Elizabeth Smith
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Alice stood on the wooden walls of Cyra, looking at the giant pack of wolves that sat at the edge of the forest while throwing giant fireballs at the wall. Their bodies were half-hidden by the trees, making it easy for them to dodge the stray arrows and missiles that the other Mages on the walls were throwing at them, and while some wolves occasionally fell, the number of wolves that died each second was alarmingly low. The distance between Cyra’s walls and the wolves was simply too great for many of the…-
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The group docked in Cyra less than a day later. Alice was actually looking forward to seeing what had become of her first stopping point in this world, an emotion that surprised her. She had grown so much since her days in Cyra, and Alice wondered if Cyra was the same as it had been since she had left it. Had Cyra also undergone shocking changes? Had it grown steadily? Had it shrunk during the aftermath of the System’s collapse? She also felt a bit nostalgic for her time in Cyra. Even though not all of…
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One day later, Alice, Cecilia, Illa, Ethan, and the five Mages that Cecilia was training set off towards Cyra. The last day was mostly filled with packing bags, stuffing bags into storage Perks, and arranging last-minute guard details. Even though Ethan and Illa were both competent combat Mages, it was never a bad idea to have more eyes to watch out for potential threats, especially since it was unknown when the Society of Starry Eyes would strike again. The Society of Starry Eyes seemed to have entered a…
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After Alice finished processing the information from her new Perk, she took a few moments to realign her thoughts with the present again. Originally, she had been wondering if there was a reason to go to Cyra with Ethan. After all, going to Cyra would represent a huge time commitment, and during that time, Alice wouldn’t be in Metsel. She had also been trying to find a Perk that would make it easier to test new materials, since Alice would be able to use that regardless of whether she went to Metsel or…
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After the more concrete negotiations between Alice and Illa ended, there was a strange pause in the conversation. Alice hadn’t seen Illa in Illa eventually broke the silence. “So you say you might be higher level than me? I see that times have been even better for you than I expected.” Alice nodded. Her highest level Class was , and while the class had some combat applications, most of them were related to getting her more magic seeds and increasing the number of magic tendrils she could control…
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“Honored Immortal Ethan, Lady Illa is at the door of the manor. She has requested to see you, and also requested to schedule a meeting with her former ,” said someone from the shadows, startling Alice out of her discussion with Ethan. “Illa?” said Alice, suddenly feeling very confused. The first person she thought of when she heard the name ‘Illa’ was the leader of Cyra, who had spent a few months training her when she was new to this world. However, the idea that Illa would have shown up here…
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Alice woke up from her nap with an excited grin, and checked her class fractals. Just as she had hoped, there were several chunks of mana stuck to her enchanting-related Class fractals, and her Class fractals had also grown by more than they normally would after several hours of testing ingredients. Clearly, she could not only level up in her dreams as usual, but if Alice wasn’t mistaken, she was getting somewhere between a 50% and 100% boost to the XP for her enchanting Classes while asleep. While not…
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After settling on her new plan to mitigate the impact of the System collapse, Alice finally took a moment to settle her new Perk from . Alice started out by scanning over her Perk combination options, as well as her options for new Perks. After a few moments, she felt a flicker of disappointment. She had really been hoping that some of her new Perk choices or combinations would either help her restore some semblance of the System and its mana, or help her a lot more with her enchanting experiments.…
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Alice had always wondered why dimensional mana behaved the way it did. She had heard, multiple times, of the tragedy of Allenheim – where a bunch of dimensional Mages had effectively nuked their kingdom into the ground by polluting it with dimensional mana. For a while now, Alice had been tossing around ideas for how this worked. Her most recent theory, and the one that she favored the most, was that any objects, such as oxygen molecules, that passed through a portal would start to ‘infect’ any mana…
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After the meeting with the , a few more days passed. During that time, Alice had numerous smaller meetings with , all of which included both Ethan and Cecilia. Alice clarified and reclarified what she had seen of System mana, what specifically it did, and her understanding of how to handle the effects of its disappearance. Most of the seemed open to continue talking with her, which was a relief. Apart from the few that had seemed disgusted with her for the very act of treating the System as an object of…
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