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Good news, but a slight delay

Hello everyone, I hope you are well. You may have noticed that I am back, but a lot more quiet than before. I plan to continue my writing, but I am going to try and be a bit less bombastic and tad more withdrawn about things.

That part doesnt matter much, to be honest, what does matter is that I have been posting on my phone since I came back.

And it sucked.
The good news is that I will be getting my computer back from the shop tomorrow afternoon! I have three chapters (1 ...

TMLoCL- Extra - Observers P1

“Monsters eat people.”


A simple statement that Monsters are overwhelmingly carnivorous, but that truth is far less simple than it appears.  Among the low-mana areas where Animals are dominant, there are relatively few carnivores compared to herbivores. Frankly, the line between those two is not nearly so sharply delineated, but regardless the majority of animals in any area are herbivores.

This supports a relatively small number of carnivores. Too many herbivores a...

TMLoCL - Chapter 51

Im am frustrated because I had to post this from my phone...

There is a lot we don’t understand about Monster behavior. Between their near-infinite combination of traits, the rarity of Inspect abilities or magic, and Monster’s overt belligerence in the face of study, only the most common and weak Monsters have much known about them.
So asking about the hows and whys about how they fit together on a large scale - their ecology - is an almost pointless task. We cannot expl...

TMLoCL - Chapter 50

hi...

 *Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*


The conversation that night was a watershed moment for me that I worried would change everything.  In hindsight, however, it isn’t really that surprising that nothing much changed at all.  Rei asked me if I wanted to be called Cadence and I told her that, as far as I was concerned, I was Hewka in this life, and that was that. The greatest change was that I now had both Rei and Tamlin pestering me for stories on occasion, ...

TMLoCL - Chapter 49

Not entirely happy with this chapter, but let me know what you think.  

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*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*

We made our way back to the city and my nerves were frayed before we were even halfway back.  There was a part of me, a large part, that wanted to pretend that I had nothing to say.  Rei would obviously know that I was lying, but I could still back out…  This was more nerve wracking than getting into battle was, which said...

TMLoCL - Chapter 48

*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*

With a strong jump and a beat of my wings, we were in the air and rapidly pulled away from the ground.  I was tempted to put the new saddle to the test and see what Rei thought about flying upside down, but her focus on the mission in front of us helped me keep focus as well.  In theory, our job was easy and safe.  All we had to do was use Taunt and arrows to draw the ire of the Bronzebirds and then use my superior sp...

TMLoCL - Chapter 48 P1

*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*

With a strong jump and a beat of my wings, we were in the air and rapidly pulled away from the ground.  I was tempted to put the new saddle to the test and see what Rei thought about flying upside down, but her focus on the mission in front of us helped me keep focus as well.  In theory, our job was easy and safe.  All we had to do was use Taunt and arrows to draw the ire of the Bronzebirds and then use my superior sp...

TMLoCl - Chapter 47

*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*

The first stage of the plan went off without too many surprises.  The area that had been chosen for the ambush had a lot of ground cover so that the [Archers] would be able to hide from the Bronzebirds and spring the trap, but that had also meant that clearing the area was going to be annoying - or so I thought.  Sure, Rei and I weren’t able to provide much support from above during this step, but there is something to b...

TMLoCL - Extra - Rei (full)

This took way longer than expected.  It has gone through multiple revisions and I have a weird love/hate relationship with it now.  I love the idea that I was going for, but I have to admit that actually writing it is harder than thinking it.

However, I don't want to delay any more - not over what, in the grand scheme of the story, amounts to a few pages - and so I am going with it.  Which means that you are getting this today and the other backlog of chapters that I wrot...

TMLoCL - AMA #01

Alright everyone, after three years of waiting, the AMA is finally out!  Most of the questions are from three years ago, but some new ones have been contributed by my wonderful Patrons as well.  A special thanks to them, and I hope everyone enjoys this.  ^_^

(Also, I kinda threw out the “one question per person rule.” Consider it a bonus and an apology for making everyone wait - some questions, however, have been combined because they were si...

An Update - AMA, Chapter News

Hi everyone, I hope you are doing well.  I had planned to have all of this ready for today, but the editing is dragging on a bit and it might not quite be done until tomorrow.  However, tomorrow we are going to have part 2 of Rei's Extra and the next two chapters released as well.

