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Spellheart 9: Chapter 57

Sam and Dean left for the capital to make their own preparations. Meanwhile, I returned to finish my breakthrough to Demigod as a Spirit Cultivator. While I could make my plan work with just my Body Cultivation and Sorcerer-level Spirit Cultivation, it would be much easier if I were a Demigod in both.

So I called the matriarchs of the Hearthwood back for one more session of Dual Cultivation.

I spent nearly an entire hour setting the scene. We’ll be holding our session in the Cul...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 56

Mac and I spent some time puzzling over the prompt that wouldn’t go away.

[I’ll just force it to close,] Mac suggested.

The prompt winked out, but was back again a moment later.

Compatible artifact detected!

Please add the QCA to The Wanderer.

Yes/Super Yes

“Mac, it didn’t work. And it's worse now.”

What was a 'super yes?'

At least The Wanderer was saying please now.

[Hm...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 55

I fought hundreds of battles, opposing the Cult of the Unblinking Eye and their agents at every turn. But the more I fought, the more the pressure increased. That same pressure fueled my cultivation, just as it once did when I was flesh and blood.

But at the same time, it was more than I could manage. I had barely survived those early days, and if I pushed through them again, I might not survive, even with the unique abilities of the cellphone.

They knew I had it now. They must ha...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 54

I focused, concentrating to try to tame the current of thoughts threatening to carry my mind away. If I allowed the memories to flow into me of their own accord, I’d receive nothing but jumbled bits and pieces. It might be years before I’d fully integrated the life of my doppelganger into my own. Maybe never.

If that happened, his experiences would be lost to me. And maybe his power too.

So instead, I focused and started the stream where I wanted. From the beginning.

I b...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 53

I sensed an odd wave of protective anger surge over me as the final Satyr Demigod tried to pounce on my doppelganger’s prone and helpless form. I should have guessed I wasn’t the target of that last attack. It was a soul attack. And while my soul was mostly whole and fairly strong, my doppelganger had been formed from just a tiny missing fragment of mine. No wonder his soul couldn’t stand up to whatever that pulse had been.

“Get off of him!” I growled, scooping Spell Eater bac...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 52

The Unblinking Eye Cultist turned his mind spell on my doppelganger. But he was no longer using his spell on True Mages or Mage Acolytes. Against someone of his own level, the spell fizzled out in an instant.

Then my doppelganger squeezed his hand and crushed the cultist’s skull between his adamantium fingers.

My children froze, equal parts terrified and relieved. My doppelganger stared at each of them momentarily, a slight smile on his face. Then he held out his hand.

Spe...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 51

We slammed the door shut to the Alchemist’s Laboratory. Mac disconnected it from the door it had previously been bound to in the Hearthwood, and then we took the route through The Wanderer’s hallways.

“Father! What’s going on!” Comela asked. She had a collared elven captive over her shoulders.

“You... when did you get here?” My head whipped around. “This isn’t a battle you can fight, Comela. Take cover with your siblings in one of the other rooms. Or go calm the ...

Spellheart 9 Covergirl poll (see previous post's images)

I can't promise I'll go with the top vote, but I do want to read what you guys think. Leave some comments if you have some thoughts or a suggestion that isn't on the list.

See the previous post to remember what the characters look like.

Help me pick the cover girl for Spellheart 9!

Hey guys! I'm recruiting your help for thoughts and opinions once again. (I will include a poll in the next post for you to vote. Alternatively, you can just leave a comment explaining your answer.)

I'm trying to decide who should get the cover for book 9. I didn't introduce any new girls this book, which is something I normally recommend doing (most people's favorite part of harem books is the meet + falling in love, so most favorite books always involve meeting a new character.)

Spellheart 9: Chapter 50

The Satyr Demigod let out another hearty guffaw. “Big talk, Sorcerer! Alright, I’ve had enough playing around. Grab him. We’ll search the castle for the elf, and then we can torch this dump.”

I was already running by the time the Satyr started talking. I debated heading straight for the Level Reducing Sentry Towers to make my stand, but there were a few stops I could make first.

