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Sick, taking next week off

Hi all!

I was really hoping not to have to write this.

I've been sick all week, and for the longest time, it looked like I was going to be able to write all the chapters needed at a quality I was happy with. It was slow, it was tough, but I was getting there, with plans for a pair of big workdays to finish everything off strong.

Then I got almost literally no sleep last night. Like, I saw 2AM, 3AM, 4AM, 5AM, 6AM, 7AM, 8AM then it was the day BAD. Anything I try to write a...

Chapter 644 - Professor Elaine IV

Night stepped back, and with a subtle shift of his body, went from my friend and student, to my commander.

“Sentinel Dawn. Please correct me if I am wrong. At this time, I suspect you are unlikely to be rejoining the services of the Exterreri Sentinels anytime soon. Is that correct?”

I wanted to do a double take, but Night was being a little too serious. I lifted an eyebrow.

“I wasn’t aware there was an Exterreri at this time.”

Night smirked. Just a little. 2025-04-04 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter ??? - Two Weeks Battle Royale I

Elaine opened her eyes and looked around, her skills scanning the place.

They were in an old prop plane, equipped in their normal clothes and a parachute. Four crates of supplies were along the wall, along with some rope and carabiners. There was no pilot, the plane flying itself.

“Black Crow take it all, the fairies again?” She swore, then spotted a familiar face. “Ariane! It’s great to see you again! Cat, is that you? Oh, who am I kidding, of course it’s you! Well, bet...

Minor schedule announcement

Hi all!

Mondays chapter is going to be posted on Tuesday instead. For reasons.

Daylights savings is also hitting, so chapters are back to the “normal” time

innocent whistling

See you all then!

Cheers!

Selkie

Chapter 643- Professor Elaine III

I poured out two glasses of wine, and after an evil glare from Auri, grabbed a small wooden bowl and poured her a bit. Part of me was already regretting a drunk phoenix. I sighed in relief when she decided to ignite the alcoholic fumes coming off the wine, and simply stare at the flickering flames. My relief was short-lived as she divvied up the wine into a dozen tiny Lava bowls, and had them join her orbit, slowly circling the fireballs around her body.

There was no way we were getting...

Chapter 642 - Professor Elaine II

I half expected everyone to come barging out the moment [Portcullis] opened up. The gate rolled up, and… nothing. It was easy enough to sense what was going on - everyone was playing a murder mystery game. Seeing what everyone was doing also let me see the answer to the game, which was one of the reasons I tended not to play it.

Fenrir did it in the tavern with a tsunami. 

“We’re here!” I announced. “Who wants to go exploring?”

There was a huge chorus of ‘...

Chapter 641 - Professor Elaine I

Moving was hard.

Even though we were keeping our house and everything in it - [Manor] was stupidly strong - there were still all of the connections we had to slowly untangle. Let the community know what was going on, and why.

One aspect in particular surprised me with how difficult it was to finalize.

Favors.

Small communities like Orthus didn’t have a currency for years and years. We all pitched in together, helping a neighbor out one ...

Chapter 640 - Iona’s Immortality

After a decade of being with Iona, I knew all her little habits. I knew all her little expressions, from ecstatic to morose. I could guess how much sleep she had the previous night by her temper, I knew what she wanted for dinner.

After over a century together, to say that understanding had deepened was a bit of an understatement.

Two years after Sara gained her first class, I realized something was eating at my wife. Something she wasn’t telling me, even with a fe...

Chapter 639 - Interlude - Sara - The System Unlocks II

Sara jumped when Artemis kicked the door in.

“My turn!” The bombastic Ranger announced.

“Artemis!” Elaine yelled. “The door!”

The Lightning [Mage] looked at the splintered remains.

“What door?” She asked innocently. Elaine was already putting her head in her hands.

“Why did I think this was a good idea?” She moaned.

“Because I’m awesome?” Artemis suggested. Elaine glared at her, and Artemis relented.

“...

Chapter 638 - The System Unlocks I

AN: Next three weeks the chapters are going to be possibly off an hour as daylight's savings desyncs everyone.

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Tomorrow was the big day for Sara. Her System was unlocking!

