Traveling by myself through on dirt roads had been the correct decision to avoid unnecessary complications. It had taken a while to get this far, but the important thing was that I had made it without getting dragged into pointless combat.
I looked out at the college, sitting on top of a small mountain. I had no doubt t...
2025-11-27 00:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostI had half expected a group to show up in the middle of the night at the farm and had split my watch with Ozy at the farm. Losing a spare spatial pouch hurt. At least it was the decoy one I had set up. Well, it wasn’t truly a decoy, but one that had daily necessities and didn’t appear out of place if it was checked.
I was sitting on my coach with four plain clothes guards with me. I also had eight more covering the hotel, two counter sniper teams, five cars, a helicopter, and twenty more men on standby. I was taking a small mini-vacation. Thankfully my appearance as Foxy was the one I was associated with, not my appearance as April. Whil...
2025-11-04 00:01:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you Justin Burnstock?” the Captain asked.
“Yes, I am. Who is asking,” I replied with my hand resting on the hilt of my sword.
“Legend Farsight Moss invites you to speak with him,” the Captain said.
“Is that an actual invitation or a demand?” I asked slowly.
“A demand. My orders a...
2025-11-01 23:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello, Sword of Ascalon,” I said to it. I infused a small touch of energy into my words. The sword kept floating there. Golden hilt, two edged blade, it was radiating energy and danger as I stared at it.
“Hello, can you understand me?” I asked again. Still no response. I reached out for the sword’s hilt. It m...
2025-11-01 22:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post1. End Arrivals
2. End Environment
3. Create Exit Portal
4. Create Public Ranking
5. Contact Support
I picked option one. There was no fanfare or anything else. The vote just went through. I checked the options again and the first one had changed.
1. Re-Start Arrivals
2. End Environment...
“Foxy, as always, a pleasure,” Baron Hayfield greeted me.
“Thank you, Baron Hayfield,” I replied as we both took our seats in a private meeting room in the capital.
“A shame about your title, I had hoped things didn’t go that far,” he replied. It was always impressive how the translation program did ...
2025-10-31 23:04:43 +0000 UTC View PostPatriot carefully looked over the sheets I had presented him. The items I had stolen were carefully tucked away into the Bankers Union’s vault in the Capital. No one was stealing anything from there.
“Foxy, you are good and your plan is reasonable,” he replied.
“I sense a ‘but’ coming,” I replied. 2025-10-30 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
They are holding.
I looked at the message from one of my fans in HeroTen and smiled. The Illuminati were everywhere. HeroTen’s leadership might have chosen to evacuate their vault, in that case an interception would have been risky. But now that I had confirmation from Tim that they were remaining in place, h...
2025-10-29 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt was our third night on the road and we pulled over to an inn, in a small town. A city normally had a dungeon entrance, a town would have multiple craftspeople, and a village would have one or two craftspeople and a collection of houses. Most places were towns for safety reasons, since they would often have walls.
Aft...
2025-10-29 16:55:06 +0000 UTC View PostI carefully put on my new heavy armor in the shop. The crafts dwarf took their time to watch as I strapped everything into place. Once it was on, I began to move out and go through several movements, testing that no points were catching.
“It flows smoothly. Better than my last set,” I said.
“The secret is in...
2025-10-29 16:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostHole City, it was poetic in a certain way, being back here where my ascent began and I would cap things off. It would be nice to retire on top and after this no one would ever be able to question that ever again.
I would focus on casually leveling going forward after this or take a vacation. Not that it would matter muc...
2025-10-28 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“You have screwed us Foxy, like a knife to the back,” Quant Z said as I returned from the Capital. He had followed me to my office in the Mercenery Guild and I didn’t stop him. I had let the members know everything would be fine, but Quant Z knew better.
“There was no other way,” I replied heavily as I took a ...
2025-10-27 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Getting back on track. Thanks for the suppport! :)
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There was a one sheet daily newspaper that was being published here in Port Hammer. Only two copper per copy, which is why I purchased one each day so I could learn what was happening.
“Dwarves declare war against the elves,” was the biggest head...
2025-10-27 22:57:38 +0000 UTC View PostLevel: 20 Experience: BLOCKED
Healing: 530/530 Stamina: 660/660 Mana: 780/780
Class: Tier 1, Adult Human(Blue)
Effect: Increased Skill Acquisition(+10%), Increased Learning Speed(+10%), Increased Stat Gain(+10%), Increased Physical Gain(+10%), Increased Mental Gain(+10%)
Vitality: 53 ()
Endurance: 66 (...
