Miles English

Book 6 - Chapter 13

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Book 6 - Chapter 11

Book 6 - Chapter 10

Book 6 - Chapter 9

Book 6 - Chapter 8

Book 6 - Chapter 7

The coals had grown dim, just a little bit of orange that shone faintly onto Sion’s face from underneath, making him look like he was going to tell a ghost story. “Steamshield is the city of the future.”

“Really,” said Brin, not quite able to keep the skepticism out of his voice. His experience in this world was like living in the past in most ways. Sure, it was a magical and wonderful version of the past, but still archaic.

“Yes, really. People will point to their gre...

Book 6 - Chapter 6

Rhun and Sion burst through the old and flimsy doors of the shed, banging them open and already moving at a gallop. They carried no bags or any extra weight, except that Rhun had his recently-repaired tower shield and Sion carried Brin’s morphic shield and Lumina’s signet ring. Sion also wore Brin’s face, a small spell that Brin could maintain easily. Marksi sat on Sion’s lap on the horse, though Brin had told them to make Marksi get down and run if he started to weigh them down.

Book 6 - Chapter 5

“I have duties, you know,” said Sion. “I can’t simply pack up and leave simply because an old friend asks me to. An old, long-forgotten, friend who disappears for ages without warning, with no word on where he’s been–”

“I know you got my letters,” said Brin. He could only give Sion half his attention, because the rest of it was consumed with the unbelievably delicious assortment of pastries and cookies Sion had set out for him. He took a bite of raspberry tart and humm...

Book 6 - Chapter 4

The matter of Iaghaid was more or less closed when the Lance woke up in the morning. He learned that not everyone in the Lance had access to [Awaken the Sleeping Ones]. Only he, Cid, and Hedrek had it now.

But even though little more was said about Iaghaid, that didn’t mean their education was over. Over the next few days, they were treated to several lessons on the life and duties of a knight-at-arms. During the war, their duty was pretty simple: just follow orders. But in regular li...

Book 6 - Chapter 3

Sorry for the wait. To be honest, it's likely that these delays will continue until after my break. I had a couple false starts to this one, and I think it's for the best that I waited until I had something I was confident in rather than rushing the chapter out.

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It was Marksi who noticed first that something strange was going on. He jumped down off of Obedience and ran ahead, straight into the open gates of the strangely prison-shaped compound. 

“Hey! Hold up, Mark...

Book 6 - Chapter 2

Sorry for the delay. It has not been easy to get my brain out of vacation mode. Also, I totally meant to have Brin take the [Recovery] Skill last chapter and forgot about it. I few of you pointed that out. I'll go back and revise sometime. On to the chapter.

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Riding away from the monastery felt positively scandalous. Rather than speaking in hushed tones and whispers, the knights-at-arms boasted loudly and shouted to make their voices heard over the stomping of ...

Book 6 - Chapter 1

The Monastery of Holy Cambul in Olland was astonishingly beautiful. On the top of an enormous stone column rising out of the ocean, the first glimpse would appear to be a small temple built straight into the stone. Only as one drew closer did they start to understand the massive scale of the structure and the stone bridge across the gap between the chapel and the cloister on the other side of the cliff face.

The ocean below was almost always obscured by a thick mist that rose up from th...

Book Announcement! Bog Standard Isekai 4 is live on Amazon!

Just what the title says. I'd like to take a quick moment to thank all of you again for your support. You all are the reason that I can do this, and it's become one of the greatest joys of my lifetime.

Book is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQ661YN

It took me a bit longer than I hoped to get out of vacation mode and back into writer mode, so I apologize for the delay of chapters. Instead of ...

Book 5 - Chapter 53

It was a testament to the state of affairs that no one had tried to get into Arcaena’s citadel in the past week. Perhaps all three nations assumed they could, were they willing to spend the cost of bringing sufficient firepower to bear, and then to weather whatever curses she’d set up to protect it. But none of them were willing to do that if they had to share the prizes within with the other nations.

For now, the long stair and the platform leading to the main doors was empty, whic...

Book 5 - Chapter 52

“Bwa ha ha ha! You said that? You actually said that? Incredible!” Hogg was pacing back and forth inside the Lance’s tent, grinning ear to ear. “This isn’t even my final form! You said that?”

Cid, who’d been listening to Brin’s story with an air of long-suffering acceptance, said, “I believe in this case, his exact words were ‘Very well, Zaff the Wight. You’ve earned this honor: I will unlock my full power.’ The bit about his final form didn’t come until later....

Book 5 - Chapter 51

Brin returned to the others and swapped his real body out with the Mirror Image that had been holding his place. Then, it was finally time to rest.

The moment he lay down he immediately passed out. When he woke again, he was in the Order of the Long Sleep’s camp. Not that they’d moved him; they’d simply built up the camp around him.

He was in a hospital tent with rows of other knights-at-arms in various degrees of convalescence. They hadn’t bothered to pull him out of his ...

Book 5 - Chapter 50

It wasn’t long before a support group arrived. Three Lances of [Knights] along with three healers, including Luelle, the [Wound Binder] who’d healed Galan after his near-assassination. She only poked at Brin briefly before handing him over to a [Nurse].

The [Nurse] started looking for the clasps on Brin’s armor, but of course there were none. He used glass magic to pull it off of himself, though he appreciated her assistance in pulling his body off the back pieces that were betwee...

