Just an Ordinary Keeper of Secrets [Infinite]

[The first two arcs are complete, feel free to start reading]

[I've been a little busy lately, so I'll build up a backlog before updating]

Bai Cuo had always thought she was just an average college student: going to class, staying up late, and playing tabletop role-playing games with friends like everyone else. She was only a little unusual when a teacher stumbled over the rare characters in her name on the roster and called on her.

So when she nodded off while preparing for tomorrow’s questions and ended up in a live-action role-playing game, assigned the most dangerous role of all, the Game Master, she only paused for a moment before getting to work as usual.

An ordinary Game Master had to create a tense atmosphere.

When other Game Masters feared things might go wrong and stayed far from the center of trouble, ordinary Game Master Bai Cuo possessed a strange bird and tapped away behind the players’ bedside tables.

An ordinary Game Master had to play a variety of characters.

When other Game Masters played it safe and acted as friendly NPCs who escorted players all the way to the end, ordinary Game Master Bai Cuo switched into the role of an outwardly amiable cultist of an evil god.

An ordinary Game Master had to set up thrilling challenges.

When other Game Masters let the boss run on autopilot, ordinary Game Master Bai Cuo had already set a trap in front of the players’ door.

Bai Cuo had ordinarily done everything a Game Master was supposed to do.

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Players who entered live-action role-playing games found themselves having a rough time lately.

One player said the dungeon they’d entered was so eerie it had almost scared their Sanity down to zero.

Another player said that the adorable NPC who’d been perfectly fine in the dungeon the other day had suddenly turned into a boss and attacked them. It was practically a heart-stopping experience.

Yet another player angrily posted: “She knows 37 kinds of Western witchcraft, 13 kinds of firearms, and 160 ways to lie. How could that possibly be an ordinary Game Master?”

Bai Cuo: “...Ah.”

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The Diviner Decides to Take It Easy [Western Fantasy]

Yue Zhao transmigrated. Above her, the sky was filled with dragons, liches, swords, and magic; below her was a tiny village, an adventuring party that thought she was an idiot, and a mother who had gone mad.

Her mother insisted on giving her an Elvish name that she couldn’t even pronounce. What a disaster.

Her profession was the expensive-to-maintain mage. Even worse.

The party’s warriors divided loot and income with her, a diviner, based on “damage dealt to monsters.” Absolutely awful.

Could things get worse? Oh, yes. The diviner’s indispensable tool, her pendulum, had a crack in it.

“Will this pay be enough for me to buy a new pendulum?” the party leader heard the foolish diviner ask.

The next day, they saw the young mage return carrying... a meteor hammer.

[It has a chain and a counterweight, and it swings. A meteor hammer is obviously a kind of pendulum.]

[Time to swing it around (literally).]

[I don't hold grudges. You all saw it: the pendulum moved on its own.]

“What can a diviner possibly do?” Everyone used to laugh like that at the ordinary mage girl, many years ago.

“Stop asking and run!” Many years later, as they stared at that archmage’s castle, everyone screamed.

“Whatever you do, don’t let her pendulum find you!”

Western Fantasy + steampunk. Some of the setting is inspired by Dungeons & Dragons.

The heroine’s full name is Zylvyre Galanodel. It’s fine if you can’t pronounce it; she can’t either.

Premise: Always strive. Never give up on your ideals and hopes.