Elizabeth Smith
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Alice knocked on the door to Ethan’s study, trying to quell the thrill of nervousness that ran down her spine as she thought about revealing her status as an {Outworlder}. However, since she had made up her mind, she would follow her intentions through. “Yes?” asked Ethan. “You can come in.” Alice opened to the door to Ethan’s study and walked in. As usual, there was a small mountain of paperwork in front of Ethan, as well as a few letters laying in front of him. Ethan gave Alice a nod, then…-
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Five days passed by. During that time, Alice spent a lot of time thinking about Boris and his Class Seed. By using what she had already learned from previous experiments, Alice eventually came to a few new guesses about how broken mana worked. Alice remembered that when she had done a few other tests with the System, she had learned that she couldn’t level up when mana wasn’t present in her environment. If she stepped into a manaless room and then exercised or did an experiment, she wouldn’t gain…
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When they arrived at Boris’s house, Natasha warmly greeted Alice, giving her an enthusiastic smile. She also gave Professor Feliza and Immortal Ethan a respectful nod when she saw their Mage emblems, although the two of them got far less enthusiastic greetings than Alice. Alice was more than slightly amused to see that she had been given more respect and attention than an Immortal. However, she also didn’t want Natasha to get in trouble, even if neither Ethan nor Feliza were likely to care about…
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Immortal Ethan already had a manaless room set up in his mansion, so the experiment only took a few minutes to set up. After Immortal Ethan finished his preparations, he stepped into the manaless room while Alice watched. Alice activated her {Timer} Perk to get as accurate of a measurement of time’s passage as possible, and kept her eyes trained on Ethan as closely as she could. Every single Perk she had which boosted her perception of the world was activated as she tried to glean every speck of…
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The rest of the day passed quickly. After treating herself to a nice meal and then enchanting for a few hours, Alice returned to Ethan’s mansion for the night and slept. The following day was a normal Saturday – she played board games with Cecilia and her schoolmates, spent some time putting together an enchanted ring that would ‘expel’ pure mana from its surroundings for Boris, and then finally went to talk to Ethan again. Since Ethan had told her he would pay her that day, Alice felt it was a…
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In total, Alice spent another hour trying to untangle what types of mana actually went into System mana. Since the idea of a ‘compound’ mana was so new to her, she felt that breaking down System mana into smaller chunks was a good way to start. She still wanted to create a System magic seed, after all, even if it would be quite a bit more complicated than she had originally expected. She was able to figure out Organic mana and Pure mana pretty quickly, since she was familiar with both kinds of mana.…
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As Alice continued to look through the Society’s documents, she found more and more records of strange medical cases popping up recently. The Society’s later documents did include some of the things Alice was expecting – namely, records of horrifying experiments, kidnappings, and people’s agonizing deaths after being kidnapped and used as experimental subjects. However, the documents also detailed, more than anything else, the Society’s attempts to figure out if there was a pattern to what the…
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“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” After Ethan’s Organic mana made its way into her brain, Samantha jerked awake with a scream. Alice took a step backwards as Samantha wildly thrashed around, and for a moment Alice was afraid that Samantha would fling herself off of the cot Ethan had placed her on and hurt herself. As Alice tried to figure out how to calm Samantha down, Samantha leapt off the cot and charged towards the door at top speed. Ethan’s body lit up with rainbow mana, before a Perk enveloped the room.…
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After the group found Samantha, Ethan wasted no time in turning back towards Alice. “Is this your friend?” Alice nodded. Ethan grinned at her. “Well, in that case, congratulations. At the very least, we aren’t rescuing a corpse, the way I feared we might be. She doesn’t look like she’s in the best condition, but she’s still alive. Mental and physical trauma can be healed, with time and help, but once someone is dead there’s no way to fix it. So I can honestly say I’m very happy with…
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The Society members who had survived the first engagement with Illvarian troops gritted their teeth, looking at the troops that had crept up behind them as they tried to assess their current situation. After the chaotic melee with the Illvarian front lines, as well as the losses from the ranged battle earlier, perhaps twenty of the original sixty five Society Mages had died, and several more were sporting injuries that were in the process of healing. The Society’s looked tired, and the looked like they…
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