A Devil sat at a desk in a damp, dark room. He was, in a turn of character, actually doing the copying work he’d been neglecting for so long now. Though it wasn’t because he suddenly felt remorseful about forcing his co-workers to pick up his slack, or anything along those lines.
No, it was because he was terrified.
He’d just gotten word back. Arlan Nota was confirmed alive. And the wall was destroyed. The soldiers were all either dead, retreating, or deserted, leaving the D...
2023-04-05 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Arlan’s fully-expanded character sheet as of now:
Minute Mage Basic Progression Path
-Every 1 Level: +1 Endurance, +2 Conjuration, +3 Stat Points, Time Loop Rank Up
-Every 3 Levels: Spell Choice
-Every 5 Levels: Talent Choice
-Every 10 Levels: Time Loop Usage Increase, Time Loop Upgrade
2023-04-04 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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After we were all done with our Level-ups, we decided to just camp out for the night.
It was getting to be pretty dark by now, and, even if we ignored our general exhaustion, moving through a place as dangerous as Kingdom’s Edge while you could barely see was sure to end poorly. I’d almost forgotten, since the Demons were my main worry for so long, but this place was renowned for its dangerous monsters.
Sure, we could survive a Drake fight, but if several Drakes showed up at o...
2023-04-03 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I was a bit taken aback at first by the lack of Trailblazer telling me what my next Spell names would be, but then I remembered that I had something new to replace that.
“Index,” I said, “What can you tell me about these choices?”
“Well, I can tell you quite a lot of things,” was what I got in reply. “Y’know, you’ve been misusing me quite a bit.”
“What, are you...
2023-03-31 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Erani, Ainash, and I all sat down to look at our Statuses. Apparently Ainash Leveled up as well during the fight, so she needed to manage what she got, too.
What, exactly, her Status looked like was something we still had trouble establishing. If I zeroed in on one specific aspect of it, I could normally get a decent answer out of her, but it seemed like her Status was more a general feeling than one of words and numbers. Which made sense, considering the way she communicated with us. S...
2023-03-29 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Erani, Ainash, and I all stood around Ripley, who was sitting disarmed on the ground.
She’d said she was friendly to our cause in some form, but we still took the basic precautions, taking her combat gear, searching her for any Enchanted items, searching the surrounding area to ensure it wasn’t a trap, and so on. Ripley stayed silent throughout the whole endeavor, simply allowing us to do what we needed without complaint.
While we did this, Astintash came up to speak to us.
2023-03-27 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Ripley charged at me, and I set myself. I’d change tactics now, going from defensive and focused on avoiding attacks to offensive, trying to drain her Stamina with Noxious Grasp.
She swung her axe at me again, but with Expedite, which I was getting more and more used to over the course of my time with four stacks cast on myself, I was fast enough to dodge under her axe and tackle her.
It wasn’t just Expedite helping me hold my own against her, either. I’d done the math a whi...
2023-03-24 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
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I stood in the battlefield, still covered in the blood of the Infernals that had just died by my hand—and by Asmo’s arrow. And the Archer, who was standing just a couple dozen paces away from me, bow drawn, was standing in my way alongside the other axe-wielding royal guard.
Behind them, I could see Ainash and the Dragon still rampaging through the enemy forces of the wall, though those forces seemed to be dwindling—if just a bit. At the very least, the constant notifications I go...
2023-03-22 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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AN: Extra long chapter today! Hope you enjoy :)
Astintash charged.
Of course the Dragon was the one to move first—not only was it easily the most confident and motivated of anyone involved in this fight, but it was also the only one not sustaining serious injuries.
Several soldiers fled the moment Astintash took a step toward them, some of them stood their ground, but most were still trying to dig themselves out of the rubble of th...
2023-03-20 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Astintash stood in front of me, its massive frame dwarfing mine as we prepared to leave and attack the wall.
“What is that weakness the magical shield has that you told me of?” It asked me. “Your owner, Humanslayer Ainash, says you are the one with the most knowledge of it.”
“Well,” I said, “basically, it’s especially weak to physical attacks. Seems like you’ve been hitting it mainly with magic, fire breath, that sort of thing. But what’d be much easier to dest...
