Going to the second floor was quite a bit more dangerous. This time, only Alith would go and finalize the trap. They hoped that her two skills that helped stealth would be enough to not alarm the squid-looking Phageid. The problem being that there were multiple holes in the second floor’s ceiling from their previous battle that it could hear or see her through.
At least the cutting blue stone part wasn’t noisy, the mithril blades slid in there without trouble. There was also a lot l...
2023-01-25 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Name : Sofia Aphenoreth
Age : 20
Class : [Saintomancer] ♢
Level : 100
Health : 5500 / 5500
Stamina : 1500 / 1500
Mana : 39500 / 39500 (-10000 Alith) (-5000 Scribe Link)
Specialization : [Eclipse Skeleton]
Active Skills (5 / 6)
[Heal Undead] - Level 57
[Summon Blood] - Leve...
2023-01-24 17:03:00 +0000 UTC
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Were it not for the skeletons weighing the tentacle down, it might have blasted Alith’s head instead of her waist. Even her undead body wouldn’t have saved her from such a blow.
She could do nothing as her upper body fell, grasped by gravity. She still had both her arms but that would do little for her, the second tentacle was coming in for a pierce, she wouldn’t even have time to hit the floor.
Sofia was panicking, she couldn’t heal Alith because of the roof.
But Pa...
2023-01-24 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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That’s also a way I could use to attack, dropping things from very high. Sofia dropped the debris of crystal bricks on the roof.
The chunks of Midenicite collided with the roof in a heavy crash. This time the reaction was instantaneous. A stretchy tentacle that still somehow looked like it was carved out of blue stone pierced the roof from the inside. Who could tell what had happened to the crystal chunks, all that was certain was that you didn’t want to be at the end of th...
2023-01-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sofia let Pareth slide down the wall, leaving behind small trains with his claws. Sofia and Alith would observe from a safe distance. The chicken skeleton was in serious combat mode, wearing his halo, an armor of light and his ‘weapon of light’ that had been morphed to… Chicken claws of light? If there was ever a dangerous chicken in the history of chickens, it was this one.
It touched ground on the paved road, between two mansions. Perhaps there had been gardens around t...
2023-01-22 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Since RR is right in the Orvod battle chapters right now, I took some time to go get a picture of the damn guy, It's a bit late for you all, but here goes.
Who knows, we might see more of him in later arcs... ( ‾́ ◡ ‾́ )
2023-01-22 16:59:01 +0000 UTC
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She read the line a few more times.
‘This skill’s summon is willing to protect the summoner at any cost.’
Willing…
Since when?!
From the start?!
No, no way. It was absolutely brainless at the beginning… The level 70 upgrade!
‘Lv.70 : Pareth can now understand complex commands.’
So all this time in the armor, then on the boat…
She stared at the skeletal chicken that al...
2023-01-21 19:58:30 +0000 UTC
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Alith and Sofia looked around, they had destroyed a lot during their previous leveling session. The outer ring’s upper city was full of holes, and a good part of the lower city was nothing but debris. Many an [Angel’s bolt] had been thrown.
There was no sign of a single Phageid anywhere, but that had always been the case, since their whole thing was hiding in plain sight.
Maybe they disappeared so the dungeon did as well? She shared that thought with Alith.
“T...
2023-01-21 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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'[Advanced Chapters] reached level 24'
Just how? (；・∀・)
The number of patrons has been going ballistic today, I opened my mail and a half a page was just patreon notifications.
Welcome everyone, your trust shan't be wasted 【✧≖╭͜ʖ╮≖】
I'm not sure I can post the additional chapter right now, still haven't hit my word quota for today, let alone found time to do any editing. So...
2023-01-21 01:13:24 +0000 UTC
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Sofia and Alith decided to retreat first, hunting a sandworm right now was too risky since they knew so little about them. And had no armor. And because Pareth was a chicken. And they could not regenerate mana, not fast enough anyway. And Sofia couldn’t use her wings.
There were a lot of factors that made them reluctant to actually fight. They had been way too optimistic about chasing the relic armor, they had recklessly charged into the desert. Now they had to go back, having made li...
2023-01-20 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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They were back to the ruined city, taking a break in the entrance of the underground dungeon, away from the red sand.
