To cull the herd, Kairos thought as he walked around the celebrations. People danced all around him and officers invited him to partake in their feast, but he didn’t listen. He couldn’t get his father’s words out of his mind.
Many heirs of the Senex had taken roles of leadership in the campaign, away from Lyce’s center of power. Romulus had already shown that he could operate outside the borders when he hunted Julia in Travia. Kairos had to assume his cult could probabl...
2022-01-15 09:37:01 +0000 UTC
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The whole plane was alive.
Valdemar had never seen a ‘jungle,’ though he had read of them in the ancient texts detailing the world before the Whitemoon’s arrival. He had imagined them as lush and verdant forests of mushrooms and moss like those found in Underland; but the one he was seeing right now couldn’t be more different.
Alien, multicolored flowers with teeth and eyes grew on every inch of the ground. This world had grass and vines for the ground, flies for air, and ...
2022-01-11 09:28:08 +0000 UTC
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A year ago, Cassandra had followed Kairos to the Lycean Republic for his wedding.
She had worn a different dress back then, and her current one put the previous to shame. Made from expensive golden linen and crimson silk gathered from Vali and Orichalcos, the gown espoused her forms perfectly. A cloak of velvet and translucent flowers fell from her shoulders, while an opening gave a window into her generous bosom. Cass had also dyed her iconic hair braid red for the occasion, the color ...
2022-01-11 09:27:55 +0000 UTC
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Swords clashed and Marianne’s weapon broke first.
Her bone blade, crafted from her own harvested forearm, cracked above the pommel as it parried Lord Bethor’s strike. The shattered edge of her weapon went flying and bounced off a steel wall. Marianne barely had the time to take a step back to avoid a strike to the throat and manifest a new sword from her bloodied forearm; the fourth since the beginning of the training session.
The process was starting to take a toll on her. Al...
2022-01-08 09:21:15 +0000 UTC
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If you haven't noticed, an additional chapter was posted yesterday night here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kairos-94-god-of-60865086
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The Lycean reinforcements arrived in the morning.
Sertorius had once told Kairos that Dispater didn’t believe you were rich until you could fund an army out of your own pocket. As the wealthiest man i...
2022-01-08 09:21:07 +0000 UTC
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Surprise update!
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Months ago, back when they were unsure if their child would be a boy or a girl, Kairos and his wife had agreed on two possible names.
Aurelius if it were a boy, to honor Kairos’ mother Aurelia.
And Rhea if it were a girl, to honor Julia’s ancestor.
In the end, they both got their wish.
“Rhea Marius Flavius,” Kairos said as he held his daughter in his arms next to his bedroom’s window. The child was ...
2022-01-07 19:48:04 +0000 UTC
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Ktulu loved water.
Ever since Valdemar introduced his familiar to his bedroom’s shower, the alien child had spent his time smashing its button to enjoy the feeling of water on its skin. Ktulu liked it cold rather than warm, perhaps because it reminded him of his native plane. To cut costs on water, Valdemar had set a basin aside and created a small-toy ship from his bones so his familiar could play with it.
He’s too clumsy to take care of his toys, the sorcerer though...
2022-01-04 09:06:31 +0000 UTC
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The monstrous armada sailed on the calm spring sea, carried forward by a holy wind.
Flying at the forefront of his new griffin rider company, King Kairos of Travia looked down on his fleet as it engaged in complex naval maneuvers. A hundred ships from mighty galleys to troop transports adopted tight formations, circled around imaginary battle lines, and sailed towards a barren island. The sea glittered under the midday sun, the shadow of monsters swimming beneath the waves.
This f...
2022-01-04 09:06:20 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys,
First of all, as 2021 comes to an end, I want to say thanks to all of you who supported me that year.
When I started writing my first RR work Magik Online in 2018/2019, the thought of living from writing was only a dream. The early days were so difficult, both in my personal and professional life, that I burned out on my very first web serial.
Two years later, I’ve landed multiple publishing deals, have a webtoon on the way, I can afford to focus on...
2021-12-31 16:22:19 +0000 UTC
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May the Hoard be with you.
2021-12-25 08:42:05 +0000 UTC
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He dreamed of rats that night.
They crawled in a grotesque pit dug in black oily stone, squeaking and gnawing on the flesh of the innocent. Hundreds of sharp teeth sank into the bones of unbelievers, breaking it down to feast on the marrow. Their bloodshot red eyes saw movement in the darkness, their claws unable to let them climb the smooth walls of the pit outside.
