“Eric, is placing it right here okay?”
Eric gazed up at Lana, her expression an odd mixture of fear and hope blending into a sort of hyper-attentiveness, like an intern working under his mother on their first day. It was a look shared by two of the girls helping them out by placing small piles of black powder on several of the battlement merlons, right next to the especially deep crenelations that had formerly nested several of the cannon the orcs had taken with them up n...
2022-11-07 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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- Doing an Emergency SF Post here for chapters 65-67! I will be updating google docs later this week, when I get the chance
Alex gazed at Elder Panheu and Jidihu for long moments.
“Any luck finding any clues as to what’s really been going on here in Baidushi?”
Jidihu flashed a humorless smile, sipping her drink. “Nothing beyond what we already learned, Alex. Multiple purges and the complete dismantling of the local JiangHu sect. Your royal frien...
2022-11-05 03:09:33 +0000 UTC
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- Heads up! Doing an Emergency SF Post here for chapters 65-67!
I will be updating google docs later this week, when I get the chance
Bullrush! Bullrush!
You are paying 10x standard cost!
Tier 2 Gold enhanced Strength check made!
Distance traveled is minimized!
You successfully lurched away from Deathtrap!
You have saved against significant Meridian Strain!
Alex heard the g...
2022-11-05 03:07:52 +0000 UTC
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- Heads up! Doing an Emergency SF Post here for chapters 65-67!
I will be updating google docs later this week, when I get the chance.
“Is this all you got, Ruidian? Pathetic! To think you actually gave my cousin trouble yesterday. Well, never again, once I’m through with you!” Hissed the looming giant Ku Bai glaring down at a crumpled Alex as the crowd of nobles and privileged spectators alike erupted into a frenzy when the Late stage silver’s Avalanche...
2022-11-05 03:05:21 +0000 UTC
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You have failed to hit your target! Your mentor is laughing at you!
You take the time to actually follow instructions and twirl the musket ball appropriately.
You have just missed your target.
You have successfully struck your target at ten meters.
You have successfully struck your target at twenty meters.
…….
You have missed your target.
You have successfully struck you...
2022-11-04 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The boy sobbed and fell to his knees. “Please!” Then he blinked, noting Eric’s wry half-smile as he inspected the weapon by the young slinger’s feet.
Eric met the boy’s pleading gaze. “Teach me?”
Nick swallowed, gazing at Eric for long moments. “Seriously?”
Eric nodded, opening his pouch to share some dried tusker meat with the survivors before he blinked, feeling a shiver down his spine as he felt the exquisitely luscious fruit that was anything...
2022-11-02 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Congratulations! You have reached a critical milestone in your ascension journey! Having survived a solo encounter with multiple enemies with many times your base levels, you have unlocked Early Node ascension!
Eric allowed the words to was over him as he fell into a trance, visualizing the hyper-rapid repair of ruptured membranes, burst vessels, perforated organs and hemorrhaging cells, balancing every iota of Essence, Vitality, and his now fearsome intensity, willi...
2022-10-31 04:01:03 +0000 UTC
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“You have shown your true colors, asshole! You wish to side with humanity’s enemies? Then you can join them in death!”
Eric roared the words, but sure as hell wasn’t waiting for a response, his overhand right doing a hell of a lot more than just stunning the bloated administrator to speechlessness. Narri’s panicked features immediately deformed in an explosion of crimson gore, rippling from the shockwave generated by Eric’s fist like striking a puddle of water, th...
2022-10-28 04:00:04 +0000 UTC
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A quick shout out and thanks to all my new (and prospective) patrons! Even though this is Chapter 206 in weekly serial terms, it is CHAPTER 1 of book 3 :)
SPOILER ALERT! I am presently getting books 3 & 4 ready for publishing on Kindle Unlimited (Yay!) and book 3 will hopefully be ready by June 12th, Book 4 the week after! - With that in mind I've had to pull all book 3 & 4 chapters from my Patreon account. - If you're interested in reading books 3&4 and haven't al...
2022-10-27 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Release Schedule Update - Hey everyone, I just wanted to touch base and, first and foremost, let you all know how much I appreciate having you as patrons. It's because of you that I can do this for a living, and I'm extremely grateful to have the opportunity to do so!
As you're no doubt aware, I've been releasing material at a truly mad pace. 5 chapters a week of Battleforged, and 3 additional Friday chapters of Silver Fox.
