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The Third Portal: Not a Chapter

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Five

As we approached the third orb, the houses around us began to change, growing larger, more intact, and with much more overgrown rosebush everywhere. I didn’t know if rose had been especially popular among the wealthy people of the ruined city, or if it had just adapted especially well to the en...

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While scheduling chapters this week, I aparently swapped chapter 33 and 34. Totally my bad. I'll go fix that ASAP. But I just wanted to put this out there for those confused by the chapter.

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Four

“I don’t get it,” Liz said, glancing at the tower’s ruins. “There’s hardly anything here. It’s a standard guard outpost.” 

The spell had led us here, and was insistent that I was right in front of the array piece, but I agreed with Liz’s statement. The ruined tower ha...

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Three

I nodded my agreement to Hannah’s statement as I stretched out my limbs, shaking myself off. Throwing that much power into a spell had left me feeling wrung out in both body and spirit. It was unusual for my life energy to get so depleted these days, but powering something that far above me had...

The Restored: Chapter Eleven

“Veriotix, second son of Aliliyt, I summon you.” 

The Contractor's voice was as smooth as velvet as he spoke, the words bouncing off the walls of the ritual room, and bright red light danced through the runes of the spell with every word. Jin, standing in the center of the pentacle...

The Restored: Chapter Ten

Demonic Thrones, the demon equivalent to mortal archmages, fairy queens, archangels, and other such powers, were strange. They were called Thrones for a reason – they had literal, physical artifacts that represented their power, a complex weave of soulstuff that the person who possessed the thr...

The Restored: Chapter Nine

“So, let me get this straight,” Devi asked, leaning forward and taking a long slurp of her noodles. I shifted uncomfortably, my knees banging into the table, which got me a glare from both Devi and Jin. 

“Sorry,” I muttered. These booths were not made for someone my size. ...

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-Two

As we approached the power that was dominating this area of the city, I got my first good look at a slaughter spirit. Being a spirit of physical mana, the unnatural inversion that slaughter spirits underwent had indeed left it as a shifting mass of semi corporeal light. One moment it was a dog wi...

Bit of an unusual vote this time...

Like the title says, this vote is going to be a bit less diegetic than I usually aim for, but hey, it is what it is. Basically, I have two ways that this upcoming search and assembly for the remaining bits and powers of the soul strengthening array can go, and I want you to vote for the one you t...

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty-One

“Frostbristle succulent,” Kene said, tracing their finger along the edge of the aloe-looking plant. “Well, color me impressed. And it was growing with yincaps, too.” 

“What’s it do?” 

“It generates ice spikes that seek out heat,” Kene said. “It’s a self...

The Third Portal: Chapter Thirty

It did take a while to finish the litigation over the guild duel, to get the guild leader’s niece signed up with Liz’s grandfather’s guild, and to then sell both fields to the Earthwright guild, and throughout the process, Gakodi repeated the same question.

“Are you sure there isn�...

The Restored: Chapter Eight

I didn’t sleep especially well that night, having needed to share the main bedroom with Rhys. 

I felt like I should be well past the emotions that welled up from having to share a bed with someone I found attractive, but it had been a long time, and I’d annoyingly found that emotio...

The Restored: Chapter Seven

“I think I want to be called Jin,” the young woman walking beside me said. 

“Jin,” I said, nodding. “I’ve met a few people from the south with a similar name. What, Pareiti, Rejnep?” 

“Something like that, I think,” Jin said, nodding her head rapidly. “I ...

The Restored: Chapter Six

Content Warning for Body Horror!

Also, the keen eyed among you, or the ones who follow my discord server, will note that I messed up the name of the book. It's not 'The Remembered', it's 'The Restored'.

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Hadiya hunched over th...

The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Nine

“Guess I’m up,” I said, stretching and thrashing my tail. I gave Kene a quick peck on the cheek, then stepped into the ring.

Across from me, the peak third gate life and time mage stepped into the ring, and I got my first actual look at her. She was tall, slender, and very pretty, but...

The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Eight

Kene and I spent three days together, before I had to return to Crysite, and as I was preparing to force open the portal to Dusk’s realm so I could step out, Kene caught my hand. I turned and tilted my head. 

“Hm?” 

“Could you take me with you?” he asked. “I’ve...

The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Seven

While the healer’s heart was something that I’d taken for granted, Orykson’s tacit acknowledgement that it was worth bowing out of his team for the Elysian Mastery Tournament had brought my attention back to the small, silver leafed plant. Talking to Gadoki about its nature did a lot to exp...

The Restored: Chapter Five

The Arenamaster’s body exploded into a shower of light and sparks, and Alyphize vanished. Her magic lifted off of me, and I sucked in a deep breath. That was a mistake, as even with the wet shirt over my mouth, it set off a round of coughing.

Behind where the Arenamaster – or I guess, t...

The Restored: Chapter Four

I glared at the girl in the Zone mask, crossing my arms. 

“Alright, are you going to come quietly, or are you going to be a pain to capture? I’ve got more people to save, and I’m not against detaining you.” 

“Oh, look at you, the hero of the hour,” Zone said, and...

The Restored: Chapter Three

As I turned to look in the direction of the nightclub, I felt a slight shift on the roof next to me, and in my peripheral vision, I saw Calder struggling with himself. 

All of his instincts, born of being raised to be a killer since he was a child, doubtless made to kill innocents and ...

The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Six

On the walk to the guild, I called Dusk out from where she had been playing with Dawn and some of the small folk in her realm, and I discussed the plan I was thinking about putting into action. Dusk’s world, now reinforced with a dominion, was in an odd spot when compared to the powers that wer...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Five

Convincing the attendant to tell me who was providing the pearl-light pumpkins for sale had been surprisingly easy. The man was one of the leaders of a small guild called the Glowing Soil Guild, with only about a half a dozen members, and was immensely unpopular – which frankly made sense. ...

The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Four

I frowned, tossing the numbers back and forth in my brain until it made my head want to explode, before Hannah laid them out with a somewhat more serious tone than she usually had. 

“I think it’s going to come down to if you can be completely certain and dedicated to working with t...

The Restored: Chapter Two

The spell I cast wasn’t anything fancy. All things considered, it was actually one of the less impressive tricks that I’d been able to pull. 

But while the figure had been smart enough to realize not to wear metal, they hadn’t been smart enough to pick where to fight me. Eldergla...

The Restored: Chapter One

I'm going to aim for three chapters of The Remembered a week, but fair warning, I may have to do two, especially while I get my feet back from under me. Writing this with everything going on IRL is difficult at times, but I don't want to keep a break up much longer.

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The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Three

“You have already found an Elysian Mastery Tournament orb, correct?” he asked, continuing at my nod. “Good. The upcoming tournament is set in Daocheng, specifically at the Silent River Sect in the Kingdom of Zhuanzhe. Now, if you were still my apprentice, I would have been training you inte...

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