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Chapter 269 - Grouchy Guards, Corrupt Constables

After spending so long in the baths that the slowly-eaten mangos were but a distant memory, and I was in serious risk of transforming into a raisin - the next stage in bath-wrinklyness after prune - I decided to get out. I had shopping to do! Hair, tunic, sandals, a knife, and whatever other odds and ends I could think of while out and about.

I got up, made it back to the changing room, got dressed, and left the building.

There was a full squad of guards right outside the bathhous...

Chapter 268 - Mango Mania

AN: I screwed up! I went off of memory of my map, and had Elaine at Port Massalix.

Of course, *Massilix* was the port that Elaine and the Rangers visited after Perinthus, and was on the eastern most edge of Remus, while Elaine's just appeared on the western edge. WHOOOPS!!

I got "Massil" and "Massalix" mixed up in the map a fan made. My bad for not triple checking it all.

"Port Massalix" is now "Port Salona", and I'm working on editing everything to get this right.
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Chapter 267 - Homecoming.

My eyes cracked open as I heard a soft clink next to me. I saw a hand retreating, leaving my badge with me.

From how terrible I felt, and how dark it was, it was obviously still night.

I closed my eyes and went back to sleep.

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“Good morning Rangers! Up and at ‘em! Let’s go go GO! Last one out does one extra lap!”

Rude shouting, exactly like the drill instructors at Ranger Academy, woke me up like a bolt of electricity. I was scrambling out from my gig...

Chapter 266 - Return to Remus

Cordamo snaked through the air, the usually pristine white skin marred into a dark grey by the ash, Ash, and smoke permeating the air.

He landed heavily next to me, without his usual grace. With a thought, I healed the couatl up. I wasn’t sure if my mana flickered or not, my regeneration was that high.

Over 250 points of mana a second. I was mentally exhausted. I didn’t have the bandwidth to calculate exactly how much I had.

Wait. I could just get the System to do it for...

Merry Christmas!

A lovely present from Ms. Tsuu! A nice sketch of Elaine and Iona celebrating Christmas!

Merry Christmas all!

Bonus Content 4/4 - Sentinel Hunting

No Katastrofi sorry!

A reminder that next month my days off are the 26th and 28th!

Bonus Content 3/4 - Iona! + holiday wishes

Iona! Our fierce Valkyrie, in a raging snowstorm.

I want to wish all of you a happy holiday, merry Christmas, and I hope the new year treats you well!

I also want to thank all of you who stuck around through the mediocre chapters I wrote while burning out. Your support and kind words helped me get through the rough patch, and I can't wait to show you all what I've got coming up next!

Thank you!

PS: Which Sentinel do you want to see nex...

Bonus Content 2/4 - Sentinel Toxic

First in the Sentinel Series! Toxic!

I've commissioned artwork for all the Sentinels, and they're trickling in. One more this month, and a super cool picture!

Break Content! 1/4!

The first piece of artwork to tide you over - Elaine!

Book 7 Cover//Break Reminder!

Hey!

I've just finished writing book 6!

Onto book 7! Here's the cover! 

A reminder that I take two days of break each month, and this month I'm taking the 22nd and the 24th off. Next chapter is in a week from now, the 27th.

More artwork on the 22nd and 24th! I have a nice back catalogue for you all 

Chapter 265 - From Dawn till Dusk

First, do no harm.

It was the first line of my [Oath]. The central, guiding principle with which I’d led my life.

The [Oath] in question had a baseline, the letter of the law. It also had the spirit of the law, and with how restriction skills worked, I needed to follow both letter and spirit.

On top of that, I had my own personal ethics, areas where I went above and beyond a single skill. Like, “Don’t steal stuff” wasn’t p...

Chapter 264 - Municipal Massacre VI

I glanced up at the sky, quickly throwing together a simple plan as the devil flew towards me.

I flew away from the devil, but slowly. Roughly a quarter of the speed I could manage.

I’d like to have shot up into the sky, but that might’ve given away the game.

I checked over my shoulder. Good, he was chasing, and getting closer. I flapped my wings faster, while barely increasing my speed, trying to show myself “panicking” at the approaching devil.

Being chased b...

Chapter 263 - Municipal Massacre V

The moment my feet touched the ground, I was pivoting, exploding forward in a sprint.

“Into the house! Move move move!” I yelled, not checking what the elves were doing behind me. Kinda hard, with the rolling clouds of dust that got kicked up, stone getting pulverized into concealment.

Only a weak concealment. Currents and eddies marked where we were running to and moving, but it marked everyone, no person being more obvious than the next.

We needed to be out of sight of...

Chapter 262 - Municipal Massacre IV

The symbol of the Sentinels blazed in the air above us, just barely clearing the buildings. It wasn’t particularly large, but it was bright. Easy to see for a moderate distance.

Awarthril was fancy with it. Twisting it, turning it, making it so that no matter what angle the symbol was seen from, a watcher would get a good view.

At which point, I’d hope the shimagu were vaguely normal - the city and marketplace implied, yes, they were - and people would gossip. Spread ...

Book 5 cover redo!

