The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 31-40
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2025-03-10 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Brewing Bad Ch. 126-127
Ch. 126 - Homecoming
Though it had been his habit in the past, for obvious reasons, Lucas did not sleep on the ride back this time. He didn’t quite spend the whole trip watching the bushes, but he certainly kept an eye out until they were mostly surrounded by fields. After that, he relaxed a little and studied his system interface in silence, unaware if he was being watched or not.
While he didn’t make any decisions, he felt like he was being wasteful by...
2025-03-10 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 223-225
While this hasn't been Simon's most popular arc, judging by the comments, I'm very happy these chapters fall the way they do. I've gotten some really good feedback in comments/discord/dms and plan to improve this section of the story, but that is later. For now we... well, no spoilers.
Ch. 223 - Only a Distraction
Simon lurked and waited as the minutes passed, resisting the urge to kill and devour more men just because he could. Instead, he only eliminated one m...
2025-03-10 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death 213-215
Ch. 213 - Mixed Blessings
When they were on the ground once more, the dragon spent another ten minutes lecturing him about what it was they’d seen. It was informative but also repetitive, and strangely, the dragon insisted that though this cavern would be present in many of the other worlds they’d visited, it would be empty, save perhaps for other beasts. There would be no other gold or signs that a dragon nested there.
While that would have made sense i...
2025-03-10 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 27-30
This story continues to kill it on Royal Road. It's gotten to #3 on rising stars, which is an all time high score for me. So, I'm releasing some bonus chapters over there this weekend. One for top 10, one for top 5, and one for top 3. I hope I get the chance to release one more for getting the top spot in a couple days, but, well, we will see.
For now, enjoy some bonus chapters. Still a pile of new chapters to come on Monday like always.
Ch. 27 - A Trip to Town 2025-03-06 21:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 22-26
5 more chapters, and that number is only likely to go up next week! I hope you are enjoying the story.
Ch. 22 - Save Yourself
The goatman screamed as it fell in both fear and pain as fire enveloped it. Earlier in the day, fire had been an amusement. It had laughed as other humans and beastmen had burned alive. Now that joy was gone, and even when it crashed through the third floor, to the second, and finally the first in a spray of flaming debris, its torment did...
2025-03-03 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBrewing Bad Ch. 124-125
Ch. 124 - Missives and Movements
The following day, Heisenburgle drafted a letter to inform the Prince of their success. He let Lucas read it, and though he didn’t allow him much input into the overweening thing, it did remind him that he should send Danaria something cute later to let her know that he was thinking of her, and that he missed her.
“Don’t you think transcendental accomplishment is a little much?” Lucas asked. “I feel like it’s layi...
2025-03-03 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 220-222
Ch. 220 - Locked Away
Simon was there for nearly a week before his captor showed herself. By the time he next saw Freya, he was completely overwhelmed with the thirst, but at least for now, he did his best to ignore it completely.
The only thing he couldn’t ignore was his new fangs. He was unable to stop toying with them with his tongue. He couldn’t help it. They felt so strange and foreign in his mouth.
Despite the fact that his cell was pit...
2025-03-03 14:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death 210-212
Ch. 210 - Perfect Timing
Depending on what was going on, the right answer was either to linger for a long time until Simon was in excellent shape or if it was to immediately proceed to the next level. He chose neither and instead lingered only a couple more days, spying on the white cloaks as they came and went in the hopes that he could read the tea leaves to figure out what had happened to Aaric.
When he finally jumped down the well in the dark of night a ...
2025-03-03 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 20-21
All right. This story is launching publicly today. If you see it on your preferred webnovel site, feel free to give it some support. in the form of a rating or review It will be picking up the place a little soon. Also, I did a complete rewrite last week. I didn't change much mechanically, and nothing changed as far as the story is concerned. I just tightened a few scenes up in the early part of the story.
I will go back and update the earlier Patreon chapters as ...
2025-02-24 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBrewing Bad Ch. 122-123
Ch. 122 - Interesting Results
As Lucas reached out to it, he felt that he could affect several different things. It was hard to put his finger on precisely, but he got the general impression he could probably tune almost anything with a bit of effort. He looked to the intelligence -1 effect first, visualizing it as a slightly brown oily residue on an otherwise vibrant potion. A number of options popped up.
