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Chapter 747 - Your problem now
🕑 Added 2025-09-10 16:00:28 +0000 UTCSwitching back to her Lumian body with no effort or side-effect, Sofia quickly sorted through her clothes to find something casual to wear, and seeing Pestle eye her enviously, made a small bone replica of the same long robe for her to wear.
“Let’s go. Just give me some time to find how to open the barr-”
Pestle jumped off of Sofia’s shoulder, and stabbed at a precise spot of the mana barrier surrounding the room with her claws. The entire thing crumbled, the leftover mana dispersing harmlessly into the air. “Open!”
“That works.”
Kuli’s house was a relatively simple countryside home built with quality wood, with potted plants, crocheted pillows and curtains everywhere. Looking outside, it seemed that it was in the middle of nowhere, near a calm creek at the base of a mountain, with no other buildings in sight.
North of Drakron, I think?
Kuli and Pareth were sitting at a wooden table under the shade of a large tree, sorting through a pile of paper, while Bookie was further away in the plains, running after a level 20 butterfly monster. Kuli was so busy, reading the papers with furrowed brows, that she failed to even notice Sofia approaching, unlike Pareth who greeted her with a nod.
Good morning. Nice beard.
“What are you reading?” she asked Kuli, pulling her attention away from the papers.
“Nyeh, nothing important,” Kuli answered, turning towards her, “Feeling well?”
“I don’t know if that is how I would describe it, but not bad. It’s definitely going to take a while getting accustomed to having so much mana. How about you?”
“Neh, I’ve never felt better or stronger. It’s like I regained my youth.”
“You certainly look less tired,” Sofia noticed, “thanks for letting me rest in your house while I was out. Also sorry, I ripped one of the pillows,” she apologized, tapping one of her horns.
“You can rip all the pillows if you want,” Kuli answered with a shrug, looking down under the table at the tournament master greaves she was wearing.
“Thanks for the offer but I’m fine. I’m more curious about the ‘nothing important’ you’re dealing with. Backlog of the adventurer guild’s business?”
“Ah! That would have been much less of a headache! I’ll have to deal with that later too, but no, these are… Suitors…”
“Ooooh. That many?” Sofia asked. Judging by the three piles of envelopes on the table, there were at least four or five hundred of them.
Kuli raised an eyebrow, “Poor girl. I think you are ill prepared for what is coming your way,” she said, putting the letter she had been holding on the largest of the three piles, and moving to pick one up from the second largest. Pareth stopped her before that, sliding the letter he had been reading toward her. “This one is decent?”
Pareth nodded, and grabbed another unopened envelope to read.
Kuli thanked him and got to reading the letter Pareth had handed her.
“I never expected Pareth would end up being your matchmaker,” Sofia commented.
“Nothing better than a trustworthy man to curate other men, don’t you think?”
“Dating is clearly not our field of expertise, is all,” Sofia said with a shrug, “Any promising ones so far?”
“A few. Some of them are people I’ve known, too. I never even realised they saw me like that.”
“Nice. I’m happy for you. Did not a single one try to come in person, though?”
“Neh, very few people know where to find me when I’m not at the guild,” Kuli explained, not looking up from the letter she was reading, “And those who do know not to come uninvited. Well, aside from a certain fox. She said she’d come see your city once you wake up.”
“Valeure did? There’s no city to speak of so far though… I barely got done building the foundations. Ah, right, what about Mornn?”
“She had to leave right away for urgent family matters,” Kuli said, “I don’t know more, but it did not sound like something bad, at least.”
“Hmm… Alright. I’ll leave you to it then, can I use the kitchen? I feel quite hungry.”
“Go ahead, the pantry’s pretty empty but feel free to use what’s there.”
“Thanks!”
As she had very little confidence in her culinary skills when it came to anything other than grilled meat with salt, Sofia had prepared a very simple salad with what she found in Kuli’s kitchen and some leftover vegetables from her storage’s cooling box. Pestle had already devoured her portion, while Kuli and Sofia munched on theirs, one reading love letters and the other staring at a list of words.
