A/N: Sorry, this was supposed to go out yesterday, but it needed some retouches. The next one might done tonight, or it will be out tomorrow.
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As soon as Ethan saw the red dots on the reconnaissance module, he wanted to fly over the new wilderness that covered the city he grew up in and go check them out. But he didn’t. Glancing around the overgrown grounds of property and seeing the crowd that had joined his pylon, milling about under the afternoon sun, tal...
2025-04-25 17:51:31 +0000 UTC
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Ash was having some trouble keeping up with everything happening around her, though no one could tell from looking at her. There was one skill she had picked up while surviving ever since she had been chased out of her home: it was to go with the flow. Just watch. Stay quiet and nod.
Thankfully, Maurice—the talking crab—made that really easy. He could talk enough for all three of them, so it was easy for Ash to listen and not panic. But now that he was scutt...
2025-04-24 19:23:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey all. A third Undersea chapter is in progress (might be ready tomorrow, kinda tired), and tomorrow also Scorching should be out.
Cheers!
Edit: scorching isn’t ready, will be out on friday ( should also have 3 this week)
2025-04-24 00:02:21 +0000 UTC
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After taking back control of the pathfinding skill from his Octominds and pulling all the free assistants to help out, Henry started with a simple cast of the skill with a simple request as he touched both shells: To point him toward one living turtle from this species.
The magic activated, and in Henry’s eyes, a haze of golden light surrounded the empty shell. It tried to do the same to Maurice’s shell, but it was as if it was encountering some sort of resistance, which made sense ...
2025-04-23 02:10:21 +0000 UTC
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Gingerly, Maurice reached into the glass jar with a piece of crunchy, slightly toasted bread and scooped a nice, glistening dollop of delightfully smooth spread. He put down the jar, then shoved the piece in his mouth while Henry picked up the jar to smell it.
Apricot jam?
Henry was tempted to scoop some for himself, but he opted to save it for later. Especially considering the literal feast being prepared under their eyes and seeing the new look of the arena, Henry...
2025-04-22 00:16:20 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Took me a minute, and I ended up cutting like... two big parts, because it kept getting longer. We'll save them up to the epilogue... or maybe next book's prologue. Let me know what you think!
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In the ominously quiet lobby of the Observatory, the teleportation circle lit up around him as Alphonse refrained from staring while he nervously brushed off some inexistent dust off of his green tunic. The Seer Knights, all four of them, stood still at the four corners of th...
2025-04-20 00:06:55 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Tomorrow I finish the prologue/epilogue. It kinda looks at other places in the universe, so I have to be careful (that's why it's taking time). I hope you enjoy this one! It was fun to work on.
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After the encounter with the direhounds, nothing major blocked their path.
Of course, that didn't mean they weren’t attacked. At some point, a couple of swooping, woodpecker-like birds had taken umbrage to the humans invading their territory, and had ins...
2025-04-19 00:34:54 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Three things!
Epilogue/prologue is still in progress. Will finish it this week.
Some stuff was simplified in the Arcanums, but it's not super clear right away. I'll explain it more when we get there.
Patreon text formatting is ass. I just had to say it.
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A couple of hundred feet above the group of survivors, Ethan floated, eyes roaming, watching for ambushes and threats. Below, the survivors of group #12, al...
2025-04-17 22:08:45 +0000 UTC
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A/N: This it for Undersea this week, but next week we'll get some good progress (3 or 4 for suuure)
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It turns out that it was very hard to locate any of the other orbs.
Henry was now on his fifth try, and no matter how hard he pushed or how much conceptual energies he added to the spell, he failed. It wasn’t that the spell was fizzling out or anything of the sorts. No, as soon as the skill tried to latch to one of the spheres with the intent of finding the ...
2025-04-17 22:08:25 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Thank you all for the nice comments! See you tomorrow for more Undersea (and Scorching)
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From tracking the mysterious-looking turtle back in his old world to sinking below the waves, Henry told them everything. Waking up in a turtle shell, nearsighted and color blind, meeting the System, getting ambushed by an eel, struggling against the sharks and meeting the whales. Henry went through most, if not all, of his experiences, while Velistraine and Zerathstra listened. A...
