Marcia paced through her foggy void back and forth faster and faster, trying to decide whether to accept the very dubious offer.
Marcia: “Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, What do I do?!”
{Denizen would like to accept the invitation from the Ladies of Dis, you have 5 minutes before offer becomes void.}
{Yes/No}
Marcia: “Fuck! Fine you stupid box, I accept the offer ”
The still foggy void darkened, the ever present white turned a light blue and slowly darkened to soul sucking black. A young petulant sounding voice rings out from close behind her.
???(1): “Well that’s not a very nice thing to say, Maybe we shouldn’t induct such a vulgar and uncouth person to our Sect”
Marcia dared to face the voice, then registered what was said, a Sect? Marcia’s head instantly drifted towards over dramatic Chuunibyou and ridiculously long attack names, before realizing the darker connotations that could come with it, before Marcia could fall into apologetic hysterics a second more mature voice spoke out from her original direction.
???(2): “Peace little sister, this one just had her life changed in a way that no one who isn’t a precursor would ever understand, some leeway should be afforded when it comes to manners.”
A third elderly voice spoke from next to the second.
???(3): “Yes, much of this must not make sense to young Marcia here.”
Finally coming to her senses Marcia decided finally join the conversation.
Marcia: “Ahh… Hi?”
Marcia swore in her head, three mysterious and potentially dangerous voices and the best thing she could come up with is “Hi”.
???(3): “Although maybe she is just slow?”
This brought a high pitched giggling from the first voice and husky chuckle from the second. Now throughly embarrassed Marcia decided to try again.
Marcia: “Apologies, this an unexpected event and the sudden changes in the environment and mentioning of a Sect, sent my mind reeling, as you seem to know who I am, could I please ask how I may address your esteemed selves?”
Nothing could go wrong with over politeness…. she was wrong this brought even more laughter from the mysterious voices. The fog moved, flowed, and condensed into three columns
???(3): “You may address us collectively as the Ladies of Dis, but personally you may refer to me as Elder Jesika Bristlebite and these,Two are my personal disciples. Girls introduced your selves.”
The columns continued to condense down into more humanoid forms until the fog disappeared revealing three people, in the center was a dignified elven woman wearing an elaborate blue and green kimono, with hair of pure silver and glowing green eyes. The second was a young pouty Rabbit Beast-kin girl with curly pink hair wearing very plain yellow kimono that looked two sizes too large, and finally there was a Feline Beast-Kin woman that appeared to be similar in age to herself that had long white hair and piercing red eyes, she wore a kimono of deep red. The Feline Beast-Kin smiled, dipped into a shallow bow and spoke.
???(2): “My name is Sofiya Maryana, it is a pleasure to meet you even though it is not my or your preferred setting.”
The Rabbit crossed her arms puffed out her cheeks and turned away slightly.
The Rabbit: “I don’t see why, she’s going to die in the Tutorial anyway.”
Elder Jesika: “It’s an important part of the negotiation procedure, so do it.
Oooohh boy the Elder definitely doesn’t look happy with the Rabbit.
The Rabbit: “Fine my name is Eponine Cottontail, and if you laugh I’ll beat you up!”
Now having a little girl threaten to beat me up is a new experience, it was already difficult, trying to keep my composure with how hard she was trying to be serious, but with her declaration I lost it and broke out laughing. Next thing I knew I was in my back with a severe pain radiating from my chest and the feeling of being tossed head over heels, pushing myself up took a serious amount of effort and once my vision came back into focus it revealed a sight that caused me to almost start laughing again, the Elder had picked her disciple up off the ground by the ears like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
Elder Jesika: “Now Eponine, that was very rude and just caused our Sect to incur quite the debt for initiating hostilities during a sponsorship negotiation, I have no choice but to send you back now.”
Eponine: “But Master I was just..”
The unruly Rabbit disappeared before she could finish what ever her excuse was, then the Elder then turned to me and gave a put upon look.
Elder Jesika: “Did you really have to laugh and set her off?”
Marcia: “Wouldn’t you?”
The Elder let out a long suffering sighed and then chuckled.
Elder Jesika: “I probably would, now let’s get back to negotiations, since introductions have been made.”
{Name: Marcia Brume
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Race: High Beast-kin
Species: Feline(Panther)
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 95 lbs
Eye color: Teal
Hair color: Black
Level: 1
Experience: 0/100
Mana type: Mist
Blood line: Standard Beast (Panther)
Class: complete skill selection
Skill 1: Lesser Glyph Mastery: Level 1
Skill 2: Arcane Trap Mastery: Level 1
Skill 3: Greater Camouflage: Level 1
Skill 4: unselected
Skill 5: unselected }
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Yes Votes: 36 40.4%
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No Votes: 11 12.4%
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Sometimes Votes: 42 47.2%
Looks like the Art links aren’t working. I’ll try to find a fix or alternative.
Names are now hyperlinks for art
@Choobs What art ai did you use?
I think it depends on how you define art. If art is an expression of oneself in a visual, written, or auditory form then the answer is no. Simply putting prompts into a field and having an AI form an image isn't really expressing anything. If your idea of art is just pretty pictures then yes it's art lol.
That said, I'm not all that pompous in my interpretation of art. While I don't personally consider AI generated images to be art. I do appreciate how amazing the technology is behind it. I also don't blame people writing web novels with varying degrees of ability to draw their own art to use AI for character illustrations either. Not all of us have the money to commission artists for passion projects like this.
The images don't work
I think it’s just me, but the images did charge on my end
Not for me either
Not showing for me, as well.
Art broke
A cultivation story has invaded…
I think it isn’t the regular cultivation Sect
@TheLord999 It will probably be an op cultivation sect but the but most inhabitants of some fantasy worlds will make a guild called a sect and some people can cultivate but the MC may be going to a cultivation world
@Treythedane2 the cultivation world would be surprising, since there is no cultivation genre/tag (any other of the cultivation normal genre/tags)
@Choobs You should add maybe to the vote.
Wouldn’t that just be sometimes?
@Choobs i mean. For me ai is in between art and not art.
Thank you for the chapter!
AI is a tool, when used it can be a source of insight and innovation... or it can just be a crutch or easy solution to a problem. It really depends what you do with it if it would be Art or just art. You always need to remember that the AI is trained on previous artists works and is the ultimate copy cat, and that can rub people the wrong way. What those people need to take into account is that copying someone else's works was and still is a very important tool in teaching and learning.