Two exits led further into the cultist hideout, and Noah followed Aurelia through the right exit. The area led into a smaller corridor, with various rooms carved and set up inside the cavernous walls.
Noah followed behind Aurelia, as she went through every room checking for traps, before she searched and tossed anything important towards Noah for storage.
Catching a strange coin that Noah slipped into his inventory he glanced at the corridor extended far and long. “Just how big ...
2022-11-15 17:29:44 +0000 UTC
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Noah held up the key, displaying it to Aurelia.
"Where did you find that?" she asked, looking at the key in confusion.
"When I tried to put Viktral's storage device in my inventory, it gave me an option to transfer out the items from the storage device and I selected yes," Noah replied. Opening a dimensional pocket, he fumbled around before pulling out a glass vial filled with crimson red liquid.
Using identify, he pulled up the item name.
[Potion of Healing (U...
2022-11-12 15:30:29 +0000 UTC
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Aurelia looked down at Noah, arms folded as she tapped her foot.
“You’re welcome for the help,” Noah replied, trying not to be annoyed at her attitude. He remained where he’d collapsed onto the ground, looking up at Aurelia who could pulverize him in a single blow with an uncertain look.
“Right. My apologies. I do appreciate the help, even though you spent a lot of time standing around staring into space. But nothing about you makes sense, and I’ve already been betraye...
2022-11-11 09:05:05 +0000 UTC
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Noah stared at the words floating in front of him, before his sight went to the dropping top bar. He’d lost too much blood, and he doubted he’d be alive much longer at the current rate. Closing his eyes, he found the words still present in his sight, and reached out towards them.
You’ve used an Awakening Crystal!
The awakening process has begun.
A strange energy permeated through Noah’s body, flooding a part of his being that only no...
2022-11-11 09:01:18 +0000 UTC
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A cold and grainy sensation brushed against Noah’s body. His eyes fluttered against the feeling, before he opened them. Solid gray rock met his sight, as Noah came to, trying to understand where he was.
He pushed up his body, looking around. He appeared to be in some sort of underground chamber. Raising his body, he looked down and saw himself wearing his old shirt, the giant hole cut through it still present on both sides. He saw dark cloaked figures standing in a circle all around h...
2022-11-11 08:57:56 +0000 UTC
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An eternity passed in darkness, awareness and consciousness, brief fleeting concepts, distant from the immaterial soul that drifted through the void.
Then, a pulse began, before another, and another. Sensation returned, then form, and memories. Something stirred in the darkness.
Noah felt his thoughts starting to gather. His first thoughts went by in a drift, before he even became aware that they existed, then the sensations began to return, and he felt something guiding his atten...
2022-11-11 08:56:23 +0000 UTC
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Synopsis:
Noah Brown had never felt like he fit. Since his childhood, he'd been blessed with a gift for fighting. Unfortunately, punching things had never paid his bills, and he had struggled to use his gifts for anything worthwhile. But when a strange encounter had angels and eldritch monsters barge into Noah's life, pulling him into their world, quite literally, he finds himself thriving in his new home instead.
Here, he wil...
2022-11-11 08:50:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been taking some time off recently with approaching exams to focus on not failing the semester, so chapters have been slow. I've also been doing some planning for the upcoming year, and changes to come.
First order of business. Mark of Time will be going on a break. I can't give an exact date for when I'll resume the story, which I know I will, not just because I want to finish it but also because I have signed three books and I need to finish th...
2022-11-11 07:37:09 +0000 UTC
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I stood beside the village head, who held the official scroll in his hand with the termination of the contract for buying the spirit crystals and spirit herbs produced in the village of Taizhou in his hands. The man had had a few minutes to read the contents of the letter as I’d received the news and arrived here. And as it turned out, so had the rest of the village.
I’d expected Elder Yan to do something petty like this, the only thing that surprised me was how long it took him to ...
2022-11-04 03:17:11 +0000 UTC
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Yin stepped through shrubs near the Qi vein, feeling the gentle breeze rustle her hair. There was a jute back sewn together that hung by her wait, tied with two little strings that kept the thing firmly in place. Searching through the grass, she picked up stalks of spirit grass, before placing it into the basket. Just another day as usual for her, if not for the two people accompanying her.
“I still don’t know how you can pick these without any Qi sense,” Yan Yun said, walking beh...
