Sofia watched the bolt launch forward like a bright tear in reality as she was flung backward by the recoil. The moment stretched before her as time itself seemed to slow down. The instant before the bolt hit its target felt like it lasted forever.
A thunderous roar echoed through the entire palace as everything turned white, the blinding light from the explosion bright like a thousand suns, completely overwhelming whatever had been suppressing all non-candle-light throughout Sorrow’s...
2024-10-07 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Sofia walked in the dark tunnel past the graveyard, there was no light, and the tunnel had some stagnant water in the middle, which Sofia walked in with light steps. She found the sound of her footsteps in the shallow water relaxing.
“Oh right, I didn’t even Identify the shovel.”
[Skantar’s shovel]: A shovel sculpted out of some kind of unrecognizable dark chitin. The entire shovel is a spell catalyst with the following effect: Multiple target spells’ ma...
2024-09-25 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Some faint dots of blue light started to appear close to the ground around Sofia after she chose not to summon anyone for help. They were blue flowers, opening one by one, revealing their luminescent petals. Like a wave spreading from Sofia’s position, the flowers opened up, lighting up the cavernous underground place with their blue hue. Thousands of tombstones were messily planted everywhere in the uneven dirt ground, and the glowing blue flowers were everywhere. The perfectly flat brick ...
2024-09-24 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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What a mess.
Too bad I had to smash him up that much, he would have been a nice skeleton for Bookie.
[Scrambled Mana-Heart]: The Mana-heart of swordsman Rekosi Lengstone. Its sudden removal created this scrambled pattern. Perhaps your first real stone for trading?
An inscription in ancient human can be found engraved on the inside, reading: ‘Heart of Velania’.
Why does it feel like it’s shaped a bit like a swor...
2024-09-23 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Author note:
TLDR: No chapters from sept 26 to oct 6
Hi! I always hate to announce that I'm taking time off, but this couldn't be avoided. Book 3 should've been out on amazon since august and... It's still far from ready... I need time away from writing to focus on rounding up the editing, so I'm taking a bit more than a week off this time, and hopefully I can be done in advance and actually take one or two rest days during that 'break' instead of coming back even...
2024-09-20 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Heavy. Sofia thought as she picked up the contents of the small chest which turned out to not be a mimic.
[Unlabelled ritual book]: A book containing many antique ritual circles, there is no title, author or explanations. The cover and bindings are made of a mithril alloy.
These pages are all rituals? Sofia rhetorically asked, as she trusted Mr.Scribe but couldn’t actually see what she was holding. Just by feel, though, she estimated the thick ...
2024-09-19 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sofia reappeared inside of the mimic three seconds later, her lower body completely regenerated and already soaking in what remained of the corrosive liquid. The space inside of the mimic was very cramped now that it contained her entire body.
While Sofia was hastily covering her legs with her bone armor to try to prevent the liquid from harming her too much, she stopped.
The liquid was no longer hurting her or even her armor, it was just like smelly water.
It took a long se...
2024-09-18 16:50:05 +0000 UTC
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(Quick note : I need to go out tomorrow, chapter might be late)
Aside from the sewing zombies, which, funnily enough, were mostly zombies of muscular bearded men, the room had two more doors, one on Sofia’s right and one straight ahead, while the wall on the left was obscured by a stockpile of messily piled up silk coils.
Sofia decided to simply keep going forward, walking awkwardly in between the sewing stations under the zombies’ empty stares. Entering another corrido...
2024-09-17 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Electricity started to gather around Sofia’s staff and in the choir skulls’ mouths. The light was getting suppressed by the palace’s strange darkness, but the crackling electricity existed nonetheless, and before the ghost got to even do anything, the wide array of Sirhellion skulls showered the ghost with lightning, sending sparks and loose currents flying in all directions.
Out of the interesting things that Sofia got to learn from Eternam’s necromancy classes, the fact that t...
2024-09-16 15:59:17 +0000 UTC
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I can’t even see myself in this darkness, but at the very least it seems to not be doing anything dangerous besides hindering my senses. I have two runes up so surprise attacks are not the most worrying, let’s stay in the dark for now. I’ll follow the wall on the left I guess…
Sofia walked cautiously in the darkness, her left hand gliding along the wall, feeling the uneven texture of the cold porous bricks and the disturbing shapes of carvings she couldn’t see. While ...
