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Chapter 120

 

Randidly was distantly aware that Donnyton sent squads to help out their sister village, which apparently was a thing, but ultimately decided to ignore it. He had his own work to deal with.

Under Mrs. Hamilton, with Lyra’s occasional assistance, the training continued to escalate. His footwork drills came under increasing strain as Lyra used more and more mana birds, moving in strange, beautiful patterns to encircle him. The weights he was forced to train with grew and grew.

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Chapter 119

 

When Kiersty walked out of the hut, several turtle guards with crossbows scrambled out of the way. Originally they had been very disapproving of allowing her to wander freely, but Bert had said a quiet word to one, and instantly they became well behaved, springing to attention whenever she passed.

She smiled at them, but they were not her quarry; she continued onwards, down the small path away from the hill that formed Hess’ and Bert’s house. Kith Klark was built on a lake, wi...

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(T3 Reward II) My First Webnovel, Part I

Below is the first half of my first attempt at wri

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Check In (III)

Hello all!

Wanted to make a few announcements. 

Starting next week, I'm going to shift how the rewards work, so First Tier gets you 1 chapter, Second Tier gets you 2, Third Tier gets you 3, etc. Just makes more sense as I have 3 Tiers now.

In addition, shortly after this, I should upload another side work that I've done as a reward for the T3 people. Thank you so much!

Also, I've recently been big about self-improvement, so I've settle on some side projects I'm intereste...

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Chapter 118

 

Decklan twitched, his brain recognizing a lot of information at once and combing through it. It was only a split second of frozen indecision, then he continued to creep forward, as though nothing had happened.

When they arrived, there were guards, but they weren’t paying very close attention to the portal so Decklan and Annie’s groups slipped away before they were noticed, joining the strange blue treeline nearby. Annie faded into the foliage, slipping away, while the rest fol...

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Chapter 117

 

Randidly swore quietly to himself, lowering the bracer back to the work table. Once more, he had let too much mana flow at once, and it had pooled and warped the rune, soon cracking the bracer. So not only had he failed at the Engraving, but the armor was also ruined.

Luckily, or annoyingly, Sam had him working with amateur level leather bracers made by some of the new recruits from Franksburg. Randidly wanted to tell them that even their inept attempts had meaning. They weren’t...

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Chapter 116

 

The next day passed in a blur.

When he wasn’t being derided by Sam for his lack of mana control, he was going through one of Mrs. Hamilton’s training games, or dodging around Lyra’s mana birds, which were becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. Between those exercises, Randidly ate as much food as he could fit inside of himself, and burned through his mana, throwing out spell after spell, flexing the extra mana to increase the effectiveness. He believed that he was slowly ...

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Chapter 115

 

Chapter 115

Sam swore and slammed his fist down, denting the metal of the work table. Tossing the failed engraving to the side, he looked broodingly at his hands. It was just too difficult to Engrave with his mana pool. He couldn’t persist for the entirety of the process, and when he ran out of mana, the engraving suffered for it. Sam hadn’t even finished this version, and he knew it would be inferior to his previous attempt, which was poor at best.

What was most annoyin...

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Chapter 114

 

“There are obviously harder versions of the previous exercises,” Mrs. Hamilton began, “But today we are going to get the final two that we have currently designed a good test, and then start to address areas that I believe can be improved. The first exercise will be one focusing on Weapon Accuracy and Fitness.”

Randidly glanced around. “Will Lyra not be joining us.”

Mrs. Hamilton smiled sweetly. She has her own exercises and training; although she is a village sp...

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Chapter 113

 

Raina hastily put her mask back on, blushing furiously. She was secretly quite pleased, but underneath that was a thick layer of shame. Her face as it was now… Without this mask…

Without saying anything to the man, Raina gathered her stuff and hurried down the hill.

“At least tell me your name, beautiful!”

Whereas she was previously slightly overwhelmed by a strange fluttering in her heart by the strange man, now a hard wedge of annoyance drove down, and she st...

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Chapter 112

 

All night Randidly tirelessly practiced the movements of Footwork of the Spear Phantom, working on what Mrs. Hamilton recommended. First he just let the moves flow, moving back and forth across the ground however he wanted to, letting the steps spiral endlessly forward.

It really was an incredibly profound way of moving, that was focused on small, delicate steps that seemed incredibly light, but contained a large amount of power. An opponent who witnessed the moves would be endles...

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Chapter 111

 

“I think that is enough for today.” Mrs. Hamilton said lightly, smiling at them both. Randidly collapsed on his knees, sweat dripping off of his face, which was very pleasing to Lyra. But she herself had her hands tightly grasped behind her back, suppressing the trembling.

She had overdrawn herself by a small amount, keeping control of the circles of birds for long enough to exhaust Randidly. But she would rather tremble for a while than let him win in this contest, that wasn...

