They retreated from the hole and moved back into the tunnel they’d entered the room from.
“What are we going to do?” Leya asked, looking up at Kay.
Kay stared at the ground for a moment as he thought over their options. “The problem is that that hole isn’t big enough for us to go down simultaneously. I don’t want to have to drop into a fight like that one by one. We also don’t know which of the tunnels up here lead downward…”
“I could always scorch them f...
2021-12-01 16:44:43 +0000 UTC
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It didn’t take long to get to the entrance trapped under the tree, just like Cindy had said. With some careful maneuvering and a little bit of time, they were able to get the tree growing halfway over the opening out of the way without dropping the large tree on top of them.
“This would have been easier with Leaf,” Claudia muttered as they finally started prying the door open.
“Yeah, but I only got that there was a tree on top,” Cindy muttered as the pair of them watched...
2021-11-30 04:09:41 +0000 UTC
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“So, what do we know?” Kay asked the cramped gathering in his office. Technically the one-room building was the office of multiple people, but he was going to milk his “in charge” status as best he could.
“There’s some kind of unknown enemy that has a group of Rittians of unknown size as minions. It either drove them mad or found them that way, but they’re crazy. Based on the information we have from your Quest and what the Rittians were shouting when you fought them, they...
2021-11-26 15:14:35 +0000 UTC
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It turns out that darkness makes holes in the ground look a lot deeper than they are. Kay ended up falling for fifteen feet before he slammed into the ground. With the number of tiers, he had under his belt, his blood armor, and Blood Boost going, he basically bounced back to his feet instantly.
There were a few rat-men standing there, waiting for a turn to start climbing up, and they turned to him with exclamations of “Food!” and “Sacrifice!” as they attacked.
In the narr...
2021-11-24 21:32:50 +0000 UTC
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Sorry to my $5 tier people, I accidentally opened chapter Seventy one to y'all today when it was supposed to be Seventy. I fixed it, but y'all probably got a bunch of notifications all at once about it. My bad.
2021-11-24 15:05:53 +0000 UTC
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Kay sighed as he walked past an interesting-looking rock. He thought it was something Murunel would have commented on. He hadn’t realized how much he was going to miss her. Even though he hadn’t been with her every moment of every day, he’d actually made sure that he wasn’t in order to let her have as much of a social life as possible while she was stuck in the ball, he’d still gone out of his way to see her at least for a little bit each day. And now she was gone. He was ecstatic t...
2021-11-22 15:30:12 +0000 UTC
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Kay, Eleniah, and Murunel stood in a small clearing in the woods north of the as of yet unnamed settlement. No one else had joined them, probably for various reasons, but Kay was thankful for it. It was Kay, Eleniah, and Murunel when they’d managed to break part of the trap and allowed her to talk to them, and now it would be the three of them as they broke her out completely.
Eleniah held out the wand towards Murunel’s ball. “Is everyone ready?”
“We’re going to just...
2021-11-19 15:08:47 +0000 UTC
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Raising an eyebrow, Eleniah stared at Kay. “You want to do what?”
“See if I can figure out a new skill by experimenting with a concept from Earth,” Kay replied.
“No, I understand that part. I want you to repeat the other part.”
“One of the ideas I have is making my blood flow faster in my body so that I can boost myself.”
Eleniah slowly turned to look at Chitel, “And you think that’s safe?”
“No, not at all.” She shook her head, “I don...
2021-11-18 01:54:05 +0000 UTC
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Kay had managed to meet most of the new people after finishing the discussion with David, but there were a few he still hadn’t met. Eventually, the settlement could become large enough that there were people Kay didn’t know working under him, but while there were less than fifty people living there, Kay would feel bad never meeting them.
He took some time to track people down and talk with them. All of them had similar stories. They had some kind of problem, and then all of a sudden...
2021-11-15 00:31:48 +0000 UTC
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The revelations of the previous night only weighed on Kay’s mind for a moment after he woke up. In the end, guns weren’t that big a deal in a world of magic. That wasn’t to say they couldn’t be useful or anything, but he wasn’t going to spend a lot of time worrying about it. Cindy seemed really interested in helping Karl with his experimenting and testing, so he’d leave them to it and see what they’d come up with.
After getting breakfast, he started walking over to the gov...
