First things first, billing will be halted until the 27th of April. During that time, I’ll be taking a month long “break,” to get a couple things in order.
(mainly preparation for book two, as well as all the backlogging I can manage so nothing like these last few weeks ever happens again.)
As things stand, book one is “finished” (minus an epilogue and a few short snippets I still owe you). I also want to spruce up book 1 a bit, bring it up to snuff, but that remains to...
2025-03-28 23:50:52 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE
•—|-Grasp of the World Shaper-|—•
•[Ancient]•
Isolate a distinctive characteristic from an object, plant, or animal and extract it. Success rate of extraction dependent on skill level.
•—|-Breath of the World Shaper-|—•
•[Ancient]•
Infuse an isolated characteristic into an object, plant, or animal. Success rate of infu...
2025-03-28 23:11:55 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER EIGHTY
Richard stretched. Shook out his arms. The dreaded pins and needles sensation preferable to his near comatose state of only moments before. Around him, the others were beginning to come round in similar states of pained relief. Denise rubbed at her chest where she and the parasol had collided. While, not that far off, a number of shifting shadows began to creep their way forward. The details of their silhouettes barely visible in the light of the rising d...
2025-03-28 23:11:03 +0000 UTC
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I really wanted to pop back in with like a billion chapters to dump on you all, but i missed the mark in a major way. I am genuinely so sorry for my recent absence. There’s really no excuse for leaving it for so long but, here goes anyway:
(Scroll to the bottom if you don’t care)
In preparation of book two, I’ve been looking into sharpening my writing chops, which basically meant hitting the books hard this last week and a half. And I have to say, trying to tie together...
2025-03-20 18:14:01 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE
Five minutes.
As it turned out, five minutes were exactly how long Shaper’s imprint managed to brow beat the bloated elemental into submission. Not because he ran out of material, necessarily. No, in fact he could’ve kept it going for another hour more at least. But instead because he simply ran out of time. The reserves he’d tapped into nearly exhausted, his options were, either, call it quits and preserve what little power the bl...
2025-03-20 17:44:38 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY EIGHT
Arms akimbo, Shaper’s imprint made manifest glared up at the starless night sky, cocked his head to the side, then snorted at the irony.
“Not exactly what I’d had in mind,” he muttered to himself. “But I suppose one item off the ole bucket list is better than none.”
He raised his voice suddenly, projecting his words up at the thing currently blotting out the stars.
“Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side ...
2025-03-20 17:43:48 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN
Richard shot forward—ignoring the shouts of surprise from his teacher.
“Master!” Richard called back over his shoulder. “Could really use a funky baseline right about now! Feeling like I’ve got a couple of happy feet in desperate need to footloose, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down!”
“You-! Now-?! But I just…?!” his master swore. “… argh…! For the love of-!”
Despite his annoyance, if th...
2025-03-20 17:42:17 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY SIX
With a degree of elegance that seemed altogether effortless, the smartly dressed gentlemen took a sip of tea, set the cup down briefly to turn the page of the dogeared penny dreadful, before he retrieved the cup once more and raised it for a second such sip. The intoxicating aroma tickling at the olfactory organs in delightfully invigorating ways.
“Marvelous,” he muttered, shaking his head at the unexpected twist. “Simply marvelous....
2025-03-20 17:41:11 +0000 UTC
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• Chapter 59 (new!)
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• Chapter 63 (new!)
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• Chapter 71 (new!...
2025-03-11 11:00:14 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY FIVE
Below a sky sparsely populated by drifting clouds, a diffuse sea of shifting shadow wraiths slowly came back to their senses.
Shook off the lingering feelings of shock and lethargy, and firmed up their runny silhouettes, which had begun to smear like watercolor. The events that’d left them in such a sorry state still firmly rooted in their minds. So much so that, the vast majority turned to lift their gazes skyward the second they regained t...
