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🕑 Added 2023-05-01 19:25:35 +0000 UTCEverywhere I looked, my soul was a complete and utter disaster. Of course, I expected some damage from the soul horror incident, but this was beyond anything I could imagine.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I was in the middle of a destroyed clearing. All the plants I’d painstakingly molded out of experience were flattened, ripped in half, or gone altogether. My stonework was all over the place, and my meditation hut was in ruins, looking like it had exploded from the inside out.
But things like gravity didn’t exactly exist here, so while my hut was reduced into countless pieces, the chunks just floated in midair, making it look like everything was frozen mid-explosion. Everything was trashed in every sense of the word, but by far, the most concerning thing was the deep gashes in the ground.
Even though my soul's surface resembled a forest, everything except the occasional hill or divot was usually flat. But now the ground was upturned, and there were deep recesses, some over five feet wide and stretching as far as I could see. The gashes dug deep into the surface of my soul, and just looking at them made me feel a fantom pain in my chest.
My soul was wounded, but I didn't know precisely what caused it. The damage could be from a whole host of things, such as when that first soul horror tried to rip my soul out, or it could be the result of all the experience threatening to crush me. What I see might even be from my soul expanding so suddenly, but I don’t remember this happening when I killed the soul devourer.
But this was why I wanted to risk entering my soul. It didn’t matter where the damage came from; I needed to fix it. A damaged soul couldn't be a good thing; what would happen if I got hit with another skill as I did with the winged serpent?
The few times I’ve been affected by other people’s skills, my soul fought back against the intrusion. A lot determines how long a skill will affect me, mainly the user's skill level and whether it's malicious or beneficial, but they all worked the same. Multiple fragments try to integrate themselves into the target's soul’s surface, but now with all these gashes, those fragments could burrow deeper than they should be able to.
My soul was naturally healing itself, and I could sense the crevasses slowly filling in, but it was happening gradually, and as I said, some of the fissures were quite big.
Focusing on the closest crack, I manipulate the surrounding experience and start shoving it in like I was patching a crack in a dam. The broken remnants of my meditation cabin break apart into motes of light, and I use that experience to cover the last bit of the fissure once it’s full enough.
All that remained of my cabin was a single billboard hovering in the air. On the board were multiple plaques, each representing the multiple contracts I made with Pacore and Kervin. It was a good thing they were intact, but that probably had more to do with their nature as a foreign skill rather than them being that strong.
Glancing around my soul, I sigh; one crack down, countless more to go. It was a good thing there was a time-dilation factor, or else I'd never get all this done in time. But then again, filling that first crack didn't take long, and manipulating the experience felt much easier than I remember. Was this also the effect of leveling up my skills?
Probably.
Like how I improved Mana Skin, thanks to all the levels I gained in other skills, controlling the surface of my soul became much easier due to the levels I gained in Soul Manipulation and Sense Soul. The Soul Manipulation levels let me control everything easier, but Sense Soul breaking past its bottleneck was arguably better.
Overall, I could sense my soul to a much greater degree now. I knew the state of everything around me, and I dare say I felt like a god in my own little world.
But speaking of gods.
Looking up, I stare at the seven full moons hovering overhead, especially the two I felt a faint connection to. It felt like I was being watched, but if I probed any harder, I would be ejected from my soul, so I didn't look up for long. Pulling my eyes away from the celestial bodies, I glance again around my surroundings, half expecting a certain pair of goddesses to appear, but after a minute, I'm still alone.
The pair said they could only interact with mortals on rare occasions, so I shouldn't be surprised they didn't magically appear, but I wasn’t necessarily going to take their word on it. I highly doubted there was a convenient rule saying gods couldn’t lie to mortals, so until I was absolutely sure they couldn’t appear on a whim, I would treat it as if they could.
But seeing that they weren't here, there was no reason to do anything differently. So, ignoring the moons overhead, I focus on patching everything that needs patching. If I have time, I’ll work on my clearing, but I am exclusively focusing on patching up my soul for now.
