At the Moonlight Relic
Another of Sam’s avatars looked toward the peak of Sky’s Descent and the Hall of Transcendence, feeling a surge of exultation in his heart.
“Aster Fall Rises,” he said aloud, speaking to the air and the elemental pools of the golems in front of him....
2024-03-09 05:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post“You will be the Army of Aster Fall.” Sam’s words rang out across the kneeling crowd, the astral energy in them mixing with the power of the World Core that was crackling through the hall.
Then his eyes settled on the black sword in Uncle Snake’s hand.
“Rais...
2024-03-06 23:03:22 +0000 UTC View PostSam appeared on the peak of Silverguard in a streak of silver light.
The tallest tower where he’d created the regeneration enchantment for the Astral Guardian was framed against the depths of the Void.
The stars stretched into the distance, shining in a thousand colors. Each of them was the promise of a new worl...
2024-03-03 06:27:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Emerald City Comic Con. Seattle, Washington.
I am the only LitRPG author here with a crowd of 80,000. I keep having to explain it to everyone.
Haaaalp!
2024-03-02 03:51:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe essence from the two Voidborn burned around Sam as he stepped out of the gate at Portal.
The gate crackled as it bled away the chaotic energy that had gathered around him from the lower region of the World Seal. Runes on the massive arches burned so brightly it looked like the sun was rising above the city.
Wh...
2024-02-28 07:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe spear blazed in Sam’s hand as he looked at Khaes and Yeria heading toward him.
Alone, this single avatar was weak, but he could hold them for a moment.
The attack had made them cautious.
His domain spread out, as limited as it was from his avatar, and clashed with the Avatar of Blood’s power, trying ...
2024-02-24 05:25:18 +0000 UTC View PostAsenya was inside the realm of Blood.
That meant his plan to destroy his avatars and come back when he was stronger wasn’t the best solution.
He needed to know more.
He wasn’t sure if he could find this Blood Realm again so easily. It was in a turbulent part of the Seal and felt like it floated around he...
2024-02-21 04:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Highfold Merchant District
The inn room they had taken over from a young noble was expensive and well-appointed, but Vaskel ignored it as his hands tightened on the balcony railing.
Behind him, Herug was studying the spear from the Lord of Wind and Water and trying to sharpen it with a piece of hig...
2024-02-18 06:34:53 +0000 UTC View Post“I know some of you do not believe the world’s history, nor that it is possible to transcend the World Limit,” Sam announced as he looked across the crowd.
They stared at him with hot gazes. Some were full of hope and others greed. A demonstration of power was necessary to head off their ...
2024-02-15 01:15:39 +0000 UTC View PostVaskel strode through the gates of Highfold with his cloak thrown back around him. The wind was pleasant here, far more than he’d expected, like an early summer breeze.
He’d heard of the weather enchantment here, but this was the first time he’d ever visited. It was well known that the valley was not hospitable to...
2024-02-11 18:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Audio Release! Emerald Alchemist (River of Fate, Book 3) is now available.
Read by Zachary Johnson.
Sam appeared on the Storm Plains in a streak of silver light.
A wave of his hand sent dozens of Void beast corpses tumbling out across the golden grass.
There were hundreds of beasts, all between Level 340 and 400. Anything over that, he’d let the nagas take for themselves.
It had been a month on Aster Fal...
2024-02-08 06:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostSnow spread across the Western Reaches and out across the plains of the kingdom. Icy winds blew and storm clouds gathered, bringing freezing cold from the high peaks.
The Legions of Ice covered the skies for the first time in thousands of years.
The world remembered their touch.
Grasses trembled as their sle...
2024-02-07 05:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The audio for Echoes of War (Guardian of Aster Fall, Book 6) is now out!
Performed by the awesome John Pirhalla and Stephanie Nemeth-Parker!
This brings the series up to date in audio, for the first time ever!
Thanks so much for all the support!
***Leave a comment here for a code!*** 2024-02-05 20:22:11 +0000 UTC View Post
After Sam spoke with his parents and finished some defensive plans for the relic, he disappeared in a flash of silver light.
When he reappeared, he was on the Fourth Layer, standing in front of an old stone pillar that was carved with dim runes. The pillar was greenstone, like the rest of the relic, so it had weathered ...
2024-02-03 00:53:35 +0000 UTC View PostHe led the nagas along the astral paths and arrived in a distant system where a handful of Fourth Evolution Void beasts were present.
