Author Notes :
Hi!
I love polls. Don't you love them too? So in today's chapter, secondary characters popularity poll! That's basically everyone except Sofia I guess. (listed in order of apparition in the story, mostly, and I probably forgot some, so, uh, it is what it is)
Somehow I get a feeling Pareth will be high up there, so to make it a bit more fair to the others, you can pick multiple choices. I guess pick your three favorites?
ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
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2023-02-28 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Sofia was still recovering on the cold ground when Pareth brought back a limp middle aged woman in a priest’s garb. She had watched the whole scene through the skeleton’s vision, it had been a strange, almost otherworldly interaction. The priestess hadn’t said anything, she hadn’t fled, seeing the skeleton approach she had only used weak personal protection skills such as [Bubble of Prayers]. That had done nothing to stop Pareth, he crushed the immaterial shield with ...
2023-02-27 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Go get the casters outside.
Pareth dashed straight forward, crashing through the walls to run outside. No time to cast the graveyard. She followed after Pareth. No sense in separating.
The Paladins from inside were right on her tracks, jumping out of the broken hole after her. Running after Pareth through the orphanage’s garden, she saw a few things. At least six more Paladins were running at them from the forest. Not only that, a dome shaped shield sprang up a...
2023-02-26 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Author Notes :
Hey!
It's great to be back! A lot of stuff happened during that week 'off', I axed two full weeks of content I wasn't liking, and started back from chapter 100. I have to say, my backlog is looking sad right now, but I'm very happy with how this arc is shaping up now. I hope everyone will like it just as much, because if you don't I'll take another week off (๑•̀д•́๑)
I do plan to get back up to 25 advance chapters but that'll take som...
2023-02-25 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Already 100 chapters, can you believe it? I've been working on this non-stop every day for almost three months... Six if you count the time before release.
Anyway, it's a lot to deal with, and I know a lot of people have grown dissatisfied or bored with the story, I've gotten a lot of feedback on it all now.
So I'm taking a week off from posting chapters, I need this time to rest a bit and not have to worry about anything while I work on the next part to hopefu...
2023-02-17 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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She modified her module and tried again. She believed there was a possibility that the enhancement of Pareth’s mana regeneration would not only work outside of the circle, but it would also last as long as the skeleton survived. Meaning she wouldn’t have to pay the gold again.
The only uncertainty in this was that this enhancement ritual in particular was originally related to a god, and worked with a symbol instead of the usual modules and runes.
Still, it’s worth a try...
2023-02-17 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“What makes someone a murderer?” Sofia answered, biting into her own piece of roasted bird.
“Killing people?” the girl hesitantly mumbled.
“Then yes.” Sofia said in between two bites. Dumb bird actually tastes pretty nice. Can’t believe Alith doesn’t like my cooking. Wait, I forgot the salt…
“Why?”
“They attacked me and I defended myself.”
“My dad says necromancers are bad people,” she answered. Then, as if realizing she’d...
2023-02-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Pareth charged at the ogre. Chains of light wrapped around the ogre’s legs, pinning him to the cliff. He reacted by using his hole-carving skill, digging up a half sphere in the cliff where the chains were linked to. That freed him but it also created an empty space that the water rushed in, the sudden aspiration slammed the ogre into the hole he’d just carved out. He was still covering his mouth with his hands but Sofia could see some air escape.
Pareth finally reached the ogre, st...
2023-02-15 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Author note:
Yes, Chapter 100 is going to be called 'Pareth : 100%'. (⌐▨_▨)
Happy reading, skeletons!
It took Sofia a few days to find the Ogres. It was easy to spot them whenever they entered her field of view, their red skin contrasted strongly against the gray stone hills.
They’re not quite as imposing as I thought… Maybe it’s because I’m so high up.
Sofia would have loved to get...
2023-02-14 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“I thank you for your answers,” Sofia said, actually giving a slight bow to show her appreciation.
There was an instant of uncomfortable silence.
“No need to thank me. You paid for them. Now show me your murder history and we will be done for today.”
“My murder history? That’s a thing? Why should I show you?”