From the tiniest cracks to the biggest ravines, I scour every inch of my soul for anomalies. Some were already almost finished healing and only took a few seconds to smooth over, while others took what felt like hours to fill in.
I first tackle all the ground anomalies in the forest before moving onto the rocky area separating me from my sea of memories. And while fixing up the rocky area, I do something I’ve been planning for a while; I carve a clear path to my sea of memories so I can get there faster if the need arises.
For now, I avoid the sea because even though there might be more cracks in it, I didn't want to risk getting booted out of my soul prematurely.
I spend a lot of time moving around my soul, examining everything. After the influx of experience, the surface area of my soul increased drastically, so there was a lot of new scenery to see. There was more forest to walk through and larger stone mountains protecting the sea, but the most exciting find was a lake.
It wasn’t a big lake by any means, only a couple hundred feet from end to end, but it was new, so it was interesting. The lake was shallow, no more than five feet deep at its center, with water so clear I mistook the lake for a crater when I first saw it. It wasn't until I touched the surface and the water rippled that I realized what had appeared in my soul.
I say water, but just like everything else here, it was made from experience and just looked like water. And unlike the sea, touching the water didn’t make me relive any memories. In fact, as far as I could tell, the lake did nothing and was simply another way for my soul to express itself.
Personally, I like to think the lake at the center of the crater had left a lasting impression on me, but that could just be me reading into things. Either way, it was something new, and I was interested in trying to manipulate other experience to see if I could replicate the feeling of water.
But I knew I was getting distracted, so after thoroughly examining the lake, I returned to work and didn't stop until I was done.
After a lot of hard work and circling my soul multiple times, I’m confident I patched everything up. Of course, it would take a few days for the patches to blend seamlessly into everything else, but I was confident everything would be suitable when we reencountered the winged serpent.
Now, how long have I been here?
I could vaguely sense that it’s been about nine hours in the real world, but there was a better way to check if I'd been here too long. So, using a combination of Sense Soul and Soul Manipulation, I conjure my status page inside my soul.
LV: 82 Experience: 932,190/ 1,484,280
Health: 2,686.19/2,700
Stamina 1,836/1,836
Mana: 909.61/1,060
Vitality: 270.01
Endurance: 100.41
Strength: 181.01
Dexterity: 181.00
Senses: 62.77
Mind: 65.67
Magic: 106.02
Clarity: 79.35
Status Points: 0
Skills:
Tier 1:
Meditation (LV81), Running (LV80), Blacksmithing (LV75), Hammer Skills (LV71), Axe Skills (LV60), Cleaning (LV58), Chanting (LV53), Mining (LV51), Drawing (LV48), Trading (LV48), Cooking (LV47), Sword Skills (LV40), Acting (LV36), Dagger Skills (LV35), Wood Carving (LV32), Sewing (LV32), Dancing (LV32), Pugilist Skills (LV16), Alchemy (LV15), Spear Skills (LV2)
Tier 2:
Sense Mana (LV81), Double Step (LV68), Charm (LV50), Hammer Arts (LV50), Measurement (LV49), Axe Arts (LV39), Steady Hands (LV36), Intimidating Shout (LV34), Writing (LV32), Mathematics (LV31), Increase Price (LV22), Lower Price (LV20), Sword Arts (LV17), Gourmet (LV15), Dagger Arts (LV13), Marching (LV5), Shout of Valor (LV3), Pugilist Arts (LV1)
Tier 3:
Mana Manipulation (LV67), Expel Mana (LV64), Weighted Strike (LV47), Double Strike (LV46), Precise Strike (LV46), Flash Step (LV39), Contract (LV22), Poison Resistance (LV14), Enchanting (LV10)
Tier 4:
Mental Resistance (LV63), Mana Skin (LV61), Inject Mana (LV57), Extract Mana (LV40), Magic Blacksmithing (LV36), Magic Threads (LV34), Air Walk (LV24), Empowered Spell (LV21), Ironclad Agreement (LV8), Multi-Strike (LV7), Appealing Deal (LV3),
Tier 5:
Sense Soul (LV41), Soul Manipulation (LV23)
Tier 6:
Soul Devourer (LV17), Experience Transfer (LV3)
Increased Skill Levels
Meditation (LV81) 4,050exp
Hammer Skills (LV71) 3,550exp
Cleaning (LV58) 2,900exp
Chanting (LV53)2,650exp
Steady Hands (LV36) 3,600exp
Precise Strike (LV46) 6,900exp
Poison Resistance (LV13-14) 4,050exp
Mana Skin (LV61) 15,250exp
Inject Mana (LV57) 14,250exp
Magic Threads (LV33-34) 16,750exp
Empowered Spell (LV21) 5,250exp
Soul Manipulation (LV23) 11,500exp
Skill Experience: 90,700exp
Crafting Experience: 4,736exp
Fighting Experience: 0exp
Total experience Gained: 95,436exp
“Wow,” I whistle.
