A shorter one, but this is getting resolved tomorrow (Friday 11/17).
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Thunderwing is level 73!
Pit shot through the sky, ignoring entirely the spells and Skills that shot at him from below. He was far too fast to be hit by the few that noticed him, and all Pit had eyes for was the glowing stone crater near the city wall.
Felix! I am on the way!
There was no response from his Companion, only a thunderous crescendo of c...
2022-11-18 03:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostA few more before this book is complete. Onward!
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burn them! shatter them!
Atar shoved the molten crown away, dropping the rage and arrogance that stifled his Spirit whenever he used it, and fell to his knees. His sudden burst of mental and spiritual stats helped, but more was the surge of potency that accompanied his fall.
Stars of the Sovereign is level 85!
Lens of the Magus is level 79!
Incendiary Vortex is leve...
Alright, as most of you know, I've never really taken any time off in the three years I've been at this. Partly this is because I've been working hard to get this story out of my brain, and partly because, well, serialization doesn't really lend itself to taking breaks.
However, in an effort to rest my wrists, my mind, and get ahead of my writing, I'm going to take December off from posting. I will suspend payments during the month, so folks won't have to worry about that, and will be ...
Sorry for the wait! Enjoy!
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Dodge is level 75!
Adept Tier!
You Gain:
+20 DEX
+20 AGL
+30 PER
Felix dodged the High Guard’s weapon, feeling the edge of a whirlwind flow in its path as System energy flooded him. The increase was relatively minor for him, but in the heat of the moment he felt his muscles loosening and his joints bending a fraction of an inch more as the colors around him crept to...
2022-11-13 02:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“It’s injured,” an Inquisitor pointed out, staring at his own broken sword in annoyance. Behind them, well away from the downed Dragon, their lessers surged around the impediment on their way toward the frontlines. All was wet, squelching mud and a splashy din among the clattering armor and shouted Skills. “Now’s our chance. Kill it now!”
“You kill it,” another Inquisitor shot back, while blood seeped from a gash across his for...
2022-11-10 16:05:27 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Ouranic Override Removed!
Chthonic Authority Recognized!
The words repeated in Felix’s head, but he hadn’t the time to figure them out; he was too busy laughing like a madman as he and his friends rode through a gap in the world atop a freaking Dragon.
Title Evolution!
Voidwalker (Epic) Has Become Chthonic Traveler (Divine)!
Chthonic Traveler (Divine)!
You walk in plac...
Bit later than promised, but I figured this would be a good way to end a Friday. Enjoy!
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Volleys of arrows filled the sky, erupting in tangling vines and thorn-spitting plants as a mace made of compacted earth smashed the redcloaks back. Erupting spikes of steel stabbed through boot and greave, hobbling the lower leveled Initiates while sizzling acid burst from hastily inscribed sigaldry.
The Hierocratic forces led with their weakest at the fore, and...
2022-11-04 23:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! Another chapter is in the works, will be up tomorrow morning!
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“Mervin! Above!”
Without conscious thought, Mervin Cors lifted his shield, Mana sizzling atop it in a sporadic show of blue light. Thankfully, the Skill—or more likely, the thick slab of steel on his arm—was enough to stop the gleaming Fire Arrows.
Shield Mastery is level 32!
Force Barrier is level 22!
It did not stop the charge of another Ini...
2022-11-03 16:23:39 +0000 UTC View PostMonday's chap! New chapter going up tomorrow!
Enjoy!
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<<That’s—that’s a heavy ask.>> Felix managed to keep his tone level, because he could feel the weight of the Dragon’s Spirit behind the words; he was serious. Buying for time, he adjusted the Garment around his shoulders. Mana flowed into it, restoring its torn appearance into a short jacket, tunic, and loose trousers. He looked to Vess, but she was still staring down the languid D...
Enjoy.
