Chapter 80: Duchy of Malcum
“Is that the only building in Malcum you have analyzed,” I asked worriedly.
“Yes, it took an expensive reveal scroll to analyze it. It was just too impressive looking not to.” Savior noted neutrally through the voice chat.
It wasn’t going to be...
2024-11-13 22:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 294: Orc Subterfuge
I woke a few hours later, somehow during the night I had rolled back over and was now hugging the large white wolf. The warmth had been welcome, but I needed to relieve Mateo and Maveith on watch. The wolf roused with me, shaking its coat. Its brother was sleeping outside the door to the sing...
2024-11-12 23:13:49 +0000 UTC View PostI was not going to do another one for Book 5, but Book 5 is going to run longer than expected. I have been targeting 60 chapters per book, but I am expecting book 5 to be 70ish chapters.
For those of you new to my page, almost every POV chapter in the story was voted on by patrons on Patreon. It sounds like a weird thi...
2024-11-12 02:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 293: Victory In Defeat
After more than a dozen explosions had shaken the area, I was covered in pine needles and splinters that had fallen from above. One of the large white wolves looked for comfort with its head in my lap. I remember when Oscar was a puppy and he was afraid of thunder and lightning, and I empa...
2024-11-11 22:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 204: Catching Up With Old Friends
Aelyn had apparently heard from Bylura that Gareth was in the capital. I took the Maelstrom alone, and found Gareth in the capital at The Gentle Tauren talking with Broderick, the barkeep and owner. “Welcome, High Mage!” The innkeeper greete...
2024-11-10 22:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 292: Exiled Elder
Mynasha found herself riding next to me as I devoured some salted candied nuts. It was taking a fair amount of aether to heal from the potion, and my ring of sustenance had not dulled my appetite. I wasn’t sure if my convergence spell form to get the most from essences also extended to the st...
2024-11-09 19:43:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 291: Strength of Giants
The gatehouse was open, and two orcs in hardened leather armor stood watch. They had long spears, and they became alert as we passed them, studying us. Our clerics did not hide their nature, Glasha’s brilliant red hair on display, and I was sure the guards would report our passing. Glow...
2024-11-07 05:14:44 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.patreon.com/collection/704892
2024-11-06 15:28:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 290: Mynasha
In Orcish, I replied, “You don’t look that special either. What makes you think you can become the Supreme Cleric?” Mynasha winced, realizing I could understand her, but recovered immediately.
Glasha cackled a soft laugh at Mynasha’s surprise. “I have been teaching the Telhian our la...
2024-11-06 02:51:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 289: She Looks Familiar
Glasha didn’t object and gently took the dungeon blade as I softly placed it in her hands. Like all the weapons my companions and I carried, the ornate hilt and guard were obscured with tarnish and wrappings to hide their obvious artificed origins. Based on what I had seen, among advent...
2024-11-05 00:52:45 +0000 UTC View PostSoldier Seraphim Chapters 289 and 290 are coming tonight (289 is 80% done)
Book 3 of A Soldiers Life is being published this week on Amazon. Here is a copy, so you dont need to buy it. This is copyrighted material and illegal to distribute without my permission. It will be available here until it goes to KU in January....
2024-11-04 19:55:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 79:
I had to wait for Blood Crisis to log in. I was stressed about the implications, and all I could find by searching online were obscure references to the class action lawsuit on behalf of the hard-wired players “owned” by the game corp. The issue was the lawyers trying to organize the lawsuit...
2024-11-04 01:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 288: Speed Run
“Don’t blame Mateo,” Glasha said, smirking. “He was quite drunk, and I have been told I am quite persuasive.” Mateo was hiding innocuously behind Maveith.
“Did you use magic on him?” Raelia said accusingly.
“No,” Glasha stated defiantly, with a quiet snarl on her face...
2024-11-02 04:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 203: Loot Division
“It was definitely searching for the core.” Relik stood on the hill looking down at the torn-apart fire giant and all the excavated holes in the rocky ground.
“It didn’t find it?” I asked, looking at the pile of items that were expelled from the creature’s dimens...
2024-11-01 04:23:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 287: The Vault of the Spirit Arachnid
I was up well before the others and went to check on the horses. Ginger got an extra rubdown while I handed out half-apples to the rest of the mounts. As I brushed her flank, I found myself quietly explaining that I’d be gone all day on a dungeon delve and that she shouldn...
