Heya all, Chapter 44 underwent a partial rewrite and Chapter 45 went through some minor dialogue changes that are not worth mentioning. For those curious about what was changed: 44 has Volkar be interrupted by the other knights and told he's going too far, and in general, they are considerably more respectful of Amber's status. Also, Amber's Legacy Branch mention is no longer there.
Chapter 46.
Amber paused at that. Needless to say, she was int...
2024-03-21 01:02:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 45.
Amber watched as some of the knights immediately were stunned into silence, while others seemed confused and lost. No one was happy about her confession, however the only one that seemed to still be composed was Volkar, who spoke towards her.
“Now, this claim is…”
“Ridiculous?” Amber asked.
“Yes.” He nodded. “But the title of Demonkiller of Laria is something that a few of us know, in fact we’ve talked about what k...
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Chapter 44.
Amber paused seeing all of the commotion around the camp of elite knights surrounding the tower. She had snuck into the tower, and even though she had met a group knights well into the journey and befriended their captain, Terrel, she didn’t expect for things to devolve like this. The initial plan was to use Terrel’s name and get out of trouble, but this kind of trouble wasn’t one she expected.
And it was all because of a single person.&n...
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Chapter 43. Book 1 Epilogue
Amber slowly nodded at the Primordial Spirit’s words.
“However, I advise you to be careful, use my name, use Ax’thra’s name. The Cube of Stars is not meant to be in the possession of humans,” she warned.
Amber paused at that, and took the warning to heart. “And your name is?”
The spirit smiled deeply. “I’ll tell you that later.”
“How is this spirit like?” she asked. “Anythi...
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Chapter 42.
Amber could hardly believe her ears. She could understand that he returned to the birthplace of Primordial Spirits. Sure, she was surprised that the spirits weren’t native to Vir. But all the information she had received combined with the brief vision she saw… it was a bit too much.
A land without a System. A land where the weakest creatures could spell catastrophe for Vir. A land where Primordial Spirits aren’t even the strongest.
Il...
2024-03-15 15:30:11 +0000 UTC
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Retcon to Chapter 40 ending do read!
And now, she was here.
“The one-hundredth floor…” Amber took a deep breath.
She was nervous.
The floors ninety-one to ninety-nine hadn’t exactly been hard, but the ninetieth floor was a different story. However, that wasn’t the reason she was nervous. The main reason she was nervous was because she had been thinking about this floor all week, and the other and most primary main reason was—
Amber t...
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Chapter 40.
Amber momentarily missed the knights, she missed the idle chatter, and more importantly, she missed their presence.
Maybe I should have accepted their food at least once… Amber thought. She remembered the numerous times she was offered, but she declined wondering if Recovery of Curses had a limit for how long it would allow her to go without food.
Except, after probably more than seven months in the tower, it didn’t seem to be the ...
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Chapter 39.
Amber couldn’t believe what she had just heard. Of course, she didn’t understand how Ax’thra’s confrontation with Dargon had unfolded; all she knew was that the mage and brawler had died after it was over. She didn’t know if Ax’thra had emerged victorious without a struggle or if anything happened. And even if he emerged unscathed— did that matter?
The beacon could be used to summon him right into a trap. It was just bad, plain an...
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Chapter 38.
Terrel was frozen in place, something within him didn’t let him move under the gaze of Amber. Now, she was staring right at him, he was sure she was trying to say something with her stare, but he couldn’t quite place it. However, he also found it hard to look away; his hairs were standing on end, and even the monster next to him was also looking.
The crimson fires raged in the background, their crackling echoing in the air, and then, Amber ...
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Chapter 37.
Amber thought about agreeing. Many would have called her crazy and even say that thought was nonsensical, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. She had many reasons for agreeing, one of them was keeping peace. She didn’t want to fight some knights and become the enemy of the kingdom, she had already snuck into the tower after all, and even though they seemed mostly fine with it there was no point in shaking the hornet’s nest in her opinion.
