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When the outer doors opened, Felix was greeted by the sight of six men and women garbed in chain and leather armor. A hooded cloak hung from their back and looped across their shoulders and chests like a mantle, made of dark material that was one part purple to two parts gray. Emblazoned on it was that badge he'd seen before: a simple, embroidered circle of five black slashes against a red and blue background.
"Lord Autarch!" the nearest of t...
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Without lifting any of the items from the Chest, Felix activated his identifying Skill.
Voracious Eye.
Name: Crown of Sea and Stone
Type: Raiment (Enchanted)
Lore: Made of hekite coral and purified water Mana crystal, the Crown of Sea and Stone is more than simple headgear. Crafted in the First Age for the founding Queen of Ahkestria, it, along with the Scepter and Orb, were symbols of her Authority over the seas o...
2022-04-16 16:42:03 +0000 UTC
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Lots of System messages today. Enjoy!
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First Evolution: Primordial Stormwing!
You Gain:
+200 AGL
+100 DEX
+100 END
+75 INT
+50 WIL
New Level Up Bonuses!
+10 to STR, +9 to PER, +4 to VIT, +11 to END, +7 to INT, +10 to WIL, +20 to AGL, +20 to DEX Per Level!
+10 to AFI, RES, REI Per Level!
Skills Have Changed!
Bite (Common) Has Become Bloody...
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I—
He floated in gelid darkness, buffeted by currents he could not see. There was no thought, no memory or experience beyond the now. There was no him.
I am—
Then there was. Thoughts and phrases trickled into a space in the dark, a swirling configuration of whispered light and sound. Patterns formed from them, twisting around and through one another, weaving and knotting in the strangest of way...
2022-04-13 17:59:36 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy! This is the start of Book 7.
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Fear the blackened skies and the mountains that fall, fear the breaking of chains. Fear the untethered demons you have loosed, fear that their collars may slip. Fear. For the Night descends.
-Seer Ceros, Primarch of the Invisible Eye
The Shining City of Amaranth was the gleaming core of the Hierocracy, the center of its commerce and the beating heart of its A...
2022-04-11 17:30:20 +0000 UTC
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Been a long week, folks. Sorry for the delay. But here you are! Enjoy!
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Evolution Complete!
Congratulations, Guardian Beast!
First Evolution: Primordial Stormwing!
You Gain:
+200 AGL
+100 DEX
+100 END
+75 INT
+50 WIL
Skills Have Changed!
Do You Wish To Review?
No! Pit let out a joyous screech and emerged from Felix's Spirit in a blaze of glory, ready to reveal his newer, s...
2022-04-10 12:21:45 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 420 is proving annoying to wrangle. I'll have it up a little later tonight, my friends.
Thank you for your patience.
2022-04-09 21:30:14 +0000 UTC
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WHEW! 4262 words in this one. One more tomorrow and that's the end of Book 6! Book 7 To start Monday!
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Begin Challenge!
Rime Shaping!
Ice flowed upward, forming into a three-foot deep rampart ahead of Felix...and the Grandmaster smashed right through it.
"You'll have to do better than that!" he said, and fire streamed from the gray mage's mouth. "Burn!"
A cone of flame erupted from the Grandmaster's face, fo...
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Fiendforge is level 14!
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Fiendforge is level 18!
Haim was dead. The Paladins and undead scattered. The Golems...smashed. Felix had to double check that one, but their conjured carcasses were slowly dissipating back into the atmosphere.
The Primordial was gone, and all that remained was the immense Skyslain's Riposte. Its flesh had been subsumed by his Sovereign of Flesh, torn apart and manually drawn through Felix...
2022-04-06 17:53:37 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! I'm here to announce the exciting news that Unbound is getting published!
The excellent people over at Mountaindale Press (run by the super cool Dakota Krout) are publishing, and that means Book One - Dissonance! is coming out on May 4th!
It'll be available as an ebook (through both Kindle and Kindle Unlimited), audiobook, and paperback! The audiobook is narrated by the awesomely tale...
2022-04-06 15:19:08 +0000 UTC
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WHAT IS THIS?
The Highest Flame's tendrils flickered and vanished from his channels. Atar fell, hitting the ash hard enough for something in his knee to snap. He sprawled into the scorching soot, too consumed with pain to pull back from it all. Worst of all, the curse within his legs sped upward, no longer held at bay by the Flame's influence. It raced up his calves, knees, and lower thighs...before halting again. The screamin...
