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Chapter 172: Tea of Sustained Defense

Arthur jetted around the wall, distributing tea. The town’s wall was much smaller than the city’s had been, which meant he had no need for helpers to get that part of the job done. He balanced a couple trays on his hands as he made his way to ...

Chapter 171: Battle for Coldbrook

Arthur woke up sore, not in his muscles, but in the non-physical parts of him that managed his majicka. Other people would also empty their majicka stores, but Arthur had noticed that they didn’t seem to take the same hit from it that he did. Li...

Chapter 170: Chaser and Generalist

After recharging a little while longer, Arthur made a third round of tea, ones that would help mental classes with their stats. This was the smallest batch he’d make, not because mental-stat focused classes were that rare, but because most of th...

Chapter 169: Take the Help

Arthur was up before dawn, eager to get to work but with a stop to make. Throwing on his clothes and old shoes, he made his way to the cobbler to take the new measurements. But once he got there, he found it wasn’t going to be quite what he expe...

Chapter 168: Arthur’s Plans

“Should we be worried about them?” Arthur asked. “Maybe find them and put them somewhere safe?”

“No, no.” Lith shook his head and looked like he was trying to picture Arthur herding the Pratas. “Monster waves don’t move that ...

Chapter 167: Preparations

“That’s reassuring,” Arthur said. And it was, in a way. It wasn’t the everything-will-be-all-right-starting-exactly-now statement Arthur wanted, but it was also not the situation where they were constantly rebuilding everything, time after...

Chapter 166: That’s a Promise

“That’s great, Lily,” Arthur finally said when Lily finished her big list of updates. “So what’s today?”

“Today is metal. Nothing else that’s big can move on without it. Milo’s making a bunch of molds that Hune says she can...

Chapter 165: Hospitalitea

The sun was up, and so was Arthur, staring down at the girl asleep on his arm and wondering if it was appropriate to escape. Not that he was desperate to get away, but he had woken up about an hour ago and had spent the time since then appreciatin...

Chapter 164: Interview

It was hours on the road before Talca was able to talk normally. Until then, it was a combination of grunts, various hand gestures, and a patient, almost obsessive refusal to look directly at Hune. She humored it for a little while, mostly talking...

Chapter 163: Hune

Arthur took a look around the town as he ate, and finally started to understand what Talca had been talking about when he said that the town was built to be torn down and rebuilt again and again. It was the most spartan looking town that he had ev...

Chapter 162: Life on the Road

Hours later, they were so far from home that it didn’t even seem like the same planet. The distance from the constant sounds and smell of the ocean were part of that, but far from the entirety of the alien impression. The trees were different. T...

Chapter 161: Getting Out of the Way

“You?” Mizu said. She wasn’t trying to be quiet. And Arthur supposed the question was relevant for the audience too, if not quite as much as for his girlfriend. “Why you?”

“Because each and every one of you are needed besides me,...

Chapter 160: A Little Spin

Arthur managed to not knock anyone down for the rest of the day. And Lily recovered enough to start helping all the cooks in the plaza, which kept her from going stir-crazy about not being able to work as hard as she’d like.

Arthur slung t...

Chapter 159: Knocking People Down

As Arthur knelt over Karra, her eyes suddenly fluttered.

“No, don’t call the medic,” Karra said, still laying on the ground. “It’s something system related.”

“Maybe, but that was a nasty hit. You are getting checked out.�...

Chapter 158: The Wall

It was already late when Arthur slipped through the front door of his house and pressed the switch for the majicka lamp in his bedroom. He wasn’t going to get a full night’s sleep, but it was fine. He didn’t need quite as much sleep these da...

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TLDR: We’re pausing content on Snowing Pine until we can figure out what’s going on and pushing the extra chapter to Patreon.

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Chapter 157: Free Time

Lily had stayed just long enough to help Arthur stay organized, which in turn let him clear out the lunch rush without too much trouble.

As always, the bigger majicka-draw orders for people who needed an especial push had taken it out of him...

Chapter 156: Enchantments

Getting to the enchanter was almost a hike, which spoke to the growth of the town.

Before, Arthur would walk out of his house and be, well, everywhere. All the houses and shops with anyone in them were within a few steps. Now, he sometimes h...

Chapter 155: Shoes

Shopping was perhaps one of Arthur’s favorite part of his new life.

At some point during his old life, he had been actively afraid of shopping, that he’d go into a store, find he wouldn’t really know what to get, and that he couldn’t...

Chapter 154: Local Economy

Ghuda went to a table to enjoy his day off, immediately pulling out some sketch pads and working on ideas for improved poles. Not everyone liked to think about work during their off-time, but Arthur had learned that demons were generally the type ...

Chapter 153: Pointy Stick

The next day was deliciously normal. Arthur woke up in his real bed, complete with a real mattress provided by a specialty sewing class who made bed-things. It was in the demon style, which meant it was thin and firm instead of thick and fluffy. A...

Chapter 152: Tea Brewing

“You really don’t have to worry about your time.” Lily was trying to comfort Arthur, who felt pretty silly covered in mud that did next to do nothing to keep him from getting caught. “Milo got caught… I want to say ten seconds in. We hea...

Chapter 151: The Chase

Thick clothes could only protect Arthur so much. In the post-coldfall chill, they were hardly enough to keep him warm and forced him to draw on the adrenaline running through his veins for the last bit of heat. They also should have kept him safe ...

Chapter 150.5: Author’s Note

Imagine you spent years and years doing the wrong things. You worked jobs that didn’t pay well. You did tasks that didn’t fulfill you, and often didn’t seem to matter to the people you were doing them for. All the while, you knew that it was...

Chapter 150: Epilogue

If weddings were vastly different in the Demon World, wedding receptions were surprisingly the same. There was music, courtesy of multiple bands that rotated in and out. With that came dancing, ranging from the heavy-footed normal-capability danci...

Chapter 149: Joining Ceremony

As it turned out, there wasn’t much wedding work left for Arthur and Lily happily bounced away to join the bride’s group. Once he had unleashed the moms on the task, they went to work. And once they were done, they did it all again. By the tim...

Chapter 148: Friends, Allies

As Daisy looked on mildly, Arthur knelt down by Rumble, careful to avoid any of the scattered scales and fish guts on the ground. Reaching around Rumble’s thick, furry neck, he looped the twine under and over before knotting it in place. The Pra...

Chapter 147: Ring Bear

Now that Arthur had put out the mini-Milo fire, there was one more thing he needed to do. One last thing that would make everything perfect.

He just wasn’t sure if it was a good idea.

The area outside of the gates was fast becoming d...

Chapter 146: Hitched

Arthur realized that he had been living with a misconception. He had thought of the parents as Coldbrook as well meaning and bearing the heraldry of concerned motherhood. They had come for the express purpose of confirming that their sons and daug...

Chapter 145: Army of Moms

An hour later, Karbo had the rough outline of a shelf done. It was a sort of rectangular section carved out of the top of the cliff and allowing for a view of the ocean on one side and the city on the other. Despite Karbo’s earlier protests that...