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Poison Resistance is level 32!
Atar shook his head, trying to clear the sharp ringing from his ears. The world tumbled end over end, but the solid, unmoving ice beneath his fingers told him it was a false sensation. What wasn’t were the chunks of masonry that rained down upon them, glancing pow...
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“War? With who?” Atar asked, stepping free of his now-dull array. His breastplate had dimmed and cooled off enough for him to shrug a black robe over it. “And why?”
“War among themselves,” Karys explained. He handed the opened scroll to Zara as he stepped into her office. “Prince Tevin has captured our emissaries on their ...
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In the lower halls of the Elderthrone Temple, Karys paced.
A thousand and one issues rolled through his Mind, each one sorted into discrete categories for him to handle. The management of the city was his top priority, though in reality he was in charge of all Nagast. Thankfully, the Territory consisted of only three cities, and Haarwatch was...
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Mantle of the Stormlord!
Talon of Tumult!
A yowling moss green cat fell, easily five times the size of the Dire Hound puppy it had faced, but more than overmatched.
You Have Killed A Bogcat!
XP Earned!
Pit stood tall, covered in a shimmering aurora, like a storm held tight to his fur. The monster ha...
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Felix shifted again. No matter his position, he couldn’t find comfort. He’d even shaped the ground into a low seat for himself, smoothing it out and adding a nice lumbar support. It took him a solid ten minutes to figure out the discomfort wasn’t from anything physical, but from inside.
The pain from Pit had ratcheted up considerabl...
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By the end of that first day, their team had made significant progress across the swamp. The Dragon statues that marked the Gloaming Way forced them to take many less-than-efficient routes, often circling around large stands of trees or clusters of a particular kind of tall grasses. Beef had moaned about it more than once, even though his newly evolved Skill was more ef...
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Felix leaned down, running his hand over a stretch of stone he’d just shaped. It was smooth and slightly peaked so that water could run off its sides, and it extended for perhaps two hundred feet in an unerringly straight line.
“Looks good,” Harn said. He wasn’t wearing his armor and his scarred face was pulled tight in an expression Felix had long learned mea...
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Pain blinded him as much as the dark. Beef reached out, thick hands grasping at nothing but weeds, algae, and the furry bulk that crushed him low into the mud. Water clogged his nostrils, blinded his eyes, and weighed down his limbs as much as the Crawler. Those tendrils yanked at his horns, tipping Beef’s head back and up—exposing his neck. Th...
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Hallow Rise is level 73!
Keratin Conception is level 74!
Beef groaned and sat back on a twisted tree trunk. Bedlam sat there, largely unused over the past several hours. It radiated a frosty mist, its head of ice entirely too cold for the rising temperatures in the swamp, and having it close was vaguely similar to standing in front of the A...
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Felix tested the ground, and watched the thick, stagnant water to either side bubble. “There’s a core of rock, but it’s definitely unstable.”
After hours of descent, they had reached the lower portion of the valley. Each step made the advent of spring more impossible to ignore, until the warm damp in the air clung to them like a second sk...
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The more Felix experimented, the more he discovered. Before when he would activate one of his shaping Skills, it would set his Shaping Array to rattling. They were so close to harmonizing that they shook, like feedback from a speaker. Dissonance. Now that he was paying attention however, Felix could tell that Astrum Ascendence inundated his core space. It coated his...
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The night moved on. Darkness held fast as the campfire was doused and everyone eventually retired to their beds. Or retired to the perimeter, like the Eidolons, where they stood like sentinels.
Do they sleep? Pit wondered. Does Karys?
The thought hadn’t ever occurred to the tenku before. They all had artificial Bodies, so his...
2023-10-06 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Aw man, I’m stuck.” Chitin groaned, buckling under the weight of Pit’s huge new Body. “Why’d they make these doors so narrow?”
Felix shrugged. “I told you. Want me to break it?”
“Ah, hold on! I made that when you were a LOT smaller,” Beef said, lifting his hands. Brown-green Mana flowed from his palms and into the hut. It ...
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Felix was jolted awake by a familiar combination: searing pain and a flood of notifications.
“Ah, Jesus,” he hissed, pressing a hand to his chest. It was bare and hot to the touch, but the pain soon faded. He blinked. Naked, save for the blanket pooled around his hips, he sat atop a mound of soft furs next to a banked fire and the still-d...
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“Get off of him!” Felix growled, and the sound was like thunder. He hurtled straight for Avet’s multi-jointed fingers, his strange, nightmare form sprouting teeth and claws by the hundreds. The ease at which he’d been able to change his shape had come as a surprise to Felix, as it wasn’t a Skill…just an application of his Mind.