2024-09-15 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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I got hit by the surprise insomnia once again. Won't be able to write today. Will write a chapter this weekend to make up for it, as soon as I manage to get some decent sleep.
Have a sneak peak at the WIP cover art for book 3 as an apology.
2024-09-13 10:01:46 +0000 UTC
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Sofia woke up to Pareth drying her tears with a handkerchief. The others asked if she was alright.
“I’m… I’ll be alright. We should get going.”
Not wanting to go over what she had just gone through, Sofia pushed the others to quickly enter the next room, though she mentally thanked Pareth as she did.
The next room had another closed door, but no pedestal, nor anything else, really. Just an empty room with a door. Once everyone was inside, the group heard foot...
2024-09-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sofia’s thoughts were sluggish.
The person singing had to stop often, she sounded short of breath, always trying to catch more air whenever she could, yet she kept singing while rocking the crib for long minutes as the sun started to come down.
Someone opened a door, interrupting the lullaby. Her voice was kept low so as not to wake the child, but it was cold as an ice bucket, “Merise, leave the child be, we need you in the kitchen. Dessert isn’t going to bake itself.”
...
2024-09-11 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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“Nothing is ever accomplished without leaving something behind,” Cinthia read out loud for Sofia and Ihuarah.
“Not what I expected,” Sofia commented, “but it is fitting, and always true. No matter what, you’re always spending time, at the very least.”
“This wisdom is to be used for the next part, I would suppose,” Ihuarah deduced, “let us get to it.”
“I’m just debating whether I want to continue like this or revert to having my apostle spells,” So...
2024-09-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“The layout of this place is quite something,” Everelle commented as the group took another turn which revealed more of the same long and narrow corridor. They had been following that single long and winding corridor for a few hours now, making slow progress as they needed to check for traps, of which there were actually a few dangerous ones here and there.
“We should be almost at the end,” Sofia said, “I’ve just realized, but the corridor is actually some kind of ritual cir...
2024-09-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Author note:
Thank you everyone for the birthday messages yesterday <3
I feel like I often post late so I thought today I might as well post early since I can, for once.
Also I want to ask a question, for after you read this chapter, do you feel it's too slow? The arc will progressively get faster and with more action as they progress deeper into the palace, but I wanted to take the opportunity of there not being a pressing timer, for once, to let the group banter a bit, ...
2024-09-06 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Author note:
Hey! Sorry about being late today again... I don't like how common it's becoming but today is my birthday so it was kind of inevitable.
Should have warned in advance but I had forgotten about my own birthday... lol
Anyway, happy reading aye (｀• ω •´)b
PS: Cover artwork for book 3 should be coming relatively soon, which is nice, can't wait to share that with you
2024-09-05 16:45:54 +0000 UTC
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Sofia walked on the floor where the light drew a door, then back, then on it again. “The floor is definitely hollow there. I still can’t get through or feel anything beyond my footsteps sound different.”
“Then breaking through is likely the actual solution,” Everelle commented, “Can I try something?”
“Go ahead.”
Everelle nodded and summoned her tiny Sunless architect that looked like a stick figure with a white dot on its torso. She pointed at the ‘door...
2024-09-04 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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author note:
Hey! In case you missed it, there was a bonus chapter yesterday. (Me staying up late to write it being the reason today's chapter is a bit late...) Go read it before this one if you haven't yet!!!
Pareth used Sofia’s storage to teleport around the group as they fell and caught everyone before they could stumble any further down the stairs.
“Ah...
2024-09-03 16:15:17 +0000 UTC
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Author's note:
After some of your comments, I thought the story could benefit from something like this, so here's a late night chapter I wrote while forsaking sleep.
It's meant to go right after Mr.Scribe's explanation about the level up process in chapter 520. Not the cleanest way to do things, but since you fine patrons get the chapters right as I write them, needing to add things in older chapters was bound to happen at some point.
That means tomorrow chapter will be num...
2024-09-03 01:52:31 +0000 UTC
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WIth Ihuarah’s guidance and the group’s overall power, it was not such an arduous task to find and activate the four obelisks, even when four Ochiaran chiefs showed up together as they neared the last one, they were dealt with cleanly. These mud ghosts were simply not strong enough to push them to their limit.
