Chapter 26
“I don’t know what you did, but if you hurt the Commander, I’ll take great pleasure in killing you slowly.” The whispered threat in Larek’s ear wasn’t backed up by any serious physical action other than a tightening of the arms around his own, but he simply nodded in response. The Martials that held him were strong, but nothing they were doing actually hurt him, for which he was grateful.
Because if they ended up hurting Nedira, he would have to inte...
2024-02-20 23:12:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 25
Standing in front of the red-robed Pyromancer who had absolutely no idea who he was, Larek glanced at Nedira. “He has no memory of me, remember? It was taken away by that Gergasi—”
“Gergasi! What do you know about those blasted giants? And what do they have to do with me?” Kimble asked, a rising anger in his voice.
“Listen, this might be hard to believe, but you used to know Larek was even assigned to be one of his bodyguards by Dean Lorraine. Do you...
2024-02-20 17:43:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 24
“How long will they last?”
Larek debated on whether or not to say “forever”, but ultimately decided against it. The mature Tailor clearly knew what Fusions were, and for him to say that it would continue working in perpetuity was bound to be met with skepticism.
He’d learned a little bit over the last year about how to talk to people, even if it still wasn’t something he was comfortable with. It especially helped when he didn’t have to outright lie...
2024-02-19 23:05:13 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 23
“Form two lines and no pushing! No entry without assessment! We all work together to hold back the Calamity!”
The guard on top of the walls shouted these words every 30 seconds or so as Larek and Nedira joined the surprisingly long lines leading into the already overcrowded city. On their short journey, they passed a few farms that were being worked, but there were only a handful of them that seemed to be fully operational. There were more than what had originally...
2024-02-19 18:39:35 +0000 UTC
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8 more chapters done this week! I wanted to get a few more than that done, but it took me a little bit to get back into the story after finishing Unexpected Healer last week. I also took Sunday off to watch the Superbowl, some of Valentine's Day to spend time with my wife, and had a Parent/Teacher Conference yesterday that I had to take off early from work to attend, so it delayed a bit of my writing. Still, it's coming along pretty well, and I'm hoping to add another 9 or 1...
2024-02-16 21:35:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 22
“This is taking more getting used to than I thought it would, but I think I’m getting the hang of it.” Larek fired another barrage of flaming balls out of his staff toward the Ethertoads down below the Pattern box, and fortunately one of them managed to clip the leg of the jumping monster as it attempted to flee. The oily substance that covered its entire body immediately lit on fire and a second later – while it was still airborne – the Ethertoad...
2024-02-16 21:26:41 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 21
The atmosphere was tense inside the Pattern box as Larek near-invisibly led them over the landscape far below, the Secure Hideaway working to camouflage them enough that they weren’t visible as more than a blur in the air. The strain of bringing the box up so high was starting to give him a headache, as was the speed that they were moving, but he pushed through the pain that his Pain Immunity Skill didn’t do anything to relieve, as he wanted to get as ...
2024-02-16 16:27:46 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 20
“I don’t know what it is, but we can’t allow them to get to it first.”
Marteena, or as she preferred her friends to call her, Teena, hurried after her boss as he rushed out of the headquarters building. She grabbed her staff where she had left it near the door before she was nearly blinded by the bright afternoon sun, which was intense after the relative darkness of the building. Thankfully, her eyesight adjusted fast enough that she didn’t trip ove...
2024-02-15 18:29:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 19
The rest of the day was more of the same, which wasn’t a bad thing at all. They encountered another three Apertures on their journey and closed them all, stopping only twice for Larek to rest and recuperate after keeping his Pattern box together for a few hours. After finishing off the Bladesharks, Larek had accumulated enough Aetheric Force to raise the maximum Level of his Pattern Manipulation enough to bring it to 55, and over the rest of the day he was able t...
2024-02-14 22:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 18
It didn’t take long before they encountered the edge of their first Aperture territory, which was obvious enough because the environment changed from rolling hills of grass to rivers and deep ponds. Normally, that wouldn’t have been too out of place, but they abruptly appeared upon the landscape with a clear delineation, cut off precisely where the territory began. Looking at it closer, there was essentially a straight line where a rushing river appeared out of...
2024-02-14 17:34:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 17
“That’s… it? That’s all you need?”
Larek nodded, eager to get moving.
“Yes, that’s all we need,” he confirmed, looking at Nedira to ensure she didn’t need anything else. She appeared to have mostly recovered from her near-death experience and subsequent healing, though he knew from how long it took her to wake up that morning that she was still feeling some of the exhaustion effects that had plagued her during her recovery. Fortunately, her inc...
2024-02-13 22:30:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 16
“Whoa, Larek – what are you doing? That doesn’t look anything like—”
He was so hyper-focused on his work that he barely heard Nedira speaking as she backed away, let alone had the concentration to respond. This was the most complicated and frankly intense Fusions that Larek had ever created, and he needed every little bit of his mind centered on his task. Not only was this the largest Fusion he’d ever seen or created, but its appearance was so dif...
2024-02-13 16:59:46 +0000 UTC
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2024-02-13 14:16:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 15
Creating a completely new type of Fusion, with elements to it that he’d only tangentially used in a formation that he was given and didn’t put together himself, was a lot harder than he expected.
But that didn’t stop Larek from pushing everything he knew about Fusions and the way they worked into his efforts, because he needed to succeed.
Granted, it wasn’t a life or death situation that required he make something that would prevent them from dy...
2024-02-12 20:12:59 +0000 UTC
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2024-02-07 15:00:11 +0000 UTC
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I ended up changing the name for this story from Unintended Healer to Unexpected Healer because there is a relatively new book out called Unintended Cultivator and I didn't want there to be any confusion.
