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Chapter 41 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

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 zon...

Chapter 40 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

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...

Chapter 39 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

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 Alic...

Chapter 38 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

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 present at the very least. There had been dead trees and unnerving silence, but there had still been things to mark the landscape. Furthermore, the area had been mostly deserted – it had been creepy...

Chapter 37 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

The expedition continued on for the rest of the day with a quiet and somber mood. The guards were required to patrol the area much more frequently, and Alice occasionally saw Illa or one of the other high-level [Kinetic Mages] fly to the tops of trees and scout the surrounding area from the air, as well as one of the other mages who she didn’t know. The expedition maintained a semi-alert state and frequently stopped to scan the surroundings,...

Chapter 36 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

When Alice woke up, the first thing she noticed was that the pain in her arm and her stomach were gone. Clearly, someone had gone through the effort of fixing all of the problems with her body after the fight. The (presumably) [Organic Mage] that had saved her during the fight was gone, probably off running damage control elsewhere, but Alice still knew that there was no way she could have healed her injuries so cleanly and so well in such a s...

Chapter 35 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

Alice was awoken from her light nap with a loud bang.

Huh? Alice, still groggy, turned around, trying to figure out what was going on. Her head was still hazy, because she had just woken up.

“What’s going on?” Asked Alice, trying to make sense of the sudden noise in the world around her. She could suddenly hear multiple people yelling, and some part of her brain was urgently screaming at her. Alice tried to ...

Chapter 34.5 - Full Status Screen - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

Name: Alice Verianna

Age: 15

Strength: 101 (112%)

Perception: 114 (145%)

Dexterity: 100 (114%)

Intelligence: 158 (118%)

Endurance: 105 (111%)

Willpower: 133 (108%)

Charisma: 125 (107%)

Magic: 112 (107%)

Primary Classes: 5/6

Survivor: 37

Explorer of Magic: 31

Scholar: 18

Scientist: 12

(Student) of Kinetic   Magic: 13

Secondary Classes: 1 2021-07-07 21:22:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 34 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

After several hours of waiting in the wagons, Alice was bored. The mystery of exactly how and why she had appeared here was intriguing, and Alice had wondered what the expedition itself would be like. She had imagined something far more interesting – an exploration of a world filled with magic and monsters. Events, treasure hunting… something.

Imagination, sadly, was not very close to reality. The most notable thing she had ...

Chapter 33 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

The expedition’s staging area was more chaotic than Alice had imagined it being – even though everyone knew what they were doing and where they were supposed to be, the sheer number of people involved still surprised her. Alice wandered around, since she had nothing to do, and wondered if there was some sort of task that required her assistance. Most of the people around here were simply helping to load up the covered wagons, with a pletho...

Chapter 32 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

When she got back to the mansion, Alice started out by writing down what she had discovered over the course of the day into her notebook.

- Magicians seem to have had a tendency to melt themselves to death before the System appeared.

- Possibly hints that the System helps people deal with mana? Further evidence is the fact that all System interactions I have seen so far begin by drawing in mana, and the fact that mana seems to have...

Chapter 31 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

After her training session with Illa, Alice went to the church. It was on the way to Cecilia’s shop, and Alice wanted to see if there were any records about magic seeds, or the massive number of weird System messages she had seen yesterday. Apart from that, she wanted to see if the church had any records of ‘before the System.’ It might prove invaluable as a source of investigation, if she could get some solid details on what mages had b...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 30

After whatever the hell had just happened, Alice realized she was missing something. An incredibly critical piece of equipment that Science needed, and that she had been lacking up until now. It was, indeed, what one might consider critical to [Scientists] and scientists. Beyond a place to scream and cry for a while when experiments took a turn for the terrifying, at least, even if this hadn’t been intended to be an experiment at al...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 29

Alice started out the day by taking a look at her newly acquired level 10 [Scientist] Perk. She opened up her Status Screen and looked over her options.

Experimental Procedure

Requirements: Scientist level 10 or greater

Assists you in locating minor problems or alterations to any experimental setup you have created, as well as assists in locating any flaws in your methodology when conducting ...

Post Clarifying decisions for Ch 24

I should have made this post a while ago, but I was... not exactly in the best state of mind last month, and did several things rather sub-optimally.
I'm feeling much better now! Hooray! I'm just making this post to clarify what happened to the Ch 24 [Scholar Perk].

The Perk was changed to 10% reduced sleep requirement, and I added in a little more text explaining Alice's reasoning behind it, as well as noting that she expected to fin...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 28

That night, after Alice had taken {Three Seeds} and was checking over her Status Screen, a thought occurred to Alice.

Why were there 143 Mariums of Kinetic Energy mana inside of her magic seed if there were only 67 Mariums of mana inside of her? That… that didn’t make any sense did it?

Granted, the first time she had measured the Mariums instead of her body, it had been after a training session with Illa, so she had been nearly...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 27

The next day, Alice headed to the Church, in order to sit down and verify her thoughts on Mana and attributes. Alice got Priest Friedheim’s permission to sit in on his lesson with the children of the town relatively easily – it seemed the man did not mind her sitting on the edge of the lesson, so long as she was not disruptive. She spent a few minutes getting permission from the kids to ask them if she was correct in playing a ‘guessing ...

