Tornadoes swirled all around Elijah as he fell. With his bones broken, he could scarcely move his arms, and pain racked his entire body – evidence of many more injuries. He didn’t have time to wait for his normal healing spells to work their magic. So, he embraced the Shape of Thorn.
Doing so sent waves of pain throughout his body, but he endeavored to ignore them as he took on the form of the thorned sentry. The second it completed, he used Unchecked G...
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The four-armed titan looked down on them with contempt and disappointment.
The creature was much larger than Elijah had expected, towering over his group by hundreds of feet. Elemental ethera swirled around its arms, the disparate attunements occasionally clashing to create miniature maelstroms. Behind it was a massive obelisk made of what looked like white marble, though it pulsed with so much energy that Elijah knew it was something too magical to exist on Earth.&nbs...
2025-05-02 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Talia remained quiet as they strolled through the Residential District, and Zeke struggled to come up with a way to shatter the silence. Instead, he focused on his surroundings. The city that the floor had become was absolutely enormous – so much so, that getting around required a localized teleportation system. Fortunately, as seemed so often the case, where there was a need, the tower provided the solution. Now, the entire floor was accessible through teleportation...
2025-05-02 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Chelsea’s heart beat out of her chest as she watched the two ragged men and that pack of terrifying dogs leave the temporary settlement known as Littlestone. Before that meeting, she had thought herself powerful. And at level one-thirty-two, she was one of the strongest members of her guild. Perhaps the strongest, though she couldn’t be certain because she hadn’t checked in for quite some time.
But now she saw how little any of that mattered.
“You o...
2025-05-01 15:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Silik looked much the same as he did in Zeke’s memories, but the kobold carried himself with an entirely different demeanor. At first, Zeke had trouble figuring out precisely what the difference was, but it soon became obvious. Before Zeke’s descent into Hell, the kobold general had been knocking on the door of sapience. Or perhaps he had one foot inside. But now, he’d fully arrived, and it showed in his every movement.
The same was true of his mate, ...
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“This doesn’t look good,” Elijah said.
“It doesn’t matter how it looks,” Oscar responded. Elijah didn’t need Soul of the Wild to know that the man was incredibly ten...
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Without his many advantages, ranging from an extremely high constitution attribute and the degree to which he’d cultivated his body, Elijah would not have survived being so close to the Ele...
2025-04-30 15:43:40 +0000 UTC
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The landscape was otherworldly.
Floating mountains of rock hovered miles above the surface of the planet, while outcroppings of crystal jutted from the ground. Those crystal...
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“Cindrandir,” Elijah muttered to himself as he followed the fire giants through the city of Stillstone. Normally, he would have marveled at the various architectural wonders, but he...
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Miguel crouched at the mouth of the cave, his every muscle tense as he beheld a spectacle no one should ever have to witness. Hundreds of trolls, many of whom rode giant insects, charge...
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Elijah let out a scream of triumph as his fingers closed around the flying serpent. That quickly turned to a grunt of pain as lightning flowed through his body. He didn’t releas...
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The city was a confusing maze of staircases and ramps. Clearly, it had never been built with practicality in mind, because trying to transport goods from one place to another would have...
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The soft click-clack of claws hitting tiles echoed through the massive hall as Elijah, Oscar, and the pack of dogs followed the fire giant guard. The interior of the palace was even mor...
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Elijah laid his hand on the rune-inscribed stone gate, his eyes closed as he felt the currents of ethera rushing along his fingertips. As his senses had sharpened and his cultivation ha...
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“Those rifles would be easier to use,” Captain Essex said, holding the shortsword out and looking down its blade. “We’ve considered basing our defense around them.”
“T...
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The Elemental Maelstrom had grown no weaker, but to Elijah, its effects were wholly manageable. He’d yet to venture into the storm itself, though he knew that the glyph would allow safe passage. Perhaps not without having to heal a little, but he and the pack could survive it.
That was the power of the Mark of Elements, which was the reward for completing all four trials. Each of them – the Crucible of Fire, the Drowning Depths, the Gauntlet of the Sky Lords,...
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Elijah awoke with a start, already summoning his healing spells. As it turned out, it was unnecessary because he felt perfectly fine. Better, actually. He’d been entirely rejuvenated, and it didn’t take him long to realize why.
