TravelingDreamer

First river voyage on a ship

The endless wilderness of Shimoor

Shimoor Sunrize

Endless Pedaling

Shimoor

John's Glamping Tent

Lis's "small" cabin

Rue's Favorite Burger

"Loot" Spell Practice

The moons of Shimoor at sunset

View from atop the "Emerald Mountain"

Photographer: John Rue, Shimoor

Rue's most hated enemy - the BOAT 👿

Sunset on the mountains in Shimoor

The arrow points at the "Emerald Mountain".

John Rue, Shimoor

Shimoor, view from john's 1st Gate

Photographer: John Rue, Shimoor

Grotto III

Photographer: John Rue, Shimoor

Grotto Cave

Photographer: John Rue, Shimoor

Grotto II

Photographer: John Rue, Shimoor

Chapter 63 – More than the Dream

After we finished all the workshops, I set up Mahya with a laptop, a reloadable credit card, and links to Udemy and Skillshare so she could get more ability points. I decided to stop farming ability points. I already had more than 150 and wanted to do other things.

I found the book Mana Body – Supreme Control that Lis had recommended and started working with it. The book's introduction promised that practicing the techniques within could enhance one's mana regeneration a...

John's Current Profile

Authors note:

John learned all the fighting skills for a fighting class he is working towards.
The system follows intent; see "Chapter 48 – More Answers Than I Bargained For I,"  the part about level 10 abilities in GT class. Hence, all his new fighting skills are not on his main profile.

It will be more obvious in the future.

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Chapter 62 – Paris Here We Come

After Lis and Mahya calmed down that I was okay and nothing had happened to me, I said to Mahya, "I need to finish opening your channels; want to do it now?"

"Are you sure? You're not tired?" Mahya asked.

"I'm fine and want to get it done."

"Okay."

We went to my (former) room, and Mahya lay down. I channeled Anesthesia and opened the channels in her legs, they were in a much better condition than her arms. There were spots where they burned shut, but mostly just damage...

Lis

Picture taken by John

John & Rue

Picture by Lis

The last Gate in the UK (Loxhill)

Chapter 61 – The Danger is Not Always the Obvious Thing

After God knows how long, I woke up and went directly to the kitchen. I was starving and dehydrated. I ate standing up, directly from the fridge; I couldn’t even wait to heat the food. After twenty minutes of eating and drinking non-stop, I began to slow down and notice my surroundings. I heard a murmur of voices from my room, washed my face, and went to investigate.

When I opened my bedroom, I saw the girl still lying in bed, Lis sitting beside the bed, and talking to her quietly. Ru...

Chapter 60 – Rescue

After our return to London, Lis continued tinkering with his transistor, and I set off towards the next Gate. It was near Boleigh, and as soon as I was about to cross the Gate, I felt a strong warning. I decided to give up on this Gate and check it later. It was interesting that the first time I touched the Gate near Land's End, I didn't feel any warning, but at this Gate, my Luck or Perception shouted, "Don't go there."

The next Gate was in a stone circle known as Boscawen-un. I arrive...

Chapter 59 – Mana Regeneration

When I returned home, Lis sat in the living room with a disassembled transistor on the table.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Trying to work out how to make this thing work with mana."

"Good luck."

The next day, I started traveling between butchers and buying meat. I would put the meat in the car, go inside, and store the meat when no one was looking. After visiting more than twenty butchers, I returned home in the evening, took out the coolers one by one, and arranged...

Chapter 58 – First UK Gate

In the morning, I went looking for a car to buy; I remembered promising Rue a fast car. I was a little worried about driving on the opposite side of the road, but figured I could always drive slower until I got used to it.

I met our neighbor, Miss Maggie, and asked, "Good morning, Miss Maggie. Do you know anyone selling a van or another vehicle big enough for Rue?"

"Good morning, deary. I haven't heard, but if you ask Henry in the pub, he will surely know; he knows everything that...

Chapter 57 – Knowledge Exchange

After Lis didn't react to the second batch of books I gave him, I gave up on the book intimidation game. However, I was determined to find a solution where we wouldn't be reliant on each other for books. Despite Lis being a faster learner, I refused to let that discourage me. I knew that my learning was different, requiring more than just reading. I had to practice, which meant my progress was slower through the books Lis gave me.

The discrepancy in our learning speeds continued to both...

Chapter 56 – London

All this time, I thought Lis was nice, but I found out he had a mean streak the following day. When I got up, I saw a pile of twenty books on the table. Lis pointed at it, patted me on the shoulder, and said, "Enjoy."

"It's not fair! All of the books I gave you are in English; each of these books appears to be in a different language."

"You're looking at it wrong. What you see in front of you is knowledge of magic from twenty different worlds; you should be glad it's in different ...

Chapter 55 – Back to Earth

I slept another night in the tent, and my mana was almost full by morning. I looked at my profile as my mana ticked up by three every second. I was missing less than a hundred points and was thrilled. Now, I didn’t need to sit and actively regenerate, and my channels took the maximum they could on auto. Automation for the win!

I stored the tent and got back to the house. I found Lis on the porch with a book and told him, “I’m ready whenever you are.”

“You regenerated fas...

Chapter 54: I Think I’m Good at This

I walked back to the tent, humming my “new” ability points song:

“Buy buy my ability points
I gave my points to my boy, and now the well is dry.
And them good ability points make me drink Rye.
Singing this will be the day that they die. This will be the day that they die …”

Yeah … I still needed to work on that; I was no Don McLean.

The air felt different when I got about half a kilometer from the tent. It took me a second to understand why�...

New And Improved RUE

Hi, everybody

Here is the new and improved version of Rue

Hope you like it, as it took me hours to fight with the program to get him just right.