“See, told you I’d get the pills we need.”
“Health, Agility, and Speed… No Strength this time.”
“Three out of four isn’t bad, these all give 5000 points, imagine how much it’ll be when you eat ten of them. Your health is gonna jump from twenty to seventy thousand!”
“Somehow I doubt we’re going to be able to eat that many. Supposedly I’m already at the maximum amount of stats I can handle until I get a few more level ups. That’s what Sen said. With...
2023-06-29 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Sofia spent some time flying a bit further to be absolutely sure she wasn’t about to endanger anyone with her testing.
First experiment: Book skeleton Vs. Erredian Rot.
The skeleton rat sat on a large stone before getting showered in holy light. The rot didn’t touch the skeleton, it appeared only on the rock below it and started doing its usual thing for a bit until it ran out of mana.
It can consume bones but it doesn’t touch the bone skeletons? Alright, ...
2023-06-28 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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“They just left us alone in Valeure’s house,'' Alith remarked.
“It’s not like we would try to steal anything anyway. I’m going out to summon Pareth first, anything you need to do before we go?”
“I need my weapons repaired, the mithril got a bit dented and the handles are in bad shape. Shouldn’t take long, besides that it’s all good. Dopple doesn’t need any repair. I was looking forward to getting back to some alchemy but that can wait until we come back from th...
2023-06-27 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Richard put on his best salesman voice, “I present: a mature Boneplate Mauler’s full and intact skeleton. A rarity this one, considering their tendencies to maim each other. These bear-like beasts have fully functional hands with thumbs as well as claws sprouting from the top of the wrist. But more importantly, as you can see and guess from the name, they sport a total of one hundred and twenty six external bone-plates akin to a full set of natural armor, along with numerous horn-like...
2023-06-26 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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After thinking for a second, Valeure added one more detail, “I will also have someone searching for clues around the Ranking Spire, since she was confirmed by Sen to have been there.”
Orvod had been mostly just listening for a while but he had something to say this time, “They will need a space mage before anything else. Sovuln is not that easy to navigate even now.”
“And this is where Richie comes in, you said you were going to help anyway?” Valeure said, starin...
2023-06-25 16:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Valeure looked at the skeleton like he was the stinkiest pile of trash she had ever smelled.
“Tssk. Fine, whatever, we will get back to this later. You also had some dealings with that pile of bones, Sofia? Unless you had more things to say to Orvod here too?”
“Ah, yes, I had one more question, may I?” Sofia asked Orvod.
“Of course.”
“Your level shows up strangely through my Saint’s perception, I have never seen it do that…”
“Let me expl...
2023-06-24 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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It was still the middle of the night, Sofia and Alith had just left the city.
“So we go straight up?”
“That's how she took me there last time. Oh, right, wait, I should put on the brooch she gave me. Alright, grab my hands.”
“Don’t you think it’s dangerous to keep the crown?”
“I don’t believe she would try to steal something for us, but I could see her try to buy it. Supposedly the system makes sure nobody else can take it though, so there’s no re...
2023-06-23 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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After Sofia’s little panic-like revelation episode, the group headed to a restaurant to have a long chat in a VIP room. The first topic was the circumstances of Sofia’s sudden and late arrival, and Mornn was the one trying the hardest to piece things together because she knew the least.
“So, let me get this straight. Your long lost sister that you thought dead is alive, because you saw her name on one of the Spire’s scoreboard. And that was on the last floor, where she finished ...
2023-06-22 16:01:30 +0000 UTC
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“Pack the tools and get moving, it’s going to rain again!” a disheveled middle-aged man yelled at the group of kids inside the cave, yanking on their chains which were hooked to his leather belt. His expression looked grim as he observed the clouds gathering in the sky.
“Fucking storms, never stops, this kingdom is really going to shit…” he complained, waiting for the kids to get out of the hole. The entrance was too narrow for him to go catch them, so all he could do was to...
2023-06-21 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Surprisingly, the name and description of the new specialization wasn’t in Draconic.
So I translated the name correctly.
[Heat Death] :
Passive effects :
Reduce damages to the body by 50%.