2021-11-12 03:26:04 +0000 UTC
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The same soothing feeling from earlier chased away most of the pain from his headache after a few minutes. He peeked up from the comforting barrier of his arms and saw Chitel standing next to him.
“You’re still recovering from everything that happened the other day, so take it easy, alright?” She bent down and peered into his eyes for a second before nodding. “Still no signs of a concussion, but that hit to your head didn’t do you any favors. The spell I cast just now helps wi...
2021-11-10 14:41:31 +0000 UTC
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Kay fell out of bed as he thrashed around, still mostly asleep and trying to get away from some half-visible dream attacker. He struggled to his feet and spun to face the threat and then froze as all he saw was a bare stone wall. “Wha…?”
“Oh, you’re awake!”
The unfamiliar voice startled Kay, and he spun to face it, unconsciously trying to summon blood to his hands in order to defend himself. Before he could see the person, his foot got caught in the blankets strewn ove...
2021-11-08 14:59:53 +0000 UTC
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“Are you alright?” Murunel asked in a worried voice. Kay had basically sprinted out of the area of the standing stones, and he’d run for the rest of the day until he’d been forced to rest by the setting sun. Even after sleeping through the night, he was quiet, tense, and moving quickly.
“Have you ever just known something?” He asked as he jogged across the open plateau, “Call it an instinct or a sudden burst of knowledge or whatever.”
“Yes.”
Kay nodded de...
2021-11-08 03:16:11 +0000 UTC
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“This is a weird area,” Murunel said as she and Kay stood on top of a tree, looking out.
“It really is,” Kay agreed, “Massive forest to the south, two gigantic mountains that their own small mountain chains leading off of them to the north, a plateau that stretches for miles and miles then suddenly ends with no reason to be seen, and now this.” Kay shook his head at the swamp stretching out to the west. “Why is there such random terrain all next to each other? Is this actu...
2021-11-05 02:08:54 +0000 UTC
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The last two weeks had been productive in a number of ways, including making four fields for Rhia to grow crops in. She’d promised that she could handle the work by herself, and it seemed like she was managing. Apparently, she’d gotten a rarer Skill when she got her Novice Farmer Class that reduced the work she had to do.
The four fields weren’t that big, but they also didn’t have a huge population or an overlord to send taxes to, so they could afford to start small and build up...
2021-11-04 15:29:38 +0000 UTC
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“Kay! Kay!”
Kay glanced up from the gauntlets made of blood he’d solidified around his fingers when he heard someone shouting his name. He’d been refining his blood armor in the new training yard they’d made, which was really just a dirt yard a little ways away from anything.
“What’s up?” Kay asked as Leya ran up to him.
She stopped by his side and took a few deep breaths. “Darten found something when he was making that bunker you asked for, and Eleniah wan...
2021-11-03 14:27:43 +0000 UTC
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“So that’s Meten and Darten’s story,” Kay told the gathered group of dwarves, plus Darten and Eleniah. “He asked if he could bring his people here and have them join the settlement that’s going to be built, and I said yes. He left last night to go get them and bring them here.” Kay glanced at each of the dwarves as he spoke, “So I’m officially informing you of all this and inviting you all to join whatever it is we’re building.”
Vened shot him a confused look, “W...
2021-11-01 14:25:28 +0000 UTC
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Meten smiled sadly. "Normally, I'd be giving you a long, drawn-out story about my home and how it came to be, but sadly I'll skip that for now. It doesn't really have a name. We just call it "home" or "the village"; we've been pretty small for a long time. Oni and ogres don't have a high birth rate, and a combination of an isolated location and general distrust from others has kept our population low." He pointed towards the entrance to the valley. "The village is southwest of here, close eno...
2021-10-29 02:16:19 +0000 UTC
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Darten stared at the deer corpses suspended from tendrils of blood, floating behind Kay as he walked back into the base area. “That is so creepy.”
Kay glanced up behind himself. “Well… sorry? I wasn’t going to leave them behind, and I didn’t have a way to carry all five by myself.”
“Sure, just… Keep it in mind. Carrying bodies around like that is very off-putting.” Darten stared at the floating deer bodies for a moment more, then turned away, ...
2021-10-27 18:04:02 +0000 UTC
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Kay stood a little ways off from the base with both hands held up. He mentally weighed his decision while pretending his hands were the ends of a tipping scale. Allow the worry about the talk Eleniah is having with the other two to consume me, or ignore it and go make and test my new Class? Hell, why not both? He sighed and started walking north. But seriously, let's see what these new skills do.