2023-03-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Erani, our newly-named companion Ainash, and I all sat and rested, taking a short break before moving to attack the wall. I used the last of my Stamina on Regenerate, trying to get my Health back up a bit, then sat down and closed my eyes.
Index reminded me that I’d Leveled up back there when I was fighting the Infernals, and I still had Stat Points to assign. So my first portion of the break was spent in meditation.
You have used 3 Stat...
2023-03-15 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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After walking along the decimated battlefield with the Dryad for a few minutes, we ended up coming across Erani, who was sitting up on a tall rock looking around for us, too. Apparently she was in contact with the Draconiad as we searched, so it didn’t take long for us to find each other with her help.
She slid down the smooth face of the rock, landing on her feet in front of us. She wobbled a bit upon landing, acting a bit similarly to how she did when I’d first started casting Exp...
2023-03-13 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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I stood, watching the Dryad howl in pain as her body underwent the changes of her Tribute.
Generally speaking, Tributes didn’t normally cause such dramatic changes. All of the Nymphs I’d seen in the past that’d received Tributes got basic things like claws on the tips of their hands. And, of course, Tributes also provided Stats and other System-related abilities. In terms of bodily changes, they wouldn’t normally do so much.
But those small changes happened when getting Tr...
2023-03-10 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Erani and I stood, invisible from our rings, watching as her Firebolt impacted and destroyed the first chain launcher that we wanted to destroy. That left two more in this area.
But, of course, those next two wouldn’t be as easy as the first. Because now, everyone nearby knew we were here. The Infernals were the main ones sticking around, Humans much more keen to flee from the massive Dragon that was only barely being held in place by the chains they’d set up, so they were the ones ...
2023-03-08 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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We stood atop a hill, looking out as the Dragon Astintash fought against an army of Human and Demons soldiers. It crushed any that got close like they were ants, and the army seemed to be quickly learning that fact. The Melee-Types scattered while the ones in the back used siege weapons like ballistas and magical cannons to attack it.
As I watched, glowing chains shot out from different parts of the crowd of soldiers, embedding themselves into the scales of Astintash and tying it to the...
2023-03-06 13:46:07 +0000 UTC
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“Rings!” was all I could get out, activating mine as quickly as I could.
You have been made invisible.
For the next 15 minutes, you gain the following effects:
-You are affected by invisibility. You cannot be sensed visually by anyone.
-If you take damage
2023-03-03 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The group of six Infernals charged at us as we attempted to climb up the mountain’s edge into a more favorable position. Fortunately, we were higher up than our enemies, meaning we had a height advantage over them.
Of course, none of us fought with heavy weapons – a large portion of the height advantage was that gravity would work for your swings while working against the other’s – but the simple fact that they’d have to move uphill to get to us while we’d move down to get t...
2023-03-01 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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And then I was back, once again lying down beneath the rubble I’d used to hide myself from Astintash. I looked up and watched it glance down at us once again – it’d seen us, and there was nothing I could do about that.
I got up and brushed the dirt and pebbles from my ragged clothes, trying to think. There were Infernals coming our way. How many were in that group? I thought back, trying to count them up in my memory…
“Six,” Index’s voice said to me. “According to ...
2023-02-27 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The Dragon Astintash landed on the plateau we stood on with the three Drake corpses making up our offering, shaking the area and almost pushing me to the ground solely from the shockwave.
“You have acquired my attention, Humans,” Astintash boomed. “What do you want from me?”
I steadied myself and looked up at the massive monster’s face staring down at me. Erani seemed frozen in shock, but the Dryad looked like she was the least afraid out of all of us despite the fact th...
2023-02-24 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Erani, the Dryad and I walked through the forest, looking for Drakes.
We knew that, in just a few hours, it was pretty unlikely we’d actually get enough Drake meat together to actually sate a Dragon’s appetite. Drakes were big, sure – head to tail, they were probably five, or even ten, paces long. But I’d just seen a Dragon up-close. And I could tell just how much it’d need to eat to actually be satisfied.
Still, I wasn’t too worried. Leaving out this offering wasn’t...