Your body can entirely self-sustain on its own mana.
When losing a limb, the contained Mana will be evenly distributed throughout the remaining parts of the body instead of being lost.
Spells and Skills energy loss over time reduced by 20...
2023-06-20 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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‘[Fast reading] reached level 56’
‘[Fast reading] reached level 57’
‘[Fast reading] reached level 58’
‘[Way of the Fool] reached level 22’
Sofia had long lost all track of the time spent learning the language when she managed to reach a level sufficient to read the system notifications in Draconic. She had focused only on reading comprehension, comple...
2023-06-19 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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[One with Suffering] ♢ : For each % of Health lost during a singular battle, gain a 1% increase to all stats except Mana and Health until the end of combat, lose 1% for each % of Health healed.
It’s still vague what ‘all stats’ is, but it includes at least Strength, Agility and Speed, which all also give Stamina on the side. Just doubling that through a fight is big, but what I’m looking at here is the huge loophole this skill has.
‘Lose 1...
2023-06-19 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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So this is my situation :
Classless Skills (6 / 9)
[Fast reading] - Level 55
[Way of the Fool] - Level 21
[Sprint] - Level 38
[Identify] - Level 2
[Sanctity] - Level 100
[Mana manipulation] ♢
[Sanctity] is fully leveled and it might actually be my only specialization option with [Mana manipulation]. Because I know there was a proficiency compo...
2023-06-18 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Available Passive Skills :
- [ with suffering] : all those who touch it except the necromancer with long lasting [Agony].
- [Runic ] : You are one with the runes of
- [Greater holy ] : Activate to surround the Saint with a greater holy aura which
- [ miasma] : of weakening miasma.
“Interesting…”
‘Greater holy’ is a nice keyword to get, and miasma ...
2023-06-17 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I think what I’m most curious about is this, let’s see.
[Skill fusion ticket] : This ticket allows you to fuse any two skills of the same skill category. If no satisfying result is produced, the fusing will not happen and you may try again with another combination. A fused skill is usually not the exact sum of its parts.
Item level : -1.
Grade : Virtual
So I can combine two skills and there’s a probability that effects will be gained...
2023-06-16 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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After the first heavy decision, the trio spent some time having a more casual conversation on the trial and Victory. For example, Sofia learned that he took the appearance of an Orc because the Orcs were the ones to worship Victory the most and so He felt that it was natural to appear as one of them. She also learned that a few other Gods were currently able to roam the lands, Sun being the most prominent example.
The two old monsters gave Sofia tips and advice worth their weight in gol...
2023-06-15 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sofia contemplated her options without asking anything for a bit. “Well, before I even know all the details, two of them seem strong enough that I would pick them anyway, now it’s all about choosing the third one. Unless my instincts are wrong.”
“What do you have in mind?” Sen asked.
“Aren’t you reading my thoughts?”
“Just like I wouldn’t read Dragon Mask’s thoughts, it feels like a lack of respect to casually read the mind of someone who ranked higher ...
2023-06-14 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sofia and her skeletons appeared back on floor 100. She was fully healed and now dressed in a white toga similar to Sen’s, with only her mana still empty. He dressed me up? Well, I’ll take that over the itchy cape… She looked around, most of her possessions were still on the ground everywhere, there had been more gold than needed in the sack she threw so there were also a lot of gold coins spread around. Victory was nowhere to be seen.
Sofia threw a look at Sen who gave a...
2023-06-13 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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[Way of the fool] prevented Sofia from falling off of the platform as she was blown away from the God. She quickly stabilized herself with her wings. She took no damage but it gave the God the space he needed to heal much faster. The things she had taken out of her storage were on the other side of the God when he shouted. They had been sent far, but were still on the platform because they went in a direction where the edge was further away.
With no mana, she couldn’t...
2023-06-12 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Pareth could hardly fight without legs, Sofia stored him along with the blessed construct shield. She would lose the effects of both [Sanctified grounds] and the blessing, but in the safety of her storage, Pareth could recover. It would take two full minutes for him to be fully healed. It was impossible for Sofia and the High-Priest skeleton to hold out for this long, but if she could recover his broken off lower body, she could speed up the process. His health wouldn’t ful...
