Elizabeth Smith
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“So we’re leaving Cyra soon?” asked Alice. Ethan nodded. “With the supply lines for enchanting materials established, everything in Cyra seems to be moving in the right direction. I think it’s time to go.” Alice nodded. To be honest, she felt a bit of relief at the idea of leaving Cyra and returning to Metsel soon. The idea that large numbers of monsters were now active in the world and were moving around in large, organized hordes set her nerves on edge. Alice was pretty sure she would be…-
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As Alice walked out of the experiment room, she took a moment to purify her mana, and then scanned over her System notifications. She nodded to herself. With the levels she had gained from the experiments, Alice was only one level away from her next Perk in . There were no other interesting notifications, so Alice tossed her System notifications to the back of her mind, and a moment later, found Cecilia and asked her to bring the who had successfully formed a seed over. About ten minutes later, the…
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While Alice was asleep, she found herself within her dream library, as usual. Originally, this made Alice grin – she had just been thinking about how she wanted to test out the spidercrab shells she had spotted, and now, a golden opportunity had appeared. Then, she realized that she had actually forgotten to grab the spidercrab corpses and stuff them into her storage Perk. Her dream library had a lot of functions, now that multiple Perks were feeding into it. However, it still needed a physical testing…
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Alice had someone get her a few old iron rings to start her first experiment with System enchanting. Most System enchantments were on rings or articles of clothing, and while Alice wasn’t entirely sure why that was the case, it didn’t hurt to follow suit until she knew more. It only took a twenty minutes to get her a small crate of cheap, worn-out iron rings. Alice pulled out her first iron ring, and started thinking about what she wanted to do. She had never created a System enchantment before, and…
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Now that Alice had tested out magic seed combination, and made a few theories about the origin of the recent monster mutations, she had two Perks left to pick. First, Alice looked at her new Perk choices. was the closest Class she had to a combat class, and Alice needed to find a way to defend herself against Society attacks and monster attacks. Especially with the recent increase in the strength and intelligence of monsters, Alice wanted to boost her combat abilities a little bit. She checked the newly…
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After Alice’s experiment was over, she left the room in order to handle her System notifications. Alice hadn’t discovered anything revolutionary, beyond the fact that monsters reacted to some kinds of System mana and totally ignored others, but she hoped Ethan could still get something useful out of her test results. At the very least, the fact that monsters seemed to ‘copy’ Perks that they consumed was useful information, although Alice wasn’t entirely sure how and when monsters could find and…
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After spending the rest of the day with Milo and father, Alice felt refreshed. After a good night’s sleep, she felt ready to think again. Her thoughts, which had started to feel muddled and choked, felt clear again. Ethan had one of the servants give her an update on the letters and information he had received from nearby towns. Through letters and reports gathered using his faster , he had confirmed that the monsters near other towns also showed signs of becoming much stronger and more intelligent than…
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With that unnerving realization, the incident with the monster swarm at the walls came to an end. However, even though the two monster swarms had withdrawn, they didn’t leave Alice’s mind. Monsters had worked Alice wasn’t sure which of those pieces of information was more terrifying, but combined, they spoke of an entirely new threat to humanity. This was on top of everything else that had recently gone wrong. Alice was starting to feel more than a little exhausted and frustrated. After the…
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Aight, so update on the thumb situation. Doctor says that what most likely happened is that I strained the tendons in my hands by a lot, essentially bending both of my thumbs back way more than my tendons are meant to handle. And that overusing my tendons has likely kept my hand from healing up quite as well as it normally would have over the month and a half or so that my thumbs have hurt.. That being said, the probability of permanent damage is very close to zero, and unless something very weird has…
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Quick update So, updating ya’ll about the thumb/doctor situation. Doctor appointment is scheduled for Thursday (Thursday in my time zone, anyway). I won’t be doing any writing on that day. Markets and Multiverses readers, expect a chapter on Wednesday (or whatever day of the week I usually upload the first MaM chapter for your timezone). Then no chapter on Thursday, and whether there will be a chapter on Friday is currently unknown. Budding Scientist readers, since I will probably miss Thursday’s…
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