But here is the cover for the new story! I'm hoping to have it out near the end of this month on Amazon and I'll be putting it up for pre-order within the next few days.
2024-02-07 02:23:21 +0000 UTC
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It's done! Now on to editing and all that fun stuff :) I'll be back to Fusionist book 5 next Monday, so it might be a few chapters behind the 30 advance chapters for my $5 Patrons, but I'll get caught up quickly!
*Spoiler* when you see the Rankings down below, they are actually in a table, but it doesn't translate well to posting here on Patreon -- therefore, it looks a little strange
Chapter 45
The question of what Thaden wa...
2024-02-06 18:22:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 44
Managing to squeeze nearly the last of his PICK into one final Level, Thaden smiled as he narrowly hit what he needed to equip his new Shadow Necklace of the Grave.
PICK requirements met! 13,000/13,000
Increase Personal Level? Y / N
Note: This can only be completed while not currently in combat and while not in a dungeon.
Level up! You are now a Level 45 Lifewarden!
As ...
2024-02-05 22:34:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 43
It was time.
Thaden woke up much later that day, refreshed from sleeping at least 10 hours after the day and night he’d had, and he immediately pulled out some jerky he had in his pack – which had been conveniently stowed in his Inventory while in the dungeon’s treasure room so he didn’t have to carry on his person anymore it anymore. He washed it down with some water from the same pack and then put it all away before lying back down on his bed, eager and read...
2024-02-05 17:47:34 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 42
It turned out that using his Inventory was both easier than he thought it would be, and frustrating to the point where he again cursed the fact that he had missed out on the Training that would’ve made everything all that much simpler.
“Store? Remove? That’s it?”
“Yes, as well as picturing what you want to store or take out, as thinking about a quantity,” Sarah replied with a nod. “If there is only one item, the quantity doesn’t really m...
2024-02-04 22:15:54 +0000 UTC
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Aetheric InFusion released this week on audiobook! The marketing for that took a bit of my writing time away, but I still made some good progress. I'm hoping to finish my newest story early next week, and then I'll be editing it and sending it out to beta-readers. At the end of the week, I have some business stuff to take care of including taxes and a few other things. My plan is to start Fusionist Book 5 on Monday the 12th.
Here's my plan for next wee...
2024-02-02 22:37:48 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 41
Too worn out from what had already been an extremely long day to concentrate on his message feed, Thaden instead checked his new-found Inventory to see what had accumulated inside of it while he hadn’t been paying attention. He had been somewhat aware that things were being deposited inside of it while they made their way through the dungeon, as now that he had knowledge of its existence, it was like hearing a new band on the radio that he really liked; he was conscious n...
2024-02-02 20:30:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 40
Thaden was angry, though the primary target of his ire had already been destroyed in an explosion of necrotic force that nearly killed him as well. He hadn’t expected such a dramatic exit for Lavestina, The Lady Lich, but he probably should have; regardless, she was dead and so were the other pair of Mini Bosses that had proven to be a pain to destroy.
But the reason his anger remained was due to what he had done to nearly get himself killed. He wasn’t sure if he ...
2024-02-01 23:12:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 39
Placing her hands on the stone floor of the dungeon, Sarah was barely able to push herself upright as the powerful Level Compression faded away. While she and the others in her party had felt hints of the phenomenon they were taught during Training throughout the Mausoleum of Despair dungeon, the Level Compression felt from encountering a being with a significantly higher Level than someone was almost impossibly strong. At times it felt like gravity had su...
2024-02-01 19:53:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 38
The Boss room was definitely not what he was expecting. It had transformed from what it had been before, which had already been quite large when he had fought against Arpath, the Bone Defiler; now, though, it was the size of a sports stadium, complete with tiered stands around the perimeter, which were full of silent, lower-Leveled Undead that he recognized from the Minimal and Medial dungeons. Unlike at a sporting event, they weren’t sitting in the stands, but were uprig...
2024-01-31 22:22:41 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 37
About 30 rooms into the Maximal difficulty Mausoleum of Despair Dungeon, Thaden started to regain his wits as he tore through the Undead that infested the place. At first, he had only fought Grave Stalkers, but that soon changed to a combination of the Stalkers with Demi Liches, which were smaller Undead at only about 7 feet tall, but they cast devastatingly deadly spells – at least he assumed they were – that exploded in dramatic fashion in black and dark green against...
2024-01-30 23:31:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 36
“I’m telling you, it won’t—”
As they walked inside the doors to the Mausoleum of Despair, Thaden – now as a Party Leader as assigned by the Party Interface – inwardly smiled as the message window popped up and the world slowed down while he made a selection.
The Mausoleum of Despair Dungeon
Please select dungeon difficulty:
Minimal Medial Maximal
Party member Leve...
2024-01-30 18:59:05 +0000 UTC
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The 3rd book in the Magical Fusion series, Aetheric InFusion, is now available on audiobook! Miles Meili does another awesome job narrating the latest book in the series, and I'm very excited for everyone to listen to it!
Audible US: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CTHVRTMC
Audible UK: https://www.audible....
2024-01-30 14:36:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 35
“No, it won’t work. The Assimilation System is specially designed to prevent that kind of thing.” Thaden listened to Sarah speak as they walked along, as somehow the Novice Druid had become the spokesperson of the party.
It’s probably because I brought her back first, so she knows me the longest. Though, an extra few minutes of talking with someone isn’t really a huge difference.
The resurrection of the rest of the deceased party had been even...
2024-01-29 22:23:00 +0000 UTC
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