AN: Happy new year!
Rather than launching the typical explosive ball of fire from her hands, it seemed that Erani’s new and Upgraded Firebolt Spell caused a meteor to fall from the sky. It hurtled to the ground, set to collide with the closest group of monsters charging at me, and I’d be lying if I claimed I didn’t stare in awe a little bit.
It looked like a lesser version of another famous Spell, Star of Extinction. That one was much, much l...
2024-01-01 13:11:45 +0000 UTC
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I strolled through the sandy dunes lit by the moon, eyes on the beasts in the distance. Erani and Ainash trailed distantly behind me, so I could attack first and be the sole person drawing the aggression of the animals.
The Sand Stompers and Sand Stingers took notice of me, glancing over in my direction as I approached, and I could occasionally feel the rumbling beneath me of the Sand Sifters worming their way through the ground beneath me, but there was no overt attack made. At least, ...
2023-12-27 12:43:50 +0000 UTC
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After a little guidance from Index, I reached into my mind, and…
Anchor Point has been placed.
Unplaced Anchor Points remaining: 0
There was a faint sensation in my body, like energy had left through my chest and been focused into the world. There was also a sound—some sort of crystallization, like a rock was forming in front of my face....
2023-12-20 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Sitting in the back of the carriage transporting us through the desert, I closed my eyes and began meditating. At the same time, I also handed Erani the two Fire Spell Crystals for her to make her own choice, as well. Firebolt had been at Rank 19 for a while now, so it would be great for the Spell to finally reach its next Upgrade. From my talks with Erani, it was clear she still had no idea which of her options she would pick, but I figured now was a good time for her to take some dedicated ...
2023-12-18 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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It didn’t take long before I saw what the Sand Hive was.
After meeting the woman in her little caravan, we hitched a ride in the back of one of the covered carts, legs hanging off the back. She had a few hired guards with her, as she said, who walked alongside the carts in big, intimidating suits of armor. It seemed like their jobs were mostly to scare off any prospective bandits from trying to steal the woman’s cargo.
After some conversation with her, I learned that she appar...
2023-12-13 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Minute Mage book 1 is out! It's available in physical form, plus Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!
Thank you all for making this possible. I'm really hoping that writing can be my permanent full-time job, and if my Amazon launch does well, it can be!
You can rate/review the book on Amazon without buying it, too! Since you've read it here, it's completely allowed for you to go to the Amazon page and l...
2023-12-12 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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AN: Sorry for the delayed chapter, finals week for school really snuck up on me and it felt like I was stuck in an infinite loop of studying and completing final projects. But as of today, I finally finished up my last assignment for this semester! So hopefully I'll be much freer to write more consistently now. Anyway, enjoy!
In a flash, our surroundings changed. Erani, Ainash, and I were all suddenly standing in a completely new area—a massive buildin...
2023-12-11 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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A Devil stood on a rock in a barren, gray wasteland. He had just stumbled through the door 999 portal that led to the surface of the Underworld and dashed through, narrowly escaping the grasps of his captors. And now, he was here.
He glanced back. The square of black that the portal had opened up had already closed behind him, only seconds after he’d come through. Seemed like nobody was keen on chasing him out here.
Blood dripped from his shoulder onto the stone beneath his feet...
2023-12-04 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Eventually, Erani and I finally got some sleep. It was probably around midday when we actually dozed off. Part of me dreaded trying to get my sleep schedule back on track after this, but the other part of me knew it was completely fucked already, following the entire journey we’d made to get to this damned empire to begin with, so one all-nighter didn’t matter. Besides, I got to watch the sun rise with Erani, and our delirious, sleep-deprived states were kinda like being drunk, so in a wa...
2023-12-02 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I sat in front of a man at a desk in an opulent room. He was older, dressed in nice clothes that matched the decorations filling his office. There were a good few guards in the room with us, which, while I understood the use of caution in this scenario, I still wasn’t comfortable being surrounded by all of these Classers. Especially when Erani had been outright refused entry because of her “destructive magic capabilities,” plus the fact that she wasn’t technically necessary for negoti...
