Author note:
Hi! I will likely make a general announcement post for it, but also saying it here, here are the first (and hopefully only) days I'm taking off from writing to edit book 4:
Thursday 29th (You get one more chapter after this one tomorrow then 686 on Friday)
Tuesday June 3rd
Thursday June 5th
I'm hoping that spacing them out a bit like this will help not create too big gaps/ cliffs.
Happy reading :D
2025-05-27 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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“Hey, Lepo, can I ask you something?” Sofia asked the shopkeeper.
“Yes?”
“Have any of the master items already been bought? Is that something you can share?”
“Hmm… It’s probably fine to tell yes. To this day, three of them have been sold. The respective shops have been closed so you will never get to see them,” he said.
“Three people have managed to get nine gold star pins yet nobody got the perfect run pin?!”
“That’s right. Can’t te...
2025-05-26 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note:
Hi! Unfortunate news, I'll have to take a few days off soon. I don't know when and how many exactly, but I need the extra time to finish book 4's edition for amazon (It was slated to release in January...), so yeah...
Other than that, things are going great though, five more events incoming for this arc, hope you'll enjoy them all, and have a nice weekend ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧
2025-05-23 16:00:22 +0000 UTC
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“After I myself disappeared, Anna trapped herself in a toybox before dispersing her essence… Not enough to kill her, but not far from it… I am working on a way to get her out right this moment, which is mostly what has kept me busy after my return, that and the horrendous state of the system currently… I hope you understand that me not coming to thank you was not out of ungratefulness, I am simply a bit overwhelmed.”
“I don’t mind,” Sofia told him, “Who is Anna to you?...
2025-05-22 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostA box wrapped in pink paper and a white ribbon appeared in front of Sofia.
“Is leg?!” Pestle asked, surprised at the appearance of the box.
“Maybe, actually, let me open that,” Sofia answered her, as Pareth and Bookie also walked up to the box. She pulled on the ribbon and the sides of the box fell out, revealing the contents. As the messages had announced, the largest part was a white cake topped with red fruits on a golden platter, looking a lot like the one from zangdar...
2025-05-21 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostSofia turned the page, and to say the least, what she read there was not what she had expected.
‘According to all known laws of magic, there is no way that time magic should be able to fail.
What I mean is, the god-damned spells are correct!
The patterns are good, the flow is good, the activation is good, triggers, morphing and cohesion– ALL GOOD!
And yet!
IT.
DOESNT.
FUCKING.
Why this place so big… Where leg?
Silently flying in between the legs of a skeleton guard who couldn’t see her, Pestle was surprised by a sudden communication from Sofia.
‘Pestle. Big news! The lich is distracted. You no longer have to be as sneaky. I’ll try to make this last as long as possible, you have maybe a minute where you can go wild. Rob him blind!’
Not sneaky?
Pestle stopped in her tracks.
If Sofia with lich and ...
2025-05-19 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostSurprisingly enough, it seemed that despite the casino’s games all being heavily stacked against the players, the owner’s promises were not empty words. Though still pretending to be only a manager, he personally took Sofia to the private VIP exchange desk, while sending other skeletons to fetch Kuli and Mornn.
Sofia followed Pestle’s movements from a distance while she idly chatted with the ghost behind the desk.
“Is the casino even going to survive such a big payou...
2025-05-16 14:59:25 +0000 UTC View Post“What happens if we draw,” Sofia asked, playing with the dice in her hand.
“We go until one side wins,” the dealer answered without hesitation.
“Sure thing,” Sofia accepted, popping a mana pearl into her mouth like a piece of candy, “Pareth you can go first.”
“One second,” the dealer stopped him, “let me get you both a fresh set of dice.”
“Alright.”
The lich controlling the dealer deftly exchanged all of Sofia and Pareth’s dice to an...
2025-05-15 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe dealer was flabbergasted as he rolled three sixes in a row, taking him way over the line.
“Looks like it’s our win again,” Sofia innocently said, “Ten times in a row. We should be at around sixty million points, right? Does the casino even have the funds to pay this out?”
“Of course we do! We have a lot more tha–” the dealer started before cuttin himself short, “nevermind… Are you going to keep playing?”
“Do you want us to?” Sofia asked.
...
2025-05-14 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Wahahah! I can’t believe this, they actually wiped the floor with you, this is the best!” a certain foxy saintess mocked Tartaros, laughing her lungs out as she rolled on the floor.
