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Chapter 421: Ever Onward - Markets and Multiverses

After we finished cleaning out all of the information we could find in the admissions office, we moved deeper into the castle. There wasn’t

After we finished cleaning out all of the information we could find in the admissions office, we moved deeper into the castle. There wasn’t

After we finished cleaning out all of the information we could find in the admissions office, we moved deeper into the castle. There wasn’t very much...

Chapter 229 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

“It just… opened?” asked Ethan, as he blinked in surprise. Alice was also stunned.

This wasn’t how she had imagined this process going at all.

The System doors were clearly meant to keep people and monsters out of the System. Alice thought that was quite reasonable. After all, the System was practically the lifeblood of humanity in this world. If anyone got inside - human or monster - then it could be catastrophic. Heck, th...

Chapter 420: Management Records - Markets and Multiverses

At first glance, the room we had secured entry into seemed disappointing. I had been hoping for a room filled with power-ups. If it had cont

At first glance, the room we had secured entry into seemed disappointing. I had been hoping for a room filled with power-ups. If it had contained a new way to create new physical bodies, that would have been even better. I might have broken out into song if we had been that lucky.

Instead, the...

Chapter 419: Exploring the Castle  - Markets and Multiverses

Our first steps into the castle were blessedly silent. No monsters leapt out at us as we strode into the castle. That being said, while we w

Our first steps into the castle were blessedly silent. No monsters leapt out at us as we strode into the castle. That being said, while we were free of monsters, I noticed several other oddities about the castle as we moved forward.

“Doesn’t this place seem quite a bit bigger on the inside...

Chapter 418: Teleod’s School of Spells - Markets and Multiverses

With our purchases in the mall made, it was clear that we had mostly cleaned out the outer districts of the Market. There might still be a f

With our purchases in the mall made, it was clear that we had mostly cleaned out the outer districts of the Market. There might still be a few smaller boosts laying around, if we could find them - but the time we spent searching for a store selling Tier 6 soul fragments would probably be better spen...

Chapter 228 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

As the group drew closer to the great wall of System mana, the boat started to slow down. As the boat continued to slow, Alice started to frown. She rushed to the deck of the ship and looked for one of the Immortals. It didn’t take her long to find Ethan’s mother, Myra.

“What’s wrong?” asked Alice. “Why are we suddenly slowing down?”

“We’re saying goodbyes. We’ll be separating from most of the [Sailors] here.”...

Chapter 417: Abilities - Markets and Multiverses

After the other things we had found while searching through the stores for supplies, I had high expectations for the final section of shops

After the other things we had found while searching through the stores for supplies, I had high expectations for the final section of shops in the mall. I still realized that we would get a lot less out of this than we had found in the Spatial Fair - but I still hoped that we could find at least one ...

Chapter 416: Items - Markets and Multiverses

The item shops in the mall were numerous. Unlike many of the other shops we had encountered in the Market, these ones were clearly built to

The item shops in the mall were numerous. Unlike many of the other shops we had encountered in the Market, these ones were clearly built to cater to wealthier customers. While the prices weren’t quite as outrageous as the inner districts of the Market, they were still very high. 

Fortuna...

Chapter 415: Another Round of Upgrades - Markets and Multiverses

It took two hours for the strange gas to dissipate from within the mall. During that time, I spent a few hours dedicated to improving my att

It took two hours for the strange gas to dissipate from within the mall. During that time, I spent a few hours dedicated to improving my attunement, while my friends searched a few nearby shops. I didn’t manage to push my attunement to the next step, but I could feel how impactful even a few hours...

Chapter 227 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

After the group finally managed to wriggle free of the Sigmusi navy, Alice spent a few hours and some mana helping everyone on the ship deal with their level up notifications. There were still nearly one hundred and fifty surviving [Sailors], and Alice didn’t want any of them succumbing to Class-mana madness during the upcoming trials. Helping them deal with level up notifications was a good way to make sure they had the tools to su...

Chapter 414: Traps - Markets and Multiverses

I felt a wave of frustration as monsters poured out of the building. I hadn’t managed to gather any intelligence at all with my clone. With

I felt a wave of frustration as monsters poured out of the building. I hadn’t managed to gather any intelligence at all with my clone.

