Hey all. First color rough from my amazing artist. A few things need to be tweaked like the color of the rings and maybe give her a more menacing face. But what do you all think?
2023-11-01 10:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Lunalah leafed through the status report within her private office while her assistant Ling Wei looked on. The latest financial reports from Xiang Xian province had been compiled and while the numbers scrolling across her Qi-tablet were plain enough to understand, none of them made sense to her.
“Production h...
2023-10-30 00:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Hei Dong was beside himself with disbelief.
She’d admitted it.
But how?
Why?
Fia continued to weep as a dark fear crept inside Hei Dong’s soul, questioning both his instincts and his daughter’s integrity. He wanted to reject the thought immediately. But had she done it? Had Fia actually li...
2023-10-26 02:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostI entered the utter darkness of that space within spaces, my view to the outside world began shrinking to but a pinpoint within my mind’s eye. I could just barely make out the details within it as it shrunk. Kelsey was still yelling at me in slow motion and the black tar that was I’xol’ukz was still slowly taking solid ...
2023-10-22 05:24:44 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Hei Dong entered the Imperial court building with his wife Rhi Dong and Fia by his side. A small crowd had gathered in the public viewing area, an anomaly of sorts for such a low-profile matter, but he supposed the inclusion of a Grand Sage in the proceedings would bring all kinds of onlookers.
Rhi Dong looked co...
2023-10-20 02:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Hei Dong strolled atop the Sky Port with impatience in his heart. The structure was fixed atop the tallest structure of the Imperial City, a large landing platform that could accommodate hundreds of skiffs at a time.
He glanced up frequently at the night sky, looking for the one skiff he was eager to see arrive. ...
2023-10-15 12:08:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe stench of rot and decay hit me like a wall as we descended through the bunker.
I took the lead with Jim and a small squad of soldiers following close behind. Further back was Kelsey and Lieutenant Harris, along with the platoon that would form the mop-up crew. The place was in total darkness, lit only by the small h...
2023-10-12 02:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Okay its really time for me to get the next cover out. Alot more story has come out since i last polled you guys on what to put on this books cover so I'm going to ask again.
What do you think will look cool? I'm still torn between quite a few ideas so I'm still not sure at the moment.
To mayb...
2023-10-11 01:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to get out into the wild right away, but I had burned way too much Frenzy for that. Plus, although I had finally had my breakthrough to use my spiritual techniques, I was still headed into a battle with a largely unknown foe.
Or perhaps a battle within a largely unknown territory was more accurate.
Jim ha...
2023-10-07 22:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t know the strength of the cultivator I now faced.
Or if she even was a cultivator anymore.
Like Hong Feng, Hin Wu had transformed with the power of Dark Frenzy and by all accounts, she seemed several tiers above where he had been on the ‘beasting out’ scale. The [Odds were Again me] for sure and I we...
2023-10-02 02:14:37 +0000 UTC View PostI ran with the speed of [Frenzied Lightning], tearing up the autumn countryside.
I had barely slept at all—anxiety and uncertainty keeping me awake all night. I prayed that Fia would be waiting for me by the lakeside as normal, nothing amiss, but doubt was gnawing at my soul. The urge to know with certainty that she w...
2023-09-30 10:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostI trusted Hin Wu about as far as I could throw her, although I guessed these days that idiom didn’t make much sense anymore. Still, it was a much-preferred option to accept the drink and hear her out, rather than risk facing her without a working [Soul Shield] technique.
We entered a small tavern on the edge of the ma...
2023-09-26 00:28:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne look at the crowd outside the arena and I understood why no one from the block was coming to cheer me on. Where there were once long lines of locals and commoners, there were now queues of hovering skiffs waiting patiently to discharge their passengers at the front of the arena valet style.
Inside the prep area was ...
2023-09-22 08:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostA light flurry of snow wafted across the rippling surface of the lake.
I maintained my form, Phalanx Glaive resting solidly upon my right shoulder with my axe held low in my left hand. My breath frosted in the frigid morning air, a slow exhale as to not make a sound. It was not to mask my presence however, but rather to...
2023-09-20 00:12:16 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
Or who I was seeing was perhaps more accurate.
“Threja?”
She chuckled as she folded her arms across her massive chest. “Somewhat, I suppose.”
I was even more confused. She certainly looked like Threja, or what I could remember of her anyway. Clos...
