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[Fox Girl Evolution] Chapter 5: Burning

The second I got close, Julia lunged and grabbed me. She looked a bit out of it, dazed and shaken but thank the stars, she was okay. Mostly. Her fingers were clenched tight around that bronze feathered trinket the creepy deer-skull guy had dropped. Deathless Guide or something? Whatever his name, not the point. Julia being alive was.

I let out a yip in fox-speak, her hug was starting to turn into a chokehold. But something was off. The tension in the air was different now.

Bediver...

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[Fox Girl Evolution] Chapter 4 [Interlude - Bedivere]

Bedivere felt the whispers before he even heard them, those hair-raising murmurs threading up his spine the moment the ritual reached its final pulse. It might’ve been awe-inspiring if not for the suffocating pressure coiling around his lungs, or the quiet scream of his own instincts, his power gnashing at him to get the hell away from this thing.

Everyone in the sanctum knew the deal with divinity. Knew its value, sure, but more importantly, its appetite. Mortals with low-tier aspect...

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[Fox Girl Evolution] Chapter 3: (`∀´)Ψ

It all happened too damn fast. One second Julia was stepping through the gates like a sane person, the next something knocked her flat. She hit the ground hard, but even while being sucker-punched by physics, she somehow managed to curl around me protectively, probably because I was small enough that her full weight would’ve turned me into a pancake with bones.

I squirmed loose just in time to spot Bedivere and his ominous, robed death knight companion. Said robed companion was the sp...

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[Fox Girl Evolution] Chapter 2: GODDESSES SUCK!

Two robed figures appeared on the doorstep. I peered from my hiding spot, through the narrow eyes of the skull and noticed something odd.

Behind them, the forest stretched as usual. Trees, shadowy undergrowth, and strange shadowy nope-shaped figures that sometimes lurked in the distance, creatures I never got a clear look at and, frankly, never wanted to. I’d assumed my goth mage just lived far from civilization. Kind of on brand for her.

But when she opened the door, her brow t...

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[Fox Girl Evolution] Chapter 1: New Guests?

You thought this was an early Jadey chapter? Sike!

Some of you might’ve noticed TDH’s worldbuilding has its share of occultism elements, inspired by the real thing a little, but definitely its own flavor. I’ve been itching to write something with heavier occult vibes, old gods and a progression system inspired by those themes.

So… welcome to Fox Girl Evolution!

Basic Blurb: (wrote this on the spot, might tweak it bef...

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Chapter 173: A Ticket to My Own Obituary... Perhaps

It was a full-on parade of elves. An entire entourage. I counted them twice just to be sure. There were almost a dozen.

My body was wrapped in the shimmer of my distortion technique, layered over my skill for minimizing my presence. For good measure, I kept a generous distance. I glided between the foliage, my shifting ocular lenses feeding me every last scrap of detail.

Once again, that quiet weight of comparison pressed in, my strength pressing against theirs. All of them were w...

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Chapter 172: Merciful Patron Saint Dragon of Endangered Floof!

Alice moved with a stick in hand, scratching a strange symbol into the dirt.

"I've seen this marking show up in so many places, it’s starting to feel like more than just a coincidence," she said. Belle nodded along, eyes on the forming lines.

I crouched beside them, studying the symbol. I couldn't tell heads from tails. The middle circle looked like it was meant to represent a moon, round, simple, but there was an eye drawn beneath it. Alice mentioned it was supposed to be golde...

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Chapter 171: Not Enough

[Beefy chapter today! Happy reading!]

Hmm…

I ran a quick mental audit. What would be the optimal pick here? Stealth? Already handled. Offense? Solid. Perception? Sharp enough to catch a pin drop in a cyclone, nothing had slipped past me yet, and I doubted anything ever would.

Spellcraft, though… that was where things got spicy. Now that I was flinging around these seventy-rune monstrosities like party tricks, I realized a few support skills in that department woul...

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Chapter 170: Contradictions

Alright!
Well, not all that alright. In hindsight, maybe I should’ve spared a brain cell or two thinking through the consequences. You know, minor things like space, alarms, structural integrity… me. But who has the time for logistics when you’re in a rush?

First blunder: transforming into my dragon form in a cell the size of a storage closet. I keep forgetting how absurdly massive I actually am. So, naturally, the cell gave up on life and exploded around me. I had to twist mid...

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Chapter 169: How Do You Feel About Tight Spaces... With Teeth

[Missed yesterday’s update bc I got sidetracked adding an interlude ┐( ̄ヘ ̄)┌


It turned out to be shorter than I thought, so instead of making y’all wait three more days for it, I just slapped it onto the second half of this chapter and made it extra, extra beefy! 


so instead of two cliffs you now get one big juicy cliffhanger because am a generous mango!]


Ah. So violence was the universal language. Should’ve known. There was something perve...

