Chapter 14
Two days later Crimson surprised all of us. “Alright.” She clapped her hands. “Today we are taking a break, and by break, I mean I need you all to stop complaining that your CIDs are full.”
“Are we going to the surface?” Kendra asked. The pink-haired party leader sounded like she was beyond excited.
Then again, none of us had seen the sun in over a month. This dungeon floor was particularly gloomy.
“No. Just a safe zone. Actual...
2024-05-15 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13
Over the next few days, we went back to training. And Felin was working far closer with Des and Fayeth than she had been before we had gone off hunting together.
It made me happy to see her accepted into the party more fully.
“What’s got you all smiling?” Bellaire sat down next to the agility ladders.
“Watching my party grow closer.” I let out a breath and started working the ladders, weaving my feet in and out. Sadly, I couldn’t...
2024-05-14 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12
I watched as Felin got the fire going and then skewered several pieces of meat. Pulling out some oil and spices, she slathered them onto the meat.
“Smells good.” I said, leaning back on a chair.
She wiped her hands off on a towel before jumping over and plopping herself down into my lap. “You’re going to love my meat. It’ll be the best meat. Better than Fayeth’s meat.”
“You can keep this up on the date, but do not say that ar...
2024-05-13 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11
“You’ll bring him back in one piece?” Charlotte had her arms crossed under her chest and a frown on her face.
Honestly, it made her adorable, but I wouldn’t say that out loud because I knew she was trying to be fierce.
“Yep, yep.” Felin nodded. “I’m a good hunter. It’ll all be okay.” She glanced towards Crimson and then me.
It seemed the rest of my harem were giving her the third degree before she could take me on the dat...
2024-05-10 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10
“Really, you trained so hard you are both banged up.” Charlotte tisked as she healed Fayeth and I.
After several rounds of taunting each other, we had really gone at it. While we both had self heals, they hadn’t held up to the intensity of our training.
“It’s my fault.” I scratched the back of my head. “We got carried away.”
“Well, at least you had someone come get me.” Charlotte kissed the top of my head. “Now, the doc...
2024-05-09 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9
Trish tried to negotiate a few more trades with us, this time going after our mana crystals.
I let her have a few before giving excuses and escaping with Ami to the boss room on the 30th floor.
Crimson was at the boss waiting for us and whisked us back to the campsite at the event. “Hope that was fruitful.”
“Very.” I said, kissing her on the cheek. Part of me wanted to grab her braid and push her down on the bed. I was fairly pent up ...
2024-05-08 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8
Ami took the second watch and let me get a little sleep before dinner with King Sayer and his two ladies.
For her part, Ami dressed in a revealing red sundress that most certainly had a bandoleer of throwing knives strapped to her thigh.
“Oh wow!” She gushed as we walked into the dinning room. Unlike the other rooms that were fairly bare, this one had seen the touch of an interior decorator in trying to make it grand like a castle.
“Yes...
2024-05-07 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7
The village started before we got to the castle, which mostly consisted of small buildings made out of rough cut stone that were being propped up with a good amount of wishful thinking. Many of the homes looked like they’d be blown over with a harsh breeze.
Yet in the dungeon safe zone, there wasn’t even a breeze unless two high level adventurers were fighting.
“Most of us living here made our own homes.” Our guide explained.
“Sorry...
2024-05-06 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
I had managed to calm Felin down and get back to work.
Bellaire had watched me workout for a while, sneakily filming me. I had a feeling some of those shots would show up as some form of ‘organic’ content later. Though the way she kept smiling softly gave me odd chills despite the rigorous exercise.
Just as I was wrapping up, Ami appeared. Her long white hair swished behind her as she approached in her pantsuit and black mask. I knew under the ...
2024-05-05 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5
I rushed up the winding path to the castle, already hearing the sounds of combat ahead of us.
Skidding to a stop, I saw three parties of Haylon students up against a mass of vampires.
The students had managed to hold against the melee vamps, but the casters in back had amassed into an unsightly group and several of the students had been taken out of the fight. There weren’t enough heals going around to get them back up and into the fight again. 2024-05-04 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 4
I slid my pants on as Des weakly tucked Charlotte in. Des smiled, flopping over onto her side with a satisfied face.
The green-haired druid had a smile plastered on her cute sleeping form as well.
“That ability is never going to get old.” Des sighed, her eyes a little unfocused.
“You sure it is okay to use it so much?” I asked.
“Pretty sure the text there is a little misleading.” Des smirked. “I don’t think anyone will d...
2024-05-03 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe story thus far.
Ken, an adventurer with a few years experience diving into dungeons and a powerful class he has only begun to tap into, returned from an adventure in the nearby elven world to find his classmates more than ready for the next school year.
He knew that adventurers at large needed to grow stronger after a recent Naga attack had nearly taken the most powerful adventurers down, but he had not considered the degree to which his world would continue to change.
W...
2024-05-02 13:43:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3
An adventurer that wasn’t part of Haylon rushed forward to snatch the loot as our efforts were focusing on resurrecting everyone.
I still had my stacks rolling and moved far faster than they could, collecting all of the loot and stepping back. “Des, a table please. Listen up, everyone. We didn’t discuss loot beforehand.”
“That doesn’t give you the right to hog it all.” The man pointed an accusing finger at me.
