Hmmhmm… Yes. Interesting.
That makes it four actives and one passive… Heart relocation, and an item that lets him quickly restart cancelled channelings. Considering its speed… S rank mana heart probably. Stats heavily skewed towards mana. Higher regen than he should for what he has.
Sofia was waiting for the next attack, but it took more time than usual.
Starting to get suspicious? Fine, let’s switch the roles, then. Let me have go at your defen...
2025-07-11 16:02:13 +0000 UTC
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Peace’s domain looks better with colors.
Sofia bent over, picking up a small rock, and lightly juggling with it. Seems perfectly normal… She threw the rock back to the ground and turned around, “I’ll just take care of the duels by myself until we get a real opponent now, alright?”
“Have fun!” Bookie approved with a thumbs up.
“We’ll see about that.”
“And to those who bet against Pareth in the previous one, we thank you fo...
2025-07-10 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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I need momentum. Brant thought, disengaging and jumping back.
Chains of light shot out from the ground, while the skeleton changed his posture.
Lunge?
He needed to make a choice, he could try to avoid the chains, but he would be unable to defend himself properly, or he could defend, and get chained. These both felt like losing tactics, so he opted to attack instead.
[Seismic strike]!
Magic gathered around his sword, and...
2025-07-09 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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“To the surprise of no one, this round was barely even worth watching! It’s a wonder you guys all paid this much for the seats! Will the next one be any better? Our matchmaking if fully random after all, what are the chances? Anyway, let’s keep going! Up next, a certain Andarian Hero who has been making some waves…”
Love’s voice died down as the group was teleported to another waiting room. It was a bit less shabby than the previous one, modeled after the in...
2025-07-08 16:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Discarding her thoughts about her newfound family member, Sofia finally took some time to observe the place she was in, it was a square room with yellowish walls and no windows. Some natural light filtered in from under the rusty iron door keeping the room sealed. Sofia’s mana senses stopped at the door, although she could still faintly hear Love’s voice outside.
“Well, ready?” she asked Pareth, who was currently at the minimal size he could be with his abomination skeleton.
...
2025-07-07 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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In a rather small private room, one of the few level 500 humans was watching Sofia happily destroy a swarm of comets after her short run-in with the Leviathan.
With a deep voice, he spoke to the woman sitting next to him, whose yellow sundress contrasted against her dark skin, “Those humans from the other side are really something else. A shame I was too busy to start watching earlier.”
“Maybe if you’d not forced Nolla to go check that glimmer in the sky she could have tak...
2025-07-04 16:15:33 +0000 UTC
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The two ships made their way down to the fourth checkpoint in a few minutes. They now had a significant lead on everyone else, so their alliance stopped there.
[You have reached the fourth checkpoint! Vote on a perk for your vessel!]
[Available perks (3) :
...
2025-07-03 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The leviathan was like an underwater mountain, a volcano of mismatched corpses and parts, fish and otherwise, human, dragon, kleptra, all stacked and fused together. Even in the stopped time of the toybox, they swayed and pulsated slowly, mana coursing through them like blood through capillaries before seeping into the water. On top of this uncanny mountain of corpse, held up by a neck of a thousand thick tentacles, was a giant, bloated ‘head’, looking very vaguely human. It was ha...
2025-07-02 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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“Should we turn back?” Kuli asked, a serious expression on her face.
“Wait for the ones without a map to jump into the maw of the beast for us?” Mornn asked, “Sofia did mention bait earlier…”
“We’d squander the little advance we currently have…” Sofia said, “I see two ways forward. Either we go as slow as possible, and pray that the ‘lulled’ in the checkpoint name means that we’re safe as long as don’t make too much ‘noise’. Or… We fly in circ...
2025-07-01 16:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Do I send a big bolt in the ocean? A large enough explosion should create more than enough steam to hide us for a bit… No that’s easily blown away with a bit of wind…
Wait… The smell of this fish must be frying my brain.
They’re still wearing the bone rings I gave them, right?
Yep, looks like it. Alright.
How much mana to invest, two million? Six minutes should be enough.
Sofia flew up as much as the ru...
2025-06-30 16:00:22 +0000 UTC
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“It’s been rapidly getting cloudy… Looks like it’s going to rain.”
