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A Broken World - Ch. 55 World of Souls

*Julian Gandr*

“Lucas…”  Julian was aghast at the preparations that Lucas was making, “you are setting up ritual magic?  When did you even learn about the subject?”

“I didn’t,” Lucas replied as he drew runes on the floor in chalk.  “This is not really ritual magic, it has nothing to do with priestly magic at all.  Actually, I would not be remotely surprised if this was blasphemous in the end.”

Julian frowned, which he felt was a natural react...

Mystic Ink - Ch. 65 New Glyphs

Cass, topless, was laying on her bed as Lord Hall prepared the needles behind her.  When she thought back to the first time she had a glyph tattooed she smiled, then laughed.

“You know Master,” Cass said jokingly.  “You never did give me that coin you promised me.”

“Hmmm, oh!”  Her Master laughed as he put a hand on Cass’s back and chuckled as well.  “I forgot about that, I guess I owe you one Cass.  That doesn’t bother you, does it Cass?”

Mystic Ink - Ch. 64 Lessons

Cass put that encounter behind her, she refused to think about it again if she could help it.  She made her purchase and went back to the castle and returned to her lessons.  Lord Hall wanted Cass to begin her duties within the next few weeks, Owin would be helping where it was needed and her first assignment would not be particularly challenging, but Cass was nervous.  As a Hand, her duties were a mix of diplomacy and military commanding, and Cass did not really feel she was capa...

Mystic Ink - Ch. 63 Unpleasant Meetings

The Church’s teachings were divided into eight Testaments.  Each was a thick book that contained many parables whose teachings were meant to help people live as well as they could and grow beyond that.  Cass had never owned one of them until now, and was thankful for the opportunity Maurice had given her to read through one of them.  Especially since it was such a beautiful book- Cass could barely touch it for fear of harming such a beautiful work of art.

But instead of diving...

Mystic Ink - Ch. 62 A Gift

After that meeting, Cass had a lot to learn and she had multiple tutors this time- of a much higher quality as well.  The sheer volume of information about politics and etiquette made Cass feel like her head was going to explode.  It was not just the name and current position of families and their affairs, but their pasts and their connections with each other.  Cass felt that she could study this country forever and not understand it.

And surprisingly, her best tutor was Owin. &...

A Broken World - Ch. 54 World of Acceleration

*Lucas Jaeger*

Someone from Lucas’s world would look at him and think that he was meditating.  Upon having that thought, Lucas considered adding meditation to his daily activities- studies showed that it did have some benefits, especially regarding emotional control.  However, that was not what Lucas was doing, he was working.  Terrasin was clearly correct, Lucas would have to simply disseminate the books he had written and hope for the best.  So long as the instructions ...

A Broken World - Ch. 53 World of Turns

*Terrasin deVon Almistraus*

Terrasin had coming running when the announcement that the Hero had returned, and was surprised by the fact that Blade had brought him back.  He was not displaying his demonic heritage, but Terrasin had not expected to see the man here and was suspicious of what the Demon Adders would be doing here.  But there was no time for that now, Lucas was thrashing around in Blade’s arms, yelling and shouting.

“Lucas!?”  She followed as Blade shoute...

A Broken World - Ch. 52 Taking a Trip

*Lucas Jaeger*

Fuck, fuck, fuck…  Lucas’s heart was beating out of his chest and he was trying to breath deeply and calm himself but it was hard when it felt like fucking bugs under his skin and the fucking world is flowing!  Lucas was trying to relax his muscles, but as soon as he focused on one group another would tense.  This was clearly a chemical like meth though, because Lucas’s thoughts were not completely screwed- so long as he kept his focus.

If he let go fo...

Mystic Ink - Ch. 61 Revelations

“M- Master, I do not understand.”  Cass stuttered in her shock.  She knew, roughly, what a Noble’s Hand was- a trusted servant that could exercise some of their Master’s authority, but different from a Steward in that instead of managing a home, they would manage their Master’s authority in the world at large.  Cass was not aware that a slave like her could even take the job, and would never have believed that it would have been given to her regardless.

For that matter...

Mystic Ink - Ch. 60 Master's Hand

*Cass*

Once again, Cass was listening to her targets speak.  They had locked themselves in this room from fear, and she had walked in with them invisible.  It amused her to terrify them, it made the revenge all the sweeter.

“Shit!”  One of them swore, “I cannot believe they will not do anything- after all they spent on us, and all the work we did!”

“Even Lady Bitch herself isn’t doing shit.  That bastard must hav- urk!”

She had been following...

