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Chapter 333 - They Were Roommates!

I looked up at the absolute unit of a unicorn, suddenly thinking that the extra-wide and tall passageways were a little on the small side.

Some questioning noises came from the inside, and a delicate elvenoid “pushed” aside the unicorn. She looked frail and pale, like a single snowflake drifting in the breeze. Her purple eyes were clouded with the characteristic look of a Mist classer. Interestingly, she wasn’t wearing the robes that the students of the School normally wore, and i...

Artwork - Elaine at the School!

Auri has the most ADORABLE hat.

Chapter 332 - Papers Please!

My bird’s eye view of the island vanished as we rapidly landed just outside the School area. A few dozen other barges were parked in the area, members of the School boarding another boat even as we landed. The doors opened, the ramps came down, and the surge of passengers exited. Shirayuki didn’t even gesture, simply striding off the boat with aplomb, fully expecting us to follow.

Like lost little ducklings, we did.

There was a grand wall dividing the School portion of the isl...

Artwork! The School! AI Generated.

I tried something new - AI generated artwork of the School. Flying island! With mini islands floating around it!

Artwork! Serondes!

Ok.
Not the most popular character, I know.

Nor is this the most timely artwork.

Sometimes, just sometimes... there's a bit of a lag between the idea, the commission, and actually getting it delivered.

Chapter 331 - Scholarships and Scoldings

One moment I was fighting a small mountain of metal, the next I was in a small room. The teleportation was disorienting, and I was still in the middle of some high-speed maneuvers and blasting my Radiance around.

Being teleported hadn’t stopped either of them, and I crashed into the wall of the tiny room before reorienting myself.

Right. Most people would be in a fight when they got ejected, and it’d be a bad idea to have people in the middle of casting huge skills to be telep...

Chapter 330 - Minor Interlude - Mormerilhawn - Dominance

[*ding!* You’ve unlocked the Class Skill [Searing Slap]. Would you like to replace a skill with [Searing Slap]?]

I dismissed the notification, mentally cursing my second class. It was supposed to be easy to pick up new skills - which it was, I could barely get out of bed without being offered something new - but apparently merging two skills wasn’t quite that easy, even though they had significant overlap.

Th...

Chapter 329 - Entrance Exams IV

I’d gotten in a small catnap after a few more duels, getting a feel for how strong people were. What tricks I needed to be on the lookout for, what had changed.

Frankly, it was hard to tell. On one hand, the world clearly had more. More skills. More fields. More ways of fighting. There were angles to consider that I’d never dreamed were possible before, which was frankly silly of me. The System allowed anything to be possible.

On the other? I was f...

Chapter 328 - Entrance Exams III

I was crushed, but made out of stern stuff. The examiner explained in a bored monotone that my details and information had been sent to the [Bursar], and that I was to report to that department to pay. If I didn’t pay before the School left, I would need to retake exams the next time the school came by. I nodded my acknowledgement, then Vitus and I left the exam room. The examiners called in the next candidate in line, and I mentally wished them luck.

“What now?” ...

Chapter 327 - Entrance Exams II

AN: It's my birthday today! SUPRISE BONUS CHAPTER FOR EVERYONE!!

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I slowly, carefully peeled the mango.

“Brrrpt?” Auri hovered near my hand, staring longingly at the fruit.

“Of course.” I carved off a piece, giving it to her.

One small bite at a time, carefully licking my knife to prevent even a single drop from being wasted, I ate the mango, constantly shooting grateful looks at Iona. My mouth was too full to tell her, but she s...

Bonus Material for the $10+ patrons!

Hey all!

Part 1 of this month's bonus content!

As usual, use discretion when at work!

Pride colors!
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Reminder: Admin week this week. Guardian Artwork!

5/8 Guardians! Guardian artwork! Yay!

A reminder that this week is my admin week, AKA catch up on all the other stuff that needs to get done. The web comic script is a big one this week. I know this is relatively close to my last admin week, but that's because this week is the wombo-combo of my birthday and anniversary.

Next admin week is the week of July 25th, so you're in for a nice long stretch of uninterrupted chapters.

KU has been doing decently,...

Chapter 326 - Entrance Exams I

The walls of Lyon were tall, durable constructs, much higher than the town walls in Remus had been. They were hewn out of sturdy grey stone, and some [Architect] or [Builder] had smoothed and merged the rock into a uniform face. Colorful banners hung over the wall, a golden lion prominently featured again and again. Guards with gleaming steel helmets patrolled the walls, and the towers interspersed on the walls supported large ballistae on swivels.

The ...

Chapter 325 - To the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft!

We jogged through the night at a modest pace, occasionally alarming some merchant group’s sentry or another as we passed by. I lit the way with my Radiance, and all of us were used to long, hard days.

Well.

Almost all of us. Poor Auri was curled up in my hands, sleeping. Iona was still carrying Fenrir.

We didn’t move back north nearly as quickly as we’d gone south to fight the spiders. Plain and simple, we were tired, but given the lackluster state of our supplies, we ...

Chapter 324 - The Distance Traveled

With the death of the [Tyrant Tarantula], the spiders became significantly less coordinated, and there was no longer a powerful monster pinning down Iona. We were able to focus our efforts more broadly, and the remaining spiders were quickly wiped out.

Iona’s helmet slid away, and she spat half a spider out of her mouth.

“Pleh! Agh, that was gross.” She complained, spitting a few more times. “I got a bite skill recently, but it never me...

