cerim

Chapter 249 - Craft guild

"Your weapon should work against The First One as well if we're lucky. Most of the skills need at least a bit of mana for activation and upkeep, so disrupting the connection he has to other ants should stop him from getting their mana, vitality, and from ordering them around," Myrra says.

"Only if we're able to keep him...

Chapter 248 - This kind of person

Interacting with people is hard, isn't it? I could be on my own, not worried, not having to deal with them. It would be easier.

Sure, I like being alone and I really need it often to recharge my batteries, but being able to once in a while walk into the living room and just listen to other members of Group 4, joke with ...

Chapter 247 - Little Kitten

After a few hours of sleep, I wake up and stretch my body. Jumping from the bed, I take a few steps and enter the balcony, looking outside at the city. Virelia is unusually quiet, and the walls that used to surround it are gone, as well as dozens of buildings destroyed and a few towers tilted or just straight up toppled.

Chapter 246 - The Message

Our way back to Virelia is faster than before. I refrain from using mana as much as possible to restore it while I carry the battered members of Group 4 with my arms made of mana.

The three of them are all missing legs and are currently all unconscious, something Lily did with the rest of the mana she got from my arm. S...

Merry Christmas!

For those celebrating, Merry Christmas! Have nice holidays and rest well!

Chapter 245 - A promise made

POV Tess Hansen

Was I ever this angry in my life? Did I ever hate another being that much?

If Nathaniel hadn't stopped me, I would already be in the middle of the room, fighting the four ants and probably risking the lives of three of my precious friends in the process. Lives of my comrades.

Chapter 244 - Crown

"We don't have time for this," Tess says, releasing a bit more lightning from her crown, and Lily uses more mana to create a gray arrow.

"This will be quick," I say. I've long since thought about how I would fight myself or deal with someone with mana similar to mine.

A javelin that I have created, boosted by kine...

Book 2 cover

Hey, some of you may have missed it, so here is the cover of Book 2. Book 2 will end around Chapter 207 - right after the escape from the tunnels under the old capital.

The scene on the cover is mostly from the end of the 3rd floor.

Oh, just in case, this post is for everyone, so please avoid spoilers from chapte...

Chapter 243 - Obstacles

Using [Perception] in the darkness that surrounds us, I find us inside a single half-sphere-like shaped room.

That's when a few of the enforcers join their skills together and create some sort of domain that doesn't allow me to perceive further nor any mana to pass inside.

Myrra also sends somethi...

Chapter 242 - Eris

We reach the area with flooring that is impossible to destroy, and most of the important people are already around there. There are even a dozen lynthari wearing the same black armor, each of them level over 200. Unlike most of the lynthari we met until now, they are calm and serious.

“How is it, Myrra?” I catch her...

Chapter 241 - We were wrong

“We are leaving, right now!” For the first time, I hear extreme urgency in Myrra's voice, and she even grabs the item from Obelia's hand, and uses it to charge and activate the array after throwing a few mana stones on the ground.

While they are preparing to leave, I send a pulse of [Perception] tow...

Chapter 240 - Preparation to hunt the Calamity

Did he just say deer? Archdeer?

Oh my, surely nothing wrong will happen if I buy it? I can't strengthen Bambi’s curse, and I'm sure Biscuit would like that piece of meat a lot.

“We have the first offer, one Star Stone!” the auctioneer shouts. “Surely we won’t end up at one only!”

One Star Stone i...

Chapter 239 - Bidding

“What are you doing here… boss,” I say, ignoring the look I get for that.

Meanwhile, the granddaughter of the lynthari matriarch sits on my lap. Shamelessly. The matriarch called her Eris before, so I guess I should call her that.

“Grandma said that I should go there and buy myself something nice if I want...

Chapter 238 - Start of the Auction

There are multiple rooms where the items are previewed, and there are already plenty of people in this rooms inspecting the items for one last time before the auction. A few guards are in each room, while the items are in glass boxes with circuits etched into them.

Armors, amulets, rings, some weird eggs, and bottles th...

Chapter 237 - Dressed up

I check myself one more time in the mirror. I'm wearing simple gray suit-like clothes. They are tailor-made, and it took a few weeks to get a few sets. Something I, in the end, let happen even though I prefer my casual clothes.

The clothes are surprisingly comfortable, with gray pants, a similar color jacket, and under ...

