Ike stared around at the meeting location that had been given by the Adventurer’s Guild attendant. This was the standard hang-out spot of his group. Boulders dotted a semicircle facing target dummies further down the free-sight range. There were two girls and one other boy along with him here. Ike smoothed his purple mage robes embossed with ink-black threads. A quick self-inspection showed all of his Amethyst Rings fully charged, and his Amethyst necklace passively providing mana regenerat...
2021-09-24 23:35:29 +0000 UTC
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Victor Franze made several fruitless attempts to enter combat which were all completely defeated by Eve’s own defenses. Eventually, the angry S-Ranker made a vertical chop slashed at Eve from almost ten meters away. Only her affinity with Space allowed her to understand the true lethality of a seemingly innocent flailing attack. Eve’s eyes narrowed in anger as the thin line of shattered space impacted upon her Witch’s Dust in a flash. Eve used Space Folding
2021-09-22 04:53:57 +0000 UTC
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Traveling through the desert was a lesson in boredom since Eve avoided the oasis in her path. A few creatures attempted to bar the Hut’s way, but Felix demonstrated a rather protective streak. Mashed monster corpses littered the sands behind her moving home. They attracted scavengers, but she didn’t mind. The scavengers provided interesting targets for testing her new Skills and Spells.
Runic Cryptography was chosen so that when Eve also gained the runes of Ink, Pap...
2021-09-18 05:26:11 +0000 UTC
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Eve looked at the note from Susan as she scrolled through her Class Skill and Spell List. She quickly copy and pasted everything available before sending a response back. According to her demonic advisor, she was top-tier based on Stats alone, before Balance added ten percent more to the equation. With her physical and mental numbers alone, Eve could contest heaven blessed geniuses like Legacy Royals. People who were gifted with a platinum spoon from birth, fed on the mild mi...
2021-09-16 05:17:42 +0000 UTC
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“Well that was exciting.” Eve said breathlessly looking at where the massive Tier Six sentient gem had once been. If she had perhaps slightly doubted Susan before, that had been put completely to rest. Rituals were immune to Mana Manipulation allowing Witch’s Dust to auto-attack when the gem attempted to use Dungeon Binding on her soul. The accumulated Perks ate the gem, literally, without effective resistance.
Ev...
2021-09-11 04:35:58 +0000 UTC
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Felix floated within the embrace of his beloved as his mind synchronized with the countless Rituals placed down by her companion. Unlike the organic members of his extended family, he believed in the cold hard logic of Numbers.
It was why he stayed with his primary beloved, the Hut.
It was why he assisted his beloved companion, Eve.
It was why a Dragon would die.
The math added up precisely as Felix shifted gears ...
2021-09-09 03:12:11 +0000 UTC
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Eve converted seventy-five prisoners into Levels with Witch’s Dust quickly writing the runes onto her Talisman of Dust. Health wasn’t really a concern for her, so she edited her Status to no longer display it. Without using moves that drained the Health or Stamina resources there was really no point in them being visible anymore. She also spread her remaining Free Stat Points out equally. When everything was complete, Eve took a look at her...
2021-09-08 03:15:20 +0000 UTC
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Eve had never really understood the thrill of gambling. Yet, as she was opening each new loot box, the appeal of such a destructive tendency made even less sense. The first box she opened was a lemon which made her eyes roll. A shimmering silver space ring engraved with runes and topped with a shimmering rectangular emerald laying on a velvet pillow cushion of rich green silk met her eyes. It was the vaunted space ring of myths, legends, and luxury!
Useless. Eve thought with de...
2021-09-06 23:02:02 +0000 UTC
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Eve was over the moon. Ritual Magic was even more powerful than she had first imagined. Instant Ritual made creating new ones a snap, while Boosted Ritual ensured the power was always topped off. Permanent Ritual both kept everything cemented in place, and prevented dispels without a counter Ritual. Multi-Layer Ritual allowed flexible use preventing them from being stale static things.
Ritual of Elements
2021-09-04 05:51:47 +0000 UTC
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Kudzu sighed as he continued expanding the borders of the territory while talking with the Dark Bird, Jeffery T. Wellington. It was excruciatingly boring, as the coin-hungry bird didn’t seem to have any applicable understanding of potions to be worth discussing. All the Dark Bird could chat about was drugs, distribution, pricing, and so forth. It was quite boring and the only saving grace he found was the potion samples. They were inferior products, but still useful for research.