2025-04-16 22:06:55 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! How have you all been?
I hope you got some good reading done. On my end, I did plenty of that. Finally read Skillgrinder in a Timeloop which made me dig up an old draft of a timeloop story that I might start on when I have some downtime... I've read Path To Transcendence and Lone Wanderer, started a couple of other stories I've been meaning to check out, and finally watched Severence (if you haven't, go check it!)
All in all, it's been a great and much, much
2025-04-16 15:14:21 +0000 UTC
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A/N: That's the third! Sorry again about the delays, everyone. It's been a year of nearly constant work and I guess I got a bit tired lol. Now I'm going to get some rest and take my time to plan the next parts.
I hope you're enjoying the start of book 3! And thank you all for your support. See you in a bit after the break (and/or in discord and comments)
Cheers!
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2025-03-17 16:35:33 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Alright, I'm getting started on the third one. Might be able to finish it later tonight, otherwise it'd be out tomorrow AM. Then a much needed break. Cheers!
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Ash tilted her head back and looked up at the giant trees stretching toward the sky.
A tiny part of her mind still refused to accept the sight. It made no sense when contrasted to everything she’d seen and experienced. There wasn’t even an island, so how are trees just growing out of ...
2025-03-16 22:52:38 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Sorry for the delay folks. The next two should be out tomorrow!
PS: Title will prolly change. I just thought of the word "mix" in the title, and the quote refused to leave my head ever since. For those that are blissfully unaware, it's quote from Singed (league of legends).
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As he watched a particularly belligerent triggerfish chase the purple crabs back to their territory, where the crabs scuttled and hid in between the giant roots of the trees ...
2025-03-16 00:32:26 +0000 UTC
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A/N: A bit rushed. I think I'll revisit this one once I've recovered a bit and flesh it out a bit more. There's also still an epilogue I want to do, but I'm so out of juice. I'll prolly post somewhere within the break, or maybe I'll tweak it once I finish up the dev edits.
See you soon everyone! And thank you all for reading!
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As Ethan took a few minutes to catch up with the team, he found himself frequently looking back toward the portal, and clea...
2025-03-15 03:28:23 +0000 UTC
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Standing in front of the purple-blue tear in reality, Ethan closed his eyes and put a mental finger on the connection he felt to the space around him, and as he reached out for it, he frowned. It was… almost as if he didn't have a good grip on it. There was a link, sure, but it took a few seconds for him to secure his grasp around it, and when he finally did, he pulled.
And something in the rift—in this pocket world around him—broke.
Ethan wrenched the riftcore ...
2025-03-14 03:52:59 +0000 UTC
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Thursday Edit: Still working on the outline. I wish I had lined the end of the book with the break... but oh well. You're still getting three chapters! Bear with me
Friday Edit: I'm close. First chapter will be out tomorrow (maybe even two if I can swing it). Definitely should have tried to line the end of book 2 with the vacation so I wouldn't need to rush outlining. Live and learn and all that... see you tomorrow!
Hey all,
I'm still outlining Undersea's new chapter...
2025-03-13 00:40:27 +0000 UTC
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As he confirmed the selection and waited for the spell’s transformation to finish, Ethan considered the primagems he had left.
Primagems:
Low-grade: 3x Water, 2x Crystallization, 1x Hardening, 1x Last Breath
I guess I still have plenty of Water primagems left, for whatever that’s worth. But I’m out of the Lifeforce and Draining primagems I wanted to combine with the claws, so maybe I should wait a bit for tha...
2025-03-13 00:35:46 +0000 UTC
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A/N: It's done. No bonus this week. I'm exhausted. We'll see how I feel after finishing next week's stuff.
Dev edit:
the main's quest's wording is changing. This is the canon.
From now one (and in the past when I go to edit), spells can be tapped when they're absorbed to get a description. I'll add the one for the Primagland next week.
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Ethan narrowed his whole existence to a single task: keep pumping fire into th...
2025-03-09 05:22:13 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Currently working on Scorching! I'm hoping it'd be out in the next few hours but otherwise, it'll be out no later than tomorrow noon. Definitely need that vacation! I promise less delays after the break.