2023-06-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Sofia climbed a few steps, the low gravity was too weird for her, so she used [Bone dominus] to make her bone armor denser and heavier. It offered more protection but she usually didn’t do it because it would slow her down too much. Now it was actually helping. When her weight felt about right, she started her ascension again.
Steps came, one after the other, there were no sounds other than her own heavy footsteps.
Looking up, Sofia could only see more stairs. <...
2023-06-10 16:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The statue’s arms formed a circle, one by one, the orbs lit up, showering the cavern in many shades of bright light.
As if it was nothing but dust, the light was sucked in and collapsed into a point in the center of the circle, before expanding to form a smooth round hole through reality. Inside, there seemed to be some kind of room with small pedestals.
“I have to go in then? That’s some very strange space magic.”
A bit wary, Sofia flew through the hole, which close...
2023-06-09 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sofia knew enough about the Necrotic Ooze from the book on slimes that she felt she could fight it without a [False immortality] rune. The layer of the maze with the undead was a pain to navigate due to many dangerous monsters like the long clawed zombies, that small ogre Pareth couldn’t handle. However, she found a whole section with nothing but skeletons. The mage ones were a bit of a pain but overall, [Bone dominus] helped her clean it all up.
She ...
2023-06-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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With the exploration of the eye layer out of the way, Sofia would have now liked to understand how to leave it. Last time it had been a close call with the monster, now she should be able to easily outrun it, in theory at least, but it was still risky to awaken it. From what she had seen last time, the amalgam monster was like a tidal wave; it looked like it would flood the entire maze if given enough time. With that in mind, baiting it around the maze to loop back around and check the room b...
2023-06-07 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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A bit of a convoluted conclusion but this whole place is convoluted.
“So this giant sculpture would be…”
The more Sofia thought about it, the more it felt deeply wrong. Why would this part of the trial be all about one of the four Lords? She doubted it was specific to her, so everyone had to go through this. That was with the system supposedly knowing very little about the Deep and its Lords. And out of all things, they would choose this exact maze as the test? One ...
2023-06-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Sofia’s first instinct was to copy the thing on her bone slates, she was getting proficient at drawing with [Bone dominus] so it only took a second. She stored the drawing and circled around the ritual.
“What am I to do with this?”
I do not think this is random. I get the feeling that I need to use this somehow, but I don’t know about activating a random God’s rune again.
It kind of looks like an Apostle ritual, but It probably isn’t, the door is loc...
2023-06-05 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The screams of the amalgam horror resounded through the corridor as Sofia ran for her life. She knew the general disposition of the maze’s layout now, and she ran toward the most complex part of the maze. She didn’t fool herself into thinking that maybe she could fight the thing, all she wanted was to try to take as many corners as possible to search for a life-saving layer change.
Immediately, there was a problem, the thing was much faster than her.
Sofia unsummoned her bone ...
2023-06-04 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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In the face of an enemy much too strong to handle without a plan, Sofia did the best thing that she could come up with, flee. She ran back and let Pareth slow the thing down. It would be lucky if he managed to save himself by teleporting to her. Going by the speed of the monster, there wouldn’t be much left of his skeleton by the time she was far enough.
She was soon comforted in her choice to flee when, through Pareth’s eyes as he struggled to hold out for as long as possible by pa...
2023-06-03 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Sofia stored the book by habit and kept looking around.
One thing is clear from that; it looks like this was a nightmarish place even before the system copied it to make it a part of the spire.
If it isn’t all made up, at least. Going by everything so far, I would say that this probably exists in the real world too, and it’s likely in or under the spirit forest. This place may be from a time much older than Zerei even.
When it said ‘consumed by th...
2023-06-02 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sofia advanced forward to see if she could find the Necrotic ooze. As expected, it wasn’t there. There seemed to be a large room at the same emplacement, but it was behind a closed set of stone doors.
This… How do I even make a map?
The general layout doesn’t change, but everything else does? Are there several different versions of the same rooms and corridors that are exchanging places with one another when I’m not looking? Or am I the one being teleported to...
2023-06-01 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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