Vivienne stops her army just before they make it into extreme arrow range. She had no reason to fear the mages against her. She could easily defend against them but added attacks from arrows might prove dangerous. However even more dangerous was the man who stood far in front of his army with two other men. That made Vivienne smile. That meant that they wanted to talk before anything went down. She would be able to use this to her advantage.
Before she could enact her plan everyone on t...
2023-06-05 20:12:09 +0000 UTC
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The United Freeholds soldiers have been working hard for the past two days. When they arrived at this river bridge, they immediately started to set up a fortified camp like they were trained to.
With Vikings providing more muscle they were able to get everything done in record time but that didn't give them a chance for a break. Their general had already given orders and instructions for the defence structures they needed to make and when their officers relayed the orders, they followed...
2023-06-02 13:55:32 +0000 UTC
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I woke up late. While I was doing my wake-up stretches, I learned I weighed more so it took me a while to get used to my new weight. It looks like my subdermal armour upgrade seemed to have come with the small disadvantage of it weighing more.
The weight wasn’t too bad and honestly, I was getting kind of used to my body changing fast. After the stretches, I took a moment to just look at myself in the mirror. While I never really looked like a child I now looked like a proper man and k...
2023-05-31 17:35:30 +0000 UTC
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After thoroughly washing myself in the river I left my clothing and armour pieces to dry in the sun while I started to work on the corpses that I had gathered during my dungeon delve. I learned a few valuable lessons. I should always drain the blood out of the corpses before I put them into the bag otherwise the meat will be useless. The useless pieces of the animal I just left here to be eaten by the nearby animals.
There will still be a lot of work to make the leather and other pieces...
2023-05-30 16:20:37 +0000 UTC
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On the seventh floor was the first time that I ran into a first-rank opponent, but it was a wolf instead of a beetle. It’s still died to my mace like all the creatures down here. To save time I placed the entire wolf corpse into my adventurer's backpack.
Having finally gotten a proper adventurer's backpack I was feeling a lot better about the Thorn Rose Company coming here. Now that I have found the dungeon, I’m not so annoyed about them interrupting my hunt. With this adventurer's ...
2023-05-29 18:18:17 +0000 UTC
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It was nice to see Michael again but it was quite funny to see the guards being afraid of us. Protecting the refugees has strengthened our soldiers quite a lot so I wasn’t worried about any of the guards they brought causing any trouble during the negotiations. That gave me a perfect opportunity to take Bert and go on a walk with him while everyone else dealt with the negotiations.
We were at the back of the group when Bert indicated he wanted to talk to me. We just didn't enter the v...
2023-05-26 18:03:09 +0000 UTC
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POV Michael Frederick Dukenhime
I just finished inspecting one of the containers meant for the GreenWave village. Giving a nod to the workers, they secured the container for transport and moved it to the waiting platform. I was a bit nervous about this trade as the queen didn’t much like us trading with nations that she had not signed any deals with. But her opinions didn't matter much as we had too much power for her to do anything to stop us.
Looking around at the new Thorn Ro...
2023-05-25 18:40:21 +0000 UTC
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When I gave the news of the salty river to the expedition, they were not certain how to feel about it. Not having drinkable water was a problem but we should also be able to make salt-gathering pools which would mean that salt will no longer be a limited resource for us.
By the end of the discussion, everyone was quite happy with this discovery, and we headed up the mountain to the next elevation that they wanted to check. Up here we also found a waterfall and with the salt-rich water, ...
2023-05-24 19:31:25 +0000 UTC
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I was waiting for the expedition group in the early morning at the road crossing that headed towards George’s house. My mace and two-handed sword were in my tattoo storage with the rest of my regular items like my bow.
I was wearing standard leather gear that was already a bit short. For today’s weapon, I chose a spear that I could throw to hopefully end the battle before it even began. There shouldn't be any dangerous creatures I can’t kill but you never know. I have also found t...
2023-05-23 19:41:59 +0000 UTC
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I had just opened the front door of the inn. I pushed the door open while taking a few steps back so Val’s family could see the inside of their new home. While Val and his wife were able to somewhat handle their emotions their kids could not.
Like so many others they had been driven from their home. During that time, they barely had a decent place to sleep and while they did get an apartment for a while it still would have felt like a foreign place that was not home.
