It took his Eternal Regeneration a good hour to get his arm back into fighting shape, and by that time Asher was practically bouncing on the balls of his feet, more than ready for round two. He’d been so focused on experimenting with his new Distortion skill that he hadn’t really felt the thrill of battle he’d become so enamored with while fighting the demon.
After a brief trip wandering the meadow in search of a new heavy boar, he finally found one grazing on a particularly large...
2025-05-18 14:12:01 +0000 UTC
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If I were a bloodthirsty boar, where would I hide? Double checking the map Samantha had lent him, Asher confirmed he was in the right area before storing it back into his rift. It was apparently an old gift from her father, and he didn’t want anything bad happening to it while he was fighting.
After a light dinner and some much needed sleep, Asher had decided to spend his first day in the village working on his skills and earning some shards. He was so close to being able to ...
2025-05-18 14:11:01 +0000 UTC
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The next few days were filled with quiet conversation and subtle training on Asher’s part. The closer they got to the village, the less strict Samantha was regarding her brother keeping silent, and Asher quickly discovered that if there was one thing Brian loved even more than his own sister, it was talking.
Asher learned about Brian’s favorite foods, his friends in the village, that time he swore he saw a griffin rider fly over their village, his dreams of becoming a deadly hunter ...
2025-05-18 14:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to Samantha’s skill and her obvious experience, the three of them managed to avoid anything particularly dangerous that first day as they made their way through the forest. They did encounter a small pack of wolves at one point and a large monkey looking creature with four arms at another, but both times Samantha managed to scare them off with a well-placed shot from her new bow. At the rate they were going Asher had been expecting to make it out of the forest in no time at all, whic...
2025-05-18 14:09:01 +0000 UTC
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Before returning to his comrades waiting down below, there was one quick stop Asher wanted to make. Running up the stairs despite knowing there wasn’t a giant demon chasing him any longer, Asher quickly found the grisly scene of Mr. Sonth’s death. He wasn’t interested in anything the alchemist may have had on him, but he was certainly interested in that.
Asher found himself standing in front of the hovering orb of fractured glass, staring into the shimmering violet ball. ...
2025-05-18 14:08:01 +0000 UTC
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At this point, Asher was pretty sure of two different things. The stairwell was cramped enough that if he didn’t find a more open space to fight the demon he wouldn’t last two seconds, and that the demon was far more interested in him than his companions. He hadn’t really followed much of what the demon had been mumbling to itself, but he got the sense that the Eternity element he’d picked up was something special, and that the wizard that had kidnapped him had some sort of method for...
2025-05-18 14:07:01 +0000 UTC
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“Asher, I can’t accept this,” Samantha said, staring at the bow in her hands like it was a newborn child. “Brian and I already owe you too much, and now you’re trying to give me an enchanted bow? These arrows alone are worth more shards than I make in a year!”
“You can repay me by making sure we get out of this tower alive,” Asher said, handing out the maces to the rest of the group. Brian’s face lit up as he swung the mace around like a baseball bat, clearly ...
2025-05-18 14:06:01 +0000 UTC
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After informing Samantha about the demon guarding the probable key to their cells, the woman sighed, leaning back against the stone wall.
“I know this is a lot to ask after all you’ve already done for us, but is there any chance you could defeat the demon and retrieve the key? Clearly you know how to fight,” she said, gesturing to the three dead imps. “Are you a slayer or something?”
Slayer, huh? I wonder if that’s one of the classes this world seems to have, like ...
2025-05-18 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Asher spun around, shocked to find himself face to face with a young boy. The boy was absolutely covered in filth, and based on his emaciated frame, he looked as though he hadn’t had a proper meal in weeks. Gripping the bars so hard his knuckles were white, the boy stared at him with both fear and hope in his eyes, clearly desperate.
[Human] - Immature
Looking around, only now did Asher realize that the room he’d fallen into was filled with tiny jail cells. Th...
2025-05-18 14:04:05 +0000 UTC
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Crashing to the floor in a tangle of limbs, it took Asher a second to realize what he’d done. Looking into the wide, black eyes staring up at him in shock, he recoiled, shoving himself off the demon and stumbling back to take in his surroundings.
This room he’d landed in looked like some sort of alchemical workshop. There were cauldrons lining the walls and shelves of strange materials containing everything from dried animal parts to glowing herbs, most of them giving off all sorts ...
