《Choose 3 (Dropped)》Ch 8 - Magic Chart
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[girl] "Do you know where 228 is?"
[349] "Why?"
[girl] "I'm going to go get him to make sure your stories match up."
[349] Shrugs. "I saw him by the fountain last."
[girl] "Alright. You wait here, I'll go get him."
[349] "Huh? Why do I have to wait here? Wouldn't it be easier if I just came with you?"
[girl] "You're not coming with me because I need someone to watch my trees in case anything happens." Pauses to glare at him and his ax. "And if I let you out of my dungeon, you might run off."
[349] "What's stopping me from leaving once you leave?"
[girl] "It's my dungeon. And as such, I know what's in it. So if you leave, I'll hunt you down." She started emitting blood-lust again causing 349 to break into a cold sweat.
[349] "Got it." He says as he forces a smile on his face.
*Ding*
[349] "Hmm?"
349 had decided to take a nap while he waited and was woken by the sound of a notification.
Beta Update in 4:37
GM's have viewed and recorded your actions during your time in the beta. Now that you understand the lay of the land we will be adding a stamina bar as well as a sanity bar. Due to animals being too low a level, monsters will now spawn. Due to excessive complaining, the pain damper will be increased.
This update will include giving you access to the magic chart as well as being able to call GM's for suspected bugs. The creator of this game, Emilio Graham, has approved access to these in your menu so that you can 'Stop wasting time on nonsense.'
Opening his menu to look at the magic chart, 349 found this.
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(AN: I posted an image instead of making a table because I've had this in Excel for a while and I don't know the coding for merging sections in tables. Also, it's easier for me.)
349 broke into a huge grin.
[349] "I'm sooo keeping my ink magic."
Without wasting another second, 349 drew the following circle.

349 was able to draw this even with his small mana pool because he didn't waste any mana altering the inside and he got faster at the strokes. The reason he drew this was to test if this would create lightning or sand. Having set the spell circle to trigger in a minute, 349 ran behind an outcropping of rocks just to be safe.
Once he was safely behind a rock, 349 turned to watch what would happen with the smile still on his face. The smile, however, quickly faded.
[349] "Ah crap."
What 349 noticed was where he had placed his circle. After the girl had left, 349 had nothing to do and had ended up falling asleep. Once the message appeared he made the circle without moving from where he had fallen asleep. Which means that 349 made the circle right under the partly chopped orange tree.
[349] "Please be sand. Please be sand. Please be sand."
*Boom!*
[349] "****."
It wasn't sand.
What came out of the circle was lightning. The lightning normally wouldn't have damaged the tree. But 349 had rested his ax against the tree. His ax, which had a metal head. The lightning was drawn to the ax and had enough power to destroy the ax and cause the tree to fall.
[349] "She's going to kill me."
Walking around the rock he was behind, 349 sat down and leaned against the lemon tree while he checked the time till the update.
Beta Update in 0:56
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