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Chapter 455 - Test after test

"Blue, Alex? It's time to wake up. We have to go," Hera shook them gently, trying to wake the two.

"Five more minutes," Blue mumbled and turned to the side.

"Man, I needed a nap," Alex sat up while stretching, "I don't remember when was the last time that I slept in the middle of the afternoon. It still is the afternoon, right?"

"Yeah, don't worry. You slept for like, 20 minutes or so," Hera replied.

"And unlike someone else, you didn't snore," Bonnie rolled her eyes a...

Chapter 454 -Find the statue

"This doesn't make any sense," Bonnie gasped. She was with her tablet trying to figure out the pattern for the rooms.

"Let it go, Bonnie. I told you, trying to figure that one out is a waste of time. Not only is it a very complicated code, but it also has way too many variables for us to understand," Helena said as they kept walking up the spiral.

"But, how are we supposed to find out where we should go?" Bonnie was still noting down every room number they were passing by.

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Chapter 453 - Housekeeping

The group was in one of the cube-shaped rooms. Everyone was looking around, trying to find rooms that should be vacant so they could stay there.

"Do we really have to be in such a rush?" Alex asked.

"Yes! We don't know how much time we have until the Housekeeper shows up. It's better for us to find a place and then stay there. Then we have an actual time frame to work with," Helena was moving around the walls of the large area with her shadow tentacles.

Blue was using Stormc...

Chapter 452 - The No Hotel

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Ooze - Sound
Chakram
Attribute Scaling:
Empress attributes: 74
Strength: x3.67 [1.8(3.6) + 1.87] Charisma: x3.27 [1.4(2.8) + 1.87] Luck: x3.97 [1.1(2.2) + 1.87]  Intelligence: 1.87 Endurance: 1.87  Agility: 1.87

Weapon skill:
Howl:
You can make your weapon scream, causing nearby creatures to run away in fear or to become frozen in place.
Range: 50 meters
Mana cost: 200 mana

Engraving:
Deals 10% of the damage as lightning...

Chapter 451 - Engraving a weapon

"You know, I never was able to understand that," Blue was on the couch watching some videos on her tablet. She shifted her focus to Hera, who was on the ground with several holographic spell circles around her as she tried to figure out something.

"And by that, you mean what exactly?" Hera asked without looking up, but she lowered the volume of the music she had on. Since she was working with engravings, she wanted to focus and not get distracted by the television. But staying in comple...

Chapter 450 - A guide for the doors

Hera pulled back the box that she had pushed aside. After removing the cloth protecting the contents, she saw a large glaive sitting on the case. The handle was mostly black, with some red leather straps wrapped around where one should hold the weapon. When reaching close to the blade, a piece of cloth was dangling from it in the same color as the straps, but it didn't look like leather. Instead, it was very similar to silk, even though it was made of an inorganic polymer. The blade itself wa...

Chapter 449 -Talking to the order

Hera was currently in her private room. Before going to the store, she had sent a message to Ninelyn, talking about the legacy and how she found that some members of the Court of Heroes might not go by heroes or members of the court. And that organizations or small groups could, in fact, be actual members of the Court of Heroes. She wasn't expecting more legacies to be found by looking at every group that worked with the heroes but considering their lack of solid leads, it was worth a shot to...

Chapter 448 - Court Member

##### Author's Note #####

A small trigger warning. This chapter talks about grooming. It's a quick passage, and it doesn't go into detail, but the subject appears. If you don't want to read that skip the paragraph that start with "Keep in mind what I just said, OK?" and start again when it starts with 'I just realized'

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After Helena told them all to stay quiet, the group didn't say anything. They walked through the door to go back to the...

The test of the tower pt 4

##### Author's Note #####

Hey everyone! I'm sorry for taking so long for finishing this story.
In the future, I'll try to do one side story a month since this is apparently what I can handle rn lol.  
Next week I'll post a poll to see what the next one will be!

Also, all the chapters of this story will be linked before the start. If you want to read again or read it for the first time, just click the link! Each previous chapter will also have the links for the rest. 2022-05-08 00:33:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 447 - Trapping a trapper

Hera felt trapped in the illusion, but now that she saw this was just a trick, it wasn't scary at all. If anything, it was annoying. She had no intention of thinking about Stella. And to top it all off, there wasn't even any food for her to eat. Whatever was this sludge that this fake Stella had created, it was completely inedible. Not only did it smell like sulfur and week-old garbage, but when she tried to taste just a little bit of it, it turned into sand in her mouth. The rest of this ill...

