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Chapter 623 - Bloodhound

Night held everyone’s captivated attention. His grisly display, along with the casual ease in which he’d managed to slip by everyone and kill so many powerful Classers without anyone noticing, then managing to set everything up, sent a powerful message. 

The way so many people flinched when they saw him was another message, namely one for the younger Immortals here. 

‘This man is powerful.’ ‘This vampire is dangerous.’

My lessons with Arachne wer...

Chapter 622 - Overthrowing the Tyrants XV

The coalition was trying to capture the city vaguely intact, and the echoes of the Cataclysm had us all agreeing that we weren’t going to simply drop a few huge skills on Ithil and wipe it off the face of Pallos. The charitable part of me thought it spoke to elvenoid’s better nature. The cynic in me said the leaders wanted to make sure we caught and killed the New Remus Empire leadership.

The coalition bombarded the city with a few huge skills. Several 2025-01-20 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 621 - Overthrowing the Tyrants XIV

I didn’t need to look at the absolute beauty of a map I’d made, I had it entirely memorized. It still brought me great joy to unroll it and look it over while hovering high in the sky though.

I’d made this. Myself. With painstaking effort, hours of scribbling and erasing, bottles of ink, multiple sheets of paper, and way too much squinting at the stars. I knew my map was distorted several ways. Hands were only so good for precision ...

Chapter 620 - Overthrowing the Tyrants XIII

Bathor held his hands up in triumph as they paraded through Ithil.

Victory was theirs! The demons, the only real challenge to their rule, had been defeated. The [Demon King’s] head was attached to the front of his chariot, the various arms and armaments paraded behind him, each one raised up on a cloth for everyone to see. He wore golden laurels, and had dispensed with part of the tradition.

Who needed a slave whispering in his ears that he was only ...

Chapter 619 - Interlude - Iona - Overthrowing the Tyrants XII

Iona drummed her fingers against the throne, watching people slowly trickle into the throne room. They were trying to figure out what their new world would be like after she’d just shaken up the existing order. The Valkyrie had already sent off a letter to Skye, asking for advice, and she suspected [Social Lubricant] was about to get a workout. She’d already issued her first orders - looking to send a message - but now it was time for the next ones.

Iona had ne...

Chapter 618 - Interlude - Auri - Overthrowing the Tyrants XI

It was weird being on my own. Ever since I’d hatched, there was always someone there. Even the Phoenix Peaks, having my own mountain, my friends would come over and say hello. After having a spot of fun with Fenrir though - pretending to breathe fire was hilarious, the shocked look on monster’s faces before I went FWOOOM and they turned to ashes would never stop being funny - we had to split up, and I just didn’t know what I wanted to do.

Okay, okay, El...

Schedule Change - Possibly the last Admin Week

Hi all!

As I've been writing over the years, I've found my cadence has changed as my situation has changed in various ways. Over the past few months, I've fallen into a different cadence, and I'm finding myself needing to change the schedule to better match my writing pattern.

Short version: BTDEM is going to move to 2 chapters/week, with NO admin week during the month. It's what I'm currently doing these days anyway.

Long version: Between trying to stick the landing with B...

Chapter 617 - Overthrowing the Tyrants X

I woke up in a cold bed, in a small room.

Ugh.

Another day I had to go to work. It was less than halfway through the week. Two days down, four to go before the weekend, where I’d get two blessed days off.

I thought I was mentally tough. I thought I was ready for all challenges. I’d worked my ass off for years on a farm, just to survive! But farming for survival, on my own land with my own family, was a far cry from the sheer drudgery that was working as a <...

Chapter 616 - Interlude - Fenrir - Overthrowing the Tyrants IX; Investigative Files II

AN: Sorry this one ended up much shorter than a typical chapter, without it being a particularly heavy hitting one. I just got through the entire plot and outline much faster than I thought I would.

Enjoy!

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It was a dark and stormy night.

Lightning flashed by the window, illuminating Detective Fenrir, Private Weyevern, in his cramped office. Pictures of old glories lined the walls. Yellowed newspapers with dates of his most famous deeds wer...

Iona tier incentive for December! Another double!

Hey all!

The Iona-tier incentives for December!