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Chapter 36.
Terrel had just cleared the fiftieth floor with his squad, when they saw a door open. It was a strange thing, while not all the rules of the tower were known, he knew that a door opening to a different route could mean multiple things: one, the group in that route had left the tower. Two, the group in that route had died. Three, both floors had been cleared at roughly the same time— interlinking them.
While Terrel did not know which of the three was it, or if it ...
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Chapter 35.
Amber jumped as a vast chasm was formed where she had just been standing. The tortoise was defiant, even though she hardly attacked it! Amber stared at the flaming monster, large parts of its shell were slowly falling apart; crumbling as they carbonized to the raging fires. She had been fighting the monster for over ten hours now, only using Curse Battery for the most part.
And the tortoise, or the Rockis Dinidae, as the System called it, was furious...
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Chapter 34.
Amber felt more alive than ever before, and for good reason. She had changed. She had changed in ways that she had never changed before; even her previous Class Advancement paled to this. Even though she had a lot of experiences in her life from Earth, nothing compared to the excitement she felt.
Not winning her first race or marathon, not scoring perfect marks on a test or breaking her personal best on something. Nothing. It was a ...
2024-03-05 09:01:27 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 33.
Amber distributed her attribute points and immediately began to recover. She was excited, multiple of her skills reached 3rd Rank from that fight. However, she didn’t instantly take a close look at them given her advancement would likely change them. Instead, she only took a look at the kill notifications and her level ups.
[You have defeated a [Fireblessed Velstalker. Lvl. 120.]
For defeating an enemy 20...
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Heya all, I forgot to mention how long Amber had passed in the tower, and at the same time I restructured to make the read better.
Anyway here are the parts that have been changed for those that don't want to read all the changes in detail.
TL;DR:
Amber has passed six months in the tower.
Most of her 2nd Rank skills are level 10 during the boss fight and she has 2nd Rank resistances now.
<...
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Chapter 32.
Amber didn’t understand what had even happened, one moment she was about to kill the Fire Velstalker and the next she was blasted across the room. The monster used some kind of skill and had ascended to become a Fireblessed Velstalker. However, she didn’t have any time to wonder about what the boss monster had even done because—
I’m going to die.
Amber gritted her teeth, trying to move as she saw the surging inferno...
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Chapter 31.
Amber stared at the Voidlurker, the monster resembled one of those twisted humanoid things from horror movies. Its skin was ghastly white, its limbs were long and sickly, and its multiple eyes were staring right at her with no emotion. Whatever the fuck it was, she was certain it wasn’t natural.
Her arm snapped into place after using Recovery of Curses along with Cursed Rage Synergy. Multiple things passed through her mind, but one thing she was mo...
2024-03-01 08:55:29 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 30.
Amber stared at the Grand Ostrutem Serpent, and in turn, the serpent stared right back at her. Its golden slitted eyes, piercing and aggressive, its body coiling and tensing, its being preparing and getting ready to strike at its prey. Amber grinned and raised her dagger, having already devised a plan.
The creature, like many other monsters it had fought, seemed to lack the capability to dig objects out of its body. And Amber was going to use it, hav...
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Chapter 29.
Amber hadn’t expected for the first floor to ever open like that, she had been paralyzed for more than just a few hours afterwards. However, during her time on the ground she had seen a notification pop up about three times, which made her incredibly happy.
[Toxin Resistance has leveled up from 2nd Rank level 2 to 2nd Rank level 3.]
…
[Toxin Resistance has leveled up from 2nd Rank level 4 to 2...
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Chapter 28.
Amber at first had been a bit bothered due to how everyone treated her. Some adventurers had even quit and returned to Laria as soon as she joined the caravan. Thankfully, after she fought off some monsters the feeling of alienation slowly faded. And finally, towards the last day, Amber felt comfortable enough to talk to someone. Namely, the merchant she had first interacted with. Though, the man still seemed a bit uncomfortable around her.