I still must be adjusting after absorbing all the soul horrors because to level twelve skills in three days was a lot, even for me, especially considering I spent two of those days sleeping. That meant I leveled almost every one of these skills in the last twenty-four hours, which was insane.
I knew Mana Skin and Magic Threads leveled, but the rest were a happy surprise.
I was overjoyed to see my Meditation level again. It’d only been like a week since it last leveled, and for it to happen again so soon was a big boon. It probably reached level 81 because of the mana control I demonstrated while leveling Mana Skin. I was in a deep state of meditation during that whole process and was rewarded for maintaining it throughout the experience.
But only a few of my skills leveled because of what I did with Mana Skin, the rest leveled from helping Tabitha fix her armor and me cleaning my hammer. The only exceptions were Poison Resistance, which leveled two more times after the winged serpent poison was finally purged from my body, and Soul Manipulation, which leveled just a little while ago while I was repairing the damage to my soul.
The two skills I was most surprised to see level were Inject Mana and Hammer Skills. For the former, I pushed my mana into many different objects, mainly using Magic Threads, but that wasn’t why my skill leveled. Instead, it leveled because I channeled my cleaning spell into my hammer. I don’t know why I’ve never thought of it until now, but it made sense. What were spells but mana organized and controlled by an enchantment? As long as I kept it powered and waited until it was finished, why couldn't I force a spell into something?
I was going to need to investigate this further. I only knew four spells, self-cleaning, hovering light, small flame, and flame javelin. The cleaning and light spells would do little inside my hammer, but I could see potential with the other two. To this day, I miss my flaming katana I sacrificed to bring down the soul devourer, but I couldn’t just channel any spell into my only weapon. What would happen if the spell melted it from the inside out; I would be left without a weapon.
I needed to test this new application of magic on something I didn’t mind destroying, but that was another thing I would have to wait until later to explore.
I had much to ponder, but my mind kept returning to Hammer Skills. I still couldn't believe it leveled from fixing Tabitha's breastplate. It took a lot of control not to ruin it but enough to level it; I didn't think so. Maybe the skill was closer to leveling than I previously thought, and Tabitha's armor was just the thing to push it over the edge.
Ugh, so much was changing; it was hard to keep up with everything. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy. I just felt tired, is all, which was funny because I was almost fully healed.
In the last nine hours, my body had converted enough mana to bring me back up to 90%, and I only needed less than twenty points until my Health was fully recovered. So I was almost back to perfect fighting shape, which meant, it was time I go back to the real world and check on Tabitha and see how she was doing.
I know she’ll say whatever she can to convince me she’s healed up enough to explore the bottom chamber of the ruins, but as long as Tabitha doesn't exaggerate too much, now might be a good time to finally see what's drawing the remaining death mana to the chamber beneath us.
If we can just find one more soul horror, I should get enough experience to bump me up to level 83.
