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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 151: Fairies

A gentle bell rings from somewhere higher up on the mountain.

Vivid moonlight shines out over the forest beneath them, covering the entire world in a wash of pale, haunting light that seems to illuminate not only every crack and crevice in the rock-face beneath their feet, but also every wrinkle, scar, fold, wound and crease in the faces of every single person around them. The night-glow gives credence to the fact that here, atop this mountain, thousands of moments happened e...

Chapter 297: I have been to the mountain

It has been about a week since then.

The wizard-girl, exhausted, lifts her arms to cover her eyes to shield them from the pelting, frigid winds that press against her body. The icy torrent surges down the cliff-face which she presses herself against, the winds pushing against her frame, trying to throw her off of the precipice. The thick layer of clothing covering her small gestalt billows in the gale, the fabric covering her face to shield it from the cold, pressing against ...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 9: Craving

“You ate a slime?” asks Alleluia, following with a sound that he can only describe as a giggle.

Canta frowns. “I ate about a dozen.”

“At once?!” asks the voice on the other end of the pipe, breaking out into a loud, clearly audible laugh now. He rolls his eyes.

“I was hungry.”

Alleluia lowers the tone of her voice down from the high-pitch she was at. “Aren’t they super dangerous to eat though?”

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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 150: The fair

It is the evening of the next day and a soft dusk glow covers the side of the mountain, the rays of ending daylight shimmering with a particular luminosity, as they reach between the gaps of the many wooden stalls set up on either side of them. Despite that warm-tinged glow, it is becoming colder and colder as the night approaches. Fresh pulls on the cuffs of her robe, adjusting them a little higher so that the fluff on the ends of them forms a tighter seal. She grabs her friend's hands again...

Chapter 296: Strung along

The wizard-girl rubs her eyes, feeling the dry itch inside of them. Maybe she’s just been crying too much?

She sits with her back against the wall, staring out over the destroyed floor, before turning her gaze over towards the gate. Nothing fights anymore. Nothing creeps or crawls or slithers anymore. The entire floor is covered in charred bones and ash and rubble. It’s been about ten minutes since the fight had ended. She doesn’t see anyone anymore. Everyone is gone. 2021-07-20 09:25:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 149: Quiet morning

“You sure you don’t want any help, Basil?” asks Fresh. The day has come to an end and Basil is still downstairs in the basement. A bucket of nails sits beside her. The priestess sits on the stone floor, a piece of wood laid out in front of her and a hammer in her hand. Wiping her forehead on her rolled up sleeve, she smiles and shakes her head.

“No, thank you. I really want to do this myself,” replies Basil.

Fresh nods, having expected that answer a...

Chapter 295: Piotr, myself and I

This odd creature, this thing that beholds, it slips through the cracks and crevices of the dungeon, as some strange sensation pulls it towards the deepest, darkest part of the world. It doesn’t know why it has the odd desire of wanting to reach the very bottom of the dungeon, to reach back towards where that cold ice is that it has left behind. But something lures it there, something calls it.

Yet its curiosity is too great to be swayed by such a simple sensation and it in...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 148: Banter

Fresh stares at the little yellow flower that is planted in the center of a small, hand-made pot. Its petals are a little saggy and hang downward with a slight droop. “It’s really cute, Basil!” she says excitedly.

“It’s just a dumb flower and an ugly pot,” says Jubilee, staring at it.

Basil frowns, rubbing her tired eyes. “It’s not about the flower or the pot,” she explains, as she pulls out a tiny sachet from her pocket. Opening it, she pul...

Chapter 294: Fairy of the fountain

A loud yawn echoes through the floor as the thing that beholds passes by. Curious, it stops to peek out of the tiny crack in the wall, focusing on the tired woman who is shuffling upwards, towards a higher point in the dungeon, as she makes her way back up from the library.

The fairy of the fountain stops again and stretches, as she lets out another long, loud yawn to signal her exhaustion, as she walks through the great, black forest. Her voice echoes upwards, passing throug...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 147: Moonshine

“Should I be doing anything?” asks Fresh, listening to the water rush past her ears.

The voice of the fountain yawns loudly. The direction that the sound comes from is indistinct and she feels like it’s resounding in both of her ears at the same time, as if there were two voices talking to her from either side at once. “No, no, just keep doing what you’re doing,” it says. “Don’t forget to scrub behind your ears.”