“What d...
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Chapter 27.
Amber stood on the fifth floor, it was very whatever looking just like a lot of the floors. For a moment she considered returning back to Laria and maybe departing to look for the other tower after that. However, given the tower was fixed, she decided to keep going up the floors. At first, nothing seemed interesting, but floor ten resembled a roman bath-house. She made note of that and continued going through the floors.
And on floor number twenty, s...
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Chapter 26.
Time quickly passed and Amber saw no fighting whatsoever, but she thought that was alright. Velda, Liz’s sister had basically volunteered herself to fight whatever monster came, and now that Liz was strong enough, she was able to allow her sister to do that. So, in the end, the two siblings repelled all the monsters that came. By the time the journey ended, Velda had risen from level 15 all the way to level 22.
Amber commended the enthusiasm.
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Chapter 24, retcon.
“My guess is that he had a Legacy Branch.”
“Legacy Branch?” Amber raised her brow. “What is that?”
“It’s like… a second class, but different?” she hesitated.
There was a silence as Amber processed everything, before she decided to ask what she was thinking about.
“So he basically had a second level 150 class…?”
Tl;dr, subclasses are renamed to Legacy Branches. They were ...
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Chapter 24.
The man before her was with the Arcane Council. The same group that had attacked Ax’thra, and now one of the members was standing in front of her. Amber looked at the man who was ready to fight and yet was still bleeding, his hand was shaking even though his voice remained steady.
And she knew, she couldn’t back down. She wanted answers. However, Cursed Momentum was no longer active and she had no rage to spend. She had noth...
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Chapter 23.
Amber looked at the man’s staff once more and couldn’t help but ask.
“Are you going to use that staff to summon the Flametouched Demon?”
The man stood straight and smiled at her. “Well you are quite the sharp one, and the answer is yes. However, the actual sacrifice wasn’t meant to be Velda Starkell.”
Liz frowned. “Then why is she on the table like that?”
“To bring the actual sacrifice of...
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Heya all, this is a chapter 14 rewrite. It's basically an overhaul of how the class advancements work. This overhaul is due to reader feedback, a lot of people mentioned it read similar to AH and after taking a look I have amended this and changed the way the advancements work.
Tl;dr at the bottom.
Chapter 14.
Amber awoke in a coughing fit. The room was almost dark except for the light of the magic torch Liz had given her. Considering there...
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Chapter 22.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” Liz said in a whisper. “They moved up the wedding for some reason, I also don’t recall any suitors from the Risnar family. For the Risnar family to want anything to do with us the Starkells is… strange.”
“So the Risnars are a big house while yours is a—”
“Small one yes,” Liz completed for Amber, agreeing. “We have to rescue my sister now but the problem is…”
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Chapter 21.
For a split second Amber considered trying to tank the Shadow Slashes, but all her senses told her she’d pay dearly for that. So she dashed to the side, using mana once more as the attack hit the wall. It narrowly missed her as a cross was carved into stone behind her. She heard the attack continue inside of the wall, but she paid it no mind as she turned towards the center of the room.
The woman was still unconscious on the ground, from what Amber...
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Chapter 20.
Amber couldn’t peel her eyes off from the massive walls circling the city. They were easily over a hundred meters tall, a great feat of architecture that she never thought possible, especially in a world like Vir — one she assumed was pretty medieval so far — however, she had clearly been wrong. She was able to infer it was all possible due to the existence of magic, but even then she found it breathtaking.
As they approached the capital,...
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Chapter 19.
Amber watched as bodies were burned. A pyre of them had been made, only wood surrounding the dozens of bodies that were in the pile, all set ablaze by Liz. The flames burned brightly in the night, reducing what had once been to ash and bringing it back to the earth. The atmosphere was a solemn one, as many others watched the fires crackle.
In the past, Amber had chosen to not partake in this activity, but this time she did. She had taken the lives of...
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