I know it was greedy of me to hope for such, especially after spending so much time fixing my scared soul, but I wanted to help Tabitha. According to her, there were still around fifty levels separating me from the winged serpent. Sure, I killed the soul devourer, which was at an even higher level than the lesser dragon, but that was only because I had the exact skills to counter it.
The winged serpent wasn't as specialized as the soul devourer, which, oddly enough, made it more dangerous rather than less.
No matter what, Tabitha would have to be the main attacker, but there had to be something I could do to help her.
I groan in frustration. My mind was spinning in circles, and that wasn't helping anybody. Maybe Tabitha can help me come up with an idea?
Closing my eyes, I search for the connection that leads back to my body and find it almost immediately. Again, Sense Souls' breakthrough fundamentally changed how I feel my soul. If I was ever in the same situation again, crushed by experience, I was confident I could handle myself better.
Triggering the connection, I feel my consciousness being forced back into my body and the real world.
It was time to see what secrets this building was hiding and, if lucky, maybe a way to escape this death trap.
Or, possibly…. kill a lesser dragon.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
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2,550 words.
I finished this chapter late last night, but I didn't want to rush the editing, so I held off doing so until I got some sleep.
What did you think of the chapter? I'll admit not much happened, but I think it’s an important transition chapter, showing Aaliyah is back to full strength and ready to rumble.
Please comment your thoughts below, and as always, stay safe.
Comments
Samantha Lane
The possessive 's' and apostrophe in the singular: My soul, Tabitha's soul, Chris' soul (can also be written: Chris's soul). Plural 's' and the possessive: the revenants' souls (can also be written as the revenants's souls), the masses' souls (the masses's souls is also okay), or, the hunters' Guild. One large exception is pronouns, there is no possessive s or apostrophe for any pronouns: my soul, your soul, her soul, his soul, their soul/s, our souls, its soul.
Samantha Lane
Again, Sense Souls' breakthrough fundamentally changed how I feel my soul. => Soul's
Samantha Lane
especially after spending so much time fixing my scared soul, => scarred
Samantha Lane
just looking at them made me feel a fantom pain in my chest. => phantom
Valderan
I think like MikeL said, a new location but also the context that comes with it. I want to see a fleshed out place, worthy of existence and with its own sense of beauty and struggle. I want to see Tabitha, excited and pleased to share her culture with Ilea so that we learn more of how and why Tabitha thinks the way she does. I want Ilea to be shown issues that the villages face and struggle to come up with ways in which she can utilize her skills to help those common people. This is theoretically a crafting story that has outgrown its premise but I would like to see how all of these experiences are utilized to feed into Ilea's primary passion of smithing; then used meaningfully to solve the issues she perceives. Ilea the fighter/explorer is neat at times but Ilea the crafter is where the meat is and when it is time for her to come out, everything that lead up to that point should be fed into the moment.
Timo Immig
There are two enchanters who can do T5 runes
Penguin Glutton
And weapons
Display Name
It would be pretty interesting to see her spec into more of a magic swordsman or magic knight like build. Focused on enhancing her melee power with magic to cover weaknesses. Though, with the title of the book, we are probably going to see her being better at creating magic tiered armor sets for 100+ humans that are specialty made for their users. Thus allowing them to fight at a higher efficiency.
Penguin Glutton
I believe only two can make 5 tier weapons or enchantments in all of Olbert
Display Name
she isn't the best human smith yet, she is just a extremely good one. They do mention a few times that the capital the general is from has top tier human blacksmiths.
Penguin Glutton
They'll accept her for her talent
Not my Real Name
She isn’t his successor or student yet. For that to happen all the pillars of scholl need to approve of her. And the likelihood that all of them are just hanging around the capital are real slim. So i think there will be a time pf at least a week or two where she will be confused with a courier or messenger. No one suspects that the world’s best human smith is 15 years old.
Penguin Glutton
Will there be a Academy thought they get tutors
Penguin Glutton
Tabitha got protective big sister vibes
Timo Immig
I would be satisfied if the situation was them escaping while the dragon and a elemental fight. A fight between giants. And them trying not to become colateral.
