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Chapter 170 – Heading Out

The meeting had gone on fairly late, and in spite of sleeping half the day, I was able to instantly fall asleep the moment my head touched the pillow.

A dreamless night I was oh-so-thankful for, followed by waking up in the morning. Hunting and Destruction were still asleep, and Night was semi-dozing on a stool, half slumped forward.

Did he even sleep?

Either way, I got up, and somewhat reluctantly, shucked off my armor and gear. I was down to just my filthy tunic that I wor...

Alert for people who read the story on their phones!

Hey all!

It's just come to my attention that people who read the story on their phones get some of the story truncated at times. I know this happens with Gmail at least.

Sometimes it's obvious when it happens.
Sometimes it's not.

Apparently, the most recent Iona interlude (Chapter 147) gets truncated in such a spot on gmail that it *looks* like the story is done, even though it isn't.

So if you're a phone reader, and read chapter 147 on your phone, it might be w...

Elaine's mom, Julia!

In honor of mother's day. Julia, with her fearsome wooden spoon!

Chapter 169 – Sentinel Meeting

The conversation about what to do with the frontlines, now maybe being turned into a town, went on for hours. I was surprised that we got so sidetracked on the issue, but then again, I suppose we weren’t all going to be in the same place for some time, and Toxic and I were the experts on the subject.

With the current plan Night and I had hatched, my expertise was going away for some time. If we were going to resolve the issue, we were going to resolve it now.

On the “...

June Schedule Announcement

Hey all!

It's shaping up that my anniversary, 30th birthday, and moving ~2000 miles is all going to occur on the SAME WEEK in June. On top of the usual craziness involved with taking care of my baby.

Right now, the needle is pointing towards "Will miss a week of posts" in that timeframe. Who knows, I might be struck with inspiration and write enough of a backlog where I'm able to post anyways, or just chew through some of my backlog. It's still somewhat up in the air. 

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Chapter 168 – Aftermath

Our celebration of everyone’s lives had gone on for hours, and the sky was already starting to lighten as we all went to sleep. I hit my pillow and was out like a light.

A soft hand on my shoulder, and I bolted upright, ready to fight, to blast, to protect myself and – oh, it was just Night.

“Huh? Night? Whazzup?” I asked him, adrenaline fleeing and the siren song of sleep soothing me back down. My eyelids were so heavy, I was ready to go right back to sleep.

A pound...

Iona Artwork! Of the more interesting variety.

Sadly, I don't have a side-chapter that would be suited for the $10+ tier this month. To make it up for all of you, here's an artwork commission of Iona for all of you to enjoy!

I don't recommend looking at it in public.

There's also Elaine artwork coming down the pipeline. Artist had a super fast turnaround on this one though!

Please don't share the link or the pictures outside of here <3

https://imgur...

MOAR ARTWORK - Iona Chibi

Really, there's not much more to say.
... Damnit I just got a great idea off for more chibis

Chapter 167 – Mourning

I skipped along, singing drunkenly and off-key. Didn’t care, was too happy. Cool new stuff everywhere!

Awesome healing skills away! I could heal a person fully that I was touching, I could heal them at a distance, I could preemptively heal with [Solar Infusion] – in theory, still needed to test it – and I passively healed people around me!

All that, in one class! Most healers that I’d chatted with needed two classes dedicated to healing to properly work th...

Iona Chibi! WIP

Hey all! More chibis! Sneak peek for all of you while it's being worked on

Chapter 166 – Party

I was still curled up and feeling miserable when I felt a mass that could only be Brawling’s plonk down next to me.

“Heya.” He said. “Yeah, this sucks. We won, at what price? Tell you what. Best thing for it? Go out and do something. Take your mind off of things. I’m sure there’s a dozen soldiers that need some help. From getting too drunk, if nothing else. Or heck, have a drink or five, wander around, get in trouble. Find a handsome soldier and get laid. Dance on the walls....

Book 5! Cover poll. POTENTIAL SPOILERS INSIDE.

Read at your own risk. Lots of empty space to keep you all safe. They're really gentle if anything.

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Right, ok, if you're still reading you hopefully want to see this. 

I have two potential options for the book 5 cover. Would love feedback/voting on them

1) Characters

2) Landscape

Which one should I go for the book 5 cover? Details vague on purpose. I don't w...

Chapter 165 – Skills Skills Skills

I opened my eyes, eager to see what I got, what the name of the skills would be, what level everything would hit. Before I could see anything, a powerful wave of nausea overcame me, the loss of the high-level skills hitting me hard. I turned over, tried to hold it in, failed, grabbed a random thing and vomited hard into it, retching and heaving as my empty stomach demanded that everything left, resulting in me spitting bile.

Wiping my mouth, I ignored the rest of my su...

Chapter 164 – Celestial Class up! III

Of course, once I saw that perk in a skill, I wanted to go back and cross-reference my [Phases of the Moon]. I’d try to find the corresponding stars inside the constellation. Not every skill I was offered, not every new thing, was a subset of the constellation. Some were their own, but I took the chance to look around and see what I was missing in the constellation, check if it was reasonably close enough to ignite and make mine, without needing to make a long string of sta...

Chapter 163 – Celestial Class up! II

I put the books back down, mentally marking their location.

“Hey, I can come back here if I don’t like what’s through the door, right?”

“Yup! It’s just, ah, complicated through there.” Librarian said.

Complicated, eh? I opened the door, and saw…

… the other side of the room. Anti-climatic in a way.

I stepped through it and ended up in a starfield, floating in space. Dozens, hundreds of stars surrounded me, connected to each other in clusters wit...