After the fourth obelisk activated, the ground shook, and Sorrow’s giant palace appeared from underground, rising to the surface and toppling over large parts of the jungle....
2024-09-02 16:03:12 +0000 UTC
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The Ochiarans looked strange, like three meters tall, dried up humans with dark blue skin. They wore primitive clothing made of woven plant fibers decorated with sheets of elastic tree bark, and wielded all sorts of primitive-looking weapons of sticks and stones.
They appeared around the group one by one, they did not walk, only teleporting from one point to another.
Disturbingly, some of them were smaller with a slightly bigger head. ‘The children’, as Ihuarah had called them...
2024-08-30 16:00:50 +0000 UTC
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The group entered the jungle at the first rays of dawn. The vegetation here was a lot denser than in the volcanic jungles north of Skyreach and Sovuln, the canopy only letting rare streams of light shine through here and there. There were vines and colorful exotic plants and flowers growing everywhere one looked.
Ihuarah gave Pareth directions, who slowly cleared a path with his machete of light, and at the same time, he explained some of the peculiar rules those who entered this place ...
2024-08-29 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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After listening to Mr.Scribe’s extended explanations, Sofia felt the need to activate her Sixth melody music because she was starting to get a headache.
“Let me try to summarize this… First we need to make a wide Mithril coffin, encase it inside of a big Midenicite block, and bury it in the mana-absorbing sand of the red desert… Just this is going to be quite the process… It’s good that I kept all the mithril when I traded with taxes.”
Since the scribe had let Sofia ...
2024-08-28 16:52:13 +0000 UTC
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The lift slowly brought the group to the higher floors of the tower, and Sofia decided to just say what she wanted to.
“I thought it was harder for the Recessed to come to the physical plane.”
“Much harder,” Ridoni said with a laugh after a few seconds of silence, “but not impossible.”
“So it’s really you?!” Cinthia blurted out.
Ridoni laughed again, and the lift reached its destination on the last floor of the tower. The dwarf stepped out, “I best ...
2024-08-27 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Phillip transformed, producing a thick deluge of mana not unlike Erredis when she transformed on the moon, despite being of a similar shape, he was about twice her size, and his scales looked like giant cut and polished emeralds, shining with vibrant green hues.
A bubble of green light appeared around Sofia and Cinthia, and with a clawed dragon paw, Phillip grabbed the bubble. Then, with a bang, the Dragon departed.
The bubble protected them from the acceleration and the wind, lea...
2024-08-26 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Sofia was flying next to the skeleton Quetzalcoatlus from Bookie that Cinthia was riding.
“You really need to get a flying skill of your own. What did you even ask as a reward for your bonus task?” Sofia asked, as she flew backwards to be facing Cinthia.
“You weren’t there when I was explaining that?” Cinthia answered, “Well I just asked for skill fusion tickets,” she explained with a wide smile.
“Fusion tickets?” Sofia repeated, “you could have probably ...
2024-08-23 16:22:36 +0000 UTC
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Sofia, Cinthia, Pareth and bookie were all waiting at the bottom of a dungeon, in front of a large sealed door.
Sofia grabbed the dagger from her belt, “Since everyone says it’s safe, let’s reconnect, I’d like to use another title here.”
[Title changed to ‘THE GLORIOUS’]
[Title change function is locked for the next 24 hours]
[You have left Scribe-only privacy mode, all system functions have...
2024-08-22 15:58:31 +0000 UTC
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“How is that going to work? Sun basically just sent me hers and I barely felt the difference,” Sofia asked, keeping her eyes closed.
“I will be giving them to you one by one, it might feel strange but please try to stay still. Thanks to Cinthia I am able to observe how your real body reacts, so I can see whether you are capable of taking more.”
“Alright. Ready when you are. Just to make sure, is it really going to help you if I take them away? Sun told me it did not chan...
2024-08-21 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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“Ah… I also want to apologize…” Sofia told Death while keeping her eyes tightly shut.
“Apologize? What for?” Death answered calmly, sounding more curious than anything else.
“Well… I did turn down your blessing for Sun’s when I had to choose, and there was also the [Avatar of Death] skill, and I put Leverle in a bad position with the paper doll…”
“Is that it?” Death asked, his voice peaceful as ever, “I appreciate the sentime...
2024-08-20 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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