Elizabeth Smith
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Illa, retired , leader of the town of Cyra, and former mentor of a certain budding named Alice, looked at the air around her and frowned. {Detect Danger}, a Perk from her Class, was very quietly ringing an alarm in the back of her mind. It wasn’t the immediate alarm that let her know she was in danger this very second, but she still felt that something wrong was happening. And sooner or later, it would impact her. However, she couldn’t quite put her finger on what was dangerous right now. Even…-
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Ethan started leading Alice back into the palace, leaving behind Ethan’s mother and some of the who wanted to continue socializing. “My apologies for the second ,” said Ethan, as the two stepped back into the palace. “I didn’t expect her to be so… enthusiastic.” Alice didn’t know what to say, so she simply looked at Ethan, wondering if he would say anything more on the topic. Ethan sighed. “She wasn’t a bad kid when she was younger, but she’s spent a lot of time trying to grow up…
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After Orin, several more came to dance with Alice. Most of them were male around her age, which made Alice a little uncertain whether any of them were trying to ‘get to know’ a future Immortal in a more intimate way than she was comfortable with. Alice wasn’t particularly interested in romance, so she had always been rather oblivious to it, both on Earth and on Luliv. However, there were a few girls as well, and even an old lady came up to dance with her around seven dances in. All of them were…
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The second nodded at Alice and the other , who stopped chatting amongst themselves. The who weren’t seated already quickly made their way towards their seats, and Alice saw a little flicker of rainbow mana activate near their ears. It seemed to somehow inform them that the tea party was starting? A few standing to the side waited a few moments for the to take their seats. Then, they quickly began pulling out various pots of tea and pastries, as well as other light snacks. The moment the last sat…
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“So, you’re Ethan’s newest project,” said Ethan’s mother, giving Alice a warm smile. Alice saw a variety of System Perks flood out of Ethan’s mother. They reached across her eyes, her nose, her mouth, her ears, and every orifice of the top half of her body. It seemed as if literally her entire body, and every sense, was being improved by several Perks at once. And the Perks didn’t only affect Ethan’s mother: they seemed to radiate into the air around her, like dozens of tiny little knots of…
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On Ethan’s suggestion, Alice and Ethan both took carriages to the palace on the day of the tea party in order to maintain some distance between them. Even though Alice was Ethan’s apprentice, she was also a prospective future Immortal in her own right, and so Ethan said that it was important to send that Alice was someone to be remembered on her own, instead of only because of her connection to Ethan. Which, apparently, translated to Alice and Ethan taking different carriages. Alice’s {Etiquette}…
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Alice spent the time she was asleep reading through Ethan’s exceptionally detailed library, trying to absorb as much knowledge as she possibly could. Since she now had an extra eight hours a day to just read and relax, she didn’t worry too much about only reading information relevant to her research. Instead, she was more than happy to read through everything that interested her, no matter how relevant or irrelevant it was to her current research projects. She spent a little more time learning about…
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Alice spent some time relaxing after her previous experiment. She got a few pastries from the kitchen, and then spent a few hours laying in bed with some light reading. Ethan had a few historical records laying around, which were written in a style somewhat similar to the fairytales from Alice’s previous world. Since the writers had focused on making it entertaining to read, the books read surprisingly similarly to an adventure story, especially since basic history in this world included great warriors…
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After Ethan finished talking with Alice and arranging details about the tea party, including things she needed like proper clothing and {Etiquette} teachers, he left. Alice was left alone with her thoughts again. She frowned, thinking about the ‘tea party’ Ethan wanted her to attend. She had agreed to it, because having new resource channels and levelling boosts would absolutely be helpful. However, she didn’t actually have any suitable clothing for a tea party with two Immortals and a member of the…
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“So who are these guys?” asked one of the , looking over the prisoners with curious eyes. Alice frowned, before looking at Ethan to see if he had answers. It was increasingly obvious that the people they had found weren’t from the Society. But the major oddities in the village, the strange mana clinging to their bodies that reminded her of Boris, and the random village of level 60’s in the middle of the country… all of these made Alice feel confused as she tried to figure out what in the world…
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