[Minor Health Candy] : The crystallization of three heroes' passion for using plants in all the wrong ways. Consume to gain 500 maximum health. Will no longer work after ten uses. Don’t choke!
Already saw that one.
[Minor Strength Candy] : The crystallization of three heroes' passion for using plants in all the wrong ways again. Consume to gain 500 maximum strength, which in turn also gives 166 stamina. Will no longer work after ten use...
2023-04-25 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The trio was sitting in a VIP lounge at Hooasow’s most luxurious restaurant, a place enchanted to prevent eavesdropping and other such shenanigans. They had been here almost two hours, savoring a never-ending influx of sumptuous food. That whole time, Sofia had been recounting her adventures to get Alith up to speed with everything that had happened.
Zerei also learned a lot and was often more surprised than Alith at the ridiculous-sounding stories, especially when Sofia mentioned any...
2023-04-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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So they survived.
Sofia raised a hand and waved to draw their attention; we’re going to need more chairs. Alith didn’t notice, but Zarrow did. It was he the hero pirate, or the former pirate? He came along with Crane, the boatswain. They were dressed much better than they had been on the pirate ship and looked like regular middle-of-the-road nobles. So long as you don’t look too closely.
Alith was dressed the same as before, with black boo...
2023-04-23 14:45:13 +0000 UTC
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Zerei’s work on carving the runes on Pareth and adapting the new ritual was spectacular. The new ritual was much simpler and included both new aura skills, the Sun’s ritual, and even the seven durability enhancement enchantments that Sofia had put in there the last time. So it was a perfect upgrade with no downsides besides the slight hit on Pareth’s mana regeneration.
“That’s it, yes. The ritual is as full as can be, any more, and it will be much too unstable.”
“It...
2023-04-22 16:01:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey!
So, you might have been wondering why some of the characters had art and some didn't. To put it simply, some of the characters' design I cannot do justice to with my usual AI art. I'd do it myself if I had enough time, but I really don't, so I'll try to commission an artwork soon.
Don't hesitate to recommend good artists that you know take commissions btw, I don't really have my eyes on any one in particular yet. And it might be a bit tricky to find one who's proficient...
2023-04-21 19:53:29 +0000 UTC
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Sofia was waiting for Zerei’s answer. She seemed to be pondering on the question. Can I have every significant bone get the physical resistance enchantment this time and not just the arms and skull? I still haven’t told her about the [Sun’s generosity] ritual we must include in either. I shouldn’t divulge it to anyone, but I can’t not use it on the strongest skeleton I’ve found yet. Valeure showed it to me first, anyway. She gets the blame.
2023-04-21 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The Ogre was so heavy that it took the help of the Paladin squad to move him into the ritual circle.
The smell of the decaying Ogre was worse than Sofia could have ever imagined. But the ritual worked as advertised. After ten minutes, it left behind a clean, if putrid, skeleton with loose skin around it and in a pile of dirt.
Sofia had to plug her nose and hold her breath just to avoid fainting. She got the Paladins to bring the bones out and washed them with copious amounts of su...
2023-04-20 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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After her initial surprise at the [Angel’s bolt]s, Zerei joined the fight. Sofia observed her and understood why the Avian Apostle's stats were lower than her own demon form’s expected stats at the same level.
Sofia’s demon form was built for close combat; her stats were immensely high, so much so that at the same level, she expected it to have twice Zerei’s stats. Her five skills, strong as they were, occupied a relatively tiny portion of each of her limbs. Mos...
2023-04-19 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Back to the civilized world, Sofia had checked the time and found out that she still had more than a week before the meetup time with Alith. There were a few things to do before which she could get out of the way, like finding Zerei some clothes. It was not that demons had to worry about being naked, but it could be problematic if she just strolled outside looking like… Well, like a demon.
Unsure what to do, she thought she could ask Valeure for help, as she was the higher au...
2023-04-18 15:59:43 +0000 UTC
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“Nonono, you have to prime it yourself, yes!” Zerei assured Sofia, her arms crossed before her.
“Why would that matter?”
“The priming process has two goals, not only does it charge it with a lot of mana, but it also rewrites the rituals to fit your natural flow! That’s the most important part, yes! If someone charges it for you, it will be all wrong.”