I also wanted to do a "last call" on the AMA.  Tomorrow morning I will be putting it all up here as well, so if you want to ask something this is your last chance!

-Vladerag

P.S. I h...

TMLoCL - Extra - Rei P1

This is part one of two because I suddenly had a fantastic idea that was *way* better than what I had planned.  Tossed out 2k words of writing, but after outlining my plan I am sure it will be worth it.

Also, just a reminder about that (multiple years late) AMA I am doing.  Only one of you guys asked a question - which is basically fine, this isn't a very serious AMA although I probably will do a bigger one once the first volume is done - but I did want to make sure everyone k...

An interesting discovery...

I'll start with the bad news: there is going to be a slight delay on the advanced chapter until tomorrow.  But there is some (possibly) very good news as well: while going through all my notes I found parts of the AMA I had been organizing before everything fell apart.

Tomorrow I will be putting that up as well.  I would do it tonight, but I thought that before I did I should give everyone here on Patreon the option to ask questions as well.  Feel free to ask the characte...

TMLoCL - Chapter 46

I had planned to have this chapter and the next out a lot earlier but I underestimated just how fragmented my old notes were.  I don't know what possessed me to make the system so complicated that it required me to write equations to calculate how it worked and I also don't know why I didn't write down Rei's age, but I do know that the next chapter will be up sometime tomorrow.
*looks at clock*

...I guess I mean sometime later today, midnight crept up on me.

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TMLoCL - Extra - Rauvin

*Kingdom of Gracel, Two Years Ago*

*Rauvin Kassid POV*

The most commonly held trait for people with the [Officer] Class was the desire to be an [Officer].

It is a statement that seems so obvious that it seems like it would go without saying, but I knew better.  There is a lot of information that can be found hidden within the nuance and is often left unsaid.  Which would be fine if the information was not importan...

TMLoCL - Chapter 45

Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV:

Rauvin pulled the asshole aside to talk, which was a good precaution to prevent me taking a bite out of him and soon both were hurrying towards the merchants, presumably to explain the issue.  I was tempted to insist on an apology, but that would have to wait - I certainly wasn’t going to forget - but the incoming monsters were the more pressing issue.

My first instinct was, as usual, to get into the air - even ...

An Unfortunate Update

Hello all,

I am honestly unsure how to say this, so I think I will just say it is simply as possible:

My grandpa's health has gone downhill quite a bit, to the point that - while he is alive right now - my whole family is gathering and we have had a priest perform his last rites.

I am still going to try to get a chapter out soon because I am in so much denial that I am not even sure what I am feeling right now.

I am not sure how responsive I am going to be right now, s...

Why I was gone and an apology.

First, let me just say that regardless of why I was gone it was inexcusable of me to not let you - my patrons - know.  I realize, that the majority of you have left and will be posting this explanation on Royalroad as well in the hopes that it reaches as many of my readers as possible.

The last...  Year?  Has been extremely trying for me, and I am extremely thankful for all of you who continued to support me even as I completely left you out to dry.

There is, I supp...

TMLoCL - Extra - Karlin P1 & p2

I will, of course, be offering a full explanation in my next post of why I was gone.  Please expect it in the next twenty to thirty minutes and you all have my sincere apology for my unannounced and long absence.

*Kingdom of Nuave, The Southern Frontier, Six Years Ago*

Karlin’s POV:

Well, this had gone to shit - and that meant that everything was going according to plan for me.

Adventurers were attac...

TMLoCL - Extra - Chaurl P2

The back half of Chaurl's Extra.

I don't plan on do many splits like this - both P1 and P2 are meant to be one whole chapter and will be released as such on RR, but the back half of this Extra was maddening.  Even now it just feels wrong, but I don't think I could fix it without making this Extra way longer.

And this isn't "The Life of Chaurl Kent," so I decided to take a lot of it to the chopping block.

Do let me know if there are problems with this one, most of the wr...

TMLoCL - Extra - Chaurl P1

Was put on a new medication last week and started having huge anxiety issues.  I'm back off that medication now, and hopefully planning to get everything back on track.

Here is the first half of Chaurl's Extra to tide you over until tonight!  Sorry for the trouble - again.

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*Kingdom of Frakus, The Grand Temple, Eighteen Years Ago*

Chaurl Kent’s POV:

In the beginning, there was Nothing.  T...