Penguin Glutton
Well she mostlikely be introduced as Pacores successor the noble kids would be jealous of that and the resources she has at her disposal
Not my Real Name
some noble kids making fun of Alayahs clothes as she looks like a country pumpkin all the while bragging about the high tier armor they just ordered from this obscure smith and how alayah will never be able to afford something like that.
Jon Oliphant
LOL an academy arc. Is she going to be the innocent white lotus or the abused villainess?
Derek Walker
You would also need to take away her movement skills, which are much higher than anyone her age too. I am not saying there are no benefits, if you literally take away everything that makes her good, then she can work on things she isn't good at, but I've never found it a fun troupe to put the main character in a situation where they are just vastly superior in nearly every manner to their immediate peer group, and that's what we would have here.
Not my Real Name
She is currently lacking the danger skill. So if you take away her mana skills and absurd stats for a month or two I can't imagine a better enviroment than a school full of hormonal teenagers to teach her that very valubable skill. Also it could teach her about different fighting styles while in a safe enviroment and not to underestimate her opponents that might have a very different approach to fighting than what she knows so far. Also the face of the rival in school when they realize that Alayah has been sandbagging the whole time would be a fun read.
Derek Walker
A school arc here would just have to be something of an info dump. It's not just her stats, but her skill levels are absurd too. I am not sure what we the reader get out of watching her go to school to learn like geography and etiquette since any fighting, skill training, crafting, etc. has to be done with people far older than her.
Not my Real Name
I always assumed a school arc would be waiting on alayah in scholl. Where she would meet many students of the same age. She would probably need some restrictions on her stats that she is allowed to use. Just to avoid her standing out too much. Just to help her catch up on the basics that many noble kids get drilled into them.
Derek Walker
A courting “arc” would I feel be dreadful. Tabitha would kill them all anyway for Aaliyah. Saying Aaliyah is support focused is technically true, but sort of misses the point. Even if you gave them equivalent levels, there are likely only a handful of people within 10 years of Aaliyah’s age who can keep up with her in a fight, especially now with her increased skills after leaving the magic forest. A year of even basic combat and spell training in scholl will only widen that gap. She’s already close to figuring out how to magically enhance her sword. That’s likely the breakthrough test for inject mana.
Timo Immig
I don‘t think so as long as youre higher leveled than your wife at time of marriage it most likely fine. Second as she is mainly support focused her level has has less of an impact. At last Aliyahs confition to marry is likely her looking at the courters soul. This would eliminate most suitors.
MikeL
I think dating royalty would be the exact opposite. In Scholl they must be the strongest, they can’t have a spouse who is higher than them.
Ironwolf
I wanna see her trounce “The Unseen” in mana manipulation
Penguin Glutton
I see her more being challenged
Display Name
See our MC get courted, and date guys or be pushed into a marriage with royalty due to her crazy leveling.
Penguin Glutton
I wanna see the pillars and the big 5
MrGaujail
They were always there
MrGaujail
There was always 7 moons in the background of her outer soul world as it reflects the real world. The moon eyes differenciate from the rest only when she try to access her or others inner soul.
MikeL
A new location will be a great start. Advancing her blacksmith and enchanting skills, she needs new armor and weapons. Then new spells.
MikeL
More spell-hammer.
MikeL
At least we now know that 100 isn’t the end of the road for skills. They I guess evolve into new more powerful ones.
Penguin Glutton
What yall excited for in Scholl?
fuble878
It was a bit more than 2 week when they reached the crater.
Jon Oliphant
Pretty certain she distributed points during the goblin fight for that recovery boost
Gon of the Dra
Thank you for the chapter!! Good chapter, slightly slow but a good set up.
Penguin Glutton
Finally
Thaldor
I imagine a feather from those wings would be quite the trophy. Also, 7 moons? Looks like she got their attention at last.
