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Town Builder - 73 -

Chapter 73:

The espionage interface for the Rogues Gallery allowed me to assign future assets before they were trained. The NPC in the queue was pulled from my population in Malcum and didn’t spawn as I had assumed. It was an NPC with no job or skills. The first trainee was a female wolfkin, so she would not be able to spy on the human kingdom of Vereel. Instead, I just slotted her into a counter-espionage role in Malcum.

I found the NPCs I trained had a unique abil...

A Soldiers Life - 259 - Elven Customs

Chapter 259: Elven Customs

As Maveith had mentioned, Dee’s hammock was really palatial. The massive hammock was far more comfortable than my own. Currently, the short woman was sprawled, sleeping across my body, and she was much heavier than I would have thought. Her intense body heat was causing us both to sweat under her heavy blankets, but the alternative was exposure to the cold night air of the sea. Her head rested on my chest, and she drooled slightly as she slept. Well, at leas...

A Soldier's Life - 258 - Time Is Of The Essence

Chapter 258: Time Is Of The Essence

The sun was already making the deck sticky with drying blood. The first calls were to stabilize the injured. Pickle, his right arm in a sling, climbed laboriously up to the crow’s nest to resume watch, but I thought they had been bloodied enough that they would not return. Still, Desdemona was eager to get the ship moving and open distance.

I overheard Isaak talking, “It is unlikely they will return, but they could always decide to be vengef...

A Soldier's Life - 257 - I Never Really Liked Sushi

Chapter 257: I Never Really Liked Sushi

The churning water on the stern split as the school of sharks moved to encircle the Shorebreaker. The mages had stopped calming the water, and our ship now rose and fell as it crashed through the waves after our failed attempt to outrun the swarm. Maveith lamented about having lost his bow as I released my first arrow. The large dorsal fin was fifty yards away, but I misjudged the ship's movement and overshot my target. By chance, the arrow thudde...

A Soldier's Life - 256 - Saw Hula Gin?

Chapter 256: Saw Hula Gin?

I thought my Elvish was getting better. I even ventured to have Raelia join Favian and myself as I practiced in the dreamscape. Raelia had another opinion of my proficiency with her racial tongue. “You are insulting a language that has been spoken the same for ten millennia. You are better off sticking to Telhian.”

“I think he is much improved,” Favian said, defending me.

I pointed at Favian, but Raelia just rolled her eyes, which was a hab...

World Sphere - 196 - Bad to Worse

Chapter 196: Bad to Worse

I took the dominate lightning spell book and paged through it, cursory inspecting the spell forms for imprinting. It was an advanced form of the chain lightning spell, and instead of randomly bouncing from target to target, the mage controlled the lightning with his mind like a puppeteer. The limiting factor was how far the lightning could travel and how much potency remained after passing through each target.

“Storme? Do you want to be alo...

Town Builder - 72 - All the Skills

Chapter 72: All the Skills

Skill books came in three grades: novice, expert, and master. Novice skill books could raise a skill up to level seven, master books could raise a skill up to 23, and expert up to level 43. However, I had only seen one master-level skill book in the player auction house so far during my time in the game, and it was for the dancing skill. The early start players were not stupid and had gutted the player auction houses of useful skill books. I was f...

World Sphere - 195 - Shifter POV

Chapter 195 Shifter POV

After weeks of exploring these floating islands, the shifter rested deep inside the largest island. Floating islands were not rare in the Sphere, but this was his first time on one. The novelty had quickly worn off, and he was ready to end this assignment. He had morphed and slithered deep down here days ago into the ancient tunnels. It was curious how the humans were not using this vast underground network inside their floating islands—a major oversight on...

A Soldier's Life - 255 - Dinner Discourse

Chapter 255: Dinner Discourse

I rested in my gently rocking hammock the rest of the day with the porthole open. The rushing water drowned the crew’s calls on deck as the Shorebreaker moved through the waters and further from the Telhian Empire. I only had a few books remaining in my dimensional space, but I took the opportunity to read them.

My primary reading material was an interesting Elvish book on medicinal herbs. It was one of the few books I had remaining from Caelora and...

POV September Vote

so this is a little earlier than I planned to post the next vote but here it is.

A Soldier's Life - 254 - Konstantin POV

Chapter 254: You Can’t Keep An Old Hound Down

Konstantin sat cleaning his weapons deep in the rocky crevice they had set their outlook. It was unnecessary, but it gave him something to do while he waited and mourned. He was still reeling from when Cornelius had revealed Eryk’s death to him. The blood compass had no pull on Cornelius’ sample.

The foolish boy had gotten himself killed, and it hurt more than it should have. He had mentored dozens of young men who died, so why d...

A Soldiers Life - 253 - Training on Deck

Chapter 253: Training on Deck

As I settled into the dreamscape, Konstantin rushed me, “Ready to resume your training?” I wasn’t sure if this was my subconscious missing the old man or him being his annoying regular self. A slight pain of loss lingered as I didn’t know if he still lived. How involved had he been in the plot? I wish I had taken a sample of his blood during Hound training; not knowing would nag at me and make me anxious at every shadow, expecting him to step out. 2024-08-28 01:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Soldier Book 3 blurb!

Sitting down to edit Soldier-252, write Soldier 253, and finish World Sphere-195.

So, book 3 is about ten weeks out from publication as an ebook. Here is the blurb I have currently on the Amazon site:

With his abilities under scrutiny from others in the company, the protagonist is put in a precarious position. Before he can decide on a course of action, his mage company heads out on an exploration assignment to find the location of a lost dungeon, The Shimmering Labyri...