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A/N: Surprise! I finished that one early to celebrate reaching first top on RR's rising star, I hope you'll enjoy it!
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Goreville tackled Zelesto into the muddy lake with beastly ferocity.
The torc’s power pulsed through his flesh, filling his muscles with otherworldly strength. His muscle mass doubled in the ...
2025-03-08 08:42:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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While I had grown unfortunately acquainted with the Sapa’s emperor over the past week, I knew very little about their empress.
I recalled briefly discussing the news of the wedding early in my reign and expressing some curiosity at a rather strange local tradition: namely, that since the Sapa’s imperial succession derived its legitimacy...
2025-03-08 08:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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The blow caved her breast plate in, shattered ribs, and nearly killed her on the spot.
Victoire had heard old soldiers who narrowly avoided death telling her that they had relieved parts of their life a moment at the instant of truth. She couldn’t boast the same in her case. All Victoire could say was that when she finally ...
2025-03-06 08:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Beelzebub was one ugly deity.
The entire Glacis Mountains had turned into a B&C board the moment Wepwawet accepted the Godly Battle challenge—something which he did only after transporting enough troops to assault Promesse and putting them into position. Beelzebub had appeared soon after in all of his horrifying glory.&n...
2025-03-04 08:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
As forewarned a few weeks back, the audiobook for my Gunsoul series is now up on Audible for purchase! I once again wish to thank every patron and reader who supported the novel during its publication on Patreon and Royal Road, alongside my narrator Wayne Mitchell for recording it!
Link: https://www.audible.com/ac/Gunsoul-Audiobook/B0DWNG...
2025-03-04 08:36:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Six thousand.
According to Chikal’s scouts, around six-thousand or so Sapa managed to take refuge in the resort town of Guzmango, including hanger-ons like washerwomen and potters. Those numbers were a fraction of the army that first followed Ayar Manco to the Flower War, but still larger than my own also diminished forces.
Thankfull...
2025-03-01 08:17:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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Wepwawet retreated to the Nexus the moment he received the challenge.
Thankfully, Miss Athena immediately showed up in the classroom to greet him. His teacher always had an uncanny ability to guess when her students required her wisdom, and considering the situation, he preferred to inform her about that duel proposal before ...
2025-02-27 08:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Goreville’s night of prayer paid off. The andvari’s goddess asked her followers to remove their Altar proposal, and with no opposition left, the city council agreed to let Lord Wepwawet’s church claim the spot.
Goreville knew he should rejoice over it, but he couldn’t shake the feeling of having been used when approaching Roynim...
2025-02-25 08:54:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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A/N: as usual, this chapter contains a NSFW scene in brackets.
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The red-eyed priests loved telling tales of heroes sent by the gods on holy missions.
It was one such quest that led to the founding of Yohuachanca in the first place, according to their false history, when the dark god that gave...
2025-02-22 08:58:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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It was Goreville’s second visit to Roynimalia, and it didn’t impress any more than the first.
The oldest and most populous settlement in Verglane put all others to shame when it came to size. While Narc had grown fast enough to house over a thousand souls, Roynimalia was a huge and bustling city hosting thirty times that number. Built along the...
2025-02-20 08:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostHeya, Gunsouls!
It's been a few months since Gunsoul concluded, during which my narrator Wayne Mitchell worked very hard to bring Yuan Guang's tale of post-apocalyptic, gun-fueled xianxia tale to life! I'm proud to announce that the audiobook adaptation of Gunsoul is now available for preorder on Audible, with the official launch planned for March 4th! Thank you all for supporting the novel during its publication!
Audible Link: 2025-02-19 15:39:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Filou and the others reached Insupportable’s lair soon after.
Victoire felt sorry for her squire. Filou had entered the dragon’s lair with newfound determination, his sword drawn and ready to cut through any enemy daring to stand in his way. He probably felt that this had been his fairy tale book moment.
His disappointment wh...
2025-02-18 08:51:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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A cosmic balance shifted.
I sensed it in the air within and without; within my breath and the wind. The world grew cold and the Fifth Sun dimmed in the sky, its radiance forever diminished. All lights around us, even the flames cast by my own Blaze, had lost some of their luster and cast darker shadows.
“It is done,” Lahun sai...
2025-02-15 08:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Six. Times.
Six times had this dimwitted dragon absconded with Victoire, dragging her away into his various lairs like a trophy over the years. She would have loved to say that she had grown used to it, but the best she could muster at this point was ungodly annoyance.
At least this lair looks new, ...
2025-02-13 08:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Wepwawet opened up the day with his first temple’s inauguration; and like any good church, he had it built on a hill.
Since they had more critical infrastructure left to develop in Narc, he had settled on a very simple design based on early Egyptian architecture: sets of symmetrical stone walls, centered on an axis running on a slight incl...
