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Chapter 68 Hey Kid, Wanna Learn A Magic Trick?

“Tommy Wells, meet Jember,” Merkovah nodded at the sunny man, “And Etenesh, his cousin.”

Truth waved at them and smiled. They smiled back, looking a little overwhelmed. No idea what that was about.

“Young man…” Truth just looked at him. “Betrayals all around.  Eve...

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Let me know if all the chapters are unlocked for the new Barefoot Prophet tier. If something isn't, I'll fix it right away. Pro tip- if you set a load of things to post simultaneously, Patreon will post them in any damn order it likes.

NEW TIER NEWS!

First of all- New Barefoot Prophet is up! $10 gets you 20 chapters ahead of RR.  

Second- Sorry about the odd way Patreon loaded the scheduled posts. Apparently, this made sense to it. Somehow. For some reason. Next time, I post things one minute apart.

Third- Patreon does not le...

Chapter 65 A Little Down Payment

“So.  Let’s get you started.  What do you have as your first spell?  Utility spell?”  Teacher Merkovah asked.

“Body Cultivation.  The Meditations of Valentinian.”  Truth replied, still confused by how fast things were moving.

“Huh.  I am ...

Chapter 66 A Slice of Life

Merkovah thought his office looked like some kind of conspiracy nutjob’s “special” wall.  There were little scraps of paper laid out on the floor, different books had been positioned carefully at different heights and angles to the paper, and while it was probably a coincidence, the su...

Chapter 59 What Price A Goat?

Truth woke with the dawn, feeling something skittering over his leg.  He tried to shake it off, still half asleep.  He felt something poke his ankle, then again.  Not painful, really, but weird.  He looked down.  A small brown scorpion was trying to sting him.  The s...

Chapter 60 Nasty, Brutish and Short

The tactical situation was very bad.  Truth was standing out in what was essentially an open intersection.  The nearest cover was two buildings fifty meters away, and everything else was… junk.  Collapsing shacks, a steel bench covered with a corrugated metal roof, some road sign...

Chapter 61 Bickering Old Men

Truth sat on a bench in the Agora.  He had long since finished eating, but the two old bastards beside him were bickering like champions, and he couldn't bear to go.

“We agree that it is best to live simply and modestly.”

“We do.”

“And that one should pursue virtu...

Chapter 58 The Measure of a Mage

Truth had learned his lesson the night before- he drove directly to the highway and stayed on the highway.  He still couldn't read the signs but figured “Generally North-East” was manageable.  And the numbers were the same, so B8 should be pretty recognizable, right?

He had hi...

Chapter 62 I Want Spells!

Acid started raining down over the front of the garage, hissing and spitting as it burned holes in the dirt.  He could hear villagers yelling and metal clanking, somewhere between a chime and a drum.  It started grumbling and rolling.  The acid came down harder, eroding the edge of...

Chapter 63 Young Man, You Are Posessed!

Truth woke to the sounds of hammering outside the hotel.  He had faintly hoped for more screaming from the System, but you can’t have everything.  Worth investigating why his body could torture the System, but… it would just have to go on the big heap of “Things Truth Does Not Und...

Chapter 64 The Exorcist's Intern

“I’m not buying anything and won’t sell anything for you!”  Truth barked reflexively in Jeongo.  He didn’t know why, but the short, beardy man with intense eyes gave off the scammer vibe he most vividly associated with his mother.

The scammer looked at him and started sl...

Chapter 67 Alternatives

The ghostly serpent shattered in Truth’s grasp, dispersing as wisps of grey gas under the brilliant tropical sun.  Widow Yettran gasped and rattled on the ground, shivering like she had a fever.  Her color was improving.  The disgusting mottling was fading away.  The green h...

Chapter 57 That Was An Option? (End of Volume 1)

Entrance into the university was unexpectedly smooth.

“I told him you were a wealthy overseas student here while your parents were working abroad,”  Thrush said with as much cheer as it was capable of.

“I am dressed in stolen gangster clothes, and my iron horse is missing p...

Chapter 56 Wait a Goddamn Second!

Truth coolly cataloged the guard in front of him.  Wearing fatigues, no armor, cap with brim.  No visible rank insignia.  The fetish looks professionally made, and given the size and depth of the carvings on it, clearly intended to handle a high power throughput without disintegrat...

Chapter 55 Very Reasonable Questions

Truth chuckled mirthlessly, seeing the notification. Time to explore the city, hit up the university, maybe start scouting districts for raiding.

Great thinking. Hey Genius, take a look out the window.

Truth did. Blinding white lights lit up the area around the apartment building. I...

Exciting News!

I'm improving the tiers, effective Friday. Barefoot Prophet is dropping from $20 to $10... and getting an extra ten chapters over what's released for the Awakened. Yep. 20 Chaps ahead of RR. 

"But wait," I hear you cry. "What about Discord? Why no love for the Awakened? What's going on...

Chapter 54 Securing The Home Front, And A Sofa

Truth started whistling as he pulled apart the sofa. He didn’t know how to whistle but saw no reason to let that stop him from trying. Springs- could use those. Plenty of iron there.  The cloth was rotten but synthetic, making it still somewhat useful. The wood was so far gone he could car...

Chap. 53 Finding "Home"

They drove over in silence. The apartment building was four stories, blocky, and unadorned. The apartments were arranged around a central courtyard that people had thrown their garbage into for years. The miasma of rot, of fermenting excrement, overwhelmed the senses. Despite this, the building a...

Chapter 52- Settling In

Truth took two explosive steps towards the alley, stopped hard, and doubled back for his iron horse. He had a great idea, it required the two-wheeler, and by God, he wouldn’t let these thieving bastards run off with what he had rightfully stolen.

He hopped on the two-wheeler, pul...

Keep or Trash $3 Tier?

I have 0 Patrons at that tier level.  It’s basically just additional admin at this point. OTOH, maybe someone will want it someday? I figured I would ask the crowd- Keep or trash the $3 tier?

Chapter 51- Just People Helping People

“Summon humanoid system interface. Hey, explain why I am somehow magic-resistant.” Truth was filled with piss and vinegar after his nap.

The System growled.  “The point of body cultivation and everyone has been telling you this from the first time you heard about it, the whol...