Elizabeth Smith
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Alice settled into a routine over the next week as the temperature continued to drop. In the morning, she would wake up and train her magic, moving objects around and trying to improve her proficiency, as well as training {Sprinting} and {Spearmanship}, since those seemed to be relevant to combat and easy to train. She also tried throwing stones at herself using her magic to train {Dodge}, but her control over her magic wasn’t very good and it was hard to launch stones at herself that wouldn’t hurt her…-
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She spent the rest of the day anxiously making preparations, however futile those preparations might be. She peeled several roasted nuts in advance, in case forming a magic seed was really demanding on her calories and she needed a quick resupply partway through the process. She also filled her bowl with boiled water, just in case she needed it, either to drink or in case her first attempt at magic somehow caused something to catch on fire and she needed to put it out. Apart from that, she also got some…
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After nearly getting eaten, Alice had to re-evaluate her priorities. She had a hard time keeping track of how long she had been in this dimension for, but she was sure that it had been a little under a week. In other words, within less than seven days of arriving on this world, she had nearly been eaten by a monster on top of all the other problems she had encountered. Obviously, this did not bode well for her future if she remained as weak as she was now. She ran over her options, trying to figure out…
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When morning came, Alice was freezing. She hadn’t dared to light a campfire, afraid that whatever had killed the man in the river would find her if she made herself more visible. However, after several hours of nothing happening, her frayed nerves were beginning to restore themselves. Cautiously, she poked her head out of the cave, before slowly scooting her way back into the sunlight. After another tense minute of observing her surroundings, she breathed a sigh of relief, before she once again inspected…
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The rest of the day passed uneventfully, with Alice occasionally going to get a few more tree branches to peel whenever the fire started to run low on fuel, but she mostly stayed near the fire and occasionally ate some of her berries. They weren’t very filling, but they were far better than nothing. She spent the night huddled under her grass blanket inside of her cave, cold but alive. When she woke up, she realized that sometime during the night the cloud had moved away and the sun had returned. Alice…
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Alice slept poorly - she was used to sleeping in a silent bedroom, and now that she was farther away from the massive area of dead trees and messed up animals she had first arrived in, shuffling sounds and animal calls kept her on edge throughout the night, making it hard for her to stay asleep. Alice woke up the next morning feeling groggy and irritable when the sunlight started creeping through the holes in the top of her ‘tent.’ She shivered and rubbed her arms, but she was much less cold than she…
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The morning was cold and miserable, and Alice realized how little warmth the open ground of the forest floor provided. She looked at the remains of her attempts at lighting a fire, as well as the fish that had now been laying in the dirt for several hours, and sighed. The core of heat inside of her chest left over from her mana baptism thrummed with heat, warming up her chilled limbs, but it wasn't enough to completely drive away the cold. She shivered, before resolving to do better today. The hunger from…
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For every Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking in the world, there were probably hundreds of people who could have achieved similar heights of knowledge if they had the right questions and resources. Albert Einstein had spent many of his early years struggling to even get by before he had finally had the time and insight to begin making scientific discoveries, catapulting his position from a dropout struggling to get by in life to a world-renowned physicist that practically discovered half of the foundation…
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The night was dark and quiet, with few souls passing through the dark and desolate forest. For most forests, even at night, the area would be teeming with life as animals hunted each other, foraged, and did their best to survive to the next day. However, most of the wildlife that had lived inside of these once-green fields had died or deserted this area. One of the magically gifted would have noticed something wrong about the mana of the region, the way it rippled and distorted as if it was a healer’s…
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As his eyes widened in surprise, Valyr went ahead and commanded the system to bring up a screen containing the description to , wanting to find out what kind of changes the title had undergone thanks to the upgrade. While doing so, he took a look at the remaining notifications on the screen before him, faintly smiling as a thought popped up in his mind. 'With this, killing a quadrant leader is the only thing left separating me from becoming a part of the Gates of Awakening.' Ding! 'I wonder how…-
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