[NEW - Fused class skill builder!]
[1 Active and 1 Passive builds available for ‘Saintomancer’]
[Skill builder (Active) - Target skill level:300 - Affix limit:3]
‘- Unused Affixes will be discarded -
Available prefixes (Saint):
Eclipse (SPEC)
Heavenly
Relic of
Available suffixes (Necromancer):
rattling (SPEC)
sacrifice
jewels
Available leftover affixes (will not be discarded):
Restore
To think I influenced the system this much. And not a single error message this time. I have to wonder if this is Nex’s doing or the high-scribes…
Still, how in the world is ‘jewels’ a necromancer keyword?
And Restore is still there… Looks like I’m not using it this time, either. At this rate I’ll still have the damn keyword when I reach level 500!
Well. What do I do with this, now? The earring actually took two point three skill slots, but the demon form upgrade actually free almost a full slot worth of space. So I have six point three slots left. Two of those are for the lord skills, so really I have four slots left… For two hundred levels worth of skills.
Taking more skills should be fine for the time being anyway, but space will become an issue without doubt in the future, even if I do more fusions.
So… Another active skill.
The limiting factor here are the suffixes. They’re very narrow. Hmm… Let’s proceed as I usually do.
Eclipse starts have ‘Eclipse rattling sacrifice’ and ‘Eclipse Relic of Rattling’ that sound decent. ‘Eclipse jewels’, maybe. Everything else feels like trash.
Heavenly give a lot more decent options.
‘Heavenly Eclipse sacrifice’, ‘Heavenly Relic of… anything really’ , simply ‘Heavenly jewels’ or ‘Heavenly sacrifice’ also work. The only annoying things is how little of a guess I have about what these all could do.
‘Relic of’ and ‘Heavenly’ can be swapped around when put together without changing the meaning much, so there’s that. ‘Relic of Restore sacrifice’ certainly sounds interesting.
This feels harder than usual…
Probably because it doesn’t feel like I am lacking much of anything anymore.
My defenses are incredible, and I can work on the bolt for offense… Another direct attack spell could be fine but the keywords this time around really aren’t suited for that, so… If anything I would need some kind of utility skill to help with my city-building project.
‘Relic of restore sacrifice’ for some kind of invoked healing artefact maybe? Would lessen the need for healers?
Ah… But I have the philosopher’s stone already. I can just make healing water with it.
I don’t want to use rattling I think. I just can’t see what the end result would be. So I think…
Heavenly sacrifice has a good ring to it… But sacrifice… What is sacrificed? Who? For what?
Should I just leave it up to chance and get like ‘Heavenly jewels’?
I kind of like that. Heavenly jewels make me think of divine essence, so it could actually have good synergy with VPPV. Yeah, it’s settled. I want some kind of heavenly jewels. The issue is, there are many decent combinations even with just that.
‘Heavenly Eclipse jewels’?
‘Relic of Heavenly jewels’?
‘Heavenly sacrifice jewels’?
‘Heavenly jewels rattling’?
Hmmm… That last one sounds a bit dirty…
Alright. I think I’ve decided. Really I don’t see how this could go wrong.
[You have selected : Relic of - Heavenly - jewels. Are you sure?]
Fully sure. Get on with it! Sofia thought with excitement.
The completed skill arrived almost instantly.
You have acquired the active skill : ‘Abereth of Greed’
It’s a doubled-locked skill?!
♢ [Abereth of Greed] ♢ :
This curse is now yours to bear.
Summon or recall the Abereth of Greed.
The Abereth cannot be escaped.
Inserting the mana jewel of the recently deceased inside of the Abereth of Greed grants it power.
Powers gained depend on the ‘jewel’s previous owner and the Abareth’s current owner.
Powers gained by the Abereth of Greed can be discarded, but the jewels will be destroyed.