2025-02-11 08:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Important notice: the third volume of Blood & Fur, the Lord of Fear (which covers chapter 52 to 77, up to the meeting with Tlaloc), is now available for preorder on Amazon with a release ...
2025-02-08 08:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
It's with a great pleasure that I'm announcing the release of the second version of the Perfect Run game's demo (a few days late)! I wish to thank everyone who participated in the previous one!
The team has been working on it since Gamescom and included plenty of new features, such as:
Keyboard & Mouse support (though Qwerty limited for now).
A revamped, more aggressive combat system.
New cutscenes, including a QTE tu...
2025-02-06 09:20:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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By the time Goreville and his group returned to Narc, Victoire had mostly recovered from her existential depression and had taken charge again. She spent most of her time traveling between Icefall and Narc to oversee their defenses and construction progress; a newfound enthusiasm which relieved her squire and god alike. While it disappo...
2025-02-06 09:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Since Icefall lacked a bar of any kind—or any alehouse for that matter—Wepwawet ended up sending Victoire back to Alpine’s inn in Narc.
The place had been mostly restored since Jasper’s attack and even slightly expanded to host the constantly increasing flux of newcomers. Alpine had kindly cleared the bar area for her god and commander’s ...
2025-02-04 08:53:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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There were moments, in the life of a man, when his entire fate seemed to waver on a single choice.
The first time it happened to me was back on that fateful night under the Scarlet Moon, when I chose to say no to those who would see me enslaved as their puppet.
The second time was when I convinced King Mictlantecuht...
2025-02-01 08:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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When the newly freed prisoner of the Icefall burst out of it with a tempestuous roar, Wepwawet realized that maybe waking up a prehistoric monster from its very long sleep might not have been his brightest idea.
The creature swiftly landed at the cliff’s base in a loud crash that blew snow and ice in all directions. It was assured...
2025-01-30 08:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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Pele?
Pele?!
If he had a body, Wepwawet would have fought against the urge to slam his head against the nearest wall. What were the odds that the only volcanic goddess in his class would lead a civilization called Lavaland?! How much more obvious of a choice could it have been?!
I should have seen it coming, ...
2025-01-28 09:05:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Third Layer was pitch black.
I awoke in the depths of sinister Tamōhuānchān amidst the mad and damned. The shadows of torches and pyres hardly lit up the thick shadows blanketing putrid rivers and ruins of a long dead world. The morning star of Quetzalcoatl had grown so distant I could barely see it anymore. Once a sm...
2025-01-25 08:45:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Jasper had left Citadel Sapphire a conqueror, and now returned to it in shame.
General Peridot’s incomplete fortress loomed over a plain of melting snow and black stone. It was only a modest castle by Lavaland’s standards, with half its spires incomplete and hundreds of magmorians workers toiling to complete the outer wall...
2025-01-23 08:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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With the Nexus connection still unstable and straining their avatars, Miss Athena advised everyone to return to Elphion until she and the Board of Education managed to repair it. She also asked Wepwawet to provide her with a mental picture of the Shuyet’s remains so she could analyze that footage and hopefully track down the responsible...
2025-01-21 08:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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Ingrid negotiated the prisoner exchange on my behalf, trading fifty of their warriors for fifty of ours. The Sapa didn’t prove too difficult on that front. Either their lack of currency impacted their ability to haggle, or they considered recovering their own citizens a better deal than feeding enemy warriors.
True to Sugey’s wish, the Sap...
2025-01-18 09:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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With the battle over, the world soon returned to normal.
The barrier surrounding the board collapsed into nothingness and returned the Icefall area back to Elphion. A burst of mana surged from Wepwawet’s newly conquered altar, both granting him a burst of nine mana points and blanketing most of the forest in his Influence. A...
2025-01-17 09:12:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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Victoire’s spear struck snow.
The witch had teleported out of her strike’s way, just as Victoire expected her to. She vanished and reappeared a few feet away closer to that strange hut atop the cliff. That didn’t matter all that much to her though, because her god’s plan had succeeded.
Victoire had touched the fountain of magic...
2025-01-15 08:42:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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There were thousands of Board & Conquest variants played across infinity, but only two bound the gods as part of their legal framework: Godly Battles, and Titan Incursions.
In a Godly Battle, where deities of a world’s pantheon dueled for material or spiritual advantages, both sides had to agree on common victory and losin...
2025-01-13 09:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: As always, NSFW scene is in bracket; other scenes have light sexuality elements but I don't think they warrant that warning. Happy reading.
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Aclla led me back into the main room, and likely to my death.
I could tell from the barely disguised tension in her hands. Another man w...
2025-01-11 09:27:30 +0000 UTC View Post