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2021-09-01 21:54:23 +0000 UTC
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Eve closed the hibernation chamber door behind her and sat down at a table arranged so that she could see everyone before she said, “My mistake everyone. I have recently been informed that Perks are something to boost personal power only.”
“It appeared that way to everyone else too after looking through the options,” Felix said.
“Still, it is a lesson worth learning now, since it will soon apply to all of us once we take our own affinit...
2021-08-29 12:12:25 +0000 UTC
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“So, are you here to spy on me?” Eve asked, shifting the runes in the Ritual matrix with a finger flick. The final sixth piece of her cube matrix slowly unraveled into the green. It was only a matter of time now.
“Absolutely. I’ll learn everything I can and then sell it to the highest bidder as soon as the contract expires.” Susan said as she sprawled on the sofa Eve had custom crafted for her after discussions on Dragon body parts ended.
“You did read the contract, ri...
2021-08-28 04:57:20 +0000 UTC
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In style, Eve finished negotiations with the scrumptious-looking light elf, Francesco R. Nausseu. She delayed the contract until he ran out of peach wines and chocolate snacks before signing. Once everything was complete in writing, Eve crafted a few test models for him to take back from paper and runes.
The light elf even provided her with a new crystal card associated with the Coven Bank. It was service head and shoulders above Jeffery T. Wellington. Eve managed to include a clause in...
2021-08-26 00:57:47 +0000 UTC
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Francesco R. Nausseu, the Gold Prince, looked at the Tier One threatening him. His meticulous planning to arrive here was a work of art. First, he utilized the contract between Jeffery T. Wellington and himself to book passages on the airship. He knew traveling with the Dark Prince was safe because neither could harm the other directly or through controlled proxies. Second, he used his contacts in the drug markets to find that the newest fad, BH2, appeared on the market only recently. That me...
2021-08-22 04:49:48 +0000 UTC
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Team B is under attack. Nota sent to Eve, interrupting her current experiments on Ritual circle multi-level matrixes. Eve had caught her Tome of Dust up on everything using the same split-moment trick she applied in combat.
Are they winning, losing, or calling for help? Eve sent as she made a slight adjustment to the Ritual Matrix. She was on the verge of a breakthrough. It had taken almost two days for the hobgoblin crew of eight to make it within sho...
2021-08-21 05:52:06 +0000 UTC
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Sacrifice for Power was easy, effective, and effortless. Take one corpse, throw upon runic circle, and then collect thy Slots. Eve loved the ease of use. Green flames burned the bodies of her stolen scorpion-men corpses into nothing. Each corpse gave a System message that stacked until the final corpse was burned to nothingness. She had already chosen Slots, so the resulting messages reflected Eve’s choice.
Gained 5,713,204 Slots.
2021-08-20 03:14:33 +0000 UTC
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“This is bullshit.” Eve said vehemently, “Who sticks a massive desert in the direction of civilization.” She stared at her Map in annoyance before turning her attention to another partially built mechanical sparrow. Learning the airspeed velocity of a laden swallow had been the death of several earlier works. Somewhere in the surrounding Wilderness were the shattered remains of silver sparrows who hadn’t learned such knowledge. On the other hand, as each sparrow gen...
2021-08-15 21:47:22 +0000 UTC
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SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT
SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT
SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT
SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT
Eh, that should be enough.
Jeffery T. Wellington was ecstatic to return to the Golden City. There were countless other names, but that ...
2021-08-14 06:48:22 +0000 UTC
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Testing things using silverspore nanomachines was fun. Eve didn’t think she would be a pyromaniac explosive ordinance nut, but explosions were fun. Of course, before she started blowing things up, the first thing that was taken care of was shielding. Autonomous shielding that didn’t require Eve to pay attention was absolutely the best. It looked like a strange cloud of nearly invisible sparkling dust floating around her person. Each layer was only a micron thick, and the shielding worked ...
2021-08-13 04:01:14 +0000 UTC
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Eve was reading.
Frantically reading.
Nota’s pages flipped with wild abandon as Eve devoured her way through the romance story of the Emerald Princess and her dashing commoner savior.
