Elizabeth Smith
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Alice stepped out of the manaless room, and Cecilia, who had been waiting outside, looked at her with hints of anticipation in her expression. Mana started rushing towards Alice, but for now, she ignored all of the System notifications that were popping up. She would deal with them when she was done with the experiment. Alice tried to extend a tendril from her newest seed, before frowning. In her excitement, she had completely forgotten that new magic seeds tended to start out pretty empty of mana. Right…-
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On Friday, Alice finally got around to repairing the dice she and Anne had cracked during the last game of The Settlers, and reinforced the dice a bit with some leftover enchanting materials and some scraps of iron. It wasn’t perfect, but it should resist any major Mage-fights more effectively now. On Saturday, She, Cecilia, Anne, and Ezrien got together for another game of The Settlers. Ezrien got acquainted with the magically influenced rule set quickly, and the four of them enjoyed playing another…
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After Alice had adjusted used to her classes, life began to settle into a stable, but hectic, rhythm. The rest of the week passed quickly as she adapted to her new daily schedule. In mornings, she would work with Ezrien’s team to perfect the kinetic plates, slogging through different builds and ideas as they tried to make each plate easier and cheaper to make without losing any functionality. Alice had originally thought that the team’s goals were interesting, but a bit too ambitious. After all, it…
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Alice woke up the next day still tired, but at least she had enough mana and energy to get her day started. She absently wondered if this was going to be her routine, now that her academy had started up for the year – ending each day horribly exhausted. Still, she didn’t hate the idea. She was working hard to finally build a proper baseline of knowledge for herself, and earn a living. While it was much earlier than it would have been on Earth, even if she was exhausted she was still enjoying…
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Before heading to the Library, Alice made a quick stop near another of the floating lanterns. She spent a few more minutes trying to observe how the metal hooks and the paired lanterns worked, before she finally nodded to herself and moved away. While she didn’t get any new ideas for the metal plates, she at least got a better idea how linked enchantments worked. She might try to make a few of them sometime in the future, just to see if she was understanding the theory behind it properly. After that,…
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The magic academy’s architectural design had obviously taken some level of inspiration from castles. Even though it clearly wasn’t actually a castle, each corner of the building was a turret tower made of stone instead of a more traditional building design. There were even crenels at the top of each tower, to allow defenders to shoot arrows or miscellaneous objects at invaders if need be. The sides of the building also had small slits in them near the top, giving defenders even more options to attack…
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Alice looked at the table which contained her (questionable) rendition of The Settlers. Cecilia looked at the board game, before turning to the third player Alice had managed to convince to join the group. She had invited most of the other researchers she worked with to join the game, but the only ones who had expressed any interest in the idea were Ezrien and Anne. Ezrien was busy today, and since Alice was going to start classes at her magic academy tomorrow, she expected to be busy in the future. Sadly,…
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Alice first confirmed that the metal disc on the leather cord was what was providing her with a stat buff. Even if Alice could just look at the rainbow mana popping out of the iron disc, since others couldn’t see rainbow mana Alice was forced to prove the iron disc was what provided the System enchantment. She decided to treat this as good prep work for grounding her assumptions in reality, rather than just a nuisance, and went through the necessary steps to prove the iron disc was the source of her +2…
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“You said that it doesn’t matter if I get boring results, right?” asked Alice, turning to Ezrien. “Indeed. It doesn’t matter even if you discover nothing at all. The only requirements for my challenge are that you investigate something you find interesting, and that you must not have researched it before. Ah, I say you can’t have researched it before, but it’s fine if it’s directly related to things you Alice nodded. “I know what I want to look into, then. I told you that I was looking…
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Alice put on her new semi-formal dress before going to the meeting. The confirmed her identity before moving her to a private room, where an older man was waiting. He had lower than Alice had expected. On Earth, people were born with their looks, meaning that people’s attractiveness tended to vary quite a bit. In this world, was a stat that was easy to improve if one put effort into it, boosting one’s physical attractiveness. Most people didn’t mind looking a little better, and since raising…
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