Now I was e...
2023-05-22 18:49:59 +0000 UTC
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The young boy was scared he didn't want to lose a hand and my interruption stopped the judgement, giving him hope. “Benji was it, I’m guessing you have stolen from a young age even before you got the achievement page.” The boy quickly nodded, and I continued.
“On a busy street, you want to cut someone's coin pouch. When a perfect mark comes by, I would expect many thieves to go after him. How do you know when to stay away from a stronger thief who wants the same prize as you?”...
2023-05-19 15:08:25 +0000 UTC
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The next morning after I finished some chores around the farm, I started my run towards the village. Val should already be at the market when I finish my non-ability run so finding him shouldn’t be a problem.
It was a sunny morning kind of reminding me of the hot summer we had. It will take about another month and a half before all their leaves start to fall, I will need to go to the iron oak so I can collect this year’s harvest of leaves and acorns.
When I got to the village ...
2023-05-18 17:43:10 +0000 UTC
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I ran straight back to my home and the first thing I noticed was the half-built inn that was just at the border of my land. Just 100 meters behind it was the dungeon entrance where there seemed to be quite a dispute. Everyone was quite worried about the dungeon entrance being closed and when they finally noticed me approaching, they all swarmed towards me trying to explain over each other.
There was a group of legionnaires and a few adventuring parties and five of my own apprentices. Wh...
2023-05-17 11:43:49 +0000 UTC
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Goose was still trying to mess with me, but I focused on the corpse of the beetle. I was impressed that Goose was able to bisect it when I noticed how thick the armour plating was. A small test with my mace and I was happy to see that it cracked the armour meaning if I did a proper swing, I should be able to kill it easily.
Looking at the piece of broken chiton an idea came to me. I haven’t had an opportunity to strengthen my body with creature’s parts as none of the creatures I hav...
2023-05-16 18:40:11 +0000 UTC
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I was running towards the beetle menace down south, but I was more focused on the sky where Goose was flying circles around me even while I was going at the top speed that the current terrain allowed me. Goose was like a living fighter jet especially now since he was first rank. The more his ability to control air improved the faster he started to improve his stats allowing him to rank up.
The reason I couldn't stop looking at him was because something was bugging me, and I couldn’t p...
2023-05-16 18:23:16 +0000 UTC
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I watched the assembled legion. Even now they looked quite impressive, but the numbers were still quite low. Most of the soldiers were in the regular legion unit with a spear and a shield. There were 40 archers and four ballistae operated by 20 soldiers. Currently, they were the only ones that had horses so they could take everything they needed with them. Everyone else was just bringing their own supplies.
The reason the current operation was even possible with so few supplies was that...
2023-05-12 17:36:20 +0000 UTC
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If there won't be a chapter release on weekdays I will notify that in discord. I was sick again and my health is bad so this might keep happening more. I will still try to write 5 chapters a week but I do not know how well I can keep to that schedule.
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The next day I woke up quite late as I wanted some more time to sleep. While others might think that the harvest we did was hard work for me it was quite pleasurable and more like a vacation. This vacation is now unfo...
2023-05-11 15:54:43 +0000 UTC
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I watched as a large piece of steel was heating up. This was going to be the head of my new two-handed mace. Looking around I saw a basically empty smithy as I hadn’t had any time to work on making tables or anything else useful. Even my hammers and tongs didn’t have any place and were just propped up against the forge. Currently, I was using the smaller forge meant to heat up medium or small pieces of metal for forging, but it was only the smaller forge because of the size of the other o...
2023-05-05 16:21:46 +0000 UTC
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The next morning was quite joyous as everyone prepared their own small gifts to take to Arthur. I made him a proper anvil for his gift and everyone else also made some other useful things that he currently didn’t have.
France helped bring everything as we also had quite a lot of alcohol. We now had older people who wanted to drink, and Arthur also wanted to celebrate with his friends that were already there when we reached his home. He had more friends than I expected but I was happy ...
2023-05-04 16:25:55 +0000 UTC
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I started to test my construction sight. At first, it was just easier to notice things that weren't made by nature but continuing to play around with this sight, it also pointed out some mistakes that would have made the water wheel stronger and last longer, the same with the smithy building. It was a bit annoying that I could only now see these mistakes but there didn't seem to be any crucial design flaws, so it didn't matter too much.
