Darkness surrounds him.
“I can’t do this anymore,” says the man’s voice, resounding out around him in the darkness. “Back and forth, back and forth, over and over and over.” It’s quiet for a time, and then he sighs. “First it was this reality, then it was that reality, then it was this other reality and… I just… I can’t keep doing it. I’m tired of going in circles.” He drifts. “I want it all to just… stop. I want to go back to zero.”
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2022-10-24 19:10:15 +0000 UTC
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Jizalia
Human, Female, Master Herbalist
Location: The City, Family Home
It feels bad.
Jizalia sits there in the dark room at the foot of the bed that her younger sister is fast asleep on, holding onto the pillow as if it were the only thing stopping her from flying away into the night.
Money is getting tight.
As a herbalist, she...
2022-10-21 18:25:54 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay in chapters, I am starting to recover from my flu now
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It just doesn’t make any sense.
Okay, sure, he can accept the existence and the following death of the horse-god. Those are both reasonable enough things. But if the horse-god is dead, then why was its influence over this reality so strong?
Why was the number five a factor? Why was the list of n...
2022-10-19 16:05:10 +0000 UTC
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I promised a Rorate chapter on RR, so here we are. Enjoy! =)
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Rorate
Dark-Elf, Female, Fighter + Field-medic
Location: The tower roost
Rorate sits and scribbles into her notes down at a small table. Moonwash falls over her from the darkened sky as she works outside, beneath the total cover of the summer night. Its soft...
2022-10-18 19:47:32 +0000 UTC
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Hello, sorry about the missing Weaponsmith chapter. I am currently knocked on my ass by the flu.
In the meantime, my very first story ever, Oratoria, has been fully reuploaded to RR since it is free from Amazon's clutches.
It's not terrible or amazing, but I hope it tides you over for now! Thank you!
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/44073/oratoria-bury-the-de...
2022-10-16 17:09:55 +0000 UTC
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Demons.
What is a demon?
To understand the nature of a demon, one must first understand the concept of souls.
Every living entity, be it a person, or a goblin or a slime, has a soul.
Within the confines of our living world, there is no way to see such an ethereal thing. However, if one were to follow this entity into the spirit world after its passin...
2022-10-14 20:00:39 +0000 UTC
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There's a new section with Orange in chapter 73
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/54046/final-core-a-holy-dungeon-core-litrpg/chapter/1014905/chapter-73-the-orange-haze-of-summer
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Perchta
???, Female, Witc...
2022-10-13 19:46:01 +0000 UTC
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Here's a cute orange, for you, dear reader. Because you're my favorite reader! Yes. You. But don't tell the others! They'll get jealous.
2022-10-13 09:44:17 +0000 UTC
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It’s hard to say what exactly is left to be done with life from here on out.
Hineni stands there, looking at the frog-god, Nekyia, the sworn rival of the woman he intends to marry. She is a person who has caused him lots of trouble, and she’s a sworn enemy of the owl-god.
But Nekyia has never hurt anyone. Sure, she kidnapped him and brainwashed him. But those were things she did out of the sickness of her mind and the desperation of her heart.
<...
2022-10-12 20:25:32 +0000 UTC
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There is a poll in today's FC chapter if you want a new segment with Perchta or with Rorate!
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/54046/final-core-a-holy-dungeon-core-litrpg/chapter/1013449/chapter-72-the-day-of-many-voices
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2022-10-11 19:51:09 +0000 UTC
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Here's some snazzy new Witch Perchta art! DIS readers may note a passing resemblance with Fresh, but don't worry about that =)
2022-10-11 10:16:11 +0000 UTC
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“Where are we?” asks Hineni, wandering around.
“Huh? We’re home,” says Rhine.
“Home?” asks Hineni.
He looks around himself, staring at the odd, wooden walls and the knotted, hard floor. The place is furnished, and there are decorations and nick-nacks scattered around, together with warm rugs and soft bedding.
“Is this our tree?” he asks, blinking.
Rhine knocks on the wall. “Sure is!” say...
2022-10-10 20:34:23 +0000 UTC
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New cover of WS volume 3 starring the Hineni-man! There's an Eilig artwork in commission now too, so this cover will be updated with her on it as well when my artist delivers =)
2022-10-10 14:55:34 +0000 UTC
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The gods themselves may have made the cosmic-system that governs our world. But they are not the ones who maintain it. Like generous sponsors and craftsmen of a local library, they erected the structures. But they do not stay to fill it with books. They do not wander the halls between the shelving, sorting and searching through paper. That is the job of librarian.