Remove: 5% mana 2025-02-24 14:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tenebroum Ch. 221-222
Ch. 221 - The Last Day (part 2)
Leo dove into the pit like a falling star and the foulness that reached for him from the walls burned away to ash long before it touched him. The place was a warren of nightmares, and as he fell down the hole, he saw dozens of intersecting passageways where the shadowed shapes of men and dwarves reached for him along with the tentacles and claws of monstrosities he’d never before dreamed of. It was like an anthill filled with nightmares...
2025-02-24 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 217-219
Ch. 217 - A Final Secret
Though his chest was still heaving from the run, Simon drew his blade and started chopping through the wall, eager to push through to the next floor. Well, perhaps eager wasn’t the word. He was not eager to run up another flight of steps, but he would do so anyway. He urgently needed to.
He had less than a half hour between now and when the creature he was hunting woke up, and things would get ugly if he didn’t get this resolved....
2025-02-24 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death 207-209
Ch. 207 - Getting Into Gear
Mentally and Morally, Simon was deeply opposed to blood magic, but after he’d seen what the Murani had done with some of their spells, he understood the appeal. Whether he was willing to do something like that to an actual human was out of the question, but a goblin was something he was more open to, even if he hadn’t decided one way or the other.
Thanks to the coma he’d drifted in and out of for who knew how long, what shou...
2025-02-24 14:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 18-19
Ch. 18 - A Superior Wielder
When it was over, the blade considered burning the remaining souls it had to gain yet another level of Repair Soul, but it decided against it. Not only was it a poor use of resources given its uncertain situation, but it was also more than it could handle in this moment.
As much as it wanted to know more, it could still feel how unstable it was in the aftermath of that last burst of magic. It had taken weeks to pr...
2025-02-17 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostBrewing Bad Ch. 120-121
Ch. 120 - Status
The two of them debated both options for a while longer, without coming to any clear consensus, before Lucas was too exhausted to continue arguing with him. The most he could get the alchemist to agree to was that he would keep his investigations “surreptitious” until Lucas had recovered, whatever that meant. He also agreed to more rigorous laboratory safety practices and the immediate incineration of the toxic byproduct of the water of life.
...
2025-02-17 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum Ch. 219-220
Ch. 219 - Free For All
Even though Tenebroum’s mortal enemy was approaching from somewhere over the horizon hours earlier than he normally would, the spirit of darkness felt no fear. Why should it? In a single stroke, it had just shattered the sky, murdered the moon, and snuffed out nearly every star. A few remained as they stood alone against the dark, but they only emphasized the darkness now, with their pathetic light, and it felt no need to move against them right...
2025-02-17 14:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 214-216
Ch. 214 - Ambushed
He wasted no time and kicked down the door. It was barred, but even so, the flimsy thing gave without the need for a word of force. That let Simon finally see what was happening. The small dining room contained the ruins of dinner spread across the floor, along with an elderly farmer and his wife and their younger daughters, who both seemed to be women in their twenties.
It wasn’t the young women that the thing was attacking, though. The...
2025-02-17 14:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death 204-206
Ch. 204 - The Truth Comes Out
Simon didn’t use magic to fight or hide as he rushed the soldiers in the rear of the rush, pressing toward the throne. There would be time for that once the chaos started and children weren’t looking as much at him specifically.
For now, no one was looking at him at all. Instead, the soldiers in the front were fighting the Queen's guards while those behind them shouted angrily. “You’ve led us to this terrible crossroads!...
2025-02-17 14:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 16-17
Hello everyone. So, a quick update on this story. I have scheduled the launch of Blood-Stained Blade for the 24th of February. I plan on dropping 8 chapters that day, then 1 a day for the first month to be followed by 2 or 3/week when that initial burst ends (Many of the chapters in this story are 1500-2000 words rather than my typical 1950-2100 word chapters, so I can post more often, especially once Tenebroum ends). That means I'll be posting 2 chapters this week on Patreon, 2 next week, 3 ...