A Dungeon Core - Ch. 11 Partners

*Core*

Well fuck me, I did not expect this.  I suppose it is pretty obvious why the Dungeon Master class is rare- how many other core’s would gamble that virtuously sacrificing themselves would give them another shot at reincarnation, and thus, find surrendering a reasonable option?  For that matter, nice as Susan seemed, her hesitancy to answer my question and tell me what she wanted was not a good sign.

Fortunately, she could not read my mind- that would just be unpleasant....

Mystic Ink - Ch. 59 Family

*Sarius Hall*

Sarius Hall was a powerful man.  Walking through the halls of the Imperial Center, many who knew who he was would make way and bow, but he ignored them.  He also ignored the ones that smirked at him from the side, if that was all they could do they were not worth his attention.  The politics of Haj were complex, and in the heart of Tyine, the Imperial Center was the depths of that web.

Hall had thought that joining the Tower and being apprenticed to Evans wou...

A Broken World - Ch. 51 World of Whispers

*One day ago, just south of the front line*

*Blade*

The Demon Adders were a group that lived and died by their information.  In theory, they were a mercenary group- in practice, the kind of people who would work with them were not the kind of people they wanted to work with.  In reality, the majority of their income came from various fronts- none of which realized that they were working for the Demon Adders.  The human-passing halfs were quite capable individuals after all...

A Broken World - Ch. 50 World of Rescue

*Lucas Jaeger*

Lucas woke up, opened his eyes, and…

“Sweet Jesus fucking Christ!”  His shout was so shrill it might better be described as a scream, but anyone who had woken up to what he had would do the same.  There were fantasy works where there were half human, half spider, creatures- and Lucas always thought of a beautiful woman’s torso on top of a spider’s body- the disparity between the top and bottom would make it interesting.

And interesting is far more...

A Broken World - Ch. 49 World of Abduction

EDIT:  I accidentally published this chapter early on RRL- because I was apprantly too tired to tell the difference between "save and schedule" and "publish."

However, I promised to be two chapters ahead for you Patreon folks this Saturday- and I am keeping that promise.  So tomorrow (saturday) I will be buckling down to write two chapters, just for you.  I hope you all enjoy them.

*Lucas Jaeger*

It was not morning when Lucas awoke to shouting and the clas...

A Dungeon Core - Ch. 10 Dungeon Master

*Susan*

I would not stand by while my savior died, especially not when he gave up his life so easily!  I would not let him turn over his life so easily!

[Conditions Cleared: Succeeded to conquer Dungeon and make it submit via surrendering!  Class Unlocked:  Dungeon Master!  Dungeon Master class is now level one!]

What..?  This is a Menu, only powerful diviners were able to see and interact with this!  And this class- The Dungeon Master class...

Current EC Status!

This is a Part II to yesterday's announcement about the catch-up schedule and it is all about the big question that my 5$ patrons (otherwise known as "those crazy people who think I am worth that much") are probably asking:

Where is that extra content you promised?  Well here is your answer!

Writing Notes:

Mystic Ink:  90% done, just trying to find a page of notes I wrote in one of my notebooks.  You can expect the stuff (outlines, notes, plans for chapters that were...

A Broken World - Ch. 48 World of Bleeding

*Lucas Jaeger*

A key feature of a presentation was explaining things in a way that your audience could understand or, alternatively, burying them in things they can not understand so they feel too embarrassed from ignorance to question you.  That last part was the escape a lesser presenter might take when confronted with a daunting task like trying to explain biology centuries ahead of their audiences understanding.  Lucas, on the other hand, came from a school of thought that believ...

Content Catch-Up Status!

Hey there everyone!

Just wanted to give everyone an idea of where things are at in terms of chapters and series- I have been playing catch up lately and writing chapters like mad, and this will help give a time frame on when I will be absolutely back on track.

Also all numbers are, obviously, rough esitimates.

Mystic Ink:  RRL: 100%  Patreon: 1 ahead as of tomorrow, next chapter is 70% done and will be finished tomorrow to bring that to 2 ahead.

A Broken World: &nbs...

A Dungeon Core - Ch. 09 Negotiations and Surprises

*Core*

Dungeon subjugation?  I had my minions relay my words to Susan- though they thankfully did not convey my worry.  How could I not be worried?  You did not send a team to do something that they were unable to do, so logically the team could kill him.  Damnit.

“Dungeons are dangerous,” Susan replied and then added quickly.  “However, you are less so than most- dungeons this young rarely can talk, and if they could they would not want to reduce the amoun...

