Elizabeth Smith
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That night, Alice went back to sleeping in Illa’s mansion – she felt nowhere near as nervous about doing so as she had last night, so she didn’t mind taking advantage of Illa’s generosity for a few more days. That night, Illa’s maid quietly hinted that Alice should start looking for lodgings on her own. Alice had taken this in stride. Since Illa no longer needed Alice to keep a lid on the situation in town, it made sense that she wouldn’t give Alice a separate room inside of her mansion…-
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That night, Alice successfully formed a pure mana magic seed. The formation of the magic seed itself went well – she formed a 10% mana conversion seed, which was the maximum she could possibly get from her {Three Seeds} Perk. However, Alice’s attempt to observe the process of forming a magic seed was far less successful. The simple reason for this was her inability to divide her attention effectively. In fact, this wasn’t the first time Alice had run into a major problem due to her inability to…
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“Your encoding is messy,” said Cecilia, looking over Alice’s first attempt at creating an enchanted item. “However, even though it can’t be called a successful attempt at creating an item, it also can’t be considered a total failure. Even if it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, it does spend mana to create an effect on the outside world. For a first work, it’s not bad.” Alice looked over her own work, pushing aside a mild headache as she tried to eye the piece critically. After…
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“Let’s see… if I recall correctly, you wanted to focus on consumable enchanting, but learn both types of enchanting, right?” Asked Cecilia, looking at Alice. Her twitchy and nervous expression slowly faded as the topic of enchanting came up, and Alice could see that the girl was truly passionate about the subject. “Yeah, that’s what I thought made the most sense – you said you mostly specialize in consumable enchanting, and so I figured you could probably teach me more in that…
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Cecilia dropped the wire, staring at the pile of rubble. She turned to Alice, and for panic surfaced in her eyes. “It… it broke? What? But there was no problem – I “That should not have been possible,” said Cecilia. “My Perks indicated that this procedure wouldn’t be harmful. I Alice was starting to notice a pattern in how people dealt with information in this world. Even while she was on the Expedition, the first response the Expedition had when encountering strange situations was to…
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“Illa, servant of the crown, greets Allira, immortal of song and shadow,” Illa said, her voice falling upon the area surrounding the town’s entrance gate. It was a strange sight for Alice, to see Illa bowing her head and greeting someone outside of her own city. “It has been a while, hasn’t it? How have you been, little Illa? Are you surprised to see me?” The beautiful woman gave Illa a smile, and for a moment, it was like all of the light in the world shone upon her face, highlighting her…
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The next few days of the expedition passed with relative quiet. The group moved from place to place, taking measurements from afar and observing the broken mana zone, keeping an eye out for any other odd items or potential problems. However, nothing ‘new’ popped up after the strange rock. The broken mana zone continued to shrink, slowly but surely, and the monster population continued to grow. On day four after reaching the broken mana zone, the group finally saw something new. It was a monster Alpha…
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Alice stared at the piece of wall. Even though it was jagged, as if someone had turned it into a jigsaw puzzle piece, it was still clearly recognizable. She had grown up seeing that wall as she had played with the other children on the street. It still had the same horrible paint job, the same scars on it. Even from here, she could still see the long streak in the paint where one of the boys on the street had run his bike into it and the owner had never bothered to repaint it. The wall had a fair bit of…
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That night, the expedition set up camp well away from the broken mana region. Even though it would force the expedition to travel to and from the area, wasting several hours out of every day, nobody wanted to be caught off-guard if a monster swarm decided they were food. Maintaining a healthy distance was an important precaution. After camp was set up and people finished talking around campfires for a while, Illa privately asked for Alice to come chat with her for a while. When Alice showed up, Illa…
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The mass of monsters undulated and squirmed as Alice stared at it, wondering what the hell she had gotten herself into. When she had first arrived in this world, all of the plant life had been dead in the area. However, it had still been That was gone now. At this point, while it was possible to still see the desiccated corpses of trees poking out of the landscape, the landscape was dominated by mounds of monsters. In some other areas, they formed a sort of disgusting, wriggling carpet. The area was very…
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