- Luke -
Luke’s hands shook as he swallowed fistfuls of berries. He waited and waited, but there was no effect. He screamed into the void, “I want my hallucinations! Give them back!”
He had been trapped in the second zone for the last two years, and it seemed that he had finally adapted to the toxins created by the berries. Luke was finally immune to their effects… and he hated it. He had spent every day training with and without Cookie, and he felt t...
2020-06-19 16:52:30 +0000 UTC
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“Circle is complete… now let the mana flow away, but only toward the interior of the circle…” Andre was breathing heavily as he forced his mana to work as he needed it. “Done!”
His concentration broke, and the excess mana flooded away into the air. It had taken him a month to gather the entire hilltop under his control, and three entire days of that had been spent making the flower like him enough to bind to him. “Now to reap the fruits of my...
2020-06-17 14:46:49 +0000 UTC
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- Andre -
“You know what?” Xan told a sweating and bleeding Andre. “A year isn’t all that bad for figuring out how to make your first real circle. “Beyond that, you are really embracing the theory more than any other generation of Druid.”
“Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that you let those bear-hunting bees at me when I didn't fully internalize the lesson?” Andre replied in a dead-tired voice around still-swollen lips.
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2020-06-15 14:39:40 +0000 UTC
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Luke broke into a downhill sprint, moving as fast as he could while holding his massive bone and being covered in several inches of leather. The water on him was vaporizing, turning to gas as he charged along. Some goats got in his way, but he simply plowed over them, breaking bones as his huge weight crushed them into the ground.
He was starting to have a following, a few hundred of the bleating beasts were charging along behind him. “Short… legs… suck, don'...
2020-06-12 14:14:25 +0000 UTC
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Luke looked at his weapon again and gulped. It was at least four feet long and about two feet wide at the thickest point. “Good thing whatever this came from is already dead…”
Over the next three months, Luke worked to familiarize himself with his ‘hammer’. It was as though he was learning to fight all over again, and only the fact that he had been conditioning his body every day for over two years allowed him to survive until he had gained some proficiency with t...
2020-06-10 16:17:49 +0000 UTC
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- Luke -
Luke scraped at his combat perch stone and grunted. The last two-and-a-half years had been intense, and was basically a blur of killing goats and testing his battle prowess. A diet of only protein hadn't been great for his system, but he wasn't malnourished in the slightest. In fact, between the constant combat and the huge number of hides he wore into combat to prevent getting beaten to death by goats, he had gained an impressive amount of muscle mass.
2020-06-08 14:28:42 +0000 UTC
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Taylor sent a fireball spinning toward the fleeing Fear, the spider-shaped spellform screeching as it dropped to the ground and tried to put out the flames. Taylor grumbled as she stalked toward it. “Oh, sure, imagine that. You’re almost tall enough to reach my shin, and you’re afraid of fire.”
Mana: 143/165
The Fear crumbled, leaving behind a puddle of ink and a few pages of high-quality vellum. She grabbed the vel...
2020-06-06 00:22:53 +0000 UTC
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Before she could even scream, they landed and Taylor was able to see the illusion they had just passed through. Master Don started walking forward right away, more grim and serious than she had ever seen him. “Taylor, do you know why I call you a ‘Namer’, and not a ‘Mage’?”
“I really have no idea.” She took a deep breath. “Can we talk about how I thought we were falling to our deaths?”
“It’s because you have something just a little bit extr...
2020-06-03 14:26:34 +0000 UTC
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- Taylor -
“You’re pretty messed up, Master Don.” Taylor was looking at the landscape, the stacks of books that went on forever, and the flames that were reflected in Master Don’s eyes. His smile as he had sent the exploding ball of plasma into the sheaf of peaceful spellforms would appear in her dreams tonight for certain.
“Ahh… apprentice.” Don took a deep breath, relishing in the scent of burning paper and boiling ink. “Ask yourself, how did a man w...
2020-06-01 15:05:08 +0000 UTC
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“Oh… celestial. I can't believe I would ever do something that dumb.” Andre was rehashing old conversations with Xan, who was laughing at the embarrassment that the initiate was feeling.
“You were given the mind of someone almost a decade older than you essentially overnight.” Xan finally started helping the young man calm himself, his fun now had. “Of course you are going to regret things that ‘younger you’ did. The important part is that ...
2020-05-29 15:46:40 +0000 UTC
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- Andre -
Andre munched on an apple as he listened to Xan’s lecture. The last month and a half had been… informative. He had been doing nothing but twice-daily exercises and reading the massive volumes of information that Xan provided him. He wasn't allowed further than the shadow of the tallest tree in the grove, and the forced limit was grating on him. Not that he would complain about that out loud… he had learned better.
After his night pinned to a tree and h...
2020-05-27 14:20:01 +0000 UTC
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Two weeks had passed, and Luke had given up on hope of rescue. With all the other initiates, and a new apprentice, it was unlikely that the Archmage was going to devote too much time to rescuing him, so he needed to find his own way out. He took a deep breath and held up the patchwork goat hide pants that he had made. “Good enough.”
He pulled on the stiff pants and stood up, looking around at his growing campsite. The grass had been working really well in lieu of ...
2020-05-25 13:35:19 +0000 UTC
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- Luke -
Luke walked around the pool of water that he had fallen into, looking at the waterfall that was seemingly pouring from the sky. There was no evidence that the cave he had jumped from had ever existed. The world just ended behind the falls. He crawled to the edge of the land and peered over, gasping at the scene.
This place was full of surprises, it seemed. The entire world was shaped like a massive corkscrew, seemingly held aloft by nothing. Far, <...
2020-05-22 18:15:32 +0000 UTC
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- Andre -
“This sucks.” Andre petulantly stated as they plodded along the seemingly endless plains.
