Aaron laughed.
Nobody else did. His smile fell away ash his eyes flicked over to the heavily armored, heavily set man. His gaze drifted over to the twin swords he held. Then Aaron cleared his throat. “I — uh — seriously? He’s an Adept!”
“And he won’t be using his Domain whatsoever. No Soul Manifestations,” Alex said. He arched an eyebrow. “Right?”
“I do not renege on deals spoken,” the man said with no little amount of grandiose energy. He was definit...
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Goddamn it. Accidentally released the wrong chapter and cooked my backlog. Well, enjoy a chapter a bit early. I'm probably too swamped with work to have a straight up bonus chapter, so Monday will be a single post rather than a double.
Cheers1
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When Arwin and Lillia got back to their room after eating, taking a bath and cleaning up for the night, it was pretty clear to both of them that there was one thing on their minds that wasn’t going to sit around and wait until ...
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“Whoa,” Aaron breathed.
Alex couldn’t help but internally agree with him. Even though he’d been to the Cracked Steps twice before, there was something grand about them that refused to accept any reaction other than awe. Glowing words shimmered overhead and cast his features in their light.
The Cracked Steps [Ygg Entrance]
Storms of Riftwarped Energy twisted to fill the the sky all around them. Tongues of lethargic purple lightning crawled through the...
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Hey all!
S2 of Runebound is out on webtoons, which means all of S1 is currently free to read! If you've been waiting to check it out, now is the perfect time to do so! You can find it at the link below! This project has taken a ton of time and effort from me & (far more so) the team of very hardworking artists, scriptwriter, producers, and even composers. Please show them some love!
Cheers.
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Mordred pulled his senses back, the strands of his consciousness lifting away from the immediate battlefield so he could focus on looking back over all of the other combatants. It was going to be horribly embarrassing if he only managed to return with information on a single opponent. He somehow doubted Spider’s group would be thrilled with that, no matter how interesting the person may have been.
Some people had no drive to discover new knowledge whatsoever.
But there was no sh...
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“I feel like I’m going to get stabbed.”
Neil’s voice echoed through the dark corridor, repeating itself back to him nearly three times before the echo faded into the emptiness. He held his daggers in a loose but confident grip, his senses keen as he followed the marginally suspicious member of the Menagerie through the shadows.
The armored woman before him paused to glance over her shoulder. Her stance shifted, giving him another look at the smooth wood making up her right...
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Even as magic poured into Arwin’s soul, his eyes remained focused on the glowing words twisting to form beneath the name of Lillia’s new armor set.
Midnight Dream
[Soulforged]: Forged at the hands of a Forbidden Soulmancer, the Hearthmother, and an awakened building, Midnight’s Dream was created to be the final set of armor that the Hearthmother ever needed.
[Hearth Passage]: Midnight Dream is connected to the shadows of the He...
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If Mordred had been watching with his real eyes, he would have blinked. He couldn’t have been seeing things right. But even that small relief was denied to him. His magic could not blink — and it could not be so easily fooled. No, there was no doubt about it.
There was a woman pulling all her clothes off with less than seconds left on the clock.
A number of the combatants around her had certainly taken notice. If her goal had been to distract people, it was working. There must...
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Alex and Claire returned to the Mirrorlands with the Warped Embassy, then wasted no time at all in setting off in the direction of Valley Ford. It was fortunate that Claire still remembered where it was. If it wasn’t for her sense of direction, Alex was pretty sure he never would have seen the former Hub city again.
That might not have been too bad of a thing. The last time they’d been there, things had been… bad. Granted, that was kind of his fault. But the Void Goliath was proba...
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Neil watched silently as the auction ground on. He was pretty sure he was experiencing mild symptoms of shock. There was a dim ringing in his ears and his tongue felt dry in his mouth. Even though he didn’t have the faintest idea as to what many of the materials being put up for auction were, he recognized one or two of them.
And one or two was enough to know that he was approximately three classes of wealth too low to be sitting in this room.
Everyone else had come prepared —...
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The extra Japan work stalled me out pretty badly this weekend, been doing some catchup and only managed around 6k words today rather than 8k. Forge was 1 chap ahead, but I'll probably aim to try and catch this up on Friday. Thanks for the patience!
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The first thing that Arwin noticed about smithing alongside Lillia and the upgraded Infernal armory was just how easy it all was. That wasn’t to say it had been difficult to work with Koyu and Wallace before. Both of ...
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“It’s so dangerous that we need to ban entry?” Orchid asked, looking from Alex to Claire and then up at the massive bone tower rising up behind them. “Wouldn’t it be better to let people try their hand and just focus on the strong ones? You can’t hold the pack back for the good of the few.”
Alex shook his head. He and Claire had headed right over to the Forsaken Grounds as soon as they’d finished their conversation to find that there was still a small crowd gathered arou...
2026-01-19 16:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Alex’s eyes snapped open.
He bolted upright, drawing in a sharp gasp, only to find himself sitting in bed. The logs making up the walls around him immediately identified his location as one of the cabins in Mirrorwane. He stared for a moment, his brow furrowing as fragmented memories flickered through his thoughts.
I was walking. Running? In the room. Then the pressure — damn it. I think I fell on my face again.
Alex gingerly reached up to his nose. He was relie...
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Claire ground her teeth. Her nails bit into the beds of her palms, fingers shaking as blood traced down their length to drip from her knuckles and plink against the stone floor beneath her. Every breath she took felt like squeezing the final scrap of life out of a drowning rat.
But pressure wasn’t the only thing holding her back. Her mind trembled under a relentless assault of magical energy. Unease and fear beat against her thoughts. Dread clung to her limbs and dragged them toward t...
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Alex groaned as consciousness returned to his body. His cheek was pressed up against cold stone. It hadn’t been all that long since he’d passed out judging by the strong ache that was still lingering in his nose. And, judging by that very same ache, Alex suspected he might have fallen on his face a second time.
At least there wasn’t what seemed to be an entire world of pressure trying to grind him into the ground. He reached for his magic but found nothing but distant memory. His ...
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“Black, of course. The armor absolutely has to be black.,” the Infernal Armory said, crossing its arms behind its back and pacing across the room in front of Arwin. Or, at least, it was trying to pace. The motion couldn’t be quite called pacing when its legs just melded with the ground. Really, it would have been more accurate to say it was sliding around with intention — but Arwin digressed.
“Her current armor is silver,” Arwin pointed out. “She likes it just fine. She’...
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Pressure slammed into Alex from every direction. He wheezed, desperately trying to force his lungs to expand and draw in new air to fill them. It was only a step above useless. All he managed was a faint, feeble gasp. Darkness spun at the corners of his vision and his legs trembled desperately in attempt to stay out beneath him.
The dim gray room swam around him. There were still so many paces left between him and the door looming at the edges of his vision that he couldn’t even bring...
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