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Chapter 434 - A Report Out Of Time

Night was wearing a simple outfit, yet was clearly a known commodity. Guards snapped to attention as he approached, and he slowly paced the halls as if they were his own home.

For all I knew, it had been his home, once upon a time.

I also noticed he’d ‘fixed’ his level, and was displaying as a [Warrior - 2988]. That probably helped us get through most obstacles. Maybe that’s why the guards were snapping to, instead of them knowing him? Asking anyone if the...

Book 7 Audiobook out!

Sorry all, didn't mean to make a standalone post about this, I just plain forgot to make an author's note about it.

Remember: ADHD is not a superpower :P

Book 7 is out on Audible! Competing with He Who Fights With Monsters releasing on the same day, I am SO bleeped when it comes to the competition. https://www.audible.com/pd/Beneath-the-Dragoneye-Moons-7-Audiobook/B0BY...

Chapter 433 - One Small Favor

Night and Arachne traded amused looks.

“I do believe a full debrief and discussion is warranted under the circumstances and conditions.” Night said. “However, I am not the person to make the decision, in any respect. That falls upon Arachne, and the greater command.”

There was barely a pause before Arachne spoke.

“I’m in agreement with Night. This is a strong opportunity to level for all involved, and I’ve just sent out the signal to meet in approxim...

Chapter 432 - A Reunion Written in Stone

AN: early *Monday* chapter thanks to everyone's participation in the AMA, and because I am a generous and merciful author! Next chapter is *Wednesday*.

Happy 40th Birthday idvsego!

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Night looked both different and the same. There was an ageless quality to him, pieces of him that hadn’t changed, that made him instantly recognizable across the eons. The white hair and red eyes were the same. The face. Other parts were different. While the ta...

I'm doing an AMA on r/books! Come ask me questions!

Hey all!

Doing an AMA on r/books! Come join and ask me questions!

https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/12n7id8/im_selkie_myth_author_of_beneath_the_dragoneye/?

Chapter 431 - The Hunt for Night VIII

Chapter's a bit early, because, well, it's all exciting. Climax of the book! Sharing is fun!

Enjoy! Next chapter is Monday.

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I continued to slowly sway from the ceiling, focusing on [Channeled Blink]. My improved biology was stopping the blood from rushing to my head, letting me think clearly.

I just needed to keep this vampire talking for fifteen, twenty minutes tops, and I’d be out of here.

Time to take stock of what I had. Fi...

Chapter 430 - The Hunt for Night VII

I sat on the sidelines, sore, and thoroughly thrashed after our light sparring exercise. It was no surprise that Iona utterly outclassed me, I just hadn’t expected to be outclassed so hard. A good reminder that physical Classers, true physical [Warriors] at my level were better than I was. That I only had one direct fighting class, that I only had [Sentinel’s Superiority], compared to the round dozen or more skills a [Warrior] had.

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Chapter 429 - The Hunt for Night VI

AN: This is Monday's chapter, out super early. We had to put down our dog yesterday, which has been devastating. Please forgive me if some chapters aren't released exactly on time in the next week - there will be three chapters, just the timing might get thrown off.

Enjoy!

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“Hi! Can I help you!” I asked the group of blue headband-wearing men who’d just come into my little clini...

Chapter 428 - The Hunt for Night V

“How’d it go?” I asked Iona. We were back at the inn after a long day of getting shit done, sitting around a lovely meal.

This [Innkeeper] was great! Being right on a major road to a major city had to help with their levels.

She was all smiles, it must’ve gone well.

“Excellent! No leads on Night, but I might have an answer to our housing.”

“OOooh! Do tell!” I squirmed happily in my chair, eager to hear what Iona had to say.

She pu...

Chapter 427 - The Hunt for Night IV

I could barely sit still through the rest of the play I was so excited. I spun off a [Parallel Thought] to pay attention while I practically vibrated thinking over the implications.

I’d never fully read through The Tale of Princess Kaguya, also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or Taketori Monogatari. I was familiar with it, but not enough to fully tell the story. I’d had dozens, hundreds of other stories that I’d told inst...

