Walking through the empty student dormitories, Sofia managed to learn from a janitor that her students had left with Tartaros a few hours prior.
I don’t want to bother Leverle again so soon… And I really don’t want to keep training VPPV right now…
Sofia left the Academy. Caleb was busy reading the same book in front of the gate.
“Hey Caneb!”
“Miss Sonia, leaving so soon?”
“I was thinking I could relax a little. Would you happen to know ...
2023-11-17 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sofia had been teleported directly inside of her closed room.
“So much for a strong barrier around my room…”
She shivered. I can’t believe I did that. One of these days my big mouth is going to get me killed.
Should I go find the students?
No, best to let them sleep this trip off, I’ll go check in on them tomorrow.
Pareth looked at Sofia and Sofia looked back at him.
“What now?”
Sofia did not expect an answer b...
2023-11-16 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Author note:
I'm late, sorry, this took much much longer to write than I expected (；´∀｀)
Happy reading! (｀• ω •´)b
Leverle brought everyone back to the academy’s entrance.
Caleb raised his eyes from his lectern. “Oh, if it isn’t the Doc and teacher Sonia again!” His brows furrowed after his jovial greeting, “The entire group is here… Did something go wrong with the ...
2023-11-15 17:35:19 +0000 UTC
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“We should be safe now, I think, the attacker left,” Sofia told the students who just stepped out of the bone pyramid.
“I- I wouldn’t be so sure about that,” Lola stuttered, pointing at the sky.
“He’s an ally, everything is alright,” Sofia reassured her.
Sofia had felt the sudden disturbance happening behind her, but she knew by instinct that it wasn’t the masked elf returning, the person who just appeared had many times more mana. She turned around to see ...
2023-11-14 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Sofia and the students stared at the infinite waterfall of blood in front of them, perpetually flowing onto itself.
“Well, it looks like this is another failure. I don’t think this is helping drain the barrier’s mana at all. If anything, it feels like the amount of ambient mana has been going up. I could make more blood but that looks pointless.”
“Why are we trapped in here in the first place, what’s the point?” En complained as she walked back and forth on the bone ...
2023-11-13 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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After smashing a few wooden planks, the results were in: the floor was connected to the ceiling. This mirror space was dungeon wide instead of room by room; falling through the floorboards would drop you from the ceiling on the opposite side of the mansion and vice versa.
While the girls tried their best to think of ways to resolve the issue, En stepped up with an idea, “To create an enclosed space like this, you need mana, and it has to come from somewhere. If it’s a ritual or a cu...
2023-11-10 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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All their preparations done, the girls went to sleep without even eating, with one of them staying up to stand guard and a rotation planned out.
I’ll stay with them and work on my blood, do you want to go out? We could use a bit of early exploration to make sure this place is really safe. The things written in the letter and what we’ve seen don't completely match and that’s bothering me.
Pareth stood up and stayed still for a few seconds.
Is something wron...
2023-11-09 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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From her storage item, Lola brought out a shovel, and started quickly digging in the snow, then in the dirt, until she had made a small hole just deep enough to fit a foot inside. Sofia didn’t expect Lola to drop down on all fours in the snow and stick her head inside the hole, but she did. She quickly looked left and right, she stopped for a few seconds when she looked in Sofia’s general direction, then again when she looked in the direction of the cabin, then she pulled herself out. Jum...
2023-11-08 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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This all explains a lot. Too bad Alith didn’t get any Processing pill to candify.
Looking at it… It looks less like the system made up stats to magically improve and more like it merely labeled already existing stuff like Aura. Maybe the most mysterious stat is just Health. Such a weird thing. It’s counterintuitive. I think the issue is that its efficiency isn’t linear.
Which makes me wonder how I could improve Pareth now… Without new skills or anyt...
2023-11-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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♢ [Dreams Of a Demon which Gods Envy - March of the Envoy] ♢ :
Experience gains +10%, Thinking speed +100%, Reading speed +1000%
Alternate between the states of Order and Chaos:
While immobile, walking or moving slowly, enter the Order state.
(Order - March of the Envoy)
Attacks curve around you.
Aura, Charisma, and Processing +100%
Gain the ability to walk on matter in liquid and gaseous forms.
<...