First: Iona x Elaine Christmas!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-0x_XfkTByGOViznCnXOjD9ARqGXzbG8&usp=drive_fs

Second: Nina! (Remember, she's around a century old at this point)
2024-12-26 13:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 615 - Interlude - Nina - Overthrowing the Tyrants IX

Nina was doing paperwork again, trying to determine if she could knock off a few fauns to improve lives. The calculations were extra tricky. If she messed up, and the turmoil caused by her actions made Bywater miss their tax payments, one eighth of their lives would be forfeit. Nobody would be able to point to Nina and blame her, but she’d blame herself. She knew she’d be responsible. That her actions had foreseeable consequences, and that she was the architect of them comin...

Chapter 614 - Interlude - Iona - Overthrowing the Tyrants VII

Iona had forgotten how convenient it was to fly around on Fenrir's back. The distance of hundreds of miles was just a short flight away. Now that she was on ground, on foot, it was a far harder journey. Inhuman stats or not, there were trees, mountains, rivers, and a distinct lack of a path.

The Valkyrie had tried to go back to her roots and simply walk from one place to the next. It was the traditional method, allowing the Knight Errant to visit all the small villages that rarely saw j...

Chapter 613 - Overthrowing the Tyrants VI

I wanted to say Arachne had planned it all out, but she hadn’t. She’d given me the knowledge and the tools needed, then let me plan out my infiltration. 

I had a number of traps in my thinking. My training as a Ranger and a Sentinel, overseeing SERE training, and the general grooves of thinking imparted to me were misleading. My critical analysis of Edhallond had me looking for weaknesses in the walls and structure, places where a team of one to eight people could...

Chapter 612 - Overthrowing the Tyrants V

The nice thing about working with Arachne again was access to information and knowledge. The world wasn’t quite such an unknown anymore. Vast swathes of the map I’d flown over were no longer labeled ‘here be dragons’ - except for the parts where there were dragons. 

It was good to know who’d survived. It was sobering how many hadn’t. From nearly 100 Sentinels, only a little more than twenty were known to have survived. Arachne thought around four or...

Chapter 611 - Overthrowing the Tyrants IV

“I’m realizing I’m missing a critical skill.” I pushed down my embarrassment. There just had never been a need to learn this skill, it just wasn’t important. Culturally, it was barely a thing. Remus had expected me to be a house wife, my parents figuring things out for me. At the School, everyone knew the path their life would take. Either they had wealthy sponsors, or were nobility themselves. Then I’d worked on a combination of being self employed, or a Sent...

Chapter 610 - Overthrowing the Tyrants III

“Let us not impose too much on Anurak’s hospitality.” Arachne stood up and stretched. I grabbed a cookie for the road, the vast privacy shields we’d put up dropping down. “One of the first concepts I’m going to reiterate here is operational security. It was one thing as a Sentinel to keep information from the target, but with the way we worked it wasn’t of the utmost importance. The systems and procedures I designed kept in mind that many sentinels, while I would never call them...

Change in Post Time

Hey all!

I've been wanting to change the posting time for a while now. I've been holding off because so many people have a routine with BTDEM, and I didn't want to interfere with it.

However, I really miss being part of the discussion. The current post time is 4AM my time. I completely miss the discussion. Europe completely misses when it goes live. Etc.

I want to be able to see what's going on, to talk, and to let more members of the community be involved.

Fran...

Admin Week, taking Christmas week off

Hi all!

I'm really sorry this announcement is delayed this much. I wanted to do it last week, but life's been LIFE.

This week is admin week! Much needed, I've been struggling to get all the words I need to get done. We're approaching the end of BTDEM, and ending stuff is SUPER hard. Yeah, there's a whole book and a half to go, but I'm working on a smooth landing even now. (Remember - I've got about half of a book of backlog ahead of Patreon. 'Start of 15' for you is 'halfway thr...

Chapter 609 - Overthrowing the Tyrants II

I gracefully sat down with Arachne. She was here as Arachne, not as Susan, and keeping the right name for the right situation was one of the ways I was getting back into the right mindset. Her spider, Clotho the black widow, was dancing on her subtly multi-colored hair, and waved at me with one leg.

I’d been in a peacetime mentality for ages. Over a decade without needing to slip into the cold, calculating mindset, balancing healing with fighting for my life. The occasional...

Chapter 608 - Overthrowing the Tyrants I

Birthday time! Woohoo!

I’d had a big bash for my 100th birthday, and it was pure insanity to me that we were having our big 128th birthday bash in an entirely different era. Like. The world we knew had ended, and we’d clawed our way out of it in less than twenty years. I was used to the mundane use of skills and how Classers could change and shape the local environment, but I still couldn’t wrap my head around how the truly powerful Classers could reshape ...