April Announcements!

Hey all!

Just a quick set of monthly announcements:

1) Admin week is the week of the 24th this month.

2) I'm doing an AMA on r/books on April 15th. Links n such will be on Discord when it launched!

3) In relation to the AMA, I've poked the web comic people to have some promotional material for it. Here's hoping they'll deliver in time! I've been getting sketches and things are looking nice, even if it's on the slow side.

4) Podium's gears grind slowly, but ...

Chapter 426 - The Hunt for Night III

Amber was back! Hurray! What a lucky coincidence.

“Sit! Sit! We were just talking about you! Did you get my letter?” I asked, before realizing the timing didn’t work out at all. We’d just barely arrived, and we came almost directly from the School, forget a letter making it to any of its destinations.

Amber sat down with a grateful sigh, rubbing her leg. She idly flipped her coin, and it moved oddly, landing sunny side up.

“Letter? No, I didn’t ...

Chapter ??? - Meanwhile, the sidekicks

The realm of the fae connected to all worlds, forming the greatest crossroad in the multiverse. Smart travelers, those who knew the Rules, those who treated the realm with the proper respect such a deadly place deserved, could use the realm to quickly and easily hop between worlds.

Others… others did not.

“BRRRRRRRPT!!!!!!!” Auri screamed as she fled, chased by a flock of pixies. She hadn’t know! This wasn’t fair! It was only two fields of flowers! They were practically ...

Iona Tier Incentive for March

Just in time!

As always, discretion at work.

https://imgur.com/a/D39l0mL

Chapter 425 - Interlude - Amber - The Endlessly Spinning Coin

AN: Admin week next week. I am exhausted. I feel physically ill with how tired I am, mostly due to Flora deciding that sleep was for the weak. Schedule should still be fine as-is, will let you all know soonish when April's admin week is going to be.

Enjoy!

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3,539. The number floated above Amber’s map, letting her know the global average of what the map was ‘worth’.

The coin spinning on the map ha...

Chapter 424 - The Hunt for Night II

[Parallel Thoughts] was brilliant for situations like this. I split my mind in two, one focusing on the scribe, the other processing all the outrage and other feelings I was having. Much healthier.

I thanked the scribe, she welcomed me to Exterreri, all good stuff. Back to what I was feeling.

I was mad because of how easy it was. I’d spent two decades fighting to be acknowledged as a person, much less a citizen. It just felt so unfair that I could be declared a ...

Chapter 423 - The Hunt for Night I

[Parallel Thoughts] was my new favorite skill. I could do four things at once! I could navigate the streets of Sanguino, drinking in all the sights. I could work on my spellbooks, designing new spells. My immediate need for a comb had gotten me thinking about all manner of tools that I’d want on hand. Didn’t matter how specialized they were, I had the time to make them. Lastly, I could think about those threads I was seeing.

They weren’t quite omnipresent, but the...

Chapter 422 - Landing in Sanguino!

AN: I was perhaps a hair too subtle last chapter. But then again, wild speculation is fun! I will say you'll get to know everything before the end of this book. Fun to see everyone's thoughts!

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The massive bat made out of Ash was the clear calling sign of Sanguino, and seeing it on the horizon let us know we were almost there. A few other cities occasionally had their own Ash cloud in a different shape, but there was a degree of civic pride. Nobody had the same sym...

Chapter 421 - A polite conversation

We - Auri, Iona, and myself - stopped a polite distance away from each other, the Rangers just barely outside my sphere of perception. It was close enough that we could easily hear and talk, given our System-enhanced abilities, but far away that we could have a fraction of a second to react if anyone started anything.

Not that we were planning to, but I suspected they were acting out of an abundance of caution. Iona was displaying as a level 520 [Warrior]... ri...

Chapter 420 - Blazing through the sky to Sanguino!

I frowned as we walked back through the halls of the fort, back to the exit we’d made.

“Hang on.” I said as it clicked what was missing. “Something’s wrong here.”

Iona paused.

“What’s wrong?”