Hastily, he cut off Grove Conduit, and the dense atmosphere of vitality dissipated soon after. That was when he allowed himself to take in his surroundings. All around him were dogs, though a quick inspection of the sleeping anim...
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It was one of the worst things Elijah had ever experienced.
He’d been digested by a whale. He’d had his skin ripped from his body. His bones had been pulverized on co...
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Despite their advances in body cultivation, the dogs still struggled to go deeper into the cave. They managed it, though, which was all that really mattered, and soon enough the entire ...
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With a flick of his head, Jackson threw the earth-worm aside. The thing’s limp form tumbled briefly before slamming into the canyon wall, and with enough force that it caused a small ...
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“I’m concerned,” Elijah said, looking out from the interior of the tower where they’d sheltered for the past few days.
“Why? Do you see something?” asked Oscar.
...
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If Elijah had expected the return trip to be any easier, the resultant journey back to the broken tower was quite a disappointment. It was characterized by frenzied attacks from sky lor...
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It was one of the worst things Elijah had ever experienced.
He’d been digested by a whale. He’d had his skin ripped from his body. His bones had been pulverized on countless occasions, and he’d even been torn in half. But none of those things even came close to comparing to the feelings he experienced when breaking, then resetting the dogs’ badly healed bones.
“I’m going to hear those whimpers in my sleep.”
Ray laid his head on Elijah’...
2025-04-29 15:00:46 +0000 UTC
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The hulking bearkin loomed over Zeke, his massive muscles rippling with purpose. Pudge had grown with his ascension, reaching a height of nearly ten feet of powerful warrior. By normal standards, he was an intimidating figure. However, that was undercut by two factors.
First, Zeke knew that he would only need to harness a fraction of his true strength to defeat the little brother he’d adopted when Pudge was cub struggling to survive. And even though the bearkin...
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Okay - so you all know that Protector of the Grove (Path of Dragons 1) is coming in a week. Super excited (and a bit nervous) about it, and I hope you're all pumped that it's finally coming to Kindle and Audible. That said, I was trying to figure out a promotion to run to drum up interest among the existing fanbase, and here's what I came up with:
More chapters. Yep. I figure that's the best thing I can do for you all. So, here's the deal:
I'm tying this to the book's perform...
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Despite their advances in body cultivation, the dogs still struggled to go deeper into the cave. They managed it, though, which was all that really mattered, and soon enough the entire group reached the beginning of the next test. As they exited the cave, they found themselves looking up a steep path that circled around the interior of the mountain. Upon initial inspection, it didn’t look particularly steep, but considering the base was around a mile wide and the top was a...
2025-04-28 15:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Zeke leaned back in the pool, the scalding waters of the Crimson Spring lapping against his bare chest. All around him, the kobold attendants attempted to go about their business without gawking at him, but their furtive glances told him that his presence was anything but ignorable. Such was the burden of being a god.
“Primordial,” Eveline reminded him as she flickered in the air. Of late, she’d become far more comfortable in her natural form, which meant that sh...
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With a flick of his head, Jackson threw the earth-worm aside. The thing’s limp form tumbled briefly before slamming into the canyon wall, and with enough force that it caused a small avalanche of scree. A second later, Escobar finished casting his spell, bathing the creature in a dense column of fire that reminded Elijah of a flamethrower. The only difference was that it came from the chihuahua’s mouth instead of a nozzle.
The flames were also hot enough to m...
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Just a quick reminder that I will be removing the chapters associated with book one on April 30. This is a necessity for inclusion in the Kindle Unlimited catalogue, which requires exclusivity. Thanks for understanding!
“I’m concerned,” Elijah said, looking out from the interior of the tower where they’d sheltered for the past few days.
“Why? Do you see something?” asked Oscar.
Elijah shook his head. “No. It’s not that....
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If Elijah had expected the return trip to be any easier, the resultant journey back to the broken tower was quite a disappointment. It was characterized by frenzied attacks from sky lords, flying serpents, and every other creature who made their home in and above the clouds. To his credit, he had known it was coming. There was no easy way out. No conveniently placed return portal. Just a brutal trek across silver bridges that left them all battered, bruised, and ...
2025-04-25 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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