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Chapter 168: Mission Im-poster-ble

“Something go down at the main gate? Why’s there a ruckus all of a sudden?”

“Wraith trouble, apparently. I’d bet the gate squad’s already on it.”

“I thought Wraiths were practically allergic to this place? Like they could smell the boxed-in space past the gate and knew walking in meant signing their own exit papers?”

“You’re fresh out of the academy, so let me clue you in. That’s true, well, mostly. But it’s not the first time someone’s tried t...

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Chapter 167: Canyon of Consequences

[Well, after months of procrastination, we finally have a Discord server.
Also, let me just say I had no idea that connecting Discord to Patreon would just automatically dump you all in there. I HAD NO IDEA, OKAY?!?

So there I was still setting things up and suddenly bam! you all flooded in without warning or consent.

Anyway, for those of you whose Patreon accounts aren't connected to Discord, here’s the link: 2025-07-20 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 166: A Little Reconnaissance Run

How does one categorize this sensation?

Jord—ugh—used to ramble about guardian angels and shoulder-perched devils. One whispering virtue, the other vice. Ultimately, he’d insist, the choice was yours.

Presently? I felt like both.

Hovering over Sergiy’s psyche, phantom fingers cradling his frayed nerves, murmuring directives he mistook for epiphanies.

In a way, I was living through him—tasting a whole different world. I even managed to ...

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Chapter 165: The Weak Point... of His Pants?

It was Vyra’s idea. Let that be known. I would never do something like that myself. Creeping up on Viper and executing a flawless pants-yank

It was Vyra’s idea. Let that be known. I would never do something like that myself.

Creeping up on Viper and executing a flawless pants-yank without detection was entirely her brand of mischief.

Though, full disclosure, nothing prepped me for the sudden reveal of his unnervingly smooth, bubbly backside– shining b...

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Chapter 164: Accelerated Acceptance

Was this kind of talk really necessary? “It’s how Lysska talks when she wants to intimidate someone! Call them something lesser, like cute l

Was this kind of talk really necessary?

It’s how Lysska talks when she wants to intimidate someone! Call them something lesser, like cute little playthings!

Vyra’s exact words.

Weirdly specific, but not entirely wrong. It had a certain flair—enough to send folks into pants-wetting terror, so clearly it did...

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Interlude 3.15

Uwaa, this was painfully boring! Mind-numbingly, soul-drainingly boring! And being stuck in the Veilwoods? Yeah, that definitely wasn’t help

Uwaa, this was painfully boring! Mind-numbingly, soul-drainingly boring! And being stuck in the Veilwoods? Yeah, that definitely wasn’t helping. Was there even a word for boredom so deep it flipped over into raw, pants-wetting terror?

A sudden rustle snapped from the nearest bush. Sergiy jolted violently. His head snapp...

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Chapter 163: Ever Dabbled in Involuntary Guest Acquisition?

[That should serve as a good warning…]

Thalador's balls, that blast was a proper ear-ringer. Massive. Loud enough to wake the dead, probably. I whipped around, gawking at the screen. "You knew this clusterfuck was coming?!?"

[Well, not precisely this theatrically. Figured you were aiming at that twitchy squirrel. Not the entire arboreal specimen.]

Which… ugh. Fine. Point to the scaly smartass. I had switched targets last second.

"But how the hell did it go boom li...

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Chapter 162: The Tax on Power

[Sorry for the delay (again, ugh) been dealing with some health stuff lately, so apologies for that. But! I do come bearing good news: I mig

[Sorry for the delay (again, ugh) been dealing with some health stuff lately, so apologies for that.

But! I do come bearing good news: I might be able to go full-time with writing soon, haha. Book 1’s gonna be published on KU soon, and I’m just waiting to see how it performs before fully committing.

If it goes well... da...

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Chapter 161: A Sentimental Little Hatchling

MISSION: Purge the Rot-Tainted Abomination OBJECTIVE: The vile essence of this intruder has violated the creation’s order, bonding with this

MISSION: Purge the Rot-Tainted Abomination
OBJECTIVE: The vile essence of this intruder has violated the creation’s order, bonding with this failed elven form. KILL IT AND DEVOUR IT. DO NOT LET A SINGLE DROP OF ITS FILTHY BLOOD SEEP ONTO THE LAND.
TASKS:

  • Kill the abomination...

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Chapter 160: Scaly Trust Issues

“Sooo… no way to snap that ‘soul magic’ contract thing off him?” “Not unless we know the actual contents of it, Jade,” Lotte replied, calm.

“Sooo… no way to snap that ‘soul magic’ contract thing off him?”

“Not unless we know the actual contents of it, Jade,” Lotte replied, calm.

I slumped at that. So much for my grand plan to finally uncover some juicy soul magic secrets and maybe get Lotte to help untangle whatever mess they’ve bound Thibault i...

