Soderberg

Lifeweaver: Chapter 72

After throwing another glance back over his shoulder to make sure they weren't about to get stomped into paste by the dragon, Luke turned his attention to Liza. Taking her face into his hands smeared the blood leaking from her eyes, and he got it all over himself. A renewed roar from the dragon and a brief bout of a weaker type of fire spell made him flinch, but Luke didn't look back. Nate and Hannah would protect him, and a lot of people were leaving Liza's still-standing barrier wards, just...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 71

A bright light shot up into the air and hovered near the ceiling. It allowed everyone to see as the dragon righted itself in the air and came to a somewhat graceful landing on the cavern floor. The beast appeared even more massive now that it was up close, with most of its attention on the Integrated who'd been attacking it. In the distance, up on the cavern wall, the Deep Dweller paused its attacks, almost like it was watching to see how the scene before it would play out. 

Having...

Back from vacation!

While not rested perhaps (two small children all day every day takes more energy than a full time job), I've returned from vacation with an eagerness to really buckle down and write. Friday's chapter was the last one I had banked beforehand so I managed the summer without a pause in releases, but it was a close one!

So far today, I've already written today's chapter, and there will be more to come. Like I've said before, I'm hoping to build up a bit of a backlog now so I can get Patreon...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 70

The dragon roared in pain and pulled free, but it had lost much of its maneuverability and almost a third of its health bar. An onslaught of messages scrolled across Luke's interface, but he ignored them all. It was just people working themselves into a panic. Useless.

"You could have told us this wasn't the entire Deep Dweller a little earlier, Hannah," Liza complained. "This must be why..."

"Why, what?" Mateo asked, his eyes fixed on the dragon, his hands clutching his spear. 2025-08-08 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Lifeweaver: Chapter 69

Liza put a hand on Mateo's shoulder. "We're not going to fight a dragon."

"Wait," Hanna said.

"Not you, too," Liza groaned.

Hanna shook her head. "No, that's not it. There is something else. It's... my shadows are trembling, like they are reacting to something."

"The dragon couldn't be responsible for the blood in those tunnels," Luke said, pointing back over his shoulder with his thumb.

Nate glanced back, a nervous glint in his eyes. He'd placed himself between ...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 68

The Torturer’s chains hurtled through the air over Nate and Mateo’s heads. Both reacted, with Nate raising his shield, blocking one chain, and Mateo’s spear piercing another. Two remained. Threads of Mana reached out and intercepted both as Luke sliced through the spellweaves animating the metal.

With the attack nullified, Lee took a step back, blinking in surprise. A silence hung heavy over both groups of people until Luke spoke up, his voice trembling with anger.

"Leave."<...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 67

Even while running toward the fighting, Nate showed restraint and moved with caution, keeping his shield at the ready. Whatever was going on, it was quite far away. While the party hurried forward, Luke seized the opportunity to exchange a few words with Hannah, since they hadn't spoken since what happened in the dungeon.

"How are you managing after the pink dungeon?" he asked, keeping his eyes on the uneven ground.

"It's been rough, not going to lie," she replied. "Considered sta...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 66

After running up to the tunnel entrance, Luke stopped and waited for the rest of his party. The recent experiences, as well as cold, hard logic, told him that it would indeed be insane to rush into that waiting darkness all on his own. Nate was hot on his heels, and Mateo's fluid running made it seem like he flew across the uneven stone floor. The others took their time, almost as if they were making a point of making Luke wait.

As he waited, Luke inspected everyone again to get a sense...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 65

Still feeling some of the effects from the desperate struggle to stay alive in the middle of a throng of dwarves, Luke followed Nate deeper into the dungeon, heading for the outpost.

"Do you think the dwarves attacked now because the portal opened?" Nate asked.

Luke had thought about that very same question, but he still wasn’t sure. "Or the portal opened because the dwarves were planning an attack."

"What do you mean?"

"I don’t know," Luke said, glancing up to the...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 64

The dwarf commander strained and put his whole body in the downward motion that would end right across Luke's neck. Desperate, Luke lashed out with a thread of mana from the back of his head and pushed the commander so the axe blade dug into the back of one of the dwarves weighing Luke down.