It's been gloriou...
2022-10-26 04:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Eric groaned, even as his thankfully more personal interface message offered a balm that definitely took the sting out of all his enemies knowing his name and what he had just accomplished, his next move now all but inevitable.
Congratulations! You have earned the Adept Title: Realm Forger!
Your unique juxtaposition of two realms allowed you to infuse Ashland with 3 Lesser and 1 Greater Bounties! Now, all future territories whose destinies you shape under t...
2022-10-25 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Eric crashed to his knees, overwhelmed by a hideous flood of potential that threatened to destroy him from within once more, even as he immediately ordered his revenants to stop attacking the furiously struggling orcs within the keep walls.
Revenants who had made little headway within, despite his interface advantages and what he had told the chieftain.
Because he hadn’t need to destroy the source of the ritual to best his foe.
Only destroy his enemy’s concent...
2022-10-24 04:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Racing for the keep once more, Eric gave a silent command as he sprinted up his undead siege tower in time with the pounding crash of monstrous Tuskers rattling both portcullises.
His plan was simple. Use shock and awe to stun and distract his opponents, so in the moments that his foe’s eyes, spears, and perhaps blaster rifles or cannons as well, instinctively pointed to the sight of over a dozen massive revenants breaching both gates… that was the moment he would strike,...
2022-10-21 04:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Intruders have invaded the keep!”
“It’s the Roundear, and he brought reinforcements!
“Strike him dead! A hundred gold for his head. A hundred gold to whoever brings me his head!” The chieftain roared.
A roar echoed by scores of fierce battle cries as every musketeer and Classers within the keep roared in fierce accord, greed shoring up their weakened spines. A roar that a coldly smiling Eric heard so well as he stood at the feet of his fleshy siege to...
2022-10-20 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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With a fierce, loping stride, Eric raced back towards the keep, the back wall portcullis opened by panicked musketeers quicker than Eric would have thought them capable of, even with the chieftain’s panicked shouts. It only took the massive chieftan a split second to slip through the gate, even faster than even Eric had thought the coward would do.
Unfortunately for the remainder of the works, their progression into the shelter of the keep soon became anything but orderly a...
2022-10-19 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Regardless of whether or not his newly forged orc revenants loved or hated their forced resurrections, a single furious squeeze of Eric’s clenched fist and sigils blazing fiercely in multiple foreheads forced the shrieking creatures to their knees.
He couldn’t help but savor absolute dominion over his foes that almost made up for the dread he felt, sensing ever greater corrosion to his peripherals. Before choking out a bitter laugh, just knowing that his enemies had once ...
2022-10-18 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Despite the precariousness of his situation, Eric was still filled with a sense of awe and wonder as the world came alive with the brilliant rich palette of color he had always associated with his favorite fantasy games, the rich verdant forest rustling with the hints of countless secrets and eldritch lore against a backdrop of fairy song and musical laughter just a single shadowy step, or perhaps a world away.
Yet that wasn’t all he sensed. The swirling restless spirits of...
2022-10-17 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Only when they were less than two hundred yards away, and a few of the musket shot fired were tearing up the turf less than thirty yards away, did he dare let his blood-bound prizes fly.
His eyes widened at the unexpected arc of his first thrown javelin, forced to appreciate that high Finesse aside, Strength now in the triple digits and a Quickness to match met that he was throwing it with far more force than he was used to, and its trajectory was far more straight-line than ...
2022-10-14 04:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Eric crashed to his knees with a groan, overwhelmed by the sudden hideous pressure on his Interface, potency bar, and soul as four fresh souls tried to force themselves into his potency bar and now 100% saturated upper Dantian, all to no avail.
His eyes bulged, so easily able to visualize the mocking cackles of countless experienced players of the great game that the System was, assuring that even the most elite and talented natives who were supposed to inherit their freshly ...
2022-10-13 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Fire-infused Pilum has critically struck Goblin Scout!
Iado skillcheck made: You have successfully disemboweled your foe!
The orc sneering down at him moved so slowly that Eric wondered if the creature was drunk, drugged, or under a spell.
It didn’t stop him from putting every iota of training he had embraced while taking out every massive spirit boar he could hunt down, before being humbled almost every time he challenged Pavel to yet another ...