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With a heavy splash, Henry fell into the pool and as the refreshingly cold water surrounded him, he closed his eyes and pushed away the noise still echoing in his head. Even though he was far from the arena and most likely, the people had already gone on and ...
2025-03-09 02:36:15 +0000 UTC
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A/N: It's not all resolved just yet, but let me know what you think!
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With arcs of electricity crackling around him, Henry reached the center faster than his opponent and with another Lightning Dash, he was right up in Tevarius’s face. His Octominds, freshly empowered with pulse of Thaumaturgy were ready for the task he’d set for them and for the first time ever, he was about to witness what an Aspect-empowered Octomind was capable off. Already, he cou...
2025-03-08 04:33:40 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Good thing I'm taking a break... I am running out of steam! Editing Undersea now, should be out in the next 20 minutes. The third chapter of both stories should be out tomorrow, as for bonus, we'll see if I manage it.
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Blood spurted from between the two plate-sized scales, and a splatter of smoking flesh and blood hit Ethan in the face as the lord roared and lunged at him. Ethan let go of the lance, ducking under the twisting neck before he sliced with th...
2025-03-08 04:14:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
both chapters are a bit intense (or maybe I'm just running on fumes), so I need a bit more time. You're still getting the 3 chapters each this week (and maybe a bonus), but I still need a bit more time.
Still working on them as we speak, and if I managed to finish one today, I'll publish it, but both will prolly be out tomorrow.
Thanks!
2025-03-07 01:28:45 +0000 UTC
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The [Overloding Fireball] was like a heart of heat and fire, drawing in mana with every pulse while both of Ethan’s Lesser Arcanum and [Mana Heart] began to struggle as the needs of the fireball grew. At first it wasn’t too difficult to reach the potency of the first spell he’d thrown, but the more the spell grew in power, the more the cost was accelerating. The fire was growing denser, and hot, scorching wind was buffeting away from the spell as it quickly reached the siz...
2025-03-06 05:04:10 +0000 UTC
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Tevarius looked down at his damaged spear, lips pursed, then threw it to the side. The wood clattered against the packed soil, but before the discarded weapon could come to a stop, a new spear appeared in the man’s hand and instantly, Henry found his eyes drawn to it.
The spear was slightly shorter and somehow, it looked like a giant harpoon, with one side completely straight, and another that was both sharp and barbed. It was made of a single piece, as far as Henry could tell, and as...
2025-03-06 04:42:30 +0000 UTC
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Tl;dr:
Taking a month off from posting starting Sat March 15th, back on Wed April 16th.
Membership billing will be paused from March 15th and turned back on the April 15th. Within that period, your billing will be paused (aka if you usually get billed on the 25th, you will not be billed March 25th, and you will instead be billed on April 25th. You should still have access to everything I post/have posted.
A/N: This one was fun. See you Wednesday!
Edit: I wish Patreon would fix their text formatting. It really freaking sucks.
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Ethan loaded up the options and took a minute to go through them.
Select one of the following upgrades for Small Fireball (Tier-2):
Option #1: Costs 1 primagem of Explosion, 1 primagem of Fire
Greater Fireball (Tier-3): Shoot a greatly empowered version of the fireba...
2025-03-01 22:44:37 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Scorching's out tomorrow. I got some sort tendinitis in the shoulder or something... been getting worse over the last few weeks. Gotta do some stretching.
See you next week (or tomorrow if you read Scorching)
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Henry believed he was getting better at pushing back against the overbearing presence of his opponent and to do so, he just… did nothing. No mana channeling, no skills.
It felt counter-intuitive, but just like the Otodus sharks a...
2025-03-01 04:15:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Undersea will be out later tonight, Scorching tomorrow. My shoulder's been killing me today, I'm trying to take it easy.
Laters!
2025-03-01 01:18:04 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Hey all. There probably won't be a bonus this week. A bit too tired and I got another round of edits to get through. We'll see how it goes, but prolly won't happen.
Hope you enjoy this one! See you tomorrow
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Ethan beat his wings, flying over the sparse canopy of the swamp as he made his way to the lagoon. He was only mildly sore, and the few bites that managed to rip through his scales had already healed, but he was still a bit annoyed as h...
2025-02-28 03:34:01 +0000 UTC
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