“…what?” I asked in complete disbelief. I suppressed a small laugh from escaping me at Shurenga’s ridiculous words. “I’m not killing gods here, Shurenga. Most of the people I’ve stolen Skills from have been regular ...
2025-02-19 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I got Acting from that,” Kazuma said numbly, his hands still shaking even hours after the confrontation with the Kawamaran delegation. I don’t think he even noticed how the trembling was causing his drink to slosh and spill...
2025-02-17 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Happy Valentine's Day.
Have some political intrigue. Very romantic, don't ya' know.
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“In fact, I’m goin’ to have to say hells no,” Shacklock continue...
2025-02-14 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThree days later, I stood on familiar ground, surrounded both by familiar and unfamiliar people.
After our little meeting back in the Order encampment where I had wrangled a handful of concessions out of Shacklock, we’d all packed up rapid...
2025-02-12 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostName: Aveline Claire Montblanc
Age: 10 years
Species: Human
That was what Observe read to me when I used the Skill on the little girl as we walked through the bu...
2025-02-10 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWell.
That was…a bit suboptimal. If I couldn’t go out to fight, then how was I going to keep growing…?
Is what I would say, if I wasn’t me. I had my Aetherial Mending, after all. With it, I received the full stack of P...
2025-02-07 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSplit second thought from my core was the only reason I even considered what I did next. My inner self frantically pointed out a half-remembered history lesson from my youth, on the effects of particularly intense explosions.
I tens...
2025-02-05 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Apologies if this one is a little rough. I came down with a cold on Saturday, when I normaly sit down to start writing the week's chapters, and couldn't manage to get any words down. I felt good enough to bang this out on Sunday, though ...
2025-02-03 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe questing tentacles of Lucretia’s curse lashed out blindly where I had been standing only moments ago, but I was already gone. I floated in the middle of the mountain cavern outside the bunker, everything for miles illuminated by the floating...
2025-01-31 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI barely had more than a second to gape at the cloud of ash that settled onto the white steel floor of the bunker where the Lich had stood moments ago, before a loud, clear female voice began to echo through the halls. I couldn’t even where it w...
2025-01-29 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI crouched, motionless, along the outer rim of the railing that separated the inner walkway of the Core control room as a game of cat and mouse played out before my eyes. Just ahead of me, I watched as the tiny Sprite of azure flame and crimson th...
2025-01-27 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
You know, something just occurred to me about something you guys might be interested in. Last month my publisher conducted an interview about me and Sins, and included it in an article on their website. Up until this moment, I didn't eve...
2025-01-24 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTravers and I had to walk slowly through the AutoMat infested hallway in order to not alarm or alert the sentry roombas in any way. If we picked up our pace at all, the beeping of their scans as we paced our way down the path would increase, almos...
2025-01-22 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe door of Traver’s mysteriously teleporting clinic slid open once again, and this time, the environment on the other side was much, much different. I don’t know what I had been expecting for the area that the power core of this facility resi...
2025-01-20 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“But first,” I said loudly. “We need to find the lost Shurengan down here. None of this is going to matter if we can’t free the last person stuck in their trial.”
Azarus paused, where before he seemed almost amused at the ...
2025-01-17 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRenauld jumped to his padded feet at the sight of us, while a large smile stole across his vulpine face. He made as if to sprint our way in greeting, before he stilled as Akhoroth shifted from across the incongruously small table the two of them w...
2025-01-15 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Venix, Kazuma, and I reached where Azarus had been shouting from, he had ducked into a nearby doorway. As the two samurai raced ahead of me, I skidded to a halt just before I followed after them. Something on the side of the door had c...
2025-01-13 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostTravers barely cast the four of us more than a single disinterested glance as we cleaned ourselves up after the battle at the base of Gorenzan. As Venix reequipped himself with all of the gear he’d been stripped of, I tried to talk to him.
The light was so incredibly bright that it immediately cut through the absolute darkness that lived at the interior base of Gorenzan. I had to shade my eyes in order not to be light blinded, and I noticed that I wasn’t the only one. Kazuma had l...
2025-01-08 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOminous.
I frowned at the exposed Antium man while Kazuma sputtered to my side. The three of us were lit only by the still extant glow from the strange pillar of amber that Venix was carving through. The light didn’t reach far, and just be...
2025-01-06 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI had visited some pretty hostile environments in my time on Vereden, but nothing compared to the interior base of Mt. Gorenzan. Even though both Kazuma and I had eventually acclimated to the oppressive pressure in here, that sti...
2025-01-03 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOne foot forward. The next followed.
One foot forward. The next followed.
One foot forward. The next followed.
And on and on and on and on.
Endlessly.
Azarus of House Savoy stared forward into the bl...
2025-01-01 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“I…apologize for that unseemly display, Hart,” Kazuma lowered his head, visibly chagrined.
Said display being the way he had latched onto me for comfort after being awoken here in an ancient Lich’s tomb/infirmary. To my surprise, sai...
2024-12-30 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI breathed out through my nose at the Lich’s words. “You and everyone else down here, it seems.”
“Do not compare me to that collection of drudges and beasts,” Travers said sharply, a pulse in the air warning of his...
2024-12-27 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, guys.
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Shockingly, though, Aveline immediately recognized the person who had saved us. The reddened eyes of the surprisingly resilient little girl brightened at the sight of the man I w...
2024-12-25 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI sprinted as hard as I could through the halls of the waking dead, dodging and weaving through their skeletal forms as they ignored me. Dozens and dozens of them seemed to be rising from their graves every second to lunge past me as I fled as qui...
2024-12-23 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTODAY IS THE DAY!
By now, Sins of the Forefathers has been stubbed, and the first volume has been removed . This is to comply with the exclusivity requirement of Amazon. Believe me, if it was up to me, I would rather have left the entire sto...
2024-12-20 19:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostTODAY IS THE DAY!
By now, Sins of the Forefathers has been stubbed, and the first volume has been removed . This is to comply with the exclusivity requirement of Amazon. Believe me, if it was up to me, I would rather have left the entire sto...
2024-12-20 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDeftly, I finished slicing off the last lock of thick blonde hair from the head of the mysterious little girl name ‘Aveline’. Thankfully, the small travel razor that I used for my face was sharp enough for the purpose, and it hadn’t been dif...
2024-12-18 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFor some reason, the mere sight of the child sent a shiver down my spine. Not just because it was extremely unnerving to see her, no. The instant she was revealed to my eyes, I swear I felt the presence of someone standing just behind me....
2024-12-16 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post