They’d be a gamble, but if they paid off, I might be able to thin my attacker’s numbers dow...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 49

This was the worst-case scenario. The Satyr King had sent more agents, and the Cult of the Unblinking Eye had attacked simultaneously. I should have guessed they might take revenge together. After all, the two organizations were far closer than I should have been comfortable with.

What happened to that treaty the Satyr King and I had agreed to? I'd had his solemn word, from one ruler to another. Apparently that agreement wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. I hadn't expected it to ...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 48

After pooling efforts with my friends, building bunkers became a lot easier. The days following the disaster in the capital turned into weeks, and our aid workers there shifted from immediate relief to long-term reconstruction.

Most of the other clans went home, but I kept the connection to the Hearthwood open. It was a positive experience for my newer family members. I didn’t like the sterile upbringing of study and martial training most larger clans used for their new young members....

Spellheart 9: Chapter 47

What followed was a few minutes of flying from target to target, systematically destroying every enormous golem I came across.

I practically flung myself from opponent to opponent, dismissing Might of a Giant as I traveled for that little bit of extra mobility, then recasting it again to wrestle another giant golem to the ground.

My matriarchs arrived a minute after Dean and I had, and soon I spotted Tivana in the fight aswell, supported by Melise, Illiel, and Yorik. They had a to...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 46

I ended up getting a lot of use out of the Simulation Chamber. With Dean in my party, we were able to set another new high score, and the event grew increasingly popular for our attendance. The Simulation Chamber battles were already a sport that fascinated the Hearthwood, but our fights seemed even more packed than usual.

Afterward, I heard rumors that a few important Wizards from across the capital had arrived in the Hearthwood in a hurry to catch the tail end of that show. Watching p...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 45

“Dean...” My doppelganger glowered at Dean. He stood, waving at the nearby guns to direct their muzzles at Dean.

The projectiles flew, but Dean distorted the flow of space around him, and so each bundle of lead slowed to a crawl. Dean ducked and swerved in slow motion, dodging every one of them.

“I totally didn’t steal that trick from The Matrix,” Dean shouted when he finished dodging the last bullets.

I dusted myself off and stood. I was a little...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 44

[Left! He’s going left!] Mac yelled.

I turned, changing directions. “You contact Dean yet?”

[I’m guiding him too. Go! He’s getting away!]

I raced through the forest, desperate to catch my doppelganger before he made his escape. I traveled through the Hearthwood in the blink of an eye, but the new patches of dead trees from the Devilbeast Wilds scattered throughout the woods were less familiar.

The ley lines running through the ground twisted unnaturally like ...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 43

I was done playing around. My evil twin had become a scourge on the Hearthwood. He’d already caused me more trouble than I ever should have allowed. As the anger built within me, so did my resolve. I had a plan to deal with him once and for all, starting today.

“Mac, I’m going to need your sensors. You’ll have to run the Scanner at maximum efficiency if you want to spot him. My evil twin is both quick and crafty. If we want to catch him off guard, we will have to be fast. You re...

Sava and Comela from Spellheart (NSFW) [AI art by Dutch]

Thanks to Dutch for this one! He made them, not me. He doesn't have a portfolio or instragram yet, but you can talk to him in the discord server if you want!

Reminder that I have a discord server: https://discord.gg/jafHpf6g9

Spellheart 9: Chapter 42

Though we’d just left the place minutes ago, we were soon headed straight back into the Devilbeast Wilds to search for Ethan. It felt odd to be looking for someone who was part of an organization that was once our mortal enemy, let alone searching for an immensely powerful Demigod whose magical might was enough to shake continents.

Come to think of it, I had to search the Primordial World for Sam and Dean, so Ethan would be the third Demigod I went out on a search and rescue mission f...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 41

Our return to the Hearthwood was uneventful, though we were all keeping an eye over our shoulder the entire time it took to tear a hole in the pocket world back into ordinary space.

"Whoo! Time to go home and throw a party!" Eltiana dove through the crack in space I'd just opened up and then promptly landed face-first in a pile of monster poop. "Yuck!"

I shook my head. "There you have it, ladies. One more reason not to dive face-first through spatial rifts to unknown destinations....

