Elizabeth Smith
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When Alice returned to Cecilia’s workshop, she started getting ready to work on enchantments. If she was going to make it into a magic academy, she needed to make the most of every minute she had left before the semester started. She had about a month left before registration started. Registration would take another week, and she could sign up anytime during that period. After registration ended Alice would need to wait another year before entering a magic academy. Which would mean another year of…-
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After being ushered into a room on the second floor, the store worker poured Alice a cup of tea and sat her down at a table in the center of the room. The woman gave Alice a wink and a friendly nod, before she turned around and left. Alice noted that the table she sat at was obviously expensive, even though she didn’t know much about furniture. She couldn’t tell what wood it was made out of, but it was clearly different from the tables she had seen in Cyra. Alice decided to take this as a sign that…
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Alice and Cecilia spent the rest of the boat ride relaxing and talking. After another day or two of sailing, Alice decided to follow up on one of her earlier ideas. On the boat there was also a fairly high level who had a storage Perk. After talking to the man for a bit, Alice was happy to find out that he was in the habit of stuffing random bits and bobs into his Storage. This included some scraps of wood he hadn’t been able to sell for several months now. After a few minutes of negotiation, Alice…
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As the boat sailed up the river, Alice took time to admire the view of the river gently drifting by. A sight that was only occasionally marred by a special shooting a Lurker, a strange plant-like monster that Alice had briefly seen during her flight to Cyra. Apparently, they were more common in this part of the river. The arrows seemed completely unhindered by the water they travelled through to reach their targets, which Alice found even more curious because of the small speckles of green, unknown mana…
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The last week that Alice spent in Cyra passed by slowly. Alice went to and from the docks each day, converting her kinetic energy into silver suns and the right to keep training with Illa for a little bit longer. At the same time, Cecilia’s shop continued to pack up or sell its last remaining items. Upon seeing Alice’s attempt at making a marketable enchanted ring, Cecilia offered to sell them in the shop, which was far better than Alice’s original plan of trying to sell them to the she had seen…
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My grandfather will not make it. As of today, it has been a week since he was admitted to the hospital, and today we received news that he’s not going to get through this. He’ll survive a few more days at most. I thought it was likely that he might not make it, but I was really holding on to hope that he would get through this. I was thinking that he was really strong, and maybe he would pull through somehow. I was trying to go through everything with the idea that he was just staying in the hospital…
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After a night spent inside of the manaless room, Alice’s mana deprivation symptoms didn’t get any worse. This more or less lined up with what Alice had experienced and seen so far. It seemed that there was no difference between half an hour and sixteen hours inside of a manaless environment – once the mana deprivation symptoms reached a certain ‘maximum’ threshold, they did not seem to get any worse no matter how long the body went without getting more mana. Alice originally found this reduction…
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When Alice walked into Cecilia’s enchanting shop, many of the less popular items had been packed up. It was obvious based on the emptied shelves that people were coming into the shop more frequently right now. Once Cecilia left, it might be a while before another dedicated came to Cyra. Therefore, the people who were able to afford enchanted items had obviously been buying up everything they could before Cecilia headed north, along with the magic cores needed to power everything. Even if it would still…
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The next day, when Alice went to the docks for work, she was caught off guard. The reason for this was simple. The broken mana in the docks had, rather naturally, built up over the time she had been working there. moved things around, occasionally popped in to heal injuries on the dock workers if needed, and on rare occasions enchantments would also be used in the area. All of these things would naturally cause Broken Mana to build up. Alice had grown used to the fog of broken mana that hung over the…
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After the group returned to Cyra, the group quickly settled accounts. Illa simply said that the payment for the expedition would be deferred for those who were selling at least one material, and would be settled the following Monday after the city lord’s manor had time to sell and record everything. Nobody objected to this, since Illa was known for being fair. Shortly after, the group dispersed. Some remained chatting after the fact, but Alice decided to spend the rest of the day in her inn room. Even if…
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