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STNS: Chapter 297

Her army had arrived at their destination. Thousands upon thousands of cultivators stood in lines. The Shang Kingdom’s army was composed of roughly twenty thousand people. That was not a lot compared to some armies like the Zhou Kingdom with their fifty thousand, but each soldier was at the Asura Realm. This was what made their army so formidable. Both the Zhou Kingdom and Ming Province lacked the sheer number of Asura Realm cultivators they did. That said, they did make up for it by having...

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STNS: Chapter 296

It took a lot of time and effort to mobilize an army. First, orders had to be handed down from the emperor to the general, who then handed down those orders to the lieutenant general, who then handed them further down the line and so on. Once orders were fully passed down, captains would mobilize their squads and meet up with their commanding officers.

And that was just the first step.

There were many different branches of the Shang Kingdom’s military. After informing the office...

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The first illustration for Imcubus 5!

Orendi Laran sent this to me just now. Thus, I send this to you.

It's the first illustration. The Beginning. Of volume 5.

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April 2023 Newsletter Early

Hello,

It is a day early, but I'll be in Kyoto tomorrow, so I may not have time to write this. I figured I'd get it out of the way now.

I don't have too much to add. Being on vacation means I can't do as much work, and I probably shouldn't be working at all since it is vacation, but I like writing and I want to give you guys content to enjoy even when I'm away.

Severing Time & Space is now on volume 7. I think I mentioned this in another newsletter. This is when all my p...

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WIEDERGEBURT Vol. 15 Finished BnW Illustrations

My artist gave these to me just recently. I'm unable to add them into my book right now because I'm in Japan and will be until April 8th.

Release date for the eBook hasn't changed, but I doubt I will have the print version ready by then.

That said, I really like what Mykel did this time. I really challenged her to create some detailed artwork and she came through. It looks great.

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STNS: Chapter 295

Ching Yuon blustered for several seconds, mouth opening and closing like he was a fish out of water. Hou Jingshu had no intention of letting him say anything more, so she turned to the rest of the people in the room.

“Our country is under facing a crisis it has not seen since its founding. Now is not the time for people to argue and fight amongst themselves. If we do not come together and confront the threat posed by the Ming Province and Zhou Kingdoms, we will fall separately. They w...

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STNS: Chapter 294

Zhou Lihua paced back and forth, wringing her hands nervously as she worried about Wu Jian. Was he okay? He had been gone for such a long time. Surely, it shouldn’t take him this long to defeat a magical beast at the Human Limit Realm. He was strong enough to fight people an entire realm above him, or so she assumed from his battle with Mei Xilan. If he could defeat someone at the Human Limit Realm while he was still at the Asura Realm, then defeating a magical beast at the Human L...

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STNS: Chapter 293

Wu Jian’s teeth clattered and his entire body trembled as he fought against the primal fear this man invoked. He had never felt this overwhelming terror before. It was worse than when he was a child and just a coward, worse than the fear and shock he felt when his entire clan was destroyed. His eyes fluttered rapidly as a vision of him being impaled upon a massive claw flashed before him.

Get a grip! Get a grip! Get a grip, Wu Jian!

Biting his lip hard enough to draw bl...

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STNS: Chapter 292

Wu Jian inhaled the crisp morning air, held it, then exhaled. The sun was still not risen. He could just barely see hints of golden light peeking from the east. The cold air was sharp and filled his lungs like tiny needles, when he exhaled, soft mist emerged.

While the outside observer might have assumed he was not paying attention--his eyes were closed, after all--Wu Jian was using his understanding of the Dao of Space to search the area for any potential dangers. This served as both k...

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STNS: Chapter 291

The morning after her meeting with Fengli Cai came much sooner than Hou Jingshu would have liked. Her mind ached as she sat up in bed. It felt like her brain was covered in a thick fog. Lying beside her without a care in the world, Yōuměi muttered incomprehensibly under her breath.

“I couldn’t eat another bite… master… okay… maybe one more… zzz…”

Hou Jingshu almost smiled at the giant panther. What she wouldn’t give to be so carefree.

Climbing out of bed,...

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Next Month's Patreon Art

Doesn't Wu Meiying looks uper elegant here?

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STNS: Chapter 290

Forced to sit by his mother and watch as his younger sister took control over the flow of events, Hou Gun had never felt more disgust than he did while they were eating dinner. He could barely even taste the food. It was only thanks to his talent at keeping an expressionless face that no one noticed the dark thoughts swirling around inside of him.

“Now that we are fed, I believe it is time we discuss matters concerning the Four Great Pavilions and their unlawful invasion of the Shang ...

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STNS: Chapter 289

Hou Jingshu sat on a chair and stared at her brother. Hou Chao had not woken up at all since arriving at the castle. His eyes were wide open and he mumbled incomprehensibly, but he was not there. It was like his mind was far away. The doctor said he had been given an alchemy pill that increased his strength at the cost of his sanity. To cure him, they would need a fifth tier alchemist with a heavenly flame to refine the Mind Returning Pill, but they lacked both the ingredients and the alchemi...

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American Kitsune Webcomic: Tail 6


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WIEDERGEBURT: The Missadventures of Nevaria Acadeny - Chapter 3

Eryk should have known that fight would come back to bite him in the ass.