Sofia stood straight on top of the ship’s highest mast. Two giant human skulls were slowly rotating around her as if surveying the horizon.
It’s been a while since I’ve used the choir like this.
Sofia cleared her throat, and started speaking, her voice amplified a thousand times by the giant skulls repeating everything she said.
“Hello everyone! Sofia speaking! I should ...
2025-06-27 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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The speed upgrade helped the ship turn around in time, Kuli stopped it when it perfectly faced the incoming wall of water.
Sofia used her aura to keep herself and Bookie secured to the deck and watched the wave come.
The sails flapped and furled in the wind, and the wave struck, lifting the ship skyward. The hull creaked under its layer of bone, but it held. Cold salty water cascaded over the deck, washing away anything that wasn’t properly secured. Finally the bow plunged...
2025-06-26 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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The group mowed through the invading groups of pirate goblins with relative ease, but there seemed to be no end to them. The more goblins they killed, the more steel eggs full of them rained from the sky, and to make things worse, the Ark started to list to the side.
Faster than killing them, Sofia started to transform the goblins in her range into bone urchins making it very hard for them to do anything.
“Halloooo! It’s your captain speaking to you!” ...
2025-06-25 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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“Do you think you can get it?” Sofia asked Ezerid after walking up to the necklace master.
“It’s hard. I’m confident I can get it, yes, if I spend another hour or two practicing. Not sure that I want to try that hard, though, since I won’t be able to buy the damn thing anyway.”
“Again, sorry about that…”
“I don’t mind,” Ezerid said with a shrug, “It was my fault for rushing to this trial so soon. I see the difference in our abilities now. I just h...
2025-06-24 16:04:01 +0000 UTC
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Love delicately pulled a thin bone out of a pile, and it all collapsed.
“NoOoo- So close!”
“Want to play something else?” Sofia asked, “That’s your third loss to Pareth in a row.”
Love sighed and let herself fall back. “No, I’m done. I’m too bad at this stuff, you win.”
“Yes!” Sofia rejoiced, pumping her fist, “you better keep your end of the deal.”
“It’s fine… The seraphs won’t be ha...
2025-06-23 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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It rained skeletons over the two fighters. The thralls landed everywhere around them their bones shifting with the [Bone Arsenal] to become something else. The arms of slashers became bone blades, the guardians became taller and larger, their arms like large shields, and the few archers started shooting bone arrows. A single knight thrall emerged from Tartaros’ skeleton, becoming bigger with its own bone armor, sword and shield, before the [Exalted exoskeleton]
2025-06-20 16:00:21 +0000 UTC
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Sofia’s pulverized a side wall of the keep with a kick and jumped outside. She wasted no time scouting and jumped up toward the top of the mountain.
Love’s voice came into existence out of nowhere as Sofia and Pareth took up some altitude.
“... that transformation skills have historically always been one of the strongest early unlock as they often bypass the physical stat limitations! Remains to see what she is planning to do in the five minutes she…”
2025-06-19 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Sofia decided to still go uphill, locating an unlocker fast was too important, more than conserving stamina. Even with the current inability to look up her stats, she knew how much she could push a regular human body. Pareth took the lead, holding her hand to pull her forward, helping alleviate the fatigue a little.
They ran like this for about two more minutes before they finally found an end to the forest. The terrain suddenly changing to the base of a mountain, a thin layer of ...
2025-06-18 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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When all participants were ready, the door opened, leading to a small round room with a circular platform in the center.
Sofia looked up. No ceiling, blue sky, looks like we’re some fifty meters underground?
Pareth stepped on the platform and Sofia followed. With the sound of spinning gears and grinding metal, the platform slowly started going up.
It feels so strange to have all of my magic shut off…
I feel heavy.
Even my mana s...
2025-06-17 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Left alone in the group’s room with Lepo again, Sofia went over the results a second time.
[Track record - Hot summer days : Event rankings]
[Rank 1 - Historic 1st - Eternal Lights; Times survived: 28]
[Rank 2 - Historic 5th - Holy Human Empire; Times survived: 24]
[Rank 3 - Historic 5th - Obsidian Mountain; Times survived: 24]
[Rank 4 - Historic 6th - Gods Calling; Times survived...
2025-06-16 16:00:21 +0000 UTC
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“Did she survive?” Saria asked, watching the two planets collide on the screen, “It’s not cutting off.”