2023-11-29 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Town guards swarmed the battlefield. Fires and rubble were spread throughout, as were bodies. There were a good number of casualties, unfortunately—though most of them were those of our enemies—but not only that, there were plenty of living people that’d also collapsed on the ground, unmoving. It had happened at some point during the fight, but many of the enemies that originated from Jon’s side and decided to stop fighting once they heard what I had to say had collapsed to t...
2023-11-25 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Jon dropped the coin, and it burst into flame. Everyone around him was engulfed, and screams instantly began to echo through the wreckage of the battlefield. The Melee-Types dove back, but many of them were already set aflame, including Entismo and Boy.
Is he too low on Mana to use Day of Judgment? I asked Index.
“Yeah, he used up the last of it on that final Spell.”
Instantly, I sprinted forward, calling back to Erani and telling her it was safe. Ainash also fo...
2023-11-21 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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As the coin flew toward Entismo, time seemed to move in slow-motion. If that thing hit him, it’d kill him for sure—I’d seen what those flames could do to someone in previous timelines, and they were no joke.
I could already tell exactly what Index would say, if it had the time to say it: Arlan, by doing this, Jon has given up all credibility. He no longer has any argument that what he’s doing is moral, and allowing Entismo to die here will only prove your point more that he...
2023-11-15 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I arrived in the previous timeline not too far in the past. I hadn’t gone the entire six and a half hours back that I was capable of, instead opting to go back to the moment the time struck midnight of the current day—not even an hour beforehand. The reason I chose to do this was a specific quirk in the way Time Loop worked and that Index had explained to me a while back.
Essentially, Time Loop only gave a certain number of uses that could be expended during any given day. Yesterday...
2023-11-12 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Jon was almost asleep when he heard the crash.
He had just finished meditating for the night—something that had been somewhat difficult, considering his squad’s failure to locate the fugitive this evening—and had gotten into bed, closing his eyes and hoping for a more productive tomorrow. While he hadn’t found the man, he had at least gotten a couple leads. The fugitive was located somewhere in this town, and frequented that adventurer’s guild, so it would be most lik...
2023-11-08 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Sylvie stared at me and Erani, standing before her on the side of the abandoned road. With our faces exposed, she was clearly taking a moment to absorb the details.
“You’re…the fugitive,” she said, eventually. “The one everyone’s looking for? That’s flamin’ awesome!”
“That’s me,” I said with a nod. “Annor is a friend of mine, and the man we’re fighting is someone who’s trying to kill me.”
“Who’s the chick?”
“My name’s Erani.”...
2023-11-05 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I arrived in the previous timeline later than I had in the past, since so much more time had passed before I died this go around. I’d already explained everything to Erani and Ainash, and had agreed with Sylvie for her to help pay adventurers to help us fight Jon. I knew we wouldn’t need to swap away from that plan, at least. Jon had revealed he had even more people with him than we’d thought; that only proved more than ever that we needed the extra firepower. Once I got back, ...
2023-11-02 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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So the thing was, I kind of thought Jon was an idiot.
He walked straight into the guild lobby, eyes on me, and I watched as he no doubt prepared to cast his typical Day of Judgment Spell. Seemed like this had been his original plan; go and ask around at the border outposts to see if anyone knew where I was, and then come to town to kill me. But, really, how did he expect to do that? Sure, he could get a single cast of his Spell off and hit me for a ton of damage, but Dark Plate wo...
2023-10-31 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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When we got back to the town of Salvation, the first thing Erani and I did was go to the guild lobby and sit down to have a drink. For me, it’d been a long twelve hours of fighting and re-fighting Jon, and for Erani, it had been a slightly less long six hours. We both wanted to sit down and unwind, if just a little bit.
We were also eyeing up the surrounding adventurers. Tomorrow, we’d go in for another fight with Jon, this time with as much backup as we could bring. Allowing more p...
2023-10-27 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I hadn’t been able to sync up my memories with Ainash and Erani in the previous timeline, meaning I wasn’t able to fully bring them in on what’d transpired just by transferring their memories back to them. I could’ve transferred them my own memories of the previous timeline, but it took a lot longer to give them my memories than it would to just give them their own back to them, and we were with Sylvie, complicating the process by forcing us to hide it from her.
