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Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 11 – Person-ing

The blacksmith stared at him for a moment before she huffed out a laugh.

“You’re an odd one, even for an adventurer.”

“I’m not an adventurer,” said Terry. “I mean, I am, but I’m not really. I just needed somewhere that would pay me for killing the monsters that keep trying to kill me. The Adventurer’s Guild was the only game in town.”

“I suppose that makes sense,” said the blacksmith slowly. “You didn’t have an Adventurer’s Guild in your world?�...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 72 – To Save It

Sen watched the newly arrived members of his sect from atop the new wall he’d personally constructed. Food was going to be such a crucial matter for the capital over the following months that he wasn’t prepared to leave the safety of their food production to chance. He’d walled off an expansive piece of nearby land and, with a bit of input, reshaped it to better serve the city’s needs. He’d even gone so far as to redirect a nearby river to make it possible for them to establish rice...

Unintended Cultivators Vol 10: Chapter 71 – You Know My Laws

The dark clouds overhead seemed to threaten another storm. However, Sen’s senses told him that it would just be a normal autumn storm, rather than some divinely-augmented, nature-defying act. Not that his attention was on the weather at that moment. He had been surprised. The nobles and sects had waited for three entire days before they began trying to assassinate people they didn’t like. There had been a few attempts directed at him, but it seemed that the people around him were, for the...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 70 – The Slim Chance of Hope

Sen rose into the air and let his spiritual sense expand around him lightly. Misty Peak was close enough that it only took a second or two to find her. He flew in her direction and then descended into a group of very nervous-looking people. They had gathered in an area that was mostly clear of the human mortals. No doubt as a means of spotting an attack more easily, should one come. He recognized some of them as the nine-tail foxes who had been at the house Misty Peak had bought for them. The...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 10 – Blacksmith

The blacksmith smirked and said, “Well, you better come inside then.”

“Alright,” said Terry, happy to be making progress.

Terry and Kelima both started walking, but the blacksmith held up a hand.

“No strays in my smithy.”

“I am not a stray!” shouted Kelima.

The blacksmith ignored her and resumed walking. Terry howled with laughter as the noble girl stamped her foot. She seemed to realized that throwing a fit wasn’t going to do any good. Walking ...

Update: Vol 10 and Christmas

Okay, so you've probably all realized by now that Vol 10 is coming to a close. I expect that the last chapter will probably post on Thursday or Friday. It wasn't planned, but it is super-convenient timing. I usually take a week off from writing between volumes, and next week is Christmas. If there is a week to take off, that's the week to do it. Lots of people are traveling, hosting family, doing big dinners, and a few are still scrambling to finish their shopping at the last po...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 69 – Do Not Disappoint Me

By the time Sen landed by the area where the foxes had been maintaining their illusions, it seemed that Lo Meifeng no longer required immediate assistance. He found her sitting against a wall. She looked pale but his spiritual sense and brief qi examination of her no longer left him worrying that she was in immediate danger. He eyed the cultivator standing next to her with a gimlet eye. He didn’t recognize the foundation formation cultivator. The fact that the man was staring at him in abje...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 68 – Would You Fight Me?

The general was back within thirty minutes, which surprised Sen more than a little. It turned out that the phrase for Lord Lu carried a lot of weight in the city at the moment. In other circumstances, he might have spent a little time thinking through the implications of that, but Sen just thanked the general and dismissed the matter from his mind. He needed to get this work done as quickly as he could without sacrificing quality, since Lo Meifeng might need similar assistance. ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 67 – Uncertain Condition

Sen stayed to observe until Boulder’s Shadow disappeared back into the forest, miles away at the edge of the destruction. He didn’t believe the ghost panther would actually try to do anything. The spirit beast would have tried to intervene or attack him if he meant to do something. However, it would have been foolish to just walk away from a potent threat like that. Sen slumped a little once Boulder’s Shadow passed beyond the range of his spiritual sense. Manipulating the clouds on such...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 66 – Root and Branch

Jing was slumped against the wall, staring down at the impaled spirit beasts with the one eye he had left. He assumed that to have been the work of a cultivator, but he couldn’t even summon the energy to care which one. He couldn’t even find the energy to stand up straight. He’d never been so tired in body and spirit. He lifted a trembling hand and stared at it. The fingers had been bandaged after he’d fired so many arrows the skin had started tearing away in bloody pieces. Far below,...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 65 – You Get to Live

