Spell mana proves much more difficult than normal mana to solidify; the increased intensity of spell mana makes it a lot more slippery, having the energy needed to escape the valleys of the MM force, and causes the structure to fall apart easily. Trying to get the particles close enough to stabilize is also incredibly hard to do as it's too easy to overdo it, creating an imperfect structure, or worse, fusing the spell mana. In short, actually forging spell mana for longer than a few minutes i...
2021-08-25 22:07:10 +0000 UTC
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I start formulating a dress design in my head. Then revise it... and revise it again, and again, and again, going around in circles. Naturally, it should be made out of beauty and creativity mana silk, and it should be in equal parts, but how do I put it all together? What kind of design should I focus on?
I start pacing in my room, the movement helping to drive my thoughts as my clones and other minds go about their own work. The Domr that I have been training with has gotten too frust...
2021-08-23 21:37:18 +0000 UTC
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I walk down from the temple but, instead of heading home, I walk the stone path to the Guardian; my yearly meeting should be coming up anyway. I see the slumbering Dragon long before I arrive, my perceptive range extending quite far now. As I near, the Dragon stirs and raises her head, checking herself before puffing out her chest in a prideful manner and slightly shifting her wings to make herself appear more majestic.
It’s probably best to pretend I saw nothing.
"Gree...
2021-08-20 23:23:26 +0000 UTC
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"What are the other requirements?" Kayafe repeats my question back at me. It is the day after we got back from the dungeon and I have come back to Temple Island to ask Kayafe about the requirement to unlock a second class.
"Well, first you need at least one skill capped, with at least ten breakthroughs. That skill then becomes eligible to be the seed from which the second class is grown. The class will be based on that skill, and it will be incorporated as a class skill. Alternatively, ...
2021-08-18 22:40:27 +0000 UTC
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With Kayafe’s explanation, it makes sense now why the Aydomr was so strong; it had the skills, it had the years of experience. The Alpha Wolf, too, was weaker than the den bosses but gave us way more trouble, even killing two people. All the monsters we've been slaying in the dens, although built with high stats, aren't equivalent to their level or tier.
"We killed a Heroic monster; most of us are Major-tier; what would have been our chances if it hadn't just spawned?" I ask, somewhat...
2021-08-16 19:01:01 +0000 UTC
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We take Esofy and Jowaru to the infirmary, really just a large tent with beds. There we use several healing spell crystals to heal them along with Lotuna's and my healing. While tending to the wounded, I look over my messages.
Ting! Your Bond has obtained levels 363-379!
Ting! Persistent State has obtained levels 33-40!
Ting! Clear Mind has obtained levels 78-79!
Ting! You have developed a new Bond skill, Chann...
2021-08-13 21:38:07 +0000 UTC
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It's been a week now and the bosses that I killed last week have respawned. I helped other groups kill them but this time I used my fairies instead of the charged spears, being very careful not to raise my class level cap.
Ting! Your Bond has obtained levels 327-362!
Ting! Acting has obtained levels 87-94!
Ting! Clear Mind has obtained levels 73-77!
Ting! Graceful Movements has obtained levels 73-75!
2021-08-11 22:56:43 +0000 UTC
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Fools! Buffoons! Can't they see what's happening?! I know warriors aren't part of Myrou’s domain, but it's the only way to bring people back to her guidance!
Papuyo paces in anger and frustration.
What makes them think they have any power to take away my priesthood?! That has never been done before! It's because of that girl; she made them into heretics!
Papuyo will have to tread carefully. People forget things easily; the disaster of the superstorm is bu...
2021-08-09 22:30:52 +0000 UTC
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Going through the Gargoyle Ruins, I defeat the first floor boss, a silver Gargoyle. Its heart, a silvery glowing crystal, allows for the manipulation of silver, which its body seems to be made of rather than simply coated with.
On the second floor, I see door Mimics, floor Mimics, ceiling Mimics, as well as the normal treasure Mimics. The Gargoyles are becoming more unique, too. Fire Gargoyles light the rooms instead of braziers, poison and wind type Gargoyles attack with toxic air, and...
2021-08-06 21:44:42 +0000 UTC
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I run through four dens, my [Sense Mana] split four ways but reduced to a quarter of its normal size as the tradeoff. I slay each monster and gather their bodies. With a large storage crystal in a mana silk backpack - the crystal has five slots or about five square meters of storage space - I can store a large amount. However, bodies aren't the most efficient use of space, so I still have to run back to the subcamps and deposit the bodies.
The backpacks themselves are a little larger on...