In the end, I wa...
2023-10-24 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“Fugitive, I’d like to call a ceasefire! You don’t move from that spot, and I won’t make chase. We will resume this later, once I’m done speaking with Ripley,” Jon called over to me and Erani. He turned over to where Sylvie and Ainash had been fighting the soldiers. “Men, put down your weapons, we will…oh.”
I looked where he was staring, only to see Ainash standing in the middle of four bisected corpses, all cut cleanly in half by her whip. Blood covered her body and t...
2023-10-21 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Jon and his four soldiers approached us in our hiding places, seemingly fully aware of our location. Or, it didn’t seem like any of them could see us—none of them were looking directly at us, at least. Rather, they were simply walking in our directions with clear purpose. I just assumed that purpose was “let’s go kill Arlan and his pals.” At the very least, they clearly knew something was over here.
It was only a matter of time before they found us, if we kept hiding,...
2023-10-19 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It didn’t take long before we were back on the road. Erani messaged Ainash to go grab Sylvie and bring her back to us so we could get to the outpost without delay. So once we met back up, we got right back onto the worn dirt trail heading in the direction of the mountains.
Our plan now was essentially a simple ambush. We knew that Jon and his soldiers would arrive shortly after we got to the outpost, and so instead of entering, we’d stick outside and watch them, wait for an opening ...
2023-10-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“So how will this Day of Judgment Spell not kill me?” Sylvie asked Erani.
“It’s a weird Spell,” Erani responded. “It only deals damage to you based on the things you’ve done. I assume you haven’t done those things, so you should be fine. Or, if you have, it won’t be enough to deal that much damage.”
“How do you know? What if I’m a secret aficionado of whatever thing you’re talking about?”
“You aren’t.”
I frowned at the conversation. Wh...
2023-10-14 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Erani, Ainash, and I got ourselves up and together before rushing to the other side of the border outpost, where Jon and Ripley were fighting. We also quickly touched hands to transfer memories between ourselves—the basic stuff, leaving out most details to ensure we did it quickly, but that way I could get all the information to them in the case we didn’t get a better opportunity later.
Considering our injuries, though—theirs being more intense than mine, it seemed—getting ready...
2023-10-12 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I approached the two soldiers attacking Erani and Ainash, who were both pinned to the ground. Behind me were two more that I’d managed to incapacitate, if only temporarily. And apparently, on the other side of the wrecked border outpost…
Index, you said Ripley and that guy, Jon, they’re having some conversation over there? What are they talking about?
“Well, it’s more of a half-conversation, half-fight-to-the-death. I can’t hear perfectly from so far away, but...
2023-10-10 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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AN: Extra long chapter :)
I stood, hiding in the bathroom of the guard outpost, listening to Bon speak a man—presumably the leader of the five that’d just walked in—named Jon Mourn.
“We don’t know too much,” Jannin said, “don’t keep any, uh, detailed logs, or anything.”
“Really?” the voice of the man asked. “I don’t mean to assume, but another outpost we visited did have an entire book logging everyone who came in and out, everything they’d seen, ...
2023-10-07 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Just as I stepped inside the outpost, the blade of a battleaxe came swinging out from behind the wall, straight at my face.
Then it collided right into my nose.
You have been sliced. 56 damage.
Your Health is 624.
You have been inflicted with Burning Blood
2023-10-05 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I placed my hand on the device floating in midair among the trees. Erani and Ainash looked at it interestedly, while the Goblins standing among us seemed more concerned with whether Ainash was angry or happy than anything else going on.
With contact made with the “Beacon,” I tried pushing my Mana into it once again to see what it could do.
Beacon requires at least one other placed Anchor Point...
2023-10-03 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Tribe welcome you, Human one,” a Goblin said, bowing its head in respect.
I wasn’t sure how to respond. Was I supposed to bow back? Tell it to raise its head? Say hello?
In front of me stood around a dozen Goblins, all around half my height and dressed in the barest of tattered clothing, most of it strictly functional—such as little belts with tools and weapons strapped through the loops. One seemed to take the lead, standing in front of the others and speaking for them. ...
2023-09-29 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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