“Clarissa,” I greeted the stressed out looking woman.
“Michael, welcome back. How was your training?” she asked me.
“Interesting. I have a lot to work on, but I have improved, slightly,” I replied.
“Congratulations. Things have been hectic, getting everything ready for the next couple of days,...
2025-10-27 04:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostClarissa
“That is the current situation,” I explained to my minions. All the top 50 individuals had been gathered on my airship for this meeting. It had taken some time, but it was important that everyone was on the same page.
“We can’t save more people?”
“No. The 100,000 count i...
2025-10-27 04:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Delete me.
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Governor Sweetsap Moonwood
I looked at the most recent reports. The port town sacked by the dwarves. Multiple towns attacked. The merchants had attempted to break out of the city and several had been killed, many more injured.
It was a disaster of epic proportions. ...
2025-10-26 17:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post“We choose the sleeper option,” I told Artifex.
“Very well. I also understand you want training from me,” Artifex said.
“Yes,” I replied.
“This place is a great teaching tool, but it is also mentally constraining. You have worked out the elemental chart of energy types. I can tell you, that thi...
2025-10-26 02:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post“That was intense,” Clarissa said. It had been a day since talking with Artifex. We each had taken time to sleep and to think about everything we had learned before discussing everything.
“You were bold,” I replied.
“The devil is in the details. We aren’t politicians. Any plans need concrete steps to r...
2025-10-25 23:58:42 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Delete me
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I looked staired at the smoking ruins of the port town. The elven corpses were scattered everywhere. I felt sick, but I refused to look away. Fighting in the dungeon was against monsters and those who put their lives on the line.
Most of the corpses were civilians. Who had no place to run t...
2025-10-25 22:42:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Can you repeat that?” I slowly asked. The price I was being asked was ridiculous.
“The cost is 10,000 platinum for a complete summary on your court case,” the information broker said. I just stared at the NPC for a solid minute, but he didn’t even start sweating or blink at the insane price he had just given ...
2025-10-24 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: A dark chapter. I owe 6 more. These 2...I had to think about. But it makes sense unfortunately. I don't shy away from tough things as a writer. Remember this is a story. Don't let hatred rule your hearts.
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The land near the port town had several farms as we walked at a brisk pace. Even with stamina potions ...
2025-10-24 20:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post“The guards are watching for us. They have extra elves on this side of the town,” I reported back to our small group.
“You sure?”
“Yes. If we just walked up we would have been turned into pincushions by all the arrows shot in our direction. I might be able to survive, same with your guard, but without ar...
2025-10-24 20:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostAs I was thinking over my schemes, the entire Mercenery Guild building shook. Small bits of dust and debris rained down from the ceiling. We were located in the town of Goldenbrook, who would dare to attack us?
The entire building shook again, as I grabbed my mega blade from its resting spot and rushed out of my office....
2025-10-23 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Delete me. Owe 4 chapters.
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I held the runes in the air in front of me. Keeping runes active for a long period of time wasn’t advisable since they could distort and it constantly drained one’s Mana as the runes made of Mana kept trying to disperse. But the main thing was surviving the first attack, whic...
2025-10-22 23:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Delete me.
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“Good news, Justin,” I looked at the Elvish captain. We were scheduled to depart with a caravan slash prisoner exchange. Several merchants of other races were being held in the city.
It was the day after we had arrived, and we were scheduled to travel with them to a neutral exchange po...
2025-10-22 23:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post“A different method for each of the three super guilds. One of them will involve avoiding the super guild entirely and going after monster myself,” I said. That would be almost as much of a pain as taking on the super guilds. But I needed to keep them guessing and confused.
“They only spawn in specific locations t...
2025-10-22 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I am going to 2 chapters/day for Spellblade for a while. I still owe 4 more chapters. This will impact the free release as well. I need to build up a backlog so I am less stressed. I can't say how long this will last, but I will say indefinitely. I apologize, if some of you were expecting 4/day for a longer period of tim...
2025-10-21 23:40:12 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Delete me!
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“Moonwood,” I let out a sigh of relief as I looked at the name of the city carved into the bottom step of the dungeon. It was an elvish city, but that didn’t matter. Adventurers were not to be targeted by race.
Elvish cities often had their Adventurer’s Guilds located with the fort...
2025-10-21 23:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post