In this way, the system is the same. The gods made it, but they do not maintain it.<...
2022-10-09 18:57:31 +0000 UTC
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Busy few days today, eh? Here's a new and first Rorate artwork! *-*
2022-10-09 11:29:25 +0000 UTC
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Sunflower vol 1 has come to an end on RR today with chapter 32! Here's a vol 2 Burch picture for you. Yes, it is somewhat generous.
It's marketing, you see. *taps head*
2022-10-09 10:08:16 +0000 UTC
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Hineni hurtles through whatever gap spans between non-existence and the physical domain, his spirit spinning wildly as it careens through the god-space towards a place he had once come from.
His soul, separate from the confines of his physical body, floats — not dead, not alive.
There has been a caveat to everything that has happened.
And by everything, everything is meant.
Over a decade ago, his birth mother had been kille...
2022-10-08 19:52:51 +0000 UTC
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POV: You said you don't like doing math
2022-10-08 12:00:49 +0000 UTC
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I just realized that I'm behind on chapters. I'll get us even again before the weekend is over, apologies!
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What is the difference between ‘level’ and ‘skill’?
A level is a system’s given value to a person that dictates the measure of their ability. Levels range from 0ne to one-hundred. A level one person is weak. A level...
2022-10-07 19:17:03 +0000 UTC
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Thousands of eyes fill every span of lightlessness from here to as far as his eyes can manage to see in this strange, illusionary plane that he is on. Hineni wobbles, rising to his feet as he looks behind him.
— The fake Seltsam is gone.
The illusion, forced into being by so many various violent collisions of godly magic, is beginning to come undone.
The man makes a note to grovel at the librarian’s feet when he gets out here.
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2022-10-05 19:36:01 +0000 UTC
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The RR release of chapter 69 today has had a MASSIVE increase in length. It is over twice as long as the patreon alpha chapter was.
Please go and read it if you're following FC, or you will be missing out on a lot!
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/54046/final-core-a-holy-dungeon-core-litrpg/ch...
2022-10-04 20:44:44 +0000 UTC
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The RR release of chapter 69 today has had a MASSIVE increase in length. It is over twice as long as the patreon alpha chapter was.
Please go and read it if you're following FC, or you will be missing out on a lot!
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/54046/final-core-a-holy-dungeon-core-litrpg/ch...
2022-10-04 19:05:21 +0000 UTC
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“Wobbly-woo,” replies Hineni, pointing at the god of death, who sits upon his high throne, distant from the happenings of the world. He takes extra effort not to swear, so that he doesn’t upset fake Seltsam. “What is this?” asks Hineni.
The air around them shifts, spinning around and around the strange throne-room that they’re inside of. Vapors of fog drift through the air in sharply elongated trails that seem to have mouths and eyes, neither of which grant sight ...
2022-10-04 18:55:21 +0000 UTC
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Hello, I'm not 'feeling' Sunflower Volume 2 at the moment, honestly. The vibe isn't right.
I will be scrapping all the current chapters there are, barring chapter 1, and starting completely over with it this month, just so you know. A lot of the content will be reused. But it will be different =)
2022-10-02 09:16:02 +0000 UTC
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Hineni and Eilig stand surrounded by darkness, the sky above their heads clashing with the strike of thunder. Both of them look up, watching arcs of energy come to form, only to meet in the center in a series of violent explosions.
The darkness above their heads is filled with glowing yellow dots, as if they were the stars in the night-sky. Thousands, millions of them span from here to there, watching the fight, watching him.
They are eyes.
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2022-10-01 20:38:47 +0000 UTC
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“It’s the right thing to do,” says the woman’s voice. “You don’t understand vhat is was like down there. You don’t understand vhat would happen to him if it ever finds him.”
Hineni recognizes it as belonging to his step-mother, the woman who had raised him.
“’What’,” corrects the man, catching her accent slip on the word. It’s dangerous for her if it does. People have to assume she’s just a human, like any other. They’re far away...
2022-09-28 19:00:15 +0000 UTC
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We got a sweet new cover for volume 2 of Weaponsmith with Auntie Sockel and Rhine - The river-wizard! Rhine is a bit taller here in this pic than he is in the story, by about a full head. But just pretend he's standing on a box, okay? =)
Character art by @5enketsu
2022-09-27 06:16:40 +0000 UTC
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