As I suspected, writing was a lot more fun this week and I finished 3.5 chapters, giving me a bit of a backlog. So, for those reading Shadow of the Soul King, you can expect one more chapter tonight.
I have to go get breakfast now and then meet up with some friends, so I won't have time to edit until late this afternoon...
2024-01-28 14:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“And with that, this instance of the C rank Universal Tournament is officially over.” Edi ignored the several thousand C ranks who’d just appeared in the cages around him and Olivia, including many who hadn’t participated in the tournament, instead focusing on the illusory image of his master in...
2024-01-28 14:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone,
This is just an update on my writing of Shadow of the Soul King.
For the last two months, I haven't written much more than one chapter a week, which is why I haven't posted more than that, as I need at least a little backlog so I can change things in recent chapters based on what has to...
2024-01-21 20:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostGustavius
Even after receiving punishment for the same action already, A rank elders from your force have again attacked a contestant of the Universal Tournament!
Removal of all System Privileges for all current and former true members of Sunrise Valley extended f...
2024-01-21 19:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
Armor appeared around Aalam, the scales of the Left Hand of the Runescribe somehow expanding to cover his whole body other than his head and fingers, replacing the plain black clothing he’d been wearing, and the draconic wings artifact used by one of his subordinates during Daevic’s fight in the ...
2024-01-14 12:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
What happened next was so quick Krysta could barely follow.
One instant Isaiah was about to be killed by Daevic Stormborn, Krysta unable to do anything to help, but the next he was gone, teleported into the compound where the contestants from Earth and the Heavenly Soul Universe were watching. One instant D...
2024-01-07 13:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
The dragon launched himself at Daevic as soon as the System started the match, moving far faster than the demigod had suspected, and Daevic realized there was yet another thing about his opponent which was ridiculous.
The dragon’s movement skill was Empyrean grade and boosted by at least 8 le...
2023-12-31 20:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
Daevic watched as Isaiah Kent fought against Ren Kimbal, the Twilight Illusionist, appearing to be losing, but it wasn’t hard to see how Ren’s energy was draining at about double the speed of the dragon’s even while the dragon was almost certainly holding back, yet Ren couldn’t surrender even...
2023-12-24 15:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
“May I join you for a bit, Ms. La’Vordi?”
Having stepped into the compound where Krysta, her mother, her father, and her uncle Parvorax were sitting in a courtyard watching the fights up above, Deimos Karan, the Slaughterer, bowed to Krysta’s mother, completely disregarding the lack of ...
2023-12-17 20:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostShadow of the Soul King was approved!!!!!!
And now free chapters will be posted here at five chapters a day until it catches up to ScribbleHub: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/78263/shadow-of-the-soul-king
if ...
2023-12-12 01:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, I, as the writer of Shadow of the Soul King, am the one trying to repost my story to RoyalRoad.
Second, in case the reviewer from RoyalRoad is not aware, I was banned from posting on RoyalRoad a year and a half ago for artificially boosting my story’s rating and this is an attempt to now get that ban removed, h...
2023-12-10 16:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
With the end of the 18th round, the top 33 of the tournament were decided and Daevic was still the fifth seed, not having shown off the new level of power he’d gained over the year between his uncles and aunt deciding to invest in training him and the start of the finals, so he’d done about as we...
2023-12-10 14:16:43 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
At D rank, cultivators and monsters started to open their acupoints, 108 connections between a soul and the universe, allowing for greatly increased resource regeneration and a fundamental alteration to the flow of energy within a soul, boosting some or all stats but also increasing the quality of the culti...
2023-12-10 14:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“There goes Grandma being Grandma.”
Cuddled up against Edi on a loveseat she’d brought out from her spatial storage ring, Olivia Garcia scoffed as Astos ‘The Face’ Karidan’s interview with her maternal grandmother began on the illusion in front of them, not seeming to mind the audience of ca...
2023-12-10 14:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“Twilight, what brings you here?” The Law Master, seemingly enjoying Empress Li’s aunt hanging onto one of his arms instead of being offended, smiled at the master of Vanar’s enemy. “Not that it isn’t nice to see you, but I’m trying to charm this young woman into giving me a good deal, and I d...
2023-12-03 12:09:05 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
“Mwha, ha, ha.” Even out in the open space battlefield, where there was no air for sound to propagate, Raven could still hear his opponent’s deep voice laughing, Twilight Illusionist Ren Kimbal completely in control of their fight.