“That is going to take forever…”
“The effects would never be as strong as they are if it wasn’t...
2023-04-17 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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The black lace glove had replaced the usual long white glove from the first trial’s set. It looked like a regular black lace glove, the kind noble ladies in mourning would wear.
[Inquisitor’s apology] : Wearing this direct link to the Inquisitor will collapse conceptual probabilities. Cannot be damaged. Soul-bound.
“I have no idea what this means. Can I get some help?”
[Inquisitor’s apology] : Never take it off if possible. Cannot ...
2023-04-16 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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[Miner’s flair scroll] : Infuse it with mana while holding a piece of mineral in your hand; this scroll will give you the precise location of this mineral's nearest unexploited natural vein. One-time use.
It’s pretty good! A bit random but good. A small vein of mithril is still a vein of mithril. There might be better minerals to search for, though, I don’t know what’s rarer than mithril, but it has to exist. I’ll hold on to this for now.
I ...
2023-04-15 16:05:57 +0000 UTC
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Sofia stood up, she was very sore, and the absence of mana in her body made her lightheaded, but she needed to check the ‘dead’ corpse of the demon. If there had been no kill notification, it could only mean two things, either the system had fucked up. Or the demon was still alive.
She walked closer to the body that was burning up. She had thought it was burning because of the nearby magma, but that wasn’t it. This wasn’t regular fire. This was the body disappearing. Sofia almos...
2023-04-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Sofia gritted her teeth, the curse wave was coming faster than she could escape. She needed to act quickly if she didn't want to be consumed by the attack. She propelled herself toward a crack in the cavern ceiling that the monster’s previous crash there had created. The Avian tried to stop her, but Sofia was too fast and managed to fold her wings and fit inside the crack. Even then, she had to keep going up as some of the cursed mana found its way in as the wave continued past.
The A...
2023-04-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Sofia had good hopes that this would be resolved without a fight. Until she took one, last, fateful step toward the altar. The shackled demon laying on the altar stopped struggling.
She had been in the middle of one of her incomprehensible sentences, one she had repeated at least ten times when a ritual she hadn’t seen activated, it was hidden within the floor’s decorative patterns. The world froze. To Sofia, this wasn’t a new sensation. Kuli had done it and so had Aphenoreth. She...
2023-04-12 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sofia explored the lost Avian city in the following hours. Not much besides the stone walls had survived the passage of time. There were some parts of the city where the air was thick with curses; Pareth’s [Purify] cut a path through them. She understood after the fact that they were random and not linked to anything interesting, which was a disappointment. She never found a way that led to the place Pareth had fought in.
Street after street, her vision became clearer...
2023-04-11 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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[Sofia’s Shadow Scepter] ♢ : Must be primed to unlock advanced functions (1013 / 1 000 000 000 mana).
“Missed by thirteen…”
Admiring the incredible item, Sofia was starting to realize how wasteful she had been. Every second spent regenerating mana when she was already full was a second where her skills could have been leveling up. And now that her immediate focus was shifting to leveling her skills for the trial, this scepter and its ridiculous requireme...
2023-04-10 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Sofia had barely started to draw her ritual on the ground but she couldn’t help switching to Pareth’s vision considering the crazy kill notifications she got and the wild jumps in his health points. She feared for him at some points, but now that the deed was done, she was left to contemplate the slew of system notifications that had appeared before her eyes.
Bewildered, she still changed back to her own vision. The avian ghost that had teleported her wasn’t one of the fighters th...
2023-04-09 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Pareth stood his ground in the dark.
Name : Pareth Level : 190 ♢
Health : 217978 / 217978
Stamina : 41983 / 41983
Mana : 18350 / 19000
He was ready. This time he could directly see his enemies, which was more than what he had to deal with until now. Sofia was observing the enemies in question through his vision.
Ten A...
2023-04-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The exploration of the cursed gallery full of statues was slow and tedious. The rat had indicated that this road of sculptures was several hundred meters long, and Pareth could only purify it one small sphere at a time. [Purification] was an expensive skill, so he had to pace himself or he would run out of mana before they made it to the other side. While they waited, the curse slowly regained territory, continuously shrinking Sofia’s safe zone. And of course, that also mea...