The first thing that struck him after entering the clouds was the wetness of it all. While Sen had spent substantial time flying, first on qi platforms and later with his modified technique, it had mostly been done close to the ground. There just hadn’t ever been an urgent need to venture high enough to come into direct contact with them. It was only after being swallowed by a massive storm cloud that he realized that they were more like mist or fog than anything else. He also realized that...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 64 – A Moment, Please

Sen was vaguely aware of Lai Dongmei and Bey Peizhi’s approach, but it was just one tiny thing in an almost overwhelming sea of information. He’d thought that the reach and depth of his spiritual sense had been expansive before, but he understood now how wrong he’d been about so many things. His capacity to bridge the gap between core formation and the early stages of nascent soul had led him to the false conclusion that stepping into the nascent soul stage wouldn’t be that much of a ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 63 – Make An Entrance

Xie Moli walked down the hallway toward the room. She was careful to mimic the strong but measured steps of Lu Jia. She kept her expression stern, the same way the mistress of the manor always did. The collection of cultivators outside of Lu Sen’s room only glanced at her before turning their attention outward again, focused on the possibility of some more obvious threat. She had never expected such an opportunity to appear when she’d first presented herself here. Her intention had been t...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 62 – I Don’t Need You

“But they’re evil!” shouted the youngest Sen, fists clenched, jaw thrust out.

Sen closed his eyes and forced himself to breath slowly. This entire thing was beyond infuriating. He couldn’t leave this place. He couldn’t even walk away. He’d tried a couple more times just find those three other incarnations of himself standing there with those judgmental looks on their faces. He’d tried explaining it logically, over and over again, only for this youngest version of him to co...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 61 – What Happened?

Misty Peak stared with naked horror up into the sky that was abruptly, maddeningly empty of nascent soul cultivators to protect all of the fragile mortals Sen had left in her care.

“Oh, no, no, no. Don’t tell me you’re all this stupid?” she whispered.

She shot a look at Serene Canyon. He was also staring up with a look of dawning panic on his face. His head slowly turned, and their gazes met. He’d realized the same thing she had. There were only a few other nine...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 60 – Come with Me

“I don’t know what to do,” said Lo Meifeng.

Lu Sen remained as still and as silent as he had since he’d been brought back to the manor. At first, she had seen it as her first duty to protect the manor and the people inside of it. Or, at the very least, to protect Lu Jia. She was Sen’s family. The person that he would most want to see defended. After he’d been brought back in this coma, the realities were not lost on her. Someone would see it as an opportunity to remove a dan...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 59 – A Chance to Act, Part 2

Bey Peizhi didn’t glance at Lai Dongmei after that last statement of murderous intent, but mostly because it seemed wildly stupid to turn his attention from the two spirit beasts in front of them. The one to the left had clearly evolved from some kind of tiger. He was massive with thick slabs of muscle that still had a thin covering of fur that bore the distinctive stripes of his earlier form. Yellow eyes with that odd, vertically slitted pupil glared balefully at them. The one to the right...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 58 – A Chance to Act, Part 1

“I don’t suppose the honorable Lord Lu will be joining us today, will he?” asked Bey Peizhi.

Lai Dongmei had to suppress a sigh and avoid looking at man from the Lunar Tiger Sect. A task made far easier by the battle raging below. Still, questions like that had come more and more frequently as Sen’s absence had dragged out from one day to three days. An angry part of her wanted to ask everyone who put that question to her if they felt Sen hadn’t done his part and then...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 9 – That’s the Difference

“Do you always talk this much?” demanded Terry.

Kelima had been an “official” part of his journey for less than an hour, and it was already everything he could do to keep from strangling her. Not because he wanted her dead but because he wanted her to be quiet. She’d been talking and asking questions almost non-stop. It was just so much noise. If this was what he had to look forward to for the next six months, he wasn’t going to make it. Or, he admitted to ...

Unintended Cultivator V10: Chapter 57 – Why Me?

Sen was sprawled on the ground with his arms outstretched to either side as he stared up into the infinite nothingness above. He found that less exasperating than looking at the three younger versions of himself that did nothing but glare at him in anger and disappointment. Not that he hadn’t tried to escape their judgmental gazes. At first, he had simply tried to walk away from them. He never saw them move but they always managed to be the exact same distance away. Running had produced sim...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 56 – Where in the Thousand Hells Is Lu Sen?

Shi Ping ignored the screams around him as he focused his attention on the giant insect that was hurtling toward him. It looked like a mantis, although he couldn’t recall ever seeing one with wings before. He cycled his qi, formed the technique, and sent a fireball hurtling toward the creature. The fireball all but evaporated the central body of the spirit beast, which he had to consider a good thing. Unfortunately, its forward momentum meant that he was almost immediately pelted with burni...