We returned to the farmhouse for the first time in a while to find it very different from what we remembered. Chest-high walls surrounded our house, and the bottom half of a castle was under construction.
“Don’t look! That’s all supposed to be a surprise for later. We’re just here to use the teleportation array.” I stepped between my companions and the construction work, and for once, they all listened to me and obediently covered their eyes. But I could tell the prospect of a...
2024-08-14 15:20:05 +0000 UTC
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“Wait, this is a mis--“ I began, only to be cut off by the sound of gunfire. Thanks to my new racial bonuses, most of the bullets missed. I was certain these guys were good shots most of the time, but today half their guns jammed and they kept getting in one another’s line of sight.
As I understood it, fate aspect abilities like my race’s Probabilistic Favouritism passive were basically a battle of luck, similar to how my interactions with Lisette had been a battle of Charisma.<...
2024-08-12 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I spent the next week catching up with all the projects I’d put off because of the end of the world. The necromancers had done a lackluster repair job after their failed ambush, so I set about preparing for some renovation work.
I walked down to my gaming PC in the basement, which was still running the copy of the medieval kingdom builder controlling hundreds of mannequin puppets and remotely controlled construction equipment that was only now finishing their wall-building project.
2024-08-11 15:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The first thing I did was make sure Sharky was summoned and hungry as ever. He had orders to swim around the city in a circle and eat anything similar to what he’d eaten before. A few necromancers might sneak by him, especially if they took off their usual robes and dressed like normal humans, but I couldn’t see any Naga approaching Crownhill without him giving them a good fight first.
With that settled, I picked up where I left off with my companions. I returned to our apartment to...
2024-08-09 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Come on. Who’s to say that date night can’t involve a bit of carnage every now and again?” I teased.
Sakura shook her hair, and a pint's worth of blood splashed on the ground.
“Alright, fine. Let’s clean up back at the apartment.”
“Then we can go back and finish dessert?” Myrina asked hopefully.
I nodded. “And then we can go back and finish dessert.”
Sharky arrived toward the end of the battle, likely quite disappointed that he couldn’t t...
2024-08-07 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Current schedule is 4 chapters per week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at the usual time.
I will do occasional Sunday bonus chapters when I have a good writing week, but those are the days you can expect a chapter.
I may do polls or other stuff on off days, but that's when chapters will come out for the foreseeable future.
FAQ:
Q: When will Spellheart 10, Cult of the Unblinking Eye come out on audio?
A: November 5'th, 2024
Q: When wi...
2024-08-06 19:02:39 +0000 UTC
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“I promise this’ll be a lovely date night, you three.” I waved my companions forward as heaved the last of the three necromancers into the back of my truck. We’d clean the bodies up later. For now, I wanted to take the tied-up prisoners where they could be interrogated for their secrets. Secrets that would explain how they’d figured out where my farmhouse was and how they’d figured out how to wait in ambush for our return.
Bridget hopped up next to me, claiming the passenger...
2024-08-05 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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My name is Carter Smith, and I was born an ordinary guy on Earth. Normal parents, normal life, normal everything. Except, perhaps, for my not-so-normal Amazonian best friend from another world. Her name was Myrina, and she warned me of the coming of the System.
She told me that eventually, the world I knew would end, and we would face an apocalypse more terrifying than anything we could have ever dreamed of. Few would believe such a tale, but I trusted her.
The day came decades la...
2024-08-05 03:31:33 +0000 UTC
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Just getting a feel for how people would feel about an academy arc. No promises that I will abide by the results of this poll. Carter is definitely going to get more magic training, but I haven't decided how much emphasis to place on it. Will it be a full book? A single lesson? Or something I just mention in a time skip training montage?
Late edit: Adding a quick note, as mentioned during the Dramonar interlude, this academy would also be under 1/3rd time dilation, so Carter could atten...
2024-08-04 02:00:26 +0000 UTC
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Alright guys, I've been reading all the 'What do you want to see in book 4' comments and I've done my best to consolidate and organize the feedback into something a little more manageable. I usually keep this to myself, but there was a lot this time. There's enough to make a post about it, so I think I will just to give you guys a last look at what I'm working with in case you guys thought of anything else, and also as a bit of a sneak-peak at my writing process behind the scenes.
