Chapter 76: The First Tome

“Ouch!”

As another needle pricked her through the fabric draped over her slender frame, Nisha couldn’t help but wince.

Not that it happened frequently, but ever since Aubrey insisted on helping her older sister Linda out with fixing up a new dress for their guest, the amount of times she had felt the needle stung her certainly increased.

“I still don’t understand why I need a whole new set of dresses. What’s wrong with mine?”

After a...

Chapter 75: A Tailor’s Shop

Approaching the unfathomable figure resting atop the stone altar, the small figure almost disappeared in comparison.

Taking in the spectacle of the rainbow scales reflecting light all over the place and the presence filling the whole space, bowing towards the god of dragons would have gone unnoticed if it hadn’t been for an eye the size of a wagon road focusing on the servant.

“Your lordship, we have received message ...

Chapter 74: Unexpected Encounter

“Alright, Nisha. I hope you won’t mind if I return home early to retrieve my manual. I’ll come back real quick, in the meantime, you can pick your books. It’s not like I could have helped you with that anyway. And once we're both done, we’ll meet up with your friend from the guild, ok” Eager to grasp his new shot at mana cultivation, Henry excused himself and left the elven girl alone, without giving her a chance to speak.

Nisha wasn’t bothered by his un...

Chapter 73: Picking A Skill

Chapter 73: Picking A Skill

“Please elaborate Sir Sarand. How did you err?”

The director of the Skill Library was a mystical figure in Henry’s mind. The man would never stoop so low to take part in worldly matters, yet he had just openly admitted that he had made a mistake. A chance like this was far too rare to let it slip by.

“Could you also tell me what’s so special about my sight? It’s the second time I’m...

Chapter 72: Correction

Chapter 72: Correction

The siblings now had plans to occupy themselves from lunch to the end of the afternoon; they thus headed to the Skill Library for the morning. The sun had already risen from the horizon, promising sunshine for the whole day. Perfect conditions for a perfect day.

“There’s one thing I still don’t understand. If you have yet to learn a skill from the library, how could you deal with the monsters when we were … hunting? You shot some kind of blac...

Chapter 71: Knowledge is Power

“So basically you’re telling me that you went together to the temple since Nisha wanted to visit a priest she knows for her sickness and you offered to accompany her after returning from that engagement with your classmates, Henry?”

Raising his eyebrows to emphasize his doubtful tone, Luthais didn’t take his accusing eyes off his children for a second while Galan was serving the dinner.

The young boy squirm...

Chapter 70: Patching Things Up

Inhaling a deep breath of fresh air first thing after leaving the Dungeon, Nisha was wondering what to do next. The sun had yet to set, there was still some time left before the siblings would have to return home to avoid worrying Galan and Luthais.

Checking the condition of her arm, Nisha was surprised to see how fast her dark runes had worked on her injury.

The bloody and raw flesh had been replaced by scabs; the wound seemed to have been inflicted several weeks ago.

T...

Chapter 69: Crimson Crystal Lizard

Inching along the corridor, neither Nisha nor Henry could hide their excitement. At first, the young man couldn’t believe that they had found a hidden room, he had thought that his sister had read the map wrongly. However, they had been following the stone passage for a while, and Henry could now say for sure that it was different from the usual short tunnel connecting two rooms. Whatever was at the end, anticipation was already making shivers run down Nisha’s sp...

Chapter 68: Dungeon Exploring

Facing her adversaries, two skeletons and three [Hungry Wolves], Nisha unsheathed one of her short swords.

Judging by their frame, the undead were most likely human or elvish, however there was simply no way to exactly deduce their origin just from their outward appearance, so most of them were grouped in the same category.

[Hungry Wolves], on the other side, weren’t as starved as their name suggested. Their most telling feature, compared to a normal wo...

Chapter 66: Stepbrother

Chapter 66: Stepbrother

When she left the guild building near the docks, the sun had long since set. Walking through streets still slightly wet from a light rain that must have had fallen while she was in the dungeon, Nisha looked around as it was the first time she was seeing life. There were very little people out, the weather and the time of the day having deterred most from taking a stroll.

Contemplating on her gains, the dragon didn’t...

Chapter 65: Fighting with Tooth and Nail

Lifting up both her swords to block the incoming blow, Nisha successfully repelled the goblin’s strike.

On her way back from the dungeon, she had ran into the monster in one of the small rooms near the exit.

The day was nearing its end, and she needed to go back home before Luthais noticed her absence - or Galan, in case the half elf was immersed in his work.

The wooden club smashed at her, the goblin was enraged because his little opponent had warded off all of his at...

Memories Of A Maid

The first time I meet my master, I was relaxing in my pond.

Relaxing is probably the wrong word. The turnly tribute was incoming, and I still had no idea what I should offer to the [Fairy Queen]. A heavy storm had ruined most of my herbs, the plants on which I had spent a good half of my puny life nurturing, gone on a god’s whim.

