Chapter 73 Infestation
Kate listened to the groans and howls outside, another horde scouring the streets outside of an apartment building herself and Logan were hiding in. Her tremor sense had informed them early enough to get to safety.
How long are we going to have to hide?
She sighed, looking at her fist. She’d gotten so much stronger, had fought and killed so many of these monsters but there were hundreds of them left, hundreds she couldn...
2023-10-10 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 72 Skin Care
Kate and Logan moved through the streets of Falstadt with a brisk pace, occasionally receiving updates on the undead horde locations that the Union fighters could spot. The increased frequency suggested to her that Reymond and Aathi or the entire group had found a more elevated spot overlooking more of the city.
Kate’s hearing and tremor sense coupled with the updates let them reach the location of the Union group without further interr...
2023-10-07 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 71 City Streets
“Union Spear, radio check. Over.” Alexander’s voice resounded from everyone else’s devices.
“Logan, hearing you clearly, over.”
Kate checked her gear one last time, the two of them back at the office after returning to the castle for the night and sharing what they’d learned with Jon. He’d had a few additions that they’d already shared with Valery.
“Everyone ready then?” Valery asked. With her spear in...
2023-10-06 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 70 Apocalypse Meetings
“That’s some impressive magic,” Logan said after they had walked past the fence. “If not for you, she could’ve shot me several times before I would’ve even noticed she was there.”
“Yeah,” Kate said. “It’s good she’s on our side. At least for the time being.”
“I’m more thinking on potential counter measures. Because her being able to do those things, there’s a chance of monsters being able to...
2023-10-05 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 69 Roses
Kate stood in the former exhibition room of the first floor of the armory and watched Jon set up, drawing strange circles onto the floor before he spread out bits and pieces of metal and splintered wood.
“Is that some kind of witchcraft ritual?” Kate asked when he stood up, wiping away at the sweat on his brow.
He laughed. “Yeah. I mean it looks that way, right? I have no clue. There’s a vague idea of the runes I draw in my head...
2023-10-04 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 68 Home
Allison went to work whilst Logan and Kate shared what they’d learned about the dungeon, the inner city, the horde, Logan’s support Class evolution and Kate’s new support Class, Jon documented everything meticulously, the group sharing their thoughts and theories on the dungeon and the nature of the undead.
“I do wonder about the implications of a mana infused blizzard,” Jon said after a while.
Kate had finished a few bowls of ...
2023-10-03 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 67 Tremors
Much of the mall’s roof was accessible through the restaurant on the top floor, the outside area providing more seating for guests. There was even a bar outside. Everything was now of course covered in a thick layer of snow, strong winds howling past when Kate and Logan stepped outside, the two no longer sheltered by the many buildings of Falstadt, nor the hilly terrain found throughout.
Kate could tell the air was freezing but she found ...
2023-10-02 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey all. Thanks for another month of support :). As promised, this week will get quite a few Infrasound chapters.
Chapter 66 Mall
Kate and Logan cut away Overakar scales for the good part of an hour. She kind of wanted to get some bones back too but the creature was so massive, the legs didn’t really make much sense and cutting all that flesh away would take a lot of time, let alone the size and weight they’d have to carry all the way back.
...
2023-10-01 15:11:04 +0000 UTC
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Heya, just a quick update in case you missed the previous info post. Starting October 1st, Infrasound advance chapters will be on the 5$ tier again and no longer on the 2.50$. Tier name changed to Berserker as well.
New chapter likely tomorrow.
Cheers and have a good weekend :).
2023-09-30 18:50:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 65 Steps
‘ding’ ‘You have defeated [Undead Orc]’
‘ding’ ‘You have defeated [Undead Human]’
…
‘ding’ ‘You have defeated [Undead Overakar]’
‘ding’ ‘Omen of Vengeance reaches lvl 30’
Stat points +2
Vigor +1
‘ding’ ‘Blood Frenzy reaches 2nd lvl 19’
...
2023-09-28 11:24:22 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 64 Leg
Kate and Logan cleared and mapped four more corridors, normal undead only, quickly taken out without alerting more.