2023-04-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Sofia had been lost in her thoughts for a second and Pareth had killed another of the shades in the meantime.
‘You have defeated [True Shade - lv. 199]’
Taking another empty jar out of her ring, she prepared another Silverwater projectile, handing it to a Vampire. I’m going to be out of jars soon at this rate…
A second shade was revealed by the projectile, looking very much like the first, and another round of merciless whipping ens...
2023-04-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Pareth and the vampires made steady progress in the corridor until a certain point where they got overwhelmed. Two of the vampires got killed and that made everything harder. Pareth’s mana was also starting to run low, so they retreated and came back to the pond.
Sofia was too busy carving the runes on her body to be thinking about the next steps at the moment. Only when she got done carving the first one did she pause to look at the system notifications.
‘You have...
2023-04-05 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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GRAB MY HEAD AND RETREAT!
Pareth was still standing over Sofia, he hadn’t managed to protect her, his senses in the darkness were even more limited than hers so he could only rely on sound and the orders. He located the head from the sound it had made when it hit the ground. He grabbed it along with the whole rest of the body and ran back as fast as he could.
A few attacks landed against his back, producing shrill sounds, but failing to do any damage. Thankfully, they h...
2023-04-04 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sofia recalled the details about space magic that Astelia had shared, she was a pure space mage so she knew a lot. Her explanation was that there were three main schools of space magic : Space distortion which was anything and everything from teleportation to spatial attacks or storage items; space control which focused on preventing things from moving; and gravity manipulation.
[Graveyard of the righteous] doesn’t fit anywhere in there so no space magic ...
2023-04-03 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The giant spiked boar looked back, turning its massive body, it faced the Black Primus Sofia was hiding under. Its snout came down, it was sniffing the ground, slowly combing the area. Sofia was just about ready to forget the warning about space magic and return to Zangdar with her ring. But she noticed something, now that the monster’s face was but a few meters away. It was blind. Both his eyes were decrepit black holes full of rot, for a second she wondered if it might be undead, but she ...
2023-04-02 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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A tall elf made his way through a crowd, his physique defied all typical expectations for his kind. His towering height and muscular build made him stand out from the other elves around. His broad shoulders and chiseled arms were no doubt the result of intensive training.
Despite his imposing size, thanks to his elven heritage he was moving with grace, weaving his way through the packed main plaza of Herzal, the Elven capital. His sharp and angular features were softened by a charming s...
2023-04-01 20:30:29 +0000 UTC
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She next tried to use the level-up point on [False immortality], she knew the system would double-check whether she was sure of her choice if it was eligible so it cost nothing to check. She got two messages instead of one this time.
[Due to level compression, using your point on this skill will bring it up to level : 3 (Equivalent experience to a regular level 200 skill)]
[Class Skill level up point (1) is being used on ‘False immortali...
2023-04-01 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Sofia already had some knowledge of the spirit forest from all her reading in Hooasow, but the trustworthy information was always quite basic. Some stories were a bit sensational and it was hard to separate fact from fiction. What she was sure about was that it was a place with a lot of ghosts and spirits. A forest where the ethereal met the physical. Unless you were searching for something in particular, nobody ventured there.
The Vampires had managed to somehow clear a portion of the ...
2023-03-31 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Karin adjusted her bangs that had fallen over her eyes while she was freaking out, she had short black hair that contrasted with her two curled white horns.
Sofia never took the time to observe her carefully, but she had to say… Karin was quite an attractive lady. For someone nearing a hundred years old, she looked no older than thirty. The small round glasses on her nose and her straight and sober-looking outfit gave her a mature look but no one would guess her age without looking at...
2023-03-30 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The nobles were very noisy as they started to disperse and leave, the story of this unusual last audience would no doubt be spread far and wide through the Empire in a matter of days.
After most of the nobles left, coming down from his dais, he walked up to Sofia, he was back to the more casual tone he had in private. “Saintess, Hero, you may discuss further details with Karin. Welcome to our Red Winds Empire. You will like it here, I am sure.”
He acts like I already accep...
2023-03-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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