A bat-like monster enjoyed a feast of its own at the pit’s edge, drinking the blood of a human maiden it had caug...
2021-12-18 13:10:29 +0000 UTC
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The bed was cold and Valdemar’s fingers were warm.
Marianne grunted as they stabbed into her back like daggers. Although he had used some kind of healing spell to lessen her pain, her enhanced sense of touch reduced its effectiveness.
“If you could please stop moving,” Valdemar asked. While Marianne kept her eyes closed, she visualized him perfectly with his other senses. He had to kneel beside her bed to operate on her naked back, his teeth grinding as he tried to extract t...
2021-12-18 09:05:17 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys,
As promised, here is the downloadable second volume of Kairos (tentative title 'Dawn/War of the Pirate King') for your patron eyes only, available in PDF and Epub. There may be some issues with the tables due to formatting in the epub but I hope it will show up nicely.
I also confirm that Kairos will start going on Kindle Unlimited in April 2022 in partnership with Aethon (roughly at the same time I expect the third volume ...
2021-12-18 09:04:58 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys,
It's a pleasure to announce not one, but two good news on the Perfect Run front!
First of all, the second volume's Audiobook is now available on Audible for pre-order: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Perfect-Run-2-Audiobook/B09NMVPR1Z
Like the first volume, it will be distributed by Podium and narrated by Eric Michael Summerer<...
2021-12-16 12:24:03 +0000 UTC
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The machine was right above her, stalking her, hunting her.
Marianne could hear the clinks and clanks of its armor reverberating through the thin metal ceiling separating them. Though her gaze remained obscured by blindness, her mind visualized the creature from the sounds it made: a gaunt, two-meters tall skeleton of steel, with syringes and needles for fingers and a metal mask for a face. She heard the gears and servos grinding in its elongated limbs and the...
2021-12-14 09:39:56 +0000 UTC
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The New Gods rarely visited mortal cities nowadays.
A New God and an Old One making an appearance at the same time was unheard of, and yet here they were on Histria’s shore facing the heroes of the day.
Only a few hours after Helios’ public defeat and Kairos’ ascension to [Demigod], Orgonos teleported into the city with a crowd in tow. The Travian King’s party was among them, with Cassandra and Agron freed from Circe’s animal curse and returned to their original forms, b...
2021-12-14 09:39:35 +0000 UTC
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It took him hours to reach the bottom.
Valdemar had long stopped feeling pain by then, or anything else for that matter. The boiling blood had consumed his skin and his pain receptors along with it, leaving nothing but the flayed meat underneath.
Any other man would have perished from the experience, the flesh stripped from their bones. But even this charnel pit could only counteract Valdemar’s regeneration. His body generated biomass faster than the boiling blood could erode it...
2021-12-11 09:33:38 +0000 UTC
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The altar crumbled as a sun was born anew.
Rook and Kairos had already taken flight by the time Helios’ light dimmed, allowing them to perceive him. The handsome, five-meter tall figure that arose from the altar’s flames looked every bit like a god. His skin was the color of brass, his armor made of gold, and his helmet crowned with flames. Two burning wings of light carried him in the air.
However, a few elements revealed the rot beneath the glamour. The face of a screaming w...
2021-12-11 09:33:30 +0000 UTC
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Power.
Valdemar had long wondered what made a Dark Lord who they were. Their immortality? Their ability to command vast armies? Their unrivaled magical knowledge? Their awe-inspiring spells?
Now he knew.
As he opened his eyes, the aura that came from Lord Bethor dwarfed even Lord Och’s at his most intimidating. The lich’s defenses had taken the shape of a mist, mysterious, stealthy, and difficult to fight. Much like his body was a puppet controlled from his phylactery, L...
2021-12-07 09:24:51 +0000 UTC
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Everyone must die one day. Even the gods.
This was a law of nature as unbreakable as gravity. Not even Thanatos, the incarnation of death itself, could escape this fate.
Nor could life incarnate.
No, Kairos thought as he held Andromache against his chest. Nessus hadn’t sacrificed his current life because Fate caught up to him or because he had sought death for so long, but because he chose to save someone else. He could have ran or refused to lift a finger.
...
2021-12-07 09:24:42 +0000 UTC
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Frigga’s workshop looked more like a noble’s boudoir than a lab.
