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Chapter 229: Flowers
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Chapter 228: Council Meeting
---Read "Chapter 229: Flowers" on SnowingPine.com!---On cue, the knob to the room started turning again. As the door swung open on oiled hinges, a tiger demon stepped through, immediately zeroing in on the cookies and looking at Neppo with annoyance.“There were four dozen of those, you speedster bush-tail.”“Hi Jaiko. And nobody ever answered me about that circular. I don’t think we are supposed to be calling him that,” the snake woman said.“Addendum 5A says you can call him that if he agrees to it. And he lost a bet,” Jaik...
Chapter 227: The Council
---Read "Chapter 228: Council Meeting" on Snowing Pine---“What am I supposed to wear for this, Lily?” Arthur said. “These are the god kings of the Demon World, right?”“God kings?” Lily looked confused but soldiered on. “Why are you asking me? I’m normal. I don’t do Arthur things. You should ask Karbo. He’s goes there, I bet.”Karbo nodded sagely. “A light shirt you can move in, durable pants enchanted against fire, and whatever weapons you can find. An extra dagger never hurt anyone.”“Never mind,” Lily said....
Chapter 226: Summoned
---Read "Chapter 227: The Council" on Snowing Pine---“There. Done. Any questions?”“I’m an appraiser of sorts, too, as it goes.” The rabbit woman gave a weak half smile. “Can I get a closer look at that? If you don’t mind.”Arthur nodded, and the woman moved forward. For reasons unexplained, both Eito and Itela looked a bit wary of her as she did, not in a this-person-is-dangerous way so much as a I-wish-I-could-have-planned-for-this way. He’d ask them about it later if he could.The woman ran her hands over the finished ...
Chapter 225: Arthur’s Big Day
---Read "Chapter 226: Summoned" on Snowing Pine---It was not a dud.Arthur’s brief attempt at a dry description of his majicka-storing boba was a flash bang, fully shocking the room awake. The majicka boba was something only he could do, for the moment, but the fact that he could do it without explicit involvement from his class meant that anyone might be able to. That was interesting. That was particularly big for, say, an alchemist who might want to store majicka in a commonly used filler ingredient for later use in pills.And if the ...
Chapter 224: The Talk
This is the second chapter of the day!Chapter 2 / 2---Read "Chapter 225: Arthur's Big Day" on Snowing Pine---By the time Arthur and the others left the baby animal cafe, it was well after dark. Everyone took turns with what animals were available and the nocturnal beasts ended up being just as cute as the daytime ones, if in a slightly different, night-vision compatible way.And throughout it all, Karbo was flat-out having the time of his life amid the presence of the little infants. He was still visibly the same man who could, given...
Chapter 223: Fluff Balls
This is the first chapter of two since I couldn't make it for Wednesday and FridayChapter 1 / 2---Read "Chapter 224: The Talk" on Snowing Pine---“For the last time, Itela, I don’t have to have you guide me,” Karbo said. “Even in a blindfold. I can just use my aura to maneuver.”“And for the last time, Karbo Battlemaster, that’s not the point.” Itela sighed. “If you use your aura vision, you’ll be able to see more than I want you to. This is a surprise. Let it be a surprise.”Itela was still refusing to spill even...
Chapter 222: System Unpreparedness
---Read "Chapter 223: Fluff Balls" on Snowing Pine---Trivial Rarity and System UnpreparednessThe system, for all its power, lacks time. Over the centuries, scholars of all stripes have remarked on some minor way the system has “fleshed out” its ability to communicate some concept. In these modern days, most common situations are easily decipherable by even the least academic of status-screen readers, but it likely was not always so.In times long past, records persist of status screen sages whose sole value appeared to rest in their ...
Chapter 221: Remmy
---Read "Chapter 222: System Unpreparedness" on Snowing Pine---“No way.” Both Eito and Lily jumped out of their seats but Eito was the first to get his incredulity in. “It was at twelve before, Arthur. Ten levels is too much.”“Lily destealthed Corbin. The system adjusted the reward for how hard that is to do. It sounds like it’s pretty hard to use her Majicka Lamp skill like that.” Arthur looked back at the screen. “It’s confusing, though. It says 22 absolute.She’s at 15 effective.”Eito threw up his hands. “No id...
Chapter 220: Majicka Lamp
Dev Note:If you are an author, or know anyone that is, please do show them the website. Feedback from all types of users helps a lot! If you are interested or have any questions regarding the site, such as privacy or security, feel free to reply to the signup confirmation email, or send me a DM here. I'll respond as soon as I see it.-Tyr---Read "Chapter 221: Remmy"onSnowing Pine!---“I’m sorry, but this is straight up insanity. Did you really forget to destealth this whole time? We were on the road for almost a week!” Arthur ex...
