Mato approached the stone circle Ali had crafted in the center of the library atrium, his eyes following the majestic sweep of the Elder Tree soaring upward and vanishing into the darkness far above. The voices of his friends sitting nearby washed over him. Politic...
2024-07-23 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAli sat quietly, listening to Ryn’s account of the state of the town, and by her telling, the situation was dire. Food prices had skyrocketed as the crops failed, and the farmers had fled into the city with reports of a horrible plague on all living things and te...
2024-07-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe mood upon the glowing, golden barrier disk grew increasingly quieter and more somber as Ali flew them northward, tracing the burnished silver ribbon of the Myrin River by the dying embers of the setting sun. Ali shivered and huddled a little closer to Lira, a v...
2024-07-18 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Can you tell us what happened to you?” Ali asked, glancing at Lira who somehow managed to make sitting on a rough chunk of bone-encrusted rock in the dark and dusty forgotten library look effortlessly elegant, sipping on the tea Mato had brewed.
2024-07-16 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Mato roused himself quietly and sat up. Without a lit campfire nearby or the benefits of their tents and sleeping bags, the library was chilly and dark, and the hard, cold stone he had slept on had left him with a few aches and what felt like a new bruise on his hip.
... 2024-07-14 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: One more bonus chapter this week. Again, there will still be a chapter on Sunday at the usual time.
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Ali snapped awake, bumping her head painfully on the wall of bone beside her as she tried to shake off the recurrent nigh...
2024-07-13 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDryads are a reclusive species that defy easy categorization. Distantly related to other sylvan species, they appear to be incredibly long-lived hybrids between the Fae and specific species of trees, exhibiting attributes of both. This leads to such variations as oak-, maple- or pine-dryads. ...
2024-07-11 14:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I hope you're all having a fantastic day!
Note: I will be out of town from Wed through Sun, but I don't anticipate any interruptions in release schedule. I'm headed for a dance competition in Palm Desert, CA - near Death Valley. Today it registered a temperature of 122F / 50C. P...
2024-07-09 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Bonus chapter today. The regular chapter will still drop at the usual time.
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“Hi, Weldin,” Malika called out as she strode confidently into the elegantly dressed Gnome’s store area, knowing she was going to make his day.
&nb...
2024-07-08 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostShattered ice and blizzard's roar, Will mark the end of this fierce war, For in my hand, the winter’s key, Unlocks the path to victory. - M
Shattered ice and blizzard's roar,
Will mark the end of this fierce war,
For in my hand, the winter’s key,
Unlocks the path to victor...
A/N: For those in the US, happy fourth!
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Ali woke feeling refreshed, got up from her sleeping bag, and exited her tent into the silence of the Grove, lit by her golden mushrooms and the glowing runes on the shrine. Everyone else was...
2024-07-04 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Ali stayed up well past dinner, experimenting with her new imprints. She hadn’t gained a level for the last fight, but she had the sense that she was quite close, now. On the other hand, her Grimoire had grown substantially – she had learned several important thi...
2024-07-02 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: For those who love the stat sheets, I updated chapter 90.5 to include the descriptions of Ali and Malika's titles, Appraise, Identify, and the Granted Skills for Mato's Bear Form and Calen's Arrows of Brilliance.
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There is compelling evidence supporting the...
2024-06-30 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Slime!
(Also, chapter Nelson, for those who play cricket)
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Ali stared at the wobbling mass hauling itself out of the nature-affinity spawning pool.
Toxic Spitter – Ooze – level 55 (P...
2024-06-27 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostYou have been infected with Undead Blight.
A debilitating infection that grows stronger every day, rotting flesh and propagating to everything it touches.
-1% to maximum health
+1 count per day
10% chance to spread
A/N: I had a fun time with this chapter, hope you do too :)
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Ali trudged along with her friends as Calen led them deeper into the jungle, carefully pondering the wild, chaotic nature-affinity mana that infused everything around her....
2024-06-23 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hope you're having a great day. Let's see what happens to our friends in the aftermath of their crazy battle.
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Kieran: Report.
Tala: It’s harder to find Adventurer Guild marks now that half of them left to join the Watch, but I have a pro...
A/N: Hope you enjoy today's chapter - some more fun in the jungle.
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The trail that Calen led them along wound deeper and deeper into the verdant overgrowth of the jungle till he finally found the valley again. It was still densely gr...
2024-06-18 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hope you enjoy the chapter :)
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Seth trudged onward, his legs in excruciating pain both from the unrelenting pace set by their tormentor seated high upon his zombie horse and from the encroaching blight that was progressively eating him...
2024-06-16 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: A new chapter, and I hope your Thursday is awesome!
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Eliyen’s hands and mana flowed in the precise, familiar patterns of the skills she had been using daily for more than a century, tending to the shrubs and herbs in...
2024-06-13 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hope you're having a great day!
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Ali stretched and sat up, unhurriedly freeing herself from her sleeping bag, reflecting on just how much the small comforts of a good tent and warm sleeping gear had improved her quality of l...
2024-06-11 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“What is that?” Ali asked as they crested a hill. High above them, shrouded in the vast empty darkness was something that could only be described as an unimaginably tall pillar of yellow-white light so bright that Ali squinted and blinked against its intensity....
2024-06-09 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Happy Thursday!
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They pressed on through the dense overgrown jungle, and the further they went, the more oppressive the roiling chaos of wild mana became. Before experiencing this jungle, Ali would have found it hard to...
2024-06-06 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: DoK hit half a million views last week, which is an incredibly mind-blowing number to me. Thank you all for reading!
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Calen scanned the dense undergrowth, automatically keeping an eye on the jungle and the obvious threats lurk...
2024-06-04 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: The big 100 today - hope you enjoy it!
I received a suggestion from a reader for a change to the way the status sheets are displayed, and I quite liked how it looks, so I implemented it. It's a pretty minor change, with no adjustment to the actual stats or plot. This might be a bit te...
The complex weave of Ali’s domain mana sparkled and rippled in her mana sight as she flew this way and that over the jumbled and shattered bone of the lowest level of the ruined library, inspecting her work. It leaked out of the ivy and jasmine growing up the walls...
2024-05-30 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Ali coughed and waved her hand vigorously in front of her face to disperse the remnants of smoke from her recall potion. She glanced around at the familiar black marble floor with the inscribed runes of the teleportation locus slowly fading, the magical power that ha...
2024-05-28 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Naia’s membrane quivered with agitation as the creature called Aliandra touched the impenetrable wall-with-no-cracks with one of her stiff tentacles and a bright intense beam of mana burned out, searing into the stone.
What is she doing?...
2024-05-26 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This was one of my favorite chapters to write. Hope you enjoy it.
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Ali froze, mid-cast, stunned. Did it just speak? She looked left and right, but there was nothing else in the entire cave. Just the anomalous mimic sli...
2024-05-23 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Calen was early for his presentation to the guild, and he sat in the auditorium trying to control his nerves as various guild members trickled in and took seats. He was fully prepared, perhaps more than he needed, but none of it impacted his anxiety. His hands were trem...
2024-05-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post