A/N: As promised. Here's an extra for the book launch! Also... here is sneaky book link... how did that get in there?
Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D71QNNZY
Enjoy!
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Chapter 508: Two Shadows Enter
“Survive?” Maven snorted. He hadn’t reacted much, even after Vanessa filled the chamber with shadows and released her aura. “Against y...
2024-12-11 14:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostRequirements (System Universe Book 7) Now Available on Amazon
Hey everyone! It’s finally December, which means that my seventh book in the System Universe series is here! Just in time for the holiday season!
Today marks the launch of System Universe Book 7: Requirements. It’s now available through Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, Kindle, and Paperback. Audible will come at a later date, hopefully not too far out.
Available through this link:
A/N: Yay! book 7 release tomorrow. Woot! I'll also post an extra chapter tomorrow at some point to celebrate it. (Along with the official release post.) Thanks for all your support!
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Chapter 507: Survive
Vanessa and Derek continued to talk about various things for a little longer while waiting for the time to come to leave. Vanessa had already gotten permission from Edward to go with Derek. Though, with her new position...
2024-12-11 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 506: Ogre is Happy
“Not bad,” Derek said to Silvi as they stepped out of the portal and into his travel room. Silvi had been straight and to the point with the instructor, and the whole process of keeping Thomas out of trouble was pretty painless. He honestly thought Silvi was going to be more eccentric or harder on the instructors, but she had surprised him by only saying what needed to be said, then leaving.
“Yes, yes…” Silvi’s voice chimed after she re-equip...
2024-12-06 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Chapters will start coming down this weekend. Just a head's up. This won't affect any of the last twenty or so chapters.
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Chapter 505: Very Amazing
“I am amazing, huh?” Silvi’s voice chimed.
“Very amazing,” Derek laughed as he looked around the table and could guess that everyone else was currently going over the new Achievement that they had all received.
“Mhm,” Silvi’s voi...
2024-12-04 00:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: Well, this chapter turned out to have interesting timing. Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. XD
I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
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Chapter 504: Dig In!
“Alright!” Derek rubbed his hands together in anticipation of what Silvi was going to bring out. He knew that she’d be serving them something to do with wyvern meat, but he wasn’t exactly sure what.
While floating above...
2024-11-29 00:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 503: Fetch
“Ah!” Derek was startled awake by something light and fluffy landing on his head. “Silvi! What the hell?” He reached up and grabbed his companion by her scruff—something that he would never be able to do if she didn’t allow it—and brought her back down to his lap. “Why did you do that?” He was having a pretty good nap as it was. He’d not had a lot of time to rest since changing systems, so once he ran out of daily things to do, he was en...
2024-11-27 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 502: Draconic Infusion
“Are you sure you want me to make another?” Roman asked. “Those debuffs are very dangerous. And if they affect someone like that dwarf as much as they did, I can’t imagine many people would survive the damage over time.”
“If nothing else, then I’ll just have a nice, refreshing beverage to drink for dinner,” Derek said with a chuckle. “We’ll wait and see how Braxton’s tests go before we do anything else with it.” H...
2024-11-22 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: With the launch of book 7 coming to Amazon in a few weeks, I'm going to have to start pulling chapters off of here, Scribblehub, and Royalroad soon. I've talked with some other authors, and it looks like I can keep around 10% of each book up without worrying about Amazon coming after me.
Honestly, it doesn't really mean much for Patreon since it's already 30k words past book 7's ending. Mostly, it just means that I'll keep a handful more chapters up on RoyalRoad for a bit longer s...
2024-11-20 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 500: For Research Purposes
“No!” Roman cried. “Not all at once, you’re not some dumb….” He looked over at the dwarf, but didn’t finish his sentence.
“I’ll be perfectly fine,” Derek said as he gently placed the now empty mug between himself and Roman. “He…” he nodded his head at Braxton. “Seemed to be confident to drink the whole thing, so I’ll be more tha—” he tried to finish, but instead stopped speaking once the first shiver...
