With the two of them insisting, I couldn’t just decline to help them. So, I pointed out the various slimes that I saw with my Detective Analysis, creating projections of arrows over their heads. Immediately, Diane dashed out, daggers out the ready while Bella switched to her pistols. Unlike her rifle, she wasn’t able to reliably kill these slimes with …

After Charles left, we watched as a procession of people filed out of the teleportation nexus. The first were a group of fifty men and women in black robes led by an elven male with a starry cloak. He offered a curt nod as he approached, before bowing deeply. “King Advent. My name is Cedric George, the Archmage of Space. …

After we ate, I went ahead and created the Sunspire Palace, a towering stone structure that glistened in the moonlight. It had stained glass windows facing both the east and west, as well as three tall towers. Various different colors of coral were interwoven to make the interior decorations, such as spiraling statues that held up a golden orb on …

With my new goal in mind, I rapidly swam from one bubble to another. Although they were far more rare than the clustered orbs up where Bella and Nuoda were swimming, I was able to teleport between them fairly quickly. The problem was that there were quite a few possible rewards, so even with me being able to quickly obtain …

As I swam lower and lower, the light from the surface completely died down, replaced only by the flickering lights of various aquatic monsters, as well as the increasingly rare, shimmering orb. Even with my Tremorsense-X, I couldn’t detect the bottom. Are you alright, Drake? Diane messaged me, having no doubt lost sight of me as I disappeared into the …

When we arrived at the edge of the mountain biome, we were once again treated to the eerie sight of this realm’s biome transitions. I saw the water quickly approaching, noticing that something seemed to be wrong with the shape of the landscape. This sense of wrongness was fully explained only when I passed by the next mountain. Instead of …

It didn’t take long to find Nuoda and tell her about the new dungeon. Thankfully, it wasn’t very far, and anyone could reliably access it, so long as they could handle any monsters they found on the way. It would probably not be long now before monsters began to trickle back into the area around the city. In the process …

I purchased eight of the embryos for eighty gold, planning to save five for my armor, and three for my weapons when I found decent replacements. Although I could ask Hammerhead to forge me some, we weren’t established enough yet to get reliable high-level materials. Especially since none of the nearby dungeons were good sources of monster components, aside from …

The next eight days passed by in arduous training. I spent every day in the training field with Bella. As she trained the various bullet skills that I had given her, I sat on the floor, practicing my own skills. Since there were proper training dummies, I even deployed my clones to train, letting them attack relentlessly. At the same …

A few minutes later, the three of us returned to Fallcry, my draconic form casting a shadow on the ground below. I could see several people looking startled, but none of the panic that I had initially been concerned about. I landed just outside the city gates, allowing Bella and Diane to dismount before I returned to my normal form. …