With my spatial sight, I saw the two wire-men swing down to the ground floor of the building, right as the hornets crossed by my clone’s body.

Salli...

Chapter 413: Mall - Markets and Multiverses

We continued to travel through the Market, searching for shops that could give us fourth-tier soul fragments. Unlike the previous times we e

We continued to travel through the Market, searching for shops that could give us fourth-tier soul fragments. Unlike the previous times we entered the Market, we ignored lower end shops. In previous visits to the Market, harvesting Achievement from lower-end shops had been incredibly attractive for ...

Chapter 412: Grade 3 Across the Board - Markets and Multiverses

The process of buying Stats was the same as usual. After Anise repaid Felix’s Achievement loan, everyone ramped up our Stats to sixty. Our stats were now completely identical to each other, at least before including things like runes or items that modified stats.

Of the three of us who needed to finish buying stats, I paid the least. I had seven stats that were previously at +40 and three that had already reached +60. To push a stat up...

Chapter 226 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

“Did you do that?” asked Ethan, as he glanced at the screaming Immortal in the distance.

Alice nodded. “I gave him a mana baptism. It was a bit clunky and hard to pull off, and I’m almost out of mana in my compound seed, but it worked,” she said.

Ethan grinned, before firing a blast of Thermal magic at the screaming Immortal. A few of the Mages on the deck of the ship tried to defend the Immortal who was undergoing a mana...

Chapter 411: The First Stop - Markets and Multiverses

Unlike me, my friends had a much easier time purchasing their new abilities. Anise had started our last world with only 16 of her 53 glut occupied, and her new Ability evolution had pushed her up 20 glut and 0 keywords. Anise was now at 36 out of 53 glut. This granted her the ability to ‘tier up’ her skills via practice, at the cost of even more Achievement. She had briefly debated trying to retain last world’s ‘translate cultural icon...

Chapter 410: Hope - Markets and Multiverses

The giant worm-like horror continued to stare at the Nursery for several more seconds. The four of us froze, staring at the abomination and wondering what we could possibly do to fight back if it came after us. Its speed was on a completely different level from the spiders we had fought last time we were in the Market. The creature was fast, massive, powerful, and probably very durable.

Luckily, the creature didn’t spot us. After devou...

Chapter 409: Return - Markets and Multiverses

As usual, the first thing I saw after I died was the boundless darkness of the ocean of souls. The four of us had debated trying to stick around a while longer in the world, to see if we got any final trickles of Influence Achievement from our influence on the world. However, we had decided against it. It was already obvious that our influence Achievement in that world had mostly dried up - it had been centuries since we last got a trickle of ...

Chapter 225 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

Alice observed the three enemy Immortals, and tried to swallow the anxiety building up in her stomach. Technically, the Illvarians had four Immortals on their side - but Doll wasn’t really a combatant, and any advantage her equipment granted them was outweighed by the number of Sigmusi arrayed against them. Alice hated even fights - they were dangerous and scary. She started thinking. Was there a way to win the fight? Alice wasn’t very goo...

Chapter 408: An Epilogue of Trees and Sanctuaries - Markets and Multiverses

After the death of Miria, the other three heroes died of old age shortly afterward. The deaths of the four heroes sent the great sanctuary into grief. Since they died of old age, their deaths had been expected for years - but many people mourned the loss of those who had given the Sanctuary a new path forward.

The entire sanctuary held a day of mourning each time one of the heroes died, and almost everyone old enough to talk understood t...

Chapter 407: Death after Death - Markets and Multiverses

As my father, Anise and I sat at the edge of my mother’s bed, she gently stroked my head.

“Miria… I think this is it for your old mom,” she said. Her eyes were murky, and her fox ears and tail drooped at the side. Her skeleton was withered and shrunken - nothing like the lively, proud, energetic mother from most of my time in this world.

Unaware of my thoughts, my mother reached out her withered hand again, this time toward...