“Huh? What?” Fresh float...

Chapter 293: Fairy-Mother

The eye of the beholder, having lost track of where it is, inadvertently ends up going backwards. Taking a peep out of the hole in the ceiling, it finds that it is back somewhere it has already been.

“Why are you still here?!” yells the dungeon-master, slapping their hands against the table loudly, shaking the wood. “I thought I told you goons to go back to your spots and pack up!” they yell, pointing at the fairy-mother.

The fairy-mother silently lif...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 146: Customer Feedback

A yellow-robed adventurer stands outside of the door of the store, her group forming a half circle on one side of it, as she holds the bottle of pre-brewed coughee in both of her hands. “Aaaah, it’s so warm,” says the human, as she holds the bottle against her face.

“I don’t know about the taste,” replies the bearded wizard standing across from her, swirling the bottle in his hands around a little. A tiny draft of steam rises up from it, flowing out into the cool ...

Chapter 292: Of rats

The eye creeps and crawls, pulling itself through the darkness, compressing its wet form as it squishes itself between the hair-thin cracks in the rock, traveling between the floors of the dungeon. Curious about the strange, cracking, crunching, gnawing noises that vibrate through the walls, it peeps out of the darkness, staring down at the floor below.

The rat-queen sits on a throne of rats, gnawing down the end of an old stick in agitation, as she stares down at the single ...

Sin-Eater Chapter 8: Want

Canta opens his eyes as a loud growling fills the room, bouncing off of the walls of the small space. His stomach is rumbling again.

He sits upright in a quick motion, hunching over forward in the hopes that his gut will feel less empty if he squishes it together.

“Good morning,” says Alleluia almost immediately, sounding very chipper and bright.

He turns towards the pipe, looking at it somewhat bewildered, blinking his groggy eyes a few ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 145: Cold storage

Fresh fiddles with the thin railing beneath the sliding door that she is making, trying to get it to work, just like the sliding doors that adorn most of the buildings here in this city. Though, her design for the sliding door is a little different. The doors here that she has seen so far were a wooden frame with a wooden grid inside, the gaps of the grid filled with square sheets of dense fabric. She however is just making a single, rectangular door-frame and fills the whole thing with one, ...

Chapter 291: Nichodemus

The eye returns, popping up in the darkness, some undefined time later. It pushes itself out of a minuscule crack, forming in some distant shadow, where nobody can see it high above their heads.

Nichodemus floats down the hallway of the purple-robe’s fortress, running a lazy hand along the wall as he goes. Cultists, brought back to life by the reset that the dungeon-master had initiated, run around in all directions like a swarm of bees, as they tear the entire floor apart,...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 7: Yearning

Eventually, the uniform, monotone passages, which felt like they were winding like entrails, breaking him down the longer he stayed in them, finally come to an end. Canta slumps down onto the ground, sitting on the loose, cold stones beneath him, as he lets out a long, tired breath. He looks around at the giant, empty room that is laid out before him. It is dark. Entirely lightless. But he can see well enough, thanks to his abilities. It looks like some kind of boss arena, if he had to guess....

Sin-Eater: Chapter 6: Desire

First advanced chapter of Sin-Eater! =)

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[Minor Cure]

Removes ‘minor’ status-ailments from the target. Efficiency is a percentage based off of the user’s WIS relative to the ailment-strength-level.

Success Chance(%) = (WIS * LVL)

“You really do scream a lot,” says Alleluia, her voice traveling down the long pipe which he runs his ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 144: Distant thoughts

Jubilee knocks the sheep over, throwing it off of the counter with a single hand.

“JUBILEEE~!” yells Fresh, looking over the counter down at the sheep which flops onto the floor, landing on its side. The sliver of crystal-drakonium, implanted into its back along its spine, floats upwards, pressing the inside of the fabric up into the air. The sheep lifts up, its feet finding its balance as it keeps on walking straight ahead, having survived the fall. Fresh sighs in relief...

Chapter 290: The thing that beholds

An eye floats in the darkness, hidden out of sight as it lingers in the distant shadows where nobody is looking.

