As I suspected, writing was a lot more fun this week and I finished 3.5 chapters, giving me a bit of a backlog. So, for those reading Shadow of the Soul King, you can expect one more chapter tonight.
I have to go get breakfast now and then meet up with some friends, so I won't have time to edit until late this afternoon at the earliest.
2024-01-28 14:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“And with that, this instance of the C rank Universal Tournament is officially over.” Edi ignored the several thousand C ranks who’d just appeared in the cages around him and Olivia, including many who hadn’t participated in the tournament, instead focusing on the illusory image of his master in her Starflower disguise sitting behind a desk and reporting on what had just occurred in the tournament. “In first place, the man who can slaughter A ranks with ease a...
2024-01-28 14:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone,
This is just an update on my writing of Shadow of the Soul King.
For the last two months, I haven't written much more than one chapter a week, which is why I haven't posted more than that, as I need at least a little backlog so I can change things in recent chapters based on what has to follow. And the main reasons for writing less than I was are as follows:
1) For a while there, I got obsessed with a Chinese webnovel and found it very hard to put...
2024-01-21 20:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostGustavius
Even after receiving punishment for the same action already, A rank elders from your force have again attacked a contestant of the Universal Tournament!
Removal of all System Privileges for all current and former true members of Sunrise Valley extended from 429,981,696 years to 61,917,364,224 years.
Bounties on all members of Sunrise Valley tripled.
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2024-01-21 19:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
Armor appeared around Aalam, the scales of the Left Hand of the Runescribe somehow expanding to cover his whole body other than his head and fingers, replacing the plain black clothing he’d been wearing, and the draconic wings artifact used by one of his subordinates during Daevic’s fight in the previous round appeared on his back, changing color not to the black, white, and gray as when used by that cultivator of Yin Yang Cosmology, but becoming multi-colored, r...
2024-01-14 12:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
What happened next was so quick Krysta could barely follow.
One instant Isaiah was about to be killed by Daevic Stormborn, Krysta unable to do anything to help, but the next he was gone, teleported into the compound where the contestants from Earth and the Heavenly Soul Universe were watching. One instant Daevic was launching forward, wearing a peak Empyrean grade armor and wielding a peak Empyrean grade sword, but the next a large purple blade, emanating both an aura of ab...
2024-01-07 13:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
The dragon launched himself at Daevic as soon as the System started the match, moving far faster than the demigod had suspected, and Daevic realized there was yet another thing about his opponent which was ridiculous.
The dragon’s movement skill was Empyrean grade and boosted by at least 8 levels from his racial abilities, uniquenesses, and classes, making it almost as effective as a Divine grade skill. Even more terrifying, however, it was somehow 100% maste...
2023-12-31 20:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
Daevic watched as Isaiah Kent fought against Ren Kimbal, the Twilight Illusionist, appearing to be losing, but it wasn’t hard to see how Ren’s energy was draining at about double the speed of the dragon’s even while the dragon was almost certainly holding back, yet Ren couldn’t surrender even though Daevic knew the man wanted to. Like Daevic, Ren had signed a contract with the head eunuch of Sunrise Valley to never surrender, and the enemy was now seemingly m...
2023-12-24 15:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
“May I join you for a bit, Ms. La’Vordi?”
Having stepped into the compound where Krysta, her mother, her father, and her uncle Parvorax were sitting in a courtyard watching the fights up above, Deimos Karan, the Slaughterer, bowed to Krysta’s mother, completely disregarding the lack of etiquette involved in having entered the compound uninvited.
“Feel free.” The Alchemist of the Deep Woods gestured with her right hand, growing a fifth wooden s...
2023-12-17 20:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostShadow of the Soul King was approved!!!!!!
And now free chapters will be posted here at five chapters a day until it catches up to ScribbleHub: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/78263/shadow-of-the-soul-king
if anyone would like to write the first review, now is your chance!
2023-12-12 01:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, I, as the writer of Shadow of the Soul King, am the one trying to repost my story to RoyalRoad.