Chapter 219: Cooks
---You can read one chapter ahead at SnowingPine.com!P.S. You can also receive tier-dependent chapter notifications if you follow the fiction there! Aka, when a new chapter is posted, you will receive a notification that will send you to the latest chapter you can access~---Milo, Lily, and Arthur invited Philbin to breakfast. After dashing off a few notes to get the wheels turning on acquiring more auditorium space, Philbin accepted. It was a good thing too. If transporters knew a lot about where to eat, a tour guide in his own home environment...
Chapter 218: Milo’s Talk
---Read "Chapter 219: Cooks"onSnowing Pine!---Somewhere far away yet very close, the System chuckled and pulled up her own description for an achievement she had given Arthur. One that even he, by his own preference, didn’t know about.Rise Together (Achievement)Again and again, you’ve tired your success to the success of others. Far from riding coat-tails, you’ve offered your own, again and again. To anyone you could help along the way, regardless of whether you knew them well or not.If it were just once or twice, this might go un...
Chapter 217: Potential
---Read "Chapter 218: Milo's Talk"onSnowing Pine!---The next morning, Arthur decided to make his own tea. He had walked away from Lup’s with plenty of expertly blended tea, and he brewed some of it now. This was primo stuff, he decided. It was much stronger than almost any of his own teas, but in a connoisseur’s way, one where every flavor mellowed every other flavor just enough to allow for that strength without it being overpowered.And, given that Lup, who had named another blend Evening Petals, **labeled Arthur’s current bl...
Chapter 216: Tea Messiah
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Chapter 215: Teamasters
---Read "Chapter 216: Tea Messiah" on SnowingPine.com!---Ten minutes later, the carriage had Arthur where he needed to go. It was the same plaza where he and Mizu had seen the tea shop the first time. He got out, accepted the driver’s explanation that he had no idea where Arthur was supposed to go from there with a resigned air, and found a nice, inconspicuous wall to wait by until someone came to tell him what he was supposed to be doing.“Oh, there you are,” a very tall ferret woman said, as she poked her head out of the alley an...
Chapter 214: Half a Beach
Author's Note:The second chapter of the day! If you see this first please go back one~(Chapter 2 / 2)---Read "Chapter 215: Teamasters" on Snowing Pine---“This is insane.” Arthur sat in the weird, kinda-citrus fumes of the room as the bluish water he bubbled and churned. The blue, he had been told, was because he had the lowest level of vitality that could safely take an acid bath and the cyan tint signified the weakest acid they had. The bubbles, he was told, would shake off whatever particles the acid loosened. “There’s no ...
Chapter 213: Professional Bath
Author's Note:Hey guys! Sorry I couldn't make it on Monday. Today will be a double chapter day so that you get your missing chapter!Expect the next chapter in a few minutes.(Chapter 1 / 2)---Read "Chapter 214: Half a Beach" on Snowing Pine---Arthur and Lily had to handle navigating home themselves, but Philbin pointed them in the right direction and the high-speed-cart transit system took care of them from there. They got mildly turned around once they got off the carts and were wandering looking for a familiar sight when the be...
Chapter 212: Karra’s Walls
---Read "Chapter 213: Professional Bath" on Snowing Pine---Mizu left them to go on with the rest of her day’s business, which included several water-related talks of different kinds as well as another handful of visits to important moisture-related sites around the city. Arthur and Lily found themselves in an agriculture talk next, listening to a farmer talking about how to care for soil, especially land being used to grow crop after crop at majicka-enhanced speeds. It was a bit more relevant to Arthur since he did grow a small crop h...
Chapter 211: Majicka Understanding
Dev Note:If you are an author, or know anyone that is, please do show them the website. Feedback from all types of users helps a lot! If you are interested or have any questions (or doubts) regarding the site, such as privacy or security, feel free to reply to the signup confirmation email, or send me a DM here. I'll respond as soon as I see it.-Tyr---Read "Chapter 212: Karra's Walls"onSnowing Pine!---Philbin told Arthur or Lily that he was taking them to something accessible and interesting. Neither of them cared enough to ask ...
Chapter 210: City Rider
Eito led them away from the hotel at a crisp pace, moving in a direction Arthur hadn’t gone yet. Half a mile later, the group arrived at a sort of ramp that dropped into a covered area, big enough that four people could descend side by side at the same time.“A tunnel? This takes us to where trucks are?” Arthur asked, accidentally slipping in an Earth-word.“A tunnel, yes, but...” Eito moved down the ramp with Arthur and Lily in tow. “Please stop using that word. The translator knows what it means but it’s trying to include all your...
Chapter 209: Not Enough
---Read "Chapter 210: City Rider"onSnowing Pine!---Arthur didn’t have a shop to run and could take his time with his eggs and juice. He ate them slowly, stopping just a bit before he was actually full. It wouldn’t do to get the nerves while giving a talk and have the breakfast trying to leap out for fun adventures on the carpet. He didn’t expect things to get that bad, honestly, it never hurt to be prepared.“There you are.” Eito walked into the room, surprisingly un-hungover and in visibly good spirits. “Getting used to the ...