Jewel slots : 5 (4+Skill level).
Current owner:
Sofia Aphenoreth : Aura of just deserts
Current jewels:
Name unknown (Pre system, data missing): Aura of stillness
Name unknown (Pre system, date missing): Aura of silence
Amon Ledeos (Lvl 322, Necromancer): Aura of undeath
Empty
Empty
Aura range is always equal to the owner’s.
Comments
Phsteven
Either one works fine. Did free is a bit more wordy...
E
Does Sofia have the ability to interact with Sorrow now? If yes, then that should be the first order of business.
Mrluigi1111111
Gotta get back at her for the specialization shenanigans somehow.
Libery
But the demon form upgrade actually free almost a full slot worth of space. actually did free OR actually freed? Not too sure anymore which was the correct gammer, I think did
Wensber
It draws two cards.
Lazy Monster
TFTC. Now to shakedown the recessed of Greed for some essence since Sofia is looking after their…pet? Friend? Tool? Whatever.
Mornn
(ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
OmniGlitcher
As always, thanks for the chapter! A funny chapter with keywords is a nice birthday present :D Nice to see Kuli being thankful for the gauntlets in her own way. I'm half expecting a city to be built out of love letters for Sofia when she goes back. Ah yes, Chimeric Armaments Sofia Edition. ;) Seems like a nice skill though.
Tom Asciola
Hopefully "hey, can you deliver this love letter to your girlfriend for me" will be at least a LITTLE bit of a deterrent
Mornn
Cannot be escaped. *sips tea*
Phsteven
"And those who do know not to come uninvited." Needs a comma after "do" or it doesn't sound right. Thanks for the chapter.
Matt Grayson
So... what happens if she just never summons it?
Matt Grayson
Half of her suitors are probably Gods - and Goddesses.
Mornn
Pretty sure I got the correct spelling :)
Alexander Andrews
That might be one of the most "Necromancer" powers I've seen... Literally using the equivalents of souls to empower your creations...
Malphir
Did you mean 'Aura of just desserts'? Because that makes more sense than it being related to sand.
Joshua Nutter
This thing is going to be a Problem when Sofia is an ascended, she can go leviathan hunting to get it the “every status effect in existence” aura ability, on top of what other effects she likes
Tom Asciola
Ooh, this is a fun new present! And Sofia has a pretty good excuse to ignore suitors. I suspect "I'm dating a God" is hard to argue against.
Matt Grayson
What, I say, WTF? Cool...
Ceasar Salas
So… anyone wanna vote on how many suitor envelopes Sofia will be getting? My guess is only 2x of Kuli’s 3 piles. Only because Sofia doesn’t really have a proper residence even if she does have a foundation in the spirit forest. Although I bet Speed is glad he will have a lot more delivery jobs and get to see Sofia as a part of that
Cyclone001
The system really needs an "Are you sure?" prompt before finalizing double locked skills into someone. The system seems almost vindictive the last 3 chapters.
Songy
Did a quick google search for 'Abereth', found an MMORPG. Greed tracks. :P Seriously though... wat? (•˕ •マ
Ceasar Salas
Thanks for the chapter! So… Sofia seems like she is still working towards earning that full Looming essence… But wow, just one aura skill was strong, I can’t imagine what having a second or more active can do. It does make me wonder if Nex had this in mind to dump some of the more problematic skills on Sofia. Also, although it’s kind of irrational, I find the idea of [Restore Heavenly jewels] or [Restore sacrifice jewels] to have interesting results if Sofia picked them
Dan N
Speaking of Aura effects, Sofia's Aura stat just got a huge boost didn't it? Her new ranges must be absolutely ludicrous.
KazukiNero
This could be very good or go so very wrong.
Joshua Nutter
Did the system just throw one of its long time problems at Sofia? That is hilarious if true
Spencer
Thats not a terrifying sounding skill at all. Then again, its a very high levek skill, so that tracks.