Second, in case the reviewer from RoyalRoad is not aware, I was banned from posting on RoyalRoad a year and a half ago for artificially boosting my story’s rating and this is an attempt to now get that ban removed, hoping one and a half years is long enough given the following factors:
Daevic
With the end of the 18th round, the top 33 of the tournament were decided and Daevic was still the fifth seed, not having shown off the new level of power he’d gained over the year between his uncles and aunt deciding to invest in training him and the start of the finals, so he’d done about as well as could be expected. But still, of the remaining 32 contestants, only four were not obvious subordinates of the Heavenly Spark Soul King.
Seeded 13th, Ren Kimba...
2023-12-10 14:16:43 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
At D rank, cultivators and monsters started to open their acupoints, 108 connections between a soul and the universe, allowing for greatly increased resource regeneration and a fundamental alteration to the flow of energy within a soul, boosting some or all stats but also increasing the quality of the cultivator or monster’s energy by more than 12 times, resulting in the true barrier of fighting across ranks.
But this was nothing compared to the difference between D...
2023-12-10 14:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“There goes Grandma being Grandma.”
Cuddled up against Edi on a loveseat she’d brought out from her spatial storage ring, Olivia Garcia scoffed as Astos ‘The Face’ Karidan’s interview with her maternal grandmother began on the illusion in front of them, not seeming to mind the audience of caged C rank prisoners around them at all.
Related to almost all of the founding A rank talents of the Heavenly Soul Universe, Olivia was pretty much a princess, with...
2023-12-10 14:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“Twilight, what brings you here?” The Law Master, seemingly enjoying Empress Li’s aunt hanging onto one of his arms instead of being offended, smiled at the master of Vanar’s enemy. “Not that it isn’t nice to see you, but I’m trying to charm this young woman into giving me a good deal, and I don’t really appreciate the competition.”
The Lord of Twilight Flame looked angry, but, at the same time, he retracted his aura just as Vanar was about to report...
2023-12-03 12:09:05 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
“Mwha, ha, ha.” Even out in the open space battlefield, where there was no air for sound to propagate, Raven could still hear his opponent’s deep voice laughing, Twilight Illusionist Ren Kimbal completely in control of their fight.
A master of stealth, illusion, energized metal, and telekinesis, the man was a middle-aged C rank under the Lord of Twilight Flame and, like Raven, he’d been seeded quite low for those who originally won their regional competitions, only 6...
2023-11-27 01:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“So, first, let me introduce Ms. Starflower,” the man centered in the giant illusion surrounding Edi and the C ranks trapped in cages in the valley, a human B rank with dark skin, shoulder-length silky black hair, and bright blue eyes, turned to look at the other individual sitting behind the large illusion of a marble desk, a human woman with fiery red hair, bright green eyes, and the type of figure which would make men stare. “An established host of auctions fro...
2023-11-20 00:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“Go to work. I need to meditate.” With strength nowhere near enough to actually push him, Edi’s mother shoved him out the door of her apartment on Earth and Edi couldn’t help but smile, using telekinesis to fly toward the nearest teleportation platform.
He’d been an idiot before, worrying his mom wouldn’t be able to advance. Sure, she wasn’t as talented as he was, and C rank might be her limit, but her Law talent was above average for the Heavenly Soul Universe, ...
2023-11-12 13:22:56 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
“Taravan, explain to me why my niece isn’t in the finals.”
As the Lady of Hellwater suddenly tore through space to enter into his father’s throne room, interrupting the annual meeting between Daevic’s father and the governors of his Territory, everyone fell to their knees, Daevic and his father included, and Daevic’s father quickly answered. “She was injured by a B rank attack before her first round in the local section of the tournament and was t...
2023-11-06 04:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
“How were you not turned into a blood fruit?” Grendal Hox, Raven’s former master who’d sold him to a merchant to use as an alchemy ingredient, was standing on the Universal Tournament’s regional competition stage in front of him as an opponent, and this time things were different.
Tall, with yellow hair, steel gray eyes, and light skin for a human, Grendal was wearing Fabled grade leather armor and in his hand was a plain looking Mythic grade sword, bu...
2023-11-05 22:43:44 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“Master, I need to talk to you!”
