Text flashed rapidly before Gauss’s eyes.
A single Light spell—
—and the nearby wraiths took staggering damage.
“Total Monsters Kill: 1526.”
In an instant, twenty-five wraiths were reduced to dust.
If t...
After a short rest, Gauss and Alia rose and, treading carefully over the slick moss, made their way toward the deep-green “birdcage” pavilion.
Though this space was wrapped in verdant growth, the neat flagstones underfoot and the relat...
But when he checked his personal panel in the Adventurer’s Manual, there was no visible change in his attribute values.
Forget it.
Even if it was a hallucination, at least as pure food he’d thoroughly enjoyed it.
“How do...
“Is that the mimic from before?”
Alia had finished her fight early and had actually watched Gauss skewer that lump of meat out of the “chest,” but she asked again to be sure.
The “food” lying in the cast-iron pan—brais...
Its shell was hard, and the moment it was attacked it turtled up—so did it have any exposed weak spots?
Staring at the mimic ten-plus meters away and the ground beneath it, Gauss had an idea.
He used Message to tell Alia to back of...
“Be careful.”
Upon reaching the platform, Gauss actually calmed down fast.
He shot a wary glance at the green acid pools beside his boots, bubbling and steaming white. The stinging reek and the sight alone made one queasy.
He hadn’t expected their attacker to be a plant.
It was his first time seeing a creature like this, and curiosity flickered in him.
Still, he didn’t feel much threat from it; it probably wasn’t at the level of an elite monster....
Following the clues from the adventurers they’d rescued, Gauss and Alia headed out.
“No telling if the entrance has moved…” Alia fretted.
Gauss’s gaze locked onto an unusual cave mouth in a distant rock face that slanted do...
Faced with these nasty setups, the two of them wasted nothing—like locusts sweeping through, they salvaged it all.
With Mage Hand they tripped mechanisms at range; with Entangle they had vines trigger the traps; then they collected the me...
The Serpentfolk didn’t wait for Gauss to reply; his figure slipped away and vanished from sight.
Alia walked over, her gaze landing on the metal bracelet on the ground.
Its design was extremely simple—no ornate decorations or car...
He glanced down; the crushed leaves on the ground and the footprints were quite fresh.
Alia nodded in understanding.
They’d run into other adventurers a few times yesterday and everyone had minded their own business, but when you b...
“Why aren’t you moving?”
Gauss looked back, noticing Alia had halted, her face cycling between pale and green, and asked in puzzlement.
“For the record, I am absolutely not going to eat dirt.”
“I’m not either,”...
“Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!”
Three blasts erupted almost at once.
When the Magic Missiles struck the mud golem’s body, they released a force of energy.
Its mass was blown open in three pits almost immediately.
...
BOOM!!
Dust billowed.
Gauss and Alia dodged fast.
The attack didn’t hit them.
In that split second, Gauss had already seen their attacker’s true form.
A mud golem—an elite monster.
A distant cousin t...
The next day.
They bought tickets for the coaches to the labyrinth.
The convoy rolled along the South District’s avenue toward the western gate barbican. Passing beneath the bastion-like arch, the view opened into endless scrub and...
Barry, the mountain city built around a giant tree, was astonishingly vast.
Once Gauss and Alia left the barbican and stepped into the outer city, dense blocks of buildings swallowed the view. From within, aside from a faint glimpse of the ...
The year’s festival passed, and New Calendar 1015 arrived.
Within a couple of days of the new year, the ice and snow began to melt. Yet the thaw often feels colder than snowfall; even Gauss, tough against the cold, added a few layers for ...
When Gauss went out, he overheard townsfolk chatting about several knights on griffins having landed in Grayrock. At first he took it for rustic rumor and didn’t believe it—street gossip shouldn’t be swallowed whole; he often heard people bo...
2025-08-14 19:52:44 +0000 UTC View PostAlia had already picked out the cantrip she wanted.
Druids don’t have that many common cantrips to choose from.
Mending was something Gauss already knew. Produce Flame—same idea; Gauss had cantrips and spells that could cover tha...
Before the Adventurers’ Guild closed for the day, Gauss headed to the branch to ask about rank promotions.
To go from Bronze 1-star to 2-star, you not only have to reach Class Level 2 but also accumulate enough completed quests.
Af...
A torrent of mana—stronger, purer, deeper than before—surged from the chalice like a burst dam and merged at once into the current coursing through his whole body.
Boom.
Gauss felt his very cortex tremble. Streams of information ...
Although Burning Hands, like Magic Missile, is a Level 1 spell, it consumes far more mana.
It’s easily the most energy-hungry spell he knows so far.
That also made practicing it much harder.
Fortunately, he had a Secondary C...
He slept straight from the afternoon into the next morning.
Gauss woke to a sharp, gnawing hunger.
He hurried to his stash and chewed some dried frog meat to take the edge off; once the pangs subsided, he left his room.
After ...
As the tiny black speck in the distant sky grew larger, everyone finally saw Eberhard descending from above on a griffon.
Only then did their taut nerves ease, as if their backbone had returned.
The camp couldn’t withstand a second...
They lit a campfire.
Gauss handled the ingredients while Alia set water to boil.
Lunch today would be a stew.
In this bitter cold, nothing soothes the spirit like a pot of steaming soup.
Gauss had wanted to add some fro...
“So hot…”
When he first gained the talent [Quick Digestion], it hadn’t felt anything like this.
This time, as the talent loaded, Gauss stood in the knife-edged winter wind yet felt as if he were shut inside a furnace, heat bl...
Seeing this, Alia and Gauss both nodded.
Gauss waited a moment.
Casting Entangle at range takes Alia a bit of prep time.
Fortunately, the seeds Echo had dropped were already infused with her druidic power.
Even at a dis...
A few days later.
The world was a blank sheet of white.
Heavy snow blanketed the forests and the plains.
Two figures and a large gray wolf trudged through the lonely, snowy woods.
Behind them, a long line of footprints ...
When the battle ended, a plume of green signal smoke rose—the mark that the sweep was complete.
Only then were the two captured adventurers helped out from their makeshift shelter.
They were both injured to varying degrees: fresh w...
“Total Monster Kills: 1022.”
After clearing the last few stragglers nearby, the tally froze on that number.
Seeing the two Level 1 adventurers on the other side dealing with the dozen-odd monsters left to them, Gauss didn’t cut...