2025-05-18 14:03:01 +0000 UTC
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Groaning, Asher massaged his calves and hissed through clenched teeth as he experienced the worst charley horse of his life. He’d never really had the time or the inclination to work out back on Earth, and he was paying dearly for that decision now. Straining his body in order to use Astral Dip after sprinting up so many stairs had clearly been too much for his poor muscles.
If I get out of this blasted tower alive, I swear I’ll pick up jogging or something.
Aft...
2025-05-18 14:02:02 +0000 UTC
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The first thing Asher discovered when he left the room he’d been summoned to was that wizards seemed to have the same sense of style in this world as they did in books back home. Rather than any fancy carpets or expensive artwork, as far as he could tell the entire tower seemed to be nothing more than hewn stone and lit torches. There wasn’t an ounce of personality anywhere, and frankly, Asher felt sorry for his undead kidnapper more than anything as he roamed around in search of an exit....
2025-05-18 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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The chimes from the ornate grandfather clock signaled midnight, and Asher found himself once again face-to-face with the decaying corpse of an elderly man. The man in question had been dumped unceremoniously upon the large table, and his glassy eyes seemed to penetrate Asher’s very soul as the dead man stared unblinking up at him.
“God damn it, Tyler! You were supposed to have the eye caps placed on Mr. Royar and be finished preparing him by now!” Asher called out, his voice echoi...
2025-05-18 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! I mentioned this in an update the other day, but I am finally dropping chapters of my newest story on Royal Road! The story is called The Eternal Assassin, and if you couldn't guess from the title alone, it is going to be a tad different in tone compared to Explorer of Edregon (mainly in the form of a main character who has something of a love for fighting other people, and that this story actually has some focus on romance).
I decided to just keep things simple and add ...
2025-05-18 13:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Other than a quick break to grab dinner and run back to his room before anyone tried to talk to him, Vin spent the rest of the day working on his latest project, thankfully managing to finally figure out the runic formation just before bed. Forgoing one night of sleep wasn’t too bad, but he started feeling a bit groggy if he skipped two nights in a row.
New spell learned! Tier 2 Earth Spell (Stone Furniture). 10,000 exp gained.
Introspection increased to...
2025-05-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The Red Dawn never showed.
Responsible for the wellbeing of nearly a thousand people, Vin’s head was practically on a swivel as they made their way out of the prisoners’ fragment. He hadn’t known what to expect, but like Waltz, he’d expected something was going to happen.
Instead, the group made it to the desert fragment without a single incident. Never before had Vin been so ecstatic to see miles upon miles of burning sand, and he even welcomed the massive temper...
2025-05-15 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“So it works, but only for yes and no questions?” Spur asked, turning the gemstone every which way as he peered into its depths. “Do I even want to know how you got your hands on this?”
“I had to make a deal, which I’ll tell you about later,” Vin said, sounding just as tired as he felt.
After his exhausting conversation with Golrim yesterday, Vin had retreated to his own small concrete bunker and tried his best to distract himself with magic. Few things were qu...
2025-05-14 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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As promised, Vin got Alka back to camp in time for dinner, if only just. He knew how much the Slayer enjoyed witnessing new methods of taking down monsters, and he did not want to be the reason she missed the demonstration of Alice’s new trap.
“Have fun breaking that news to Spur,” Alka snorted, lazily waving goodbye as she headed off in search of the Trapper. Sighing, Vin headed off to grab his own bite to eat from the mess area. Temporary seating for meals had been one of the fi...
2025-05-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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After a few dozen dead scorpion monsters, a brief trip through the Underside, and a mad dash out of the insect dungeon and subsequent forest, the two of them found themselves at the edge of the infernals’ village once more.
“Well that was gross,” Alka said, wiping bug guts and blood off of her armor. The Slayer had looked like a living whirlwind of blades with how rapidly she’d cut the insect monsters down, and yet there had been seemingly no end to them. “I definitely prefer ...
2025-05-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody! First off, a huge thank you all as always for all your support. It means the world to me, and I'm glad to have so many people invested in Vin's story across Edregon!
For starters, on Royal Road we have just hit our latest milestone of 750 people choosing to favorite the story, which means it is time for our sixth official fragment selection poll! If you'd like to have a say in part of Vin's story and Edregon itself, swing by the latest chapter (2.87) and cast yo...