Chapter 446 - Unexpected tower

"Is this normal? Being transported to this weird tower?" Blue turned to Helena.

"Kind of. This is what we need to do for the hard mode. We need to find the Jester's treasure inside the tower. But we need to go underground for that, and it's a bit of a mess down there. Not to mention, there are monsters there too, so we are not even gonna touch it," Helena explained.

"And we being here changes anything? About what we should expect," Bonnie asked.

"Nope, traps. Weird prank thi...

Chapter 445 - A crazed trapmaker

"Any luck? The staff doesn't seem to be a part of this," Hera asked when she joined the group in the main hall.

"I think I got something," Alex said.

"Same here. Or at least an idea of what to expect," Helena smiled.

"Who wants to start? We didn't get anything helpful," Bonnie sighed.

"I'll go first since I don't know if it's something or not," Alex turned to Helena, "I was listening to some conversations, and someone said that the pianist is supposed to be a playboy. ...

Chapter 444 - The hunt begins

The moment the lights went out, Hera and her friends had a buff cast on them. Being a shadow mage, Helena was an expert in not only using shadows to her advantage but also on how to deal with someone who was doing the same. Because of that, and because she already knew that there would be a blackout, Helena had a dark sight spell at the ready. It was simply a way to see in the dark despite the name. However, the rest of the group wasn't ready for the lack of light, and it took them a moment t...

Chapter 443 - Dinner Party

The purple tower was very unique in a way. Not in the overall concept of the towers in this room, but because everything inside it seemed to be made out of moss or cloth. The walls looked almost like the sides of a tent, and the decoration was very intricate and detailed, but it was as if it was growing from the actual structure. Also, despite the look and feel of the walls, they were completely solid, as if they were made out of marble. The central chamber was considerably smaller than the o...

Chapter 442 - Pick your poison

Hera and Blue handed their bags to Helena and the others. Unfortunately, they couldn't find hotel rooms for everybody. But that didn't mean that they needed to go to a different room to rest for the night. Hera could use her private room to allow two people to stay there comfortably. If needed, she could have everybody stay there, but they would sleep without blankets or pillows. There was a limit to the number of items that she could create inside, and currently, she could only make enough f...

Chapter 441 - The city of doorways

The next day, Hera and Helena went to talk to Rutigan about the possibility of building the lab or a workshop for humans. That ended up being easier than expected. The King was already discussing something similar with Ogryn. What they were now calling the Academy of Mages, which was a rebranding of the mage training center, was going to be renovated to allow other races to use their facilities. Since humans and the other races had very different ways of using magic from the dwarves, they wan...

Chapter 440 - Leaving again

Helena was worried. She had never talked to Hera about doing something of her own, and she hardly could call the explorer her assistant right now. It's been months since the last task she gave her, and it wasn't like Helena was paying Hera a salary or something like that. This favor she was about to ask felt like something big,  and she could only hope that Hera would accept it.

"OK, this is freaking me out. You've been just staring at the table for the past 10 minutes. What's goin...

Chapter 439 - Next up

Hera and her group ended up doing about a dozen dungeon runs. Even the slowest of them was barely an hour long. The loot wasn't all that impressive. In total, they got around 70 thousand gold and a lot of those odd cloud balls that seem to be almost like balls of yarn that they could find in the Woolly Plains. Blue was the one who took all of those clouds so that she could increase her legacy's power. Another interesting development was that the boss of the dungeon could drop parts of its bod...

Chapter 438 - Nuking the nursery

Blue jumped towards the storm guardians ignoring everything else in the way. While she was doing that, the rest of the party gathered around in a defensive formation. They had no idea what the monsters here could do, and rushing like that was a way to get hurt. Hera went to the front to be the first one to fight one of the elementals. Her idea was to test the waters using her court. That way, if it was something too dangerous, they could come up with a better plan. When the first monster got ...

Chapter 437 - Domain of the Storm

##### Author's Note ####

Hey everyone! I'm sorry for the delay on this chapter. My power went out yesterday (well actually today in the middle of the night) and I had yet to finish this chapter. It stayed out during most of the day and it only came back a couple hours ago. That's when I managed to finish editing and setting everything up.
I try to stay a few chapters ahead but this past week was a big problem x.x  Everything is fine now and hopefully there won't be any other po...