2023-09-16 11:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostI arrived at the square to find the place shrouded in darkness and utter silence.
I slowed instinctively, dropping into a martial stance.
What the hell…?
My heart rate climbed as I inched forward. It was late but not that late. The place should still be buzzing with activity. People getti...
2023-09-13 22:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire outcome of the fight shifted in my mind as the reality hit.
My ace in the hole was gone.
Not only that, but if this truly was Silver Hawk, then I was facing a cultivator a tier higher than what I’d been expecting. The same level as Fia really. But thank goodness she didn’t come with Fia’s repertoi...
2023-09-09 20:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt was my last day for training and Fia was riding me hard.
And not in the pleasurable way.
“Too slow! Try again!”
I brandished my axe with lightning, pulling out all the stops. Fia spun and twirled with her three jian blades dancing behind her back, each motion a technique in and of itself. I r...
2023-09-04 04:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostI arrived at the Golden Spire with the Phalanx Blade slung across my shoulder and wrapped in the white sheet. Master Edrik had once again complained it was unfinished when I dropped by to pick it up, but I ensured him the polish and sharpening probably wouldn’t matter.
I was going to learn the basics, but more importa...
2023-08-30 19:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Hei Dong cycled his Qi as the two Fire Bird elders approached.
It was just after dawn and the unexpected visit was most untimely.
And unwelcome.
Hei Dong had summoned both Rhi and Fia to stand with him, along with Fia’s enclave of Silver Shadows. The twelve women in black stood in formation, encircl...
2023-08-27 18:29:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Golden Spire was on the edge of the restaurant district, bordering the seedy brothels and dive bars on the bad side of town. Rough neck cultivators from unknown sects gave me long and uneasy stares as I pushed through the dingy curtains that served as a door to the place.
I was immediately hit with the pungent aroma...
2023-08-17 03:17:55 +0000 UTC View PostKelsey stared into the glowing orb with eyes the size of quarters.
“Holy crap, Max!” she said, grabbing it. “You did it! I see stuff!”
I couldn’t help but smile at her enthusiasm.
We were in what I was now calling the town square. The courtyard under the lean-to right outside the sealed bunker door...
2023-08-06 11:04:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Chun! Bow quickly!” Xi Xha said, her head still facing the ground. “They are the Shen sisters!”
“Yeah, I know who they are,” I said with [Indifference], eyeing them as they sauntered off the skiff towards us.
I couldn’t really tell them apart, all of them wearing the same identical hairstyle. One of...
2023-08-04 00:36:40 +0000 UTC View PostAn odd mixture of apprehension and exhilaration filled me as I stepped upon the skiff.
For one, it was only my second time of having the privilege to ride upon such a device, the first time being when that bastard Hong Feng was carting my ‘dead’ body out into the wild. But more than that, this would be my first time...
2023-07-30 12:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun had barely touched the height of noonday by the time I reached the handler station back home. I was bathed in sweat and heaving huge lungfuls of air, but I had done it.
I had made the trek in less than half the time as normal.
I’d left right at moonset, still under the cover of darkness and had pushed my...
2023-07-24 01:13:28 +0000 UTC View PostI burst through the hallways, pushing against the mob rushing in the opposite direction towards the bunker door. Cries and screams of panic added the general chaos of the blaring klaxon as rifle fire punctuated the air.
I headed towards the gunfire, bypassing whole flights of stairs as I pushed through level five to get...
2023-07-20 20:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostWe stuck to the plan and despite a somewhat restless night in the undersized hospital bed, I was up with Kelsey before dawn, running her through her axe techniques. We were out in the courtyard under the tent and only a few people were up to watch us.
We went through the basic forms in tandem, me leading with my axe and...
2023-07-16 12:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
I think i'm hitting close to the midway point for Book 2 and need to get working on its cover.
I dont have an idea in mind for it as yet, so I'm reaching out to you all for inspiration.
Anyone have any ideas or are there any scenes from book 2 that you think might make a cool cover?
Let ...
2023-07-13 10:45:43 +0000 UTC View PostI focused on the Frenzy running through my meridians and began applying my [Iron Skin] technique, meridian by meridian. It was a strange process, slowing down to a crawl what I normally did in an instant now.
But I was going slowly for a purpose.
I stopped just short of applying the last meridian and then shifting...
2023-07-12 21:05:49 +0000 UTC View Post
