The following afternoon was a nice relaxing time between Sofia and Alith, Ihuarah rejoined them at one point to give his farewells as he departed for his mission. Whatever the pendant that was promised as his reward was, it was clear he was focused on giving his all to retrieve it. Sofia also asked around about old master Calm Breeze’s dojo, which nobody knew about until she dropped by Rahkam’s place again, who simply drew it as another landmark on her map, far east on the southern contin...
2023-07-29 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The ring of Zar absorbed all the mana in the room, completely preventing the out-of-control mana of Rakham’s spell from collapsing back into him. The old elf was likely strong enough not to die from something so simple, but Sofia wouldn’t let him suffer if she could help it, especially since she could guess what had gone wrong.
Maybe I could have warned him about the Dragon… “Is everything alright?”
Rakham didn’t answer straight away, he took a few deep breath...
2023-07-28 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Sofia’s last statement was met with questioning gazes, it had slipped her mind but the subject of the ranking spire was entirely censored so to everyone else, half her sentence had been completely unintelligible.
“I don’t know what it is you fought, Saintess, but the place Sun wants to send you to… It is so far away that the system does not reach it, and I personally have requested to explore it but was denied because She deemed it too dangerous.”
I see.
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2023-07-27 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Author's note :
Hey! Thanks again for your support everyone, you're the ones allowing me to do this job so I can never thank you enough. I hope your summer is going great.
I'll be on summer break myself from August 2nd to august 9th, no chapters on these days. But maybe I'll have some time to get the AI running and post some new character art at some point in there ;)
Anyway, have a great day, and Happy reading! (｀• ω...
2023-07-26 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Sofia read over the whole quest, it was not as bad as she feared. At least she had the choice to reject it.
[Sun’s ordinance : Meet Sun’s Oracle in Herzal; Defeat all monsters in the Orbital Sun Temple]
[Rewards : Sun’s Divine essence*5, Gold offering exemption for ‘Generosity of Sun’]
[Restrictions : No external help]
[Time limit : 3 Months (Time spent in Herzal does not count)]
2023-07-25 16:16:43 +0000 UTC
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Using the skill of her demon form that allowed her to ‘take a different decision a few seconds in the past’ she disappeared out of the attack’s way and reappeared directly in front of the other worm, ready to punch.
‘You have defeated [Adult Sandworm - lv. 220]’
In the meantime, both Pareth and Ihuarah managed to finish one of theirs leaving only three worms alive.
With the third tier of [Runeforged Overlord] active, Sofia...
2023-07-24 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The balls of light in the worms’s maws collapsed and became violent beams of energy piercing through the sky. Sofia did her best to try to evade but in this manaless environment, her wings were useless. Three of the beams were on their way to collide with her. She frantically activated [Heat Death], her mana dropped by about forty thousand points, it left her body and collided with the beams, erasing them from existence before they could reach her. After their attacks, the ...
2023-07-23 16:01:11 +0000 UTC
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The group progressed deep inside of the dungeon. There were no more golems to be found; it seemed they had all crashed into them at once, leaving only empty streets to explore. Alith brought them to the large doors she had spotted the previous time, at the very end of a street was a long flight of stairs going straight down leading to them.
“And this has to be where it is, right? I couldn’t check last time because it was too far down, but I’m pretty sure. Actually, I should go che...
2023-07-22 15:59:27 +0000 UTC
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Pareth appeared in front of Sofia, armor ready. His weapon changed to a large shield, and he charged toward the golem. The two warriors collided, stopping each other in their course.
The [Spine of the Black Sun] appeared at the end of Sofia’s scepter. Without moving, she controlled the bone whip to lash out at the golem about fifteen meters away. The whip hit without difficulty, engulfing that portion of the corridor in an explosion of solar light.
When the ligh...
2023-07-21 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Two out of three is good! 66% chance of getting the armor, now I’m out of here!
The zombies had all awoken, they roamed the halls of the pyramid, searching for the intruder.
They clearly saw Sofia when she ran past them, turning their rotten heads to follow her movements despite the rune and the cloaking charm actively hiding her presence. But the many zombies did not attack. They simply looked. Afflicted by the passive effect of the runes on Sofia’s arms, they were ...
