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Chapter 565 - A hero with a plan

“The energy to mass conversion is really completely screwed…” Everelle commented while Velania thought about her next word.

“From what I know my angel bolts are basically one of the most efficient mana to energy conversion,” Sofia remarqued, “so not all magic is made equal, I guess?”

“Right… I’m going to need to do some math…”

Velania interrupted the discussion with her next word, “Armchair!”

‘Armchair; 58’

A circle of twe...

Chapter 564 - Warmup

Cursive illusory letters appeared above the orb.

Hydrogen.

After a short silence, a clear ‘ding’ echoed as if someone had flicked a bell, and a series of numbers appeared.

0.1

That must be the mana cost…

“Is it not working?” she asked, not feeling any change.

“No it probably is,” Everelle answered. “Hydrogen is an invisible gas. Can’t even smell it. It’s very explosive, though.”

Velania just nodded at t...

Chapter 563 - Innocence

Sofia didn't even realize that she let herself fall asleep.

She woke up to sounds of melodious humming and splashing water. The source of which was of course the only other person here, Velania, sitting next to her on the border of the lake, her feet rhythmically going in and out of the water as she hummed an unfamiliar tune.

For a bit, Sofia decided to stay just like this. However, it was hard to fool the senses of someone so high-level, Velania noticed as soon as she finished he...

Chapter 562 - Painful history

“Death game?” Sofia repeated, not very enthusiastic at the idea, “One of us has to die here? I would rather not participate, then.”

“No, I mean, yes, it’s, uh…” Velania said, flustered by Sofia’s sudden tone change, she took a step back, clumsily stumbling back onto the couch, “D- don’t you have ways to avoid death? I- I can revive you myself if you lose, but you will be stuck like Romuald…”

“Oh… I see, resurrection works? I can do that, yes. Can you ...

Chapter 561 - Is this just fantasy?

“So this is how Cinthia feels all day.”

Sofia stared at the scroll then at the sleeping woman in front of her.

“Velania… If Ihuarah is named after her… How long has she been stuck here? By the sounds of it she’s a hermit rivaling even grandma’s moon isolation…”

Saying this, Sofia decided to take off her Dragon-scale armguard. Is this why she fainted? Since it was super annoying to store due to being extremely magic-resistant, she just embedded...

Next arc poll

Quick poll, nothing too deep.

As the current arc is slowly drawing to a close, I'm starting to prepare what's next, and I thought it wouldn't hurt to know what you personally hope to see in there in terms of general content.

Can't promise I'll take any of it into account, but I would still like to know. (｀• ω •´)b

Of course I'll be reading your comments too (as I always do) but know that if you ask for any one specific thing in there it's very very unlikely to actual...

Chapter 560 - Is this the real life?

There were many things Sofia had expected might be behind the doors, but she had to admit, a giant room with an indoors forest, a large mansion, a small lake and a fake blue sky were really not it.

Yet here they were. Birds were chirping, wind was howling, the sky was blue and the sun shone brightly up above. Sofia wanted to squint as she looked at the indoor sun. Holy fuck, that’s a lightstone?!

“This is still the palace of Sorrow?” she whispered, looking behind he...

Chapter 559 - A shadow of the greats

The crusader sidestepped, narrowly avoiding Pareth’s mace. Mana coursed through the ground as enchantments built into the room’s floor and walls absorbed the strength of the blow, preventing the place from collapsing.

The fight continued at that pace for a good minute, Sofia and Pareth playing it safe and keeping their mana reserves high as they analyzed the crusader’s way of fighting, neither side managing to inflict any real damage on the other.

Somehow, both sides were ba...

Chapter 558 - Got the flow

[Humanoid Ghost and Skeleton QOL patch v2.06 (placeholder name)] ♢ : Spread your mana weave to more closely match your spirit body. Allows clothes, belts and jewelry to more easily stay on, gives a better grip on weapons and better footing on the ground, enhances smell, vision, hearing and pressure sensitivity. Slightly reduces physical damage taken.

“It’s a bit weak for a locked classless…” Sofia commented, “also, lots of text and no numbers isn’t very re...

Chapter 557 - Wait… How much health? Huh?!

The stairs took Sofia deeper than ever before, she had gone down what felt like at least a hundred thousand steps, and was easily several kilometers deep.

The darkness did not extend that far down, so at some point she had stored the candle and let the light trails of her demon form light the way. This led her to a grand room the layout of which was reminiscent of Peace’s throne room, except there was no throne, but two massive stone doors guarded by a singular knight in black armor.<...

Chapter 556 - Puzzled

‘You have defeated [Unison of the candles - lv. 299]’

Sofia’s hand dug inside of the tall zombie’s entrails, it had collapsed by itself when the last of the candle zombies had died. She soon found what she was searching for.

“Would you look at that, another Heart of Velania mana stone. Who could have guessed? I swear, these better be useful in some way.”

Sofia stored the thing and looked around. Since she had killed all the candle zombie...

Chapter 555 - Avenge soldier Bookie

I need to keep the damage to a minimum, we wouldn’t want to destroy the next heart of velania by accident.

Quickly coming up with a plan in her head, Sofia spent a good ten seconds reverting the flow in her demonic mana circuits to use the melee form. She didn’t plan on using the demon spells so she might as well use the extra stats. 

She landed in the nave, in one of the few spots relatively free of zombies, and put on her crown, which she had taken off before i...