Iona and I had been blessed to see a thousand different teaching styles of the System to children over our lives. From books in the library to stories told by other students, from our own lived experiences to travels among foreign countries, we’d experienced a thousand different me...

Iona Tier Incentive for March!

Hi all!

This one's a little more of an eyeful than usual (May's going to be a mega eyefull), and I hope you all enjoy and remember what Iona tier incentives are!
Enjoy!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MiULwX-IUUVxPrgYhNSXa1fN8albulep&usp=drive_fs

Chapter 637 - The Treaty of Kazehara VIII

Naturally, annoyingly, Arachne knew where my lines in the sand were. She did need to change a few votes of mine around halfway through the summit. As intelligent and well connected as the vampire was - on top of spying on everyone - there were a number of other players with their own agendas, doing their own manipulations in the background.

I was content to be a pawn with particular goals. As long as they were accomplished, I’d move all over the board as directed. Kinda like be...

Chapter 636 - The Treaty of Kazehara VII

I made it back to the second day of the summit about an hour early, only to get promptly ambushed by everyone and their cousin.

Lovely.

They were necessary talks, and I was of half a mind to tell everyone to just talk to me, and I’d individually process what they were saying with how many different ways I could think at once.

That was considered rude, no matter how practical and efficient it was. I wasn’t the only one with strong mental skills and ...

Chapter 635 - The Treaty of Kazehara VI

I stood in front of Night and the rest of the High Council, next to [Healer] Silon. I could see that he was already wavering. I blinked.

Wow. Was the mere fact that Night was presenting me enough for him to consider dropping out entirely? Or was simply being contested enough to consider dropping out? Almost everyone on the High Council was old and high level, I assumed they knew what they were doing. Momentum and inertia was worth...

Book 14 Launch Day!

It's that wonderful time of year again - LAUNCH DAY!

Beneath the Dragoneye Moons: Immortal War is now LIVE on Amazon!

I want to thank you all for your continued support over the years. From those of you who've just subscribed, all the way to the dragon tier patrons who've been with me for years, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. I couldn't do this without you. Elaine's adventure would've never been written without your support.

All of you do so much for me. I can ...

Chapter 634 - The Treaty of Kazehara V

Kawaji stood up at the front of the room, a little later than usual.

It was fine. Nobody had left breakfast, although I sensed a few people higher up sleeping off a huge night of partying and drinking.

Oh, they were so fucked. This was not the time to sleep in and miss things. A part of me said I should let them sleep in and miss things, a benefit to me. Another part told me to go in and personally wake them up, possibly making them indebted to m...

Chapter 633 - The Treaty of Kazehara IV

“I would like to.” Wally the Warden said.

“I’ll come!” Royal the apista said.

Skye and Katarina traded looks.

“I think we’ve got some discussions first.” Katarina said. I stuck my tongue out at her.

“Really?” I complained. “No fun at all.”

Skye had a sour look on her face.

“Some of us aren’t specialists interested in one thing. Some of us need to play the political game and figure stuff out. Or do you ...

Chapter 632 - The Treaty of Kazehara III

We descended upon the city in the middle of the night. Several blocks of apartments in the Nippon-koku style had been hastily constructed next to the gigantic arena, so fresh I could literally smell the paint. A huge ritual circle was traced on the ground, mountains of construction supplies piled inside. Wood and cloth, straw and nails, paint and varnish, just heaped around in huge piles. Even at this late hour, workers were piling whole logs in. I was treated to the sight of people waving of...

Book 14 epub

Hey all!

Sorry this one took so long to get out. Part of it was making it in a fancy format, a large part was getting overwhelmed with so much other stuff.

Sorry!

It's all done and shiny now! It'll be up for a week, before I need to take it down for KU reasons. Download it today!

You all support me a ton, and I'm super thankful for it. I do know some of you like supporting me more, and the preorder for the book is up on Amazon here: 2025-02-17 13:01:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Iona Tier Feb Incentive

As usual, use discretion at work.

It would've been perfect if I put this out yesterday...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-9sECvGunsmvRK9gp8eRRM1SxE6hzMel&usp=drive_fs

Chapter 631 - The Treaty of Kazehara II

Night was here! I was going to skip over him sneaking in without knocking on the door. The prank was good, and the vampire shimmered back into existence in [The World Around Me], and I could suddenly sense him with the rest of my more mundane senses.