2023-11-06 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Sofia was currently in Beligenus’ office, she had had her doubts about the old Dragon accepting to receive her like this, but it seemed the Headmaster was usually agreeable with lending a helping hand to his teachers through his tremendous knowledge.
“Teacher Eternam said you were the most likely to know what this exclamation mark was about short of asking an Archangel directly.”
The headmaster stroked his long white beard, as he slowly read through the system window.
...
2023-11-03 16:59:44 +0000 UTC
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Sofia summoned the skull choir, with only eight skulls in the sphere formation, marking the corners of a cube around her. These were a new addition to the choir thanks to Shaily’s contribution, fanged boar skulls with the special ability [Intercept].
The Marquess used some kind of magic with no obvious effect before charging forward crossing the gap in an instant. His momentum and sword were stopped by Pareth’s. They exchanged a few blows, judging each other’s cap...
2023-11-02 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Are you not going to prepare?” Cinthia asked, incredulous, as Sofia suggested that they go find Saria so they could all have lunch together.
“Prepare what? I don’t need any preparations, I’m always ready to fight. I don’t have to worry about foul-play since we have a level 500 referee. So I’ll just beat this guy up and take the money, no need to make a big deal out of it.”
“Why’d he be so hostile towards you in particular though? He made it sound like a person...
2023-11-01 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Pareth opened the door to two guests, who turned out to be Alith and Cinthia.
Alith strode inside. “Hoy! You good, Sof? No one’s seen you in days.”
Sofia raised a hand but she couldn’t talk, with her other other hand, she helped guide the bone threads out of her chest.
Give me a minute… Pierced lungs aren’t great for the voice.
“Do you need help?” Cinthia asked, uncertain about what she was even looking at.
Sofia waved her off, pointing a...
2023-10-31 17:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Sofia chose to train on the sprite skill first, because out of all the things she had to do, it was the most uncertain one. By the time she had to come out to teach again, her progress was not very good. Clearly trying to copy the entire thing at once was a fool’s errand, so she had to train to form the mana pattern bit by bit. It was easier said than done. Reproducing about a twentieth of the entire thing at once was the best she could do. She learned two such fragments, but trying to repr...
2023-10-30 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Simply sitting on the Visualizer’s platform, Sofia and Shaily spent a while talking about their respective childhood, they had lived though quite a different path in life, but the struggles felt similar. Whereas Sofia’s class had been a trap from Scripture, Shaily’s class had been the result of a chance encounter. The winters in Exidion were very cold, explaining the countless chimneys decorating the city’s rooftops. Shaily, living alone in the small house inherited from her parents h...
2023-10-27 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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After chatting for twenty minutes with Shaily and learning that she was also an orphan but had inherited a small city house and enough savings to survive by herself for a few years, the teacher who had been using the Visualizer left with a small group of level 200+ students of all ages in tow.
That’s… a Goblin?
[Supporter - Lv. 300+]
I don’t remember this teacher from the opening ceremony… Then again I was busy staring at my ancestor. An...
2023-10-26 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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After Sofia explained more of the skill’s quirks and downsides to Shaily and made sure the girl knew what she was getting into, Shaily led Sofia and Pareth to a deep part of the academy’s underground. The damp and dimly lit corridors looked abandoned but they were far from it, even so early in the morning, there were already a few students coming to and fro this underground labyrinth.
“You go all this way every time you need to store something?” Sofia asked as Shaily finally sto...
2023-10-25 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The poem was reconstructed by cross-referencing the two versions and filling in the two blanks they had both forgotten with whatever seemed most appropriate. After some debating and keeping their previous theories in mind, they guessed that the first admin was a Dragon who got erased by the Deep, the second a Hero who tried to return to their world and failed, and the third one… They weren’t too sure about it. Saria seemed to think it might be the fourth Lord, but Sofia knew there was som...
2023-10-24 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Orator!” Sofia cried out.
Saria looked surprised for a second after her mouth had been hijacked, but she understood what was going on thanks to Sofia’s outcry, and decided to let things play out.
“That would be me,” the Orator answered through Sofia’s mouth. “And before you ask, youngling, your Sister risks nothing, and neither does your guardian, for that matter.”
Sofia pressed the body-less voice for answers, “How do you know that? You were surprised I c...