Unable to move his arms and legs, or even draw in a proper breath, Luke gritted his teeth. Threads of Mana surged outward, four of them pushing into dwarves, not to kill them, but to take command of...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 63

"Curtis! Get back here now!" Luke shouted, and for once, Curtis listened, joining Luke in killing a cluster of dwarves, allowing Luke to see to his own injury.

With The Healer's Moment on cooldown and time being at a premium, he decided to flood the injury with healing mana. Only then did he realize how bad his head was throbbing. Checking his interface, Luke found his mana far too low. Even chugging a mana potion only put him at a third of his maximum. He didn't have enough to waste it...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 62

The dwarves were quite a bit shorter than the defending humans, but their appearance was anything but childlike. In movies, dwarves were often allied with humans, and looked a lot like them, but not these. Red, glowing, and empty eyes stared out unblinking from under rough metal helmets full of dents. Beards covered most of their faces, but the small patches of skin showed deep-purple lines going from the eyes and outward in every direction. Snarls on their faces revealed yellow and blackened...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 61

"Uh, hello," Luke said, raising his hands and backing away a little from the gem-lit spear points.

"I can't inspect them," Curtis muttered.

One of the spears was raised into the air, and a man stepped into the range of Milla's light orb. "You are men, not dwarves, or we would have seen you dead before you saw the light from our weapons. So tell me, human, how is it that you have arrived here?"

The man before them was short and squat, with a long, disheveled, and grime-filled...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 60

Milla returned after having stepped away to make a call, interrupting Luke as he was about to heal Curtis. "Do you know when the portal will open?"

"No," Luke said, glancing over to the spot where he knew it would turn up, "but soon."

She nodded and walked away again, speaking into her phone, perhaps with Johanson. That made Luke remember he needed to text her himself, and he did so before forgetting again: "Going into a dungeon. Like I said, try not to hurt Ray if you find him ag...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 59

"Ray is at the orb?" Luke texted back without slowing down.

"A surveillance camera picked up his likeness heading into the park just now," Johanson texted, before adding, "We have drones searching the area from above and personnel on the ground."

She sent an image. It was black and white with low resolution, but Luke could tell it was Ray.

"What is he doing in the park?" Luke asked, jumping to the side to avoid two guys arguing on the sidewalk.

"As of this moment, we h...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 58

Alone in the room, Luke sat down on a stool on wheels and kicked the floor, pushing off to make himself slide across the room. Weeeee! 

Tim, that bastard, lied about almost everything. But he was right about one thing: the ability to dull pain changed everything. With this, Luke could approach the Chief Medical Officer of the hospital and work something out himself. Perhaps a redo of this whole hospital healing thing was possible.

It took the better part of an hour t...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 57

Tim rushed up to them both. "What did you do? Explain it to me."

Luke did his best to explain the pain-dampening procedure. He wasn't quite sure how the mana interacted with the physical nerve and how his Thread of Mana kept it all together, but it worked. It worked better than he'd hoped, even.

Tim just stood there, stunned. "Do you know what this could mean? What if we could stop being forced to use opiates as a society?"

Luke almost couldn’t believe it himself, but it w...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 56

Luke placed a hand on Aaron's shoulder and closed his eyes. Before doing anything else, he moved a thread to his patient's heart and meta-heart and another one to his lungs. If this was going to work, he'd need to keep a close eye on the vitals.

Having no mobility and no feeling at all meant nerve issues, but since Aaron could still breathe, the phrenic nerve was intact. Luke's idea was to restore the other nerves to their old condition, but it would be difficult, to say the least. If h...

Do you want a Patreon Discord?

Hey! Noticed some other authors have Discord as a Patreon perk. What do you think?

// Oskar

Lifeweaver: Chapter 55

Vasilij was in the middle of a set, straining under a barbell, when Luke entered the gym. There was enough weight on the bar to bend it over his shoulders, and it looked like his head was about to explode from all the popping veins. Still, he completed another five repetitions before racking the weight and turning toward the door.

