Chapter 73:
The espionage interface for the Rogues Gallery allowed me to assign future assets before they were trained. The NPC in the queue was pulled from my population in Malcum and didn’t spawn as I had assumed. It was an NPC with no job or skills. The first trainee was a female wolfkin, so she would ...
2024-09-08 22:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 259: Elven Customs
As Maveith had mentioned, Dee’s hammock was really palatial. The massive hammock was far more comfortable than my own. Currently, the short woman was sprawled, sleeping across my body, and she was much heavier than I would have thought. Her intense body heat was causing us both to sweat unde...
2024-09-07 03:43:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 258: Time Is Of The Essence
The sun was already making the deck sticky with drying blood. The first calls were to stabilize the injured. Pickle, his right arm in a sling, climbed laboriously up to the crow’s nest to resume watch, but I thought they had been bloodied enough that they would not return. Still, De...
2024-09-05 17:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 257: I Never Really Liked Sushi
The churning water on the stern split as the school of sharks moved to encircle the Shorebreaker. The mages had stopped calming the water, and our ship now rose and fell as it crashed through the waves after our failed attempt to outrun the swarm. Maveith lamented about having los...
2024-09-04 16:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 256: Saw Hula Gin?
I thought my Elvish was getting better. I even ventured to have Raelia join Favian and myself as I practiced in the dreamscape. Raelia had another opinion of my proficiency with her racial tongue. “You are insulting a language that has been spoken the same for ten millennia. You are better o...
2024-09-03 16:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 196: Bad to Worse
I took the dominate lightning spell book and paged through it, cursory inspecting the spell forms for imprinting. It was an advanced form of the chain lightning spell, and instead of randomly bouncing from target to target, the mage controlled the lightning with his mind like a pup...
2024-09-02 20:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72: All the Skills
Skill books came in three grades: novice, expert, and master. Novice skill books could raise a skill up to level seven, master books could raise a skill up to 23, and expert up to level 43. However, I had only seen one master-level skill book in the player auction house so far dur...
2024-09-01 22:17:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 195 Shifter POV
After weeks of exploring these floating islands, the shifter rested deep inside the largest island. Floating islands were not rare in the Sphere, but this was his first time on one. The novelty had quickly worn off, and he was ready to end this assignment. He had morphed and slithered deep do...
Chapter 255: Dinner Discourse
I rested in my gently rocking hammock the rest of the day with the porthole open. The rushing water drowned the crew’s calls on deck as the Shorebreaker moved through the waters and further from the Telhian Empire. I only had a few books remaining in my dimensional space, but I took the o...
2024-08-30 04:24:03 +0000 UTC View Postso this is a little earlier than I planned to post the next vote but here it is.
2024-08-29 18:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 254: You Can’t Keep An Old Hound Down
Konstantin sat cleaning his weapons deep in the rocky crevice they had set their outlook. It was unnecessary, but it gave him something to do while he waited and mourned. He was still reeling from when Cornelius had revealed Eryk’s death to him. The blood compass had no ...
2024-08-29 03:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 253: Training on Deck
As I settled into the dreamscape, Konstantin rushed me, “Ready to resume your training?” I wasn’t sure if this was my subconscious missing the old man or him being his annoying regular self. A slight pain of loss lingered as I didn’t know if he still lived. How involved had he been ...
2024-08-28 01:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostSitting down to edit Soldier-252, write Soldier 253, and finish World Sphere-195.
So, book 3 is about ten weeks out from publication as an ebook. Here is the blurb I have currently on the Amazon site:
With his abilities under scrutiny from others in the company, the protagonist is put in a precarious p...
2024-08-27 18:11:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 252: Anchors Aweigh
Was the emperor dead? I stood stunned but impassive. My hand drifted to my pocket, and I activated the compass. It still had a faint pull, so Castile was alive—or recently dead. My mind raced, and Icarus studied my reaction.
“You don’t look surprised, legionnaire,” ...
2024-08-27 01:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 251: Captain Desdemona
I was not happy that I was recognized, or the fact that I was openly being called a legionnaire. I put on my best smile and took a seat at the table, “Today, I am a member of the Adventurer’s Guild.” I placed my bronze guild medallion on the table, showing my name and number 13-39391...