Walking all this time to come back empty handed felt terrible, so they wanted to try to tackle the earth golems inside of there. But they couldn’t dive in without a plan. The biggest gripe was how restricted Sofia was. [Heal undead] and the wings couldn’t be used indoors and even less so in this manaless desert. Even if she could now probably use [Angel’s bolt] fro...
2023-01-19 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The tiny self built sculpture of a dwarf was unmoving, but it started emitting sound, recording of a time long past.
2587… That’s six hundred years ago!
“If you found this message, that means you’re certainly a fellow Dwarf! How did you like my space magic?” So THIS is why my map made no sense! “I hope it didn’t age too badly, don’t shame me if it did, brother, different times. I built this room as a safe space in this kingdom of fools, so that no...
2023-01-18 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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To Sofia’s great relief, she regained control of her body after entering the pyramid, and so did Alith. But when she turned back, there was no more entrance. Of course. I don’t know what I expected. It was the same black brick wall that extended on both sides forming a small corridor. The place was well lit, owing to wall mounted torches burning with the same blue fire that had been in the brasero outside.
Sofia tried to identify the fire but all that came back was the desc...
2023-01-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“Poor Pareth, who knows when I’ll end up like this too…”
“Stop dramatizing, a skeleton is better than no skeleton” Sofia answered with Pareth perched on her shoulder.
Summoned heroes (2 / 4)
- Lv.100 Pareth (Holy Chicken Eclipse Skeleton)
- Lv.100 Alith (Maiden Banshee)
They had shared a meal with Tyrene before leaving, who served a whole roasted wild chicken to everyone. Sofia had been careful to set the bones aside, prete...
2023-01-16 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sofia and Alith approached the village on foot, flying in might not be the most polite thing to do. We do look weird enough even without the flying… Sofia wore her elegant new clothes, but could do nothing to hide her skeletal wings. Even folded neatly against her back, they showed enough that you could see them from the front. Conversely, Alith looked rather normal. If you forgot her being barefoot. And wearing nothing but white pajama pants and a plain black stripe of cloth aroun...
2023-01-15 21:16:42 +0000 UTC
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“So I feed you armor. Only the chestplate. And you become permanently that resilient, and despite being so small you protect my whole body, that’s it?”
“Exactly!”
“What if I’m cold? You don’t exactly cover a lot.”
“Feed me a coat, I’m a very adaptable piece of clothing, yes.”
“And last question, if you had so many owners before, why are you so afraid of these? Shouldn’t you be full of incredible armor already? What could a tiny mithril coate...
2023-01-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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'[Advanced Chapters] reached level 23'
I swear I'm not joking, every time I write these posts expecting it to be the last level up I'll have to give in a long long while, and then 50 patrons pop up out of nowhere in three days (ㆁ△ㆁ)
Y'all better pray that I don't get sick for a while until I manage to rebuild the backlog or what's left won't survive too long (；・∀・)
Well, at least now I have some money so that'll make a lot of problems go away.....
2023-01-15 16:59:02 +0000 UTC
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“... then I grabbed the lightning attack and… died, I guess, then I woke up here. A bit of a risky play if you ask me but I didn’t really have many other options. Also I’d already died twice by then so…”
“Hey, Sof, it’s ok.”
It was out of character for Alith to be patting Sofia’s head but she wouldn’t say anything about it. It felt nice, actually. Relaxing.
“No more dying ok, I’m the only one who’s allowed to do that. I can be brought back, you ca...
2023-01-14 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“I’m pretty sure it was around here…”
Sofia was flying in place above the pine canopy. It was a level of mastery of her new wings that had taken a whole three days of wobbling and crashing to acquire.
Despite the wings being mostly incorporeal, with only the skeletal part being tangible, it wasn’t some kind of decoration with floating magic attached to it. The ragged holy light part of the wings that only appeared when she deployed them was actually acting like real wing...
2023-01-13 20:15:56 +0000 UTC
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Name : Sofia Aphenoreth
Age : 20
Class : [Saintomancer] ♢
Level : 100
Health : 5500 / 5500
Stamina : 1500 / 1500
Mana : 44500 / 44500(-10000)
Active Skills (6 / 6)
- [Holy Skeleton] - Level 93 (Lv. 99)
- [Heal Undead] - Level 56
- [Summon Blood] - Level 17
- [Angel’s bolt] -...
2023-01-13 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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'[Advanced Chapters] reached level 22'
350 patrons (°ロ°)
You... like... This is going to stop at some point, right?
