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PtM Book 16 - Chapter 7: A God Beast’s Shackles

2/4!

Time passed quickly in the land of the entrance trial, and before long, only three days remained. Huxian was happily cooking up a storm and feeding a small group of friends; since Cha Ming had not yet left his own trial, Huxian was in n...

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PtM Book 16 - Chapter 6: Supremacy and Sacrifice

Today will be a four chapter week. 1/4. Enjoy!

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Three weeks ago.

Only a week had passed since Huxian’s arrival in the Heartforge Realm, and things were not going well. Baleful Vision, the overly friendly paper tiger clansman...

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PtM Book 16 - Chapter 5: The Final Day

3/3 this week!

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The entrance trial saw a sharp increase in difficulty over the next few days. The enemies they faced grew stronger, and Cha Ming’s Savage Deity Aura began to lose its effectiveness. He was soon forced to fight small...

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PtM Book 16 - Chapter 4: Old Friends, Painful Memories

2/3 this week!

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The first canopy creaked as Cha Ming walked across its floor of interlinked vines and branches and packed leaves that had accumulated for millennia to form true soil. What appeared to be trees growing out of the canop...

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PtM Book 15 - Epub

Here's the ePub you've all been waiting for. Sorry about the wait. The chapter order is somewhat different than what you saw before, and the beginning is a bit smoothed out. 

I'm going to go ahead and update the last post before Book 16...

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PtM Book 16 - Chapter 3: Evolution

The chapters continue! Should be 3 this week. Also, I'm posting the ePub for Book 15 (Pendulum of Fate - Part 2) right after this. 

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The days came and went in the dark and cruel wilderness, and Cha Ming, now completely at home t...

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PtM Book 16 - Chapter 2: Savagery

It seems the polls are currently favoring a spread out release. We can always revisit in the future, so by all means try to convince each other it's the best option. 

Anyway, here's the last of three chapters this week. 

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Poll: Release Schedule!

Hey Everyone,

A Patron brought up a good question, and I figured that since you guys are the ones supporting me, the final say should be in your hands. 

The question is as follows: Would you rather have every week's chapters sprea...

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PtM Book 16 - Chapter 1: Grief

2/3 this week.

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It happened in a single jarring instant.

One moment, Cha Ming was kneeling on the muddy forest floor next to Yu Wen’s gravestone, and the next, he was surrounded by strange trees covered in slick, blood-colore...

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PtM Book 16 - Prologue

I'm back! Book 16's third draft is finally written and off to the editor. As promised, I'll start posting chapters again this week.

Book 16's title is Heartforge. It's about 192k words long and has 41 chapters. It took me around 2.5 months t...

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Book 14 Removed and Updates on Book 16

Yes, you heard right. Book 16. Because Amazon does things a certain way, and going against that is an exercise in futility. Therefore, Book 14 part 1 and part 2 is no more. We now have Pendulum of Fate - Part 1 (Book 14) and Pendulum of Fate - Par...

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PtM Book 14 - Epilogue

5/5 this week, and last chapter of the book! Super long epilogue, but I think it's needed after my latest chapter. 

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In the Crimson Lotus Empire where Yu Wen hailed from, it was customary to mourn for three days. Those mourning ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 53: Flight (2)

4/5. Will immediately post 5/5.

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Yu Wen panted heavily as she made her way through the woods, dodging, ducking, and weaving between obstructions. Thorny bushes tore at her ankles, and vines tried their best to trip her. Even the wild...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 52: Flight

3/5 this week. Didn't want to leave you hanging yesterday, but I think everything will go over better if I post the epilogue right after the last chapter tomorrow.

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The air in the canyon was cool and humid, a refreshing change after ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 51: Final Push (3)

2/5 this week. 

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Cha Ming grew into his new powers quickly and began using them to support his allies. He developed two main ways to assist them—by accelerating their techniques using creation qi and his Assembly, Mending, and...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 50: Final Push (2)

1/5 this week.

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It began with a clash of auras. Or domains, investitures, and realm fusions, and the like. The names didn’t really matter, only the effect on their surroundings.

The Boneshift Badger Lord was an early-fusion-r...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 49: Final Push (1)

5/5 this week. Next week it will be 5 chapters in 4 days, to finish the book at the end of the month as promised. 

Like I said in a previous post, I've decided to split this book into two parts. There will only be slight changes, but th...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 48: Savagery (2)

Two chapters today ^^

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Cha Ming, Yu Wen, Xiao Bai, and Bloodfur were currently seated cross-legged on a comfortable cloud. They had been there for the past hour, despite the tense war situation down below. It wasn’t that they didnâ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 47: Savagery (1)

3/5 this week!

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Silence reigned over Verdant Crossroads as both military and civilian personnel searched the rubble for survivors. Only a day had passed since the start of the battle in earnest, yet over a hundred thousand lives had ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 46: Melody (2)

2/5!

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Cha Ming opened his eyes to a world of inky characters. They floated in the white emptiness, twisting and combining, unraveling and splitting.

The characters were separate but formed distinct groupings. They told a story ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 45: Melody

1/5 this week. 

Okay. So. The announcement. 

Good news everyone! I've decided that since Book 14 is so freaking long, and Book 15 is just as long (300k words each), I'll be separating both books into Part 1 and Part 2 going f...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 44: War Council

It seems I accidentally fell behind. Here is 5/5 last week, and I'll quickly follow up with 1/5 this week. 

Also, I have an announcement to post with the next chapter. It's Patreon relevant -  Make sure you read it!

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 43: The Titan’s Blood

4/5!

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Cha Ming and Yu Wen’s departure from Fierra caused a predictable uproar throughout the Mendin subcontinent. Rumors of a trio that could destroy immortal artifacts spread like wildfire, and the Holy Governance Alliance, having...

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Chapter 42: The Last Gateway (2)

3/5 this week!

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Having experienced his first territorial battle before he was even a year old, Huxian was intimately familiar with the concept and therefore had no trouble applying it to the alien world of void space. It was a game, ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 41: The Last Gateway (1)

2/5 this week!

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In all the lands of Mendin, there was not a single person who truly understood the process of ranker advancement. This was not for lack of trying, since many studies had been attempted, but because there were far too ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 40: Life

1/5 this week!

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Drezil’s eyes were bloodshot. His clothes were a mess, and his claws were broken and bleeding. He hadn’t slept or spoken to anyone in days, lest his concentration slip.

The object of his focus was naturally ...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 39: Accomplice

5/5 this week!

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In the end, all the scouting Cha Ming had risked his life for was for naught. Huxian was not yet in position, and Cha Ming had no way to infiltrate the Collegium in the short term. While in theory they had all the tim...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 38: Ultimate Infiltrator

4/5 this week! 

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It took Cha Ming and company two days to reach Fierra via flying ship from the nearest point in Huxian’s teleportation network. This included air travel and transit via the Collegium’s competing teleportatio...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 37: Asylum

3/5!!! Double release today!

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A breeze swept across Cha Ming and his group of industrious formation artists and their freshly completed formation tower. The wind hugged the runes and swept sand across them as though mocking their eff...

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PtM Book 14 - Chapter 36: Three Days

2/5

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In the Runebound Clan, tradition dictated that grieving be limited to three days. A total of three days and three nights were allowed, starting from when you learned of their death, and ending exactly seventy-two hours later. It...

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