2025-03-11 10:30:04 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY FOUR
And, to absolutely no one’s surprise—at least no one who’d faced these illusive buggers and lived to tell the tale—his shotgun spray of talismans promptly whiffed spectacularly. The swarm of wraiths passing harmlessly through talisman and folding fan alike.
Luckily, Richard had anticipated as much. And so, instead of a wealth of wasted potential going off like a new years fireworks display, it was more like a confetti can...
2025-03-10 09:35:57 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE
As innumerable shadow creatures spilled from the breach like ink through a faucet, a lone wraith ranged farther than any other of its kind.
It flit between the trees in hot pursuit of what could only have been a sudden migration. The violent stampede of only moments before evident in the trampled earth, slanted trees, and scattered bodies.
Resembling a cloaked man with no visible head or extremities, the wraith paused in its pursuit to ...
2025-03-10 09:33:27 +0000 UTC
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INTERLUDE (XVI)
The perfect Mark 4 talisman is easier to craft than you’d think. With just a handful of ingredients, this revolutionary recipe can produce crisp, ultra responsive, and highly versatile paper-slips in just a few quick and easy steps. All it takes is a little faith, a lot of blood, and a heaping helping of elbow grease, and you too can precipitate mass casualties amidst the hated ranks of the enemy (and it’s so ...
2025-03-10 09:32:39 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO
“Useless piece a junk!”
The bartender hammered his fist into the dinged up, second hand holo projector, causing the picture to flicker and distort. Unfortunately, not only were his efforts rather ineffective, but it put a real damper on the overall viewing experience. What little of it there was, anyway. In truth, there was very little to see in the churning wall of static. The positively packed room of patrons threw up their myriad appenda...
2025-03-05 02:25:41 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE
Purrsefone of the House of Sands had always been something of an outlier among his people. Where his many siblings took after the house patriarch in almost every respect—drawing power from the aspects of cosmic dust and dream—for reasons he could not begin to understand, his god mother, the all powerful system herself, had blessed him with the deeds of, not the Sandman, lord patriarch of the House of Sands, but...
2025-03-01 04:53:18 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SEVENTY
Through an obscene amount of experimentation, he’d come to several very interesting conclusions. Both on the nature of life energy, and how it interacted with his talisman craft. The most pertinent of his discoveries being, that, when combined, the two were extremely volatile, deadly dangerous, and decidedly hostile towards his eyebrows. The very first time he’d powered a scorching talisman with burning life energy, the explosive wave o...
2025-02-27 10:07:40 +0000 UTC
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Just a note for anyone who didn’t see, my posting schedule on RR has changed to 3 days a week, which will give me time to work on fleshing things out over here on patreon, as well as making amends for lacking tier four content.
Hoping that, by the end of next month, I can expand the number of chapters per tier as well, since you guys most definitely deserve it.
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2025-02-25 10:23:23 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY NINE
“Okay so, let me see if I’m hearing you correctly. You really intend to… fight… my battle alien… with that?” Shaper asked, shooting a dubious look towards his battle ready Kaiju.
Not that he could really blame the divine archetype. If anything, this life stalker corpse was even less impressive than the last pile of roots, vines, and lawn clippings. Not that he didn’t still tak...
2025-02-25 10:06:59 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHT
With a horizontal sweep, a pillar of gray fire splits the midnight cover of darkness straight down the middle. Shedding light on the rippling menagerie of shifting shadow creatures, even as it cleanly carves through their number, and leaves only devastation in its wake—absolutely decimating their stampeding front line. Their penumbral remains left to scatter uselessly on the cool night breeze.
Which only left around… ten thousand or so more...
2025-02-23 22:26:41 +0000 UTC
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• Chapter 51+ (new!)
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• Chapter 55+ (new!)
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• Chapter 63+ (n...
2025-02-22 05:03:49 +0000 UTC
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INTERLUDE (XV)
Star Potential
“Pardon me miss. So sorry for the inconvenience, but, may I see your membership badge?”