2023-07-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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By pooling together the random stuff in Sofia and Alith’s storage rings, Ihuarah managed to find substitutes for the ingredients he needed, and proceeded to explain the plan. First of all, they used the compass to triangulate the exact position of the armor piece. Then Sofia, put on some immortality runes both for safety and to mask her presence. Ihuarah proceeded to make some thin wire out of the sand, having Sofia store it and explaining how it works while insisting that it would not hold...
2023-07-19 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Before going further north, Sofia remembered that she had not finished her testing of [Skull Choir], she spent her last level up point on it instantly catapulting it all the way to level 200. This upped the number of skulls she could summon with it from 10 to 50, but most importantly, it unlocked more ‘Array Formations’. From the message that originally said ‘next array at level 50’, she expected to get four more, one every fifty levels but she only received two.
<...
2023-07-18 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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It was not as bad as Sofia feared. For an instant she debated switching one of her skills for [Friendly fire]. However, it turned out that the recoil from unleashing the bolt had worked wonders to throw her far away. She had felt nothing, but the force had been strong enough that after just a second she had an external point of view to watch the giant ball of blue flames expand in the sky. She put two and two together and understood that she hadn’t felt the recoil like she ...
2023-07-17 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Sofia and Alith both spoke at the same time, “The Headless One?”
“Is he even still alive? He was a coordinator of sorts for the Apostles of Spiritual Gods like me. If I understood correctly, Lady Sofia, you’re half an Apostle to Mother Sorrow.”
An ancient name for the demon king, then?
“Yes, that’s what my skill says at least. I rarely use the Demon form.”
“An interesting position to be in, keeping a human body does have its advantages. But b...
2023-07-16 16:04:20 +0000 UTC
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Ihuarah was still adapting to the system but this was when he decided he really needed to read the full description of Sofia’s skills if he wanted to do his job correctly. She also demonstrated the principle of the Angel’s bolt and explained how Pareth and Alith fought while she was at it. It seemed he could be trusted so Sofia decided to hold nothing back. The Erredian rot wasn’t a name that struck a bell.
Out of all things, it was the most unassuming one that stood out to him.
2023-07-15 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“This… Might not be impossible. Truth be told, I will depend on many things. The main hurdle is knowing how much essence He has access to. An avatar getting killed is not completely unheard of. All it takes is a few Dragons deciding to clean things up, like maybe two or three of them.”
Oh, that’s fine then, only two or three Dragons…
That meant little to Alith, “What if you had to compare your power to a Dragon?”
“Hmm, at my peak with the support of ...
2023-07-14 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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[Please select a blessing for the hero : Ihuarah]
‘Blessing of guidance
S rank
You are watched and tutored. Your God will sometimes grace you with guiding visions and quests with rewards. You may ask for a minor divine intervention once.’
‘Blessing of comfort
S rank
You are a master a...
2023-07-13 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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[Reign over shadows] : Summon heartless shade: ‘Grand Animist Ihuarah’ to do your bidding. Grand Animist Ihuarah’s level is equal to yours and they may be resurrected for 99% of your maximum mana after they have been dead for at least seven days.
Grand Animist Ihuarah counts as every type of undead.
All non-sentient shades under your level will obey your orders as long as Grand Animist Ihuarah is under your command.
You may exchange position with Grand...
2023-07-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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After a lot of deliberation, Sofia settled on [Ritual skulls of pulse] and [Ceremonial penumbra command] for her active skills. What she hoped for specifically with both of these was some kind of area control to go along with the graveyard. Either by repulsing enemies or drowning the area in shadows. Something like that. With both of these there's a good chance at least one does what I want. And that leaves me with only ‘Restore ’ left for la...
2023-07-11 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Sofia couldn't help herself as she kept admiring the staff from every angle. Even the crown was whatever, this, in comparison, was an object that had changed by its own will to fit her needs. When she stood up and held it with the lower pointy tip on the ground, the top of the catalyst held by the demon hand reached about the level of her eyes. Sparks of blue electricity flew around when she swung the scepter, and she found out about two new things she could do with it.
First of all, th...