2025-05-09 16:05:03 +0000 UTC
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“Forpurt?” Vin asked, startled by the capillan’s sudden appearance. The man was just as large and hairy as ever, and just like the first time they’d met, Vin couldn’t make out a single feature of the man’s face under all that hair except for his wide grin and shining brown eyes.
“In the hair,” Forpurt chuckled, looking them up and down. “Based on your new companion and arm, I can only assume your trip to the library was a rather successful one?”
“Yeah, we man...
2025-05-09 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Vin spent the rest of the afternoon recovering from the tense council meeting. Forget fighting monsters or running for his life, nothing could drain him in quite the same way as sitting around a table and debating with his fellow councilors. It was as if the decisions and choices they made were physical weights riding upon his shoulders, and he all but bolted from the building once Spur decided they were done for the day.
He spent the next few hours updating his journal with what he’d...
2025-05-08 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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“Quick, Phil, take my picture! I don’t want to forget how I felt the first time I saw Vin actually come to one of these meetings all on his own!”
Ignoring Spur’s comment, Vin nodded to Alice as he took his seat at the round table. The other four councilors were already present, but it seemed Witherson must have informed them he was planning to show up because they’d yet to start the meeting.
“I told you before, if you wanted someone to come to all these meetings, you s...
2025-05-07 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Dungeon Type: Prison
Primary Monster Type: Shadow
Strengths: Darkness
Grouping: Small groups
Movement: Very fast
Dungeoneering increased to lvl 9! 900 exp gained.
“Don’t tell me…” Scule started, peering up at Vin’s face as he read over his notifications. “It’s a demon-smited dungeon, isn’t it?”
“Yepp.” Vin nodded, dismissing the ...
2025-05-06 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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As Waltz began leading them toward town, crossbows drawn and eyes flicking every which way as he kept watch for any sign of the Red Dawn, Vin stepped closer to Shia and lowered his voice.
“Why didn’t you guys ever tell me you could give up your class and pick a new one just by praying to the Gods?” He asked, focusing on speaking the Sacred Forest tongue to be doubly sure the Scout wouldn’t understand them. Seeing as Waltz was treating this subject as if it were religious, he did...
2025-05-05 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Vin stared down the bolt of the beastkin’s crossbow, nervously glancing at Shia still sitting atop Blossom beside him. He wasn’t particularly afraid for his own safety thanks to his divine boon, but Shia didn’t have that luxury. Taking a small step forward to try and draw their ambusher’s attention more toward him, he called out.
“You must have seen us running like crazy before you jumped us. We just escaped from the Red Dawn, which is probably why we smell like them....
2025-05-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Vin had been worried that another group of marauders would find interest in them before they could enact their escape plan, but it seemed as though witnessing Trod effortlessly snap that random dwarf’s neck had gotten the message across to the others that Curash didn’t want them harmed. Even so, every minute they sat there, waiting with bated breath for the sound of Blossom tearing the Artificer to shreds was agony.
“What if he’s skilled enough to bypass the ‘murder operator...
2025-05-01 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Now see, this is how you lock up a petian,” Scule called down at them, his cage swinging slightly as he rattled the bars. “Those stone villagers could learn a thing or two from these guys.”
Rolling his eyes, Vin looked around the small clearing Trod had left them in. Shia and him were each bound to separate wooden posts shoved into the ground, their arms painfully manacled behind their backs. Scule on the other hand, had been locked up in what looked like an iron birdc...
2025-04-30 16:01:06 +0000 UTC
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“What?” Vin said dumbly, slowly holding up his hands before him as if Curash were a wild animal. Shia stood stock still, her eyes wide as she concentrated on not moving a muscle. Licking his lips, Vin offered Curash a nervous smile. “Let’s all just take it easy. What do you want from us?”
“And why even tell us about the Red Dawn in the first place if you were one of them?” Scule spat, glaring at the Hunter. “We wouldn’t have even known you existed!”
“Just a l...
2025-04-29 16:00:51 +0000 UTC
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“After Kym ran away, things started going downhill,” Curash admitted, glancing once more at Scule as the four of them sat in a rough circle. The Hunter hadn’t been surprised at the fact that Shia and Scule had been hiding in his pitfall trap, but he had been caught off guard by the Rogue’s race. Evidently he’d met elves before, but never a petian. “Golrim and Kym had managed to keep something of a shaky hold on everything due to Kym’s knowledge and Golrim’s skills, but Golrim ...
2025-04-28 16:00:51 +0000 UTC
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