Penguin Glutton
Maybe more
Penguin Glutton
At least 2 weeks
Otter Pops
How long has she been in the forest? In real time it's been a year.
Penguin Glutton
Yup, any soul
Derek Walker
She got 7 from the soul horror (75-82), at least 1 from the goblin. I’m fairly certain she started off as level 74 in the forest, as she was almost 74 when she saw pacore
Jon Oliphant
I don't know. I'd really like to see the MC have a big challenge that takes some serious effort and does give her set backs, but this just doesn't seem like it. Especially after the narrative has been jerking us around in this forest. Admittedly IRL I'd be all dragon? Let's call in the marines and maybe an arc light strike. This isn't real life though and it would be one heck of a let down to walk away at this point.
Jon Oliphant
Wasn't it 9 levels? She got 8 from the remnants, picked up another before the goblins. Heck they may get the chance to eat the goblin village on theway back as well.
Derek Walker
I don’t know the answer to this as I can’t remember if the distinction was ever made: but we know absorbing the core of a human soul with soul devourer is bad, like cursed bad. Does that also apply to animal souls too?
Sleepyfoo
An argument can be made that the soul damage so soon after doing things that should have given her crazy levels in her skills basically prevented her getting her just rewards. Either in the sudden flood of excess XP preventing the soul from growing as it should have from the skill XP, the Soul attack she tanked knocking loose the newest XP first, or something else interfered in the levels showing up as they otherwise should or would have. This can also be used as justification for the next few skill levels being super easy, as she already qualified for them and just needed to knock them loose. I also think some of these should count for passing the Test in skills that haven't made it to them yet, so maybe she will just level past that like it wasn't there. Sadly, the system as seen isn't that forgiving but who knows.
Sleepyfoo
Didn't she only have 2 moons the last time she was in her soul? She now has 7 moons, so have the rest of the Gods started paying attention to her? I feel like that is a really important detail that she just glossed over, as she was really surprised stonekin had 3 moons when she looked too closely at Del. Does that mean she now has the blessings of the other races? or since she still only has connection to 2 moons she only has the normal human stuff. Could she feel that connection before, or is that also new?
Display Name
Nah, it could be a more general goal when she come back home to visit the village in the future to slay the monster herself. They are low on supplies, barely holding up, and yes they changed their stats up a bit to help kill it, but they should know their limits. it would be a good change of pace to see the MC fail at something
Derek Walker
If they wouldn’t constantly keep referencing how it’s possible to kill it (less than level 150, they know what to look for, assigning stat points specifically to fight the beast) I would agree. But it seems pointless and in retrospect would be annoying if they ended just escaping without fighting
Display Name
Loving the chapters, keep it up. Still I dont think we need to kill this lesser dragon in this arc, as long as they go back to the village looking like they just crawled out of a mosters butthole and show their insane growth.
Hectorbeserk
Aaliyahs on the path to become a proper spell-blade
phantom
ah that was something I was thinking. it is likely in much better shape as Tabitha was not being crushed by the experience. but I imagine it likely still took damage.
Derek Walker
For that to happen she would have to tell them. They can’t really judges her level lien pacore and Aaliyah is even secretive to them about her exact stats
phantom
Going to say this is actually an issue with numbers in system rpgs in general. they are easy at the start but the longer they go on often starts resulting in more and more issues building up. it is a problem too deeply ingrained into this story to do much at this point.
Ironwolf
Personally I wanna see Aaliyah’s brother + Sandra’s reaction. Her brother might e gained 2-4 levels through the building and managing of the wall, and Aaliyah went out for a month and returned with 8.
Jon Oliphant
Thanks much appreciated. I must have missed the notice
Luboš Hemala
I hope Tabitha's soul is in better shape.
