Beero, the dronecaster, and the battlecasters did not take long to arrive. Wardmaster Varilold smiled at the sight as she barked out commands to the wardens. She turned back to Belissar and Beero and waved them over.
“If you would follow me.”
Belissar complied and the battlecasters flew along with him. The wardmaster marched through the Fairy Grove. Belissar furrowed his brow, the wardmaster didn’t have any chromatic bees guiding her at the moment. He checked with his Tower ...
2025-05-23 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Almost made it...but best not to push too hard this week, so will take a day. Will still get a chapter out on Friday 5/23!
2025-05-22 00:36:54 +0000 UTC
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Tarwantrad rushed up to Belissar as soon as the signing was over with a big smile on her face.
“Finally! Belissar, want to see the rest of my dungeon now?! I can show you the Compact too!”
Only for an armored hand to clamp on her shoulder.
“Sorry to interrupt, but I’m going to have to cut in, Tarwantrad.”
Wardmaster Varilold stepped forward with a serious expression, silencing Tarwantrad’s objections before she even spoke them. Even the other signatories, s...
2025-05-21 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The Fourth of the Seventh had the bee golem spread its wings wide. Nomadic bee soldiers and workers stood on top of the golem and began to beat their wings. A gust of wind picked up and wrapped around the golem, swirling into a cyclone under its feet.
And then, one by one, its legs began to lift off of the ground. Belissar’s eyes widened as he watched the wax golem lift off into the air. The Fourth of the Seventh zipped around.
“Amazing! Incredible!”
Belissar could onl...
2025-05-20 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Belissar left the Apiary farmhouse to make his rounds through the Tower. He only took a few steps, however, before he saw something new. His jaw hung open.
“This…is…”
Outside of the First of the Fifth’s bee apartment stood a new beeswax golem, with the First of the Fifth’s Fourth Daughter happily dancing on top of it. And this one was much different from the Seventh Daughter’s. The slime bee’s golem had appeared much like the previews the Tower showed...
2025-05-19 20:05:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce that, finally, after so long...
The Faceless Minion Volume 3: Age of Monsters e-book is now live on Kindle and Kindle ...
2025-05-13 21:11:53 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
Sorry for the bad news but making an executive call. Thought I could make it till next week...but I think I've gone without a break too long. Throw in the funeral coming up and all the family coming in for it and I feel I haven't been giving this week's chapters the focus they deserve (and to be clear, not just because I'm making more mistakes than usual). As such, rather than pushing out two more chapters just for the sake of it, going to just start the break early. The bees de...
2025-05-08 00:13:07 +0000 UTC
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RETCON ALERT: Thank you all who reminded me that Belissar already selected Rest Zones in an earlier chapter. I’ll have to go back and edit last chapter with a new option. For now, let’s assume he selected random resource plant and got a random flower of some description. Or maybe a tree. We don’t have many trees, do we? Let’s go with that. I choose almonds because I’ve heard them needing bees, so…
Almond Tree now available.
…or something.
2025-05-07 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The meeting quickly devolved into Belissar, the karnuq, and Sehfitis asking the spiderkin as many questions as they could think of. They did discover, however, that the mana learning wasn’t perfect and the spiderkin didn’t remember all the exact details of her ancestors’ lives. Still, they managed to learn quite a bit.
They confirmed that the sorcerer kings, the wicked kings of old as the Tower Lords called them, were responsible for creating the beastkin as Nenavann had claimed. ...
2025-05-06 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The daily purification went off without a hitch, which brought Belissar to the purification celebration. He…hadn’t realized it until now, but this would be the first meeting between the spiderkin children and the karnuq unless he was willing to exclude one of them. He was not, and so that brought him to the present situation.
The karnuq were setting up food as usual, but with none of the usual chatter and cheer. The spiderkin children were helping the bees carry trays of honey and t...
2025-05-05 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Belissar opened and closed his mouth repeatedly without saying anything as the spiderkin girl danced about. Fortunately, his mind was jolted back into functioning by a message from the Tower.
Accept offer of allegiance?
Belissar pushed through his surprise and attempted to organize his thoughts. He went ahead and asked the first question that came to his mind.