“Which is why I ...
2024-05-02 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Just showing you guys some of the line work and some fully colored concepts.
2024-05-01 14:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay on the Patreon update. I wrote the first one on my laptop and it went kaput, so decided to rewrite something. Don’t worry all the story stuff is backed up three places daily. So didn’t lose much there.
I hoped you all enjoyed Returner. It was a fairly exciting one for me to write, I blazed through those chapters, and there was something about the shorter chapters that made my brain happy to knock out 3-4 in a day. In the end it’s about as long as an Ard’s Oa...
2024-05-01 14:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2
The path to the castle quickly opened up into a giant courtyard. There was already a party of adventurers hacking away at a group of vampires.
Our large group’s presence was felt almost immediately as more vampires rushed from around or within the castle to greet us.
“Tanks up front.” Fayeth smashed her shield with her glaive, eliciting a loud thunk as she started marching forward.
“If they are going to come out to greet us, this’ll...
2024-05-01 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1
The rest of my Haylon class was milling about, ready to start as the rest of my party and I walked out of Crimson’s [Portal].
“Ken!” Penny’s head shot up seeing me arrive. The blue haired Frost Knight was always eager to see me. “You’re out of the sling.”
“Yes I fucking am.” I rolled my shoulder. It still felt stiff from disuse. “Are we all ready to hunt some vampires?” I chuckled.
It wasn’t just Class 2-A present in t...
2024-04-30 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56
We were close to being ready for my departure. Gloria had joined me in bed the last several nights, but refused to submit in truth. Though, I think I awakened a new joy for sex in her.
I was initiating the rest of the new Mul Branova ladies as well as handing out potions to help them awaken their bloodlines, and humored them as they reported some rather mundane work.
They were expanding and supporting Gloria with anything that came remotely close ...
2024-04-29 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBruce is calling in a rarely used sick day. Whole family has had a stomach bug for the last few days and my buffer of edited chapters has run out. No chapters tomorrow morning, and I'll make up those two later this week.
2024-04-22 13:38:51 +0000 UTC View PostAlright Patreon changed the menu for making posts... again. Sorry I released a few early, you get so used to clicking through the page a certain way and I have to adjust and not speed through it to remember to click the new button.
That's AO3. I even wrote another chapter, but the more I look at it, the more it feels like Chapter 1 of a new book.
So onto the next one.
As I sit here counting down until my next dayquil dose and covered in tissues, it might be the illness, but ...
2024-03-23 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Things are going well over here. Doctor visits are slowing down and I'm getting into a rhythm. Sleep is still a little scarce, most days I'm running on 6-7 hours and my writing productivity can feel it at times.
Still, I'm plugging away. My buffer is quite small at this point, but with Patreon nipping at my heels is keeping me from taking a lazy day.
So, that's a long winded way of saying we'll be sticking to 6 ch/week until the kid goes to Daycare/s...
2024-02-01 14:09:44 +0000 UTC View PostYanai wants to do a male character or a male + female.
2024-01-27 02:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone,
I hope you are all well. This week was a bit bumpier than I expected, but everything has turned out alright in the end. Day two with the little one, he started to have difficulty breathing and it was sort of a whirlwind with no one having answers for us until he got out of surgery on day 4. There are no expected long term complications from all of this and we are through the trouble. However, we are in the NICU. Anyone who's experienced it, it is a process that can't reall...
2023-12-14 12:13:15 +0000 UTC View PostAlright everyone!
I hope you enjoyed AO2. It wasn’t as climactic or individually packaged as something like my DJ books. Yet, I felt if I continued I’d have to start explaining things and setting up for another big section.
All of you would love for me to just make the book bigger, but I made the decision to cut there and the next part is another book. I sort of cracked the world and a greater plot line open by introducing blessings from other gods and including the pirates. N...
2023-12-08 08:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Turns out Chris makes D&D maps, so I had him make one for Ard's Oath. I think it works pretty well.
2023-11-30 19:44:11 +0000 UTC View PostA chapter escaped my scheduler early. I have a large queue of chapters lined up in the event I get pulled away for a couple days.
My early morning brain smashed the big red delete button only for me to realize it is in all of your emails anyways. Oh well, try not to spoil yourselves.
2023-11-23 10:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostStory Thus Far
Arden had left his small village at the border of Zenovia when he came late into his power as a mage. He had all but given up at that point, but when his power came, it came with a full force.
As Ard started on his adventure, it kicked off to a rocky start. But Ard only took one beautifying lesson at the other end of a club to understand that his new life was very real, and he needed to take it seriously and grow stronger quickly.
His four sph...
2023-11-08 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
Things are going well. I just finished the edits for DD 104 last night. Totaled out at about 11k words added with the last pass. A little under 10% added, but I think it was all necessary.
Shipped it off to an editing service that does 24 hour turn around. They split the project down and have a team edit it. Not something I normally like to use, but we do what we must to make our deadlines.
For those of you curious what you’ll see change, most us it...
2023-11-06 11:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostIt's come to my attention that a number of readers were unable to view these chapters despite the appropriate tier listed in their account. I've hopefully corrected it. For those of you who thought I wasn't posting for 5 days, you can let me know sooner if content is missing. Apologies for the delay.
2023-10-29 11:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post