2023-02-22 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Surprise! Today we have two chapters! Why? Well, because we finally made it to 1,000,000 views! I was super excited seeing this, so I thought I'd get out a second chapter to everyone :)
Hope you all enjoy!
I lay, crushed beneath the rubble of the overhang destroyed by the Dragon as it stood atop the wreckage searching for me. Erani and the Dryad were dead, so I knew for a fact that this timeline wasn’t one I’d continue in even if I d...
2023-02-21 01:21:58 +0000 UTC
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Ripley Tenet laid on the floor of a cold, dark room. She was recovering from day three of her week of torture. Or was it day four? She couldn’t keep track of it, at this point. All she knew was that it wasn’t over yet.
Her only companion in her experience, Asmo, was with her for now. They normally only got around two hours each day to recover together before one of them would be taken away for the next session. So while Ripley laid on the floor, trying to rest, Asmo leaned up agains...
2023-02-20 13:00:13 +0000 UTC
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A Devil stood at a desk in a damp, dark room. This room reminded him of his old office, but it wasn’t his. In fact, this office was exactly 2.8% larger than his old office – something he was painfully aware of.
“How are things going with the Arlan Nota job?” His superior asked him. She was sitting at her desk in her office, with the Devil standing before her. The jagged, stony walls of the Underworld that once felt comforting to the Devil now just felt hostile and oppressive. An...
2023-02-17 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Erani, the Dryad, and I all sat around the corpse of a Green Drake, eating its tangy, sour meat. Well, the Dryad wasn’t eating – she got energy from the sun – but she sat with me and Erani while we ate.
“How much longer until see Dragon?” The Dryad asked me. She’d asked a couple times now how close we were to it. I supposed that was just the way kids were, and she was a kid, in a way. At least, she seemed just as impatient as any other child I’d seen.
...
2023-02-15 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I stood on the edge of a cliff face, edging my heels back so I could keep my footing while facing off against a Green Drake as it flapped its wings to keep itself afloat and stared at me, preparing to shoot acid straight at my head.
“Arlan!” Erani called. She was a couple paces to my side and a couple below me. “I need a refresh on Expedite! It just ran out.”
“On it,” I said, trying to edge my way over to her while also looking over at the Drake. It hadn’t attacked u...
2023-02-13 14:08:08 +0000 UTC
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“...You can’t be serious,” Erani stared at me.
“We know the Dragon wants to get rid of the fort. We know it’s willing to attack. All we need to do is talk to it and ask for its help in taking them down. It should be happy to help.”
“Right, except for the fact that we’re Humans. And it’s a Dragon. I highly doubt it’ll have the humility to admit it needs our help. Besides, we don’t even know if it still wants to take the wall down.”
“It was a...
2023-02-10 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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You have obtained the Intelligence benefit Index.
I opened my eyes and glanced around the clearing we rested in. I saw the familiar orange glint of some Lava Slugs off in a couple distant bushes, but no assistant.
Erani was staring at me expectantly. “So?”
“Nothing,” I frowned. “Don’t see it anywhere.”
“Maybe you need to activate it somehow. Or it’ll only show up when you have a Choice.”
“Ye...
2023-02-08 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Erani, the Dryad, and I sat down and took a break so I could meditate and choose my new Intelligence benefit, whatever that meant. It really didn’t take long for us to backtrack enough to feel safe from those rock mining patrols we’d seen earlier, but in my anticipatory state, it felt like it took forever.
“What do you think your choices are gonna be?” Erani asked me as we settled down and ensured the surrounding area was safe.
“No clue,” I responded. “I mean, the Tr...
2023-02-06 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Threshold reached. Noxious Grasp XP has reached 623.
Noxious Grasp Rank has increased to 12.
Due to Noxious Grasp Rank reaching 12, it has undergone the following changes:
Mana Cost: From 4.82
2023-02-03 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Erani was woken up by Arlan in the middle of the night. For a moment, she was confused, but then she remembered she was supposed to take over watch for the next shift here. And then she remembered he was also planning on going out to kill some Mountain Troll to test out his abilities. It was certainly a… choice.
Well, really, it was technically completely riskless for him to fight the thing, since he had another use of Time Loop that’d be wasted at midnight if he didn’t use it. So...
2023-02-01 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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