This caused a very ugly frown to show up on Valeure’s face. Her sharp canines were visible.
“Sofia. Out of all things that do n...
2023-02-13 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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In the end Valeure decided she wanted all the paintings. With the exception of the hero’s family portraits that Sofia never showed her. She also took some old furniture and sculptures. Suddenly Sofia’s storage ring felt quite empty.
“You have six questions, we will stop after that, I have other things to attend to that just announced themselves…” she said, deflating on her invisible chair.
Doesn’t look like something she wants to attend. Alright then, six questions...
2023-02-12 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Author Notes :
Hey hey hey!
Small hotfix today, I'm changing how [Heal Undead] works, long story short : it had a terrible scaling compared to what it was meant to be, so I'm retconning the hell out of it. Doesn't really change anything about the previous battles but that'll be important later.
OLD [Heal Undead] : Invokes a pillar of Holy healing light. Only heals the undead.
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2023-02-11 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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After walking all the way to the building in the center in silence, which Sofia felt took an eternity. Valeure had her sit on a couch on a platform overlooking the arena. Meanwhile, she herself simply sat mid-air, legs crossed, in front of the couch.
I’m so lost. Maybe I should have stuck to searching for information through books. Why did we need to come all the way up here again? I can’t tell what she thinks at all… Is there any way I can escape if this goes wrong?
<...
2023-02-10 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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So Saints can see each other’s level…
Unsure what to do, Sofia walked up to the end of the terrace. She observed the woman leisurely sleeping in the sky. She looked like she was thirty at most. So that’s like, a thousand years in high-level age, I guess. Do people who only get to a high level when they’re older keep looking old forever?
She had dark blue hair. So much hair. That must be hell to take care of… She also had two pointy f...
2023-02-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Before spending more, Sofia headed to the local Vasperian Embassy. There was no crazy high level monster present this time, in fact the person in charge was a young looking boy vampire, and he was level 112. He had made a funny face when she said she had three thousand liters of blood, saying he couldn’t even buy that much if he wanted to. Sofia made her way out with six more gold ingots to her name. Easiest money of my life. She was also told she could sell the same amount again i...
2023-02-08 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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So, it's come to my attention that quite a few people were leaving. （；へ：）
I get that it's normal to have people coming and going on patreon but I still feel like we're on a not so good trend right now. So I'm thinking, there might be something I've been doing wrong that I used to get right with the last thirty or so chapters. Or maybe not, but either way I am still seeking to improve.
There's a few things I have in mind that could be potential things to explore, so...
2023-02-07 21:59:48 +0000 UTC
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After a good night of sleep in a random inn and a luxurious meal to celebrate, the Hero and the Saintess parted ways. They had convened on ways to communicate and reunite if need be, and if they hadn’t met by then they would at least go to the second trial together. Alith didn’t take much of their money, insisting that five hundred gold was more than enough. Which left Sofia with a total fortune of five thousand nine hundred and fifty-four gold along with some change.
2023-02-07 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Sofia decided that they should go see Tyrene, for no real reason other than wanting to socialize. Anything to forget where they had spent the last few months. But the winged woman wasn’t at the glass workshop anymore. In fact there wasn’t much left there beside empty buildings. Seems like they finally came to pick her up. Too bad. She could have told us more about this Arch-Lich guy. I wonder if it’s worth it trying to bring him the letter. Would he reward us? Or would he kill us on...
2023-02-06 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Author Notes :
Hey! I don't even know why I didn't do the author notes on patreon until now, kinda dumb, if there's one place I should do them it's here. (≧◡≦) ♡
I guess I used to do it in the level up posts until now, but since I've stopped doing that...
I don't know if I should do them every day, it's not like there's always something to say, but it feels nice to communicate outside of the comment section! Freedoooom!
Here comes Pareth again, finally...
2023-02-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey skeletons!
The locked city arc is finally coming to a close, I hope everyone enjoyed it. It certainly was not your usual dungeon excursion.
The next few chapters are a bit more lighthearted, and then we'll plunge into something else again... Don't ask me what, I'm not even certain where Sofia is going yet, I have a few ideas but I'm undecided... For once she'll actually be choosing to do stuff instead of being forced into it, can y...