And it was damn effe...
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The rocky tunnel was short, compared to what his team had traversed so far. In thirty minutes, Eigan had stepped through the opening of a cave and into a bright and sunny afternoon. The rest followed closely after.
“It’s warmer out than I expected,” Beef said, lifting a thick hand to block out the orange sunlight. “And later. Is that west?”<...
2023-09-29 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostToday is the first day of extra releases! M/W/Th/Fri this week through to the end of October!
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WHERE IS IT?
Felix jolted back, kicking off the ground and landing a solid ten feet away before he realized the screaming howl had come from inside of him.
Hunger?
I SMELL IT,...
2023-09-28 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey Fiends!
The eighth book in the Unbound saga has been released unto the world! Ebook/KU/Audible versions are all live, and paperback will show up within a few days.
Already, the amount of folks that preordered have blown my socks off! Thank you!
Kindle Unlimited/Ebook Link
Audiobook Link
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Book 8 - Vault is releasing today! Available now on Amazon and Audible!
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“You Unbound; so very violent.” The skeleton let loose a lon...
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Escaping the Bethir nest proved to be simple enough. While strong, the creatures were not proficient at digging through solid stone, certainly not hundreds of feet of it. Once they had put enough distance between them and the squashed cavern, all signs of pursuit vanished. Which was lucky, because everyone, Felix included, was beat...
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inexorable enkindling!
“Primal Firestorm!” Atar shouted, and his voice overlapped with Flame’s own.
The emerald inferno washed over them, but it was nothing. Atar’s Body had turned to white flame which rendered him immune to the attack’s damage, and his other Skill pulled the viridescent Mana into his ch...
2023-09-22 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Fire and lightning.
Water and shadow.
Blood, air, and deepest earth.
Symbols swam out of the depths of his Mind and into his core, their shapes holding fast. They flared as they resonated with pillars of flame and rattled obsidian cages hewn from the vast dark, growing stronger with every passing moment. Mana flowed through him, carrying p...
2023-09-20 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEDITED UPDATE!
Everyone Will Read The End Of Book 8!
I brought this issue to my publisher, and they agreed to a solution so that all my readers can catch the end of this book. RR will get their chapters, just only the most recent ones. All the earlier chapters, from the start til the most recent three, will be removed from RR/SH.
Many thanks to RSCA who suggested a similar solution, and prompted my investigation with my publisher.
H...
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“Eidolons! Defend!” Vess commanded before engaging On The Wing and running forward as fast as she could.
The Bethir were faster still. Their many legs blurred, sliding over the terrain as if it were ice, and their large maws opened to unleash a barrage of deadly lightning.
“Chains of the Protector!”
“Keratin C...
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“Monster! Master Tier!” Evie howled, her voice nearly drowned out by the thing that followed her.
Their responses varied. The Chanters were busy at Harn’s side, hands glowing as they applied some Skill to the unconscious man. The Eidolons were already on their feet, arms lifted in defensive postures as they advanced toward the beast. Ha...
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Some time later, Archie sat himself a fair distance from the central glowstone; far enough away that he didn’t have to listen to Beef’s incessant questions, but close enough that he wasn’t tempting some monster to sneak up and eat him. It was a delicate balance. Yet the longer Beef spoke to the Chanter, the more Archie was tempted to ...
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The cavern had a squeezed feeling to it, for all that it was perhaps fifty feet wide at the narrowest. The ceiling hung a shade too low, the walls bulged, and his glowing ice lights revealed layers of striations at least thirty deep. They were far below the surface, where untold pressures had hollowed out the earth, and even the air felt ...
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“You can’t just rip open the walls,” Laur said, pushing forward as if Felix were about to do exactly that. “The wards will detect it and send word to the nearest citadel. See? This array cluster, here.”
Felix did see, and he lowered his hand. “How fast do they respond?”
“Typically they inspect ward failure as soon as it occurs. D...
2023-09-08 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Standing atop the hidden cliff, they were confronted with two distinct problems. The first was the height. If there had ever been a ramp or stairs leading to this section of the Low Roads, it had been demolished for centuries. There were no ways to reach the cavern below aside from jumping or flight.
The second problem was tied somewhat to the first: to re...
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Name: Felix Nevarre
Level: 68
Race: Primordial of the Unseen Tide (Greater)*
Omen: Magician
Path: Cardinal Fiend
Born Trait: Keen Mind
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Health: 16050/16050
Stamina: 15522/15522
Mana: 14211/14211
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STR: 4184
PER: 3245
VIT: 3240...