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Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 37 – A Light that Carries Hope

Misty Peak watched as that unbearable glow in the center of the city finally faded away. She shook her head and smirked. That boy just doesn’t know how to make a quiet entrance, does he? Then again, if he did know how to make a quiet entrance, he might not be as interesting. Her smile quickly faded. If 2024-10-31 06:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 11 – Of Course, It’s a Job

It took nearly an hour of walking around before James’s temper cooled. He hadn’t wanted to go back to the inn so worked up. Nothing good could come from that. Best case scenario, he holed up in his room and nobody bothered him before he got a grip. Worst case scenario, he’d lose his cool with Lysnia or Enrica. Since he ...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 10 – Visiting the Market

Despite James’s brain trying very had to convince him that the city would be some kind of post-apocalyptic hellscape, it turned out that it was just a city. There were a lot of people moving back and forth. Most of them looked to be doing work or on their way to do some work. He noticed a few shady-looking individuals, but ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 36 – Setting a Tone

When Sen descended in front of the palace bathed in that furious glow, it was difficult to repress his frustrations. He hadn’t wanted to announce himself this way. He’d come to make sure that something wasn’t wrong at the palace. If things had gone a little bit right, he could have maybe spoken to Jing privately and got...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 3 – To Each Their Own

Terry glared at Analina and fumed internally. This wasn’t quite the “heroism won’t pay the bills” trope, but it was definitely a kissing cousin to it. He mused to himself, is there an underfunded Guild hall trope? That assumed that this Guild hall was underfunded. The problem might be him unintentionally embo...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 35 – The Master of this Place

As he neared the capital, the weather turned from gloomy to downright threatening. There were heavy clouds above so dark they were almost black and that cast the world in a premature twilight. Sen wondered if those storm clouds were getting some assistance, but, for once, his instincts and cultivator senses told him that this...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 9 – Now You’re Making It Weird

James glare balefully at the mostly repaired wall. It turned out that he did have to pay for that. He also had to give Enrica something to help offset the loss from the business they weren’t going to get while the wall was getting fixed. It hadn’t even really put a dent in his available money, but it still b...

Volume Four Publication and Other Tidbits (lower tiers)

Okay, the glorious day when Volume Four of Unintended Cultivator goes live on Amazon is almost upon us. The official launch date is November 12, 2024, which means a few things. First and foremost, it means that most of the Volume Four chapters will soon go back behind the paywall so that Amazon doesn't get angry with me. Th...

Volume Four Publication and Other Tidbits (upper tiers)

Okay, the glorious day when Volume Four of Unintended Cultivator goes live on Amazon is almost upon us. The official launch date is November 12, 2024, which means a few things. First and foremost, it means that most of the Volume Four chapters will soon go back behind the paywall so that Amazon doesn't get angry with me. Th...

Light Novel Title Updated

Okay, it took me a while to do this but I have given the light novel a name. For the purposes of Patreon, it's title is Unwillingly Summoned. The actual title is Unwillingly Summoned, the Hero Becomes an Adventurer Instead. Why such a long title? Well, it turns out that long, highly descriptive titles are more or less the sta...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 34 – Flight

The abrupt shortening of the distance he had to travel gave Sen a golden opportunity that he wasn’t about to waste. He’d keep moving toward the capital, but he could take just a little bit of that saved time to experiment. As much potential as this improved qinggong technique had, its usefulness dropped to nothing if Sen ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol. 10: Chapter 33 – Qinggong, Revisited

Sen had traveled alone so rarely in recent years that he was almost never able to really push himself. With the exception of nascent soul cultivators, no one was able to keep up. It wasn’t something that bothered him particularly. Traveling at a pace that everyone could sustain was just a sensible practice, but it did leave...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 2 – Almost Instant Karma

Terry stopped the cart in front of the Adventurer’s Guild, only to consider it dubiously. He’d have to leave everything outside to fetch Analina. He did not imagine she would thank him for dragging a bloody, dripping, makeshift sack filled with wolf heads across the mostly clean floor inside. Of course, that meant abandon...

Isekai Light Novel: Chapter 8 – Do I Need to Pay for That?

Looking back on it, James could see that Enrica must have been pretty desperate because she barely put up any protest.

“No, you’re a guest. I couldn’t ask you to do that,” she said.

“I really don’t mind helping out. I might need people to show me where things are, but I can wash dishes.”

“Oka...