2024-10-30 04:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 286: Misunderstandings
I had read a little about the city we were entering. The city of Grila was in the heart of the Caliphate, and as such, it was a crossroads for travel and trade. It was on a small plateau that allowed sewers to be easily incorporated into its design. Water was raised from deep wells by an A...
2024-10-29 20:58:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 285: Button Up
Glasha carefully packed the runic pauldrons. They could probably fit Mateo or me, but they needed padding fitted to them. Of course, their bright, silver appearance was a beacon on the battlefield. The cleric was grinning the entire time, and I was happy we would be done with the job. “We can es...
2024-10-28 04:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 284: Revelations
It wasn’t long before our group had ventured beyond the surrounding farmland and headed into shrub and bushlands. I was riding next to Glasha mid-morning, whose excitement was contagious. She had Benito and Mateo talking energetically about finding some ancient weapons of the giants and wieldi...
2024-10-26 03:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 283: The Chronologicaler
The mud hadn’t firmed up by the morning, and the horses struggled to walk. I ordered everyone to dismount and walk them, and we fared little better than the horses, sinking to mid-calf. Baldo sat upright in his seat, confused as to why the stupid people were walking in the mud. Raelia ...
2024-10-24 20:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 282: Skeletons In The Closet
Getting to higher ground made sense, and the burned-out farm was on top of a hill. We didn’t need the glowstones with the rapid flashing lightning, but had them out anyway. Only Mateo’s horse was giving us trouble as the constant waves of thunder spooked him. He even dragged Mate...
2024-10-23 03:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 78: Big Decision
“Epic plans! Was it a dungeon reward?”
“No, it is marked as a player-crafted good, but the player kept his name anonymous.”
“Maybe his name is Anonymous.”
“That is a stupid trope. It was one of the early start players who crafted it.”
“It’s not fair th...
2024-10-22 02:55:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Questions on geography:
Attached is the map of the Caliphate they are traveling in. They entered in the bottom right and were headed northwest along the trade road that goes all the way to the Caliphate capital of Becar. Their ultimate goal is Agurtra, which is east of the capital of Becar. That is where the warlord who...
2024-10-20 23:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 281: Fortuna’s Chosen
It was the first time I had felt exhausted in a while, and my ring of sustenance and essence-fortified attributes could not overcome my lack of sleep and the stress of leadership. I dressed in my adventurer armor and then rubbed down Ginger before breakfast. When I told the stable hand we...
2024-10-20 20:31:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 280: Fake It Till You Make It
Khoura was a sprawling city nestled among crop fields being cultivated for planting. The outer walls were a dark stone, but most of the buildings within were made of wood. It almost felt like we were in an alien world with nearly every citizen being an orc. Orc skin was mostly tones...
2024-10-19 03:48:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 202:
Heat emanated from the steamy pools, causing us all to sweat—no, Relik was not sweating even though he wore more clothes and armor than us. I activated my thermostatic aura spell as it would not take much aether to sustain. The most disconcerting point was you couldn’t see any threats in th...
2024-10-18 05:45:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 279: Show Me The Money
When I returned from washing my armor and rinsing my clothes—again, the children were gone, and my companions were standing around the seven heads across the ground. Maveith looked up at me, his voice full of concern. “There were seven of them.”
I moved in close to the group, s...
2024-10-16 03:40:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 278: Handle With Care
While I worked, I pulsed earth speak regularly to ensure I had no more unwanted guests. The first thing I did was collect the essence from the corpses. The alpha yielded an apex essence of aether resistance, while four of the remaining five she-wolves yielded lesser essences. Two of the fem...
2024-10-15 02:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 77: Rival
The decimated undead army was picking itself up and reforming. Tanguin turned to me, “Four hundred six zombies, twenty-one knights remain. Most are injured. I could send the infantry to cleanup.”
As he talked to me, players leaped off the walls and ran to engage the undead. “I...
2024-10-14 17:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 277: Howl You Doing?
By Rolf’s expression, maybe I had exceeded my authority. Rolf was not the only one in shock; Raelia was still seated on Stormcloud, looking at me strangely. The elven townsfolk began murmuring excitedly amongst themselves as the leader told me what happened. “This morning, the beast brok...
2024-10-13 04:41:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 276: Escort Duty
I was the first one to the stables, but it was four hours before sunrise. Ginger was happy to see me even though I was disturbing her beauty rest, and the other mounts knew I was the human with the apples. After giving Ginger a rub down, I inspected Raelia’s gray.
It was a young stallion...
2024-10-12 02:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