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<<Down!>> Beef warned and Isla leaped aside. Vess conjured Spears beneath the unmoving Bodies of Hallow and dragged them along, just as the War Naga rushed in. <<Keratin Conception!>>
Before Felix could move, a flood of dark energies spooled outward from the Minotaur, manifesting into giant, segmented legs of chitin. They crashed down, clasping around each of the War Naga with bone-shaking impact that briefly drove the brea...
2022-10-29 22:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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His Hunger began to feed.
The discarded ash that had fallen from the Creature’s damaged limbs was pulled in first. It had collected within the spinning halo of his Hunger, and for the first time Felix felt a thrill of power as it was consumed. There was no number—no counter within his notifications—but each morsel of Essence-flesh seemed to bolster something deep and primal within his cores.
FINALLY! his abyss thun...
2022-10-27 04:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Felix grappled with the power, his screams not abating in the slightest as he rode the current down into his dark core space. The process, which was normally as simple as breathing, was now fraught as he teetered on the razor’s edge of burnout. Not since the Ravager King had he felt so bloated with power.
I’m here! Pit cried out.
Just as with the Ravager King, Pit was a steady presence in his Spirit; the tenku siphoned pieces of...
2022-10-25 06:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Adamant Discord!
Skein of Fate!
The world bloomed open to Felix, a haze of connections that spread like spider’s silk in every conceivable direction, but he rocketed down toward the depths upon a thread the size of an ocean liner. The water boiled behind him as he all but became the lightning he rode upon.
“Chthonic Tribute!”
The shadow bubbled and shrieked, flaring outward in jagged spikes toward Felix’s outst...
2022-10-21 23:24:25 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! Slightly shorter, but Friday's chapter will be a doozy. See you then!
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For a single beat, the world before Vess hung between measures. A hundred competing rhythms congealed into a single, frozen caesura as the world itself inhaled.
The Fathom was dropping as its ooze-coated mass flared with horrid darkness. Pit swooped low, too far away but pushing forward valiantly, beating mighty wings that crackled with tempestuous fury. The War Naga stood g...
2022-10-20 15:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Within a maelstrom of burning sands, Beef stood with arms outstretched and eyes clenched shut.
“C’mon,” he muttered, ignoring the burn of heat on his tongue.
The fury of light and heat around him shifted, sands and golden radiance pulled into alignment by the slightest of margins. They shone, the sands turning red hot as they ground each other into molten glass, and the light flashed through it all, a corruscating circle of wild, untamed ...
2022-10-18 02:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostFinales are always tough. Gotta connect a few dots here, so apologies. Still catching up.
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Vess fell into the dark, blind, until a field of bones spread out below her. She twisted, pulling on her Agility and Dexterity to at least get her feet beneath her—yet it didn’t matter. She hit the field of bones and smashed right into them, the spread collapsing beneath her boots as easily as shifting sands.
She grasped a huge femur as she sank, desperate f...
2022-10-15 21:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Name: Fathom
Race: Moontouched Dusk Dragon (Manawarped)
…
The rest of the information washed over Vess, too much to absorb. Vast quantities of Health, Stamina, and Mana—indicators of a powerful set of Aspects that Vess couldn’t care less about. Before her was the physical embodiment of why the Dragoons existed, a Race of creatures that her mother had all but worshiped. The unstill shadows had assaulted her senses, ...
2022-10-13 16:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! We're getting into the heat of things now.
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Shadows shifted, moving like liquid among the freezing waters as they revealed the figures around them to be not monsters at all, but statues. Vess swallowed, eyes flicking between the hideous, unmoving shapes. They were built of ice-coated stone, utterly terrifying but crafted with a deft hand. They were scattered around them, set between the frozen roots that interruptedt he othe...
Enjoy!
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They descended again, a sickening lurch as powerful currents tore at them before the Lindwurms wriggled their way through.
Cold Resistance is level 22!
Vess shivered between the bars of their cage. Felix was still maintaining his Sunken Ward, which had warded off all sense of chill, pressure, and even moisture—but as the Lindwurms swarm further into the depths, its power began to wane. They had personal shields, thanks...