Like most non-combat Classes, there were multiple skills attached. <...
2021-10-25 14:10:02 +0000 UTC
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Edit: Changed the name of a skill to remove certain connotations.
Kay checked the area around him again before sitting down on a convenient rock and starting to draw. The charcoal pencil was much more familiar in his hand after hours and hours of use. He hadn’t started as a great artist, but a combination of the Drawing Skill and actual dedicated work put into getting better had, to his great surprise, made him better. He glanced up from his paper to make sure he was ...
2021-10-22 13:30:20 +0000 UTC
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“Hey, can you spar with me?” Kay asked Eleniah when a free moment came up. He’d been chatting distractedly with Darten and Vened, the cheerful dwarf who’d been injured in the explosion. He was a Novice Fisherman, a very rare class in the landlocked area controlled by the Weathered Clans. They’d been explaining to Vened that, no, they really hadn’t tried to fish in the lake; yet, they’d had other priorities, especially since they didn’t have any fishing gear. He’d run off loo...
2021-10-20 13:33:27 +0000 UTC
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When they got back to the base they were making, Kay saw the group of dwarves setting up a few tents off to the side of the buildings.
He turned and looked back at Eleniah, “I still don’t feel like I’m ready for something like this.”
“You don’t have to be ready, and you don’t have to do anything. But being ready or not doesn’t mean you can’t, or you shouldn’t.”
He nodded his understanding, then made the rest of the walk in. He waved at a couple of dwarv...
2021-10-18 13:54:06 +0000 UTC
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Due to scheduling issues with my day job, I won't be able to post or update anything today, normal service will resume Monday.
Sorry for the inconvenience, I don't have access to my PC.
2021-10-15 13:53:30 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Note: Edit: Whoops Wrong Title, Fifty-six isn't done yet
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The first time they got to a large rocky outcropping that blocked the path down the mountain, the procession of people stopped.
“Well, that’s a problem.” One of the dwarves muttered, “Do we have to go around? There’s no way we’re getting the cart down that.”
“No, it’s fine.” Darten walked over and started making a portion of the area into a ramp just wide enou...
2021-10-13 14:18:43 +0000 UTC
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So, I haven't been hitting the very obvious "Notify Patrons About This Change" button when updating chapters to be open to the correct tiers. Which is probably why people weren't getting emails. Sorry about that, I am apparently blind even with my glasses on. I will be hitting it from now on, so you should all get emails updating you to what's open for your tier when it becomes open.
2021-10-13 14:03:39 +0000 UTC
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As they hiked closer to where smoke was still faintly rising into the sky, Darten kept asking questions that none of them had the answers to.
“So no one knows what it could have been?”
Eleniah sighed. “No, we know what it could have been. The problem is it could have been a lot of things, and we don’t know enough to narrow it down.” She started listing options, “It could have been a battle of some kind, a monster we don’t know about might have done it, it could have ...
2021-10-11 14:52:59 +0000 UTC
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Kay looked over his stat page, slightly winded as he sat after another training session with Meten.
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Name: Kenneth “Kay” Davis
Race: Outworlder Human
Age: 24
Highest Tier: III
Total Tiers: 13
Class Slots: 9 Combat Class Slots/5 Non-Combat Class S...
2021-10-11 14:41:30 +0000 UTC
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I've submitted a project sheet for the artist I chose for the cover, and paid the deposit. She's expecting to finish it in December some time, so look forward to it! When I get the art I'll post it here first, then on RR a few days later. I'm expecting a great piece based on the artist's other work I've seen.
Also, I'm going to move sometime in the next few months, probably some time in November. That might throw some posting off, but I'm not sure it will yet. We'll see what happens, ju...
2021-10-11 14:39:02 +0000 UTC
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When Eleniah and Meten strolled into the new base Darten had built under Kay’s direction, there were a total of four buildings finished.
“You didn’t mention your nephew knowing any building spells,” Eleniah said to Meten as they walked towards the sound of voices.
“He didn’t.”
They shared a look.
“Well, let’s go see what happened.”
They stepped inside the largest of the buildings. The way in was an empty doorway with no door, and it was dark i...
2021-10-08 14:24:32 +0000 UTC
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