2022-04-04 17:02:44 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy! Just a few more chapters to the end of this volume.
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The last Paladin Inscriptionist crashed to the ground, their head nothing more than a mashed mess. A few feet away, the Primordial's nasty bones shook and pulsed, but Beef refused to look at it—the horror made him nauseous. He straightened up and rested his maul against his shoulder with a grunt. The thing was riddled with cracks, each one leaking bright lights of blackened-green light, but he co...
2022-04-02 18:52:13 +0000 UTC
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The whirlwind of obliterating grime tore at him, shredding his battlerobes, and Atar was nearly thrown from his feet. Instead, he fetched up against the piling ash and bones of those that fell before him and he gasped, once, his mouth filling with soot and dust. At his feet, where the flask had shattered, his boots withered and broke apart.
The curse!
Atar kicked off his boots, shoving his feet into the burning ash with a strangled ...
2022-04-01 14:12:56 +0000 UTC
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Suspended within Felix's Spirit, Pit could only watch as Felix fought the red-shelled Haim. Points of light danced before Pit's eyes—access to Felix's senses—and he let out outraged squawks as bursts of light Mana broke over his Companion. Over and over again. The sigaldry around them kept Felix hemmed in, flaring with caustic radiance each time he stepped too close. Felix was hurt and bleeding, but so was Haim. The protection the Paladins held ...
2022-03-30 15:58:55 +0000 UTC
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"Atar." Alister took an involuntarily step backward, clutching the boy-child to his chest. The swaddled toddler squirmed and shook. "Atar, what's going on?"
The pillar of the Highest Flame, thirty stride wide and more than fifty strides tall, was now filled with a storm of whirling sand and dust. Fire flashed through it, but it was in striated bursts that glassed sections of the wheeling cyclone, and those vanished into the impenetrable surfac...
2022-03-28 17:45:46 +0000 UTC
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Birthday was a success! Enjoy!
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The Paladins came through the city like a red scourge, and nowhere was their brutal fury more concentrated than the inner sanctum of the Highest Flame. Evie dodged a glimmering bolt of light even as she came face to face with the fiery swords of the Temple Knights. She parried a blade, deftly engaging her Born Trait.
"Ah!" the Temple Knight cried out, the tip of his sword falling to the tiled floors.
Evie stabbed ...
2022-03-27 04:41:07 +0000 UTC
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Just an FYI: today is my son’s birthday and that’s consuming my attention more than a little bit. Chapter will be up today still, but not until later tonight so I can spend some time with my family. Ideally the chapter would have been done last night, but it has proven difficult to wrangle.
That said, we're nearing the end of this book. Probably about 5-6 more chapters (roughly estimating). After that we'll be moving right onto Book 7.
2022-03-26 15:11:55 +0000 UTC
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With an earth-shattering crash, the Nightfall Golems landed. Their vaguely humanoid, twenty-foot tall forms were stocky and squared, and as they spread their limbs they revealed bright, glimmering blades at the ends of their stout arms.
"Do I throw them at the bone-monster too?" Beef shouted at Felix. Then yelped as the nearest Golem slammed a blade into the ground, exploding tiles in all directions. "AH!"
Felix shifted, intending to go ...
2022-03-25 12:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Sounding his Skill but holding its activation back with his Intent and Willpower, Felix focused instead on pouring clouds of acid-green Mana from his channels. He stood at the edge of the balcony, careful to keep himself from leaning over and exposing himself, though he shouldn't have worried. The chaos below and raging forces of the Primordial's cage the Paladins were contending with had consumed all of their attention. Which meant he had time to p...
2022-03-23 15:28:06 +0000 UTC
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Made a mistake last chapter, called it 409 but it was 408. Now for the real thing.
Enjoy!
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The battle had been joined.
Atar watched Harn hew his way through the Knights, taking down their Captains with brutal speed. The Claw was behind him, roaring defiance as they flooded into the inner sanctum. Blade met Blades, and Bones, and Fists, with the crackling charge of Arclight to back them up. Knights died by the score against the improved coordination...