Having teleported to one of several islands hovering over the Pacific Ocean on Earth, Edi looked up into the sky to see his master, wearing black shorts and a black sports bra, in the middle of a duel with Vanar Tedros, who was wearing just a pair of red sweatpants. They were both using blunted weapons, with no offensive skills and no Telekinesis, so maybe it was a pure skill challenge. Or maybe they were comparing their achiev...
2023-10-29 23:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
The C rank Universal Tournament consisted of three parts, each with the same basic mechanics. First there were the local competitions, where the C ranks representing between a few and several thousand galaxy clusters fought for the top three places to move on to the regional competitions. Next there were the regional competitions where the C ranks who’d passed through the local competitions fought for the top three spots to move on to the finals. And then, lastly, ...
2023-10-29 20:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“I surrender!”
Having beaten his first opponent, Vanar desummoned his blade, not one of the new swords Lord Aalam had made for him but the original blade he’d used for the last 40,000 years, Blood Slicer, a weapon originally made and sold to him on the same B rank planet he was on now. Then he walked to the teleportation platform in the middle of the large 100 km wide stadium used for the first round of the C rank Universal Tournament for the seventeen galaxy clusters ...
2023-10-22 13:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“How interesting. Someone who qualifies for Multi-Mind without the Enlightened One bloodline.”
Edi Tanorputra, along with the 317 other 16-year-olds from his class, knelt down in front of the hologram of the Yin Yang Sage in the main hall of New Neptune’s fifth Yin Yang Temple, feeling nervous.
The ancestor of all humans who lived in the Heavenly Soul Universe, the image of the Yin Yang Sage showed her as short, with bright blue eyes and curly...
2023-10-15 14:43:21 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“Okay. I think that’s enough.”
With Vanar’s main weapon, and the three Heroic grade flying swords he’d revealed mid-fight, all stabbed into the dragon’s body, the dragon’s overly abundant lifeforce finally appeared to approach exhaustion, and Vanar lowered his guard ever so slightly. But then, in that split second, the power of the universe descended with strength several orders of magnitude greater than from the dragon’s knight line skill and co...
2023-10-08 19:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
Vanar looked out over the large training ground he found behind the mountains, filled with multiple different constructed battlefields, from artificial forests to an absolutely huge tank filled with water, and there he could sense a total of 967 C ranks, over 600 of which he recognized. The most noticeable ones of all, however, were the four men of different races attached to a bloodtree in the center, seemingly being fed on by the plant and obviously the ones he’d ...
2023-10-08 15:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“When you move your qi down your arm, you should slow it ever so slightly while it passes your elbow.” Vanar Tedros altered the posture of one of his students, specifically how the young man was holding his sword. “This will reduce the strain on your body, allowing you to fight longer. And it will enable you to more easily use your mana on your blade as well, activating any artifact effects.”
Then, moving back to the edge of the large room, a wood-covere...
2023-10-08 13:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
Trapped in a spatial storage device along with the three others being fed to the bloodtree, Raven couldn’t tell what was going on outside, but then the bloodtree was summoned out into the world and what he saw wasn’t at all what he would have expected.
Judging from the Law suppression, they were on an A rank planet, on some kind of arena-sized mechanical platform hovering about ten meters over an ocean, and there were seven people not attached to the tree, three C ranks,...
2023-10-01 18:39:47 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
“So, it seems you figured it out.” Ms. Li, still in the form of Starflower, smiled. “Should we get down to business then?”
“Business?”
“You want to save your mother, correct?” Ms. Li’s smile turned serious as Krysta’s emotions became rather complicated. “You’re no longer young, so I’m assuming you understand the unfavorable situation she’s in, still technically being my husband’s master.”
The casual mention of Ms. Li and Aa...
2023-10-01 16:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
Looking out over the thousands of universe level aristocracy bidding for the right to kill him and extract his power, Raven wanted to laugh.
Ever since he was little, it had been his dream to be one of these people, someone with the power to decide the fate of a nothing like him with a simple word. Yet now that would never happen.
He’d worked hard. Even before his father had murdered his mother, he’d been motivated, spending as much of his waking time as possible t...
2023-09-24 16:39:04 +0000 UTC View Post