It was a bit larger than Valdemar’s own room and far better decorated. Deep red carpets covered every inch of the ground while beautiful tapestries and paintings occupied the walls. Most represented triumphant scenes of dokkars conquering each other in wars, founding cities atop the skulls of defeated troglodytes, or engaging in orgies just barely short of the Pleromians’ depravity.
Only one painting remained...
2021-12-04 09:43:43 +0000 UTC
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There was light and then numbers.
A veil was lifted off Nessus’ lone remaining eye as he absorbed his other half into himself, and for the first time in his life he was no longer blind. His piercing gaze cut through the illusion of forms and colors to witness the true, underlying structure of all things.
Life [1d20 + Health + (Vitality/2) + (Luck/4)] ≥ Death [1d20 + Magic + (Luck/2)]
2021-12-04 09:43:40 +0000 UTC
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The eyes were looking at him through the window.
The walls of Lord Och’s fortress kept them away, but as they infested the Domain’s ceiling like moss, he couldn’t escape them.
“Val… mar…”
They had watched him since the moment he was born, though he couldn’t see them then. He thought his grandfather’s death had left him orphaned, but in truth, he had never been alone in his life. Not for a single second.
His family had followed him everywhere.
...
2021-11-30 09:23:53 +0000 UTC
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The clock struck and the timer went down.
They had spent a minute rushing through the corridors, but they couldn’t outrun time.
“This way!” Nessus shouted as he guided his group through the halls of the palace towards the northeast wing, his bow ready for a fight. Agron sang a song to empower the group as they followed in a mad rush. “His lair is in this direction!”
“He can listen, you fool!” Sertorius replied, frustration breaking through his stoicism. “Don...
2021-11-30 09:23:22 +0000 UTC
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SPOILER WARNING for chapter 88.
Don't vote before reading the chapter.
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Select who dies in chapter 89.
The choice is between everyone with a [Doom] counter (except Andromache) and Nessus. A secret option is also available, but you won't see what happens until chapter 89 is posted.
- Kairos/R...
2021-11-30 09:22:14 +0000 UTC
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The wererat’s guts had spilled all over the dead-end alley, his poisoned blood reddening the stone floor of the city of Pleroma.
Marianne resisted the urge to pinch her nose from the foul smell. Her blood-tracker burned against her skin as if she had finally completed her hunt. And yet, even a cursory glance at the creature at her feet disabused her of the notion.
The hunt had only begun.
Marianne had followed the blood-tracker’s call as it guided her back to Lord Och’...
2021-11-27 09:27:52 +0000 UTC
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It had been countless centuries since Nessus had last set foot in his late uncle’s palace.
Or did he ever visit it in the first place? Maybe he was mistaking it for another castle, one of the many fortresses he had conquered or explored in his glory days? The dark obsidian corridors felt awfully familiar, and yet the fallen god didn’t remember the way in. The memories of his past lives blurred together into a chaotic mess; sometimes he noticed the shadows of Indian tigers in a corne...
2021-11-27 09:27:45 +0000 UTC
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“Valdy,” Liliane’s voice called through the workshop’s door. “Valdy, are you inside?”
Valdemar stared at the ceiling while laying on his mattress. The bed sheet covered his grandfather’s portrait in a corner of the room, hiding it from view.
“He is…” Hermann muttered. “But I… I don’t think now is the time…”
“Nonsense!” Liliane replied. “Valdy, I made a cake. With vanilla mushrooms. Right out of the oven. Come out before it becomes cold!”...
2021-11-23 09:09:46 +0000 UTC
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The entrance of Hades’ palace laid open like the maw of a great beast. The rubies on the archway shone with bright light as Andromache cast spells on them, lifting one protection ward after another. Nessus and Thales assisted her by inspecting the doorway for non-magical traps, clearing the path ahead before the party could walk inside.
Kairos himself observed the scene from the shore, but he couldn’t focus on it for the life of him. His mind wandered off back to his brother’s gra...
2021-11-23 09:09:40 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys,
It's been a while since I gave a true update, and while it's a bit early for New Year Wishes, I've got some news that can't wait for December. 2022 is going to be a very different year for you and me, especially with the inevitable release of the Vainqueur webtoon (no set release date yet, but almost certainly early 2022; roughly half of the planned season has been colorized).
- Voidy's Master Plan (all according to Keikaku... or not)
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2021-11-21 11:21:45 +0000 UTC
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