2022-10-24 15:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The past day had me spend hours talking with Yin about her grandfather and reading through the many notes the man had gathered over the decades. Wei Guo may not have shattered the heavens, but he was by no means a meagre man. The notes that I'd made were far more detailed and incredible than the childish messing around that I did with my own projects.
He’d even worked with cultivators, alchemists, and other literary scholars on his travels to research how Qi worked. I recognised one o...
2022-10-22 16:20:42 +0000 UTC
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I walked silently behind Yin, as she guided me back to her home. A thousand questions ran in my mind, all that I’d been wanting to ask the girl, but she’d insisted on taking me to her place, and seeing her resolute expression, I’d given in to her demands.
The village swept by beyond my awareness, as my eyes remained set firmly on the back of the girl walking in front of me. I nodded absently to the village head as I walked into his home. The man squawked, looking at me nervously ...
2022-10-14 20:40:35 +0000 UTC
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Record from Year 712, Post Fall.
The 211th Awakening Tournament.
Estimated time before System collapse: 14 years, 3 months and 27 days.
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Drevon’s world was fractured and patchy, like a child had splattered paint all over shattered glass. A high pitched hum played in his ears, a symphony of iron-breaks whistling together. Men and women shouted his name, as the smell of sweat and dirt tickled his nose.
Where was he? The details w...
2022-10-10 15:00:22 +0000 UTC
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So, unfortunately, I was in an accident. I'm alive, with most my external little meaty bits still attached, but my legs took a shot, a pretty bad one, and walking will not be on table for at least a few days.
Can't say if that'll delay chapters, but it might. Stay safe out there folks, and hopefully I'll be back soon with some words.
2022-10-01 13:50:34 +0000 UTC
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There's been an update on patreon! Billing will charge on the day you joined the patreon, compared to the charge up front and then from the 1st of every upcoming month. Do note that this DOES NOT APPLY TO EXISTING PATRONS.
So all of you guys will still be charged at the 1st of every month, unless you unsub and then resub at a later point, say, December 27th 2022. Then, from then on, you'll be charged on the 27th of every month. At least, that is how I think this w...
2022-09-26 18:25:33 +0000 UTC
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The air flickered and danced in front of me. Sparks spewed out, emitted by various fire spirit herbs in the cauldron. I stirred an iron ladle through the contents, crushing up little chunks of the herbs any time I noticed them, while simultaneously guiding the fire within with my Qi. It was a soothing process, other than the fact that the temperature made me slightly concerned about my clothes bursting out in flames.
The temperature in the room rose rapidly as I worked, watching the fir...
2022-09-26 12:25:39 +0000 UTC
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Apologies for the lack of chapters this week, there was a fest in my college, and the work there completely swept me away. (It was also, quite a bit of fun)
In the meantime, here's an early sneak peek at the book 1 cover I'm commissioning for QiMC2!
2022-09-26 07:08:45 +0000 UTC
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Poison Qi flowed around in a mortar, mingling with the spirit herbs set inside. Liuxiang focused her senses, the pestle in her hand grinding down the spirit herbs. The action was calming, soothing, a reminder of the days she’d left behind her. She also enjoyed the far greater efficiency with which she could control her poison now, having broken through to the fourth realm.
The poison Qi slowly began to hiss, as the spirit herbs were ground down into a liquid slurry. Liuxiang knew the ...
2022-09-21 17:18:59 +0000 UTC
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An AU following Xar's birth in the dungeon. The events are separate from Mark of Time, and are the result of me thinking "following Xar as the MC through a monster evo LitRPG will be pretty neat" and thus I've made a suitably more chunky LitRPG system for that purpose.
I hope you enjoy!
Note: I will write a new MoT chapter soon, I promise. Just trying to figure out some plot stuff that's breaking my brain.
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Cha...
2022-09-18 18:10:57 +0000 UTC
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I made my way to the village chief’s home, finding an even larger crowd now looking inside at the curious visitor. Despite having relatively grown used to the presence of cultivators among them, Taizhou was still a fairly small village. A cultivator visiting their village and being attacked was typically the most exciting that happened around the village.
Walking through the crowd that began to scatter upon our approach, I stepped inside the village chief’s place. Guo Zou, the villa...
2022-09-18 16:08:01 +0000 UTC
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I walked across the plains, taking in the rushing wind. Chi flowed through my feet, my steps barely touching the ground as I stepped throughout the whole way. The sensation was akin to being flung off and at the edge of falling, as the world seemed to warp around me, yet I never hit the ground. There was something oddly relaxing about speeding through grassy plains, following no particular path in general as the world stretched on endlessly.