Chapter 554 - The devout procession

The Kidjikkik skeletons got into formation, forming a semicircle along the back of the underground cathedral to surround the zombies as much as possible. The Kidjikkik formed orderly lines under Bookie’s control, with the guardians in front and the soldier brandishing their spears from behind, and they started slowly advancing as one at his command.

The zombies weren’t as organized. Many started channeling small fireballs, while the tall one channeling a bigger fireball kept feeding...

Chapter 553 - Commander Bookie

Sofia effortlessly made her way back to the main room with the giant statue of Sorrow, and once again snuck up to the corridor on the far side where chanting voices came from.

The darkness there seemed even darker, but the candle let Sofia cut her way through it, and she carefully entered that last section of the palace. Instead of taking her time exploring every nook and cranny this time, she walked straight ahead toward the voices.

As it turned out, the voices were much further ...

Chapter 552 - Pebbles

“Yes? Yes! My bodyguard” Bookie answered with a nod, “Can I look at the rocks?” he asked. He was ready to potentially trade the vampire book or his mithril dagger for one of the rocks, being able to help Sofia with the rest of her trial was more important than his physical possessions. He was even prepared to sell his magic gloves if he needed to, although it would make him really sad.

“Of course, of course!” The merchant answered, rubbing his hands together, “You cheap lo...

Chapter 551 - I’m a business man, with a business plan

Crowie actually led Bookie to the paladins first, because they were closer.

The paladins came with a report of three skeletons wearing potentially valuable things.

First was a large and tall skeleton wearing fancy red clothes, there were multiple rings on his fingers and several large necklaces hanging over his ribcage. 

Bookie observed the big skeleton carefully as he walked through the market, other skeletons would greet him as he toured the place, calling him governo...

Chapter 550 - The most precious skeleton

A door opened in front of a short skeleton in fancy clothes.

“Oh! She won again!” the skeleton rejoiced, jumping in place, the skeletal crow on his head also jumping up and down on his skull.

Bookie’s joyous outburst did not last long, however. He clutched his book form against his chest as he walked through the newly opened door. He wanted to be there when Sofia eventually called for his help so he needed to triumph over his next task before Sofia reached her next trial wit...

Chapter 549 - The Candle-Meistre

“I defend, you attack!” Sofia commanded. She grabbed a large handful of vision tokens from her storage and threw them all in the air, spreading them throughout the flaming library, then she called upon the skull choir, summoning as many destroyer skulls as she could.

The fiery hands shooting out from the flames were on long, thin arms of fire, which could extend several meters to attack, and Sofia had to manually control the destroyer skulls just to repel the many hands that soon st...

Chapter 548 - Touch and be touched

“I think we can only pick books we actually want to read,” Cinthia guessed, the candles around her immediately blowing out.

“Oh… That does explain what was going on. I can’t believe I didn’t realize that faster…”

“We should get on to the next section… But yeah, even for me, it was just a guess,” Cinthia confessed, “It’s just that the only book that rejected me so far was the only one I tried to pick that I didn’t care about.”

As Sofia and Cinthi...

Chapter 547 - Books, making heads or tail of it

“This must be the actual time limit…” Cinthia said, watching her fingers progressively becoming shadows.

“At least it only looks different, doesn’t feel like much else is happening. Still, at the speed it’s going… Ten minutes to reach our chest, five more to reach the head, maybe? So that’s what we’re working with. Let’s try to uncover more rules.”

“Yeah the lights changed section right when you guessed a rule out loud, so it might be linked. If we’re for...

Chapter 546 - The shadows of doubt

Silence engulfed the library as the echo of the void faded. The mana in the air started to curl, under some unseen influence, it formed long chains, curses aplenty. There were multiple ways to avoid one’s mana being encroached onto by such a passive curse, be it burning the mana to do something else or repelling it from one’s body, but Sofia did none of that.

Open your soul to curses dire, the voice said.

Cinthia seemed to have reached the same conclusion, and was cau...

Chapter 545 - You wouldn’t steal a car

Sofia internally rolled her eyes at the rhetorical question. “What do you think?”

“I mean… A divine item is on the line,” Cinthia said, “And your survival, if I’m being honest, the things down there are not going to pull any punches.”

“Yeah I noticed that already, but it’s fine, I don’t feel like it has been unfairly hard so far. I’ll follow your suggestions.”

“You won’t regret this,” Cinthia affirmed, “oh, also I finally got someone to answ...

Chapter 544 - Using the guidebook

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Sofia found the previous staircase’s hole in the ceiling without too much difficulty, but she ended up flying back down as she was curious about something. When she was down on the ground searching for her lost tail, it felt like ...

EXTRA - Streamer Q&A

Some time before leaving for Sorrow’s Palace, Sofia, Cinthia and Astelia are having a relaxed chat at the Silent Haven bar. Pareth and Bookie are well-dressed and reading a book together in a corner while the women sit at the bar. The air is heavy with the smell of Dwarven alcohol and the metallic tinge of blood. 

Astelia was biting into Sofia’s arm, a frown on her delicate face.

“See. No way you’d be able to drink that, I told you,” Sofia commented with a smirk. Sh...

Chapter 543 - Greedy bastards

While Sofia briefly considered the dwarf’s ceasefire, she still kept channeling her bolt.

Can I trust this guy?

Obviously not. Also how is he going to survive the next bolt without his Asterite chest? I still have two runes up too, so I’m doing fine on that front.

I feel like Domination would be disappointed if I let that guy go. Not to mention the scroll saying that this is a fight to the death.

Perhaps he’s genuine about giving up...