“Yup.” His teacher agreed sullenly. He had his own reasons.
“Are we just gonna walk forever, or are you gonna actually teach me?”
“If you were paying attention to the land around you, you would possibly notice that you didn’t exactly come through to the safest area in this world.” His new master spat at him. “And you either call me ‘Maste...
2020-05-20 14:07:24 +0000 UTC
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Big ol' chapter!
~ 9 ~
Taylor looked at the book in her lap, contemplating it for a moment before running a finger down it's spine. It shuddered and fell open, revealing details of her life that even she had forgotten. “Oh neat, it details the date that Zed showed up in town! I’ve only known him for six months? Sheesh… that was a messed-up situation. What’s this section?”
She covered most of the text, leaving only the page filled with numbers....
2020-05-18 12:39:31 +0000 UTC
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Master Don seemed to be alternating between fury and… something else. “You let it read you! It now knows absolutely everything about you, and will record everything that happens from here on! Think of this as the most intrusive diary ever. Should this book ever leave you and partner with another, they will be able to read your entire life. All your strengths, all your weaknesses. All emotional high or low points. Everything.”
“What?...
2020-05-15 15:05:16 +0000 UTC
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- Taylor -
“What just happened?” Taylor was panicking, her lifelong friend had suddenly vanished, and no one appeared to know why. In fact, Master Don said he was dead.
“I’m honestly not certain.” The Archmage admitted, but simply moved on from there. “This has never happened before, Taylor. To be frank, I do think that he was killed instantly. I am sorry to be blunt, but sadly the facts do not care for your feelings lik...
2020-05-13 17:30:38 +0000 UTC
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Luke flew out the portal, landing heavily on his back. Luckily, the pack he was wearing took the brunt of the fall, saving him from shredding his skin on the rough cave floor. Gasping in an attempt to regain his breath, he looked around wildly, trying to understand what had gone wrong. There was very little light, but he was able to see that he was in a cave of some sort. He could hear water running nearby, leaving him with the hope that he would be able to survive long enough to...
2020-05-11 13:25:25 +0000 UTC
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“Are you sure you will all be okay without me? I know there are a bunch more boots to make.” Luke nearly begged his father.
“We’ll be fine, son. We’re proud of you, by the way.”
Luke looked over, startled at the sudden emotion in his father’s voice. “Dad?”
His mother walked forward, giving Luke a hug as his father tried to hand him a leather pack. When he was released, he looked at the pack and gasped. “Dad! This is too much! You cou...
2020-05-08 15:55:06 +0000 UTC
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“Right you were, gentlemen! Why so nervous, young man? You may not even have any power! If you do, it isn’t like you become a slave! You get paid well, live in luxury… so many benefits, just for serving the kingdom!” Zed just shook his head and took deep panicked breaths, eyes darting around in an attempt to find a way to escape from the situation. “Well, if you are that nervous, might as well get this over with and get you locked awa...
2020-05-06 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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2020-04-29 13:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Here we go! We're starting the new series today, I hope you love reading it as much as I am loving writing it!!
Series name: Full Murderhobo,
Enjoy!
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2020-04-27 14:47:16 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday friends!!
I just sent out the final version of Ruthless to you using your Patreon email. Look for an email from help@bookfunnel.com to grab your copy before the link expires in 5 days!
Let me or BookFunnel know if you have any issues downloading it! BookFunnel's customer support in particular is super helpful.
Otherwise, please do me a huge favor and leave a review of the book once it's liv...
2020-04-24 19:41:15 +0000 UTC
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A couple things! First off, no new chapters this week, as I am adding in all final edits and small changes to Ruthless! That will be sent to all $5+ patrons this Friday!
Second! Congrats to Kyle J Smith for winning the April 20/20 event! Make sure to opt in next month, there were only about 20 people who entered this time around!
Next week, we are going to be starting the new chapters with a bang!
2020-04-20 15:15:10 +0000 UTC
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So bittersweet to end this book! Don't forget that all the comments and issues brought up by patreons which I can address will be included in the final version that will get sent out to all of you on the 24th! Enjoy!
~ Epilogue ~
Joe stood near a double-helix of light that stretched into the sky, giving his mother one last hug. “I’ll be fine! This was the plan all along, after all. I was supposed to go to the next Zone!”
“But… all you ha...
2020-04-17 14:50:43 +0000 UTC
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All that remains is the epilogue! :'D
~ 58 ~
“Attack!” The people below charged the walls, but Joe didn’t bother to watch as arrows were traded, ladders were knocked away from the wall, and fireballs burned people to charcoal. No… he was watching the rear of the lines, where ever more people were running through the active rituals.
He was waiting for it… it wouldn’t be too long now… *pop*.
The sound was soft at this distance, b...
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~ 57 ~
The mercenary was slapped away, and he went bouncing along the bodies that had piled up due to Joe’s Dark Lightning Strike. Arthur the Neigh-Bear fully phased into being, instantly becoming the focus of hundreds of people in the area. On a positive note, most of them were screaming and backpedaling.
“What in the…?” The silencer took a trembling step back.
“A Neigh-Bear! How rare and sought after!” The Jester took a decisive step forwa...
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~ 56 ~
Joe stumbled out of the Pathfinder’s Hall bruised and bloody. There were open wounds on him, and his right eye was swollen shut. He bent over and spat out a mouthful of blood, then lifted his head and looked at the huge amount of people staring him down. He stood up proudly, and announced, “The golems came back, so don’t go in, but I’ve cleared out this patch of villainy! No more will we need to fear an attack on our flank as we focus on the real iss...
2020-04-10 15:39:28 +0000 UTC
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