The recipient of said mockery paid it no mind, watching the screens with a faint smile on his face. “Good,” is all he had to say.
“Are you happy that someone finally beat your imprint?” another saintess asked from the side, her long crimson hair cascading like a fountain of blood behind ...
2025-05-13 16:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe golden statue of Tartaros was already showing cracks, he would be out shortly.
Sofia’s first reflex seeing this was to summon one of her mana pearls from [Crystallized] and quickly gulp it down along with her own heart, the faster the could think the better against such a fast opponent. While she did this, she also unloaded large bone slates all around her.
As Sofia transformed, Pareth appeared a bit further away, fully healed, he grew in size as much as he ...
2025-05-12 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly, the casino had a dedicated place to fight, and it was more like an entire coliseum than a simple arena. Sofia made it just in time to witness Mornn separate a chimera’s body from its last head, while an announcer skeleton gave announcements for the crowd of spectators.
“And for the fifth time in a row, the saintess takes the win! Congratulations to all who bet on her, you have ten minutes to collect your winnings until the next match.”
Kuli and someone else f...
2025-05-09 16:50:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe enchantment controlling the wheel was extremely simple; it had two mana signals it could send, ‘Speed up’ and ’Slow down’, and the skeleton used them to make sure very few people ever won, much fewer than what one would expect just looking at the wheel.
“I’ll wager one token,” Sofia told the skeleton when it was her turn, handing him a small gold ingot.
“Just one?” The skeleton asked, “come on lady, you look a bit whealthier than that. Won’t you feel stup...
2025-05-08 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Th- This can’t be right! The crystal…” the skeleton attendant finally stammered as he sared at the debris littering the ground.
“Neeeh, not my fault if your crystal is so brittle I can break it in one punch,” Kuli snarked, “Time to pay up, mister skeleton. That’ll be a million tokens,” she said holding out her hand.
“N- no! You must have cheated somehow! This shouldn’t be possible, not for someone like you!”
“Nah? What’s that supposed to mean, hu...
2025-05-07 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post“I didn’t know your bone skill could do that,” Mornn commented, prodding the boneless corpse of a zombie with her wooden sandal.
“Because I couldn’t,” Sofia answered, “I might have just unlocked my third specialization. The abyss god event was a big point-earner.”
“You just went and spent a hundred million already? Are you not scared you might not be able to afford the pill?” Kuli asked.
“Oh, no,” Sofia said with a chuckle, “I bought that too....
2025-05-06 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note: Hi! If you've seen the poll yesterday, (if not go check for detailed explanations) you know we have a slight retcon coming, essentially [Dodge - me]'s aura bonus has been changed from '+100% Aura' to 'Aura gains Lingering'.
I will be updating the previous chapter shortly to reflect that, but here's the main part of how it affects the specialization:
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“The lingering effect is from [Dodge - Me], can I finally get to know what it does?”
<... 2025-05-05 16:07:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi, so, I made a small mistake with the last chapter.
I forgot that [Dodge - Me] give a 100% Aura bonus when going slow.
So either way I need to edit stuff. But this gives us an option to do a larger change, as the chapter where Sofia got the skill still isn't published on amazon, and that bonus has been largely irrelevant until now.
Not going to lie, her aura doubling like that irks me a bit because she should have long noticed that it doubles the range of her mana...
2025-05-04 09:38:16 +0000 UTC View Post[Sovereign of Unshackled frames]:
The influence of the Sovereign of unshackled frames is dependant on the target’s location within the aura.
Effects from the Far Aura are also applied to the Field Aura and Close Aura.
Effects from the Field Aura are also applied to the Close Aura.
Far Aura Effects:
Bones are 10% sturdier.
The Sovereign has weak control over all inert bones.
Skeletons regenerate 0.5% m...
2025-05-02 14:25:16 +0000 UTC View PostThankfully, picking an ancestry for the specialization could be done later, so Sofia cancelled everything to go prepare the skill she would put up for specialization. With all of her abilities, it only took her a few minutes to locate another hidden shop. This one was hidden in an very wide empty space between the first and second floor, it was a shooting range game, with teleporting targets appearing on the other side of the room, and many rules stacking up in each level. Quick fire Angel bo...