Spellheart 9: Chapter 40

The looming figure gripping Ethan by the throat was a few fingers taller than myself, but wrought of earth and metal instead of flesh and bone. He was no longer a bare adamantium skeleton. Instead, he now bore a remarkable semblance to me.

He had skin of clay and bronze, looking much as I would after a few weeks of steady sunlight. I sensed quicksilver flowing just beneath the surface like blood through veins, and heard the slow clink of gears and pistons beneath his flesh. The shape of...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 39

I raced to Sava’s last known location, somewhere between the Alchemists Laboratory and where I called for my matriarchs to rally and defeat these monsters. I found exactly what I expected waiting for me there. And precisely what I feared.

There was a rift in space slowly sealing itself. This one was far smaller, and no monsters spilled from it. It was cut just as smoothly as the big gash, clearly made by the same hand.

“The first attack was just a distraction...” I muttered....

Spellheart 9: Chapter 38

The coffee shop erupted into chaos. Panic-stricken elves screamed and darted about, their coffee cups knocked over and forgotten. I quickly dropped the modified Unnoticability spell shrouding Ethan and me, and my power filled the room, gripping every panicked elf.

I opened my mouth to speak words of reassurance and calm the populace when Ethan cast his own spell. He extended his hand, and a wave of Mind zeal washed over the room. One by one, the panicked elves fell asleep where they sto...

Happy Fourth of July!

To all my American readers, Happy Independence day!

I will be refraining from fireworks, as this is the day most people lose fingers, and I need them to type.

But for everybody else, have at them! I've generated some holiday-themed outfits for some of the ladies from Spellheart.

(Also, happy belated Canada day for all Canadians! And happy holidays for all of you from other countries whose national holidays I missed.)

Spellheart 9: Chapter 37

Aelina confessed everything I suspected of her and a lot that I hadn't.

She'd been the one to plant the Entling, which I hadn't known. No wonder she'd been the first to notice it.

"Sir, Master, Patriarch, I know I have sinned..." Aelina groveled. "I am willing to pay with my life. Let me die and wash away my betrayal so that my next incarnation can be unburdened."

I shook my head and tilted her gaze up to meet mine. "Denied. You are far more useful to me as you are, Aelina. ...

Amazon Apocalypse grand release!

Hey guys! I'm super glad to finally share the final version of Amazon Apocalypse with all of you!

Thank you to everyone who enjoyed it here on Patreon with me!

For those that haven't read it, it’s a litrpg apocalypse harem novel about Carter, a normal guy from Earth who had a strange encounter in his youth and met a girl his own age from a distant world.

Her name was Myrina, and she was from the Arcadia Multiverse, a vast array of worlds under the control of the System. An...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 36

The Hearthwood had grown tremendously once more. The rows of ground-level shops that had once characterized the outskirts of the city were now well and truly within the settlement. They were now less outskirts and more downtown.

The elves had built around the Hearthwood's enormous trees, and in many cases, right up along their sides and around their crowns, forming something of a second city high in the air.

The people living in the tops of those trees were a notch wealthier than ...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 35

You know what they say. If you want a job done right, do it yourself. The more power I gained, the truer that felt.

These days, it was within my power to delegate everything besides fighting and sleeping with my matriarchs.

And in truth, that's all I thought I would be doing by the time I reached this point. But there was something satisfying about a job well done. About being there in the thick of it, even if that meant wading through a mountain of paperwork.

Maybe I'd been...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 34

My objective was clear. I had to figure out how to root out the agents of the Satyr King from my Sacred Grove. And I wanted to do it before the Sacred Grove reached the Mage Acolyte realm.

Right now, problems were easy to solve, but the further the Sacred Grove progressed, the more little problems would turn into big problems. I could crush a Maleficient Entling with my eyes closed if it was only at True Mage. But if such an issue lingered until the grove was at the Sorcerer realm, I wo...

Spellheart 9: Chapter 33

True to her word, the Librarian had a report for me before the sun fell. It was quite an extensive report as well. The bundle of papers was as thick as my finger, which meant she must have picked up her pen the moment she returned to the cabin and not stopped for rest until she was finished.

Such dedication from a servant of the Cult of the Unblinking Eye was suspicious, and I wondered how much of it came from her own will and how much from daily doses of mind magic granting her superna...