Chapter 406: Master Grade Attunement - Markets and Multiverses

As my death from old age grew closer, the four of us started to spend time touring the cities of the sanctuary in between research sessions and planning for the future. It was relaxing to tour the world we had put so much effort into saving - and it was also nice to see how our actions had changed the future of this place. 

Unfortunately, things weren’t all positive. The year we turned 460, Sallia’s parents died of old age. For ...

Chapter 224 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

As the Illvarian ship finished laying out Doll’s trap, the two Sigmusi fleets drew closer. Alice started to sweat as Ethan, Allira, and Myra checked their equipment, eyed their surroundings, and prepared for combat. Alice glanced at the open sea behind the first Sigmusi navy, and sighed at how empty the sea looked.

The fog had not caught back up to the Sigmusi fleet yet. She could still faintly see it in the distance, but it was far aw...

Chapter 405: Approaching Old Age - Markets and Multiverses

The following decades were spent focusing on research, preparation, and Achievement farming. I spent a big part of each day sparring with Sallia. Now that my rune toolkit was going to follow me from life to life, I wanted to be as familiar with it as I could possibly be. Every single hour I spent getting whacked by Sallia’s training sword could keep my friends alive in a real emergency. Getting constantly thrashed by Sallia was… humbling. ...

Chapter 404: Chapter Not Found - Markets and Multiverses

I spent the next few decades working on fleshing out my rune magic system. After Felix had made me such an incredible gift, I naturally had to take full advantage of it. The first thing I did was try to assess my ‘maximum number of runes’ that I could achieve in this life.

Based on my very rough estimates for essence count, I estimated that I would be able to form around 10 runes this time, after taking into considering the drastic i...

Chapter 403: Brand of Miria - Markets and Multiverses

The years marched ever onward. Before I knew it, we turned 150.

Most of the smaller rewards from assisting the Sanctuary in repelling the hive had dried up, as had most of our other Achievement rewards. Part of this was because our proportion of contribution to the sanctuary’s defense was rather small now - while we were still the original creators of the artificial sun, most of the actual legwork had now been done by the hundreds of o...

Chapter 223 - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

The group continued sailing in anxious silence for another three hours. During that time, they occasionally caught a glimpse of the Sigmusi trailing after them. At first, Alice thought that the Sigmusi would outright attack them again. That would make the most sense, after all - the Sigmusi had clearly locked on to their group as some sort of target, and now was the time the group was weakest. Ethan had used up a few of his Perks keeping the s...

Chapter 402: Time Marches Ever Onward  - Markets and Multiverses

Time continued to pass.

By the time the four of us were a century old, the city had finally reached a proper level of self sufficiency. According to most scholars, the city now had four hundred times more essence than before. This was a truly mind-boggling amount, and guaranteed that the city council no longer needed to hoard every drop of essence like a treasure. The city’s combat tactics had also undergone a massive overhaul. Previou...

Chapter 401: Rewards - Markets and Multiverses

As I saw the Leviathan’s corpse sag into the ground, I felt a surge of relief. I saw other Mages of the Sanctuary start to relax, especially near the back, where they didn’t even have to fight the weaker monsters on the ground anymore. 

Even though there were still a fair number of monsters on the ground left to deal with, everyone knew that the Sanctuary itself was no longer in danger. The true threat had been dealt with - all ...

Chapter 400: To Swallow the World (3) - Markets and Multiverses

The Leviathan seemed surprised by the intrusion of a new wave of enemies. As the walls of the temporal prison collapsed, dozens of new eyeballs flickered into existence and scanned all of the reinforcements that had entered the area. Then, dozens of eyeballs narrowed in irritation, before a wave of essence surged through the creature’s wall of eyes.

The eyeballs glowed red, before they spat an array of red lights at the mages.

Mo...

Chapter 399: To Swallow the World (2) - Markets and Multiverses

The creature roared in disgust as my clone landed on its back, and eyeballs grew along its flesh like plants sprouting after a rainstorm. A dozen pulses of green light tore at my clone, but I used a portal to drag it out of danger. My clone reappeared a few meters away.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a flash of ice appear, before it buried itself into the creature’s flesh in the distance. The moment the ice dug into the creature’...