Book 5 - Chapter 49

Cid thought that Hedrek was going to die. Brin probably thought so, too. Both of them were really smart guys, smarter than he was. But he didn’t care. Nobody knew whether they were going to live or die. Hedrek had learned that early in life.

His dad was the strongest and bravest [Knight] to ever live, and then one day, out of nowhere, he up and died. And Hedrek had learned right then and there that nobody knew if they were going to live or die, so you might as well live to th...

Book 5 - Chapter 48

The first few moments of the battle were an explosion of blazing light and firing Skills. Galan’s personal Lance was the best of the Order of the Long Sleep, and even with Ectar down they weren’t a force to be taken lightly, not even by a [Paladin].

Lothar punched a fist of golden light that separated into a hundred beams of energy to fly at them from all directions, but an [Untiring Protecting Knight] caught them all with the same Skill that Rhun had, assuming all the damage onto h...

First Ever Bog Standard Popularity Contest!

Just for fun and because I'm curious, I'm setting up a popularity contest for the characters in Bog Standard Isekai! Here's the rules: Game the system however you want, I'm not exactly going to be doing any detective work to try to stop you. Come back with multiple accounts, vote for multiple, whatever. There's going to be a simultaneous poll going on Royalroad, and I'm going to add the scores together to get the final vote, so if you want to vote for your favorite twice then go ahead and vot...

Book 5 - Chapter 47

The [Dread Knights] pushed through the gap in the wreckage and the Lance held them, but not for long. Already more [Dread Knights] were scaling the barrier. They’d attack from behind, and surrounded, the Lance would quickly succumb. More undead were climbing from a buried tunnel inside their clearing; they would destroy the Lance if the [Dread Knights] didn’t get there first. And it was up to Brin to get them out of here.

Brin had never frozen up in moments like this. It was the sam...

Book 5 - Chapter 46

Anwir’s charge was quick as lightning. He flew past the [Knights] defending the [Great Witch] as if they were frozen statues. He wasn’t quicker than her magic, though, and Arnarra flung a curse into him. Cold and cruel and merciless, vast in power, it reminded Brin of the terrible curse that Awnadil had used against Lumina, which had troubled her for months, the kind of curse that would have peeled his flesh off of his bones if it had struck him.

This time, however, Brin had the wei...

Book 5 - Chapter 45

Brin smiled in delight. This was it. She’d actually used it! Arcaena’s final defense, the great working that he’d known was coming. Finally. All the work to get here, to trigger the spell in a way that wouldn’t kill him, and it was finally here. He and Lumina, they’d done it.

Lothar watched in growing horror as the bombs grew from up from the ground. There were so many that every man in the army would be caught in at least three separate blasts. They still maintained surprisin...

Book 5 - Chapter 44

Maggart led his thirty [Dread Knights] with efficient professionalism. He gave their orders in the form of a few hand signs, and they sprung into action in a well rehearsed formation. Ten stayed near the giant, while the rest spread out and moved to surround Brin and Lothar. It was unfair, wasn’t it? The giant monster was supposed to be stupid. He was supposed to roar and then charge straight in, but Maggart was smart enough to know how dangerous Lothar was and he acted accordingly.

B...

Book 5 - Chapter 43.5

Information

Name: Brin isu Yambul

Age: 15

Race: Human

Class: Delusionist

Level: 46

Attributes

Strength: 294

Dexterity: 191

Vitality: 222

Magic: 244

Mental Control: 312

Will: 169

Unassigned points: 17

General Skill points: 3

Titles

Survivor of Travin's Bog

You survived the massacre at Travin’s Bog that ended your family. You...

Book 5 - Chapter 43

Aberthol walked at the head of a tremendous army. He walked a little bit to the side and behind Lothar, as if he were his shadow, or maybe his attendant. A cupbearer, or more accurately, an orb-bearer. He’d activated the spell Lumina had pointed out when he got the Lightmind. The Great Conduit. She’d asked him not to use it until it was time for Arcaena’s walls to come down, and that time was now.

He walked in something of a daze, and for once not because of any kind of apathy. In...

Chapter tomorrow

Sorry for the late notice. A lot of things came up at work and at home and I never got a chance to sit down and finish the chapter. It's sort of a big one, and I want to do it right. I'll post it tomorrow and then hopefully we'll be back on track again next week.

Book 5 - Chapter 42

As soon as Aberthol saw the [Caravan Master], he suddenly didn’t want to do this any more. The man had a few fresh fingernail scars running up from the top of his bald head all the way to his eyebrow. He walked gingerly as if every step were jostling a bruised element between his legs. Clearly, Aberthol had no idea what had actually happened. He didn’t know the full story here, and he wouldn’t get it, not unless Cati told him, and he wasn’t sure if he should ask. It seemed he’d been...

Book 5 - Chapter 41

He stood and watched the army of Frenaria wage its war against the sea. Arcaena was a port town. It would be the most important port town in the world if it weren’t controlled by a [Witch], and that wouldn’t be the case much longer. A port meant water, and water meant food, and it hadn’t taken the army long to realize that.

The water was covered with every sort of boat or dinghy imaginable, made of wood or anything else that could be found or summoned. [Warriors] with long spears ...