2021-08-04 22:24:02 +0000 UTC
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I climb the Temple, observing the mana within the Mana Arc as it swirls in a manner that almost makes it seem alive. The Arc’s basic composition is metallic mana with veins of liquid mana, but there's more to it than that. The mana circulates in a specific pattern, as if there is a beating heart driving its motion, producing warped MM fields of much greater strength than usual. Lacking the usual structure of stable valleys between peaks of increasingly high resistance, this MM field is more...
2021-08-02 21:50:57 +0000 UTC
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Ting! You have lost the Soul Damage Reduction general skill!
Ting! You have gained the Persistent State general skill!
Persistent State: You've managed to keep a state of focus while keeping your attention on something else; this will help you keep your state while your focus is elsewhere.
After eight hours of training, I finally got it! I can't cheat this one with multiple minds. While it is possible to have one mind dedica...
2021-07-30 21:45:30 +0000 UTC
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Here is where you can find the previous side stories if you missed them:
https://www.patreon.com/user?filters[tag]=Side%20story
Olia kneels down in front of Myrou's smiling statue, the local temples full of the cleansing water of the Runalymo's daily ritual. She has had a bad feeling for a few days now, not that she was feeling ill but more like a bad omen of sorts, th...
2021-07-30 00:09:19 +0000 UTC
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Esofy sits on her couch, sipping a cup of Fuchy wine, named after its golden color. She enjoys the warmth the drinks bring; it helps her forget the cold, the creeping ice encroaching around her feet.
"Maybe I should get married, settle down, and have a child of my own," Esofy voices her thoughts. Tanafyam has been a delight to mentor, but the funny-looking child is way too diligent; just as, if not more so, than Alysara.
Esofy tries to imagine her own little Alysaras and Tanas run...
2021-07-28 21:52:09 +0000 UTC
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As interesting as [Unlimited Minds] – and some of the other things Kayafe mentioned – sound, I’ve got many, many other things to do before I can worry about any of that. For now, I still need to work on [Manipulate Mana]... and making solid mana is my next objective. I wait at the top of the temple for about an hour and a half while my mana regeneration fills up my reserves and my Kyhosa, then start compressing the mana nearest to the Mana Arc. I shrink my focus down to a small point, a...
2021-07-26 22:00:30 +0000 UTC
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"We should return to the main camp, rest for a day, and make preparations, plus we should attune the waystone key to more waystones," Esofy says. I can almost feel her apprehension looking at the powerful monster.
Even though we've managed to kill the bosses, level four hundred Heroic monsters are something else entirely. It's getting one thousand percent bonuses from its race, and it has a hundred levels above what we've been fighting.
We trek our way back up the ruins, stopping ...
2021-07-23 20:04:32 +0000 UTC
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With all of our preparations done, we decide to tackle the roaming boss first. I keep an eye on it as we make our way to a room relatively close to the current position of the meandering Gluttony Slime. We slay all the weaker slimes up to and in the room, then begin erecting walls and pillars of ice to make defensive positions. Esofy and Chyzu give out spell cloths from the storage devices and do a last-minute check on everything.
"Tulalo, got everything ready?" Esofy asks.
"Yes, ...
2021-07-21 22:00:00 +0000 UTC
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With a total of twenty-one thousand mana generation per hour, it takes me two and a half hours to completely refill my Kyhosa, but we have to wait longer for the warriors to refill their mana so I use the extra time to make mental resistance cloaks for everyone. The emergency hoods I made during the battle were made in haste and I didn’t have time to decorate or properly fit them; these cloaks, though, are proper Runalymo attire. They’re more carefully made and better enchanted; not only ...
2021-07-19 22:08:59 +0000 UTC
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The boss may have access to my skills by proxy of my primary mind, but it never learned the breakthroughs and doesn't understand all the nuances to them. Plus, it's still my skill. Even if it's being fueled by the boss, I can override the fairies' orders.
I see a mass of lightning-based essence around the heads of Kadona, Uloru, Irela and Chyzu. I'd bet anything that is mind essence and that the boss is trying to take control of them as it did me. I could try to fight over the ...
2021-07-16 21:05:20 +0000 UTC
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Ting! Clear Mind has met the requirements for a breakthrough and will continue leveling past level 80!
6th Breakthrough: You've maintained a clear mind even under the pressure of a mind mage, this will help you resist mental assaults.
7th Breakthrough: You've maintained a clear mind even when entranced, this will help you resist mental effects.
8th Breakthrough You've maintained a clear mind even when a mind of yours is dominated, this will help you fight ...