Chapter 162 – Celestial Class up! I

gdoc with colors here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzXgjqsnTOBev6me49RgNkfTbcMeswGS_8fvwzZD49A/edit

I opened my eyes, seeing Librarian again.

“I’m back! With a second class in the tank, ready to upgrade whenever!” I said, pumping my fist.

“Yeah! You go!” Librarian said, holding her hand up for a high-five, which I happily h...

Announcement on today's posting schedule

$1 tier - Regular chapter today.

$5+ tier - Regular chapter, + 2 "Jumping ahead" chapters ($5 will now be +12 chapters ahead), +1 "extra" chapter - Monday's chapter.

Basically, I wanted anyone in the $5+ tier who was unsubbing to be able to get Monday's chapter before they unsubbed. Yeah, it's not great for me, but I'd rather be ethical about it. Enjoy the extra chapter!

Putting it another way:

$5 tier - 4 chapters today, no chapter Monday, chapte...

Iona expressions!

You saw Elaine, now see Iona!

Chapter 161 – Formorians XII

Fortunately – or unfortunately, depending on how you looked at it – I was woken up a short time later, feeling somehow worse for the power nap.

I had the presence of mind, and I was in that weird place between too tired and not getting enough sleep, that I didn’t wake up blasting.

The eternal curse, the quandary surrounding naps. Be tired, take a nap. When you wake up, you somehow feel worse than when you went to sleep.

Still, I’d gotten a solid chunk of sleep, no ma...

Chapter 160 – Formorians XI

The first order of business was reassurance, to calm and placate the crowd. Yeah, I was a Sentinel, yeah I could say jump and everyone in the tent would ask me how high. Didn’t mean that angering a bunch of already on the edge people was a smart move. I actually had no idea what I [Identify]’d as right now. My highest class was displayed – and I was tied, 256 to 256. I had no idea what the tiebreaker rules were. First class in the list? Prior highest class? Or did it �...

Chapter 159 – Formorians X

I took a look around the infirmary, a frown on my face. Usually, there were booths of healers, and a line of injured soldiers waiting their turn, sorted by severity. That’s normally how this worked.

Instead, what I saw were rows upon rows of injured soldiers, with a number of slightly-less injured soldiers running around with buckets of filthy water and bandages. It was still night time, and the long, long tent was poorly lit. All I saw were unending rows of men, going into t...

Elaine and her facial expressions! Part 2!

Close up on the faces!

Elaine Expressions! Part 1!

Elaine and her facial expressions!

Art contest winners!

We have the winners of the art contest!

Arkroot, with "Elaine Fanart"
Endbringer, with "Beneath the Dragoneye Moons Artwork"
Rfae, with "Mangos are Heavenly"

PumpkinMeadow, with "Moonlit Mango"
Green, with "Dino Knight"

Thank you everyone for participating! I hope to see you all for the next one!

Chapter 158 – Formorians IX

I gently lowered Priest Demos’s body to the ground, stepping back. Bulwark moved in, and I tugged on Arthur’s arm, to better give him some privacy.

It was weird. I’d never gotten the hang of sea legs, but my earthquake legs seemed to be fine.

Arthur was also deep in thought, and I wasn’t going to disturb him. The Formorians had stopped attacking for now, but I suspected it wouldn’t be too long before they were back at it.

I shut up, and said nothing, letting the tw...

Chapter 157 – Formorians VIII

Suicide missions were called that for a reason. In this case, namely, we were channeling and launching an earthquake on top of us, as powerful as could be. We were at the epicenter, where the ground was constantly deciding to be somewhere else at high speed.

Sky promptly took flight, flying high, going up, up, and away, speeding towards the angels.

“Sky! Don’t do it! The Shooters-“

Night bit off what he was going to say, as Sky was clearly ignoring him.

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Iona artwork post v2.0: The version where I'm not bad and I make this a poll.

Trying this again, because WOW I didn't expect it to be so divisive, nor did I expect everyone to have such excellent feedback on everything! I was expecting people to come up with some good points that would sway me one way or another, but instead I just ended up more confused than ever. 

With that being said, I'm putting this to a poll, to get a better overall sense. I totally reserve the right to ignore the poll results and do what I want, but hey. I'm at this point already so I...

Artwork help! Iterating Iona

Hey all! More artwork is coming, by the fantastic Tsuu!

Elaine's coming along nicely, but Iona's a bit trickier. Hoping to get feedback from everyone!

Gallery of images:

https://imgur.com/a/lYySW78

I got three "sample sketches" so far with Iona. Let's call them 1, 2, and 3, in order. Sketch number 4 is more what the armor's going to be like - simple, practical. The 5th sketch are the faces, ...

Chapter 156 – Formorians VII

Thanks to the RoyalRoad Write-a-thon, you're getting Friday's chapter today. Cheers!

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Day 10. Sky had not only brought us a bunch of supplies from the Quartermaster, but the Quartermaster, bless his shriveled little heart, had gotten all of our families to gather up and send us each a small pack. Hence the mango. I only found the letters in the morning, when taking an early-morning inventory of everything I’d been brought. Autumn had gotten the mango for m...

Chapter 155 – Formorians VI

Day 7. It turned out that my blowing up the Royal Guard with all my [Nova]s on day 5 had basically lit a massive beacon, and what remained of the army had seen it. When Hunting had shown up, they were able to point him in roughly the right direction. Brave man, charging into the horde, having complete faith that we were still there, and would help him make it the rest of the way.

Also, there was no more defensive line. The Formorians had breached it, an...