2022-10-12 04:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Eric shuddered with the desperate need to embrace that rapture, and much to his shame, it was as much the memory of his sisters haunted gaze as she trembled with sickness, need, and hatred for her own weakness, when Eric withheld the bottle of pills she had fallen so low to claim.
The horror of her shame, his desperate desire to help her, had humbled him almost as much as she had been humbled. Gazing into the eyes of so many people he had hardly thought of twice in the months...
2022-10-11 03:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Eric gazed at the boy for long moments, realizing he was actually serious, pity turning to contempt in the blink of an eye. “You can ask me that, after committing the lives of a dozen men to my death?”
The boy paled and trembled. “Please… I.” He choked out a sob. “I know it means nothing to you if I tell you that my words made no difference to the geas compelling my father’s foot soldiers. That I was merely following my father’s orders, echoing the edicts of c...
2022-10-10 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Eric hissed as a fresh wave of dizziness nearly sent him sprawling, inhuman strength and finesse alone letting him lurch back to his feet with a roar as he gazed at the wildly rocking world all around him.
It was all he could do not to throw up, let alone take out the final cultivator, finding little comfort in mocking interface messages telling him he had fully quantized his second Qi skill, and leveled up his Windfire Strike as well.
Because no matter how great his po...
2022-10-07 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Fuck!
He jolted up with a lurch, a spike of dread lancing his pounding heart as flashes of decapitated assassins blinking his way with desperate panicked eyes somehow twisted into the terror of looking down at his own decapitated head, a mocking Lai Wei Arenso sneering over his body, having found the courage to climb up himself and spy his enemy at his weakest, collapsed and splayed upon the gazebo of bone and wood, an easy kill for anyone who dared the climb.
...
2022-10-06 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Eric gazed at his interface stats with genuine shock, utterly stupefied by his growth. Even with his ever growing fear for his sister and the sudden sharp surge of anxiety he had for Samuel and Pavel, trapped here with him and who knew how many Feng Ren sect cultivators, he couldn’t help but take a moment to savor his profound growth, both in terms of power, and skill.
To think that not that many months ago he had come to a broken wreck with an 8 Strength. And how incredibl...
2022-10-05 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Eric choked back a scream as blissful transcendence turned to agony once more, the fires in his heart and soul continuing to grow to impossible levels before finally stabilizing, Eric unable to avoid looking down at flesh he was sure had been charred to a crisp, only to find himself whole, unharmed, and covered in an ice-cold sweat.
He wanted to laugh for triumph, gazing down at shuddering hands as he struggled back to his feet, before being struck by sudden terrible pain.
2022-10-04 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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He might be living on borrowed time, with multiple cultivators armed with who knew how many dark surprises now determined to kill him, but damn if he wouldn’t make the most of the opportunity before him, he thought, now gazing up at the most magnificent peaches he could imagine. The glorious prizes above him were so far beyond the spirit fruit he had already gathered that it was like the difference between night and day.
Succulent melon-sized peaches covered in drops of dew...
2022-10-03 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Eric kept a careful eye out for the cultivators who were no doubt heading in the same direction he was, racing for the massive Spirit Boar Eric sensed was the guardian of this entire domain, and the massive peach tree soaring so high above the forest canopy that gazing up at it was like looking at a true natural wonder. Eric dared waste only a second gazing up at the Magnificent white-gold peaches shimmering like warm golden suns from branches so high Eric could actually see clouds caressing ...
2022-09-30 04:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Eric’s heart pounded with an odd mixture of trepidation and excitement as he spun around, shouting a quick warning Sam’s way before sprinting out the cave… when surprisingly, none other than Pavel stopped him.
“We have time.”
Eric blinked in surprise at this. “But I thought...”
“Time for final counsel. Time for you to regain your equilibrium as our soon-to-be guests walk the rainbow bridge from Terra to our pocket realm.” Pavel words abruptly cut off when h...
2022-09-29 04:00:00 +0000 UTC
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You have failed to counter Wind Blade Feint! You have taken 1 Light Wound!
Eric winced as he felt the wave of pressure slam into his left knee, stumbling back before the cultivator’s deadly onslaught. And still Pavel refused to let up, twisting his weapon around Eric’s desperately countering blade, before whipping back around to slice open both arms before a spinning heel kick sent an off-balance and increasingly flustered Eric crashing to the ground in a heap of bruised fl...
2022-09-28 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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