Sigh …

The tribute’s obligation hadn’t been in place for long. The [Ancient Elder Treant]...

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Chapter 64: Playing Around In The Dungeon

Happy about completely demolishing her opponents, Nisha estimated that she still had a little more time left before she had to return to Luthais’ mansion. She was given a fair amount of freedom as long as she didn’t stay out too late or stir up too much trouble. Her freedom was also dependent upon the assumption that she would constantly and dutifully attend court, and that she would complete every miscellaneous task that was asked of her.

She had left for the dungeon early in t...

Chapter 63: Taking A Dive

Standing at the bottom of the crystal like spiral staircase, Nisha doubtfully looked at the compass and map in her hands.

After she had been left alone in the Two Woods shop, she seized the chance to quickly change her gear with her [Soul Space], donning her usual leather hunting gear, a quiver full of arrows and her bow as well as the two [Taurith Short Swords], one on each hip. Finding the stairs again was no issue at all, even if this was her first time in the dunge...

Chapter 62: Entering The Dungeon

Having evaded detection inside the Guild and, almost as important, Aubrey, Nisha relaxed her tense shoulders, allowed herself a small smile, and headed for the harbor. She hadn’t been there before as there were few shops besides stands for fishermen to sell their daily catch. Fishing was quite a respected occupation, their guild not lacking any prestige. Fighting a swarm of monsters in the open sea took a lot of courage and more than one crew ended in a watery grave after ...

Chapter 61: Returning To The Guild

The air rippled from the pressure of the collisions of several hundred swords.. This chiming already echoed before the first rays of the sun had appeared, and now the fiery star had already travelled halfway across its path.

Each swordbearer was also dressed in a set of iron armor with a red phoenix engraved on their right chest, sparring against each other. In front of these warriors, a strange pair traded blows. One had the standard silver-red armor set, holding back slightly with each b...

Chapter 59: Return

While Nisha was still roaming the avenues of the city searching for the tea shop, Thana Los was in the room tidying up a bit for their tea party before leaving her Hall.

Her destination was the [Hall of Light]. The incident at the guild that she was told about by her small visitor greatly interested her, to the point that she left her refuge for the first time in a few moons.

The corridors snaking through the temple’s living quarters not only allowed the priesthood of the respectiv...

Chapter 58: Thieves

Miss Thana promised Nisha they would continue talking about the matter at the guild when she returned and that she would give some advice to the young dragon after thinking about it for a bit.

Nisha, in turn, was extremely glad to be able to run an errand for the old lady, hanging the pouch with coins on one of the lashes adorning her leather hunting gear.

She didn’t check the contents, but the clanking and clinking was enough to give her a good estimate of the inside.

Under ...

Chapter 57: Escape

For a precious second, the world stopped moving.

The impact of flesh and metal on the ground silenced everything apart from the steady stream of red liquid erupting from  Kartoff’s neck, followed by two more crimson rivers.

Staring blankly at the little demon, the archer reached up to the new wound running through his face, from under his right eye to his left one, the projectile Nisha had thrown at him had snapped his bowstring, which had in turn injured him.

A lucky th...

Chapter 56: Brawl

“How did you know that Sunno wasn’t born here, Nisha? You can tell me, I promise I won’t spill the beans.”

Walking side by side, Aubrey and Nisha were visiting the training grounds.

The court was stretching as far as the guild building was wide, chalk circles were spread throughout the place, some occupied by sparring adventurers.

“Someone told you about him?”

Refusing to drop the matter, the counter girl continued to pester her companion to share her secret.<...

Chapter 55: Training Hall

Waking up in the bed that had became hers a few months ago, Nisha was excited beyond reason, to the point that it was impressive that she had managed to fall asleep last night.

The day before, she had visited the Guild, joined it, had her guild card issued, and had managed to convince the Guild to let her challenge one of the instructors.

Aubrey had disproved at first, like Berti who didn’t understand why she would insist on fighting someone after obtaining a level E examination. 2016-06-25 17:37:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 54: Evaluation

Taking a closer look at the formation, Nisha recognized the pattern as the one inscribed on Eldrin’s guild ring.

She was standing in the middle, where a circle had been divided in two, on the left half it was radiant a sun, whereas a crescent moon was occupying the right half.

Nine rings, each bigger than the others, all with the same center - namely right where Nisha was standing -, were drawn around the split center, filled with so many stars that she felt as if she had been sent...

Chapter 53: Decisions

Nisha was still fuming mad, she was wandering aimlessly in [Thurgau], trying to let off some steam without success.

She had left the Dharnas Estate solely to find a worthy opponent in chess.

Grandpa Eldrin always won, but it was the game itself that was enjoyable, not winning or losing. Now it’s fun only if someone can keep up with my level, and make me go all out, but he managed to spoil it.

The dragon had been looking for a match challenging for her intellect,...