Confusion and fear were the two primary emotions going through everyone's minds.
Lone was overtaken mostly by interest while Hazel was trying her best to see if anyone in the room knew anything important pertaining to their situation.
"Hiss," the soft sound of a snake calling him filled Lone's ears.
"Hmm? Hungry, are you, Greed?" Lone asked.
In response, the critter which was wrapped around his bicep nodded fervently. "Okay, let's eat, but not th...
2019-10-21 02:02:32 +0000 UTC
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'How?! How is this possible?!' Jim Tucker was maintaining a calm smile on his face, however, his mind was a mess.
He and Daz had rolled a total of five times thus far and the rolls had gone like this; Daz: 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, Jim: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.
It made absolutely no sense to him. Shouldn't it have been the other way around? Mayor Rickley had asked for a break so he could speak to Jim privately for a moment, which Daz happily allowed.
"What's goin...
2019-10-20 00:24:44 +0000 UTC
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Lone was sitting in the slums of one of Felron's border cities - Asteroth - which had yet to be hit by the mass-kidnappers.
He had a strange-looking flute to his mouth and he was playing it horrendously as Greed happily danced about in the basket in front of him which he'd put her in to act as a little show.
Hazel was milling about at his side silently reading the minds of everyone that stared at them for too long. It was hard to read specific thoughts in th...
2019-10-18 04:48:46 +0000 UTC
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"No! How could I lose?!" a young man in his early twenties shouted as he grasped at his hair in frustration. "You... You cheated!"
The handsome 30-or-so-year-old man with dyed-blonde hair wearing a silky purple shirt that was tucked into his pure white pants sneered at the man. He tightened his grip on the breast that was cupped in his hand, resulting in the woman sat on his lap moaning light. "As if I'd ever need to cheat against you. Accept your loss, or keep screaming an...
2019-10-16 20:17:01 +0000 UTC
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"Hi, Greed, I missed you too," Lone said in a joyful tone as the tiny albino snake slithered up his leg and coiled around his bicep.
Scott shivered. "That's really creepy."
Emma looked at him funny. "Are you scared of snakes?"
"No, I'm scared of creepy things," Scott countered.
George looked confused. "But it's kinda cute."
"It's powerful is what it is," Hazel said. As a B-ranker, she could easily feel the waves of power rolling off of the t...
2019-10-14 01:31:45 +0000 UTC
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"C'mon, kids, thank young Miss McArthur for showin' ya her sword skills," the elderly lady from Nevada, Jesabelle, said.
The group of 30 or so young girls and boys all aged between 5 and 12 replied, "Thank you, Miss McArthur!"
Jesabelle smiled under her cowboy hat. "Now don't go complainin' when I give y'all yer homework tonight, ya hear?"
"Yes, Miss Loderman!" the children answered.
"Good, now scram! Y'all've still got 20 or so minutes left of lunch, so g...
2019-10-12 18:58:07 +0000 UTC
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Vice-headmaster Merkel was right. A month passed and Lone had been perfectly shunned by a good portion of the staff while almost every single human student ignored him entirely or actively avoided him.
His Wondrous Emporium suffered as well. Rumours had gotten around amongst the nobles of Lone's vicious duel with Professor Fredley, and coupling that with the Church of the Primal's official stance on what had happened at Mystopolis' cathedral between Bishop Samson, the seeke...
2019-10-10 21:40:09 +0000 UTC
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"I don't have time to waste on you," Daz coldly declared to the good-looking man that had approached him after having spoken to Aila.
"Well too bad, 'cause you're gonna have to," the man replied as a pair of boxing gloves materialised around his fists and he then swung for Daz's face.
Easily dodging the admittedly rather fast and powerful blow, Daz summoned Hamson and immediately use it to smack the back of the man's head like a baseball with its flat side.
Like...
2019-10-08 20:41:18 +0000 UTC
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"Isn't it crazy that Professor Fredley is letting him use more than just magic?"
"What difference does it make? It's not like he'll injure him either way."
"I mean, duh, Professor Fredley is insanely powerful. He was a candidate to be the advent of lightning in his youth, after all."
"Right. I'm more surprised that the ninetails has an item that can store so much MP and it's insane that he's so willing to show it publicly. I'd be a bit more discreet if I owned t...
2019-10-06 22:40:42 +0000 UTC
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"Well, that went well," Daz commented as he started up the car and began flying through the skies of Tokyo.
Rose snorted. "Could have gone better. Why'd you threaten him like that at the end? You don't need to swing your dick around wherever you go, you know?"