2022-03-21 14:20:03 +0000 UTC
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Entering the huge palace atop the hill was like walking into a graveyard. Utter silence enveloped them, and every scrape of boot or jangle of harness felt like an explosion of sound. Very soon after entering, Felix had all of them stop and wait while he mustered up his concentration.
Abyssal Skein!
Felix made sure to extend it over all of them, Hallow's Risen included. There were far more of those than previously, the various Pa...
2022-03-19 14:18:47 +0000 UTC
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Cobb was sweating, and his back ached fiercely. It was cold in the dungeons they had been shoved into, but so many of his fellow miners had been crammed together that all the small Goblin felt was an intense, swampy heat. It was enough that some of the older folk had passed out, and even though it cost the rest of them more space Cobb had made sure to give them room enough to lie down. At least some of them could have a little comfort, before the en...
2022-03-18 15:41:16 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy! We're getting into it now.
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Abyssal Skein is level 50!
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Abyssal Skein is level 57!
Journeyman Tier!
You Gain:
+10 PER
+10 EVA
+10 FEL
Felix learned quickly that covering so many with his Void Skill was exhausting work. It overtaxed even his Mana regeneration after only a half hour, which slowed them all considerably. The sheer pressure of the Mana around them was the problem—the potent crystals of g...
2022-03-16 16:11:33 +0000 UTC
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Had a little internet issues, and couldn't upload! Fixed now though. Enjoy!
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Thankfully, Felix's gamble paid off. With Beef walking so close to him, the extremely sophisticated sequence of arrays lit with power...but ultimately didn't distinguish the Minotaur from the welcomed Primordial. Hallow was a different story: the Risen that the spirit controlled simply waltzed through the path, and the arrays didn't even flicker.
Like they're part of the Tomb...
2022-03-14 16:47:58 +0000 UTC
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Now that Beef had a Taunt Skill, things moved faster.
The Minotaur would charge ahead, use his Desperate Provocation, and snag at least a dozen enemies at once. All undead. The canyon was utterly filled with the things, as they had killed everything else, monster or otherwise. Beef would use Relentless Charge to move through them, gathering more and more before turning tail and running. It took some coordination to get it right, since he had t...
2022-03-12 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Fire washed over the grass, setting all of it alight instantly. Vess danced backward, just ahead of the flames and spun all seven of her conjured Spears in unison. Air Mana surged, flooding the fire Mana of the attack—consuming the vegetation utterly but extinguishing the flames.
Dragoon's Footwork is level 74!
They had been fighting for a half glass, and this was their second wave of Temple Knights that ha...
2022-03-11 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Lightning shattered the tunnel, again and again, forcing Felix to continually remake it. The sands rebelled, fighting his control but he seized them with all the weight of his Will and Intent...and still only barely managed to stave off total destruction. Yellow lightning blasted into him, sizzling across his hands and arms, moving less like true electricity and more like a living creature.
"GAH!" Beef yelled, a piece of the storm's fury leaping o...
2022-03-09 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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<Now.>
Loquis gestured and the Blades in his Talon crept forward. The sun was high in the sky, but that only meant the glare reflected off the Mana crystal lamps, ruining the guards vision. The Blades struck, and the guards died, quietly.
All around the grounds, guards fell, killed by the other Talons and the commanders. Commander Harn and Reed were hulking brutes, but they moved faster than Loquis could track. The Talons moved, as...
2022-03-07 17:32:37 +0000 UTC
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400 Chapters! Very cool. I've written over 1.5 million words in this series to date and that is extremely cool. Here's to another million!
Enjoy!
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The temporary estate of Representative Veil, delegate from the Territory of Nagast was silent as the grave. The gates, so wrapped in wards that they shimmered in the midday sun, were a bulwark against all any violence that might crash against it. The walls were tall, crenelated and defensively constructed,...
2022-03-05 17:15:17 +0000 UTC
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One more to 400! Woo!
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The morning dawned on the Risen Ward, and already the streets were crowded. Most notably, folks gathered thickest near the Temple and Council Rotunda, where a wide platform had been erected in the night. The Matrons and Masters stood behind a minor official as they offered a proclamation. From her position across the Ward, Zara could not make out the entire speech, but it was easy enough to guess the rest of it.
They're rallying the peop...
2022-03-04 16:06:11 +0000 UTC
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