Hi folks,
The laptop I do all my writing on has gone kaput. Keyboard is on the fritz so I can't even write anything, let alone publish!
Obviously I have backups and such but I'm having issues on that front as well.
Sorry for the lack of releases. As soon as it's fixed we'll get back on track.
2019-02-02 22:12:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Her hands hurt like hell.
Mirryn leaned against the parapet of the Legion HQ and took in the view, resting her forearms on the stone.
"How are you holding up?" a voice came nearby.
Mirryn turned to see Donnelan approaching from along the wall.
"Couldn't sleep either, huh?" she asked him.
"Not a chance in hell" he muttered.
Neither of them wanted to talk about their baptism but they couldn't help thinking about it. When t...
2019-02-01 04:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Titus was a renowned Legionary above and below the ground. He was known for his strength, his iron will, his leadership and his willingness to put himself in harms' way to protect his fellows, he was a leader who never spared himself.
Most of all, he was known for his unyielding sense of duty. He had sacrificed over and over again in order to perform the role he filled and he would damn well do it again. He never hesitated, did not regret but often, ...
2019-01-30 01:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Mirryn awoke with a start.
Instantly wide eyed and alert she turned her head to look around her and her eyes were struck immediately by the white room in which she lay. She was lying on a clean bed in a small white chamber. On the roof a glowing crystal provided illumination, a clean white light the filled the space warmly. Just looking at that light nearly brought Mirryn to tears. She'd feared that she would die surrounded by the blue light of the D...
2019-01-29 04:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks!
The first month of the patreon being setup is coming to an end and I waned to say a few things here.
Firstly, thank you so much to the people who signed on to support me, support Chrysalis and pay for something you could have had for free. You might think that chipping in one or five dollars a month doesn't amount to much but it means so much to me. I was honestly really bummed out when I rejected the Webnovel contract based on it's terms. My dream was to make a living w...
2019-01-28 23:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The rest of the pet skills don't interest me right now, I don’t need to take the skill to increase the number of available pets until the system refuses to allow to. I may as well try and find a third now that I have the faster pet growing skill, presumably I won't be able to level it up unless I gain a new pet.
At that time perhaps the system will refuse to allow me reconstitute a monster and I can easily pick up the skill then. For now, let's loo...
2019-01-28 10:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post
What the heck has been going on Tiny? I mean seriously man… You haven't upgraded anything? Haven't spent your skill points at all? The only skill that look like you didn't already have it is 'fancy feet' and what the heck does that do? Have you been dancing behind my back, have you? Little bit of tap here and there?
……
Sigh.
I use my antennae to rub at my temples in an effort to ward off the impending migraine I feel coming on.
<... 2019-01-27 05:32:00 +0000 UTC View Post
[Crinis, could you come over here please?]
[Of course Master] the little tennis ball of endless darkness responded immediately.
I get the feeling that she's able to sense where I am since she manages to roll towards me despite having no sense of sight. Once she reaches a space just in front of me she unfolds a few tentacles and 'stands' up, holding her body up on a few slender tendril like limbs.
[How are things going Crinis?] I decide to...
2019-01-25 08:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
wwwwWWWACHA!
I'm up!
Snapping alert after my nap I immediately leap into more work. Got stuff to do, no point slacking off like a dumb croc! (yeah I said it!)
First thing on the menu is expanding the farm chambers. I originally thought that two would be fine but now I'm not so sure. I need to be more ambitious if I want to grow the colony to the sort of size it needs to be in order to support itself in a never ending expansion of the glor...
2019-01-24 11:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostNearly at chapter 200! O_o - Author.
Once I get close enough I'm quickly recognised by the people and the reaction is a unlike what I expected.
Firstly the humans seem unusually comfortable with having a monster ant wandering up to their area. I guess they've seen plenty of ants wondering here and there over the last few days.
Secondly they seem a bit… reverential. When they recognise me (I look different enough to the ...
2019-01-23 00:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The Queen was in her chamber much the same as she had been over a day ago, covered in workers and resting peacefully. She hasn't had any reason to go out and fight lately so I hope she's enjoying a period of relaxation.
Considering the measly supply of Biomass that the workers have been extracting from the surface there hasn't even been much laying to do. I'm not sure if Queen ants can get bored but perhaps she might be feeling that things have becom...
2019-01-22 07:45:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After continuing to hose down the foes and let Tiny's fists smack them with electricity the idea finally occurs to me to widen the damage out even further. I take over the hose with my main mind and start spraying as wide a field of monsters as possible. It doesn't matter if I knock them down or not it only matters if they get soaked!
[Crinis! Move forward and support Tiny for a minute]
[Yes master!]
My faithful death blob wriggles a litt...
2019-01-21 10:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It takes a while for the vicious itch to fade. The coordination cortex is like an octopus that sits between my sub brains and the main mind so as it mutates and changes my entire brain zone lights up with itching. It's intolerable!
But finally gone!
The process finishes and I find my pet monsters looking at me funny. Look! Just because you lot can take the sensation of mutating like its nothing doesn't mean I can! I'm sensitive!
…maybe....
2019-01-20 00:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
One thousand metres high, the great ironwood trees of the Shattered Jungle towered over the surrounding terrain, their broad canopies plunging the surrounding lands in perpetual twilight. Each of these indomitable trees had lived for thousands of years, the great river that wound through these jungles had fed them since before the current Age and would continue to do so, Heaven's willing, long into the next.
On one broad limb of the tree a patient hu...
2019-01-19 03:11:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Deftly I use my sub brains to weave together two water bolts, leaving one brain to maintain and operate the transformation construct, as I lie patiently in wait like the great hunter that I am. The flower has no way to detect me with my advanced stealth active and my positioning being on point.