“Money.” I said, the one thing I hadn’t seen any of finally bringing itself to my attention as I’d thought of Amber and how she’d go nuts over this much wealth.

“This place is worth a lot, what do you mean?” Iona asked.

“We haven’t s...

Elaine Fanart - Elaine in Nippon-Koku

A huge thanks to Dragonkinn for getting the piece commissioned from Emil K! https://www.artstation.com/beautaeful

Zoom in, the piece is huge and gorgeous. 

Chapter 419 - Immortal Hideout II

AN: Book 8 is out in paperback! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BGQK6LGT

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I looked at the book I was failing to pull into [Bookwyrm’s Hoard], getting unreasonably excited. I couldn’t bring non-books into [Hoard]! Secret hiding spot for valuables!

By some divine grace, by some miracle of the moon goddess...

Chapter 418 - Immortal Hideout I

Pekari bricks tumbled with carved stone as Iona finished punching through the wall. I slapped my forehead as I stepped back.

“Oi! That could’ve been structural or something! I was going to [Blink] through it!” I said.

Iona shook her head.

“I’ve made myself very, very familiar with what’s structural in underground lairs and what isn’t.” She firmly said. “That was nowhere close to being supportive. Plus, I wanted to come as ...

Chapter 417 - Pekari III

AN: Patreon is doing some DUMB STUFF with spoilers and revealing basically everything as a "teaser". I am not amused, nor are most other authors. One proposed possible fix is to turn posts into image posts. I thought about it, and hey, it might be nice to have the cover at the start of the chapter.

What do you all think? Does it look nice? Is it pleasant? Or would you rather no image at the start?

I'll probably run a poll tomorrow asking about it!

Less rambling, more chap...

Chapter 416 - Pekari II

Iona continued subvocalizing to me as the adventurers scrambled to get into position.

“We’re all in it against the Pekari, and I doubt they’re a threat to us. Paris’s skill is low level. Still, keep an eye out. People don’t intentionally take the skill unless they mean to use it.”

My eyes drifted to Auri, who probably hadn’t heard any of that. I hadn’t quite mastered the fine art of speaking super quietly, but it only took a moment to think of the right th...

Chapter 415 - Pekari I

Iona didn’t wait for Fenrir to land. She leapt off his back as soon as we were over the village, using [Flight of the Valkyries] to accelerate her downward velocity. I pulled a face as she landed, sinking up to her knees in the hard-packed dirt.

She almost blurred to my sight as she pulled herself out of the ground and started running around, moving into position to catch half a falling house one moment - [Grasp of the Moon] was stup...

Iona Tier Incentive - Last one!

Last pair of Iona tier incentives for the month! It's February after all!

Elaine: https://imgur.com/yUtUXx3

Artemis: https://imgur.com/DvrQbWX

Enjoy!

Iona tier incentive for Feb! Another one!

Ravensdagger did some fan fiction of BTDEM, Iona x Elaine!

Warning: Artwork as well as text!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Bc1qVcrZZ8IrHB__D7_U9CNpKflUCM2W_jXw6rM4MI/edit#

If you like it, he writes more stuff like Stray Cat Strut: https://www.royalroad.co...

Chapter 414 - To Exterreri!

AN: And we're back! Once again I'm so sorry for that. I really hope it doesn't happen again. With that being said, I'm rested, refreshed, and ready to go! I have some Very Nice artwork coming. I had some hopes it'd be done by now, but it's not.

I know it's been a while, so this is Monday's chapter a little early. Wednesday's chapter should be at the normal time.

Thank you all again! Now back to Elaine!

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“Think they’re going to chase us?” I a...

Schedule Update, and BTDEM - The Flamethrower!

Hey all!

First! Communicating often, communicating well.

Last week was my emergency "oh shit I'm about to burnout horribly I need a break" week. I did my absolute best not do ANYTHING on that week relating to BTDEM, and I'm feeling decent. Fairly recharged, ready to keep at this!

With that said, this is now my *admin* week, where I deal with the fucking mountains of paperwork and other administrative tasks around BTDEM. I once again have a list a mile long of things to do, ...