Malcolm Tent

Greed God chapter 390

Time at home with the family before heading out for a fight.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 618

Looking at the small town (or settlement or whatever you wanted to call it) in front of us, I was blown away. Not because it was nicer or more intricately crafted than most Ascendant cities I’d seen so far, but exactly the opposite.

The Underdistrict, as Griff called it, was unique in that the whole thing seemed to have been thrown together at a moment’s notice out of whatever people had lying around. Not that the resulting buildings weren’t beautiful, but it was in a m...

Shout at the Devil chapter 129

Headed home for christmas.

Wish upon the Stars 617

The next morning found all of us in varying levels of discomfort. I was mostly fine, I’d minimized drinking as much as possible, and chased it with plenty of water, but the others weren’t all so lucky. Gabe, Chelsea, and Mel were all twitching messes. Callie seemed like she might be a bit hungover, but she also just generally hated mornings, so it might have been that.

Abel and Bethy were both fine, of course. My mentor’s physical toughness and Bethy’s vampire constit...

Greed God chapter 389

Dinah's upgrade to be revealed next chapter.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 616

To my surprise, we entered the bar to the whoops and cheers of all the patrons. I was shocked they’d know about all this, but apparently Griff wasn't shy about owning his decisions. Walking up to the big bearded man I reaching into my ring and dropped ‘Matthew’s’ head on the table with a thump. Calle, Abel, and the rest of our group piled up the other fourteen heads.

“You seem to be short one.” Said Griff conversationally. “We sent fifteen.”

A...

Shout at the Devil chapter 128

Some fun enchanting as we come up on christmas.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 615

We waited until we left the bar before Callie put us under Stealth. “Ok, that can’t have been a coincidence right?” Chelsea asked in a harsh whisper. “We come there and he immediately sends us to deal with the fallout of a situation WE caused?”

I shrugged. “It could be. It’s not even really that much of one. We went there specifically to find the gang of the people we stopped, and apparently they were the only team that didn’t come back. It kind of makes sense...

Greed God chapter 388

A new addition to the family.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 614

Damned Souls was louder than the name implied. Or maybe it was just louder than the name led me to infer. I’d kind of assumed that the name spoke of a hallowed place full of dread whispers, but it was probably my mistake. I’d been in enough bars to know what they were like, and this one wasn’t much different.

A pool table, a series of booths, what looked like a card game going on in the back. Nothing groundbreaking or mindblowing. Just a place for people to get drunk an...

Shout at the Devil chapter 127

We're going into another small timeskip here.

Greed God chapter 387

Fighting with spears and curses.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 613

“I feel exposed.” I complained as we walked into a shady empire controlled area. This was supposedly the central territory of the Horned Lords, and it was the first place we were cheking for clues about what the hell was going on. “Like, do we have to walk around like this? It’s embarrassing.”

Callie rolled her eyes. “You’ll be fine. I think you look great. You’re wearing plenty.”

“I mean…I’m not.” I corrected her. “I’m wearing l...

Shout at the Devil chapter 126

Fight with spiders.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 612

The short Horned Lord (whose name we learned was Matthew) was eager to tell us what we wanted to know. And more. He actually ended up spending about fifteen minutes babbling about nonsense I didn’t care about, and if I hadn’t been sure he was absolutely convinced Bethy was going to feed him to her cats, I’d have suspected him of stalling.

“And then I stole my friend Ben’s muffin tops.” He yammered. “I shouldn’ta done it, his mom made them special, and it was h...

Greed God chapter 386

People wanted some downtime, so I thought a little sidequest would be fun. Kind of hokey but I think the direction is interesting.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 611

The second the other members of the Horned Lords charged, the rest of us moved. I rose from my chair, foot touching down on the edge of the grill table and hurling myself up. My State of Grace was pretty much permanent in my armor, so I soared up into the air weightlessly.

I’d probably have hit the ceiling if I hadn’t been paying attention, instead I pushed off into a gainer (a backflip performed while moving forward according to Abel) and bent my knees enough that my fee...

Shout at the Devil chapter 125

A walk in the woods.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 610

The party was being held at a restaurant called Flat Bridges. I had no clue WHY it was called that, but no one else seemed to think it was weird so I didn’t bring it up. “So…” I said as we stopped in front of the doors to the restaurant. “How do you want to do this? If we’re trying to be political our entrance is important. What should we say?”

We stood like that for a second before Bethy shrugged, kicked in the doors and squealed joyfully. “We’re back, bitc...

Greed God chapter 385

A trip across the skies.

Patreon Split.

So I've gotten to the point where I think my fanfiction is kind of cutting into my novel writing in terms of focus (I'm not planning to stop either lol). I'm just thinking of splitting my fanfiction off to another patreon (I'll make sure there won't be any disruption in chapter releases either way). I'd love some feedback about which readers are here for what so I can see how the split might affect things.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 609

We met up with the girls and Callen back at the inn, because Callie didn't want me to see her dress before the wedding. They all seemed happy and relaxed, and I realized I felt pretty good too. A day just hanging and shopping with friends was pretty fun, though I wished we could've all gone together.

“So I ran into an old friend.” Said Callie as she plopped down next to me at the table in the inns common room. “Do you remember Annalise from the Moonsong Glade?”

...

Shout at the Devil chapter 124

Trying to do the chamber reveal through another route, and I think it's going well. Next stop, forbidden forest.

Greed God chapter 384

Mind the tags nsfw

Wish upon the Stars chapter 608

My new staff was amazing. I might have been a bit biased about the issue, but still, I loved it. I wanted to immediately go do some sparring, but I knew that we had other things to do. So, with nothing else to do, we decided to look around the market to see if there was anything besides weapons we could use to our advantage.

There was, but there also wasn’t. I’d spent fifty D-ranked chits on my staff, (the woman giving us a pretty amazing deal because she’d had the thin...

Shout at the Devil chapter 123

Some really interesting implication to some of the power interactions here.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 607

The market we arrived at was one of the smaller ones. It was on the border of Empire and Church territory, and I was hoping we would get better prices because it wasn’t quite so busy. Competing with C and B-rankers in the main hub market would be an exercise in frustration, and something a bit more subdued would be better for finding what we needed.

Still, even the smaller market was pretty bustling, and while I didn’t see many B-rankers, C and D-rankers abounded.

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Greed God chapter 383

Date with Kara.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 606

We ended up finding a nondescript inn near my mom’s place to stay, Chelsea making it clear to the owners that we valued our privacy. Once we all settled in at The Randy Skink (easily the worst inn name I’d ever seen) we headed to bed, eager to wake up the next morning and meet up with Gabe and Bethy. We made arrangements to rendezvous with them outside out inn.

“Shopping!” Cheered Bethy as she blurred up to us, Gabe nearly sprinting to keep up with her.

Shout at the Devil chapter 122

Doing research. So much freaking research. Looking through old books and old documents.