2025-05-01 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostIn one of the cheaper spectator rooms with hundreds of seats, the crowd was in a serious uproar as the main screen turned white.
Calmer than the others were two avians sitting in a corner.
“Quite the sight to behold…” Eternam commented, “To think I would forget about such a proficient necromancer, and colleague. Truly shameful, yes.”
Zerei cackled from the seat next to him, “And she forgot to fix your memory, she should be the one who’s ashamed, yes? But she ha...
2025-04-30 16:01:20 +0000 UTC View Post[Heat death] allowed Sofia to absorb a good chunk of mana from the dead crab, and she put it to good use. Since the cooldown for each consecutive cast of [Saintomancer’s Star] was reduced by half, the second cast came to fruition right then, and it would only be a second and then some before the next.
Sofia dumped all of her mana in minimum cost stars, spawning five more of them in an arc over her head while Pareth handled the worm. As for the spells ...
2025-04-29 16:01:18 +0000 UTC View PostZephir looked at the screen then at his notepad, taking notes on everything Sofia was doing.
“What do you think?” Saria probed, “She has a chance, right?”
“She’s already survived almost as long as you did,” Zephir answered, “But still, first place is a real stretch, especially knowing what’s to come…”
“I’m just glad I chose the other event…” Cinthia commented from behind, “The chat seems pretty split on whether she can get first place or not. ...
2025-04-28 16:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostSofia threw the low-charge piercing bolt in her left hand at the emerging deity; it missed, the bolt disappearing into the storm.
Too far. I’ve never trained for that kind of aiming… Is the trajectory also getting changed by gravity? Hard to tell… But the avatar form is almost there, I just need to hit one big time and I’m good.
Doubt it will harm this thing much, though, Sofia thought as she looked down at the planet she was still flying farther and fart...
2025-04-25 16:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a minute of evading the god’s tentacles the effect of the storm pendant started to falter, allowing the storm clouds to close in a bit before Sofia summoned another flask of blood to reactivate it.
The tentacle attacks kept coming. Now confident she could evade them with relative ease, Sofia started charging a piercing angel bolt, and whacked the tentacles with it whenever she found an opportunity. The lance of hot plasma only ever grazed the tentacles, carving shallow burned ga...
2025-04-24 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostSofia flew over the island’s volcano to reach the village on the other side. It was built on another sandy beach, huts made of tropical wood logs and palm leaves on elevated stilts.
As for why Sofia could not feel anyone’s presence there, It was not that the village was uninhabited.
Huh, they look a bit like goblins. All dead… Too bad Bookie can’t feed on trial skeletons. It’ll be hard to understand what happened here.
Sofia crouched to check on one ...
2025-04-23 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe end of the demonic invasion was as abrupt as it was uneventful. While Sofia let her birds commit war crimes out of her sight, sipping on some hot tea, the event just ended.
[All demon lords have been slain, the demonic invasion was repelled!]
It had been less than half an hour since the death of the second demon lord, and it seemed another group had managed to get the third one down.
Did Happy Cloud do it? Or maybe Saria?
[EVENT: L...
2025-04-22 15:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostA singular demon flew out of the western fault. He had expected many possibilities as to what would greet him on the other side, but despite his best effort, none of his previous guesses were even close to the truth.
The vanguard laid eyes on the mangled corpses of thousands of human soldiers near the fault. He wondered for a second if the demons from the other faults had started the invasion early, before he noticed how utterly mutilated the bodies were. Demons were a violent group, ce...
2025-04-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBookie, when I catch the guy, summon the pearled snake.
The demon’s crystal of frost pulsed with cold magic, washing over Sofia harmlessly as VPPV gave her immunity to the cold. As she was not hampered by the magic, the demon cancelled his chanelling, shattering the crystal, sending hundreds of ice fragments flying in Sofia’s direction.
One of the fragments pierced Sofia’s shoulder, the freezing power it emanated completely useless, and all the other ice shard bounc...
2025-04-18 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostSofia was not the kind of person who would fall to the same trick twice in a row, the asterite chest she had gotten from the coin-thrower dwarf appeared between her back and the demon’s four blades. The demon’s weapons shattered and that extra time was all it took for Pareth to teleport to Sofia again and catch the demon like a grappler.
Give me five seconds! She ordered Pareth as two glowing human skulls dripping with blood appeared around her..
Meanwhile Kuli surviv...
2025-04-17 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post