For context, this is now (way) more money than I would have made if I had managed to find a job with my master's degree. I guess I need to thank cold-19 for fucking me up badly enough that I couldn't get a job. (⊙_☉)
Fate is weird sometimes. Besides that, the only reason I started writing was because of a family member faili...
2023-01-13 16:58:00 +0000 UTC
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“First the new skills keywords, then the other bonuses. Let's have a look. I’ll take anything useful at this point, I’ve already gained much from this. I won’t even be mad if it’s all bad keywords.”
Not too much at least. Well. Maybe a little. I can’t wait to see what I got! I’ve been waiting for this far too long!
She sat at the table. Trying to calm herself, she was wary of losing herself in her excitement. Her nails tapped in rhythm on the wooden table....
2023-01-12 17:03:34 +0000 UTC
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I could certainly use new clothes right now, but it better be magic items or I swear I’m never doing a damned bonus task again. Well. It wasn’t the hard part of the trial but still.
Sofia closed the blinds and locked the door. The night was cold in the cabin, she fed two more logs to the fireplace, it was the only source of heat and light.
“Should I get naked?” she wondered out loud, reminiscing over what Drakron’s guildmaster had taught them. The process of lev...
2023-01-11 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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‘Welcome to the emergency safe-house n°18.
You have been displaced due to an unforeseen event or safety breach.
We ask of you to kindly respect the secrecy of this place’s existence and location, and that you leave the premises within a year.
In the event of a successful trial, the rewards shall be autonomously awarded as intended by the operating manager, which might take up to a few hours.
We wish you a peaceful stay and o...
2023-01-10 20:56:07 +0000 UTC
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Sofia’s plan was very bare-bones, since she couldn’t completely copy the real spell; she would have to snatch it the good old fashioned way. And so, she climbed, up the [Alphageid]’s body, or the trunk as she decided to call it. Her sharp demon claws barely managed to lodge themselves in the crystal, she had to use her full force to get a decent grip and project herself up higher. The angel would certainly aim at the creature’s part that he had already been attacking ...
2023-01-10 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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'[Advanced Chapters] reached level 21'
300 patrons !?! (Дﾟ≡ﾟДﾟ) ?!!
*furiously writes faster*
Convenient timing for one more chapter, isn't it? You will get this next chapter a bit later today, as I struggle to edit it in time, as usual. I hope you all like them litrpg blue boxes, because there's a lot of them coming with the end of the trial (even if mine aren't really blue). I might have overdone it even. Oh well... ( ‾́ ◡ ‾́ )
...
2023-01-10 16:59:01 +0000 UTC
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The tremendous aftershock of the attack had knocked out most citizens. Even Sofia was shaken, it took her a good while to manage to stand up again amidst the debris and broken glass.
Whatever had just attacked the Phageid invader, it was in a realm of its own, far above even what a level 299 could do.
At least 500 I bet. Does it even go that high? How many towers is that…
The [Alphageid] was a similar anomaly, it had sustained serious damage, a charred gaping hole...
2023-01-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sofia was anxiously monitoring her system prompt.
The timer had hit zero a good minute ago, but she was still there, waiting on a cold roof. The trial hadn’t ended. Am I stuck here?
Hey Mr.Archangel, did you die while I was in there? Don't forget me...
Under her eyes, the letters of the system message morphed, forming new words.
[Trial completion : Commit to your thievery before the true solstice’s end]
“What! Hey what is ...
2023-01-08 18:30:07 +0000 UTC
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The female paladin was armed to the teeth, and presumably high level. A second passed, the monster and the paladin staring at each other. After which the paladin surprised Sofia by dropping her sword and raising her hand.
“You’re… surrendering?” Sofia asked with her grating voice, she had been ready to fight.
The old paladin nodded once in response.
“Why?”
“I would rather live to see another day,” she answered.
“Will you lead me to Ellen then?...
2023-01-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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'[Advanced Chapters] reached level 20'
Now listen, my backlog is really starting to sweat (・∀・)
But still, since there's 250 people here... I guess it's one more chapter coming out later today!
By the way, if you could kindly go take a look at some reviews on the story's page, maybe even leave one yourself...
It's not like having a hate review with thirty upvotes on the first page and threatening to take over the ones from my gigachad readers is ...
2023-01-08 16:59:01 +0000 UTC
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