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Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 24 – Last Fall Hold

Chapter 24 – Last Fall Hold

Still wary of those guns, Cole headed for the gate. The knight or castellan or whatever he was, disappeared from the ramparts. By the time they reached the gate, a pair of guards had engaged a set of gear works that ratcheted the door open, and the man from the ramparts was waiting for them. He bowed deeply.

“Welcome. I’m Baron Ludwig. I had the honor of serving Lord Bricker many years ago. I’ve aided his pilgrims in the years since, wherever ...

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 23 – Friendly Faces

Chapter 23 – Friendly Faces

The break from the rain didn’t last long. Less than an hour later saw them all in rain ponchos once again with the sun low on their left side beneath the clouds. The climb had become steeper as they continued, and twice had to cross fast-moving water where the mountain runoff was funneled into swift channels. This was the kind of terrain where Cole imagined flash-flooding would be an issue, as they started to move through wide canyons cut into the rock....

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 22 — Alternate Exit Strategy

Chapter 22 — Alternate Exit Strategy

“Oh, shit!” said Howie. “We’re fucked!”

Cole looked around and then up to the canopy. “Howie, please tell me you have another ice charge left.”

“Last one,” said Howie, holding up his hands. His fingertips started to glow blue and he pointed his hand ahead of them. Cole grabbed his wrist.

“Not there, up there,” he said, pointing to the canopy. He felt to make sure he had both his ability charges before he wr...

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 21 – Silk Forest

I'll be getting one additional advance chapter up today, as we've still got some ground to cover to get up to the 15 advance chapters figure after the Royal Road launch blitz.

Chapter 21 – Silk Forest

 As soon as Cole entered under the gossamer canopy, he began to see shadows skittering on the underside of the silk domes woven over and between the trees. Dog-sized shapes crossed overhead. They all kept their weapons close at hand. A strange chirping noise started to echo ...

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 20 - Medical Extraction

Chapter 20 – Medical Extraction

“Last thing from my pile,” said Besson, hefting up a stubby, thick-barreled otherworld firearm with a manual breech-action. “Grenade launcher, I think. Looks like 40 millimeter. You want?”

“I’ll save it for Howie,” said Cole. “He can make magic ordnance.”

Besson pushed off his log. “Ah, he got a Bombard class. Howie is pretty loud and unsubtle, so that suits him. Come on, Silk Forest is just a few miles north of us. Tha...

Dept of Otherworld Rescue - Launch Announcement

Hey everyone! Just to let you know, Department of Otherworld Rescue has launched on Royal Road! The release version can be read here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/126289/department-of-otherworld-rescue-litrpg-isekai If you're following along on Patreon, please also give the Royal Road version a follow or a rating, as it'll help the story grow.

I try and kee...

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 19 – Boss Loot

Chapter 19 – Boss Loot

To hell with this! Cole dropped his other stick and whipped up the muzzle of his rifle, putting it out and jamming it into the ogre’s chest as the thing grabbed him and slammed them both against the tree. The stock drove into his front plate, driving the wind from his lungs. Cole felt bone grinding under the pressure of the creature’s grip, felt the claws piercing into him where they found gaps in his plates. He screamed with pain. Both of the cre...

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 18 - Arquebus Engineer

Chapter 18 – Arquebus Engineer

Cole kept his head on a swivel, always watching their right flank for signs of Ram-head as they headed north toward the rendezvous with the others. Nutmeg wasn’t exactly stealthy, but she could range out ahead and on the flanks. Besson seemed to have a good idea of what her various barks, howls, and growls meant. The rain kicked up about two hours into their trek, which made scouting a little more arduous, but that would also be true for Ram-head. Th...

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 17 – Ramming Speed

Just a quick note: the official release of Department of Otherworld Rescue will be going live on Royal Road this weekend. If you've been enjoying the advance release, please be sure to still give the Royal Road version a follow or a review to help the story grow. My plan for now is to keep the Patreon version at least 15 chapters ahead, so there's going to be a lot of chapters over the next week to account for the initial launch blitz. Thanks, everyone!

Chapter 17 – Ramming Speed 2025-07-22 20:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Dept of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 16 - Trigger-Man

Chapter 16 - Trigger-Man

Whump

Cole opened his eyes, immediately alert. The distant clap of an explosion touched hard-wired nerves in his brain that took him back to the Middle East before he remembered his was in a much worse place.  He pulled his poncho liner off and rolled over. It was still dark, and Roxy was already gone. He looked around the small camp and spotted her on the edge of the rise, looking out over the eastern forest.