2023-10-23 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Saria had brought some food and drinks with her, hoping to share a nice breakfast with Sofia, so now she was eating some crescent-shaped pastries on Sofia’s bed. “So this one’s part of your class? With all the flashing lights and all, right? She’s good, she only lost once I think. Probably got more tokens than I do.”
“Shaily did not strike me as the very combative type, honestly. That will make my job easier. What about En? She’s about this tall, covered in orange fur, thr...
2023-10-20 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The bolt hit its mark, punching a fist-sized hole through the flying student’s abdomen.
Two more students coming from the sides tried to get the jump on Sofia, but the high-priest skeleton waved his staff and a golden shockwave sent the new ambushers flying. Summoning Bookie and ripping off a page, Sofia turned around.
“Everyone’s alright?”
“We’re good!” En confirmed, completely unfazed by the sudden chaos, unlike the four other teens.
“Pareth will esco...
2023-10-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Erian was up next, standing at his starting position, he ‘invoked’ multiple things one by one. Firstly an armor around his body, then a sword, a shield, and even large wings behind his back.
Real flight at level 57? Interesting.
The Exidian student charged, flying up then diving like a bird of prey. He tried to swerve around Pareth, but wasn’t fast enough. Without teleportation, he couldn’t use the same strategy En used, and attacking from above d...
2023-10-18 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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After Sofia shared some of her stat lines, she was bombarded by questions again. ‘Why is your mana so high? Doesn’t your class name imply you summon saints? Your age is locked?’ and more. Her answers were about as short as the questions, this was not meant to be a class about her. At the first occasion, she changed the subject, asking the students to follow her to the classroom’s courtyard. The training courtyard was an enclosed square area of about twenty meters each side, surrounded...
2023-10-17 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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After half a day in confinement, a broadcast of Beryl’s voice announced that the teachers’ tower, the dining hall and the restrooms were now safe zones in which students were not allowed to attack the teachers for tokens. After that, Mistral was allowed to leave, and Sofia spent the night with Astelia discussing how they would handle their classes.
The time has come. You ready, Pareth? Activate all the lights, I think it’ll be better if you just stay out and ready at a...
2023-10-16 16:00:29 +0000 UTC
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The skulls shouted, their air pressure attacks battering the students who failed to dodge. They were only targeting those above level 200, Sofia didn’t see anyone of a lower level as a danger. As for the projectiles still aimed at her, be it fireballs or magic blasts, the scepter gluttonously absorbed the weaker ones while she dispelled the dangerous ones with [Heat Death]. With how high her mana regeneration was on a sunny day like this one, this barely made a dent. She co...
2023-10-13 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The Exidian Emperor had appeared out of nowhere in the sky above, which was actually just the ceiling.
[Mage - Lv. 500+]
Not emperor class like the Red Winds Emperor?
Three level 500+ in the same room. The air is getting sticky just from the mana they’re releasing. The mana from Erredis’ true form was more impressive though.
The Emperor slowly descended, his thick cape and flowing white hair billowing behind him. ...
2023-10-12 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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As a finishing touch for her preparations, Sofia put her crown atop her head and extended her hand, prompting her staff to come flying from the wall it had been propped up against.
I don’t think I’m forgetting anything.
Sofia unlocked her door, on her doorstep were five teachers having heated discussions. On one side Eternam and Zerei were speaking to each other in Avian, while on the other Astelia was speaking with a pair of Exidian twins who looked ...
2023-10-11 16:06:03 +0000 UTC
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Sofia made her way down all the way to floor 4 of the teachers’ tower, but Astelia wasn’t there. Next she went up until she found Zerei’s floor, which was the twenty sixth. She knocked not expecting anything, but the door started unlocking a few seconds later.
It was Astelia who opened the door, she was wearing the same embroidered robe Sofia had first seen her in at the Skyreach Vampire embassy.
“Sofia! You were accepted?”
“It wasn’t too hard. What is Zerei do...
2023-10-10 14:16:31 +0000 UTC
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Is this it?
Oh…
“I managed to connect to it…” Sofia told Eternam while her vision was of the other side of the door. “It’s… very blurry. I think the person waiting is Miss Beryl. Or an Exidian woman at least.”
“Likely to be her. Pull back, and let me check,” Eternam said.
Sofia severed her connection to the skull. Eternam instantly connected back to it. Sofia saw his eyes glaze over and he confirme...
2023-10-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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