2023-07-10 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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After three nights of relentless slaughter, Sofia, Alith and Nicet were slowly headed for the coast where they would take the exact same route they had used to reach Sovuln while avoiding Skyreach. They flew in relative silence, and Sofia took the opportunity to go over her status a bit.
One night for 113 levels of debt.
Three nights for 37 more levels… The experience penalty really isn’t playing around. The last level took almost a hundred-thousand kills!
2023-07-09 16:06:19 +0000 UTC
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Nicet was strongly nodding, his eyes still wide open.
Alith pressed on, “Do you need more healing?”
“No really I’m fine, just a bit disoriented. The nest guard got me, I imagine?”
“More than got you! I thought you were dead!” Nicet exclaimed, still shaky and wiping off his sweat.
“Well. I didn’t think I could survive losing a head either, but it looks like it was fine? Pareth was the one who healed me, right?”
Alith confirmed that after the gr...
2023-07-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Sofia flew back into the dwarven observation post that had once been Saria’s room. She felt the exploration of the mountain had been strangely fast and convenient compared to what she expected. The nest guards hadn’t been alerted so far, and finding the traces of Saria’s activity had been all too easy. I guess I just know my sister well enough.
The room was missing a wall but there were still plenty of things left in there besides the bed. Among them were monster bones an...
2023-07-07 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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?=9; That’s a riddle? How is this helping right now?
The answer is nine? Doesn’t mean much. And if that was it, just saying ‘=9’ would have worked better. Question equals nine, then?
Sofia looked around in the den and tried to make sense of the Scribe’s hint but she was stumped, she kept visualizing the three characters in her mind until she figured something out.
Ninth… Oh. Ninth question? There haven't been many occasions where I was faced...
2023-07-06 16:00:25 +0000 UTC
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Sofia’s boots touched the coarse soil of the mountain. Just like it used to, the base of the mountain was covered in a thick forest, while the top was nothing but snow and raw exposed stone.
Back here again… I don’t see the usual insects that used to thrive here, must have not survived the monster invasion. Let’s see, the path to the slave camp should be around this side.
There was little to no indication of the flying monsters’ presence in the forest, it seemed...
2023-07-05 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“We’re lucky that the weather’s been so good, we haven’t had to fight a single mutated beast either, we rarely get such peaceful conditions even when Elder Orvod is with us.”
The flying monsters aren’t so bad either. Even if the long distance bolt isn’t giving much experience anymore… But reducing the debt to only sixteen levels in such a short time, how is it that it takes other people so long to level up? Hmm, well, that fire seer dwarf or whatever she was did leve...
2023-07-04 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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[Heal Undead] : Invokes a pillar of Holy healing light. Only heals the undead.
Max range and radius of 200 meter (1*Skill Level).
Heal the undead for 210 (10 + Skill level) Health + (5% of the healed undead’s maximum health) per second while the light is channeled.
The light pillar’s upkeep is 100 mana per second plus 1 mana per 2 Health points restored.
Does not work in restricted spaces.
How many can I touch at once with this? I could c...
2023-07-03 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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After Sofia’s explosive display of power, the trio kept moving forward without much trouble for a few hours until the sun started to set. Just then, they were starting to see the first floating islands appearing in the distance.
Nicet slowed down, “This is where we stop for today.”
Alith didn’t understand where this was coming from, “We need to stop?”
“Yes, it will be dusk soon, and the first islands are in sight, we need to get a shelter before the flying mons...
2023-07-02 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Alith looked at the pink pastures that Sofia’s attack had barely harmed, then back at Nicet, “Say, didn’t Orvod tell us to fly up in case of rain? And now you’ve told us the sky is full of space vortexes and we shouldn’t go there. Which is it?”
“Both. Again, this is why I’m with you. If it does ever start raining, it’s best if you drop anything you’re doing and follow me.”
With these last words of caution, the group started flying slowly a few meters above th...
2023-07-01 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Despite being a space mage, Nicet could only teleport himself through long distances, which meant the group had to use Red Carpet’s teleportation network. Since they needed to avoid Skyreach, they teleported to Drakron instead, where Sofia put up an information request at the adventurers’ guild with a 5000 gold reward for any intel about Saria’s whereabouts.
The group then used the city’s teleportation network to jump to Derol, the southern coastal city from which they had once ...
2023-06-30 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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