The scroll I’d grabbed for Labby sat in my ...
2022-09-18 06:47:47 +0000 UTC
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2.7k words! This is a big one. I repeat. this is a big one. Enjoy!
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A gentle breeze flew in through the window, stirring me out of my daze. I looked up outside, to see the rising sun peeking over the horizon as my eyes widened in surprise. Somehow, an entire day seemed to have passed by while I read through the many scroll I’d been given access to in the Lord’s manor.
The books contained all sorts of topics pertaining. Mundane stuff like the harvest observed from v...
2022-09-15 19:01:32 +0000 UTC
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Zu Ri stood with her head bowed, feeling Elder Yan’s wrath pressing down upon her shoulders. Chains held her in place, loose enough to allow her movement in her prison. The chamber they stood in was dark, set deep within the ground below the Yan manor, a dungeon carved of polished stone.
The Elder’s step’s echoed in the chamber, as he walked. To a mortal, the voice would only repeat a few times before vanishing, but to a cultivator’s ears, especially one trained in the arts of s...
2022-09-14 17:45:25 +0000 UTC
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Look who's back! I've made it a goal to write a chapter daily. I'll probably absolutely fail to do this, but if I don't you guys will know.
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The Lord’s attention was a tangible thing. Like an unseen weight on your shoulder, in the form of a physical manifestation. I knew it wasn’t a real sensation but merely a result of my spirit responding to the Lord’s spirit, yet it was nearly impossible to convince my body of that.
I gulped, trying not to hesitate as I continu...
2022-09-13 18:20:04 +0000 UTC
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This will be a slightly peculiar post, which will spoil chapter 29 and chapter 30 in parts, so if you would like to avoid spoilers, don't read ahead.
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Alright, if you're still reading, you've been warned.
So, I'd like to ask people's thoughts on a timeskip. By the end of chapter 29, Jennifer will be fighting a crystal + Light affinity golem in the dungeon with Xar, on her 6th reset. She has already fought this creature in the previous reset and had died p...
2022-08-26 13:15:38 +0000 UTC
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There has been some confusion on how the patreon setup works currently, so I'd just like to clarify.
The patreon billing cycle is paused, so if you make a pledge or are a current patreon right now, you will not be charged at the start of the next month. I will keep pausing this billing cycle every month till the end of this year, so you will not be charged till 1st January 2023.
I am also refunding all pledges and tier ups, so the money you pay will be returned back to...
2022-08-26 06:22:45 +0000 UTC
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The dungeon of Lienmont, like all dungeons, had layers to its structure. The first layer were cavernous tunnels, of twisting and turning mazes, and narrow paths. An ideal structure for ambush and poison attacks. Although one argument thought the sewers to be part of the reason for the poison inclination of the first layer.
There was no fixed depth to this layer, but like all dungeon pathways, Jennifer knew there would be a way deeper within, into the far more mana dense areas of the se...
2022-08-26 06:15:46 +0000 UTC
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Mark of Time:
Bond of Fate: Fated strings
Bond of Psyche (Blocked): Linked Minds
Abilities: Time Reset | Soul Anchor
Resets: 5
Integrity: 95.62%
Tier: Undefined
Jennifer opened her eyes, setting down the quill in her hands onto the table in front of her. She took a single breath, calming her nerves from the jarring sequence of events she’d just gone through. Though she now knew of the need f...
2022-08-21 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The world jerked around Jennifer, the sensation similar to the times she died, yet distinctly different in a way she couldn’t explain. A familiar throne room spread endlessly around her. Yet where once there had been lazy strings of fate that drifted across the chamber, now there were taught strings that stretched into the beyond.
“J-Jenn?” A feeble voice echoed through the chamber.
Jennifer’s head snapped towards her brother, sitting in a corner. She dashed towards Keit...
2022-08-19 17:33:19 +0000 UTC
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The past few days had Jennifer spending her time toying with her new [Blood Dagger] form. She found that she could change the swirling carving pen like form, back into a regular dagger with a thought. Being unable to use magic due to her injuries and with nothing much to do, she found herself intently studying the books about blood magic she’d obtained from Derim.
Her new spider companion had quickly tired of the exercise, and decided to wander around her room by himself. That is unt...
2022-08-19 17:25:36 +0000 UTC
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