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(TIII Reward I)Early MMORPG Web Novel Experiments

This honestly might be a reward that will only leave you depressed, because some of these I won't add on more to in the future. But if you want, they are here, and if you like any of the ideas in them, let me know.

I'll start with a short one: I think this was going to be about a wizard who made his own spells.

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Prologue

“It’s supposed to be a combination of a tutorial for the system and a chance to earn a few extra stats,” Terk had...

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Check In (II)

Hola 

Added another goal, and another reward tier. Both as a way to show what I am willing to offer, and also as a way to gauge interest. Let me know what you think of both~

-PuDDleS4263

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Chapter 110

 

Lyra watched Randidly carefully as he went through the second exercise, this one focused on weapon accuracy and eyesight. It was an extremely large Mobile, with dozens of small wooden disks hanging from it. The disks were numbered 1 through 60. Randidly’s task was simple; hit them with his spear in order, within a certain amount of time. Complications emerged as Randidly had to hit them while the rotated slowly around him, and also while the disks themselves spun, sometimes hiding the...

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Chapter 109

 

Razor Fleetfoot hopped to and fro, feeling quite timid and overwhelmed. The elders had tasked him, one of their brightest young warriors, with a very specific, and possibly dangerous, mission. He had followed their instructions, but to his surprise, nothing of what he found was what he was told to expect.

Everyone just seemed to be rushing around in every which direction. Seeing a friendly looking female, Razor hopped over to her.

“Excuse me…”

The female looked h...

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Check In (I)

Hey Patrons.

I wanted to take a chance and ask for your input on some things. Especially in terms of what you want, as people who actually give me money.

Those other plebs be damned. 

Especially in terms of extra things. I likely will put up a second goal at $250 this weekend,  and I suspect it will be for 10 chapters a weeks. But I'm a little worried about it being a hard pace to sustain.

So any ideas for extra things I can offer would be appreciated.

Would y...

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Chapter 108

 

The squads, after a long afternoon and evening of being reamed by Donnyton’s leaders for their flaws in terms of stat and skill choices, were not in the mood to help build houses. Some were injured, others were dead tired, and still others were slightly angry now, at the whole situation.

So when Alana came down with her trail of refugees, the initial response was icy.

Then, much to everyone’s surprise, Dozer stood, his left arm still in a sling, although his shattered co...

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Chapter 107

 

Daniel sighed. “I hope this isn’t one of those situations that he will swear vengeance, go train in the woods for a month, and come back and do it again, only to gloriously succeed.”

Annie rolled her eyes, leaving to go check on the hobbling Dozer, and Mrs. Hamilton chuckled. “...I think you read too many fantasy books.”

Giving her a skeptical look, Daniel said. “Do you really want to underestimate the Ghosthound?”

“No, I think he will grow more powerfu...

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Chapter 106

 

Lyra sighed softly, looking at Tykes, unconscious on the ground. Seeing as a Village Spirit was different that seeing as a human. Everything was waves and momentum. Which is why it was so difficult to answer certain questions; it was flying directly in the face of that momentum. She had managed it once, by keeping a faction of the Tribulation’s existence captive, burning it to distract those waves briefly, but it had still cost her quite a bit.

She had a few ideas how she could ...

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Chapter 105

 

Daniel watched calmly as all of the final battle on the arena unfolded. He carefully noted every skill that the Ghosthound used, doing his best to mark down their effects based upon observation. From there, he tried to extrapolate information about stats.

Ultimately, he gave up; the Ghosthound simply had too many skills and stat boosts from places to keep track of all of their influences. There were simply too variables to account for them all.

“Do you think we can really ...

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Chapter 104

 

Glendel and Regina stood in area with quite a clear view of the arena, and they saw the Ghosthound’s explosive initial offensive. Then as the Ghosthound turned casually, Glendel’s heart went cold. He seemed… untouchable.

But just as the Ghosthound turned, two individuals arrived at him, one with fists raised, one with knives dancing across his fingers.

“First one to touch him wins,” Paolo hissed, his eyes wide. But Glendel could tell the strain he was under. The Gh...

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Chapter 103

 

“He is not invulnerable, but he’s good at everything.” Decklan turned, surprised to find Lyra standing next to him. She tucked her blonde hair behind her ear in a motion that was so human that Decklan was chilled to the bone. She looked at the Ghosthound thoughtfully for several seconds, and then said. “He’s also packing a lot more firepower than he’s currently letting on, which is the real trouble with bringing him down. If you push him, he will push back, hard.”

De...

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First!

Ehhehe, truly, I am blessed with the power to have first comment all the time now.

Well, I wanted to get this up around chapter 100, and I've basically accomplished that.  This is all very new, and slightly confusing, so if anyone has advice, feel free to speak up.

-Puddles

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