Elizabeth Smith
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Ethan, Alice, and Cecilia walked into the room filled with while Alice tried not to feel nervous. There were forty-four total people assembled in the room Ethan had set aside for this meeting. Forty-one of the System, plus Ethan, Cecilia, and Alice. Ethan had judged that this crowd was good enough for Alice to start testing things, sharing information, and feeling out how the might respond on a larger scale if she attempted to work with them. Of course, Alice already knew about everyone who was going…-
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Alice spent the next day skipping school and observing the Church of the System’s reaction to the increasingly noticeable crisis of the System’s disappearance. She also took the time to use pure mana and unclog what parts of her class seeds she Alice learned that nearly two levels of had been ‘stuck’ trying to integrate with the wrong class seeds, although none of her other classes levelled up this time. Which made Alice nervous about just how much worse people’s minds and Status Screens were…
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Alice quickly dealt with her level-up notifications before she went to sleep. Both her and Class seeds got clogged up after her level up notifications, meaning that if Alice wanted to level up again, she needed to unclog her , , , , and classes. In short, literally the only Main class seed she had that wasn’t currently clogged up was . Alice had no pure mana left over right now, and some of the types of mana stuck to her class seeds were Classes she didn’t have a seed for. Which mean that she would…
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Alice felt her heart leap into her throat for a moment, before she started to calm down. She still felt a little afraid because the manor was under attack, but her training started to kick in. Ethan had explicitly taken her with him when the Illvarian army had taken down the Society base several months ago, in order to train her awareness of battlefields and fighting. He had also consistently made her think about what to do if an came for her with his constant quizzes. Combined with the combat training…
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Neither Alice nor Ethan said much on the way back to Ethan’s manor. The also remained fairly silent, simply leaving Alice to stew in her thoughts. Now that she wasn’t worrying about her new Perk, or the disappearance of the System, Alice spent a few moments thinking about the woman she had failed to save earlier. Alice sighed, and for a moment, she almost wished for the comforting presence of Ethan’s emotion-deadening Perk. Then, Alice shook her head. Trying to run from her emotions certainly…
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A few things: Now, I also wanted to discuss WHY this is happening. I was originally trying VERY HARD to push for not taking down any part of the story until Volume 3 of Budding Scientist was finished, meaning the entire story would have been available on RR/Patreon/Scribblehub, before I took it down a month later, or something like that. Ultimately, the publishing company agreed with me, but recently, they emailed me and basically said ‘this is a really bad idea. Are you sure?’ and we got into a…
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Alice did her best to focus on her System messages. After all, she didn’t want to focus on the corpse of the woman who she had failed to treat, and Alice was also slightly worried that something would go horrendously wrong during the process of levelling up. Thus, with a bit of fear, Alice opened her System notifications, wondering if she would just find a line of glitch signs or something. Alice felt a small breath of relief. It seemed that her Classes had still gained experience pretty normally. When…
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Alice felt her knuckles tighten into fists, before she forced herself to unclench her hands. Then, she laid a finger on the dying man’s stomach. As she did, she tried her best to think of the man as a patient, rather than a real, living person. Alice felt something prod at her emotions, and then clamp down on them like a steel vice. It took her a moment to realize what was happening. Ethan had activated his Perk, the same one he had used when they had rescued Samantha. It was slowly deadening her…
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The two quickly made their way out of Ethan’s manor, before heading towards the healer’s shop where the unfortunate Mages were located. Ethan led the way, and Alice followed behind. There were also a few with relatively high levels tagging along, keeping alert gazes as they scouted the area and tried to keep a wary eye on any signs of the Society of Starry Eyes. Alice felt a little bit nervous as she walked through the streets. Alice usually didn’t have with her when she travelled inside of the…
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“Immortal Ethan, I would like to talk about my research,” said Alice, after stepping into the hallway and making sure there were no nearby . “I feel that it will be extremely relevant in the coming days, which is why I am willing to talk about it. However, I would also like to keep it a secret – if the Society of Starry Eyes learns about my studies, I feel that they would stop at nothing to hunt me down. And honestly, while I’m not sure what the Church of the System’s stance on this is, I think…
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