When they reached yet another fork, Kate found something strange in the distance. Strange at least, for the place they were in.
There was faint light. And it wasn’t in a reddish hue for once. “You can see that too, right?”
Logan stepped past her before he got out his binoculars and looked through them. “Yeah. A...
2023-09-24 22:15:19 +0000 UTC
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Eya. Been a while since the last info post. Hope you're all doing okay :).
First of all, the Azarinth book 3 edits are off to the copy editor, which means my part and my main editor's part is mostly done. Cut down and rewrote the original section of chapters 152-324 a lot and hopefully made it better. At least there's some semblance of pacing now. More info when we get close to release - still a while off due to various externals. Here in this post you can download the files to the orig...
2023-09-21 16:19:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 63 Progress
Kate and Logan continued to clear and map out the undead infested corridors. The rose like flowers they’d found were easily cut away, losing some but not all of their red glow when Logan put them into one of their bags. They found it much more difficult to cut off the antlers growing out of the skulls of the Emisaries but Logan thought it a good idea to bring some of the obviously sturdy and strange bone back to Allison and Eloise, their Craft...
2023-09-21 16:11:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 62 Bread
Kate pulled the blankets closer and over herself, sighing when she drank from the honey infused and steaming herbal tea. She felt like a new person, warm, clean, well fed, and no longer inside of a horrifying set of underground stone corridors infested with monsters. Though she couldn’t quite deny it, there was more than a little satisfaction that she felt from killing the undead.
She had often felt the same about her work as a firefighter....
2023-09-18 21:53:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 61 Homeward
Kate cut through another undead, an orc sword blocked with her raised arm just before it could strike her head. The blade cut into her exposed and bloodied skin, not deep but she would have to kill more of them to heal it. Pushing the blade aside, she swung her hammer upwards and struck the undead orc’s head, blood magic rupturing through the monster’s skull before it staggered back and fell.
She breathed out, feeling a little bit of e...
2023-09-15 16:31:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 60 Into the dark
Kate set down her pack and downright fell into one of the office chairs in the room. The same place where they had talked to the survivors they had found earlier. It had been barely an hour since they had brought them to the western outskirts of the industrial sector but to her it felt like a lot more time had passed.
Logan had taken off his helmet, setting down his bloodied gear onto the table.
No undead had followed them here,...
2023-09-11 16:31:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 59 Hallway
Kate felt the pain from her wounds lessen as she brought her weapon down again into the undead orc. Her axe bit deep, near all the way through. She set her boot down onto the monster and ripped her weapon out, glancing over to see her ally walk over, his sword and armor bloodied.
She looked around and found no moving monsters left. There were noises coming from the hillside, a five story apartment building atop but she knew that wasn’t th...
2023-09-09 18:53:27 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 58 Contact
Jasia looked at the radio, the group quiet for a moment.
Bastian glanced at them. “Roger,” he said and pointed in the indicated direction. “Out.”
“Get ready to fight, everyone,” Mateo said. “Guess there’s no easy way out.”
“Why did he ask us not to attack some woman?” Niklas asked as they got in position.
The next gunshot sounded closer. A level higher, Jasia assumed.
They prepared in their usua...
2023-09-07 16:48:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey all. Thank you for another month of support! New chapter up, thank you for reading :).
Chapter 57 Snowfall
Kate breathed in the cool air and listened to the surroundings as soon as they stepped out into the yard of their castle. Light snow was falling, the skies overcast and gray. She heard the Willow and the winds but nothing else in the vicinity. “Clear,” she said and started towards the east facing watchtower.
Logan grun...
2023-09-02 13:39:48 +0000 UTC
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Thanks for reading everyone :). I'm now finally done with the first pass on book 3 of azarinth. Fucking yeyo.
Chapter 56 Warmth
Kate woke up early on the next day. She usually did now, her Vigor stat points from Omen of Vengeance starting to make a real difference to the resting time she required. She had experienced plenty of work shifts on too little sleep, after a while it had always started to fuck her up. Now however, she had not sl...
2023-08-26 22:55:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 55 Burning
Kate left the parents with the difficult task of showing all of this carnage to Celeste. She didn’t know if they were making the right decision but either way, she understood it was not an easy one to make. She was just glad she didn’t have a kid herself to take care of.