Chapter 208: Ulan and Experiences
This is the second chapter of the day! If you see this first, please enjoy the previous one before reading this~---Read "Chapter 209: Not Enough"onSnowing Pine!---When the song wrapped up, Arthur tossed a few coins in the busker’s instrument cases before they left. It was well worth it, doing a solid hour of breakfast-related material was an impressive feat in its own right.Afterwards, it wasn’t that long of a walk back to the inn. The stars had come out and even though there were more than a few lights on, they were a beautiful bac...
Chapter 207: The Breakfast Man
Author's Note: We passed 200 Green Tea Patrons! Expect a second chapter in a few hours~(Side note: Snowingpine needs an author's note section...)---If you want to receive push notificationsof chapter releases from SnowingPine,please installthe appfrom the popup you get when you visit, and followthe fiction there~(The notifications are appropriate to your tier, so no confusion there!)(P.S. Notifications are experimental and may not work. If you are following and do not receive a chapter notification from snowingpine in a few hours when t...
Chapter 206: The Cup and Kettle
---Read "Chapter 207: The Breakfast Man" on SnowingPine.com!---The second shower of the day was amazing.Arthur had taken two showers on the same day before, but it had always been when he needed both. It was for utility. But this? This was raw hedonism. This was Caligula stuff. He swam in the water for a half hour, then used a small amount of soap, just for the pageantry of it. Just before he got out, he turned the water cold to stop himself from sweating. By the time he dried off with another huge, fresh towel, he felt fantastic.Arthur...
Chapter 205: Double Shower Day
“I can’t believe you didn’t bring Rhodia. Whatever will you do with yourself?” Ella asked. “I brought mine. See? If you bring them, they’re with you. It’s not hard.”Minos patted his wife’s hand as they walked arm in arm. “Now now. The boy made a mistake. We can’t all be smart all the time.”“Mom. Dad. Come on,” Milo said. “She didn’t want to come. She’s been here recently, she has her own work to do, and she said, ‘you are going to spend all your time in smithies anyway, and I have no interest in that.’”...
Chapter 204: Noodles
By the time Arthur was done, everyone else was already out in the foyer waiting for him.“There you are,” Mizu said. “You smell better.”“It’s the soap. I think it has flowers in it,” Arthur said.She went up on tiptoes, bent him over a bit, and smelled his hair. “I think it’s blue star. And something else. I really like it.”“Oh, you love to see it,” Ella said. “Did I ever tell you about the time I caught them on that bench, Itela? Both of them were sitting in my backyard, just smiling in their sleep.”“That’s very c...
Chapter 203: Teamaster of Earth
After the literal dust had cleared and the combination of Mizu and Milo emptied, welded, and reinforced a water pipe, the two groups finally had time to greet each other. As Arthur guessed, Karbo had gotten bored at some point and covered the last few hours of travel midair, dragging Itela, Ella, Minos, Eito, and a very terrified wagoner with him.Now that the guards were gone, they were all reacting to this in very different ways.“Dad! Mom!” Milo shook some of the water and mud off his hands and ran up to his parents. “Sorry. I got sort o...
Chapter 202: Anti-Karbo Pamphlet
“Milo, where are you going?” Arthur asked.“The industrial district. No question,” Milo answered without any hesitation.“That makes sense. I’d imagine there’s a lot of smithing there.”“Not just smithing. It’s bigger than that.” Milo made some sweeping arm gestures over his head, trying to indicate just how big. “It’s all of industry. Making things. Fixing things. Melting things. Pouring things. I’m not just a smith now. I’m a machinist. It’s a rare class, but the capital has tons of automation and machine-builders...
(Book 5 Start) Chapter 201: On the Road Again
Arthur watched as Talca and Littal combined their wagon-moving forces to maneuver around a section of road that had, based on what Arthur could see, simply fallen away to the side, paving material and all. The actual motion around the hazard wasn’t that impressive and even seemed like something Arthur could handle. What made it more of a feat was that Talca’s wagon was moving so fast. As it swerved around the newly generated ditch, it must have been going forty miles an hour.“Geez.” Arthur looked over at Milo, who was pretending that th...
Book 4 DWBS Author’s Note
I’ve said this somewhere before, but writing is both absurdly hard and absurdly easy. I’ve had a bunch of jobs that were pretty bad in a lot of stressful, abusive, terrible ways, and writing is far and away easier than all of them. I get up, I have some ideas, I type those ideas, I slightly edit those ideas to be more pleasing to your eye, and then I take a nap.The hard part, which anyone who has written knows, is doing it every day. For a large part of the writing of this book, that became hard enough that I could barely do it. Dotblue, my...
