Weekly Roundup 6/8
As usual, here's the chapters that got released this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Advanced Tier
Chapter 208
2025-06-08 17:59:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 219 - New Members
Mirian awoke on the 1st of Solem, the year of Poclym 4851, for the 214th time. She stared at the hole in the ceiling where the temporal anchor in her had come from, all those years ago. She looked to the side where her roommate Lily was still asleep. She had long ago given up talking to her. The conversations had become rote, the reactions predictable. She was incapable of understanding what Mirian had gone through. Seventeen years in the time loop. Their friendship had fallen apart gradually...
2025-06-08 17:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 done
The way I've got it now, Chapter 218 is the end of book 3. However, it's still possible I do some edits to mess around with the ending so that it's properly satisfying. Feel free to comment your feelings on the matter! Are there things that feel like they should have been covered in book 3 that weren't? Plot threads that don't feel properly wrapped up? (Certainly, there's things that aren't wrapped up intentionally that will be covered in the next books). Feel free to also discuss what things...
2025-06-04 17:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 218 - Secrets of the Sky
They’d set up the device on the tallest tower of Vadriach University. Late evening light near sunset was best for looking at the Divir moon. That way, the sky wasn’t too bright to see it, but the light was still reflecting off it. As the spell engine telescope swung into position, Jherica stared at it, immediately becoming lost in thought.
“I remember now. When I saw it, I started talking to Liuan. She was so much better at talking to the church. She was so sweet and bubbly. What ...
2025-06-04 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly roundup 6/1
Hope everyone is doing well! Here are the chapters that got posted this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Advanced Tier
2025-06-01 15:36:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 217 - Cursebreaker
They spent the night at the old house, then headed back to the plateau. As the date ticked closer to armageddon, her father continued his instruction. Centuries of spellcasting had given him such a wealth of knowledge, and there were old spells he knew about she’d never heard of. He also had a complete mastery of technique. Magic to her was as easy as breathing, but for him, it was as easy as a heartbeat. There was an automaticity to it that surpassed hers.
“It was the war that real...
2025-06-01 15:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 216 - Tomb
Gaius prepared breakfast for her, and then they set off, levitating to the old house. As they flew, they talked.
“I believe your theory is right,” her father said. “The Sixth Prophet spent a great deal of his time dealing with corruption in the Academies. There were also some high profile assassinations around that time. None of which were ever solved. But all of them arcanists.”
“But spell engines were invented anyways. Just a bit later.” Mirian remembered finding the...
2025-05-30 18:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215 - Lessons in Necromancy
They stood atop the plateau. Mirian faced her father and gave him a salute with Eclipse.
“Don’t hold back,” her father called.
Mirian took a deep breath. Her heart was pounding in a way that had only been matched by her confrontation with Ibrahim. She had thought through her strategy for a confrontation with Atrah Xidi before she’d realized that was her father. Her usual strategy would be to cast total camouflage and levitation, using her near-invisibilit...
2025-05-28 16:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly roundup 5/25
Here are links to the chapters that got published this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Advanced Tier
Chapter 203
2025-05-25 16:31:27 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 214 - Tales of the Past
Gaius Nezzar stood in the kitchen, hands wrapped around a mug of tea. He’d reactivated the illusion so that one of the walls looked like Mirian’s childhood home.
“Where is this house?” she asked.
“Ten miles or so northeast. Not too far from Falijmali. Deep enough in the desert I thought it would be safe. But your mother was right. I should have never let those Baracueli scum get away with the first treaty violations. All it ever did was encourage them to keep doing...
2025-05-25 16:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213 - The Man of Endless War
Mirian had thought through her plans endlessly, but they had all been for different circumstances. Worse ones, in fact. If there was one thing she could be absolutely certain of, it was that her father was on her side.
It was a key advantage.
They had a minute, maybe less. “If you were a Prophet, and had to deal with other Prophets, how much would you trust them?”
“Not at all,” her father said.
That was straightforward enough. “I would like to align us to pur...
2025-05-21 17:40:37 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly roundup 5/18
Happy Seventhday! I updated the map found in the glossary with a few places like Florin City and Falijmali and a few other place names. I plan to update the glossary with some of our newer characters fairly soon. If you click on the map, you can then zoom in pretty close. Here's a link to that post. It's also got special tags so you can easily search it with terms like "glossary" o...
2025-05-18 17:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 212 - Memories
She was four. She was running through her home, feeling the glee of movement. The hot desert air blew between the sandstone pillars of the open hall. Beyond them was a garden of hardy desert plants. She didn’t like it as much as the courtyard garden, the one with the pond and all the pretty lotuses. The black ones were her favorite, because the petals had a rainbow sheen.
There was a noise, and she turned her head to look. She caught a glimpse of the distant mountains to the north, th...
2025-05-18 17:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211 - Race to the Necromancer
Mirian woke, sealed the hole above her bed with shape wood and shape metal, quickly threw on her clothes, then sprinted out her dorm and to the plaza in front of Bainrose Castle. She blinked beneath the flagstones, plummeting a dozen feet before casting levitation to stop her fall. Then, it was to the conduit room, where Eyeball sat spread across the table full of glyphs and crystals, its eye squinting at her mischievously.
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Weekly Roundup 5/11
Hope everyone is doing well! Here's the chapters that got released this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Advanced Tier
Chapter 199
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Chapter 210 - Questions of the Soul
On the 211th loop, Mirian flew northeast from the Mahatan Gate again, this time skipping the retrieval of the lotuses in exchange for pure speed. She kept her use of using myrvite souls and mana drain to a pace she knew she could handle, allowing her to use bursts of accelerated levitation, but not so many that it threatened to destabilize her aura.
