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Return of the Runebound Professor - Chapter 798

Noah stood in stunned silence for several seconds as pieces clicked together in his head. The Beyond was the reason that nobody had been able to locate the Citadel. It was some kind of energy that completely interfered with normal magic… and that very same power was the reason the Citadel had fallen.

 The Researchers had tried to harness the Beyond and had ended up corrupting themselves with it instead. Given the state of the Citadel, it didn’t seem like they’d found a soluti...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapter 500

“What do you think?” Arwin asked, lowering the piece of chalk and stepping away from the newest revision of the diagram he’d just drawn on the wall of the Infernal Armory.

Wallace and Koyu both examined it intently for nearly a minute. Neither of them said a word. They were both lost in their own respective worlds of experience. But, finally, Wallace broke the silence.

“That’s a bit of a jump,” the dwarf said, scratching at his chin. “You sure you’re up for it? The...

[IMPORTANT] August Announcement + Dragoncon!

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I'm going on kinda-break between August 16th-September 3rd (duration of this month + dragoncon). There WILL be chapters during this time. The chapters will likely not be perfectly to schedule, and I'll probably take a 1 week of the two off as a "real" break... but I'll probably somehow end up writing anyway. I will also be using this time to build up my patreon backlog.

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Nightmare Realm Summoner - Chapter 271

Alex’s group let themselves rest for around two hours. That was enough for their bodies to repair themselves and magic to regenerate. Derek and Alyssa both woke up toward the end of their break, and Claire wasted no time in filling them in on what had happened during the fight with Absolution.

“You’re telling me we actually won?” Alyssa asked in disbelief. “Absolution ran? Like, not because something else happened, but because we actually hurt him badly enough that he couldn�...

Return of the Runebound Professor - Chapter 797

“It’s time,” Noah declared, thrusting the key into the air as he craned his neck to look up the glowing blue map of the Citadel above him. “Wake up, Heart.”

It had only been a few minutes since he’d gotten out of the mirror. The very moment he’d returned to the real world, Noah had darted over to find the Devourer and had it bring him back to the Heart Room so he could finally get the answers he was looking for.

He was done waiting.

Noah’s heart pounded in hi...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapter 499

Eleven arrived at the Devil’s den just a few short minutes after Ida left. To be fair, there was a very good chance she’d been there for quite some time and had simply been waiting for the right moment to reveal herself.

The long-haired woman positioned herself in the corner of the dining room like some specter of seaweed that stared out from the shadows hungrily. Arwin nearly walked straight into her on his way back to the Infernal Armory, only catching himself when Lillia cleared ...

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Rise of the Living Forge - Chapters 509-510

Thane’s eyes snapped open and he drew in a sharp gasp, bolting upright like he’d been stung in the behind. Cold sweat coated his back and stuck his shirt to his back like it had been pasted on. He could feel his heart slamming in his chest with such intensity that his ribs creaked and groaned in their attempt to contain it.

The only thing around him was darkness. He sat on something chilly and ever-so-slightly damp. Confusion assaulted his mind. Thane swallowed, trying to find his b...

Return of the Runebound Professor - Chapter 796

Noah pressed his hand against the surface of the mirror. It didn’t so much as budge. There may as well have been no magic within it at all. That, of course, wasn’t the case. He could still feel the intricate imbuements running within the golden metal trimming the massive mirror.

They simply weren’t working.

“Goddamn it,” Noah said.

Prayer peered at him from the other side of the mirror, confusion evident within the monster’s eyes. Its mandibles chittered, but no ...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapter 498

Ida was already in Lillia’s special torture room when Arwin and Madiv made it back to the Devil’s den. Calling it a torture room really didn’t exactly feel like the most savory of things, but he still wasn’t sure what else to call it. The dark room only had a single beaten up table in it that always seemed suspiciously splattered with questionable substances — and every time they’d been inside it, they’d been trying to get information from someone they were very much not friends...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapter 497

“Delivery,” Olive said, stepping over the bisected body of the lizardman to hold her bag out to the exhausted group of adventurers in the corner of the watery dungeon boss room. “Seriously, though. Why are you ordering this in the middle of a fight?”

“I — what? We didn’t… who are you?” one of the men stammered. His face was splattered with blood and his shield had been sheared clean in half at some point during the fight. He, along with the three other adventurers that...

Return of the Runebound Professor - Chapter 795

Noah stumbled to a stop in the same room he’d been standing in before — but it wasn’t the same room at all.

In fact, the only similarities the two rooms had at all were the walls and furniture. Where years of disuse had once taken their toll were now rows and rows of books and papers stacked high, arranged by a careful, meticulous hand.

There wasn’t a single open space on the shelves. Not one speck of dust dared disgrace the surfaces of this new room. Age itself seemed to ...

Nightmare Realm Summoner - Chapter 270

Alex hurried over to Claire as soon the last echoes of Absolution’s footstep had vanished from the hall. She’d fortunately fallen within a few feet of where his anchor had landed, which meant he didn’t have to use the Singularity Core to drag himself over to her.

