After we finished cleaning out all of the information we could find in the admissions office, we moved deeper into the castle. There wasn’t
After we finished cleaning out all of the information we could find in the admissions office, we mo...
2025-07-30 06:51:57 +0000 UTC View Post“It just… opened?” asked Ethan, as he blinked in surprise. Alice was also stunned.
This wasn’t how she had imagined this process going at all.
The System doors were clearly meant to keep people and monsters out of the System. A...
2025-07-25 22:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostAt first glance, the room we had secured entry into seemed disappointing. I had been hoping for a room filled with power-ups. If it had cont
At first glance, the room we had secured entry into seemed disappointing. I had been hoping for a ro...
2025-07-25 05:40:20 +0000 UTC View PostOur first steps into the castle were blessedly silent. No monsters leapt out at us as we strode into the castle. That being said, while we w
Our first steps into the castle were blessedly silent. No monsters leapt out at us as we strode into...
2025-07-24 04:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostWith our purchases in the mall made, it was clear that we had mostly cleaned out the outer districts of the Market. There might still be a f
With our purchases in the mall made, it was clear that we had mostly cleaned out the outer districts...
2025-07-23 05:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs the group drew closer to the great wall of System mana, the boat started to slow down. As the boat continued to slow, Alice started to frown. She rushed to the deck of the ship and looked for one of the Immortals. It didn’t take her long to f...
2025-07-18 23:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the other things we had found while searching through the stores for supplies, I had high expectations for the final section of shops
After the other things we had found while searching through the stores for supplies, I had high expec...
2025-07-18 05:38:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe item shops in the mall were numerous. Unlike many of the other shops we had encountered in the Market, these ones were clearly built to
The item shops in the mall were numerous. Unlike many of the other shops we had encountered in the Ma...
2025-07-17 05:17:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two hours for the strange gas to dissipate from within the mall. During that time, I spent a few hours dedicated to improving my att
It took two hours for the strange gas to dissipate from within the mall. During that time, I spent a...
2025-07-16 06:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the group finally managed to wriggle free of the Sigmusi navy, Alice spent a few hours and some mana helping everyone on the ship deal with their level up notifications. There were still nearly one hundred and fifty surviving [Sailo...
2025-07-11 22:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostI felt a wave of frustration as monsters poured out of the building. I hadn’t managed to gather any intelligence at all with my clone. With
I felt a wave of frustration as monsters poured out of the building. I hadn’t managed to gather a...
2025-07-11 05:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe continued to travel through the Market, searching for shops that could give us fourth-tier soul fragments. Unlike the previous times we e
We continued to travel through the Market, searching for shops that could give us fourth-tier soul f...
2025-07-10 05:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe process of buying Stats was the same as usual. After Anise repaid Felix’s Achievement loan, everyone ramped up our Stats to sixty. Our stats were now completely identical to each other, at least before including things like runes or items th...
2025-07-09 05:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you do that?” asked Ethan, as he glanced at the screaming Immortal in the distance.
Alice nodded. “I gave him a mana baptism. It was a bit clunky and hard to pull off, and I’m almost out of mana in my compound seed, but it worke...
2025-07-04 22:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike me, my friends had a much easier time purchasing their new abilities. Anise had started our last world with only 16 of her 53 glut occupied, and her new Ability evolution had pushed her up 20 glut and 0 keywords. Anise was now at 36 out of ...
2025-07-04 04:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant worm-like horror continued to stare at the Nursery for several more seconds. The four of us froze, staring at the abomination and wondering what we could possibly do to fight back if it came after us. Its speed was on a completely differ...
2025-07-02 22:20:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual, the first thing I saw after I died was the boundless darkness of the ocean of souls. The four of us had debated trying to stick around a while longer in the world, to see if we got any final trickles of Influence Achievement from our inf...
2025-07-02 04:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostAlice observed the three enemy Immortals, and tried to swallow the anxiety building up in her stomach. Technically, the Illvarians had four Immortals on their side - but Doll wasn’t really a combatant, and any advantage her equipment granted the...
2025-06-27 23:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the death of Miria, the other three heroes died of old age shortly afterward. The deaths of the four heroes sent the great sanctuary into grief. Since they died of old age, their deaths had been expected for years - but many people mourned t...
2025-06-27 05:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostAs my father, Anise and I sat at the edge of my mother’s bed, she gently stroked my head.
“Miria… I think this is it for your old mom,” she said. Her eyes were murky, and her fox ears and tail drooped at the side. Her skeleton was wi...
2025-06-26 05:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs my death from old age grew closer, the four of us started to spend time touring the cities of the sanctuary in between research sessions and planning for the future. It was relaxing to tour the world we had put so much effort into saving - and ...
2025-06-25 05:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Illvarian ship finished laying out Doll’s trap, the two Sigmusi fleets drew closer. Alice started to sweat as Ethan, Allira, and Myra checked their equipment, eyed their surroundings, and prepared for combat. Alice glanced at the open sea...
2025-06-20 23:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe following decades were spent focusing on research, preparation, and Achievement farming. I spent a big part of each day sparring with Sallia. Now that my rune toolkit was going to follow me from life to life, I wanted to be as familiar with it...
2025-06-20 05:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the next few decades working on fleshing out my rune magic system. After Felix had made me such an incredible gift, I naturally had to take full advantage of it. The first thing I did was try to assess my ‘maximum number of runes’ that...
2025-06-19 08:17:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe years marched ever onward. Before I knew it, we turned 150.
Most of the smaller rewards from assisting the Sanctuary in repelling the hive had dried up, as had most of our other Achievement rewards. Part of this was because our proportio...
2025-06-18 07:47:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe group continued sailing in anxious silence for another three hours. During that time, they occasionally caught a glimpse of the Sigmusi trailing after them. At first, Alice thought that the Sigmusi would outright attack them again. That would ...
2025-06-14 02:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostTime continued to pass.
By the time the four of us were a century old, the city had finally reached a proper level of self sufficiency. According to most scholars, the city now had four hundred times more essence than before. This was a trul...
2025-06-13 06:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs I saw the Leviathan’s corpse sag into the ground, I felt a surge of relief. I saw other Mages of the Sanctuary start to relax, especially near the back, where they didn’t even have to fight the weaker monsters on the ground anymore. 2025-06-12 05:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The Leviathan seemed surprised by the intrusion of a new wave of enemies. As the walls of the temporal prison collapsed, dozens of new eyeballs flickered into existence and scanned all of the reinforcements that had entered the area. Then, dozens ...
2025-06-11 07:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe creature roared in disgust as my clone landed on its back, and eyeballs grew along its flesh like plants sprouting after a rainstorm. A dozen pulses of green light tore at my clone, but I used a portal to drag it out of danger. My clone reappe...
2025-06-07 06:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post