Her map and the angles she’d measured implied one of the large plateaus should be close to the necromancer’s hideout....
2025-05-11 17:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209 - Mayat Shadr
Mirian’s search of the surrounding area that cycle turned up little. Occasionally, she would look out at something and feel the faintest hint of deja vu, but it was hard to say if she was even remembering something or just going insane from looking at too many rocks.
With a few days left in the cycle, she returned through the Mahatan Gate to see if any developments had been made during the research.
As she strode through the Elder Gate, she startled High Wizard Ferrandus and two...
2025-05-07 17:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Roundup 5/4
Patreon seems to have made it so I can send out full chapters by email to people when I make an edit, so the second tier should be getting full chapters emailed out now for a better reading experience. If there's any problems with that, let me know. I may or may not be able to do anything about it!
Anyways, here's the chapters that got released this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
2025-05-04 17:46:29 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 208 - The Pain of Falijmali
The next day, Mirian returned to Najwa’s Artificing Shop. It was early morning, so there were no customers. Najwa was carefully disassembling a scrapped spell engine. From the dozens of glass vials spread out on the table, Mirian guessed she was extracting magichemicals from glyphs, a laborious process that she’d never bothered with because she never had to deal with a scarcity of resources or money.
“You again,” Najwa said, not setting down her tools.
“Too often, I’m ...
2025-05-04 17:24:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 207 - Continuing the Search
Ravatha looked at Nurea. Nurea looked at Ravatha. Mirian, lounging in a chair, observed them both as they both had what could only be described as a stern-look contest. After a bit, the competition seemed to resolve in Nurea’s favor, because Ravatha looked away. “This is absurd,” she said.
Nicolus, who had been amusing himself by reading a book from the small shelf in Ravatha’s office, said, “Yeah, but it’s also true.”
“I said I would handle negotiations,” Sire N...
2025-05-03 03:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 206 - Finding Atroxcidi
Near the end of the 205th loop, Mirian checked back on Torrviol. Professor Seneca and the alchemists of the Academy were isolating and studying several of the strange magichemicals produced by the jeweled lotuses, but the alchemistry was time consuming. Viridian continued to work on hybrid lotuses, but obviously, they took time to grow. It seemed, like most advancements in magic, it would be a lengthy process.
On the 206th loop, Mirian established the link between Torrviol and Mahatan, ...
2025-04-30 16:43:06 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Roundup 4/27
Thanks for all the suggestions and responses to last week's question! Now I need to figure out how to get into a time loop myself so I have enough time to read everything. Anyways, here are the chapters that got published this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
2025-04-27 16:53:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 205 - Steps On the Long Path
It turned out the ‘bit of fun’ had to wait; they first had to acquire a tri-point meter, which took longer than any of them anticipated. While a carriage full of servants was borrowing one from one of the private academies in the city, Gabriel took the time to review the menu and made some suggestions to the building’s chief chef. Having thoroughly annoyed the kitchens, they started compiling lists of places they’d searched throughout the loops and what they’d found, ranging from ge...
2025-04-27 16:31:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 204 - The Council of Prophets
Mirian started the cycle by connecting the Torrviol Gate to Mahatan, then snuck into the hidden gardens and stole several jeweled lotuses for Viridian to study. With the professors set on various research tasks, she headed for Florin City.
With some trepidation, she wondered if her adoptive parents and Zayd would make it. They were crossing the same area that Ibrahim would attack, and on the same days. On the night of the 4th, Ibrahim’s forces started seizing the trains between Rambal...
2025-04-23 21:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Roundup 4/20
Hey all! Hope everyone is doing well. Here are the chapters that got published this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 202
Chapter 203
Advanced Tier
Chapter 192
Chapter 203 - Return
Mirian’s journey back to Mahatan was significantly longer. By the time she arrived in the city, the worst of the soul disruptions were smoothed out, though she still sometimes felt her aura discharge mana as some tangle swirled about. She could still sense soul fragments, and still incorporate ambient mana, so the damage didn’t seem to be permanent. The warning was clear, though. Necromancy was a path to power unlike any other. But it was equally dangerous. She needed to properly learn it...
2025-04-20 16:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 202 - Prophet’s Wrath
Prince Rehiz was already on the move as Mirian flew through the palace, sending servants and bureaucrats scattering. With enhanced detect life, she could see the a large group moving down a hallway towards the north section of the palace. The tight formation moving in synchronization around a single individual meant it was almost certainly the prince. Based on how dim the souls looked—indicating spell resistance—at least two of them were Holy Sentinels. Likely, they were making t...
2025-04-16 17:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly roundup 4/13
Hello all! Here's the chapters that got published this week:
Extra-Advanced Tier
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Advanced Tier
Chapter 190
2025-04-13 17:00:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 201 - Research Interrupted
Selkus Viridian sat next to Mirian on the garden bench, looking out across the courtyard. An artificial waterfall from one of the stone aqueducts was complemented by bird song. The birds, unfortunately, were in little bronze cages, which glittered prettily but somewhat soured Mirian on the scene.
Sentinel Eylua stood just behind them on the bench, looming. Her presence was starting to grate on Mirian.
“There’s definitely novel research to be found in exploring the lotuses,” ...
2025-04-13 16:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 200 - Secret Gardens
It took Mirian three and a half hours, and half of that time was cajoling Viridian into abandoning an early dinner to come join her. The man had his habits.
She informed Torres of when the Gate had switched over so the leyline detector data wouldn’t be mixed up and had her team start working on new detectors to be placed on the other side. She also took Jei, Endresen and Seneca with her, cautioning the gathered professors about Gabriel.
“I don’t trust him yet. That doesn’t...
2025-04-09 16:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post