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Interlude 3.14

[Okay, this one went full big brain, I had a loud headache after finishing this chapter. Gold Cores are the worst to write. They speak entir

[Okay, this one went full big brain, I had a loud headache after finishing this chapter. Gold Cores are the worst to write. They speak entirely in subtext, never say anything straight, and I rewrote those damn dialogues like a hundred times. Never putting myself through that pain again.

Anyway, enjoy the chappie! I still believe clar...

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Interlude 3.13

Elise woke up with a yawn. Ahh, another flawless morning for a flawless little mage like herself. First thing, she checked her core—yep, still working like a charm. That technique was doing its job even in her sleep, drawing in mana all night without her lifting a single mental finger.

Basically meditation without the boring sitting-still part. Let the lesser folk sweat through their desperate rituals—Elise simply existed and got results. Must sting, being mediocre.

...

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Chapter 159: Unfiltered Selfishness

Truth Serum had been a spectacularly dumb idea last time. Binding magic—especially soul magic that shackles someone from revealing crucial info—doesn’t exactly vibe well with a drug that scrambles your brain into a truth-vomiting frenzy.
Now that I knew how obsessively thorough the Elves were with their magical paperwork, I wasn’t about to try that stunt again.

I didn’t have anything close to a solid grasp on how soul magic actually worked, but from the little I could dig u...

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Chapter 158: Twitching Fodder

The bladed limbs on his back—and one of his arms—caught most of the force from my claw swipe. He was dangerous… just not me-level dangerous.
Even so, I still managed to rip through two of those fancy blades. Without wasting a beat, I slipped into the Shadow Dimension and reappeared on a chunk of rubble about ten meters off. He didn’t chase. I could feel the fear rolling off him like heat from a forge. Still, no harm in playing it safe. Keeping control of this fight was the...

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Interlude 3.12

Thibault stood on the rooftop, staring down at the building below. Lily’s Charms and Curios, the sign read. Entirely unremarkable structure, awkwardly wedged between others that looked just as tragically forgettable.

Still, he had to hand it to them—creative little hidey-hole. Finally. Finally! He’d cornered the slippery bastards.

The same gang responsible for Iron rotting in prison. Mostly peak yellow cores, with only their leader having cracked re...

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Chapter 157: What Are the Fucking Chances?!?

Stories? Oh, everyone hauled one around like dead weight. Viper included. The rest of the crew clung to aliases like cheap bandages over gut wounds – a necessary cover. Him? Pointless. Why hide a name you’d already incinerated? He hadn’t merely discarded his birthright; he’d spat on its ashes. Taboo, technically. Ancestors only acknowledge the name etched onto your soul at the first scream. The original brand. The one that counted.

Life, however, enjoys shoving peo...

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Chapter 156: Torture’s Off the Table ...Mostly

[Life keeps bonking me left and right. Was outta station so had to delay this chap by a day, my bad!
Anyways, here it is, enjoy the read~]

I hadn’t had the chance to sit down and properly sift through all the loot I’d earned, but I’d snuck a peek or two. Just as the quest summary promised: Morphogen, skill points, and bonus stats. Oh, and two fresh levels from wiping out that whole elf squad. Solid haul—but the real prize was tucked in the spellbook I’d gotten, and whateve...

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Chapter 155: That One Time I Accidentally Flashed a Salamander

I stared at the chaos around me and sighed. Damn. Turns out, going plus-sized came with its own line of extra-large problems. Materialized into the material plane and I'd already pancaked an already-dead sofa, splintered the table like a breadstick, and sent a tentacle flailing into the kitchen side—where it promptly KO’d a few innocent pieces of glassware and some poor, unsuspecting china.

It had all happened the moment I materialized here. Clearly, I needed a roomier hide...

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Chapter 154: Hoarding is a Valid Coping Mechanism

[sorry for the delay (。•́︿•̀。) I did write another Interlude… but it was super close to the last one sooo I kinda yeeted it into the void for now ┐( ̄ヮ ̄)┌ also this one’s from character(s) wayyyy outta the chaos zone, two peeps who got introduced way back in book 1 (ancient times), so guess whoooo~ hint #1: both talked to Jade in the first half of book 1 and survived (wild, I know)
hint #2: they don’t know each other lol (งツ)ว I’ve almo...

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Interlude 3.11

Every beastkin lineage could be traced back to a legendary bloodline—mythic progenitors who weren’t just ancient but damn near divine. These primordial beasts, born thousands of years ago, were said to have ascended to the astral plane, trading flesh for spirit and leaving behind more than just bones and bedtime stories.

They watched still, from beyond the veil, their eyes sharp as ever. Their legacy wasn’t just in blood, but in relics—gifts, remnants of their own bodies, and o...

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