Hineni exhales, watching his breath leave his body as he stands down in the ice-cellar. The damp vapors loosely drift towards the ceiling, the disturbed frozen constructs around himself crackling from the weight and the heat of his body.
“— Go away,” says Eilig from inside ...
2022-07-28 16:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I just wanted to put this out there for you to see. It isn't going to be ready for a while yet. First I have a lot of Weaponsmith and Sunflower to write haha =)
2022-07-27 19:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostWeaponsmith chapter is tomorrow, sorry! I have a crushing deadline to deal with at the moment. Take this instead for today please. It is part 1 of chapter 1 of a new story to come out ‘in the future’. The real chapter 1 will be longer, but this is what I have at the moment. =)
...
2022-07-27 19:08:12 +0000 UTC View PostIf you read chapter 39 on Patreon, then please read the latest release of it on Royalroad, as I added two brand new sections with Red and with Isaiah =)
“Closing the guild would be a real dick move, honestly,” says Sockel. “After we went through the trouble to shut the frogs down and become the only one left in the neighborhood.” She rubs her bloodshot eyes and grabs her glass, taking a drink.
Hineni nods, continuing to c...
2022-07-25 18:27:25 +0000 UTC View PostHineni lets his hand rest on the walls of the house.
As far as he can recall, he had spent his early years here.
Then, after the incident and his currently missing memories of childhood, it is the place that he had returned to. These walls sheltered him, protecte...
2022-07-24 19:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostGreat news! FINAL CORE is getting an audiobook adaptation! I'll keep you up to date =)
_________________________________________________________
My hands are bound, but my spirit remains free.
As I was born into this ... 2022-07-23 19:50:12 +0000 UTC View Post
You don’t know what you’ve done.
I’m not going to lose my faith. I’m not going to stop believing in what I have left to believe in. You won’t change my mind, no matter what happens. I know what I saw. I know what I felt and heard and sensed.... 2022-07-21 19:46:21 +0000 UTC View Post
If you don't have access to the tier 2 poll for ability choices, these are the abilities we were able to choose our one newest ability from this time, after the Perchta fight. =)
Grand Icon 2022-07-20 19:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hineni looks over the map of the nation that he has spread out over the workbench in the forge.
Ever since the guild had gotten so busy, finding a quiet spot at one of the booths in the restaurant has quite literally become impossible, sadly. Thankfully, the forge is still a poss...
2022-07-20 16:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostI am a sunflower.
Night has drawn to a close all around us and my friend, haggard and scraggly like a hunted animal that has been on the run for days, scours the area.
She is hungry.
In her years of healthy growth without me, Burch has become com...
2022-07-19 19:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostTimes come and go as the work on the house continues. Days pass. Then weeks.
Hineni stands downstairs in the restaurant, admiring the fully renovated and rebuilt structure. There isn’t a single indication left that there had ever been an attack and, in fact, the house looks bet...
2022-07-18 19:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a silence in the air.
No fires rage and no voices scream. No boots trod along the sooty streets and roads. No doors creak and windows slam shut.
It is over.
Hineni sits on the leg of an overturned, ripped out booth and looks around the d...
2022-07-16 20:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe demon-king’s dungeon was the first and only dungeon to ever explicitly seek the destruction of the peoples of the world.
Most dungeons are content to just live their lives until disturbed, like a hive of bees.
Bu... 2022-07-15 19:46:28 +0000 UTC View Post
“No, listen. Hear me out,” asks the blue-haired boy. He rubs his lip with the back of his thumb. “What if we just… bricked it shut?” He asks, staring at the dungeon-gate.
The elf, standing next to him, sighs and shakes her head. “The dunge... 2022-07-14 18:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hineni jumps over the front-counter, heading into the library. Someone yelps in surprise on the other side.
“- Seltsam!” he barks. “Get Eilig and run upstairs. We’re being attacked.”
“…Huh? What?” asks the librarian, still dazed from just waking u...
2022-07-13 19:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Crystals of thin ice slowly fall from the darkness above my head.
However, I do not understand how they could do so, as I know that up there is nothing but solid rock for a good kilometer up, at least.
My campfire w... 2022-07-12 20:02:31 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s something missing.
Hineni doesn’t really know what it is, but… there’s just… something missing.
“What’s up?” asks Rhine, watching him shuffle around the house.
Hineni looks around himself and then looks back towards Rhine....
2022-07-11 19:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness.
Of the many elemental attributes present in the world, darkness is by far the most controversial.
The core elemental attribute behind all magic is the attribute ‘Arcane’. Arcane is pure, unadulterated magic, untouched by any element or spice.<...
2022-07-09 20:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostHineni stands in the library, flipping through pages in a book.
It is the middle of the night once more and he couldn’t sleep, his pestering thoughts nagging at the back of his mind.
He flips a page, looking at the grotesque illustrations of some distorted mons...
2022-07-09 18:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostRecipe: Brew of the Witch’s Moon
- Stir into a bowl
<...
2022-07-07 19:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostHineni wanders down through the restaurant, a small watering can in his hands as he wanders past all of the many plants that adorn the windowsills and tables, watering them. It feels somewhat ironic to do, as just outside, rain is striking against the glass. It’s shortly before they’re openin...
2022-07-06 20:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHow many bodies do you think are down there?
How many dead men, women and children do you think are laying in that hole? Their carcasses being dragged off into the shadows by clawed hands?
People with dreams and hopes. People who’ve spent their lives feeling jo...
2022-07-05 19:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post“F-” Hineni clenches his mouth shut, catching himself before he lets out the swear. “Sorry.”
The books on the other side of the bookshelf move around as someone plays with them. “It’s okay…” says Seltsam.
Hineni’s eyes wander back down towards t...
2022-07-04 19:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostDusty particulate floats through the air as Hinnei stands upstairs by himself in the attic, looking around the old room.
He had spent his childhood here, sometimes just hiding away from the busy, loud world below and then other times just because it was where his family was. This...
2022-07-04 18:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe worm crawls in the apple.
Burch looks downward, staring at the half-eaten, red fruit in her hands.
She has mischievously stolen it from the thick, fat boughs of a healthy tree we have passed.
— I am glad to see that my friend still has her ...
2022-07-03 19:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostDungeons often differ in their approaches to dungeon-design.
Some suffer from the classic problem of choosing form over function. Others suffer the opposite weakness; the focus on pure, cold-blooded efficiency over a little sense of artistry.
Form-focused dungeon...
2022-07-02 19:53:56 +0000 UTC View PostRhine stares at him. “…Why are you upside down?” he asks.
Hineni crosses his arms, looking down at the boy. He’s standing upside down on the ceiling, his boots firmly attached to the rafters above the restaurant. “Don’t worry about it,” replies Hineni.
2022-07-02 17:04:12 +0000 UTC
View Post
The life shattering star cries out hallow;
Shaking deep the time-stained bones of the weary dead;
As carves out the light a way towards tomorrow;
As from the heavens, it shines — just above my head;
And as it flies, not grazing...
Sockel grabs his hand at the wrist. “No magic,” says the elf.
Hineni blinks, looking her way. “What?”
“No magic,” she repeats, shaking her head and pushing his arm back down. “Kill it without your freaky spells.”
“They’re not ...
2022-06-29 19:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post