2022-10-09 02:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostWednesday's chapter. Friday's to follow soon.
Update: my wife has weathered COVID and is feeling much better, but is still positive. Thankfully neither I nor the kids have gotten it as of yet. I appreciate ya'll for understanding.
Enjoy!
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The forest felt weird, and Pit was worried. He padded silently through the underbrush, tail swishing through fronds and scattering droplets of early morning dew. His internal world, the forest of his home, was qu...
Managed to get this one done despite the chaos. Another tomorrow.
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<<You better know what you’re doing, Felix,>> Lady Isla muttered, as bars of iron and stone closed around them all.
Vess couldn’t help but agree. The survivors of the root tunnel had been tossed to earth after Felix’s violent display, and while the largest part of her cheered for him, the rest was keyed up with twitching anxiety. Too many Fathom spawn surrounded them, not...
2022-10-04 18:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo my family's non-COVID streak has run out. My wife has COVID and while I'm still negative, I am running a bit of a cold. So, this has thrown our household into a bit of turmoil, as you can imagine.
Chapters will come as I can manage, but my wife and kids' health comes first of course.
Thanks for the understanding.
Still playing catch up.
Book 4 is doing extremely well, having reached all the way down to rank 23 in the ENTIRE Amazon book store! That's incredible! It's fallen again now, but that's still amazingly impressive, and it's all thanks to you folks! Without your support here on Patreon (as well as on Amazon), I wouldn't be half as far along as I am today.
Thank you!
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“I thought we had more time,” Atar said, his voice barely above a whisper. ...
Enjoy!
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The Lamellan Titan stomped and the earth itself heaved. The battlements of Haarwatch shifted, jolting beneath Atar’s feet in an eerie rendition of a ship at sea; he stumbled and was only saved from tumbling off the wall by his stave’s sharpened end. With a desperate twist, the claws hidden in the tip latched tight to the rock, and he threw his free hand over the crenelation to steady himself.
pull with all your strength, child! you...
2022-09-29 23:04:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt'll be up tomorrow (Thursday) morning, just FYI.
2022-09-29 05:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostExciting times! New book is out!
Ebook/Paperback/Kindle Unlimited
Audiobook
I'm so psyched for this one. Thanks to all of you for the incredible support you've given me over months and years now. Without you, I wouldn'...
Enjoy!
Another chapter coming Wednesday!
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FELIX!
The ooze burst all around him, rendered into stinking vapor before streaming down into Felix’s gullet. Below, Beef still blazed too brightly to look at, but all around Felix the once omnipresent ooze had gone. His own core space felt stuffed full to bursting, but he couldn’t think on it. The way out was open, and that voice was Vess. She was in trouble.
FELI—...
2022-09-27 05:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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From above, the light within Beef’s core space was blinding, even to Felix’s powerful senses. Essence and Mana congealed, the storm now centered upon a point immediately below him as he floated in the space between.
Is he doing it? Pit asked, still dropping deadly magic on the writhing ooze abomination.
He’s doing something, Felix said.
Is it working?
He had only guesses, all based on the fric...
2022-09-24 18:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostNew schedule at home has thrown me off my game a bit, but we're rallying. Enjoy the chapter and see you again on Friday! (Update schedule is still MWF)
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Fiendforge is level 34!
Fiendforge is level 35!
Felix felt it when the storm rolled in. Primordial Essence—previously all but frozen just outside the bounds of Beef’s core space—now raged with all the pressure of once-dammed river.
He floated outside th...
2022-09-22 04:57:18 +0000 UTC View PostSomething about this chapter fought me hard. Had to rewrite it.
Enjoy!
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“Emptied Spirit.” Felix narrowed his eyes at the inverted woman. Not far from his side, Beef seemed to have fallen fully unconscious. “You don’t sound like Hallow, and you certainly don’t look like her.”
The beautiful older woman shifted her shoulders, her smile fading a bit more. “The voice you normally hear is filtered through Beef’s cor...
2022-09-20 20:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post