Chapter 236 - Back on the surface

It had long been suspected here in this world that the Colony and the Living Tree were weapons used in a war long ago. But learning in one day that that war was against invaders called lynthari and the Colony was something created for them would be quite earthshaking news for someone from this floor.

“So, you guys inv...

Chapter 235 - Why are you here?

“Can you take care of this?” I ask Tess, and when she nods, I turn my attention back to the room.

First, I check on group 4. Hadwin's wounds, even the big ones, are already nearly healed thanks to his weaker healing skill and Lily. The petite black-haired girl is still missing some limbs and fingers, but she seems f...

Chapter 234 - 5th explorer

[Mana Domain] expands and I fill it with resonating mana again, canceling the arrows that the archer shoots at group 4.

Then his eyes made of mana stones glow and the stone lodged inside its chest radiates more mana. Its attacks become stronger and some of the arrows, even though weakened by my domain, ...

Chapter 233 - What would you like to know?

“Level at least 220, ranged base class, get into formation 5, full power from the start!” Obelia shouts, lightning immediately cracking around her.

A few of her guild with heavy armor immediately get to the front, mana surrounding their armor or shields and further strengthened by the barrier of their teammate.

Chapter 232 - Want to know

The moment the door closes behind us, I cancel my barrier. Even though there are most likely tonnes of rock and stone filling the place where my barrier used to be, we hear nothing.

Observing the door for a while, I see that the inscriptions are up and running once again, powered by an unknown source.

I wonder, sh...

Chapter 231 - Ancient mine

For a while, there is nothing, just darkness, damp air, and the sound of our breathing and steps as we continue to touch the walls once in a while to send mana through the lines that light them up. It's calmingly quiet, and there is something that I can't identify that improves my mood. Maybe it is the unknown in front of us,...

Chapter 230 - Expedition to ancient mine

So, Champion candidate Myrra. That explains a lot, as well as gives me new questions to wonder about. How do you become a Champion candidate? Matriarch is stronger than Myrra; is she also a Champion candidate?

I will have to ask Myrra when I meet her.

When I get back home, it's already night and most of the people...

Chapter 229 - Little Princess

When Tess wakes up, she is at first surprised by the people around her. Only slowly she realizes that she is in the living room instead of her room.

It was my idea. That's what she gets for making me worry.

Unsurprisingly, Tess deals with people who immediately ask her questions fairly quickly. A harsh look here, ...

Chapter 228 - The second strongest member of Group 4

I spend the rest of the day and a big part of another helping Tess to get used to her skill.

[Stormcrown], while activated, improves her control over lightning by a lot. It also allows her to let lightning flow through her body and create something similar to [Lightning Armor] from befo...

Chapter 227 - New group member

I continue to look at Noodle, and he looks at me; soon, we both come to an understanding.

We are the same.

Noodle here is introverted as well, suffering under the hand of his energetic, extroverted child owner.

"Hang in there, buddy," I say. As I do, he sticks out his tongue and swivels it towards me, once a...

Chapter 226 - Hatched egg

First, I look at [Mana Manipulation]. It's probably the skill I use the most, and even though it's not as high-tiered as some others I have, I still hesitate. For someone like me, the skill is extremely important, so let's rather keep it. That leaves me with 6 options.

[Perception] with...

Chapter 225 - Door in the mountain

Even though I strengthen my body, it's still weak, so I dodge the first attack by letting myself fall, my knuckles scratching as I still hold the sword.

The leech passes over my head and, without even turning around, I send a short pulse of thermal energy at it, hearing it screech in pain.

Another attack from the ...

Chapter 224 - Beast

The Skystrider Beast uses a shockwave roar again, but this time I burrow the feet of the armor into the ground, and the attack mostly disperse on the mana surrounding me.

Like a strong wind, the shockwave tears off chunks of my mana, but I ignore it all. As I take a step toward the monster, I continue to radiate more of...

Chapter 223 - Day six

It´s the start of day three and I'm using only my mana to observe my surroundings. The reach becomes much smaller and the cost of keeping it up is annoying, so I take some mana from the mana batteries I have on me, feeding it to the skill. Efficiency isn't as good as my own mana, but it helps me to keep my own reserves as hi...

Chapter 222 - Second trial

Two days later the time comes and I start getting ready for the second trial. The farewells are short. Everyone in group 4 already knows about Beyond, some a bit more, others less, so there is no need for an explanation.

Biscuit gives me a nice piece of glass that he still thinks is the same as the Mana stones they use ...