The design mindscape was a lot more interesting. S...
2023-05-04 16:25:15 +0000 UTC
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To finish this smithy and water wheel combination build I still needed to do quite a lot of work. While the main building was done giving me almost 30 square meters of free floor space with a high ceiling and walls made out of stone, I still haven’t started on the water wheel and its supporting structures. Beyond that, I will need to build a water delivery system, and everything needed for the blower.
To start off simply I decided to start on the blower. I will only have a maximum of ...
2023-05-02 18:31:56 +0000 UTC
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It took me a bit to find the cook who accepted my job offer at a food stall selling some sort of meat skewers and a few other food items. He looked quite well-built with a short beard but kind eyes. He spoke as soon he saw me. “My name is Val it's a pleasure to meet you in person Rich Dirt. Your job offer was quite interesting, and I could get the job done with my current equipment, but I would be in the village, and you would have to come to me every time you need your required food.”
2023-05-01 18:40:10 +0000 UTC
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Everything went as expected but after 10 level-ups I haven’t found anything of use. The offered skills or abilities just didn't excite me, so I kept taking the stat points every time I levelled. My training plan required me to just take energy storage stat points so now every point that I was gaining went into energy storage.
For this level-up milestone from 20 to 40, I was able to get 12 energy storage stat points whenever I chose to take the stat points. I could have gotten a lot mo...
2023-04-28 11:04:10 +0000 UTC
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The run through the swamp and forest was uneventful, the only issue was that I had to slow down so I could regain some of my energy. I could already feel my training plan development ability wanting a steady stream of energy so it could recalculate my training plan with the latest improvements I have gained.
Not wanting to be wasteful I decided to wait until this evening when I was going to level up my adventurer class. The new stat points and possible skills and abilities meant that I ...
2023-04-27 16:06:25 +0000 UTC
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The dungeon started to become a lot more fun when I reached the floor with first-rank challenges. Until floor seven I was still able to quite easily handle everything but after that, I actually needed to start thinking and not just rushing in. Slowly my abilities and skills levelled while I was also constantly learning to fight better.
The dungeon was a mix of beast types and plant-like humanoids. The plant-like humanoids looked like humans and had some rusted armour and weapons. My gue...
2023-04-26 19:32:32 +0000 UTC
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My internal clock says that I’ve slept for quite a while. Looking at the sky it seems that it's well past morning. As the fight ended well before it got dark, I truly have slept for quite a while. My regular energy reserves were almost full, but my core energy was only about 1/3 full. I should take it easy for at least today. It was time for me to start heading towards the dungeon but this time I will probably avoid every fight I can.
Before I climbed down the tree I looked at my othe...
2023-04-25 19:08:18 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t exactly know how far away the presumed fight had happened, but I thought I was about halfway there when I saw something that I hadn’t before. There was a group of young fire salamanders, really young. They were running like death was after them and I guess it was as older-looking fire salamanders hunted them down while they were trying to run somewhere safe. I didn’t interfere in their fight, just circled around and continued my run.
I knew that I had made it when I saw a...
2023-04-24 19:51:08 +0000 UTC
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It only took me four more hours to find another first-tier opponent. Sneaking up on it using stealth I was able to get a critical attack which allowed me to end the fight quite fast. The monsters are usually a lot larger and stronger than their beast counterparts, so the first-tier fire salamander beast was a lot smaller and weaker than the monster I fought previously. It was like an oversized crocodile but with a lot more capability to move on land. Its scales were quite tough, but my abilit...
2023-04-21 08:32:56 +0000 UTC
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Don't know how long it will be until I feel good enough to write hopefully not long.
2023-04-17 13:22:59 +0000 UTC
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When Stebs Soot left I felt that I had enough social interaction to be able to fight for the next week. I needed to hunt quite a lot according to my training plan and luckily thanks to Stebs Soot I had an area rich with targets.
The goblins had ranged quite far looking for other goblin tribes, but they didn't find anyone close by that they could reach. Beasts and monsters were growing in strength and some areas had become unpassable.
Their current biggest problem was towards the n...
2023-04-14 16:48:09 +0000 UTC
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