AN: Happy new year!
Rather than launching the typical explosive ball of fire from her hands, it seemed that Erani’s new and Upgraded Firebolt Spell caused a meteor to fall from the sky. It hurtled to the ground, set to collide with the closest group of monsters charging at me, and I’...
2024-01-01 13:11:45 +0000 UTC View PostI strolled through the sandy dunes lit by the moon, eyes on the beasts in the distance. Erani and Ainash trailed distantly behind me, so I could attack first and be the sole person drawing the aggression of the animals.
The Sand Stompers and Sand Stingers took notice of me, glancing over in my direction as I approached,...
2023-12-27 12:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a little guidance from Index, I reached into my mind, and…
Anchor Point has been placed.
Unplaced Anchor Points remaining: 0
There was a faint sensation in my body, ...
2023-12-20 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSitting in the back of the carriage transporting us through the desert, I closed my eyes and began meditating. At the same time, I also handed Erani the two Fire Spell Crystals for her to make her own choice, as well. Firebolt had been at Rank 19 for a while now, so it would be great for the Spell to finally reach its next Up...
2023-12-18 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long before I saw what the Sand Hive was.
After meeting the woman in her little caravan, we hitched a ride in the back of one of the covered carts, legs hanging off the back. She had a few hired guards with her, as she said, who walked alongside the carts in big, intimidating suits of armor. It seemed l...
2023-12-13 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMinute Mage book 1 is out! It's available in physical form, plus Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!
Thank you all for making this possible. I'm really hoping that writing can be my permanent full-time job, and if my Amazon launch does well,...
2023-12-12 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry for the delayed chapter, finals week for school really snuck up on me and it felt like I was stuck in an infinite loop of studying and completing final projects. But as of today, I finally finished up my last assignment for this semester! So hopefully I'll be much freer to write more consistently now. Anyway, enjoy!...
2023-12-11 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA Devil stood on a rock in a barren, gray wasteland. He had just stumbled through the door 999 portal that led to the surface of the Underworld and dashed through, narrowly escaping the grasps of his captors. And now, he was here.
He glanced back. The square of black that the portal had opened up had already closed behi...
2023-12-04 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEventually, Erani and I finally got some sleep. It was probably around midday when we actually dozed off. Part of me dreaded trying to get my sleep schedule back on track after this, but the other part of me knew it was completely fucked already, following the entire journey we’d made to get to this damned empire to begin w...
2023-12-02 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI sat in front of a man at a desk in an opulent room. He was older, dressed in nice clothes that matched the decorations filling his office. There were a good few guards in the room with us, which, while I understood the use of caution in this scenario, I still wasn’t comfortable being surrounded by all of these Classers. E...
2023-11-29 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTown guards swarmed the battlefield. Fires and rubble were spread throughout, as were bodies. There were a good number of casualties, unfortunately—though most of them were those of our enemies—but not only that, there were plenty of living people that’d also collapsed on the ground, unmoving. It had happened a...
2023-11-25 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostJon dropped the coin, and it burst into flame. Everyone around him was engulfed, and screams instantly began to echo through the wreckage of the battlefield. The Melee-Types dove back, but many of them were already set aflame, including Entismo and Boy.
Is he too low on Mana to use Day of Judgment? I asked Inde...
2023-11-21 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs the coin flew toward Entismo, time seemed to move in slow-motion. If that thing hit him, it’d kill him for sure—I’d seen what those flames could do to someone in previous timelines, and they were no joke.
I could already tell exactly what Index would say, if it had the time to say it: Arlan, by doing this, ...
2023-11-15 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI arrived in the previous timeline not too far in the past. I hadn’t gone the entire six and a half hours back that I was capable of, instead opting to go back to the moment the time struck midnight of the current day—not even an hour beforehand. The reason I chose to do this was a specific quirk in the way Time Loop work...
2023-11-12 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJon was almost asleep when he heard the crash.
He had just finished meditating for the night—something that had been somewhat difficult, considering his squad’s failure to locate the fugitive this evening—and had gotten into bed, closing his eyes and hoping for a more productive tomorrow. While he hadn’t found t...
2023-11-08 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSylvie stared at me and Erani, standing before her on the side of the abandoned road. With our faces exposed, she was clearly taking a moment to absorb the details.