“My baby is all grown up!” cries the dungeon-master, slumped back over their chair, holding a sheet of yellow paper against their wet face. Whatever little creature is drawn on it, becomes warped and stained by the wet pressing through it.

“There, there,” says a calming voice from the side, the slender book with the argent cover hovers over...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 143: Lightweight

The night comes and goes. Fresh, much to her relief, wakes up early in the morning, having apparently slept her back pain away. The girl leaves the others to fend for themselves, regarding breakfast today, as she hurries downstairs into the basement and sets to work with her latest idea. Basil had forbidden her from doing so last night, the priestess wagging her finger at her and telling her to go to sleep. She even tucked her in.

Fresh pulls open the basement door and hurrie...

Chapter 289

I don’t really know what it is that I feel.

I don’t really know if I am happy or if I am sad.

The thick, heavy fog of the dungeon-gate surrounds me, pressing against my armor from all sides. The hot, dewy mist pearls on the sheen surface of my metal body, forming large droplets of water which run down my sleek form, like cool sweat dripping down over tense muscles. It drips down my body, water drips down my body, as if I were walking in the rain. Each of ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 142: Heavy stuff

“Why is it floating?” asks Jubilee, grabbing the boot out of the air. With an arc of their arm, they throw it across the room and it smacks against the wall, flopping down to the ground a second later.

“Ah!” Fresh yelps, trying to stop Jubilee, but failing to do so. “-Jubileeee!” complains the girl.

A moment later, the boot, laying on the floor of the empty store, rises up an inch and hovers there, the top of it hanging limply to the side.

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Chapter 288

Unsatisfying.

Forty-nine days, I have spent in the bardo. One-hundred and one floors of the dungeon, I have come to float across, pushing myself forward as if I were the ferryman for my own boat. Nobody else would have done it, it had to be me. I wonder if that is the lesson that I was meant to learn? That the only way forward is hard-work. Mind-numbing, soul-crushing, heart-breaking hard-work. Despite all of that. Despite everything. I am unrewarded.

It is u...

Dungeon Item Shop - Poll 9

Things are working out surprisingly well so far in the new city, all things considered. Now that the dust is starting to settle, what should Fresh focus her energy on?

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 141: Bitter

“Will it make me strong like you?” asks an excited caster, jumping up and down in front of Shamrock.

“No,” is all that the giant says, looking down at the pointy wizard hat which bobs up down beneath him. He stands just outside of the door of the store, towering behind a somewhat dinky, small stall that Fresh and Basil had put up together an hour before they opened for the day, with Jubilee’s sanction. As long as they didn’t block the road and they stayed by the h...

Chapter 287

Give him back.

There’s something in the air, something that lingers with me as I fall, as I stare in disbelief at the gray mass which presses, which worms its way out of an impossibly small crack in the rock, just beneath where the hero was a second ago. There’s a screeching, a screaming as my fist arcs back and I crash down like a falling star towards the maggot that forces itself straight up out of the ground, straight up towards me, as it reaches for my eyes with hungr...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 140: Two in the dark

Fresh sits out on the balcony, leaning back on the smaller chair. It is the middle of the night, the day having now come and gone. Shamrock had gotten her the cauldron, one that was significantly larger than her old one and carried it down to the basement. The crowd trailing him, following the giant man in excited fascination as he carried the thing over his shoulder, had to be stopped by Jubilee after they tried following him down into the basement. Fresh is pretty sure that the same people ...

Chapter 286

Cleansing.

It is a cleansing for us all. A chance to burn it all out. All of this gunk, all of this goo, all of this sticky, disgusting, goopy, oozy black-water that fills us all, as it has done for so long. It is a chance to light a fire and to let it all be scorched away. It’s time to let it all out, for all of us. I think we need this, guy. Though, I wish the hero would just hug it out with me, but I guess this is good too.

Brilliantly shining sparks dot...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 139: Comfy

The rest of the day passes. Fresh, after getting both Jubilee’s blessing and praise, spent the last of it making more gloves. Though now, for both hands and in different sizes. Jubilee, having appraised the item, had said that it was decently strong for just a single glove. With one on each hand, the bonuses would stack nicely. Especially if she figured out how to make more of it. Some chest armor or some spaulders, or just a whole outfit really. They could sell it as a set then, rather tha...