Zephir scratched his stubble, “Hard to say,” he finally answered, “You checked the historic first, right?”
“Oh… Yeah… you think it’s possible he survived? He didn’t survive during our round, though. I kinda just assumed he got lucky in his real run and his entire team survived the whole way through.”
“Well, from what I understand, it is quit...
2025-06-13 16:00:53 +0000 UTC
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Sofia followed a trail of skeleton rats to the exit of the strange labyrinth of pool rooms, locating it required to go through a winding path up and down several levels multiple times, before swimming down a dark hole in the ground at the end, the bottom of which was obscured by some kind of darkness magic.
Well, that was easy. Didn’t even get to know what the curse in the water does. Sofia thought as she swam down the hole.
[Eternal Lights - Times survived: 27]...
2025-06-12 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Killing the walls did not work. Even Pestle’ sharp claws failed to leave a single scratch, and the Sofia couldn’t summon the graveyard nymphs to go through, leaving her with no choice other than going about this the regular way. She summoned the birds and the rats and sat down in the slowly flooding room while they searched the place faster than she ever could herself.
“Alright… We have some downtime here. Getting out of here can’t be too hard surely… Why not use the free ti...
2025-06-11 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Watch me kick the Kleptras’ nest, I wonder how they’ll react to this. Sofia thought as she fell.
That Er’Arch must be wondering if I’m living in their walls.
Sofia tried to access Pareth’s vision but that somehow failed, so she just grabbed Pestle from her head instead as she fell.
“Seriously, you could have gotten yourself killed, why would you insult him like that?” she asked the fairy.
“Kill? Not kill,” Pestle denied, “Sun! Pesl...
2025-06-10 14:44:49 +0000 UTC
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Er’Gakk teleported everyone back together, arranging them in a semicircle, like this he surveiled the remaining people.
“Now That Only Serious Contestants Remain, How About Some Fun Activities?”
Nobody spoke as they all stared at the Kleptra.
“Let Me See… There.”
Moon?!
In front of the group, Er’Gakk had summoned a stone statue of Moon’s humanoid form with her strange flat face, her eyes covered by a blin...
2025-06-09 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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“Everyone Is All Warmed Up Now? Form Groups Of Four Next, You Get Team Sports!”
The giant stairs disappeared, the ground level rising to where everyone currently was.
Sofia quickly joined the rest of her group, while the other participants either did the same, or for those who had already lost teammates, formed random groups on the spot. I took less than a minute for every group to be formed, except for three people who were left behind, as there was an uneven...
2025-06-06 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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“Now… I Know! Let’s Make A Circle!”
Without warning, everyone was teleported far away, into a wide circular formation around Er’Gakk, they were suddenly tens of kilometers away from the Kleptra, except for Pareth who was left behind alone.
“Ohoh. Rare Immunity. Fine, You Stay Out Of This One!” the Kleptra announced, an insect leg pointed at Pareth.
[Eternal Lights - Times survived: 5]
Nice, I gu...
2025-06-04 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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After the group voted on the event they wanted to participate in, Sofia was teleported to a tiny room with white-tiled walls and floors with an horizontal blue line as the only touch of color. The room also had an open locker, a coat hanger, a bench made of a strange smooth white material, and a large metal shelf with an outfit in many sizes.
There was a single way out of the room, a blue door with a sign on it: Please get dressed, leave your personal effect in the locker.
We ...
2025-06-02 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Someway or another, Sofia ended up grilling sausage over the fire with Ezerid’s group.
“... so, yeah, that is really oversimplifying things, but basically I am preparing to kill a God,” Sofia said, flipping the sausage over the fire.
“Well damn,” the man in full mithril armor said from under his helmet, “We should count ourselves lucky that our patron god has been nothing but good ot us. Our saintess is pretty happy with her position too…”
“Right, my turn t...
2025-05-30 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Before Sofia could even digest what had just happened to her, her eyes laid upon the same skill optimization prompt as before, but without the ‘enemy of all things’.
[Skill : Blessing of the Deep - Skill version index UNREGISTERED]
[The freedom to fight back]
[Available options (Mutually exclusive):
Regulator’s obstination - You cannot lose consciousnes.
Annihilator’s defiance - Y...
2025-05-28 16:00:21 +0000 UTC
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