2023-02-04 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The ring was in the first of the two small boxes they opened. The other box was locked. There wasn’t much in there. The coveted ring sat wedged in a notched round pedestal thing made of gold, which had three more empty slots. So we’re missing two rings.
[‘You Elsewhere Be’ Charging Port] : This complex magical item was designed to restore the spent spatial properties of enchanted blue glass.
Item level : 0. Grade : Regular.
Besides that was ...
2023-02-03 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Sofia woke up Alith with a pat on her shoulder. Her reaction was the complete opposite to Sofia’s. She panicked ‘looking’ around, moving, touching around, covering her own face.
Is she in pain?
It was impossible to decipher her expression with just the mana flow. Not sure what to do, Sofia pinned her down in a hug. Alith resisted for a bit before she understood what was happening. Damn she’s way stronger than me.
At times like this it was quite prac...
2023-02-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Sofia’s health left her in waves in the down times of the armor as the heat washed over her. At least her vitals were safe thanks to Alith cradling her. What took the most damage were her wings, which had no protection at all, they were almost completely destroyed. It was a ridiculous scene as Alith did her best to sneak in a [Maiden’s kiss] to heal Sofia up whenever the armor broke enough to expose skin.
There wasn’t much left of the original room after the attac...
2023-02-01 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The wave of hot air was well on its way. Pareth shields of light appeared in between her and the steam, then broke one by one, failing to block it at all.
Sofia’s mana had still been quite high. It took a deep plunge. The only thing she could do in so little time was using instantaneous skills. [Summon blood]
The skill had gone all the way up to level 62 from all the training after and during their digging sessions.
[Summon blood] : Summons liquid human bl...
2023-01-31 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Can we ask you some questions?”
Out of all the things I expected I didn’t think about helping someone kill themself. I don’t really get why he can’t do it, or what’s beyond the door.
*Consciousness suppressed. Twelve words.*
“I see. I’ll ask groups of four questions then, please answer by yes or no, or in one word per question.”
There was no answer. I guess he is saving the word count. She discussed what to ask with Alith, ...
2023-01-30 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Sofia and Alith cautiously advanced through the main hall. This was a dungeon. So there had to be something in there. Something hostile. And since everything was still intact, it probably wasn’t a Phageid, so their best bet was : the owner.
Though it was dubious how anyone could be alive for so long. Maybe the owner is a skeleton. Or will become one.
That being said, they hoped that it wasn’t actually it. Because why would a potential owner of this place not return to...
2023-01-29 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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In the beginning, when Sofia first used her ability to look through Pareth’s eyes, she had needed to close her own to not be disturbed by the double vision. By now it was already something she was used to, though it was still distracting. Flying in place under the city with the top of her head against the blue bricks, she took control of Pareth.
“I’m moving Pareth carefully but I think the mansion’s still safe. Doesn’t look like they followed inside.”
“Check through ...
2023-01-28 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Sofia thought her new skill was good, with that she finally had both a real weapon, and a ranged attack she could use without burning half to death. But there were a few problematic details.
First was the high mana consumption, which, used together with [Graveyard of the righteous] meant she could only fight for three minutes in a row at most before being out. And that was without using any other skill than these two.
Then, she also was a total beginner with both ...
2023-01-27 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Author's note :
Hey! Here's yet another level up!
'[Advanced Chapters] reached level 25'
I have no clue how there's 500 people here on patreon right now.
To put things into perspective, here's what the story's stats looked like, exactly one month ago.
And that was already enough to make me happy.
So anyway, here's the last level up for a while. Even if more people come...
2023-01-26 18:21:30 +0000 UTC
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What blue crystal was left connecting the mansion and the city ground snapped like a twig. Sofia flew out, holding Pareth and Alith. The whole thing tilted, due to the unclean break, the other side of the mansion’s walls hit the ground as it slid down the hole, producing a thunderous sound. The two Phageids inside tried to escape through the same window, colliding with each other
[You have been affected by : instant death. But your skills negated the status]
Ali...
2023-01-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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