"Ah, Luka," he said, his face cracking into a smile.

A few other men were in there with him, and in the corner, a woman who looked like she could break ...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 54

With Relian getting farther away by the second, Luke followed out of the apartment, slamming the door behind him before rushing to the stairs. There were more people on the stairs, but Luke ran past them as fast as his legs would carry him, almost falling several times.

"Ray!" he shouted. "Relian!"

He ignored the people giving him weird looks as he waved his staff around, trying to find his friend through the invisibility of stealth. At the bottom of the stairs, he still hadn't fo...

Bachelor thesis passed!

Tonight, I’m celebrating! Now I can never use it and focus on writing instead of school!

// Soderberg

Lifeweaver: Chapter 53

Luke woke with a start, having no idea where he was.

"Easy," someone said.

It was a man in his late thirties, maybe early forties, with light blond, almost white hair. He was clean-shaven with sharp features and intense eyes, wearing a black tracksuit with white stripes along the arms and legs. He was holding a familiar-looking item.

"Mana potion," Luke croaked.

The guy looked at him, then realized what Luke had said and held it up. "Yeah, mana potion. Came to check on...

Lifeweaver: Small retcon Ch. 35

Hi!

Hope your weekend is going great. Just wanted to drop in and let you know that I changed chapter 35 a little. Now, Luke never meets with the Chief Medical Officer or any other higher ups in the hospital. Tim takes care of all that busywork.

On other news, my vacation just started. Hurray for me! Six weeks with the kids. I've got chapters for a few weeks ready to go and I'm sneaking in a little writing here and there to make sure I keep pace :)

Usually, I write on my bus ...

Lifeweaver: Screwed scheduling for ch 55

Sorry about spoilers! messed up with the scheduling somehow and a few people glimpsed chapter 55 right now. x_X

Lifeweaver: Chapter 52

A storm of people rushed in, shouting as they checked the medical monitoring equipment.

"We've got EEG spiking!"

"Arrhythmia and desat!"

"Stay calm! What could this be?"

The neurosurgeon grabbed Luke. "What happened?"

"I-I removed the tumor," Luke said.

"And?"

Luke looked at the many stern gazes surrounding the hospital bed. "Well, I sort of regrew the piece of missing brain."

"Could be autonomic dysregulation!" another doctor shouted.

"It...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 51

After sitting down to text Alan to check on his status and replying to the influencer girl with the injured brother, Luke opened his interface to check on what new skills the system awarded him upon reaching level 10. He blinked and leaned forward, then shook his head. This was too much. Far too much. 

System Message: New skills available:

Weaver’s Mercy [Active - Mana Cost: Moderate]: On the brink of death, lend the weave one final stitch....

Audio version of Lifeweaver ending

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately, producing the AI-narrated version of Lifewear is taking up time and money I don’t have. It was a fun experiment despite the many less than friendly messages I received during this brief run.

With this, I’ll also be removing the older chapters (audio only). Once I’ve written a bit more, my hope is to reach an agreement with an audiobook publisher and get audio out to you listeners that way.

I’m sorry for disappointing thos...

Lifeweaver: Chapter 50

The dungeon would close in an hour. What would that mean for those still inside? Luke needed to get there right away, but first he needed to

The dungeon would close in an hour. What would that mean for those still inside? Luke needed to get there right away, but first he needed to help his friends. Not bothering to heal himself first, he struggled to his feet, looted a few hundred credits off the Queen, then shuffled toward the dropped staff to pick it up. Using that as a walking aid, h...

Lifeweaver: Feedback

Hey everyone!

New chapter dropping tomorrow but I wanted to check in and let you know that I’d really appreciate it if you call me out on things in the story that you think is weird, you don’t follow, etc. You’re my first eyeballs on the story and the ones I listen to the most.

The latest chapter on RR got a lot of angry comments which is fine, people don’t always like it when the protagonist is acting stupid, but if you catch stuff, don’t hesitate to let me know :). <...