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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 35: Cooperation

1/5 this week!

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Yu Wen left Signstone the next day, and Cha Ming, having spent three months in the same place, decided it was time to leave as well.

“Grandteacher,” Kheyli, one of the inkborn, said in greeting. “What instructions do you have today?”

“You’ve all been doing fine work these past months helping with Signstone’s defenses,” Cha Ming said. “I hope you can continue to contribute in this fashion and assist Merenthal and Aaron Shacklebolt. Wo...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 34: The Cost of Freedom

Chapter 5/5 this week!

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One week after arriving in Signstone City, Cha Ming settled into a new routine. The piles of supposedly worthless signstone dust had been fully converted, and the inkborn were hard at work converting them into workable plates. Cha Ming considered looking for such opportunities again in the future, but he supposed necessity was the mother of invention. If not for his relationships and the situation, he would never have thought to do so in the first place.<...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 33: Obsession

I think that's 4/5 this week?

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The situation in Desert’s Blessing returned to the status quo. It was a false alarm, and nothing overtly bad had happened. Everyone was allowed to go back to what’d they’d been doing earlier, with zero additional restrictions.

The Churches of Jezeriah and Harid Dej relaxed, as did the burgeoning demon factions. Light probing battles ensued to determine if anything substantial had changed, blood was spilled, and everything eased up again...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 32: Unexpected Developments

3/5 this week. It's a bit short, but a lot happens.

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Cha Ming spent a week in Titanvale, but apparently, that was far too long for the Frost Lotus Sect. Cha Ming had to postpone his trip to Signstone and return to Desert’s Blessing. “I was there for months. Months! If there was a problem, couldn’t they have just asked me when I was there?”

Desert’s Blessing had not changed much during his absence. After all, how much could possibly change in a week’s time? Thin...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 31: Progress

2/5 this week!

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Following Yu Wen’s departure from Desert’s Blessing, Cha Ming made a point of checking in on other obligations he’d been neglecting. Namely, he checked in on Drezil, Clever Dusk, and Titan Thunderfist, whom he had left to their own devices to recover, cultivate, and craft talismans.

Drezil did not answer any of his communications, but Merenthal gave Cha Ming a brief rundown. “Oster has been edging closer, little by little, but he prioritizes safety,...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 30: Accumulation

1/5 this week! Wooo!

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Despite the fact that he was human and his relatively unknown identity in the Shanara Mountain Range, Cha Ming held high authority in the fledgling demon kingdom. It therefore took no time at all for Huxian’s minion Silverwhisk to find Cha Ming secluded patch of mountain near a spirit spring, where Cha Ming proceeded to carve himself out a cave dwelling using the Clear Sky Carving Knife.

The cave dwelling was less an actual residence and more a cove...

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PtM Book 14 - Interlude: Wine and Company

4/4 last week.

Apologies, I was quite busy yesterday and didn't post. I will now immediately post the next chapter.

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The concept of routine social interactions is an oft-discussed topic among philosophers, academics, and the aristocracy. Whereas the first group preoccupies itself on the why it happens, and the strange technicalities involved, the next two wonder about the benefits of said social interactions as well as the historical reasons and customs b...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 28: Adventures in the Void (3)

Chapter 2/3 this week!

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Travelling in the strange jungle got much harder after his theft and harassment of the Paper Tiger Clan patrol unit. What he’d initially thought to be a small group of Paper Tiger Clansmen turned out to be an army, which included even a few middle fusion realm elders strong enough to serve as the backbone of their own kingdoms on the Inkwell Plane.

It was clear that they were up to something, but Huxian couldn’t worry about that. Instead, his pr...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 27: Adventures in the Void (2)

1/3 this week!

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A day later, Huxian woke in a place that bordered the material realm and void space. The ice-like cliff face of the fissure was long gone due to the distance he’d travelled.

This place could only be called a hybrid reality. It was a jungle, much like one might find on the inkwell plane, completely with trees, grass, insects, animals, and water in the form of rain and steady streams.

It was also not a fully material place. Said tress, grass, insects,...

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PtM Book 15 - Chapter 26: Adventures in the Void (1)

Update 2022-04-14:

Part 1 of Book 14 has now been deleted to fulfill Kindle Unlimited exclusivity requirements. Anyone who was a patron before I did and missed the eBook link and wants it, please PM me. To anyone who hasn't, and has read Part 1 on Amazon, please bear the following in mind:

1. I decided on splitting the book in two because it's huge. The second part isn't yet finished, so there are a few inconsistencies that will be fixed in the future (but not her...

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Winter Swordsman - A Cultivation Novella

Hey Everyone! Here's the third draft of my new

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