Elizabeth Smith
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The scouts spent about half an hour cutting apart the vinebears, searching for valuable materials. In the meantime, a few spidercrab packs wandered into the area, perhaps attracted by the mana leaking out of the vinebear corpses. Alice and the other mages quickly shredded them apart, if the didn’t shoot them down first. Alice was sure she was pretty close to {Monster Hunter III}, though there was still some way to go. With some effort, she could probably pick it up before she left Cyra. These corpses…-
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The group of and Mages spent a few hours travelling through the woods before they found the swarm of vinebears. In that time, Alice mostly chatted with the other Mages, though a few of the travelling with the group also ended up joining into the conversation sometimes. Apart from the occasional swish of dispatching overly adventurous spidercrab packs, the group marched in relative peace. Alice was happy to talk with people from this world who she already knew and could get along with. Even though she…
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After Alice recruited Milo for help in experimenting, the rest of the day went by quickly. At least, it would have – if Alice didn’t still have gloppy chunks of colored mana whirling about every time she looked around her. The fact that the world was now made of rainbows made even walking distracting. Alice was getting seriously frustrated by how hard it was to concentrate on other things when she had rainbow fractals painting literally every inch of the world around her. Even if it was translucent…
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A few hours later, the politely rapped on Alice’s door a few times. With the help of some sort of noise-enhancing Perk amplifying the sound of him knocking on the door, the sound was loud enough to wake Alice up. Only to find that the world looked a rainbow cloud had fallen over it. For a brief moment, she wondered if she had somehow wandered into the Aurora Borealis back on Earth. Every single inch of air, floor, and wall was covered with color and lights. The lights were not static, however –…
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That night, Alice returned to her inn room. It was noisier than her room at Illa’s mansion had been, but it had been reasonably clean and tidy. On the bright side, Alice could deal with a bit of noise, and she still had meat with every meal. Monsters being present everywhere seemed to make meat a surprisingly cheap commodity in this world, so long as one wasn’t too picky about exactly what they were eating. After she said some greetings to the innkeeper, had a meal of spidercrab wrapped in lettuce…
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As Alice was wrapping up her thoughts, she started to go through her classes and pick her Perks. She had unlocked a total of five over the course of the experiment, which was a record high for her. She was more than a little eager to see what she had available. Survivor was the easiest pick, since she had already decided roughly what she wanted a long time ago, while reading through the list of known Perks in the Church of the System. Once per day, you may regenerate a great deal of damaged tissue and…
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Alice watched as mana poured into her body. It was far more than she had ever seen before. It wasn’t just a trickle, or even a stream. Instead, this time, it was as if a veritable tsunami of mana was surging towards her. System notifications started popping up left and right. And Alice, filled with curiosity, tried something else. It wasn’t something she had directly prepared to try, and it wasn’t something she had the time to design a sophisticated or precise experiment around. It was merely a…
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Alice entered the manaless room. Cecilia closed the door. For the first time since Alice had arrived in this world, she was completely out of contact with mana. She had suspected for a long time that being cut off from mana wasn’t lethal for humans, but now that the time had finally come to test it, she couldn’t help but feel nervous. She took a deep breath, then released it. So what if she was wrong? If she ended up being incorrect, Cecilia would open the door to the room and get some mana inside.…
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The next two weeks settled into a comfortable routine. Alice had discovered that Milo also worked at the docks, which made Alice feel much more at ease in her new job. Milo was more than happy to show her the ropes, which made her integrate smoothly into the crowd of workers there. A lot of the work Alice needed to do wasn’t particularly complicated. It mostly involved lifting heavy objects, such as planks, walls, and so on, and then holding them steady. Afterwards, workers would come and help do the…
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Alice spent the next day detailing her plans to Illa – she asked a lot of questions about the north, and Illa was more than happy to provide Alice with crucial information. First, Alice was told she should expect tuition to cost around 100-200 gold suns for a year. Magic academies usually awarded a certificate of completion after a certain level of proficiency in magic was acquired. Unlike schools on Alice’s home world, there were no strict ‘year’ requirements – the certificate was awarded…
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