Elizabeth Smith
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After Alice returned to Metsel, she began to work on a few new projects, in hopes of figuring out what was going on with the recent decline in successful mana baptisms and Boris’s increasingly strange behavior. First, Alice continued combing through the library in hopes of learning more about magic seeds and the System, as a form of preparation for forming a System mana seed. She had a sneaking suspicion that it would extremely useful in the future, and might be the key to fixing some of these problems…-
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Life settled back into Alice’s usual routine. Alice continued to help Cecilia form a magic seed without the help of the System, go to classes, work with Ezrien’s team, build enchantments for Cecilia’s shop, and spend Saturdays playing board games with her friends before visiting Boris and Natasha. As the group got tired of The Settlers, eventually Alice switched to Infection, a game built around stopping a series of plagues from destroying humanity, although she swapped the continents around to match…
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After Alice worked out some more specific details with Natasha, she took a moment to lament how bad her schedule was becoming. Anytime she managed to get a Perk boosting her work speed, it seemed like she immediately spent whatever time she freed up. Then, Alice sighed. After Ezrien’s team finished up their research, or when her one year contract with Ezrien ended, she would take a week or two to relax. The Magic academy took two month-long breaks every year, one at the beginning of winter and one near…
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The next day, Alice woke up a little earlier than usual. Since she had a bit of free time, she tried using her new Perk to start building her knowledge of organic mana. This was mostly for the sake of satisfying Alice’s curiosity. The System primarily used a mixture of organic mana, pure mana, and System mana to do most things, and right now Alice felt that her ability to mess with organic mana was much worse than her familiarity with pure mana. She didn’t know how to mix the three, and she still had…
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The group of and Arin looked at the group of children they had found inside of the bag, dumbfounded. After a few moments, Arin snapped out of his surprise, giving the children a closer examination while frowning. “Well, that is certainly… unexpected.” Alice also stared at the children, especially the one with the weird System fractal, before she thought back to the fight. At the time, the group had stumbled across Society Members near a pile of children’s bones. The who had checked the area…
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Alice’s group of , along with the injured and the convulsing , made their way back towards the hunting camp in silence. Alice decided to reveal that she could discover the location of monsters with the help of , since the group no longer had a and monster detection wasn’t exactly rare in this world. Since nobody else had a good method of tracking monsters, Alice ended up taking the lead. She also took over the duty of levitating the , since Alice wanted to observe the process of a broken mana…
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Once the group of arrived at a relatively flat area, the departed from the group to double-check the locations of various monster packs, scout for any abnormalities, and do a final patrol of the area. While the were gone, the had the draw lots to determine which groups would do their hunts first, second, third, or fourth. Alice’s group ended up drawing lots for the fourth round of hunting, meaning they would have to wait until all the other finished their hunts. After the group finished drawing…
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After Alice got through her regular classes for Monday, she went to the classroom professor Tanmi had set aside as a meeting location. There, she met up with Erkki, Arsi, and Luka, before she quietly sat next to them. While she was much more familiar with Cecilia, the three were still friends she enjoyed chatting with, and she had come rather early. There was plenty of time left before the actual meeting and hunt began. “How are things going for you recently, Alice?” asked Luka, giving her an…
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Two more weeks passed in relative quiet. Apart from being ludicrously inefficient, Alice’s new electromagnetic seed didn’t harm her in any way. Alice spent a few minutes every morning just running through whatever variants of ‘is this dangerous’ she could feed into {Safety Analysis}, as well as using her once-per-day usage of {Moderate Tissue Regeneration} to make sure that there were no problems. After that, she would run some basic tests with the seed, moving coins around, producing little sparks…
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After Alice’s experiment, she went to sleep for the night. The next day, after working with Ezrien’s team, getting through her first two classes of the day, and visiting the library, her self-defense class began. This week, the class had begun having the students duel each other. “So we’re finally going to start practicing against each other?” said Luka, grinning a bit as Alice and the two classmates she knew stood in the training field. He was practically bouncing on the heels of his feet with…
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