"Language," Daz immediately responded, earning him a roll of the eyes as Rose guarded her forehead. Smiling, he said, "The asshole tested you. True, he felt insulted by talking to a child, but he'd probably not ...
2019-10-05 10:20:57 +0000 UTC
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"Grand Soul Rooting." As soon as Lone has activated his newly evolved skill, both he and Swind saw a massive astral tree root grow from Rachel's chest.
This tree root passed straight through Kyuubi and Garadia without disturbing either of them.
The two men watched anxiously as Rachel's face morphed into one of confusion. Her eyes scrunched up and she looked... lost.
The tree root kept growing and growing and didn't stop until it covered all of Rachel's body. May...
2019-10-03 22:37:57 +0000 UTC
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"We've arrived," the employee said. Not a beat later, the elevator's door opened, revealing a single hallway with a door at the end of it.
Seeing that the woman was just standing there like a statue now with her hands clasped at her waist and her head bowed politely, Daz pushed Rose out of the elevator.
Just before the two of them reached the door down the corridor, Rose said, "Let me do all of the talking. If I get flustered or cornered, step in and work your awkward...
2019-10-01 20:33:53 +0000 UTC
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Eolande balanced her quill atop her upper lip and under her nose in disinterest as she listened to the teacher rant on and on about the fundamentals of enchanting magic.
Occasionally she would tune back in if he said something that she was unfamiliar with, but that was rare, so she mostly kept her attention in her head where her thoughts were keeping her entertained.
'Why am I not in the same class as Lone and Soph? This is boring... At least if I was with them, I...
2019-09-30 08:21:12 +0000 UTC
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A week passed by in a flash. During those 7-days, Daz simply kept to himself as he managed his territories.
A lot of his time was spent in the new Adjustable Repeatable Dungeon. Every day he would venture into its depths at the hardest difficulty in an attempt to earn stat points, which, of course, he had successfully done.
Omitting all unnecessary and all unchanged information, Daz's status now looked like this.
[Host's Status
Energies...
2019-09-29 17:49:08 +0000 UTC
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"Ah, as I thought, My King," Lyle said as he approached Daz who was seated in the centre of the keep's library with a book in his hand. "I assume you claimed to have retired early so you could escape the boisterous atmosphere of the party early?"
Daz nodded as he laid the novel he was reading down onto the table in front of himself. "I could see that Madison was getting bored. She really hates Aila, so I felt it'd be best if we left."
"Most wise, My King," Lyle respon...
2019-09-28 08:48:20 +0000 UTC
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"Red Spear finished the X-ranked quest? That's good to hear," Lone said to Guildmaster Sarah.
He had received a visit from one of the staff members of The Adventurer's Guild shortly after he'd woken up that morning saying that Sarah wanted to see him, so, with nothing else better to do besides grinding his Soul Rooting until classes at The Academy started, he naturally agreed.
Lone was inside Sarah's office at the guild and at the side of the room, Gilbert could be se...
2019-09-26 19:34:02 +0000 UTC
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(For those uninterested, chapters are coming shortly.)
1. Maybe the most important of the 4 decisions, in regards to the major poll from a few days ago, I have thoroughly read all of your lovely comments and taken note of the votes. As it currently stands, the general opinion is that it would be good to increase the SIS chapter count at the cost of LTW chapters, however, there are a few powerful voices (long-time patrons who regularly like and/or comment) that have stated the...
2019-09-26 08:30:54 +0000 UTC
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This took a surprisingly long time. Man, I'm really not looking forward to commissioning the later versions of both Lone and Daz. They're so complex. ;~:
Anyway, thoughts? Also, anyone else you want commissioned particularly from either story? If there's no strong general opinion, next will be a redo of Rose.
2019-09-26 04:22:04 +0000 UTC
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"What incredible magic!"
"I've never seen a barrier act like that before!"
"It's possible for barriers to not be physically connected to something? Doesn't that mean that she can fly with that?"
"No, no, no. We don't know if the barrier itself can move just yet."
"Ah, right. Still, this is incredible! That must be a fusion skill between the air magic and enchanting magic schools, no?"
"Or the gravity magic school and enchantment magic school. There a...
2019-09-23 09:14:31 +0000 UTC
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"Please, I'm telling you I'm worth way more to you if you don't hurt me!" Steven yelled. His hands had reached around to his back in an attempt to soothe the pain that was coursing through his body which was clearly originating from there.
Daz shook his head. "I already told you, didn't I? 'Then don't talk.'."
