Alright, you guys are very concerned about the latest two chapters, since Carter kinda comes off as dumb. I don’t think it’s quite that bad, especially when read in book form. We got unlucky with non-release days, so the cliff hangers make two chapters of confusion feel like 4 or more. He fig...
2023-12-09 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGoing through my notifications, the level turned out to be from Caesar's death rather than Knuckles. That gave me a little hope for getting a proper answer out of Knuckles. But try as I might to nudge him, he wouldn't wake up.
Knuckles should have had quite a bit more life in him. Slicing o...
2023-12-08 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy first thought was that Caesar had some class or skill-based form of resurrection. But if Caesar had found a way to bring himself back to life, it had to be something a hell of a lot better than what I’d come up with. I’d brought myself back to life by increasing my stats to the point that ...
2023-12-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWith the help of our trusty stone column, we reduced one of the walls to the prison to rubble. It was nice to know that if I was ever locked up, all I needed to break free was a couple friends and few thousand pounds of steel reinforced concrete pillar. We smashed straight through several cells.<...
2023-12-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostApparently some of the people my allies had fought had been just as nutty as Caesar, though fortunately at a much lower level. None of those men had allowed themselves to be captured alive. In fact, those who had surrendered disproportionately considered themselves Knuckle’s followers.
Th...
2023-12-03 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Nom nom?" Chuck asked, head tilted askance. "That's an odd one. You sure?"
I nodded. "Don't worry, you wont' miss it."
While I waited for everyone to get into position, I pulled out my car shade wire hoop and made a circle. Then, I entered the first level of Mania.
Your...
2023-12-02 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostLess than an hour later, we were ready for battle. Crownhill's elite were gathered awaiting their leader. The uniforms were still mismatched, and their rows weren't quite even, but the difference from the last time I'd led them was night and day. Before, they'd been a mob of desperate survivors f...
2023-12-01 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the light of the teleportation finally faded, I was far from where I'd been. Elder Thalassa had shooed me away like some sort of overgrown bug. That was likely the entire point of teleporting me away.
When the spell faded, all around me were waving stalks of wheat. They were taller tha...
2023-11-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI smelled the coffee shop before I saw it. Bridget must have brewed another batch. That probably meant the conversation between Sakura and Myrina had gotten pretty intense.
When I finally got close enough to see the place, I breathed a sigh of relief. If they'd gotten into a fight, I'd be a...
2023-11-27 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Cyra was settled, I spent what time I had left leaving orders and establishing something along the lines of a chain of command in my district of Shadefall. I wanted the four city blocks I owned cleared and, eventually, for more workshops and warehouses to be built in it.
On my next vi...
2023-11-26 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Amazonians feasted that entire night and would probably continue well into the morning. Sakura and Bridget joined in, but I had learned my lesson already and had no plans of repeating what happened last time I let the Amazonians get me drunk.
I waited for the right opportunity and pulle...
2023-11-25 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Last chance to run..." The scarred Amazonian sneered as she drew her sword.
"Nah, fuck that. The Elder will have less trouble taking this place over if they're dead," one of her companions said. She unslung a bow from her back and knocked an arrow.
The third hefted her spear, remaini...
2023-11-24 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy trebuchet and its brothers that Kyrina had me build, once armed with the right magical armaments, were surprisingly good at whittling down the walls. Apparently, this was what Kyrina had intended with all the women slinging stones at the walls. The trebuchets I'd built were able to accomplish ...
2023-11-22 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWith Myrina dragging me out of the tent, I soon joined the others for training, food, and a bit of celebration. Though the siege was just beginning for everyone else, our part was largely done. Thanks to our recent accomplishments, we were allowed to kick back while the rest of the Samhain Clan...
2023-11-20 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf these two precious items had been my family’s heirlooms, I probably would have been shaking in my boots and too nervous to expend them. After all, if this didn't work, I would likely lose them both. But I'd gained both of these things through luck and happenstance. Why not roll the dice in t...