2024-08-25 19:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 250: Return To Telha
Ginger was in bad shape, but at least the artificial clouds faded with the death of the gnoll mage. She was so upset she wouldn’t even take an offered apple. While Maveith stood watch, I calmed her and talked to her as I used healing salve to close nine puncture wounds. “Don’t worry, G...
2024-08-24 20:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71: Divine Deviants
Another confrontation, so soon. I drained my ale and got a minor debuff notification.
Mild Intoxification: Intellect and Speed penalized 3%
“Danny, the guild Divine Deviants entered Malcum,” I said while putting down my empty cup.
Danny looked surpr...
2024-08-24 00:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostSUBMISSION DEADLINE IS MARCH 1st, 2025 (hopefully it will coincide with book 4 being published in May to include the winner)
The first iteration of the Fan Fiction contest was...interesting. Prizes were mailed. Second contest - two people had uncompleted stories, so no winner. If at first your ...
2024-08-22 17:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 249: Gnoll Party
The gnolls' cackling language erupted from all around us. In Hound training, Hearne had told us this was an intimidation tactic by gnolls when they hunted. We didn’t have to wait long as a trio of large gnolls rushed the only wide opening. With just three enemies, I considered holding the pell...
2024-08-22 05:13:13 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.patreon.com/collection/704892
2024-08-21 16:27:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 248: Vigilante Justice
Under the light of the glowstone, the mage cringed away from me. Boris had dropped to one knee, supporting his body with the runic sword. “Don’t tell him anything,” he spat angrily at the mage.
I looked down the road and could see the large, shadowy shape of Maveith co...
2024-08-20 05:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 194:
The mountain of a man, Gareth, made me feel small. He must have grown even more since I last saw him, maybe not in his 6’8” height but in width. I knew he had been in the city for a few days and had chosen not to disturb me in my work on the array. Maybe he had delved into the Cavern of...
2024-08-19 19:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 247: Soul Prison
The path along the river was much slower moving the next day than if we had remained on the ancient trade road. Still, I didn’t want to risk being spotted by the wyvern. Maveith didn’t complain about our route. At least the wyvern would have kept lesser predators from violating ...
2024-08-17 15:49:37 +0000 UTC View Postprize is hardcovers of book 1 & 2....signed by me if ya want. so didnt get a mountain of submissions on this but still a success as the discord for it had some discussion. next fan fiction contest will be in a few months (probably November and the prize will be hardcovers of first 3 books) . dont forget to vote below....h...
2024-08-16 14:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 246: The Road Less Traveled
I spent the next three hours proving to Maveith that my range was over fifty feet. I found small animals and even told him where he could find a silver coin twenty paces off the road. As night quickly closed, we moved off the road, Maveith still in disbelief.
“With seein...
2024-08-16 01:31:56 +0000 UTC View PostSoldier 182 is viewable here (Collection Image is of Mage Aspirant Renna)
https://www.patreon.com/collection/704892
In case you missed it, Chapter 1 of Book 4 is now generally viewable. I have started another collection called Soldie...
2024-08-15 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 181 - Epilogue of Book 3 has been moved to Book 3!
https://www.patreon.com/collection/385643
Chapter 182 - the start of book 4, will be available tomorrow. Book 4 needs a lot of TLC in editing so please don't be afraid to com...
2024-08-14 02:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 243: (part 2 of 2)
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Castile stood in the dark, cool night while her legionnaires moved around her on alert. The Emperor had just shouted to move out, and the Imperial ...
2024-08-13 23:43:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 243: Emperor Maximum Augustus Severus
Emperor Maximum Augustus Severus sat in his command tent north of Caranhagan. The recent battle was won but not without loss. His thoughts were muddled as he studied the maps on the table. Primus Scorpio stood patiently nearby, waiting for orders while his duke generals had ...
2024-08-13 01:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostSOLDIER FAN FICTION CONTEST!! DEADLINE AUG 15th - CLICK HERE FOR LINK
Writing in process as of lunch (8/12) World Sphere 194 is currently at ~ 500 words. Soldier Seraphim 243 ~ 900 words.
2024-08-12 15:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post
