It wasn't as easy as Venna made it seem with her declaration of their success. There was a reason that the noble who'd commissioned the hunt for the ruin crab hadn't gotten whatever was in the reliquary out when they'd been studying the ruins it'd been in. The stone coffin-like box that held the true prize of their mission wa...
2025-01-24 21:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostYet again Kay floated above a marching army inside of a blood construct as they marched east. This time was different on numerous levels though. The army was much larger than before as it was made up of the combined might of Avalon’s military, the Itarian Crusade, The Shatterplate Order, and any adventurers that could be re...
2025-01-24 00:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostWell folks, I hit that lovely thing called burnout again. There was nothing going on up in the ol' cranium the last two days. I should have seen it coming with my backlog drifting downward, but hindsight being 20/20 and all that. Back on the grind now though. This is Wednesdays Soulbound chapter, today's Blood Shaper chapter ...
2025-01-23 18:31:52 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, just letting you all know that today became a break day without previous planning. Will resume posting tomorrow.
2025-01-22 02:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostMoving Soulbound to three times a week for the foreseeable future to catch up to Blood Shaper just a little bit
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The bents trees and the smashed and splintered remains of the ones that couldn't bend beneath the weight of the ruin crab littered the area and were the first clue that the group was in the ri...
2025-01-20 18:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm John, by the way."
Dryth looked to his side and found the other mage holding his hand out. They shook briefly as Dryth introduced himself. "Dryth. Nice to meet you."
"You as well." He gestured over his shoulder, "This is Xin, er, Xinath. Sorry, they don't talk much."
Dryth checked arou...
2025-01-17 19:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostLeaders and influential figures among the Crusade and the Shatterplate Order marched into the meeting room one at a time or in twos or threes. In a display of power Kay had forbidden any guards to accompany those attending the meeting which meant that the groups were allies staying together or lackeys following behind the rea...
2025-01-17 00:56:29 +0000 UTC View PostAs the frustrated young man stepped away from the counter a bored voice called out, "Next!"
Dryth stepped forward with the job posting in his hand. He wasn't looking forward to the plan for the day that Sindri had excitedly put together, but he wasn't expecting them to fail or get seriously injured either, so he d...
2025-01-15 18:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostAh, I'm late!
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A mobile swarm of people roamed around a marching block of soldiers in ranks, looking surprisingly like the forces Kay had led to the east just a few days ago. Even if Kay hadn’t been able to see the banners held aloft in the center of the march he’d know that these weren’t his people...
2025-01-15 02:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post"That ice spear thing was cool too!" Sindri continued to declared his interest in many of the cards they'd seen as they walked up to the front door of Ewan's manor, repeating himself several times with only slightly different word choice. "Obviously I get more power form light cards, but variety is probably good ...
2025-01-10 21:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostMy internet is not cooperating~ It really needs to shape up and let me pooooost~
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Kay gathered up his companions and anyone else that would be more useful back home and flew them back to Avalon. Making mass graves and cleaning up battlefields wasn’t the best use of his time and the Earth Mages and Earth ...
2025-01-10 01:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostDryth slammed their haul down onto the counter in front of Holter. "Four mosstoads, with the moss on them as intact as we could manage."
"Oh?" The man in charge of Far West's bounty station looked up from whatever he'd been reading and peeked in the bag. "Oh, those look pretty good." He let the hem of the bag drop...
2025-01-09 00:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostKay stopped in place as the necromancer began squabbling with herself. Unintelligible screeches mixed with garbled curses poured out of her mouth as different limbs and pieces of her limbs began attacking each other. Her left hand began scratching at her own eyes while her right arm tried to drag it off, but when the right ar...
2025-01-08 00:33:31 +0000 UTC View PostBoggy terrain with low grasses and small shrubs became prevalent a few hours south of Far West, with the numerous hills shrinking in number until only a handful gave the occasional high ground to avoid the muddy ground and murky pools. The air was humid and smelled faintly of old decay as Dryth scanned the surroundings for na...
2025-01-04 01:04:27 +0000 UTC View PostSorry folks, bit behind but catching up.
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The thing swept Martha’s eyes back and forth across the battlefield, internally fuming that the defenders were holding their own against the undead it was throwing at them. It had gathered so many corpses from the departed that littered the land after multiple w...