“You’re…the fugitive,” she said, eventually. “The one everyone’s looking for? That’s flamin’ awesome!”
“That’s me,” I said wit...
2023-11-05 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI arrived in the previous timeline later than I had in the past, since so much more time had passed before I died this go around. I’d already explained everything to Erani and Ainash, and had agreed with Sylvie for her to help pay adventurers to help us fight Jon. I knew we wouldn’t need to swap away from that plan, at le...
2023-11-02 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo the thing was, I kind of thought Jon was an idiot.
He walked straight into the guild lobby, eyes on me, and I watched as he no doubt prepared to cast his typical Day of Judgment Spell. Seemed like this had been his original plan; go and ask around at the border outposts to see if anyone knew where I was, and th...
2023-10-31 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we got back to the town of Salvation, the first thing Erani and I did was go to the guild lobby and sit down to have a drink. For me, it’d been a long twelve hours of fighting and re-fighting Jon, and for Erani, it had been a slightly less long six hours. We both wanted to sit down and unwind, if just a little bit.
... 2023-10-27 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI hadn’t been able to sync up my memories with Ainash and Erani in the previous timeline, meaning I wasn’t able to fully bring them in on what’d transpired just by transferring their memories back to them. I could’ve transferred them my own memories of the previous timeline, but it took a lot longer to give them my me...
2023-10-24 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Fugitive, I’d like to call a ceasefire! You don’t move from that spot, and I won’t make chase. We will resume this later, once I’m done speaking with Ripley,” Jon called over to me and Erani. He turned over to where Sylvie and Ainash had been fighting the soldiers. “Men, put down your weapons, we will…oh.”<...
2023-10-21 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJon and his four soldiers approached us in our hiding places, seemingly fully aware of our location. Or, it didn’t seem like any of them could see us—none of them were looking directly at us, at least. Rather, they were simply walking in our directions with clear purpose. I just assumed that purpose was “let’s go kill...
2023-10-19 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long before we were back on the road. Erani messaged Ainash to go grab Sylvie and bring her back to us so we could get to the outpost without delay. So once we met back up, we got right back onto the worn dirt trail heading in the direction of the mountains.
Our plan now was essentially a simple ambush....
2023-10-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So how will this Day of Judgment Spell not kill me?” Sylvie asked Erani.
“It’s a weird Spell,” Erani responded. “It only deals damage to you based on the things you’ve done. I assume you haven’t done those things, so you should be fine. Or, if you have, it won’t be enough to deal that much damage.”<...
2023-10-14 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostErani, Ainash, and I got ourselves up and together before rushing to the other side of the border outpost, where Jon and Ripley were fighting. We also quickly touched hands to transfer memories between ourselves—the basic stuff, leaving out most details to ensure we did it quickly, but that way I could get all the informati...
2023-10-12 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI approached the two soldiers attacking Erani and Ainash, who were both pinned to the ground. Behind me were two more that I’d managed to incapacitate, if only temporarily. And apparently, on the other side of the wrecked border outpost…
Index, you said Ripley and that guy, Jon, they’re having some conversatio...
2023-10-10 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Extra long chapter :)
I stood, hiding in the bathroom of the guard outpost, listening to Bon speak a man—presumably the leader of the five that’d just walked in—named Jon Mourn.
“We don’t know too much,” Jannin said, “don’t keep any, uh, detailed logs, or anything.”
“Really?” the vo...
2023-10-07 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJust as I stepped inside the outpost, the blade of a battleaxe came swinging out from behind the wall, straight at my face.
Then it collided right into my nose.
You have been sliced. 56 damage.
Your ...
2023-10-05 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI placed my hand on the device floating in midair among the trees. Erani and Ainash looked at it interestedly, while the Goblins standing among us seemed more concerned with whether Ainash was angry or happy than anything else going on.
With contact made with the “Beacon,” I tried pushing my Mana into it once again ...
2023-10-03 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Tribe welcome you, Human one,” a Goblin said, bowing its head in respect.
I wasn’t sure how to respond. Was I supposed to bow back? Tell it to raise its head? Say hello?
In front of me stood around a dozen Goblins, all around half my height and dressed in the barest of tattered clothing, most of it strictly...
2023-09-29 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