2023-11-19 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we made it all the way to the army, more than a few of us had arrows sticking out of our backs—with some folks looking like pincushions. Cyra resembled a porcupine instead of a pincushion, though she seemed to pay them no mind. Most of the arrowheads were merely lodged in her armor,...
2023-11-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter letting the workers flee into the city, Myrina lit the workshop behind us on fire. The old wood caught in moments, and before long the entire workshop was going up in flames.
"Mission accomplished. Time to go," Lark said.
She’d been glaring at me since our altercation. She was...
2023-11-17 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Up above is the upcoming new Empress Thalia cover for book 4 of Paladin of the Sigil (the whole series will be getting new covers soon. This will replace both current ebook and audio covers.)
It's from the same artist as the one who did Amazon Apocalypse.
I'm posting it a bit early, b...
2023-11-16 18:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a moment of surprised silence at first as people looked up from their benches. Rows of workers sat lined up in columns with basic tools like chisels and hammers arrayed on a long table before them. It reminded me of the goblin workshops that I had set up back home, only instead of gobli...
2023-11-15 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Cyra, can I have a moment of your time?" I asked.
Cyra looked at me with surprise, but then shrugged. She waved her warriors away and took me off to the side.
"What's the matter, Carter?"
I sucked in a breath. "We're supposed to be infiltrating the city, right?"
Cyra nodd...
2023-11-13 16:29:44 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Kyrina's warning to head in early, some of the younger warriors planned on spending one last night on the town before going into battle. For once, Myrina was the wise one and wanted to go straight to bed. I was trying to talk her out of it.
She stared me up and down the moment I pro...
2023-11-12 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHalf an hour later, the table we’d been sitting at had been smashed through the center. I stood, with my plate in my hand, eating a piece of boar and keeping a wary eye on the increasingly rowdy crowd.
I had been worried about them at first, but Sakura and Bridget fit in remarkably well w...
2023-11-11 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Series complete!
Cover art may change. I'm working on new editions.
Hope you enjoy!
2023-11-11 15:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostBridget, Sakura, and I returned to my farmhouse early the following morning. Sharky had kept the predators at bay, but I didn't want to push our luck. The militia already had their hands full dealing with all the new people I'd brought in, so if there was an incident, they'd be understaffed manni...
2023-11-10 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe first apartment complex I’d visited painted a pretty grim picture of Cromwell. This was where he’d kept his lowest-value merchandise, as the second set of guards I had to kill put it.
Apparently, this was where the wives and girlfriends of men who refused to join him ended up. They ...
2023-11-08 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing my victory, the people of the Settlement threw a party.
"This is a little much, isn't it?" I chuckled as someone handed me a drink. "All I did was cast one spell and use one class skill."
"One spell that laid low a terrifying mobster who wanted to take over the whole settlem...
2023-11-06 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSakura, Bridget, and I woke up early the following morning. Through great effort and an act of will on my part to give the two of them a stern ‘no’ after four levels each, I managed to get a good night’s sleep.
We woke up early, took out a few monsters, and cut a couple of the survivi...
2023-11-05 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Who is he?” I began. “Where'd he come from? I've heard a little here and there, but I want to know what you've learned."
Terrance nodded and stood. "I think I'm best suited to answer that. I've seen his file. I was actually here to interview him about a few leads back home."
He g...
2023-11-04 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter calming down and eliminating my Mania, Sharky shrank back down to his normal, ghostly shark form. Nowhere else would everyone have been relieved to see a ghostly shark hovering in the air over their heads—but after the show Sharky had put on, they were at the Shelter.
I jumped over ...
2023-11-03 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Everybody! Shoot him!” the Raider Brute I’d just spared shouted, pointing back at me.
A row of his people raised their guns.
“Bridget… Sakura… get behind me!” I yelled.
I’d been killed by a hail of gunfire before. I had no plans of doing so again. Fortunately, t...
2023-11-01 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post