Asha glared up at the attendant. Fixing him with the best imitation she could manage of her direct superior, Keshra Rae’Shafeer. Daughter of well renowned CEO, Bashar Rae’Shafeer, and all around bane of her existence. Born with a golden spoon rammed up her rear, the haughty look of scorn she’d cultivated over the ye...
2025-02-22 04:56:49 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY SEVEN
Sabotaging the Ra’ak Neerian camp hadn’t exactly been a walk in the park.
No, not even close. Couldn’t have been farther from the truth.
Personally, he’d have described it as more of a…‘leisurely stroll behind enemy lines,’ sort of thing.
Well, that, and also a quaint little trip down memory lane. He’d always loved Easter as a kid, and, squirreling away all those explosive...
2025-02-20 03:54:57 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY SIX
<Watcher> I’m back. What’s your situation? Is everything okay?
<Penelope Green> Oh!
<Penelope Green> Hi!
<Penelope Green> Oops.
<Watcher> Oops?! What’s oops?! What’s wrong? What happened?!
<Penelope Green> Nothing.
The sound of a massive explosion reached him seconds later—even from what had to have been kilometers away. The earth tremors and shockwave follow...
2025-02-18 08:04:00 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY FIVE
Scrap and his crew had struck gold and they knew it. The generational levels of wealth promised them by this namby-pamby baby tutorial was such that Ra’ak Neerian hunting parties were being sent out to comb the surrounding area twenty-four seven. Ordered back out into the unsuspecting experience farm just about as soon as they’d finished dropping off their daily quota.
High level game, ability cubes, and natural...
2025-02-15 06:16:26 +0000 UTC
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Some word vomit below if you care, otherwise I really hope you enjoy the chapters ❤️
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• Chapter 44 (new!)
• Interlude 10 (new!)
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• Chapter 48 (new!)
2025-02-14 04:01:29 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR
Beneath an artificial gray sky, a light snow falls. Snowflakes alight on tall pines, bare branches, and otherwise blanket the uneven forest floor. Burying fallen twigs and pine needles, just as surely as they do blood spatters and dead bodies. A line of them all told, each bestial and bloodstained. Chronicling a tale of wholesale slaughter, leading from one end of the forested expanse to another.
The sounds of snowflakes a gentle pi...
2025-02-14 03:42:52 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY THREE (PART II)
Denise was quickly coming to realize that striking an unmoving target, and one in complete control of their faculties, were two very different things.
Denise swung, parting the smoke laden air. Her blade singing as it failed to make contact. Looming figures stalked her through the smoke and confusion. Occasionally they raised their rifles and fired, though the plasma always turned to vapor well before it reached her. Thus...
2025-02-12 03:16:00 +0000 UTC
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INTERLUDE (XIV)
A Mother’s Perspective
“Which one’s yours?”
This from the rather petite looking woman daintily perched on the edge of her seat. In the background, a quiet murmur could be heard. While, from the orchestra pit, came the fine tuning of instruments. The sounds traveling strangely in the vast and opulent, red-gold amphitheater.
Eager for the opportunity to gush, Gloria turne...
2025-02-12 03:15:13 +0000 UTC
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CHAPTER SIXTY THREE (PART I)
An army of angry shadows flow across the forest floor. Weaving in between the trees, over roots, and fallen logs. All in pursuit of a diminutive figure, who herself chases after the setting sun. Scrambling after the fading warmth of those crepuscular rays, even as the tide of liquid darkness at her back rushes onward. Never ending, as if heralding the night. As the sun dips further and further below the distant ...
2025-02-12 03:13:40 +0000 UTC
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First off, I just want to say that the number of chapters per week will not be changing in the least, so rest assured there.
That said, in recent days I’ve found myself with less and less time to polish up the chapters I DO publish to my own personal standards. I feel like this is both a disservice to you all, and to myself.
Now, as far as the schedule, for this week goes, its looking like Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, will constitute upload da...
2025-02-10 18:11:20 +0000 UTC
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