2024-11-15 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 499: Wyvern’s Brew
“I’m not sure you want to try this,” Roman said to Braxton after coming to terms that he was serving a leader of the Assassin’s Guild. “I know that you have a ridiculous constitution—you would have to since you are able to drink the new brew like you do—but, I don’t think your constitution is going to help you with it as much as you think it is.”
“Don’t you worry, little man,” Braxton said, waving off the halfling...
2024-11-13 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 498: A Good Threat
“The dark wyvern I killed?” Derek asked before opening his arms up and leaning back, giving the alchemist a good look at the armor made out of the same wyvern. “It was more of an undead wyvern with darkness abilities,” he said. “But yes, I don’t think I’d forget the beast that my armor and glaive are made out of.”
“Well, I took some of the parts that would be of use in armor or weapon crafting—the stuff that Brandi didn...
2024-11-08 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 497: Long Nap
Derek woke up from his nap, or rather, extremely long sleep, the next morning. He was surprised that nobody bothered to disturb him, and he was able to sleep all the way through the day, then all the way through the night. It was something he hadn’t done in a really, really long time. Luckily, because of the system and his stats, the awful feeling that he would normally get when he slept too long did not appear.
Instead, he only felt mentally r...
2024-11-06 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Happy Halloween!
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Chapter 496: Decision
“So…” King Edward said from atop his throne. Derek turned away from Edgar and looked at the man. “Would you mind sharing exactly what happened? You said you paid a visit to them just to threaten them? Would you please explain? Is this something that is going to have consequences for Cydaria?”
“Well,” Derek started. He didn’t mind explaining things in a b...
2024-10-31 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 495: Next
Assassin’s Guild HQ, Vallum
Once the monstrous Derek Hunt left, Nyx dismissed all the Vice Leaders of the guild. All that remained in the meeting room were Maven, Mara, and himself. What they needed to discuss didn’t need to be heard by the lower members. The disfigured elf gazed at Mara and shared a knowing look with the woman. They were in a predicament that the guild had never found itself in before—at least, not during Nyx’s ...
2024-10-29 23:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 494: Black Ledger
“The Black Ledger?” Vanessa said from Derek’s side. “You didn’t…”
“Yes, Vanessa, I have,” Nyx said. “I did this long ago… actually… just after you returned from that raid dungeon. I was already keeping an eye out. Then Mr. Hunt and his… companion showed up to the battlefield and flipped the Astrus and Indria war effort upside down in moments. That was when I did it. It wasn’t hard to know and see the potential.”<...
2024-10-24 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Two chapters today!
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Chapter 493: The Assassin’s Guild
“Welcome home?” Vanessa asked as she stepped forward into what looked like a giant meeting room. There was a massive oval table in the center that was surrounded by chairs. On the table was what looked like a map, not only of the Kingdom of Cydaria, but of the entire continent. Even the Dwarven Kingdom of Vallum was there in all its glory. “This plac...
2024-10-24 23:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 492: To the Assassin’s Guild
“Oh… now that sounded ominous,” Vanessa said and shook her head. “Now, where is the nearest teleporter?”
“We’re in Savannah,” Derek said. Then moved over and opened the door to his private Void Travel room. After that, he led the Shadow Witch up the stairs, then out of his shop. “Follow me.” He took a step and headed toward the Teleportation Building.
“I never thought I’d end up going back to the gui...
2024-10-22 23:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 491: Making Good
Derek continued to stare at his property for a moment. I think the Time Prison should be able to hold a bunch of it, he thought to himself and nodded. Yeah… if it can hold all those dragonkin, surely a building or two will be fine. As long as I can figure out a way to move it. With that decided, Derek went back inside with Malorie.
“Great job,” he said when he saw her in what would soon be her complete office.
<... 2024-10-17 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 490: Renovations
Derek enjoyed his slow walk back to the city alone. He may become restless and antsy after staying couped up in a city for a while, but it was nice to take a moderately long break after doing a raid or going on an adventure like he just had with Alanah. Sometimes, it was just nice to slowly take things in and be alone with his thoughts.