[Water magic affinity has reached level 2]
Nice!
I need to keep practicing these spells in order to raise my proficiency as quickly as possible. T...
2019-01-18 22:20:42 +0000 UTC View PostI leave my pets and Vibrant working on the shortcut tunnel and slowly encroach on the marsh expanse solo. It isn't that I don't think they could fight whatever it is that we find in here it's just that I don't want to attract unwanted attention at this point. So I do something I haven't had to do for a while.
I engage stealth ant mode.
Luckily I'm still relatively small for a monster so remaining unseen is still fairly simple, the plant growth is thick here, reeds and ...
2019-01-16 23:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Are there gods in Pangera? Scholarship in this area has been largely suppressed since the Church of the Path rose to predominance, their inquisitors have been most active in their pursuit of those willing to explore this scholastic line of enquiry. Despite their effort though the centuries there has been a small but industrious cadre of truth-seekers who are keen to bring the light of truth to our own history.
Records do indeed suggest that there wer...
2019-01-15 21:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks like we might have hit something by mistake?
Although, considering everything down that tunnel is sure to be hostile, I'm not sure I would call it a mistake?
I wonder what I even hit with that wave…
The mystery is soon solved when a gang of angry and damp looking Croca-Beasts come swaggering around the corner looking for trouble.
So it's you guys!
Are you the culprits chasing all the other monsters up the tunnel toward...
2019-01-14 21:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the introduction to the patreon exclusive novel Demon Beast of Cultivation. First chapter will hopefully be published in a few days. Enjoy!
Demon Beast of Cultivation
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth permeated all of creation. From the divine realms the sailed the Astral Sea like fierce water dragons to the Infernal plains bathed in fire at the root of existence and the mortal realms between. All places, all things, are nourished by Qi.
It's sour...
2019-01-14 03:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After delivering the Biomass to the surface and marking it with pheromones so the colony will pick it up we return back down to the entrance, making sure to conceal it once again. I feel good knowing that all of this Biomass is going to bring the Queen closer to upgrading all of her egg production organs and laying the first generation of the new workers!
For that happy occasion to come to pass we need to work hard! Get to it Anthony! Protect the col...
2019-01-13 20:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Inner Colony tier has been changed from three bonus to chapters to five. This is mainly so I don't have to fiddle about with post permissions too much. ^^
2019-01-13 10:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostSo all bonus chapters for Chrysalis are online! Whoo! Only reward left is the Patraeon exclusive work which will hopefully be up in the next few days. :D
2019-01-13 10:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I hadn't even finished celebrating Tiny's spectacular lightning wave technique (named it myself) before my joy is quenched by more monsters rushing up the as the ones in front of them collapsed from being overcooked.
Dammit!
How many of these damn things are there going to be?!
I hurriedly make use of the room Tiny has bought us by stuffing my face as full of Biomass as quickly as I can. Every bit counts! I also snap up my status for a mo...
2019-01-12 21:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Electricity rippling across his body endlessly, Tiny's fists continue to flash out and devastate his opponents. None can stand up to his blows. That doesn't shock me much. We're talking about a ten foot tall Gorilla monster here. If I'd seen a Gorilla on Earth that was ten feet tall I'd have fair browned my downstairs department. Physical strength is something he has in spades.
What is really impressive is the lightning strikes flashing from his body...
2019-01-12 21:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost as if the air were rushing towards us I can feel a wave pressure roll up the tunnel and press against my face.
It… isn't comfortable.
["Something is coming up. Get ready to fight"] I warn my crew.
Vibrant and Crinis huddle carefully on my person. Tiny stands to his full height, his head brushing the roof. He can also sense something is coming. His silver fur starts to rise off his frame as electrical sparks begin to shimmer and z...
2019-01-12 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We make much more rapid progress in our descent this time as opposed to the first. Tiny is much stronger after his second consecutive special evolution and he smashes his way with extreme speed and a strangely casual attitude through these small fry. I don't think I've even seen him throw a punch, he's just squashing monsters flat underneath his palms for the most part.
I really have no idea exactly what he gained in the evolution. Perhaps some new o...
2019-01-12 21:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Once Enid wakes up and manages to gather herself I speak to her a little longer before sending her back to her people. Then I lay a heck of a big pheromone marker around their campsite encouraging the workers not to eat them.
If they run into a worker outside of that ring…. That'll be a little different. Although I'm inclined to trust these people a heck of a lot more than I ever trusted their Queen I'm not prepared to let them run around willy nil...
2019-01-12 21:20:42 +0000 UTC View Post
[Yes, you] I snap.
Enid immediately stumbles forward until she reaches the side of the still sonorously praising one-armed priest.
I see her concentrate and then her voice appears in my mind.
[Wouldn't it be more appropriate to communicate with this man?] she indicates the priest, [it was he who led our people to this place].
This priest?! How the heck did he find me?! Does he have some sort of tracking device on me or something?! M...
2019-01-09 21:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
My mind snaps back to its regular housing and I take a moment to reorient myself. I'm still where I was before, partially buried in a mound of workers with the Queen standing in front of me, quite close.
"Are you alright child?" she asks, seeing me suddenly look so fatigued.
"I'm completely fine!" I gasp out as my brain continues to melt into sludge, "how are you? How did it all go?"
I'm anxious to know if there was any pain or discomfort...
2019-01-09 02:31:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Tentatively, I bring my antennae into contact with the Queen's and then activate the skill.
Core Surgery!
With what I learned during the skill upgrade I know that all I need is to be touching a part of the body on the monster I'll be 'operating' on but with an ant it feels like the antennae are the most appropriate place.
As soon as the skill is activated I feel a massive burst of information as the details of the Queen's core explode in ...
2019-01-09 02:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post