She was reading to distract herself from feeling like a complete and utter idiot. Learning of an association known as the Color Coven Alliance had thoroughly floored Eve. The knowledge that the actions of the Arena in Sunspire were simply not done by any intelligent power was breatht...
2021-08-11 00:49:30 +0000 UTC
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The System confirms that the User, Eve Smith, desires to Enhance her Class.
“Absolutely,” Eve said before a new series of words appeared before her.
The Fourth and Sixth Class Evolution thresholds are a chance to enhance the Path that has been taken in a User’s life.
At these two Thresholds, the choices one has made before this moment turn into foci of the User.
2021-08-08 05:46:32 +0000 UTC
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Eve glanced languidly at the well-to-do merchant elf out of the corner of her half-closed eyes. His skin was darker than ebony, although the white hair, sparkling teeth, and excellent taste in clothing were marred slightly by a duster straight out of the Old West on Earth.
Merchant Drow Elf, well, that breaks the murder stereotype Matt always used to rant about pretty badly. Eve thought with amusement. Very high charm, not quite at my level but close. Probably several Skill...
2021-08-07 05:08:54 +0000 UTC
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So, I need some guidance on how to go forward.
2021-08-05 05:02:37 +0000 UTC
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Jeffery T. Wellington, Merchant Pauper Prince, looked at his Tier Four guards as the wagon meandered through the plains towards Bogscale swamp. His guards seemed on edge, although not a single Skill, Spell, or Trait was telling the merchant anything out of the ordinary. Danger Sense finally pinged when one of the scouts returned to have a rapid fire chat with the guard leader.
Thank you good old danger. Always informing me when I can already see a problem. If it was...
2021-08-05 05:01:15 +0000 UTC
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Runes wove onto Felix with consummate care as the silverspore gently etched Repair, Recovery, and Crystalline.Eve’s lack of sweat was on full display as she stared unceasingly at the crystal while feeding copious amounts of mana into the Dungeon Core. When the last erg of power left her Library, Eve gently disengaged. A flex of power from Felix removed the etched runes leaving unbroken crystal edges once more.
“Thank yo...
2021-08-04 02:45:56 +0000 UTC
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Warm water poured from the showerhead above Eve as the recent repair to her Hut showed full value. She was still quite far from the level of comfort reached on Tal Mor before arriving at the Prison Plane, but it was merely a question of bodies now. A question of mana from meat, quality gained by quantity. A question that could be easily answered.
Enough dead enemies would allow both the Hut and Felix ample mana to recover. Eve had learned from Felix that he might even be able to reach T...
2021-08-02 00:42:58 +0000 UTC
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Eve’s eyes snapped open and the world turned silver.
Consume was a command written in silver, and inked with black doom. Silver dust blasted out from Eve’s form in a choking cloud of metallic spores. The moment the dust made contact with the various monsters, humanoid or not, her Zone expanded as the nanomachines replicated endlessly with the command to Multiply. She used Manipulate to control the silver spores caus...
2021-07-31 17:37:04 +0000 UTC
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Eve Smith woke slowly from hibernation. A continuous burning pain along her nerves kept her from being able to fall back into slumber. With a grunt, she managed to slam the release inside the plant pod before it sank her back into dreamless nightmares.
Being ejected would have been much better if she had two arms and legs. Unfortunately, lacking those, Eve slammed her forehead into the rough tile of the single-room Hut. Groaning she managed to shift her body until she could view the flo...
2021-07-30 04:00:45 +0000 UTC
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The Ancient Void Terror moved rapidly through the Void heading for the Prison Plane. The sealed Prison Plane was the only location close enough to ensure its prize would survive. It was unwilling to risk losing the favor promised by the small one. Deep within the depths of the mind that thought in more than a few dimensions, it knew that if the small one died, the favor would become unmerciful oblivion.
It didn’t know how it knew that, but it did.
Traveling the ...
2021-07-29 04:26:33 +0000 UTC
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Sara sighed at the dimly lit cave. It had been a close thing escaping with A’nar. Only the fact that allof the Tier Four and Five were detailed to capture Lady Eve allowed them to slip the net. Being smuggled through the checkpoints until they reached the Skysword mountain range was unpleasant in the extreme.
If I ever have to smell pickles again within the next ten years…Sara thought shuddering. At least we made it to a fallback location.
Lady Eve...
2021-07-29 02:15:45 +0000 UTC
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