Whump

A f...

MBGSP - Final Chapter

It's finally time! Thanks everyone that has followed along and supported the story throughout the writing process. Don't forget, you can preorder the physical or ebook version of Book 1 on Amazon if you want to reserve a copy for your collection, which has been edited and cleaned up for release through Podium Entertainment.

I really appreciate everyone who has read and enjoyed this story, but Patreon subs go above and beyond and make it possible for authors to create ongoing works like ...

MBGSP Chpt 186 - Tunnel Vision

Chapter 186 - Tunnel Vision

With the Ifrit safely away, I took Armstrong, and together we pushed the payload to the mouth of the tunnel. A steady supply of builders were still going in with shoring equipment and coming out with dirt. Warm air billowed out of the mouth of the tunnel, and I held a hand against it.

Buzz came up beside me. “We’re close, boss. We can feel somethin’ moving through the walls and it’s warmin’ up the closer we get to it.”

“Good,” I ...

Dept of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 15 - Stay Classy

Chapter 15 - Stay Classy

In a way, not being stealthy had probably been something of a benefit to Roxy and Howie. Part of the reason they were here was to kill monsters, after all. So, attracting them had the effect of funneling LF experience right to them. But following Cole’s lead, if not quite as quietly, they were able to avoid any encounters for the remainder of the night. He hadn’t made as much headway as he would have alone, having to stop and slow down often for t...

Dept of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 14 - Visitors

Chapter 14 - Visitors

Morgan raced through the woods of the lower forest. Trees and monsters blurred past, but none of the locals even had time to register her presence. A level twenty Kicker with four primary class evolutions was such overkill for all but the toughest monsters in Curahee that she might as well have been walking past squirrels and ducklings in the park. Even the fully-grown drake-hounds that preyed on the wood-men let her pass unmolested.

She didn’t trust Cole...

Dept of Otherworld Rescue: Chapter 13 - Curahee’s Toll

Chapter 13 - Curahee’s Toll

The pool of power within him broke open, and Cole took flight. The canopy flashed by in a blur. He brought his fall speed down as low as he could, letting himself hang in the air for a moment at the apex of his leap, maybe sixty feet off the deck, level with all but the highest treetops. Below him, just like his NODs edge-detect feature, the silhouette of the zombies was clearly outlined in red in his vision. They stared up at him looking as confused as C...

Dept of Otherworld Rescue - Chapter 12: First Blooding

Chapter 12 - First Blooding

Even with his baseline strength boosted by about twenty percent, rucking through rough terrain with a three-day pack and body armor was hard work. Plus, his pack would be getting heavier as he pulled more gear, rather than lighter as he burned through perishables. As he moved further north, the concentration of trees and foliage infected with the orange fungal growths became even more dense. And finally, Cole witnessed what he’d only thus-far suspe...

MBGSP Chpt 185 - On All Sides

Chapter 185 - On All Sides

Attrition or no, we still had the crazed, half-dead null-whistler dragging its way to us on what remained of its shredded form. I was shocked the thing was still alive, having been separated from about 90% of its guts, and with what remained dragging across the ground behind it.

“Brace for impact!” I shouted.

The null devil slammed into the barricade below us, which was reinforced with more of the excavated dirt and rock from the drill...

MBGSP Chapter 184 - The Only Good Bug

Chapter 184 - The Only Good Bug

Taquoho and his fighters had been meant to buy us time to get defenses set up and begin drilling. The fact they’d also managed to take down one of the skyborne null devils was a bonus. But those jets were also a one-and-done deal, lacking any kind of landing gear in favor of making them as light and sleek as possible. The rockets simply didn’t have the payload capacity for a reusable air wing.

The tight formation of jets passed overhead...

MBGSP Chapter 183 - Creepy Crawlies

Here's the next chapter of MBGSP. Apollo an the gang continue the fight in the penultimate week of updates.

Chapter 183 - Creepy Crawlies

I worked with the igni and the sparkers to get the railgun assembly fixed. The power cabling had blown under the voltage load, which wasn’t surprising since it was held together with literal sparker spit and wishful thinking. But I managed to jimmy it back up and get the capacitor banks charging again before the surviving tide of skit...

Dept of Otherworld Rescue chpt 11

Chapter 11 - Curahee’s Bounty

It took four more shots to find the creature’s central nervous system—or else simply do enough damage to it that the mushroom head ceased functioning. Cole seized up for a minute as the sensation of being doused in ice water spread over him. Not only that, but the monster’s wooden body started to turn black and dissolve, just like the demon on Kevlesh, so Cole assumed he’d finally done it. He sat down on a fallen log to catch his breath, watchin...

