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Chapter 69 (nice)

After practicing my new communication skill all night, I was starting to be able to “say” proper words! It was still a little rough, and it wasn’t quite as deep as my mental voice was, but it was still better than having to force a mental connection to strangers. After the fiasco with the elves, I wasn’t as willing to trust others with access to my mind as I was before.

And, unfortunately, here come some strangers to practice on. I was hoping to get a bit more practice by myself...

Chapter 68

Lightning Magic was a lot harder to aim than I thought it would be.

As I charged up the bolt of crackling electricity in my hands, I imagined ensuing destruction happening in a generally forward direction from my current point of view. But when I released my hold on the magic, it shot forward for a few feet before dropping sharply to hit the ground and disperse harmlessly, though it did cost me quite a few burnt roots even with my Fire Resistance. The o...

Chapter 67

“Very good! Add more mana to the spell structure, it should make the flames even hotter!”

I called out tips to the mage-golems whenever I could to help them improve their magic and be better at their jobs. From the moment we first started this exercise, bursts of magic power could be seen all around the expanded clearing. In areas where it wasn’t seen, it could be felt.

After what felt like days of practice, the first golem mage, the only one with a humanoid body, informed m...

Chapter 66

“Okay, now that only I can use magic around here, it’s time I set some magical defenses.”

I went up to my branches and created a new acorn, one that had Earth Magic and Water Magic as its two skills. I made sure it had a militaristic mindset and viewed me as its general, and gave it a very territorial personality. Once I felt that it would work as planned, I gave it the nutrients to grow, then popped it into a custom-made puppet. The puppet I made...

Chapter 65

“My second Epic skill! Woohoo!”

I was about to open the skill description before I stopped and realized that no, this wasn’t my second Epic skill. This was my third!

In my rush after finally gaining the Golem Creation skill, I had forgotten that the previous skill/upgrade points were refunded and went towards Mana Condensation. I still haven’t read the new description yet, though.

“First, Dryad Creation, t...

Schedule change

I forgot to mention this last week. From now on, chapters will be released at Sunday 5pm EST

Chapter 64

Before I go any farther, I should figure out what exactly this golem of mine can do. I gave him a few minutes to get used to his body and make the changes he wanted to before giving him some basic exercises. When he was done with the sprints, I used Identify on him.

Autonomous Golem

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Chapter 63

build doll

add mana water

place core in chest cavity

doll explodes

build doll

add mana water

……

The cycle of golem development continued for quite a while, only interrupted when I had to take time to find more cores to experiment with. Thankfully, BBW and his pack have been leaving plenty of orc remains for me to fund my research with.

They have been hunting orcs as their primary food sou...

Chapter 62

First things first, I need to recover the core.

During the explosion of my first semi-successful golem prototype, its limbs were ripped from the torso, which was also broken into several pieces. Frankly, the whole thing would be just as useful as mulch now.

I searched the debris for the precious monster core, but I found it almost a hundred feet away from where the golem blew up. Unfortunately, though, it had a large crack running down the middle. As soon as I tried to pick it up ...

Sorry!

Patreon changed the way stuff gets posted while I was gone. I guess I didn't do it right when I scheduled the post to drop. I hope this is the only mistake going forward. Sorry bout that!

It's weird because I got notifications of people liking the post, and one of my subscribers even said he got the full post in his email when I scheduled it on saturday night. I'll do my best to double check that it gets posted correctly from now. Hope you all enjoy the chapter :)

Chapter 61

“Soo, that happened.”

Silvan said to her partner. They had been riding in mostly silence for the last few days, heading back to the elven forest nation, they’re only conversation being “pass the water” or “hand me the dried nuts”. It’s been tense while they process the biggest failure of their career.

“That it did,” replied Elowen. “We were nowhere near prepared for how advanced Willow, the Great Tree, was. Not only was his mind more complex than one his age ...

Chapter 60

It’s been 5 weeks since I ran Elvis and Silvan out, and quite frankly, I don’t feel like I’ve done enough since then.

I spent a couple of days growing a crap ton of vines throughout the portion of the forest I control. In fact, almost every tree that was under my influence got a makeover. I grew out their hair (vines are now all over the place), they all got pedicures (roots got reorganized and thickened), and everyone got some new clothes (I reinforced the trunks with iron by fus...

Redo of a Dungeon Core - Chapter 2

“A non-sentient dungeon creature will follow their master’s orders to the letter. If you were to tell a skeleton monster you summoned to remove its left arm, it would. If you tell a wolf you summoned to kill itself, it would follow your orders. The issue with order obedience comes with intelligence, or rather, sapience.

A monster summoned with sapience has the potential to disobey your commands. They will mostly follow basic commands, of course, but there is still the potential of d...

Chapter 59

“What do you mean ‘take me despite my protest’? How could you?” I bore down on Silvan with the full weight of my mind while asking her that.

“What do you mean ‘take me despite my protest’? How could you?”

I bore down on Silvan with the full weight of my mind while asking her that. So far, I had maintained a boundary of trying to stay out of people’s inner thoughts, but when something so important came to light, I found it necessary to be a little… pushy.

...

Taking a break

Billing is going to be paused for the month of August. I need a break from writing, as I'm starting to feel too pressured to write, taking the fun out of it for me. Don't worry, though. None of you should be charged for this month, with billing continuing in September.

I wanted to get 59 posted this week and 60 posted today, but I just didn't have the energy to finish. 59 is mostly done, but I can't get it done tonight. I'll do my best to get it posted by tomorrow night, but after that,...

Chapter 58

Chapter 59 will be posted at some point this week as an apology for being late recently. Chapter 60 will be posted next Sunday at 12 EST “S

Chapter 59 will be posted at some point this week as an apology for being late recently. Chapter 60 will be posted next Sunday at 12 EST

“So, how was the walk yesterday? See anything of interest?”

Silvan glanced at Elowen. After their short but intense argument, followed by eliminating the undead, they spent the remainder of...

Silvan's Daggers

Here's a quick AI rendition of what I imagine Silvan's daggers to look like.

Chapter 57

Elowen was up bright and early. He watched the sky change color through the woven vines that made up the roof. It hadn’t rained during their stay so far, but he wondered what Willow would do when it came to that.

Would he tighten the weave? Would he add a layer of dirt on top to make it waterproof? He could also grow a layered pattern of leaves on the vines of the roof to make a thatched pattern. Then again, he could probably use Water Magic to c...