“You know who I am?”
The spiderkin girl responded by speaking and dancing simultaneously.
...
2025-05-02 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar called over his council to help him look over the counteroffer in more detail. Sehfitis furrowed his brow as he read it over, causing Belissar to raise an eyebrow.
“Is there a problem?”
Sehfitis grimaced.
“Not if what you’ve told me of the loophole is true but…this is a bargain with the fey, Tower Keeper. I intend no offense to your present company, but I must reiterate the fey are known to be tricksters, and they supposedly have some means of magically en...
2025-05-01 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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The next morning, after his morning routine, Belissar went over to the hunting field. The butcher queens flew out to greet him as he approached their hives. Squads of butcher soldiers carried slain rabbits to the corpse area nearby. Belissar tried his best to avoid glancing there, as he knew the butcher workers were hard at work foraging there…
The butcher queens happily zipped around him, allowing him to distract himself with happier thoughts.
“Hi there, looks like things are...
2025-04-30 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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After a great victory celebration focused on the Firstborn, Belissar and his council gathered to discuss the God of Bees’ rewards. The karnuq had built and set up tables for the celebrations at this point, so they sat around one of those. A bowl of the sleepy chamomile infusion sat out for the queens to drink once the meeting started winding down, given its propensity to make them sleeping.
Belissar had a huge grin on his face.
“Let’s pick some new bees.”
He opened t...
2025-04-29 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Setting up the new room didn’t take that long in the grand scheme of things, so Belissar had plenty of time to resume his magic practice from yesterday. He sat just outside the Apiary farmhouse and ate a spoonful of swirled honey, focusing his attention on the mana within it. He then formed a spell drone and a honey-forming spell pattern. As before, he had the spell drone fly to the spell pattern and gently reach out to it with as thin a strand of mana as possible. He closed his eyes as the...
2025-04-28 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar still had two thousand DP left, enough for room feature choices if he wanted, but he decided to wait for now. With any luck, they might complete some of the gods’ missions before he had enough to afford the other choices, which could inform what they decided to purchase next. The council thus adjourned, as it was almost time for the daily purification. Since Frelis and the First of the Fifth’s Sixth Daughter had only just begun planning for flower defenses, the bee army and karnu...
2025-04-25 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar and Niobee rushed over to Velebee as soon as they could.
“Velebee? What’s going on?”
Velebee flew out of her hive and immediately began dancing.
“Hive-Builder! Queen of All Bees says another hive-burner coming! Says get ready, will try to help! Other queens of all things help too!”
Belissar’s eyes widened for a moment…then he steeled his expression and nodded.
“Got it, we’ll prepare as best we can. Thanks for the warning.”
Veleb...
2025-04-24 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar went about his day in a good mood. The Second of the Sixth had finally asked his permission to try evolving, meaning both that all the wounded bees and karnuq had stabilized and that they might have a new queen type soon. He was just finishing up his morning rounds through the Tower when he was interrupted…
The God of Fire wishes to offer you a quest. Accept?
Belissar smiled and nodded. He was always happy to show his gratitude to the gods. That such missions t...
2025-04-23 20:05:04 +0000 UTC
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The world was filled with light. Bright suns above illuminated the entire area, auroras of every colors dancing between them. Wisps of light danced amidst torches, bonfires, and chandeliers, glowing even brighter than the ambient light from above. Glowing plants and shining rocks covered the ground below, basking in the light from all around.
A table made of glowing rock stood in the center of this world, surrounded by numerous gods. The God of Bees hovered next to the God of Flowers. A...
2025-04-22 20:05:06 +0000 UTC
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“This is outrageous! Who does this human think he is?!”
Forgemaster Ughlarer slammed his fist on the table. Nenavann just raised an eyebrow as he rolled up the scroll he had just finished reading for the signatories of the Compact.
“This is a negotiation with an outside party, Forgemaster, not us communicating the Compact’s decision to one of its citizens. We should not have expected Tower Keeper Belissar to simply accept our first offer as is, he is under no obligation to...