Derek Walker
At least for this chapter, I felt for example magic threads should’ve leveled a lot more, same thing with her soul skills, which according to what you’re saying they should be growing even more than that. In general I understand the concern about Aaliyah getting to strong. But if that’s the case, then Aaliyah shouldn’t be put in situations where ridiculous growth is needed (like there didn’t need to be 20 soul horrors, 5 would’ve been enough) but if you’re going to put her in those situations, and then not give the expected level/skills growth then that’s also a problem.
PaperMache7
I do feel that there's an issue where skills grow according to the screen time they're given rather than their actual real use. This is common in a lot of stories where a timeskip of years can occur with some decent skill growth, but then that's matched with a week of effort that happens on screen.
Stephen Pearson
All true, but also understandable - it's pretty clear the author is justifiably worried about running out of headroom for Aaliyah's growth. Though you're right that it's been inconsistent for when really difficult things don't give as much growth as apparently easier / more common events. That said, this chapter did have an explanation built in, that the consumed experience was still being integrated into her soul, which makes these smaller feats have increased impact.
Penguin Glutton
Love this Chap! My most anticipated part I wanna see Pacore reaction and Scholl
Derek Walker
I think the story, plot-wise, is the best it's ever been (maybe tied with Pacore showing up to the village) but I do feel the System elements have become a lot more inconsistent. When Aaliyah fought the bird, she gained 2 levels in magic threads after one quick usage, here Aaliyah weaved a Kevlar-like mana skin for hours and only gained two more levels? None in mana manipulation at all? Same thing with manipulate soul. Only 1 level here seems small for how novel the use of the technique was nor was there a level in sense soul for looking through the damage. All of this follows on top of 118.3, which did not do much for consistency. Inject mana gained another level here, which was half of the gains she got from the surgery on Tabitha, which was ridiculously more impressive. For some of these, I think the underlying issue is discrete vs continuous use. If Aaliyah continuously uses a skill for a long time, that's somehow treated as one use, but if Aaliyah uses a skill for a short term, that's also one use. Fighting the soul horrors is the easiest example of this. If Aaliyah got 3 levels from the bird, and 3 from the goblins, that's somehow the same as fighting 20 soul horrors? Based on earlier uses, if she fought one at a time, and then came back, she would be at level 30 in soul devourer. It does not feel skill leveling should arbitrarily depend on something like if Aaliyah stops and starts a skill, or even really the gap in between skill uses.
Timo Immig
The leveling curve is exactly described in the notice after Chapter 20.5 on royal roads. It's 5% for all Levels above 70.
Nickie Schmiers
I needed this after a long Monday.
Nickie Schmiers
Agreed. He's going to be shocked as heck. But so is Kevin. The assassin is gonna have even more insults for unsatisfactory kills.
Jason Hobbs
I never write reviews but wanted to say that I am very glad that you have resumed writing this story and have enjoyed all the chapters. This chapter worked for me and I am eagerly waiting for the next.
Undead Writer
Thanks for the chapter!
Derek Walker
It’s been at about 5% increase in exp for a little while. It may have been 25% for lower levels but it has dropped. At 25% the exp requirement would double every 3 levels, and it’s nowhere’s near that much lately
Some Total Kretin
This chapter was good exactly because it's wrapping things up instead of exploring some theory or other and we can sense the anticipation and - maybe in the near future - get the payoff for what's been set up. In conclusion I'd like to quote Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's review of Alien:Isolation - "You've built suspense, Alien Isolation. It's a very nice suspense, you can stop building it now. No, I don't think it would look nicer with a conservatory! Put that trowel down before I smack you with it!"
Stephen Pearson
Thanks for the chapter! :-)
Jason Markus
I'm dying of anticipation of pancors reaction when he finally gets back to pick them up and both are like 20 levels higher... I mean he left them in a nice quiet village and they go and find a winged serpent to kill. Wtf about that is keeping her safe Tabitha?
Jon Oliphant
Thanks for the chapter P.S. has the leveling curve changed? She and tabitha don't seem to be following X(n+1)=1.25*X Should read x of n plus one equal x multiplied by 1.25
Reis_
Thanks for the chapter
Captdeth
38s yaaaa