A master of stealth, illusion, energized metal, and telekinesis, the ma...
2023-11-27 01:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“So, first, let me introduce Ms. Starflower,” the man centered in the giant illusion surrounding Edi and the C ranks trapped in cages in the valley, a human B rank with dark skin, shoulder-length silky black hair, and bright blue eyes, turned to look at the other individual sitting behind the large ...
2023-11-20 00:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“Go to work. I need to meditate.” With strength nowhere near enough to actually push him, Edi’s mother shoved him out the door of her apartment on Earth and Edi couldn’t help but smile, using telekinesis to fly toward the nearest teleportation platform.
He’d been an idiot before, worrying his mom wou...
2023-11-12 13:22:56 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
“Taravan, explain to me why my niece isn’t in the finals.”
As the Lady of Hellwater suddenly tore through space to enter into his father’s throne room, interrupting the annual meeting between Daevic’s father and the governors of his Territory, everyone fell to their knees, Daevic and ...
2023-11-06 04:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
“How were you not turned into a blood fruit?” Grendal Hox, Raven’s former master who’d sold him to a merchant to use as an alchemy ingredient, was standing on the Universal Tournament’s regional competition stage in front of him as an opponent, and this time things were different.
Tall...
2023-11-05 22:43:44 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“Master, I need to talk to you!”
Having teleported to one of several islands hovering over the Pacific Ocean on Earth, Edi looked up into the sky to see his master, wearing black shorts and a black sports bra, in the middle of a duel with Vanar Tedros, who was wearing just a pair of red sweatp...
2023-10-29 23:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostDaevic
The C rank Universal Tournament consisted of three parts, each with the same basic mechanics. First there were the local competitions, where the C ranks representing between a few and several thousand galaxy clusters fought for the top three places to move on to the regional competitions. Next there ...
2023-10-29 20:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“I surrender!”
Having beaten his first opponent, Vanar desummoned his blade, not one of the new swords Lord Aalam had made for him but the original blade he’d used for the last 40,000 years, Blood Slicer, a weapon originally made and sold to him on the same B rank planet he was on now. Then he walked t...
2023-10-22 13:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostEdi
“How interesting. Someone who qualifies for Multi-Mind without the Enlightened One bloodline.”
Edi Tanorputra, along with the 317 other 16-year-olds from his class, knelt down in front of the hologram of the Yin Yang Sage in the main hall of New Neptune’s fifth Yin Yang Temple, feel...
2023-10-15 14:43:21 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“Okay. I think that’s enough.”
With Vanar’s main weapon, and the three Heroic grade flying swords he’d revealed mid-fight, all stabbed into the dragon’s body, the dragon’s overly abundant lifeforce finally appeared to approach exhaustion, and Vanar lowered his guard ever so slightl...
2023-10-08 19:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
Vanar looked out over the large training ground he found behind the mountains, filled with multiple different constructed battlefields, from artificial forests to an absolutely huge tank filled with water, and there he could sense a total of 967 C ranks, over 600 of which he recognized. The most notic...
2023-10-08 15:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostVanar
“When you move your qi down your arm, you should slow it ever so slightly while it passes your elbow.” Vanar Tedros altered the posture of one of his students, specifically how the young man was holding his sword. “This will reduce the strain on your body, allowing you to fight longer. And it wi...
2023-10-08 13:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
Trapped in a spatial storage device along with the three others being fed to the bloodtree, Raven couldn’t tell what was going on outside, but then the bloodtree was summoned out into the world and what he saw wasn’t at all what he would have expected.
Judging from the Law suppression, they were on an A ...
2023-10-01 18:39:47 +0000 UTC View PostKrysta
“So, it seems you figured it out.” Ms. Li, still in the form of Starflower, smiled. “Should we get down to business then?”
“Business?”
“You want to save your mother, correct?” Ms. Li’s smile turned serious as Krysta’s emotions became rather complicated. “You’re no longer...
2023-10-01 16:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostRaven
Looking out over the thousands of universe level aristocracy bidding for the right to kill him and extract his power, Raven wanted to laugh.
Ever since he was little, it had been his dream to be one of these people, someone with the power to decide the fate of a nothing like him with a simple word. Yet now t...
2023-09-24 16:39:04 +0000 UTC View Post