Chapter 607 - The Witch of the Woods

“Fuck the tyrants.” I declared to my friends and family, lifting a cup of tea in toast.

“Fuck the taxes.” Iona heartily agreed. A sentiment I never thought I’d hear from her. I was a terrible, corrupting influence.

“To striking at the root of the problem.” Nina added in her toast. Artemis and Auri voiced their agreement, Raccoon unfortunately on duty. Artemis glanced suspiciously in her cup before she drank. There was no little carved wooden fox...

Chapter 606 - Interlude - Quartus Nix - The Witch of the Woods

Quartus Nix’s five-year old sister was sick, and it was his job as her big seven-year old brother to look after her. A solemn duty he took on with pride! 

“Can you drink?” He whispered to his sister, trying to wipe back her sweaty bangs. “Can you say ‘healer?’”

That would fix everything, if she could just break out of her delirious state long enough to say the literal magic word. That was the way the world worked...

Chapter 605 - Interlude - Skye - Bend the Knee

AN: First chapter of book 15! The penultimate book!

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[Princess] - no matter how much the Eventide Eclipse joked about making her a [Queen] - Skye had a raging headache.

Three heavily annotated proposals lay in front of her, and no matter how much she’d delayed, waited, and stalled, there was no fourth proposal forthcoming. No matter how much she talked to the walls or ...

Chapter 604 - Interlude - Schoon Verfrist - Conflict

Schoon Verfrist lived a cursed existence.

The demon hadn’t asked to be born. Hadn’t been asked to be born a demon, specifically. Hadn’t asked to be one of the Immortal races, hadn’t asked for White Dove to curse him with a compulsion that could never be satisfied.

Hadn’t asked for a Sin that was unusual, outside the norm. An outsider even among demons.

Many of them got typical Sins. Lust and Pride, Sloth and Gluttony, Wrath, Greed, ...

Chapter 603 - All the Skills

So thirsty. There was a lovely cup of water waiting for me, along with some cut-open mangos. Was Auri experimenting with ‘smelling salts’ again…? I rolled over to grab the water, and did the awkward ‘try to drink while lying down’ move. I blinked as the first refreshing gulp went down my throat.

Wait, I was an idiot. 

I [Teleported] - was that even still the skill name? - upright, bringing the blankets...

Iona Tier Incentive for November - A double!

Hey all!

TWO incentives this month! Iris and a Elaine/Iona!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pzu00JEf8b7QXzXPuG8nV6XElSlaskOg&usp=drive_fs
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-7dvCUQD2b7MghQ407zatuwnvjug4hp3&usp=drive_fs

Chapter 602 - Spatial Class Up

The library flickered and rippled, the books on the ground floor being replaced by an entirely different set. If I wanted to, I could grab any one of the nearly-infinite choices, from [The Mother of Modern Medicine], all the way to a pink or white class.

It wasn’t surprising that Librarian stayed exactly the same. She was a reflection of my soul, who I was inside. I hadn’t changed too much in the time it had taken to select my last class, no matter how mu...

Chapter 601 - Radiance Class Up

It was classing up time! I’d capped out both [Sage of Tomes] and [Seraph of the Dawn], and with the recent battle against the dragon - plus surviving the Cataclysm and everything that happened since I last classed up - made me confident I had more than enough accomplishments for some good classes.

Some class ups I knew exactly what I wanted going into them; I knew what I wanted my classes to do and be for me. Right now th...

Chapter 600 - The Harvest

AN: Syl! It's a book I'm publishing through Mango Media, and it's one of my favorites!
I'm mentioning it here because I unwisely said I'd eat my hat on stream if it got 1000 reviews on Amazon in the first week.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Syl-Nucleus-Lunadea-ebook/dp/B0DJY8MXZW

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Everyone and their brother was curious about the fight that had just occurred...

Admin week this week

Hi all!

It's admin week.

The last month has been super good for me and my backlog. I went from 2 chapters in my backlog, AKA I was writing stuff the same week I was posting it, to 10! (Okay, two of the chapters are getting posted together, so effectively 9). Really needed the pressure being off to properly perform.

With that said, the edits on the upcoming chapters are super extensive, and most of you can guess why. If I didn't need to edit so much, I'd be posting this we...