Scholar level 10 Perk (From CH 24) Poll

Would you prefer Alice keep the Perk as is, change the effect a bit, Change it a lot, or change the Perk entirely?

Option 1: What's done is done. Alice has chosen her Perk, and must stick with it.

Option 2: I would prefer {Lesser Reduced Sleep requirement} be changed from something like 'half an hour less sleep each day' to '10% reduced sleep'

Option 3: I would prefer for the Perk to be more specific, but have greater eff...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 26

"If you are done staring at your System notifications, may I ask what exactly you're doing?" Asked Illa, staring at Alice and frowning.

“Huh?” Alice gave Illa a dumbfounded look.

“You’re obviously up to something. You’ve been acting strange all morning – first you looked excited for training, which is something you never do. I know my training methods are a bit harsh, and you being excited about traini...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 25

Alice spent the night in nervous anticipation, before she finally got up the next day. She started out by reading through more of Illa’s library, as usual, but couldn’t focus on the words in each book as well as she normally could.

Today, she would finally test one of her theories. She had generated dozens of them during her time in the wilderness, wondering what the System was and how it worked. Finally, she had the ability to test ...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 24

The next morning, when Alice woke up her entire body hurt. She had hoped that perhaps some effect of the System or some Perk from Illa would fix sore muscles. Unfortunately, reality, destroyer of dreams, informed her that this wasn’t the case. Groaning, she flopped out of bed, her arms still twitching occasionally as she wobbled around. She took a quick look around the room, noting that it was lightly decorated and sported decent-looking woo...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 23

After two hours of grueling training, Illa finally allowed Alice to stop training. Alice took this as permission to instantly drop dead, not even bothering to find a place to lay down before collapsing onto the floor. The waves of exhaustion that she had been suppressing for hours crashed over her instantly. Her arms and legs trembled, and now that she had stopped moving them, Alice didn’t know if she could lift them even if she wanted to. O...

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World - Chapter 22

When Alice arrived at the mansion, the guard at the gate quickly waved her through. Clearly, she had been told to expect Alice’s arrival.

After entering the estate, she was directed to a small waiting room, and a maid made her some tea. Alice absently noted that the water seemed to heat itself up and the tea tasted perfect despite having taken less than thirty seconds to steep, but quickly attributed it to a perk. Less than ten minutes...

Chapter 21

Alice nearly departed from the church, before she finally remembered why she had come here in the first place. Even though she had already accepted the [Scientist] class, she could definitely do with some advice on her build right now.

“Priest Friedham, would you mind talking about my classes with me? I need some advice.”

“Ah, you have two class slots left, yes? In that case, let’s talk.”

“Well, to start off with,...

TLDR: Cat died, next chapter delayed

I'm really, really sorry about this. I really wanted to get Patreon three chapters ahead by the end of the month, but right now my mental state is basically a mess. My cat died (he was 14 years old, so he was pretty old) and I can't put together a coherent chapter to save my life right now. I'm probably goin to gake a few days off to settle my thoughts and emotions, and I'll put out another chapter then. I'm really sorry about the delay.

Chapter 20

Alice spent several hours looking through the book, forgetting to even find something to eat. Honestly, even more than she needed to think about her potential fourth class and what she might want as her final main class, Alice needed to unwind for a while. As a bookworm, spending some time reading was her preferred method of de-stressing. Considering the fact that most books cost several silver crowns at least, gaining access to books of any s...

Chapter 19

Alice took a few moments in the court room to simply breathe in and out. The feeling of relief that she felt when the court pronounced that she was innocent was a huge weight off of her shoulders. At the same time, the knowledge she would never be going home was like a stone in her heart. Still, after taking a few minutes to cry herself out in the now-deserted court room, she got up and tried to focus on the bright side of things.

She ha...

Chapter 18

“CALM DOWN!” Snapped Illa. A wave of… pressure crashed over, and the crude spears fell out of midair, immediately slamming back into the ground. It took a moment for Alice to figure out what she was feeling – it was mana, and for once {Sixth Sense} was actually doing its job, letting her vaguely feel the mana Illa released.

“She does not seem anything like one of the Society of Starry Eyes, or we would have al...

Chapter 17

Alice stared at the walls of the cell they had put her in – her memory of being dragged through the town was hazy and disjointed, save that the cell she was put into was much smaller than what she might have expected back on earth. Furthermore, the cell door had some kind of mechanism that allowed for a prisoner’s arms to be forced outside of the cell, where two guards were continuously touching her wrist, keeping her body and physical sta...

Southern Continent Map

So, although Alice hasn't technically discovered an actual map yet, as of the chapter posted earlier today she finally has a decent idea where stuff is located on the continent, so I figured it was an appropriate time to finally upload the map of the Southern Continent.

The Shil Confederacy, technically speaking, is composed of 400+ much smaller nations which have banded together, and Illvaria is actually part of the Shil Confederacy, ev...