Not much more to say tbh

Chapter 261 - Municipal Massacre III

Magic was funny. Directly impacting another person was difficult. Bodies resisted the attempts of magic to directly influence them, when it wasn’t something strictly beneficial like healing. It was part of why my healing couldn’t harm people, not without an extraordinary amount of creativity.

Blowing out the dwarven implants was the closest thing to “harm” I could perform.

If Toxic wanted to poison me, he had two options. The first was the easy one. Summon the poi...

Chapter 260 - Municipal Massacre II

[Bullet Time] didn’t even activate.

Ironically, weak blows that didn’t trigger the skill were almost as dangerous as skills that did, simply due to the dramatically reduced time to react. If I was gunning for me, I’d fire a bunch of weak skills that could slow, blind, or bind me, before going for the finishing blow.

The guard was slow. Unreasonably slow for his level and designation as a [Warrior]. It indicated low quality classes a...

Minor Announcements

Hey!

Three quick minor announcements:

1) Reminder that I'm taking the 22nd and 24th off. No posts then.
2) BTDEM Book 4 Audiobook is releasing 12/14! https://www.audible.com/pd/Beneath-the-Dragoneye-Moons-4-Audiobook/B09L5BBJ6X

3) 255.X is now live for $10+ patrons! Elaine and Serondes after their talk. 

Chapter 255.X

Hey all!

December's $10+ tier bonus reward content!

I wouldn't read this while at work.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HS60ZgOHTINDOYQdqa3hHH2leAb4dM_-GKa8QzAgJ6s/edit

Chapter 259 - Minor Interlude - Yigruk the Ogre

AN: To those who usually skip interludes - this isn't one to skip.

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Life was pain.

Life was misery.

Life sucked.

That was Yigruk’s take.

It started when he was young.

Everyone pitched in on the family farm, from his older siblings all the way to his parents and grandparents. They lived in a cramped hut, the ogres all jostling for sleeping space nightly, even as the kids grew larger and th...

Chapter 258 - Municipal Massacre I

We walked down the road together, just about fully geared up. We weren’t looking for trouble, but we were ready for it.

The elves were in their armor, crystal swords at their hips, shields on their back. Helmets that somehow fit over their horns. Cordamo was flying high, while Kiyaya was close by my side.

Which made me nearly blind to everything going on there, but also gave me a huge fluffy shield.

The only thing they didn’t have were the talismans.

Awart...

Book 6 cover!

The book 5 rework is in-progress.

Book 7's cover is also done!

Chapter 257 - Peer Pressure

My heart was racing at the voice, the words fading out of my ears, yet echoing in my mind, impossibly colored. How words in my mind had color, I’d never know.

“Serondes. Did you hear that?” I asked, shaking him.

He just grunted and rolled over.

Bah.

I debated waking him up, but apart from the weird words, nothing was happening. My hut wasn’t exploding, swords weren’t flying through the walls, and there was no [Bullet Time].

I was awake ...

Chapter 256 - Spinosaurus Surprise

I was woken up in the middle of the night to the sounds of shattering rocks and screaming. Serondes and I bolted awake, and I summoned a strong Radiance glow as he got some Lava ready for lighting.

A sword crashed through one of the walls, the crystal blade sinking into the other side of the room, shaving a few hairs off my nose as I went cross-eyed.

Serondes grabbed the crystal blade, yanking it out of the wall. I recognized it as one of the elven blades, and with the sheer exper...

Bonus Content - Sentinel Night

First in the "Sentinel Series"!

Sentinel Night!

The artist I'm working with has agreed to do all of them! We'll be seeing more in the future :)

Bonus Content - Lun'Kat's Lair. Mini-Announcement

One artist's imagination of what Lun'Kat's lair looks like! Please note this image is larger than it first seems

Announcement: A reminder that I take two days off each month now. Next month, December, I'm going to take off the 22nd and 24th, for Christmas!

For January, I anticipate taking off the 26th and 28th. No real reason except "They're at the end of the month"

Bonus Worldbuilding Content - Affinities!

It’s been ages since I did a worldbuilding thing! This one has to do with “Natural Affinities”, as I’m calling it.

In short, species as a whole can have one or more affinities, with varying degrees of strength. If a species has that affinity, they’re pulled as a whole to have that element as their first class. The stronger the affinity, the stronger the pull, the greater the likelihood that they’ll end up with that element.

The best, easiest example of this are element...

Bonus Content! The Egg!

The egg, by the wonderful Tsuu!

Now you know what it looks like :D

2/5 on bonus content. Parts 3-5 on Friday.

Or maybe one today, depends when I write it

Bonus Content! Elaine and wings!

Hey all!

Part 1 of 5 of the bonus content while I'm on break! Elaine and her new wings, as imagined by one artist!

They were nice enough to give a few different variations on the image. 

Chapter 255 - The Sex Talk II

“Yeah, GGG. Good, Giving, Game.” I explained the acronym. “It’s a way of approaching relationships and sex, and unless you’ve got a better idea, it’s how I think we should approach this.”

“I’ve got my own ideas, but go on, I’m listening.” Serondes’s eyes and hands suggested that he wasn’t listening all that closely, but mmmm. What he was doing was nice.

Plus, he was an elf, and they’d been completely unfair so far. I could easily imagine Serondes being ...