But you have them, she thought, nodding to herself. They did feel close to her, that much was true. Closer perhaps than even her team had felt. Logan himself f...
2023-08-19 22:06:35 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 54 Slaughter
Kate gripped the battle axe in her hands and listened. She heard the growls move closer, dozens of them this time around, more than she had managed to gather the last time. Looking around the tree, her eyes went wide. Shit.
There was an ogre at the very back of the group. She considered for a moment and then grit her teeth. They were here now, and the others could flee down into the cellar. They had killed ogres before, they coul...
2023-08-13 11:48:49 +0000 UTC
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Heya. New chapter. Hope you're all doing alright :). I'm reaching the last stretch on azarinth book 3 edits. Was lots of work to rewrite the revenge arc stuff ey. Bit sad that I can't focus more on serializing at the moment but hope I can get back to it again soon.
Thanks for reading as always :).
Chapter 53 Voice
Kate turned around with wide eyes as everyone present stopped whatever they were doing and moved closer to Jon who turn...
2023-08-09 15:06:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey all, thanks for another month of support :). Very much appreciated.
And thanks for reading.
Chapter 52 Stakes
Kate raised the battle axe, steadied herself in the snow, and brought it down with all the strength that she had.
Her arms shook and the wooden handle vibrated as the blade sunk deep into the wood. Almost halfway through the one meter tree trunk. She could hear the sound of steel tearing through wood, could feel t...
2023-08-02 11:42:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 51 Choice
Kate and Logan hunted down another three small groups of undead until only fifteen minutes of Eloise’s magic remained. The sky had darkened too.
Kate ripped her hammer out from an undead orc’s head before she turned towards her ally. She saw him raise his shotgun and ran towards him, seeing the gray creature rushing past the trees.
The undead direwolf reached him first.
Her ally pulled the trigger, the deafening sound echoing...
2023-07-26 23:06:24 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 50 Hunt
Kate listened to her surroundings, tuning out the heartbeat and breathing of her companion standing a few meters behind her. They each hid behind a tree, using their scoped rifles to find any monsters in the vicinity of Keilberg Castle. Their radios would allow them to go a few kilometers in each direction at least, without losing contact in case the others needed their help.
The snow in the open had solidified enough that they only sank in up...
2023-07-19 19:43:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 49 Flames
Kate woke up several times during the night. A few times, she dreamed, with others, she didn’t remember. All of it felt disjointed. Fear, grief, anger. She breathed deliberately, opened her sleeping bag when she woke up hot and sweating, and closing it when she woke up shivering.
Not the best sleep she’d had but she hadn’t expected as much, glad she had found some sleep in the first place.
Eloise prepared a large pot of porridge ...
2023-07-14 17:50:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 48 Time
Kate held the sheathed katana and closed her eyes. She breathed in, smelling the stale smell of blood and what remained of the burnt flesh and hair. Clearing the armory of corpses left her completely spent. Physically and mentally. She wanted to roll up into a ball and sleep for a few days but she knew just as much that it wouldn’t work.
She grit her teeth, then consciously tried to relax her jaw. You’re not alone here. She looked...
2023-07-08 13:25:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 47
Kate hardly felt her breath. Melusine had moved on to Logan. Jon had stepped outside to puke. She could hear her own heartbeat echoing in her ears. It was slow.
Her sight was blurred but she could make out the forms of Grey, Ethan, and Bert among the dark and bloodied silhouettes.
She wanted to activate her skills but they didn’t work. She felt spent.
Why did…
Her lips quivered.
She heard crying from below, brea...
2023-07-04 17:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 46 Blood
Kate heard more creatures now. Growls and moans coming from beyond the doorway leading out into the snowed in yard of their castle. Had they made a mistake clearing the paths to the truck and other buildings? Had they made a mistake in using the wood stove? Or was it just coincidence?
They’re not here yet, she thought and focused on the now. She looked around on the ground floor of the armory, then moved. First, she grabbed one end...
2023-07-04 13:26:00 +0000 UTC
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