“Carter, why are there protesters outside our store?” Sakura crossed her arms while Myrina and I sat in the backroom like naughty schoolchildren.
Walking home, we’d seen the angry mob already forming outside of Doomblade’s armory. Wh...
2024-11-18 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days saw me alternating between working in the shop, working on my armor, and competing in the team bouts in the tournament. Ivanar had chosen our extras well, and I was pretty sure they could have made it through the team matches eve...
2024-11-16 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt soon became apparent why the open bracket featured team matches first. There were a lot more competitors than I’d been expecting.
The row we were in featured thirty teams just like ours, all of them waiting for their opening match. The ...
2024-11-15 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostUnder Sakura’s skilled leadership, Doomblade’s Armory moved locations and quadrupled the size of its staff. Our new building was about the size of four of my barns, and Sakura brought in a new wave of people who put even more work into this st...
2024-11-13 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAfter defeating Ivanar in the arena, I soon received my invitation to the open brackets of the tournament, which would begin in a few days. More information trickled out over the following days, and things became clearer.
The real winner was...
2024-11-12 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“The tournament rules are straightforward,” Cyra’s mother told the crowd of young and ambitious C-Grades of the Samhain Clan. Foremost among them was Cyra herself.
...
2024-11-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe arena was easy to find. The last time we toured the city together, Cyra had pointed it out to me from afar, and it was hard to miss. To me, it looked like a copy of the Colosseum in Rome but blown up to larger proportions.
It was about h...
2024-11-09 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostI ended up spending most of the night adding security measures to the Mark One armor I was selling in the form of various curses. When I was done, I worked on a few more products to help fill the shelves and even started putting together a bit mor...
2024-11-08 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostWe arrived on Themyscira as soon as my companions were done dressing up Gobgob. Reluna seemed sad she wouldn’t be able to go with us since Glacia and the Mucaria pocket realm were her old stomping grounds. But bringing her off-world and back wou...
2024-11-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Reluna, are you alright?” I asked.
“Uh... uhm...” Reluna’s mouth opened and closed several times irresponsibly.
“Sorry, I didn’t think things would get quite that explicit.”
She nodded slowly.
I’d guessed...
2024-11-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMy companions all had different ideas about what proficiencies I should use to upgrade Fabulous Phallus.
“You should pour your speech proficiency into it! Then maybe it’ll start talking!” Myrina suggested.
I grimaced. “That see...
2024-11-02 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTraining Quest Completed!
Your Death Defier title has been significantly improved and provides massive bonuses to leadership. Also provides bonuses for resisting non-categorized energies. It also provides bon...
2024-11-01 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostHow do people feel about Eowyn?
She's a character I came up with while doing the novel outline, but she isn't really in my series outline. I have a few open roles she could play later in the story, though. Do you guys want to see her again? ...
2024-10-30 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe quest wasn’t finished yet. Why? Wasn’t the Demon King the enemy I was supposed to beat? Surely he had to have been the idiot the quest mentioned. Just looking through his personal diaries, I could already think of a dozen ways he could hav...
2024-10-30 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Eowyn continued to disrobe as she spoke, as though she feared I wouldn’t believe her unless she showed all of herself to me.
Soon, I sat at my desk while a blushing, naked princess wrung her hands anxiously before me.
“The...
2024-10-28 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the battle with the dragon and the lich, it was like a spell was broken across the land. Word spread and everyone from peasant to king knew that the tides had changed in the war against the Demon King.
High Priestess Calista clung clos...
2024-10-26 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe stormed Molagor’s castle the following day, with most of my army behind me. With the demon general dead and the place thoroughly scouted, our victory was assured, and I wanted the men to take part in it.
Most of his guards were undead a...
2024-10-25 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe took the rest of the castle without issue, and then I sent messengers back the way we’d come to inform the others of my victory.
“I’m going scouting. Don’t follow me,” I ordered.
“B-but sir hero!” Prince Eowyn proteste...
2024-10-23 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHad I not antagonized the nobles, it would have taken days or weeks for this confrontation to play out. But I'd known it was coming, and my words had been designed to draw out those most eager to move against me.
I would deal with the proble...
2024-10-21 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostPersonalized Training Quest part 9 of 10.
A Test of Temptation
The Siren Queendom has earned a substantial reward for their contributions and have requested men fitting your description. Surviv...
2024-10-19 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy last two quests had burned away what was left of the amused curiosity I’d had earlier in my quests, leaving only grim determination. These quests were hard and getting harder, and if I wanted to make it through them all alive, I needed to sta...
2024-10-18 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostPersonal Training Quest Part 5: A Test of Loyalty
Cultivators are squatting on a System-claimed world. They have modified System infrastructure for personal gain. Eliminate their modifications. Bonus rewards will be ...
2024-10-16 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostPersonalized Training Quest Part 3 of 10: A Test of Power
Three natural dungeons have appeared in your territory. Their strength is building by the moment. Clear the dungeons before they overflow, and they will becom...
2024-10-14 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostPersonalized Training Quest generated!
Training Quest Part 2 of 10: A Test of Leadership
Your faction has fought many battles, and will fight many more. Raise up reinforcements to bolster your ...
2024-10-12 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI monitored the first clash on the wall. These enormous flying void bat-things came at us, each screeching this horrible sound. Looking closer, they were like dragons in miniature.
Thankfully, the barrier proved rather good at keeping them o...
2024-10-11 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI crawled to my feet to take in the broken pile of bones. The battle was won at last, and I had a lot to show for it. When I’d decided to wipe out the naga and the undead, I hadn’t quite been planning to bite off this much of a battle. I picke...
2024-10-09 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I live! A bit sick still, but much improved and still hoping to get a chapter done before I sleep.
This is the current cover I have in mind for book 4. The serpent woman I had up as a temporary cover was nice, but the character just didn't e...
2024-10-07 19:32:49 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're reading this, I'm still sick and slept in today. So instead of a chapter, here's some art!
I don't have any Cyra covers in the works, since she's just going to be a bigger and more muscular version of Myrina, so I had this artwork...
The Lich King turned dragon stuck. He was faster than the flesh and blood Torchdragon we’d fought moments ago, and not just because this one was at C-Grade. There was a certain fluid decisiveness in every motion that the old dragon lacked.
I cast Aegis of the Void again, blocking the onrushing wave of flame and chaotic energy, but not the claw swipe that followed it up a moment later. Eyes wide, I found myself overwhelmed. If only I hadn't exhausted Living Paradox in my fight agains...
2024-10-05 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post