He woke up the next morning, got ready for school, and stepped outside to find none other than Lin standing outside his door with a bright smile on her face. Her dark-skin made her stand out amongst the fair-skinned students exiting the boy’s dorm. A lot of them looked at her, but she paid them no mind.

I can already sense trouble.

“Darling! Morning!”

Lin waved the moment she saw h...

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STNS: Chapter 288

Wu Jian dropped Blonde’s heart and rushed over to Zhou Lihua. She couldn’t see past his mask as he knelt beside her, but she could somehow tell he was staring at her leg.

“A-are you okay? That looks really painful…”

“I’m… not fine, but I will be. Can you help me snap my leg back into place?”

“Mmm. It’s gonna hurt, so bite down on this.”

Wu Jian summoned a cloth, twisted it up, and gave it to Zhou Lihua, who stuck it inside of her mouth and clamp...

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STNS: Chapter 287

Wu Jian decided to fight Black. She was a swordswoman and used the wind element to increase the sharpness of her attacks and launch long-range attacks. In terms of threat level, she was a far higher threat than Blonde, whose entire arsenal was stymied by the fact that she couldn’t risk using her fire techniques lest she burn down the forest.

[Wind Blades]

Black narrowed her eyes and swung her sword, sending dozens of wind blade his way. They were invisible. However, while he cou...

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Kitsune Birthday!

It's my birthday today. Here is some art that my artist drew for it. Enjoy.

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Next month's patreon art is...

We're doing Wu Meiying this month! She's been absent so much that I need to make it up to her.

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WIEDERGEBURT: The Missadventures of Nevaria Academy - Chapter 2

Two weeks had passed since the opening ceremony. Everyone was sorted into their classes, were introduced to their teachers, made friends or joined up with existing friends, and began learning. Classes were fairly standard but far more advanced than what most students at other schools would have.

Eryk found himself struggling.

Although an avid reader and a competent academic, many of the lessons they were learning were much more advanced than what he had to deal with at his last sc...

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STNS: Chapter 286

Wu Jian and Zhou Lihua discussed how to defeat Black and Blonde for several hours, trading ideas back and forth. The biggest issue they came up against after Wu Jian shared what happened during his battle was how strong they were together. Separating them sounded like the key to victory, but if it was so easy to separate them in combat, someone would have already done that. There was also a chance they had a hidden trump card to use in the event they did get separated. Wu Jian had no way of k...

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STNS: Chapter 285

The Heavenly Sword Sect had never felt so empty before. Many of their strongest cultivators, including their elders, were out dealing with the magical beasts rampaging across the south eastern hemisphere. Even the head elder had been forced to head out.

It wasn’t just the Yuan Peninsula that got hit by this catastrophe. Magical beasts had been summoned in several other locations, and though smaller in scale, there had been so many that the Heavenly Sword Sect had been forced to divide...

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Catgirl Doctor Omnibus

I have decided to create a Catgirl Doctor The Complete Series Omnibus.

This eBook is exclusively on Kobo for now. I might at some point put it on Google, Apple, and Nook, but it will never go on Amazon.

I don't know how many people know or remember this, but Amazon removed several of my books because they violated their ToS. The prudes at Zon did not like my illustrated nudity and sex scenes ...

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WIEDERGEBURT 15

Doing the cover reveal for all because the artwork came out super late and this book is already available for pre-order on Amazon.

It is currently only available on ebook and isn't available on other platforms yet because the manuscript is not ready. Amazon is sadly the only platform that doesn't require a manuscript to be on pre-order.

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STNS: Chapter 284

[Dance of a Thousand Swords]

Yu Chenguang started the battle off without holding back. He threw his sword up, then clapped his hands. One sword became a hundred and a hundred became ten hundred. Each sword looked identical to one he had thrown, but they were all made with chi.

“Go!”

With a gesture of his hand, the one thousand swords flew forward faster than the eye could track and struck Xao Wen, but the man they hit merely grinned as he let the swords bounce off him. H...

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STNS: Chapter 283

Hou Jingshu’s orders went out immediately. She had allowed Yu Chenguang use of the royal family’s private airship to arrive on the border near the Ming Province quickly. It still took several days, but if they went under the assumption that the Four Great Pavilions were gathering an army to invade, then it would take them at least several weeks even if they already had the necessary logistics for such an endeavor.

Only so many people could enter the Shang Kingdom at a time.

Th...

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American Kitsune: Tail 5


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American Kitsune: Tail 4


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STNS: Chapter 282

Wu Jian was confused. The last thing he remembered was attempting to use Teleportation to escape from Blonde’s powerful technique, but they were nowhere to be seen now. Instead, he stood in a room that he would have recognized anywhere. It was his old bedroom that he had grown up in.

This must be a dream, right? I have to be dreaming.

Wu Jian had dreams like this before, though few were so vivid. Wait. Maybe the dream had been what he experienced before and he had j...

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STNS: Chapter 281

Cuòjué Forest was home to many magical beasts. The Zhou Kingdom left this place alone both because of the strength of the magical beasts there and also because it was a treasure trove of resources. There were many natural treasures that humans could not cultivate. They had to be grown naturally. By leaving this natural environment for magical beasts to roam, the Zhou Kingdom could periodically enter and farm the place for its resources.

The deeper a person traveled into the forest, th...

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