2021-07-14 21:27:45 +0000 UTC
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The Ruins smell old and moldy and there's a certain foulness to the air. Esofy can’t help but pinch her nose, envious of the little girl that is only represented by a body of mana. They have previously scouted out the place hours earlier and Alysara is back in the main camp even now, the little prodigy continuing the partially completed mapping work.
Esofy unrolls her map. "Let's go this way," she says, leading the group down a tunnel that will take them to the reported location of a ...
2021-07-14 19:00:07 +0000 UTC
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With my summoned Clone accompanying them, the group are dragging the body of the Alpha back to the wrecked subcamp. Two people are dead, and seven are severely injured; Tana and the other healer tried their best but ran out of mana, while my healing isn’t powerful enough to do more than stabilize them with so little time.
I thought that Kayafe made a deal with the dungeon so this wouldn't happen.
There’s no use dwelling on it; maybe the dungeon lost control or perhaps...
2021-07-12 22:23:38 +0000 UTC
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Tana, Esofy, Chyzu, a stranger named Tasa and I are at the entrance of the Glade, a total of twenty of us setting up the subcamp. A few defensive structures are being built, and more tents are pitched to cover the supplies. We don't actually know if it can rain in here, but the possibility isn't zero.
With the subcamp set up, we’ll take turns to enter the Glade, after deciding which of the four groups will go in which direction within and who will stay behind to manage the su...
2021-07-09 21:14:06 +0000 UTC
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Over the past few weeks, I've managed to progress a lot in my general skills. It was refreshing to go back to normal general skill grinding, after all the craziness of the tournament, airship, and early dungeon stuff.
Ting! Tailoring has met the requirements for a breakthrough and will continue leveling past level 100!
10th Breakthrough: You've managed to weave spells into your cloth, allowing the spell mana to behave like an enchantment.
2021-07-07 22:08:03 +0000 UTC
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A few months have passed since my evolution. Everyone adapted quickly to my third tail, and now the novelty has worn off some are even expecting a fourth. I've entered the dungeon with the Kheshamo fighters a few times, but we haven't encountered the treant. However, we have looked for it and recently discovered it wandering far to the south of the entrance, several kilometers away.
It's a roaming boss that we'll have to look out for and we don't have an airship to attack from, to stay ...
2021-07-05 20:05:34 +0000 UTC
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Three Tailed Mana Immune Runalymo Sage:
(Major) (Unique)
Requirements: Two Tailed Runalymo, Have bond at level 200 before age 10, Have bond at level 250 or more before the age of 15, Have Sense Mana at level 200 before age 10, Have Sense Mana at level 250 or more before the age of 15, Have 20 or more breakthroughs in Sense Mana before the age of 10, Have 25 or more breakthroughs in Sense Mana before the age of 15, Have Mana Toxicity Tolerance over 100, Have over 10 breakthroughs...
2021-07-02 19:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Liquid mana is the stage at which the mana particle gets squished together and all the mana becomes a sea of the particles composite parts, whatever those are. There is certainly something in the sea of mana stuff. The fluctuating MM force and empowering fields indicate that stuff has something to do with that. Sometimes the MM fields get so strong I could almost see them. In order to know more, I would need to study liquid mana of mixed elemental mana, not just one...
2021-06-30 21:09:45 +0000 UTC
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We start walking in a random direction, the dry cold air making me shiver. I weave a small blanket of fire mana to help me keep warm, it always feels like it had just come out of a dryer. Chyzu has her Chayaotmo cloak wrapped around her.
Life is everywhere in here. Tiny souls everywhere around me, in the trees, in the ground, in the air. Insects and small rodent-like animals flitted away from us. I continue scouting ahead with my [Sense Mana] until I found a large twelve-legged creature...
2021-06-28 21:16:39 +0000 UTC
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With the events still going on I can't check out the dungeon yet but there's a chance for the after events socializing.
"If you're interested meet me at the temple after all the tournaments."
There are still the nonfighter competitions but those will go faster as you can have everybody do it at the same time or have multiple people perform at the same time.
Once the events are all done I make my way over to the temple with Esofy and Chyzu. We met Uloru and Kadona there. Toge...
2021-06-25 23:58:46 +0000 UTC
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Unlike most of my previous fights, Chyzu doesn't hard counter me, but she is very experienced and knows my abilities. She's probably put just as much thought into defeating me as I've put into defeating her.
So if I were Chyzu how would I beat me? Traping me doesn't help, I have spells and skills that can counter. No, if I were Chyzu, getting close is the best way to defeat me, she doesn't know that I've spent my points so she's probably thinking of rushing at me in a physical brawl, an...
2021-06-23 23:56:33 +0000 UTC
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