Unintended Cultivator Vol. 10: Chapter 32 – Last Minute Details

Leaving was something Sen was never eager to do, and this time was no exception. He was ever-more resentful when the events of the outside world dragged him away from Ai. Taking her in meant taking responsibility for her. Not just making sure she was clothed and fed, but being there for all the other things that he’d never ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol. 10: Chapter 31 – Summoned

The paper gave off a vague crinkling noise as Sen’s fist crushed it. He wasn’t running out of time anymore. He was just out of time, plain and simple. The message from Jing had been a little vague, no doubt as a security precaution. That didn’t stop Sen from deciphering the salient details. Master Feng had visited the s...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 7 – The Verdant Field

The inside of The Verdant Field was, well, it looked like one of those restaurant slash bars back on earth. There was the bar itself and a number of heavy wooden tables that were mostly empty. The few people sitting at the tables gave James a moment of pause. He didn’t quite know what to make of them. They didn’t come off...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 1 – Corpse Detail

“Stupid dire wolves,” grumbled Terry as he gave one of the bodies a desultory kick.

Then, with a sigh, he threw another oversized wolf’shead onto the big blanket. He had managed to secure a cart to transport the evidence of his mass slaughter to the Adventurer’s Guild. Unfortunately, getting it all the way out t...

Unwilling Summoned: Chapter 6 – Awkward Partings

It was late afternoon by the time James found himself standing at a gate in front of what he now knew was the palace. It was a small group of people that had come to see him off. There was the princess, for some reason. She was still giving him pleading, mournful looks. There was the Karissa girl, who looked deeply uncomforta...

Unwilling Summoned: Chapter 5 – Gear Up

When the king had said he’d set James up for a comfortable life, James’s expectations had been decidedly low. He’d fully expected to be handed what amounted to pocket change and immediately shoved out the front door. That was assuming that the king didn’t have him beaten and tossed in an alley or just disposed of in s...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 30 – The Difference Between Life and Death

Sen watched as some of the qi-condensing cultivators worked forms with their weapons. It took a true effort of will to his expression calm and neutral. None of them were bad. He reminded himself of that repeatedly. They were all adequate. Some might even rise to the level of gifted for their level of advancement, but they wer...

Unintended Cultivator Vol. 10: Chapter 29 – A Necessity for Survival

“This can’t work for our needs. Not in the long term,” said Sen, gesturing at the walls of the room.

The walls in question were nothing but stone shelves. For the moment, most of the shelves were empty. There were, however, a few shelves filled with communication cores. Some of them gave off a faint glow that indi...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 28 – Am I Ready?

Sen winced as he saw the aftermath of the fight with the beast tide in the full light of day. He’d put it off as long as he dared. It wasn’t until after Ai had woken up, shrieked in delight at seeing Falling Leaf awake, and eventually been passed off to Auntie Caihong that he’d ventured out to get a good look at things....

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 27 – Awake

Falling Leaf stretched. It was partly out of habit, partly out of curiosity, and partly out of that warm, pleasant sensation of being full of good food. She was aware that Sen had rushed the cooking, and it hadn’t been his best effort, but she didn’t care. Eating hot food in this strange stone den that he’d made for the...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 4 – Cheap Shot

“I didn’t look,” repeated James.

Maggie stared at him in open-mouthed confusion before she finally asked, “Why?”

“Because it doesn’t matter.”

“How can it not matter? Your class determines what kind of powers you get!”

James didn’t think that hurling profanities at his friend would...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 26 – Fearless

Sen froze. Part of him wondered if he’d just wanted to hear that so badly that he’d hallucinated it. That uncertainty was swiftly put to rest when Falling Leaf gave him a bleary-eyed glare.

“Hungry,” she repeated. “Food.”

Sen surged forward and dropped to his knees next to the bed. He didn’t know how...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 25 – Drifting

Hope, it turned out, was not the remedy that Falling Leaf needed. Morning came and, although she remained physically healthy, she couldn’t be woken. With guilt seething inside of him, Sen made himself leave the room. He had done everything he could for her. Plus, much as he might wish it were different, things were still ha...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 24 – The Last Resorts of the Helpless

For Sen, the world stopped for the next two days. His entire universe condensed down until the only thing in it was the occupant of a bed. He simply watched Falling Leaf breathe and waited. He’d been in a flurry for the first hour or two. Then, as his panic subsided and the truth became clear, he realized that Falling was f...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 23 – A Prayer to Unknown Gods

When he’d agreed to help Falling Leaf try to advance faster, Sen knew that they were both going to be taking risks. He’d be betting on his intuition and experience, and no little help from Auntie Caihong and Fu Ruolan, to help him overcome a stark lack of information. She’d be betting her life based on, as far as he cou...

Unintended Cultivator Vol. 10: Chapter 22 – Why Am I Last?

Sen listened with a mixture of amusement and concern to the report of all of the newly cooperative sects that were reaching out to him through a variety of means. Some were coordinating with the sects that had the communication cores while others had sent messengers. He wasn’t sure how he felt about anyone below the nascent...