2025-02-10 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBrewing Bad Ch. 118-119
Ch. 118 - A Recount
Both angels looked at him skeptically before the second one said, “A recount? That’s impossible. The decision has already been made.”
“Yeah, the decision to screw me over has been made based on bad information, and you know if I was allowed to investigate this one small aspect, then you know your whole case would fall apart,” Lucas said with as much bravado as he could muster.
It wasn’t just about the point, he realized....
2025-02-10 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum Ch. 217-218
Ch. 217 - Something Missing
Something terrible was happening, but Jordan did not know what. He could barely even point to something specific, but that didn’t matter. What mattered were the things he couldn’t see or had glimpsed only briefly.
“But the prophecy was fulfilled, and Malkezeen is no more,” he sighed, rubbing his eyes. “So what is this feeling?”
With a sun back in the sky for half the day, his job had become much easier. He no lon...
2025-02-10 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 211-213
Ch. 211 - The Trick to It
Simon didn’t catch up to the knight by dawn, but then he didn’t really want to. Though he didn’t really want to sacrifice the village he’d just left as an experiment, his own experiences told him that whatever was going to happen wouldn’t happen until well after sunrise, regardless of what he did. He’d been cooked alive in the midst of a very late breakfast once upon a time, and none of the drunks he’d left behind would be up for ...
2025-02-10 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death 201-203
Ch. 201 - Hints and Warnings
As time went on, it became increasingly apparent that one of the reasons that Brin was losing was the white cloaks. It wasn’t them directly. Though Simon had no inside knowledge in this regard, he was sure that they were fighting alongside their countrymen against the external threat, given the dark rumors that were becoming increasingly common.
If one side was using evil magics and the other was not, then it was like waging a ...
2025-02-10 14:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 11-15
Ch. 11 - Picking the Bones Clean
2025-02-03 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBrewing Bad Ch. 116-117
Ch. 116 - Science?!
Slowly, a page at a time came back together. The thousand individual people he knew slowly reformed chapters called friends and enemies, respectively, though there were some people that were in both. After that, food became meals, and places became cities and maps that connected other villages and cities together. Slowly, he remembered that he was an alchemist who also happened to be a drug dealer and the false cousin of the beautiful Danaria Parin. ...
2025-02-03 14:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum Ch. 215-216
Ch. 215 - Among the Ashes
Krulm’venor was only slightly harder to find than the Shadow Drake had been. This was because his partial goblin nature blended in so much better with the green skins that infested the area, and his flames were so low that they weren’t much stronger than the bonfires that dotted the region.
Both of these factors were complicated by the fact that the godling was broken into five different versions of itself. None of these were pa...
2025-02-03 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death PLUS 208-210
Ch. 208 - Limited Results
Simon spent hours slaughtering the green vermin that night. At first, they hunted him in packs of three and four, but after he eliminated several of those, the tables turned. He was hunting them. For a time, that was the rhythm. Ambush a group of goblins, slaughter them until there was only one left, then drain the last member dry and use its ragged screeching to call for more.
That worked for a while, but eventually, they grew wary...
2025-02-03 14:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostDeath After Death 198-200
Ch. 198 - Worth the Wait
Simon’s trip south gave him only one chance to experiment with his blade, and that was against a group of drunken mercenaries that took him for a helpless old man. Though he didn’t kill all of them because they weren’t bandits or worse, he did take the fingers on one man’s right hand, and he cut the pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi muscles on the other man’s dominant arm when he took him under the arm pit, ensuring he’d never be...
2025-02-03 14:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostBrewing Bad Ch. 114-115
Ch. 114 - The Real Test
As tempted as Lucas was to try to make a batch of Blue with his brand-new catalyst right now. He decided to wait. He was exhausted, and he was going to have to figure out what to tell Heisenburgle if it actually worked. “If I actually succeed, there might be fireworks or holy light descending from above, and I’m not sure if I want to explain any of that to Heisenburgle,” he told himself.
Lucas considered just making the stuff on...
2025-01-27 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post