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The Restored: Chapter Twenty-One

“I know you’re going to want to come and rescue your sister the moment you even have an inkling of where she is,” the Arenamaster said calmly. “So let me be very clear when I speak: this is not a heroic rescue. This is a hostage situation. I am going to tell you what to do, and if you lis...

The Restored: Chapter Twenty

Kelly reached within himself and began creating the most impressive spells he knew. 

It was one of the spells that his father’s friend, the one who had given him the mind rune bond, had left in the tattered, old, half-ripped apart spellbook, but it was one that Kelly had largely over...

Dusk Vote (Sorry it's late, it seemed to delete itself)

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty-Seven

“Very dramatic,” Elio said, snorting out a puff of smoke as he spoke. “But what, exactly, was that? I felt you draining my spell dry for power.” 

I started explaining everything that had happened during the time we’d been gone – meeting with Edgar, the transformation of the...

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty-Six

The guild leader and I practiced well past the agreed upon hours of training. The moment she discovered that I was able to use a lot of time and space magic, she immediately insisted on working to weave that into combat as well, making me use Capture Moment on my attacks, working on my speed and ...

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty-Five

I stood in front of the board until my time was starting to run down, then teleported into line and started making my way up to the clerk to redeem the reward, bouncing back and forth on the balls of my feet, still debating. 

When I reached the attendant and was forced to lock in the c...

The Restored: Chapter Nineteen

I blazed across the city at the fastest speed I could manage. 

The moment Jessica’s building came into view, I let out a sigh of relief. It hadn’t been reduced to a smoking crater in the ground the way that her grocery store had been. That didn’t inherently mean that she was safe...

The Restored: Chapter Eighteen

We met Hadiya at a coffee shop that was near her work. We’d been intending to come to a lab, but apparently there had been some sort of detonation there after an experiment had gone entirely wrong, and it was still being cleaned up. 

Hadiya took a moment to set up some basic privacy ...

TV: Television, or Treasure Vote?

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty-Four

Learning was slow, but by the time the three hour training session had completed, I was feeling confident that I’d be able to shift the arrays in my body, even after the effects of the booster faded. It would take a little while, but it would be useful.

The next few days I spent on the so...

Release Alert!

Hello everyone! I am happy to announce the Second Gate is out NOW!

Furthermore, book three (The Twin Trials) is up for pre-order 2025-03-25 13:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty-Three

Before I knew it, my meeting times with the local guild leaders had come, and the first one on my list was the leader of the Beastbody Guild. He had arranged to meet with me in a park. The city was still a bit too under construction for it to really be a safe park, as it was more like a slice of ...

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty-Two

“Something worth considering – I can make better use of additive benefits than most,” I pointed out. “The kirin spell creates synergies, even when they’re not there. Could it create a synergy between the ghostmind spell and the timemind treasure?” 

Ikki looked at me for a m...

The Restored: Chapter Seventeen

Robert K. Baurm was a very average man, at least as most people in Elderglass would measure such things. He himself wouldn’t dispute his averageness, but instead, embraced it. 

He’d been born in very average circumstances.. Sure, he’d been born and raised in the undercity, but so...

The Restored: Chapter Sixteen

“Does it matter?” I asked after another long, silent moment. 

Rhys looked at me like I’d entirely lost my mind. Kelly’s head whipped around to stare at me. Jin’s eyebrow arched in confusion. 

“Does it matter?” I repeated. “Sure, she wants to un-sunder a Thron...

The Third Vote: Portal Forty

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty-One

“There are any number of useful third gate spells that you could take,” Ikki informed me from his seat on the other side of the table. “Outside of the obvious spells like Haste and Slow, which we have already discussed and you have worked for your own solutions for, there are several that a...

The Third Portal: Chapter Forty

After collecting the massive chunk of null-steel that was the vault door, we spent the rest of the weekend picking over the city with Edgar, collecting mana sources, killing undead, and picking up anything we could that we thought would fetch a decent price. We picked up some silverware made out ...

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Nine

I stilled my mind, closing my eyes and extending my hand out to the slightly amorphous mass of gray light, then listened, wanting to hear what Fortune had to say. In the center of my mana-garden, the winds stirred, whipping up into a strange tornado. Resolve seemed content to allow me to take the...

Medium Update

Hello! Hope everyone's doing well. I'm sending this out to let you all know I won't be able to post a chapter tomorrow, and will be a bit spotty over the next few weeks. I'm actually going somewhere else tomorrow and Sunday, to shelter from the huge storm that's brewing across the East Coast of t...

The Restored: Chapter Fifteen

It took us the better part of half an hour to fill Kelly and Rhys in on everything that had happened during our escapade, and when we finished, Kelly leaned back in the metal chairs around the dining table and closed his eyes. 

“Wow. That’s… What was she doing with a copy of the ...

Treasure Roll

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The Restored: Chapter Fourteen

Sorry about the delay, I thought I'd scheduled it, but it hadn't gone up.

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“What do you mean, is there somewhere else in Elderglass?” I demanded, crossing my arms. 

“And by the Thrones, what was that?” Jin followed up. “You just...

Meta Omnomnom vote

While I was making the Omnomnom vote from earlier today, I accidentally left it open to people at a lower tier than would normally be allowed to vote. I've since fixed it, but there are still about a dozen from people at a lower tier.

The question now is if you're okay with this, or if you'...

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Eight

I spat out a curse as my mind raced. I hadn’t managed to extract everything from the internals of this nexus point, but I had most of it. There was only one component left that was absolutely, completely, one hundred percent needed. 

A second crack ran through the gourd and I shoved ...

Omnomnom

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Seven

I watched as Dusk closed her eyes in front of the open rift to the shadow realm, extended her hands, and began to pull. Dawn’s magic joined her own, the golden light suffusing her small form. There was a sharp tug as the shadows stirred, then vanished, dissolving away into a burst of tiny energ...

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Six

I glanced at Dusk. 

“I don’t suppose you could just absorb it? That would let us break in at our leisure.” 

She let out a complex sound that layered the lapping of waves against the shore with the cawing of a bird and rustling of branches to try and explain that no, sh...

The Restored: Chapter Thirteen

I whipped up the heavier gun that I’d been holding and released an infused shot, layered with every bit of magic that I’d been able to pack into it during the time that Devi had been clearing a path for us. 

Alyphize’s hand rose, her magic sparking violently, and we both unleashe...

The Restored: Chapter Twelve

Probably only going to be two chapters this week: I wound up needing to take care of a bunch of personal stuff Monday, and wasn't able to write

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The portal was made of gray light, a shade so pale it was almost white, and as it appeared Devi gasped fo...