I thi...
2024-08-02 16:31:30 +0000 UTC
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This is a general feedback thread so I know what people like and what people are looking forward to in the next book.
If you saw the other thread, no, you're not getting déjà vu. This is a second thread that's open to everybody.
Here's the final chance to tell me what you guys want to see. Want to meet Cyra and Myrina's brother? Want to adventure on new worlds? Want more cultivation? Explore Carter's class or job more? More spicy scenes? Want Carter to tie up a certain feisty bl...
2024-08-01 15:20:06 +0000 UTC
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Spoiler warning if you haven't read the book!
Might update the ebook to have this at the end. Gotta double check it to make sure it's accurate first though.
Carter's character sheet:
Name: Carter Smith (C-Grade)
Race: Homo Acceleratus (Rare — Level 117)
Class: Sage of Forbidden Knowledge (Mythic — Level 117)
Job: Master Artificer (Mythic — Level 99)
At C-Grade, y...
2024-07-31 17:02:19 +0000 UTC
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Thank you all for being here for this! Today is the big day.
For the latest release, check it out here:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRGX2ZVR
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CRGX2ZVR
Germany: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CRGX2ZVR
C...
2024-07-31 15:09:47 +0000 UTC
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Reluna, on the World of Themyscira...
When the battle ended, Reluna gathered up her fellow apprentices. They had a few wounded, but all had been on a training expedition that had been inexplicably canceled just before their classes went on break—meaning all of them were equipped with a full set of talismans and health potions.
Clearly, the Serpent Lodge considered their apprentices expendable, because they were all dead. The Dragon Lodge apprentices...
2024-07-30 15:30:00 +0000 UTC
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My entire body raged with pain. It felt like every single drop of blood in my body had lit on fire—all at once. If not for Iron Will, I might have died right then and there. In retrospect, I should have expected a violent reaction. Bridget hadn’t had an easy time picking up her wolf ears. Sakura’s oni bloodline had lain dormant until the apocalypse, but when it awoke things had been really tough.
A notification flashed before my eyes.
Racial and Bloodlin...
2024-07-30 15:15:01 +0000 UTC
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This is a general open forum for Amazon Apocalypse 4 requests and ideas. I'm in the early stages of making the outline for the next book and will read comments as they come in.
I know some of you guys have finished the book already, so I'm opening it up to you, and I'll make another posts for everyone once the book is done for them.
Feel free to mention people, plotlines, mysteries, or ideas you'd like to explore further. Want to see more Artificing? Want to chase after Myrina a...
2024-07-23 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I figured I'd make a pin so people know what's going on.
My current goal is to post one chapter daily for Amazon Apocalypse 3, up through to July when it will hopefully go straight to Amazon.
After that, I'm going to take a brief break to outline and recharge, then go right to Amazon Apocalypse 4.
Schedule
End of May - End of July: Daily chapters of Amazon Apocalypse 3.
Early August - Break to outline, recover, and to play the upcoming E...
2024-05-28 16:46:44 +0000 UTC
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Some of you have noticed that Spellheart 10 is no longer on Patreon. It's moved to its permanent home on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
You can check it out here:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D54KS6KC
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D54KS6KC
Germany: 2024-05-26 04:47:16 +0000 UTC
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I’d always considered myself scholarly but practical. I never thought I’d be the type to sit in a room twirling a magical headset in my hands and contemplating fate. And yet, here I was.
Did I have the guts to do what I had to do?
If I used this thing as planned, I would trick Louis into committing countless atrocities on this world I’d laid claim to. The Cult of the Unblinking Eye, under Louis’ leadership, would lay waste to this place. If it all happened under Louis’ w...
2024-05-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Moments later, I was back in the Hearthwood. I began shouting orders before anyone could start bowing in my direction and told Mac where to scan and that The Challenger was doing something I didn't like.
[As you suspected,] Mac began, [The Challenger is up to no good.]
“What kind of no good?” I asked.
[The ship is vanishing from normal space and appearing at random locations across the world, firing weapons, and then vanishing to repeat the process. If I can complete an ...