Dept of Otherworld Rescue - chpt 10

Chapter 10 - Fun with Nature

Whatever it was he was following, he was getting close. Close enough to catch the occasional snap of foliage ahead, or flash of movement through the trees. After another twenty minutes of stalking, he started to hear a commotion up ahead, a creature screaming, and then several shrieks. He picked up the pace, moving through the underbrush and circling right to a small rise, where he laid down on a patch of bare rock and dropped the bipod on his rifle. Press...

MBGSP Chpt 180-182

Hey everyone! Here's the next three chapters. We're getting really close now, only two more weeks of updates until the end of the story! I hope once it wraps up, you'll stick around for Department of Otherworld Rescue. Be sure to check out the preview chapters.

Chapter 180 - Reentry

The process for picking our landing spot wasn’t any simpler than the dynamics for orbital injection. Just like getting to the moon isn’t as simple as pointing the rocket 2025-07-06 19:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Dept of Otherworld Rescue Chpt 7-9

Hey everyone! Here are the next three advance chapters for Department of Otherworld Rescue. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 7 - Get Sorted

This time, when Cole went to the medical building, they didn’t turn him away. He was let in to see Brennan, who was sleeping, and Gillis, who was stuffing his face.

“The DFAC here is good, Cole. Like, Air Force good. But I ain’t gonna eat base food until they send me back—commercial, too. They’re putting me on ...

MBGSP Chapter 177 - 179

Chapter 177 - Myriad Station

It wasn’t just goblins and Ifrit aboard Myriad. Midnighters had insisted on coming as well. Cla’thn had come, along with her nameless elite guard. We had one of the modules blocked off for them with few electric lights and windows that could be easily covered to prevent the sunlight from hurting the priestess caste’s sensitive skin. I made my way through the station to their quadrant where an elite let me through.

Department of Otherworld Rescue: Public preview chapter

Chapter 1 - Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore, Sarge

In Basic the drills told Cole that he wouldn’t be fighting for his country, or his family. He’d be fighting for the man next to him. Currently the man next to him was having his chest cavity hollowed out by an albino, four-armed creature with teeth like jagged glass. Cole figured it was time to stop fighting for him and get the fuck out.

It wasn’t so much the vicious mauling, or even the blood...

Department of Otherworld Rescue (DOR) Chpt 4-6

Hey everyone! Here's another set of preview chapters for Department of Otherworld Rescue. Glad you guys are enjoying it ahead of its official launch in August.

Chapter 4 - Grounded

A severe hot flash hit Cole as soon as his skin hit the surface of the disc. A sense of extreme disorientation swept over him that made him think the vehicle had just inverted, then flipped bumper-down, and finally spun like a top. When the blue flashes faded, Cole scrabbled for ...

MBGSP Chpt 174 thru 176

Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the Department of Otherworld Rescue preview from earlier this week. I'll have another 3 chapters up in a few days, but we've also got goblins going to space!

Here are the next three advance chapters of MBGSP for you to enjoy.

Chapter 174 - Synchronicity Stunt

My taskmasters sprinted down the gantry and practically hurled me into the command module before diving in after me and fighting amongst each other for seats....

Department of Otherworld Rescue (DOR) - Chpt 1-3

Hey, everyone! This is maybe a bit premature as polishing the early chapters is still a work in progress, but I just couldn't wait to start sharing it with you all. Over the next few weeks, I'll be uploading advance chapters of Department of Otherworld Rescue ahead of its official launch on Royal Road. This is a modern-set LitRPG about a clandestine government agency tasked with traveling to other worlds to retrieve victims of isekai events by any means necessary. While in other worlds, these...

MBGSP Chpt 171-173

Hey everyone! Here's the advanced chapters for this week! We are only five weeks from the conclusion of the story.

In other news, as one story winds down, so does another begin. Later this week I'll be posting the first few preview chapters for DOR - Department of Otherworld Rescue, which will be my next web serial. If you like the idea of a shady government organization sending military teams through portals to other worlds to mix it up with monsters, demons, warriors, and wiz...

MBGSP Chpt 168-170

Hey everyone! We're back to new chapters following the break. It'll be a straight shot from here to the end of the story in another fifteen chapters or so.

I'll also have a sneak peek for you soon on the next web serial project following goblins, which is working titled D.O.R. which will be another contemporary/fantasy mashup with a new twist and a very different focus. I'm hard at work making sure there will be no gap between the end of MBGSP and the launch of D.O.R. so I hope I'll con...