At that moment, Daz's eyes widened when he saw what looked like an explosive cannon round enter his vision. There was no time to shout nor react. In fact, Daz w...
2019-09-22 23:49:04 +0000 UTC
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As Daz, Madison, Mu, Ellie, Crusher and her goons, approached the convoy of semi-trucks, people began stepping out of the trucks' driver-seats and passenger-seats while even more clambering out of the trailers of said vehicles.
Before long, roughly fifty people had gathered to meet Daz, of which, he only recognised Aila.
The girl stared at Madison meaningfully while Madison glared at Daz's former fiancée.
Daz's group only stopped approached them when the reaper...
2019-09-21 18:36:48 +0000 UTC
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"Um, they're in here," Luu said as she pointed to the door in front of herself, Lone, and Professor Dana which led to a private arena.
Lone raised an eyebrow. "You're allowed to use these subspace arenas for personal use?"
Professor Dana nodded. "There's a fee, but it's pretty small. It's fairly common for students to rent them out after classes are over or on the weekends. They restore themselves when damaged so they're good places to test your abilities un...
2019-09-20 08:45:37 +0000 UTC
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I feel like this is a pretty significant change, so I don't want to just do it without first having a discussion and hearing your thoughts about it.
I'm sure a lot of you have felt it, but SIS is pretty slow right now, and this is pretty much exclusively due to the merit points. There are a few other reasons, but those can be worked around.
I personally think that to improve the story and make it more engaging and exciting, I'd need to make merit points harder to get.
My ide...
2019-09-20 07:14:48 +0000 UTC
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Why am I even asking this, you may be wondering. Well, at this point, SIS is easily twice as popular as LTW is over on Royal Road and receives roughly 6-7 times more views per week, and writing more chapters for it per week will only help increase that popularity by further cementing its place highly in the Popular This Week ranking list.
Also, LTW has never been less popular on Royal Road than now due to the messy cut between the rewrite and the old content, so I feel like I'm hurting ...
2019-09-19 23:41:50 +0000 UTC
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[The host has developed the passive skill: Blinding Resistance.]
[Congratulations! the host's passive skill [Persuasion] has levelled up! It is now Expert Level 9.]
[Congratulations! the host's passive skill [Acting] has levelled up! It is now Advanced Level 8.]
'I definitely got way more from that one little 'fight' than I was expecting. What a nice haul,'&...
2019-09-17 02:38:18 +0000 UTC
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'Beyond disappointing.' Daz could only sigh after seeing the list of facilities for the city. 'Literally everything is broken, and with Mofolo in Hamson, the city's core is gone, so I need to replace that before anything else for it to all work at any efficiency, let alone maximum efficiency.'
His eyes wandered over to the distant illusion that he couldn't physically see but that he knew was there.
2019-09-16 04:49:53 +0000 UTC
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'Well? Your answer, Child of Man? Will you or will you not swear under the system to eradicate the Children of Giants known as the Overgiants?' Clearly, the spirit of King Mofolo had no intentions to talk further about the true core of Atlantis.
Daz frowned. "A shame. Grip of Death."
With his hand outstretched and looking like it was grasping something, Daz stared at the spirit twice his size as its hands reached for its throat.
2019-09-14 02:24:18 +0000 UTC
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'He's the one that Grandmother told Mother and Father to warn me about, is he not?' Reinheart thought. 'Grand Templar Sigmund is coming here to kill him... Will I gain the credit If I do it myself instead?'
Underneath his perfect external appearance and kind personality, the young man was actually extremely religious and filial to his family - his grandmother the archpope in particular.
If she wanted this foxkin dead, then wouldn't she be inc...
2019-09-13 18:12:39 +0000 UTC
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A young man with long golden-blonde hair similar to Soph's raised his hand. "Professor Rury, I have a subskill that I'd like to display."
Professor Ruairidh was used to having his name mispronounced, so he didn't act immaturely and simply nodded. "Please, step forward, Student Reinheart. Do you need time to activate this subskill and is it a magic-based subskill or does it stem from another type of skill?"
'Seriously?' Lone thought after hearing the boy'...
2019-09-08 21:52:56 +0000 UTC
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A little over 20-minutes later, Daz checked the skill upgrade that he wanted one final time.
[Industrial Item Box [S-Rank (Higher Tier)]
Description
A skill commonly used by intergalactic conglomerates to easily ferry their goods and spaceships between galaxies with minimal fuel usage.
How incredibly pointless. You're really upgrading Lesser Item Box so much just to move a body and a sword? Well, it...
2019-09-08 13:33:34 +0000 UTC
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