It was a short stop on their way to higher-level enemies, but it was a good place to get more experience for the World Core, and the nagas were eager to fight.
He focused a bare min...
2024-01-31 07:40:33 +0000 UTC View PostSam looked around as he adjusted to the perspective that came with his law.
He’d always seen runes on the edges of things or dimly within the flows of mana, but this was on another level.
They were everywhere now. Every place he looked, he saw runes flowing through energy, solid objects, and even in the space be...
2024-01-27 06:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostSam arrived at Silverguard in a flare of silver light and a moment later he was standing in his Titan Hall.
The Fragment of the Primal Void gleamed on his palm as he sat down on his throne. The longer it was in his possession, the more it resonated with him, and now it felt like it was humming with potential.
It f...
2024-01-24 07:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostKhaes narrowed his eyes at Sam’s threat and a trace of doubt appeared, but it was only there for a moment before he smiled.
Blood energy poured away from him, forming a silhouette like a fanged shadow around him. Its limbs were longer than they should have been and tipped with bladed claws. More threads of blood energ...
2024-01-19 22:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs Sam closed in on the comet, it became clear how large it really was. It stretched for over a mile from tip to tail, and it was two hundred feet wide.
Plans for how to deal with it spun through his mind and ideas came to him from his other avatars as well. At this moment, all ten divisions of his mind were working on ...
2024-01-17 06:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe portal flowed around Sam like liquid silver light. When he reached the other side, he was standing in the Void.
The starlight was strange here.
The stars existed in most dimensions, but the power of the World Seal was affecting their light, as well as the sense of how far away they were. It felt warped compare...
2024-01-16 04:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostMaterials spun around Sam in an ever-increasing spiral as he refined them. They tumbled through waves of silver flame that melted them into their ideal parts, drew out impurities, and improved their quality.
He’d collected a lot of materials while hunting, which was one of the reasons he’d waited to reforge his arti...
2024-01-12 19:35:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe foundation of Silverguard shook as the cheers of the Silver Nagas rose into the Void. Their eyes were fixed on Sam.
He sent a wave of astral energy flooding across the island, which made the enchantments blaze in response. Streams of light shot upward in a massive fountain and exploded in the Void, making stars rain...
2024-01-10 00:48:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Void
Sam looked down at his palm, where three crystal vials of blood had just appeared. They glimmered with starlight from the transfer. He examined them for a moment to confirm his avatar’s findings and then tucked them away.
Ahead of him, Silverguard glowed in the reflected light of the s...
2024-01-05 23:22:02 +0000 UTC View PostSilver runes spun through the air around Sam, forming one enchantment after another as he examined Asenya’s blood. After a while, he nodded.
He had a good idea how to use it to track her.
Then he set it aside as he looked at the other vials, debating what to do with them. The realization of what Shattered Skies...
2024-01-04 00:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostSome hours later, Sam appeared on a distant mountain peak. It was the one where he’d relocated Asenya’s workshop.
He’d sealed his grandparents into a guest room and then left his parents in charge of the hundreds of other Hasterns. They had the help of the Sky Guards and some of the Legions of Ice, but he didn’t...
2023-12-30 18:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostSam examined his grandparents as he debated how to deal with them.
It was tempting to ask the World Core to censure them, but it wouldn’t work that well. For all their pettiness, they were still in its good graces, as borderline as their case might be.
Ironically, if their attempt to seize the relic had succeede...
2023-12-28 23:16:56 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sam arrived on the Second Layer, he didn’t fully leave the Void. He concealed his presence and wrapped himself in a layer of astral energy.
To anyone else here, he was invisible and immaterial. It would take a Titan or another race of the Primordial Void to sense him.
He watched his grandparents’ processi...
2023-12-24 18:06:17 +0000 UTC View PostAt the Moonlight Relic.
Sam’s awareness spread out around the valley surrounding Highfold until he found the people he was looking for. He was standing on the peak of Sun’s Rest, but it was easy to see them in his aura.
Aldric and Jesai Hastern, his great grandparents, were standing among a group of t...
2023-12-21 06:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostAt the Moonlight Relic.
Sam’s avatar looked up from his work on the Fourth Layer as he sensed an unfamiliar presence appear in the distance. It was just outside the Ice Sylphs’ wards at the entrance to the valley, near the high road that led down from the mountains.
It was surrounded by the distinct f...
2023-12-17 06:07:55 +0000 UTC View Post
