Two days after Orykson’s arrival, I finally made enough progress on digging out the steps of my spatial and temporal mana-gardens to hit a wall, and I prepared myself for a breakthrough.
Much like Kene and Dusk’s first breakthroughs back in Delitone, Meadow had taken an Analyze Ma...
2025-02-04 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI sighed, biting my lip as I considered my next move.
I did want to see Kene – the weeks on the boat had been long without them. I also knew that the earlier I could get the portal network set up, the better it would be, even if forming the platforms did take a long time.
<... 2025-02-03 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs a reminder, starting next week, we return to five or six chapters a week: Three Mana Mirror, and two or three of Effaced Book Two
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It took us a long time to sort out a plot of land.
I wasn’t especially picky about the location of my ...
2025-01-29 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we pushed into the anthill itself, which had been partially destroyed by the giant shovels that Mrs. Cromwell had used, the battle grew both easier and harder.
On one hand, desolants were able to swarm in a confined space, the fire mage had to hold back, the giant armor had to sh...
2025-01-29 12:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe powerful restorative ran through my body and spirit, and my mana surged and boiled. It rushed from the elixir and into my garden, rapidly filling it back up to normal. The excess power tried to compress and rush into my beastcore and restore my soul mana, but it was horrifically inefficient, ...
2025-01-28 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay! I accidentally scheduled it for 8pm, rather than am
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I gasped as I sat up from where I’d hit the ground in front of the entry to the anthill to the sound of battle raging around me. A quick pulse of Internal Pocketwatch reveale...
2025-01-27 13:28:26 +0000 UTC View PostIf the ants held to their previous pattern, I would have a few hours before they attacked, so I turned options over in my head. I could try and make more potions, to seed the ground around the anthill with fire bombs and more stonesprout, but that could just as easily kill a myrmekes if I forgot ...
2025-01-22 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostDusk flew as fast as she could, gathering power from her birds, from her insects, and from the sky estragon within her. With all their spellcraft supporting her, she blazed through the sky, moving almost twice as fast as the original, terrible broom that her older brother had once used.
... 2025-01-22 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dreamer sat, crouched over the network of more than a thousand glass orbs.
Well. Sat was a relative term. He was in a chair, but only the balls of his feet were touching its cushions. He balanced on them in a low crouch, and squatted with his back arched terribly over the table wh...
2025-01-21 22:04:41 +0000 UTC View PostI sat above the colony, hovering in the air. I wished that I’d had the foresight to pull out as many potions from Dusk as possible before she’d left, since I couldn’t just teleport them into my hands or mouth with her so far away, but our stronger connection and stronger spirits meant that ...
2025-01-21 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI glanced at Dusk and Dawn, as well as manifesting Hannah, and we had a brief discussion.
If I could manage to simultaneously get rid of an invasive species, get a portion of their loot, and restore the kidnapped myrmekes workers to their native colony, then I’d be happy to do so, b...
2025-01-20 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI turned to assist Dusk with her own battle, but it was already winding down, with the desolants retreating the long way around the tunnel. I limped over to her, and only then did I look down and see that I’d taken a deep but clean wound to the leg. I hadn’t even realized that it had happened...
2025-01-15 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe ant that had been dragging me suddenly changed its course. It turned, shoving me to the side, then rushed out. The other grave tending ants rushed out as well, and I started to move, but Dusk whistled that I should clean myself first.
“Right,” I agreed.
I didn’t ...
2025-01-15 12:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostFiguring out how to get the blueshade to produce the same mildly citrusy scent as the ant’s non-threat pheromones took some time and experimentation.
Enhance Plant Life was a good spell, but it wasn’t capable of doing fine, on the fly adjustments to the structure of plants. I coul...
2025-01-14 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a bit of discussion with my bonds and Hannah, I reached out my hand, then paused.
There was something… off… about it, that was tickling my nascent truths, or perhaps the wind of fortune. I didn’t know exactly what it was, or even if I was imagining it, but it was enough to...
2025-01-13 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEdgar told me about how Elio, the guild leaders, and himself had done battle against the handful of truly power beings on the island. They’d fought a peak sixth gate slaughter spirit that simply evaporated everything around it in absurdly hot temperatures, a cabal of three supercharged necrotic...
2025-01-08 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Is it going to transform my heart?” I asked.
“The spell’s biological array is in the heart, which will cause it to turn it a whitish-gray, which will look… interesting… with your resolve veins. But it’s more to do with being the heart of your entire mana-garden,” the ...
2025-01-08 12:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set over four and a half hundred years before the events of Mana Mirror
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If you were to ask an average citizen in the modern world what the Elysian Mastery Tournament was, they could tell you that it is a test of skill and power. That i...
2025-01-07 18:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostI bounded forwards, using Immovable Lock to catch one foot in place, then bore down on that foot to fling myself forwards again with more momentum.
With my Foxstep currently throwing my spirit into disorder every time I used it, I was trying to work on expanding my other methods of ma...
2025-01-07 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I slipped inside, the attendant looked up and greeted me with a blunt, “Oh, it’s you,” before she immediately returned to reading her novel. I gestured around.
“Which of these do I need to charge to get to Port Heliodoor?”
“Yellow,” the attendant grunted...
2025-01-06 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
For those of you who haven’t been following along, I’ve had an extremely difficult time getting this book out.
Due to some issues around the copyright with some piracy sites, the pre-order was removed, and I had to show them the DMCA report that I'd tried to get...
2025-01-01 14:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post“There are currently four major adventure guilds with different outposts on the other slices of the island, except for the central mountains: Port Sapphire, Port Emerald, and Port Heliodor. We need more, a lot more, since they’re not even really towns or even villages. They’re hamlets with ...
2025-01-01 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“So, the first thing you should know is the customs house,” Ivy said, leading me away from the docks into a large stone building. It was fairly sparse, unadorned, but there were people moving about. A pair of large boards was set up at the end of the hall, and six desks were on each side of t...
2025-01-01 12:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Idyll!” I said, reaching out and extending my hand, while Dusk buzzed over to the older worldspirit on her cloud.
“Malachi. I am glad to see you are well,” Idyll said, bowing her head slightly. “I recognize Roh, Araceli, Octavian, and Elizabeth. Who are the rest?”
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2024-12-31 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA beam of crackling black and white light, streaked with electric blue seared towards me, and I Foxstepped out of the way, materializing behind my opponent in a flash. Octavian’s elbow flashed out, hand suddenly made of metal, and I caught his hand. For a moment, we struggled, matched in streng...
2024-12-30 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello! First and foremost, I wanted to thank all of you for the amazing year. I've been able to write a lot more full time, despite running into some speedbumps, and I'm very optimistic that I'll be able to continue this for a long time. I've had some problems with Amazon towards the end of the y...
2024-12-29 22:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostFor my final night in Mossford before one of the few boats to Crysite arrived, we threw a potluck. Given that there were only four local Mossford guilds willing to make the journey back and forth until the waters around the isle had been cleared of monsters and proper routes had been established,...
2024-12-11 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post