Chapter 436 - Sky Ruler Nest Revisited

Hera, Blue, Bonnie, Helena, and Alex were walking up the tunnel towards the Sky Ruler's nest. Alex got home very late the previous day, so they decided to come here in the morning. The path to this dungeon was very different from what Hera remembered. During the past year, the guild worked with the dwarves to create a more comfortable tunnel that could allow people to come here without much trouble. Another new addition was the presence of an elevator that would cover most of the climb. Now, ...

Chapter 435 - Not exactly Healthy

It took a couple of hours before Hera calmed down enough to explain what had happened to her dad. Renette also ended up hearing most of what Hera was saying, not because she was trying to hear it but because Hera was speaking loudly, and after she started crying, it became harder for her to focus on her surroundings. The reality was something a bit different. Because of her intense reaction, her senses went into overdrive. She could feel the mana around her, she could hear people talking on t...

Chapter 434 - Misunderstanding

"Hey, there, beautiful," Hera smiled as she found Silah in her home forge. It was a small workshop that her family used when they weren't working with the guard. The place was very different from the forge that Hera was used to. For one, it had a lot more personality than a place made with efficiency in mind. In a way, it felt like her dad's workshop, a place where people who really loved their craft could focus and learn new techniques or try to make something unique. Covering the walls, the...

Chapter 433 - There is no place like home

"So, let's see if I get this right. If one of your blades dies, or it's like, broken, it takes four days for it to recover? But if you dismiss it at the right moment, you can call it back again without any delay. Is that it?" Laika asked.

"That's about it. But it seems like how long it takes for a blade to recover depends on how much mana I used to summon them. Lurize, for instance, would take 5 days instead of 4…. Damn, was that real or just special effects? That one must have hurt,"...

Chapter 432 - Opportunity

##### Author's Note ####
Hey everyone! You might have seen it in the discord, but once again I'm sorry for the delay today. I had a bad weekend and couldn't write like I should.
Wednesday chapter will go live as usual.
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Hera took a few moments to get up. The impact of the explosion was almost enough to knock her out. Her thoughts went back to Alex, and for a moment, the image of the assassin stabbed by her own weapon flashed through her mind. The last tim...

Chapter 431 - Loginue

Hera was rushing to the jungle with Alex right behind her. If there really were crows or any other type of bird coming after them, they should be clear of open areas. Even considering that these monsters should be used in the jungle, staying in the middle of the trees would make it harder for them to reach the duo. Hera's court was following close. Not right by their side in case they find opportunists to start swinging but at a distance of about 5 meters. As they ran, Alex gestured to the si...

Chapter 430 - Glimmer

Exiting the cave, Hera and Alex saw a lush jungle, very similar to anything else they would see in this room. Large trees with bright green leaves covered in vines and surrounded by small bushes and other types of foliage. In the distance, they could hear the sounds of a river. Hera immediately considered that that should be a good place to start. After all, One of the best ways to track an animal was to locate nearby water sources and look for tracks there.

"It's going to be hard to fi...

Chapter 429 - Jungle Hunter

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Swift - Wind
Hand axe

Attribute scaling:
Agility: 3.64[2.15(4.3) + 1.49] Dexterity: 3.39 [1.9(3.8) + 1.49]
Strength: 1.49  Luck: 1.49
Intelligence: 1.49  Charisma: 1.49

Weapon Skill:
Swift Blade:

The weapon can be covered in a layer of wind mana to increase the damage dealt by the next 10 attacks.
Cost: 400 mana

Familiarity: 20%
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Brute - Earth
Hand axe

Attr...

Chapter 428 - Shopping Trip

"So, can you explain to me how that spell works again?" Alex asked while they walked to a weapon store.

Hera understood that she wasn't asking about a spell by her tone of voice, and this was a deal they had when they were in public. It was one thing if they were high-level explorers and almost no one could attack them, or if they were famous and a lot of people were interested in their every move. However, if two random explorers who just started their life in the MAZE a couple of year...

Chapter 427 - Court of Blades 2

"For starters, the skill weapon break. What would happen if the legacy merged with it? Would it be just an upgrade, or could it affect my blades?" Hera asked.

"I can't say for sure without the legacy doing its thing. And it will be quick. Maybe a couple of weeks. A month tops, by the way. But, the way I see it, it will probably affect the blades. I'm not sure if it will affect the ones who have titles, but even if it does, the power of this skill will be much, much greater. I think it &...