I wanted to say that was an absolute bullshit skill, but I had my fair share of those. What assassin couldn’t completely conceal himself anyway?

“Night! Welcome! Do you want to sit down and, uh-” I...

Chapter 630 - The Treaty of Kazehara I

One of the nice things with [The World Around Me] and Sara is I caught any mischief she was up to before it got out of hand. There was always an element of judgment going on. If I cracked down on absolutely everything, that was a miserable way to live for a kid. If I ignored genuine harm, Sara risked hurting herself. If a rule being broken was too big, too important, I had to step in.

This must be how Arachne felt, magnified by a thousand times...

Chapter 629 - After Action Report III

“If all of you could believe Iona’s story of ruling over a city and change, I think you’ll believe mine, no matter how outlandish it is.”

Artemis promptly took a deep swing of her drink, and I magnanimously allowed it. Raccoon shot me the ‘hurry up’ sign, and I rolled my eyes at the scoundrel.

Amber, Nina, Raccoon… Sara was going to give me a ton of sass in about a decade, wasn’t she? I never did anything like that to Artemis. This week. Apart from the barre...

The Great Spine Artwork

Hey all!

I've mentioned a few times that I was working on updating my paperbacks. Well, the great spine wrap project is COMPLETE! I wanted to share the art with you all. There's still a small window for PROBLEMS AND ERRORS to be fixed if you spot any. This is stuff like "Fenrir's eye color is weird", NOT "Oh hey you should add Crow and Dove"

The goal of the wrap is to show Elaine's journey, start to finish. I tried to add a good amount of symbolism to it al...

Chapter 628 - After Action Report II

“My turn, unless there are any objections?” Iona stood up. I simply levitated myself as she did, sitting cross-legged in the air with my head still on my wife’s shoulder. I was a little tipsy, happily buzzed. This was nice. I was going to have a mango after her story, as a treat.

Wait.

WAIT.

Why wait? I could totally do TWO mangos. One for now, one for later. 

A tiny part of me was screaming about poor impulse control and ‘this is why we never have ...

Jan Iona Tier Incentive

Hey all!

Getting this out at the very last second, I'm so sorry!

Iona tier incentive for January!

Hopefully the Feb one comes out in a more timely fashion.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-mE6wGmbIDJT8tD4889D7UkujextE7Oj&usp=drive_fs

2025-02-01 22:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 627 - After Action Report I

AN: Reminder, I go to two chapters a week, no admin week, after this.
I was SO TEMPTED to have this week be the start of the two chapters week...

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“I don’t want my dinner to be mooing back at me.” I ribbed Iona a day later.

“It’s cooked! Rare is a thing!” She protested, turning the skewer.

“Yeah, it’s rare that the cows are still able to get up and walk away after you’re done cooking it.” I joked back.

There were seven of us on to...

Chapter 626 - Homecoming II

I nestled into Iona’s arms, unhappy at all the layers of well-worn armor separating us.

It was an adamantium alloy, how did Iona get it so beaten up!? I knocked on her chest.

“Open up.” I asked, then teleported Iona’s armor to [Manor] a moment later, letting her strong arms wrap around me.

“I missed you.” She said.

“I missed you too.” I said. “First things first. Everyone is alive and well. Nobody we love died.”

Io...

Chapter 625 - Homecoming I

Sara’s question was like a gut punch. I sat back and looked out into the distance, able to make out the sparkling waters of Bloodmoon Bay from here.

“The question is complicated.” I finally answered, the coward’s answer. “You’d need a significant medical and ethical background to understand my reasoning. I can try to explain, if you’d like. However, I’m not going to lie to you. I could’ve saved them. I didn’t. I do believe if I had tried to save them, they w...

Chapter 624 - Home Again

Arachne was on my side, but probably more than a little irritated with my extra-curricular activities in Ithil. I was a strong proponent of after action reports, analyzing what I did and why, along with trying to figure out weaknesses… but I was going to wait until later to analyze my actions. Sara needed me, and I was going to focus on her and the rest of my family right now. I’d get around to chatting with Arachne later, and analyzing my actions then. Also, my chewi...