Aethelgard: The Survival Game (Chloe) novel Chapter 31

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Chloe submitted the trade agreement. As she did, the Sorceress’s Pact Scroll in her item inventory flickered with a soft glow.

A system prompt appeared during the transaction: [Activate Sorceress’s Pact Scroll?]

Chloe thought for a moment and selected yes. She believed it never hurt to be cautious. If possible, she wanted to build a long-term partnership with this player who possessed an alchemy talent.

The moment she confirmed, a violet scroll materialized in the air and ignited with a strange blue flame. It hung suspended for half a minute as an intricate magical rune seared itself into existence.

The rune read: [Whosoever breaks faith and abandons their vow, their soul shall be given to the shepherd.]

A faint magical mark, identical to the rune in the air, appeared on the back of Chloe’s hand before quickly fading from sight. She now understood how this special item worked.

A glance at her system interface showed nothing out of the ordinary, so she pushed the matter from her mind.

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On the other side, Zoe had also signed the contract. After she agreed to Chloe’s cooperation terms, a piece of leather hide and a magical quill materialized in the air before her. It asked her to sign her name.

Zoe assumed it was just the standard system contract process and scribbled her signature without giving it much thought. Her entire focus was already consumed by her new Alchemical Forge.

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Chloe went to bed early. The next morning, she checked her status immediately. Everything looked good. The rain, however, had grown heavier.

Notification: [Novice Protection Period: Day 5.

[Weather: Moderate Rain turning to Torrential Rain. Environmental damage reduced by 85%.

[Please adapt to the multi-frequency environment as swiftly as possible.]

The rain hammered down in relentless sheets. The world felt as if it were drowning.

Even lying in bed, Chloe could feel the entire cabin shuddering. Rain lashed against the glass window with fierce, staccato slaps. Water was seeping through the cabin walls in more than a few places.

She scrambled up to check the structure. A notice hovered beside it: [Under System Protection.]

Chloe let out the breath she’d been holding. When she pulled the door open, the savage rain outside nearly hurled her right back inside.

This is barely distinguishable from a typhoon,’ she thought. ‘Is the weather in this game really this extreme?

She grabbed the umbrella she’d made at her Crafting Table, put on her Flora Whisperer’s Cap, and stepped outside to check

on her carros crop.

The good news was that the Carrot Seed had finally sprouted. The bad news was that rainwater was drowning the seedling, and it looked as if it might not hold on.

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huir single point of dark green in the soil, barely the size of a fist, was being battered by the wind and rain looking ready to -scatter at any moment

Tiny bubbles were popping over the fragile carrot sprout: [Root Suffocation Asphyxiation. Drenched. Root system distressed.J

Chloe didn’t hesitate. She stepped into the downpour with her umbrella and positioned it over the carrot

The plastic rain shelter she’d rigged up earlier had long since been blown away to who knows where.

The instant she entered the rain, she could barely keep her eyes open. Water blurred her vision, and her body’s Dampness rocketed to 100% in seconds. She was also slapped with the Damp status.

Ignoring it all, she wedged the umbrella into the soil to shield the sprout from the rain’s full impact.

She also checked on the Arcane Soil Purifier nearby. It stood utterly unmoved, completely unaffected by the torrent.

Once she’d confirmed the umbrella was doing its job, she left the plant to its fate. She grabbed the Wish Rod and kept fishing.

‘If the survival conditions are this brutal even with the system reducing environmental damage by 85%, she wondered, what will happen when the novice period ends?”

She believed Eureka’s prediction of a massive death toll was no joke. The steady, methodical decline of the player count on the Trading Post, hundreds vanishing every day like clockwork, was proof enough,

But Chloe suspected the true danger hadn’t even arrived yet. She couldn’t hide from it. She had to push forward, gather more resources, more blueprints, more food, and upgrade her territory as fast as possible.

Before bed, she’d used her Crafting Table to produce two more umbrellas. They were common ones, since she’d run out of Fleece-Grass Fibers, but they’d been quick to make.

The Crafting Table could continuously produce the same item, though her Level 0 table was capped at ten items per day.

A common umbrella now took her one hour to craft. She’d make extras to keep for trades in the group.

Umbrella in hand, she cast out her line as she always did. Fishing was a long and meditative process. The extreme weather gave it an almost surreal atmosphere.

Arcane

I need to upgrade soon, she thought. If only I had the blueprint for an Arcane Workbench. She didn’t know how many times she’d sighed those words.

Perhaps her desire had grown intense enough to bend reality. This time, her rod snagged something far faster than usual She heaved back on the line and pulled up a Mimic,

The system actually offered a helpful notification the moment the creature appeared: [Arcane Mimic: A creature granted its own peculiar form of life through corruption by magical reagents.

[Magic Threat Level: Low Threat Level.

[Active Trait: Attracted to magic and mana. Hungers for more magical items.]

The Minic’s hide was a vivid purple, clearly setting it apart from every other creature she’d seen. Chloe immediately slammed an Aqua Sphere into it.

Under the weather’s amplifying effect, the spell’s damage and efficiency had multiplied exponentially

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