He dropped to his knees in the widening pool of blood around her. The wound in her chest had yet to properly seal over. As resilient as she was, she’d been completely drained of magic before Alex had even joined the fig...

Nightmare Realm Summoner - Chapter 269

Alex could feel the Singularity Core within him. Well, that was technically nothing particularly new. He’d been aware of its presence for a short while now. But this was different. The Singularity Core sat in the very center of his being like a radioactively charged lead marble, humming with a steady stream of power.

Absolution stood on the other side of the room. The man’s eyes were cold but calculating as he studied Alex, the rage within them nowhere near enough to push him into a...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapters 507-508

“What is this?” Rodrick asked.

Two looked back at the other man with weary eyes. He was so tired that he could barely think straight — but he could think just enough to realize just how dense he’d been.

It should have been obvious a long time ago. The signs were all there. But he’d stubbornly ignored every single one of them. There were all sorts of reasons he could come up with as to why, but it boiled down to just one.

Two had been too damn focused on the rules. ...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapter 496

Leon’s breath came in ragged, desperate gasps. His back pressed to the stone wall behind him, slick with sweat and blood, and exhaustion pulled at his fingers to coax the sword from their limp grip.

 Jagged gouges and burn marks covered his armor. Many of them were old, patched up from other dungeons, but the vast majority were new — and they were racking up. The fact that his armor was still in one piece was a miracle. But even miracles could only last so long.

Leon dodg...

Return of the Runebound Professor - Chapter 794

Noah approached the mirror cautiously. He kept his runes at the ready, muscles tensed to burst into motion at the first sign of anything suspicious. Some would say it was paranoia. He preferred to think of it as experience.

The mirror didn’t change. It just stood there, as mirrors tended to do. But last Noah had checked, they didn’t tend to reflect things that weren’t actually there. He was absolutely certain that the shelves in the real world behind him were completely empty.

Nightmare Realm Summoner - Chapter 268

Tendrils of Riftwarped energy crackled into being around Alex’s arm. They slithered past his fingertips and wound around his wrist like a band, hissing and popping as more and more power poured out from within him.

A flash of alabaster white cut through the coiling purple and red. Then, with a loud snap, the power exploded outward. An immense weight yanked against Alex’s hand with such strength that it damn near pulled his arm out of its socket.

He stumbled, looking down at hi...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapter 495

Arwin beat his own estimations. It took him a grand total of several hours to create the communication devices that Lillia had requested. They actually turned out to be surprisingly simple.

There were really only two challenges within the creation. The first was a way to keep the network of items expandable. They only needed a single ‘mother’ piece that all the ‘daughter’ pieces communicated to, but there would have to be a way for him to continuously add new devices to the netw...

Return of the Runebound Professor - Chapter 793

The Devourer obliged Noah. There was a very good chance that was because it just had absolutely nothing better to do with its time. If he was honest, he wasn’t entirely sure how the huge centipede was still sane.

Well, relatively sane.

It probably wasn’t worth worrying about right now. Maybe the researchers that had created the Devourer had been smart enough to realize it would be alive for a long time and that its tolerance for the passing of time would have to be pretty good...

Return of the Runebound Professor - Chapter 792

Screaming white magic crashed down on Noah from every direction. It tore through his domain, shoving it aside like there was nothing but air, advancing like an army of relentless soldiers. The only thing that remained within its way was the comparatively tiny shimmer of chaos magic that shimmered through the air around Noah like a gossamer oil spill.

The two magics connected with a flash.

There was a sound like the air getting let out of a balloon crossed with a spool of yarn gett...

Nightmare Realm Summoner - Chapter 267

Alex was still midway through letting out a slew of curses when the ring of white flame searing into his wrist blinked out of being as quickly as it had formed. He yanked his hand out from the dark lake, the lingering traces of the pain still stinging his mind.

His wrist looked exactly as it had a few moments ago. Even though he could have sworn he’d seen his flesh warping and melting under the paradoxically freezing heat of the fire, his skin had become smooth and unburnt once again....

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapters 505-506

Two had always considered himself something of a rather empathetic individual… but he preferred to keep a certain degree of professional boundary whenever possible with everyone he worked with.

Eleven had been a bit of an exception. There was something about the way that she literally didn’t care about anything that stood in the path between her and the promised lands of a good night — or day — of rest that had always resonated with him.

 It was endearing. At least, e...

Rise of the Living Forge - Chapter 494

“I volunteer as tribute!” Reya proclaimed.

“No,” Arwin, Lillia, Rodrick, Madiv, Olive, Esmerelda, Kien and Anna all said at roughly the exact same time.

Had Art and Vix been present at the time, Arwin got the feeling that they probably would have added their own voices into the mix.

Thane just cleared his throat awkwardly.

“Aw,” Reya said. “Why not?”

“Did you listen to any of what we just went over beyond the undetermined benefits of Sunsetting ...