Mystic Ink - Ch. 58 The Hunt Begins

Cass did not want to move, but she could not let herself lay there long.  She had tears running down her face and she was covered in her own blood and she did not want anyone to see her right now.  Maybe for a long, long, time.  But she also needed to be ready whenever her Master or- and the very thought made her shiver now- her Mistress called for her.

She used her system to make herself invisible and disappeared, working her way back to her apartments.  Thankfully, water ...

A Broken World - Ch. 47 World of Discovery

*Lucas Jaeger*

So Lucas pulled the poor soldier-cum-artist out of bed, he could sleep after they finished this up- Lucas was approaching twenty hours awake and still going strong on pure excitement.  He did briefly consider that maybe a sleep deprived person should not be playing around with sharp objects but anyone who thought that was clearly not a biologist.  Nature did not follow a human timeframe after all, sometimes you had to go with when it wanted to do things.

Subject ...

A Broken World - Ch. 46 World of Mutants

*Lucas Jaeger*

“Well, if it is any consolation, they are not well designed.”  Lucas had been trying to explain his findings to the assembled group.  Julian, Terra, and Archi were there of course, as well as Treslux and a group of nobles and military commanders- all of them had an extremely serious expression on their faces.

“We knew the demons were unnatural,” one of them muttered, Lucas didn’t see who.  “But we never thought they were made- just that they came...

A Broken World - Ch. 45 World of Cutting

*Lucas Jaeger*

Biology is not a pretty science.

Oh sure, when you sell it to kids it is all pictures of pretty flowers and cute kittens and maybe some majestic eagles, but the actual reality of the science is a lot more shitty.  Sometimes quite literally, though dirt and blood were more common and in this case, the mixture of the two.

The specimens were about as excellent as Lucas could expect, killed by single shots through the eye by some excellent archer.  Though admit...

A Broken World - Ch. 44 World of Disgust

*Archi deVon Versi*

The only word that could describe the end of this situation was ‘anticlimactic.’  A few people had died, and a few more were injured, but overall nothing happened.  Well, nothing aside from Lucas becoming a ‘high duke,’ whatever that was, and Terrasin gaining a title of ‘Lady Observer’ in Francinea.  Again, whatever that was.  Obviously she could figure it out, but it was so abrupt it gave the ducal court whiplash.

Terrasin had filled A...

Mystic Ink - Ch. 57 Humiliation

As Cass silently followed Clare, she took the opportunity to observe the woman.  She was beautiful, with long deep black hair and slender legs that Cass could not help but envy…  But really, she was not interested in comparing herself to the woman in that way.  No, what interested her instead was how she moved and acted.

This was a woman used to authority, and unless Cass’s street instincts had been dulled too much, someone she guessed was used to running people over with th...

A Broken World - Ch. 43 World of Sociopaths

*Terrasin deVon Almistraus*

Terrasin honestly thought that Lucas’s protests were a bit much.  Archi was a bit on the young side, but not by much.  Many noble ladies were married around her age- though admittedly it was more common for them to be engaged and then married a year or two later.  Still, to prefer a civil war to a marriage seemed…  Well, selfish.

“Actually, the more I think about this,” Lucas had calmed down enough to begin speaking again it seemed....

Character Bio Announcement!

So after the chaos of the past month (ish, its more like two months honestly) I am sure some of you are wondering where the character bios are!

The answer is:  They are coming, but it has more to do with the artist than it does to do with me at this point!  But the ball is rolling, and it is going to roll right into these posts one day soon.

To that point, the first three bios coming out will be:

1st:  Cass (Mystic Ink)

2nd: Lucas (A Broken World)

3rd: Ha...

A Broken World - Ch. 42 World of Debate

*Terrasin deVon Almistraus*

Terrasin could not believe she had missed this, though to be fair, things had gone wrong since the very start, and that was before summoning Lucas!  Afterwards, she had barely had a chance to catch her breath, or really understand the man in front of her.  She should have seen this coming, and now Terrasin felt she had a responsibility to think of a way out.  Clearly, Prince Treslux did not actually want to attack, which was something, but Terrasin wa...

A Broken World - Ch. 41 World of Mistakes

*Prince Treslux*

The Hero was nothing like Treslux imagined he would be, though upon reflection he was not sure why he was so surprised.  The Heroine Valencia in legends was also dismissive of propriety and etiquette, but it was different to see it up close.  The man, who introduced himself as Lucas, had not bothered to rise in his greeting and had just waved for Treslux to take a seat.  The woman who was with him, one of the strikingly beautiful Almistraus princesses Treslux no...