Chapter 323 - Vorlers, Spiders, and more!

“Yeah, I encountered a vorler and killed it. Was that wrong?” I asked Iona. I thought I knew the creatures that roamed around Pallos - mostly dinosaurs and other normal creatures, enhanced by the System, but I’d never seen or heard of anything like a vorler before.

Learned something new every day.

I didn’t want to think about what I learned in Artemis’s tunnels though.

“No, that’s good. Assuming it was a vorler. Let me double check, sorry.” She said. “Nasty...

Chapter 322 - Hunted Existence

My disappointment was immeasurable and my day ruined. I’d met someone that spoke English for the first time ever since arriving at Pallos, and by my System status, that had been 22 years ago. 22 years of wondering. Doubting. Wondering if my prior life was simply an artifact of a vivid imagination.

It had been so long.

Then came Iona, casually speaking words in a tongue I’d nearly forgotten I had. Hope had exploded at that. Was she from Earth as well? Could she… well...

Maps of the World series! Introducing Rolland! + Announcements

Hey all!

The first installment of the world maps series, Rolland! Red are the dukedoms, yellow are the counties, and blue are the major barons. Naturally, there are more nobles running around, and don't get me started on landed knights, but it's a start!

I have hopes to get similar quality maps for all the countries, which will help inform and drive the story. 

Announcements! 

I mentioned I was working on a Big Thing, and I can tell you more abou...

Artwork! The rest of the Sentinel Series... I think

So, my notes have kinda gotten away from me. The rest of the Sentinel Series!

I think.

Some repeats might be in there....

Enjoy!

This Month's BTDEM Announcements

Hey all!

Announcement time!

Ok, let me get the bad news out of the way first: Next week is my break week. I'm taking the entire week off, and it's actually going to be the ENTIRE WEEK like I've said.

And today's post was a double chapter, AKA the next came came early... which means it overflows until after the break, and because of how the calendar is arranged this month, it means my next post is June 1st.

Fuck.

That's just terrible timin...

Chapter 321 - Major Interlude - Iona - They Meet in a Tavern II

Usually, speaking in a person’s native tongue was great for settling people down. A fantastic conversation piece, as Iona always knew what language a person was most comfortable in, never needing to awkwardly speak in one of the keystone languages.

It wasn’t the case here. Far from being settled, Elaine went pale, needing to clutch at her chair. Iona reflexively shot a hand out to help stabilize her, but caught herself halfway through. Not only had Elaine not fallen over, but the Ra...

Chapter 320 - Major Interlude - Iona - They Meet in a Tavern I

Iona was sick. She didn’t have the fancy words the healers all had to describe the various types of sickness. She had a more practical take on it. Burning-vomiting-oozing pus sick. Useless for any sort of medical diagnosis, great for describing what was happening.

Iona had been utterly shredded by the adult frost wyvern, barely managing to cling onto life with her absurd vitality. It kept her alive, but infection had set in. Acid had eaten away at her innards, melting the edg...

They meet in a tavern

Artwork just a little early. Enjoy!

Hope you'll all survive until tomorrow's double chapter post!

Chapter 319 - They Meet in a Tavern

I exploded out of the bushes onto the road.

“Oh praise the road!” I dramatically yelled as I fell to my knees, then raised my arms in the air as if in prayer. “Praise civilization! Oh blessed road, I am never, ever leaving you again.” I bent over to kiss the road.

Or rather, the ‘road’. We must be in some backwater, the road was terrible. A wide stretch of pounded dirt, with a thin ridge of rocks indicating the supposed borders, it was nothing like one of Remu...

Chapter 318 - Slow and Steady

I woke up in a panic, stone inches away from my face. I instinctively tried to lash out, my arms hitting more stone that surrounded me like a coffin.

This is where I’m supposed to be. This is right. I reminded myself, which did absolutely nothing to calm the panic and claustrophobia threatening to overwhelm me. This is the plan. Mole people! We’re mole people!

The thought had a small jolt of hysterical laughter try to go through me, which was an impr...

Chapter 317 - The Dingpocalypse

AN: I've been convinced to give you all Friday's chapter early, because the cliff was a bit too steep. Cheers! See you all Monday!

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I stared at the notifications, reading them, not processing the individual words but the implications. The meanings.

A few of them jumped out at me, the absurd cheerfulness of Genie - who I had to imagine was a genuine, real, three-wishes type - contrasting with the utter horror of the combined meanin...

Chapter 316 - The Beginning, Once Again

It was once again entirely clear that I was in a new world. The same world, the old world.

Pallos.

I didn’t have time to take everything in. I was in trouble, and as I felt power flood through me once again, I acted. [Bullet Time] wasn’t activating, but my bond with Auri was letting me think faster.

We had landed at twilight, the full moons creeping over the horizon as the sun set. We were deep in an ancient-looking forest, the shadows stretched...

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This month's bonus content! Elaine!

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Book 8 cover!

Pretty art.

Chapter 315 - Minor interlude - Julia - Life goes on

“Themis!” Julia roared through their house. “You’re going to be late! Hurry up!”

Elainus slid up behind Julia, and put his hands on her shoulders. Slowly massaging, he knew exactly the right spot to help bleed some of her tension away.

Thirty years of marriage tended to do that to a couple.

“I swear you’ve said that more than anything else in this house.” He murmured in his wife’s ear. “Gotten a skill for it yet?”

Julia flicked his leg with her ha...