached to your lungs right now, so you shouldn’t be able to make noise.”
“My body is dead, so I shouldn’t be alive at all. Maybe it has something to do with that.”
I shake her violently for a few seconds, sending blood splatters flying everywhere.
“What was that for?” sh...
2025-12-07 07:00:09 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR'S NOTE>
Accidentally posted the RR chapter early, so I'm posting this one early too, because why not. Thanks for reading!
<END AUTHOR'S NOTE>
At first, Elise was excited to see three Skill Quests in her System notifications, but when she read what Skills they were for, her enthusiasm was dampened somewhat. She was still glad she had unlocked the Skills, but their names and effects were more than a little sinister.
T...
2025-12-06 05:59:26 +0000 UTC
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I try to throw a Fireball at Annie’s body, but for some reason, my mana won’t work. I can still sense it, but it’s all messed up, and won’t move the way I want it to. The source seems to be the wound in my back. There’s a weird mana mixed in with my body that’s interfering with everything else.
My whole body hurts as well, so all I can do is stand there as Annie picks up her head and puts it back on, followed by her leg. As soon as the severed head gets within a few centimet...
2025-12-05 07:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Yeah?” I ask.
“I know you’re here ‘cause you’re bored and want something to do… but if it’s not too much to ask, would you mind if I took the lead? I want to get to Silver as soon as possible, so I need all the experience I can get.”
“Sure, I don’t care,” I say.
I can already smell the blood, and the trail that leads away. I could probably find it in a few minutes if I really tried. But that wouldn’t be very interesting. I bet watching Annie strugg...
2025-12-03 07:01:50 +0000 UTC
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Elise followed Cassian’s instructions, reaching the large cavern in just under ten minutes. She sensed it before she saw it though. Just as he described, it was absolutely teeming with monsters, and even just the close section that she could sense from the tunnel held dozens. All of them had absolutely pitiful amounts of aether, indicating that they were low level, but she also sensed some vaguely stronger monsters a bit further in.
She paused just a little outside the cavern, h...
2025-12-02 07:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“Annie,” I say, walking toward her.
She starts, then turns around and smiles when she sees me. She looks—and smells—a little bit hungover, but she’s in good spirits.
“Yona!” she exclaims, turning to meet me.
At the sound of my name, everyone inside who hadn’t already seen me looks over. A few of them start whispering about me. Most of it is good, flattering things, but some of the stuff is less so, and other stuff is straight-up rude. And gross.
“We k...
2025-11-30 07:40:51 +0000 UTC
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Nothing happened.
“Kill yourself,” she then said.
Nothing happened again. She breathed a sigh of relief.
She had read that {Command} and its derivative Skills could not be used to directly harm the target, but she had also half-expected {Rune of Fate} or the absurd aether difference to brute force their way past that restriction. The fact that it still existed was good.
And disappointing.
She grimaced at that thought, but then thought back to M...
2025-11-29 07:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Apparently, Thanksgiving has me all turned around, and this chap was supposed to go out tomorrow, not today. Oops. This works out for the better though because now I don't have to worry about writing a chapter tomorrow. Today's chapter is tomorrow's chapter. Next chapter will be this weekend. Sorry about that!
2025-11-27 08:03:01 +0000 UTC
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I lean my head into Annie’s hand as she scratches behind my ears. She’s actually very good at this. She seems to know all the right spots to scratch. If only her breath smelled better.
I mean, I know I’m in a medieval world without modern amenities, but her breath is awful. I usually tune out the smell of peoples’ breath because it’s not pleasant, but when her face is a foot away from mine and she’s breathing into my face, it’s hard to ignore.
But even given th...
2025-11-27 07:28:20 +0000 UTC
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[ Profession Upgrade Options: ]
[ Lazy Cook ]
[ Hungry Cook ]
[ Sous Chef ]
[ Experienced Taste Tester (Path Change) ]
[ Lazy Manager (Path Change) ]
Wow, these options suck. Abby, which one sucks the least? And what does Path Change mean?
“Path Change means that it would put you on a new Professional path, and that you would lose the Skills...
2025-11-26 07:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Sucri’s evaluation of Elise’s skills went by surprisingly quickly. Elise thought it would have taken longer than it did, but apparently it was mostly a test of mindset, rather than ability. The upper floors of the Dungeon never had any monsters higher than Tier 3, so even if Elise was weak, she would have been fine if she kept a cool head, and apparently, Sucri saw enough to think that Elise would be fine.
Actually, it seemed that despite not being all that close, she had been watch...
2025-11-25 07:00:11 +0000 UTC
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On the same day...
When I wake up in the morning, I have a quick breakfast with Lauren before she runs out, saying she has to do some work or something. I then eat a bunch more before taking a quick nap and heading out to explore again.
This time, I head back to the south side of the city, since there are a couple places that Lauren mentioned were only open during the day, and it is currently the day. I stop by the plant nursery run by the elf first, but unfortunate...
2025-11-23 07:00:09 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR'S NOTE>
Re-notifying because I forgot the chapter number and title originally and want the email readers to have those.
<END AUTHOR'S NOTE>
Elise undid {Subtle Royalty}, and immediately, the floodgates opened. It was like a dam had been broken, and her aether spilled out into the room, forming a dense cloud of energy around her. It was only stopped by the four walls of the room and by Jessie’s own aether. The two...
2025-11-22 07:47:22 +0000 UTC
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Despite the chaos of everything that had been going on recently, for most people living in Riverfork, life simply went on as usual. The potential catastrophes in Ryantown and the small fishing village had been settled before they could cause any direct problems for Riverfork. Only the highest rank Adventurers had been directly affected, and it wasn’t even all of them.
However, even with just four taking on the responsibility of handling the matter of Ryantown, it still left them with ...
2025-11-21 07:02:20 +0000 UTC
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Abby, you hear that? I’ve got fans!
“One fan.”
So far.
“Nice to meet you too,” I say, smiling. “Are you an Adventurer too?”
“Yes!” she says. “But I’m only Bronze right now, heheh. I’ve got a long way to go.”
“You’ll get there eventually.”
“I hope so! By the way, I’ve been wondering. What kinda fighting style do you use? ‘Cause your Class is pretty unique, and I heard some people saying you were a ...
2025-11-19 07:00:14 +0000 UTC
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