And Derek did take his time. He was sure that everyone else who went to see the siren off had already made i...
2024-10-15 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 489: Gone
“That’s it?” Derek stared at the spot that Alanah had just been standing. Everything was so… smooth. One second, she was there, and the next, she was gone—only accompanied by a very short flash of light. There wasn’t even as much fanfare in what just occurred as there was when entering any dungeon. “I… was expecting more,” he said.
“As was I,” Avery stepped forward and looked to the same place as Derek was. Then, he turned his h...
2024-10-10 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Thanks for all the kind words and comments on that last chapter of book 7. Ya'll made my day/week!
Now for other news. Patreon is forcing creators to switch to their other billing method. Which, honestly is better for the readers, just a little more troublesome for me. That means that when you subscribe, you will be billed on the day you subbed each month instead of it rolling over to the first of the month and billing on that day every month.
It messes with a couple thin...
2024-10-08 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This is kind of two chapters-ish (at least by word count), but I didn't want to split it into two. I'll separate for the book release, but this works here. Enjoy!
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Chapter 487: Confrontation/Epilogue
While everyone was working hard, Derek checked out the description for his new Achievement.
Oh… I ...
2024-10-06 20:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 486: World Boss
“Looks like all that’s left here is an Echoing Stump,” Derek said to Avery and Edgar, who were standing at his left and right, respectively.
“Uh…” Edgar muttered.
Derek tilted his head in confusion. “What is it?” He looked over at Avery and saw that the archer was looking forward with raised eyebrows and wide eyes. Avery met his gaze, and the archer smiled.
“Just check your notifications,” the archer...
2024-10-06 19:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 485: Ignite
Silvi was having one hell of a time dashing and darting around on the pot lid she created with her Void Creation (Cooking) skill. Once again, she was happy that she kept her small form after her evolution. Opposable thumbs wouldn’t have been enough to make up for the loss of her smallness and mobility created because of it.
Before she left, she had thought the ground with all the noodle-looking vines coming out was going to be the dangerous and f...
2024-10-03 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post2 chapters today
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Chapter 484: Echoing Willow
The Echoing Willow hadn’t reacted much to Derek and the rest of his group’s approach. Why would it? There was no telling how long it had lived in the abyss, and there was also no telling how long it had been since a legitimate challenger—or group of challengers—had attacked. So, while it had tried a couple of times to wrap its roots and vines around Derek and the others, those times...
2024-10-03 23:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 483: Approach
“Okay,” Alanah said, looking over the group. “First thing that you all need to know is that the enemy, the Echoing Willow, is a monster unlike what any of us has fought yet… well, unless you have fought me in my siren form, which none of you have.”
“What do we have to look out for?” Tyron asked. The blacksmith was taking all the information in calmly.
“The main thing that I know of is the tree’s controlling effects through...
2024-10-01 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 482: Assemble
“What do you mean?” Derek asked.
“The Echoing Willow always releases a few intense bursts of its power before going dormant for a short amount of time. Unless it has changed after all of these years, this doesn’t happen often. We’re lucky. It means that soon, the willow will lose control of the abyss for a short time.”
“And it will be vulnerable?” Derek asked.
“Not necessarily…” Alanah said. “I’ve never gotte...
2024-09-26 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 481: What Was Left
Derek opted to stay at the entrance and to not say anything as Alanah took in the cave where she spent much of her childhood and early adult life. As far as he could tell, with the cave being only dimly lit by Alanah’s light orb, there certainly wasn’t very much scattered around the area. But Derek was able to make out a few shapes lying around—he was unsure what they were, but they were definitely different from the rocks and dust that occu...
2024-09-24 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 480: Dig
Alanah approached the edge of the abyss. “It’s been a long time,” she muttered under her breath. “I hope still remember where I’m going… and that it’s still there,” she spoke lightly, but was easily heard by Derek.
“I’m sure you’ll find whatever it is that you’re looking for,” Derek said.
“Only one way to find out,” Alanah replied. Then she took the final step and walked off the edge into the abyss.
“Here go...
2024-09-19 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post