2025-04-21 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Beero forgot to move her abdomen for breath as she watched the drone lap up swirled honey. The drone paused, Beero watched as the mana from the honey swirled within him. The drone’s antennae glowed slightly, the tell-tale sign he was moving his mana. Beero didn’t dare interrupt. Even as the most experienced battlecaster, she knew the drone experienced mana in a way she didn’t. There was no bee better at mixing and combining manas than he.
The drone turned to her and slowly began t...
2025-04-18 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The Second of the Sixth hovered over an injured karnuq. She checked on the medicinal stings now flowing within his body and the mana they imbued into him. She rearranged the mana slightly so it would work better then began to dance.
“Karnuq fine, will recover. Can return to hive soon. Workers will watch until can.”
The karnuq smiled at her. He was saying something but the Second of the Sixth had already left, confirming through her workers that he was just thanking them. The S...
2025-04-17 20:05:08 +0000 UTC
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When they had finally run out of ideas, Henilett put away her quill and rolled up her scroll.
“Very well, I shall take this proposal to Her Majesty Queen Vanieskon. We’ll send additional correspondence through the Circle masters until we confirm the final deal.”
Belissar just nodded. It had been a long day of dealing with contracts and Compacts. Henilett let out an exhausted sigh herself.
“Thank you for your time, Tower Keeper Belissar. It has been quite the long day...
2025-04-16 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Nenavann’s smile fell, however, as he furrowed his brow in thought.
“Hm, it would go both ways though, wouldn’t it? Tower Keeper Belissar wouldn’t be subject to any restrictions or authority, but neither would he benefit from any rights and privileges, particularly the terms on mutual defense, correct?”
Henilett clasped her palm to her chest and gasped.
“Why, Dungeon Master Nenavann, you’ve grown! It is a few centuries late for you to begin asking such question...
2025-04-15 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar made his morning rounds. He went to the bumblebee meadow and fed the Heart of the Forest some honey, then checked on the room as a whole. At this point, the flowers in the bumblebee meadow were growing a bit larger each day. Princess Finnakynne was still there as well, sleeping on a bumblebee soldier. Belissar spoke with the queen of that particular nest.
“Are you ok with Princess Finnakynne?”
The bumblebee queen responded by zipping a few fast circles around Belissar...
2025-04-14 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Nenavann sat around the stone where the Compact was carved once more, along with the other representatives of the signatories. Tarwantrad and Tamosmed stood behind him. Despite the fact that the three of them were just wrapping up their report on Belissar’s fight with the spiderkin, most the representatives’ attention was elsewhere. It was only natural, for today Queen Vanieskon had decided to participate in personal, in lieu of the usual representative herself. Not only was it highly unu...
2025-04-11 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The Third Queen of the First Dynasty of the Fourth Spawner, the first of her line, hovered above fields of ash and lava. She was once a queen of the Flower Meadow, but she had since evolved into a burning queen in order to help the Third of the Sixth build an army for the Lava Field. Well, that was the original intent. The Third of the Sixth subsequently received the blessing of the Queen of All Fire and now surpassed her in fire-based capabilities. Likewise, the King imparting the knowledge ...
2025-04-10 20:05:10 +0000 UTC
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Princess Finnakynne was busy burying her face in bumblebee fluff. But, for some odd reason, the bumblebee was buzzing its wings. She tried to ignore it, but the giant wings beating right by her ears were too loud to ignore.
“Ugh, what’s going on here, Bumbly?”
She popped her head out of the fuzz to find her fluffy pillow hovering by a giant flower. Smaller bumblebee workers flew up to her and began circling around her. They then flew over and landed on the flower, rolling ar...
2025-04-09 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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And so, the fifth and final book of Terminate the Other World! has released! E-book, audiobook, and paperback are now available, for the entire series...
2025-04-08 20:20:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar spent some time on other things while Chief Rohsuak checked on Juosiutik. His little outburst had used up a lot of his mana, so he took the chance to experiment with new beehouse designs for the swimming bees. He was currently standing by the Apiary’s Pond and placed a beehouse at a depth where the water came up to the bottom of the house’s hive chambers. He had carved a hole in the bottom to serve as an entrance.
He frowned and crossed his arms. The water lapped up and int...
2025-04-08 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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