2025-01-04 01:00:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt was still fairly early in the morning, so there was a bit of hustle and bustle as Dryth walked through the town. He passed a few bakeries either setting out their wares on racks or doing their best to quickly get through the building lines of people after a breakfast pastry or something else to eat. Shops were opening up a...
2025-01-02 21:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post"Adventure! Adventure! Adventure! Adventure! Adventure! Adventure! Adventure! Adventure! Adventure! Adven-"
Dryth stopped in place and grabbed Sindri's head between his two palms. "Sindri, my dear friend. It has been only a few week but thanks to our magical bond I have already come to love you deeply. Th...
2025-01-01 18:40:03 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Years everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful 2024 and look forward to putting out more and more things to read in 2025 for you!
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“’Temporary fortifications to hold back an undead invasion’?” Meten grinned as he looked down at the ground form the top of the walls. “How is any of this ...
2025-01-01 01:14:45 +0000 UTC View Post"Now!" Ewan crossed his arms over each other and leaned back a few degrees. "Time for the next lesson!"
"What are you doing?"
"I'm trying out these dramatic poses an acquaintance of mine showed me." He leaned back farther and pointed into the sky. "They're quite fun."
"Why, though?" Dryth a...
2024-12-31 22:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostEwan waited at one of the tables in the bounty station's canteen, with a bubble of space around him. From the glances at him as Dryth walked up to his teacher, Ewan had either driven everyone off with his eccentricity while waiting for Dryth and Sindri to finish their first bounty or was doing something to keep people away. K...
2024-12-30 18:40:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter catches y'all Partisan tier folks up with how far ahead you should be over RR, and ends our multiple chapters per day posting spree. Next week it's one chapter a day and then the week after that takes it to a normal two chapters a week schedule.
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The warehouse wasn't quite pitch black inside,...
2024-12-28 01:40:30 +0000 UTC View PostFool that I am I almost forgot to post today.
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"Right, gather round children." The tall, statuesque woman looked around at the five people standing around the small room they'd been led to and waved them close with both arms. "I'm Matilda and I'm the leader of the little group that's going to be keeping a...
2024-12-28 01:38:20 +0000 UTC View PostWelp, I thought I was counting wrong somehow, and it turns out I was!
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The guards who were patrolling the line that was obviously for special rich people to skip ahead of the regular folk didn't like the look of the open top carriage that matched all the requirements to be a for hire means of transportati...
2024-12-27 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAn army marched from Avalon, headed east. Standard soldiers, led by officers, all commanded by the General of Avalon Curcius marched following the roads that had been built headed to the border, all workers and materials originally earmarked for building new towns and villages shifted to make it easier to move eastward. The s...
2024-12-27 01:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostEwan doubled down on Dryth's previous experiences with teleporting somewhere as his teacher grabbed his arm as soon as Dryth could walk and dragged him out of the teleportation chamber at what was basically a run.
"No time to dally!" He half-shouted as he pulled Dryth along.
Dryth stumbled and did his ...
2024-12-26 19:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostA wobbling and fluctuating blob of light hovered off the tip of Dryth's fingers and began slowly drifting toward the end of the firing lane no faster than a falling leaf on a clear day. It didn't even make it halfway to the target before it destabilized and collapsed like a popped bubble, creating a barely noticeable flash th...
2024-12-26 19:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostDryth's Soul Space was just as he'd left it, with the strange furniture, the books he didn't recognize, and the daunting window and door. His desk was still there with the "MP" measuring device on it, completely full since he hadn't pure cast anything today and he didn't have any cards to draw on in his deck yet. There were t...
2024-12-26 19:00:26 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm not going to be teaching you how to duck, dive, roll, dodge, run, or any of the other physical bits of getting into battles." Ewan lectured the two of them after they'd managed to calm Sindri down. "Mostly because I don't have the correct facilities available for teaching you those kinds of things right now, but also bec...
2024-12-25 19:44:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day Dryth was still anxious about not being able to get licensed, but it wasn't dominating his every waking moment or threatening to drive him into a panic attack, mostly thanks to Sindri. Having his irrepressible friend at his side was a balm all on its own and having said friend be able to literally feel whenever D...
2024-12-25 19:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post"Well!" Ewan threw himself into a plush chair and landed bonelessly against the cushions. "That went just as poorly as I thought it would, not a bit better and not a bit worse. Which proves that my astounding predictive abilities remain intact, but sadly means that things aren't going to be easy for the two of you." He told D...
2024-12-25 19:42:24 +0000 UTC View Post