2024-04-28 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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There were many prisoners in that one room alone and many more spread throughout the rest of the facility. It was hard to believe we’d missed something like this the last time we thought we scoured the facility clean, but after a bit of digging, we turned up more than three hundred prisoners.
They were from a variety of races, though there was no shortage of elves as well. Elves, catgirls, fairies, and other smaller races seemed to be preferred because of size limitations. Still, some...
2024-04-12 15:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Louis was a bloody mess, so I carried him back to the Hearthwood in a trash bag. It wasn’t exactly five-star accommodations as far as Demigod travel went, but he had no complaints.
Mostly because his jaw was broken into a hundred pieces. He certainly wouldn’t be sharing any secrets today.
I had Mac hit him with a light burst from the Level-Reducing Sentry Towers, knocking him down to Sorcerer. Normally, I would have brought him even further down, but with the state of his woun...
2024-04-08 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CWLTZM5Q
Check it out here!
I know a lot of people were waiting for this one. I'm excited its finally done! Hope you all enjoy!
Join Theo for another adventure. Can he defend everything he's built and cares about when powerful forces come knocking at his door once again? Find out in King of the Satyrs!
For those of you not following current chapter releases, t...
2024-03-12 15:56:01 +0000 UTC
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I had feared something like this might happen when we returned to the Primordial World, hence all the work on new arms and armor. And also why I’d emphasized being quick, quiet, and discrete during our operations here. Unfortunately, my new allies had a different idea of discrete than I did, and now we were face to face with the law.
“This is not a settlement claimed by the Elven Star Dominion. You are out of your chronological jurisdiction!” Sam pointed a finger accusatorily.
...
2024-03-02 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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We made our preparations. When we returned to the Primordial World, we would return in style. And by style, I meant with the best weapons and armor we could get.
We had the ruins of an entire planet to pick over, so there were plenty of raw materials for the taking. The rapidly cool molten iron core of the planet was particularly easy to swipe from, and I filled the Smith's Workshop with just about as much iron as I could need for the foreseeable future.
Mac’s scanner proved ade...
2024-03-01 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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We entered the control room, glancing around to catch any traps that might appear. None popped out at us. Many rows of orbs lined every wall, with several more prominent consoles on pedestals in the middle. Most were dim, but one was in the center larger than the others. At the very least, it looked like it was a captain’s chair or belonging to a commanding officer.
The console in the entrance drew my eye more than the others. A pink note on the seat before was just like the one that ...
2024-02-28 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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While the headset might not have revealed its secrets to me, I still had another lead. The Planetary Defense Array. That was where the Fairy of the Immortal Glade had seen Elara and an unknown someone fleeing just before the blast destroyed the world.
But I wasn’t foolish enough to assault an ancient artifact of unknown power that had survived from the distant past all the way until now after guarding the World of Sanctuary and Serenity from who knew how many threats. No, there was a ...
2024-02-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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When I restored gravity to the Drafter’s Study, Argona was thrilled.
“Now I can get back to work!” Argona said. "Now that the battle is won, I've been working on some forest remediation golems!" Argona said happily. We’ll need to replant most of the Hearthwood.”
I grimaced. “Ah... about that. I think we'll need to do a little more than just replant.”
“What do you mean, Dad?” Argona asked.
I decided it would be easier to just show her. She gasped in su...
2024-02-25 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I’d lived longer than I had any right to on this world of cultivators and magic. And if there was one thing I’d learned while staying here, it was to listen to your gut. And right now, my gut was telling me that if I was being told the world was going to explode, I’d damn well listen.
“You think it’s real? Maybe it’s a metaphor?” Sam suggested.
“When someone says a world is about to be destroyed, there aren’t many ways I can take that except literally. Come on, e...
2024-02-24 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, we need to find Elara...” I said when I realized nobody knew where she was. Not even Mac, with access to a scanner that could stretch across the Hearthwood.
[There’s only one place in the Hearthwood I can’t see,] Mac explained.
“And that is?” I asked, already having a feeling of what he would say.
[Inside The Challenger. I can’t see through whatever that hull is made of. I would wager the reverse is also true.]
I nodded. “I was hoping to put this...
2024-02-23 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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