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The Twin Trials: Chapter Twenty-Two

Yay! Bonus chapters this tues/thurs, since it was the only way I could get things fit remotely into the right schedule without having two interludes nearly back to back, which would feel... weird. 

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I released a rain of five Pinpoint Boneshards ...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Twenty-One

When it came down to it, my only real choices were the monocle – to help us get more stuff – and the natural treasure that had to do with the mana meditations, but I had no idea what the treasure actually did. Sure, it might double the efficacy of my Depths of Starry Night technique, but it a...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Twenty

Since I was taking the rooms in order of most to least difficult, at least for me, I headed into the ward room next, hoping that I’d be able to use my one good warding spell to get through it.

The inside of this room was rather similar to the previous one, with lots of materials and solid...

What reward?

The Twin Trials: Chapter Nineteen

The following morning, I awoke in the bed, with Kene’s arm draped across my chest and Dusk curled up on my stomach, and let myself just bask in the mundanity for a while.

Eventually, though, we got up and moving, drank another nutrition potion, and checked through a tiny portal.

To ...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Eighteen

I considered it for several long moments, then I opened my eyes and drew out the quarterstaff.

It had been worth trying, but my mage’s staff had smoothly integrated into my power far easier, and had mitigated my weakness in a way that I felt fit my style better.

Maybe I could have w...

Enfield Art

While I've been fairly vocal about it on my discord server, the creature that Kene has befriended is called an Enfield! Here's some art of them

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seventeen

I took a breath as I passed inside the portal, then turned around. There was a loud, resonant thumping sound as the serpent crashed against the portal, but the portal held.

I let out a slight sigh of relief. The defenses inbuilt into Dusk had been further upgraded by the bwbatch that lived ...

What do?

This is a pretty big one. While it's possible to change, it all depends on the story's flow.

The Twin Trials: Chapter Sixteen

The light of Kene’s blessing spell swept over me, followed by the green light of a regeneration spell. My vision re-focused, and I had just a moment to cast Foxstep and get out of the way of another breath weapon attack from the serpent.

Dusk, on the other hand, was so small that she didn...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Fifteen

“I don’t think so today,” I said, shaking my head. “There’s too much potential wealth to be extracted right now.”

A part of me expected the winds of fortune to gust angrily at that, but nothing happened. I supposed that Meadow had warned me that it was fickle for a reason.

Update Post:

So, as some of you have noticed, The Abjurer's beta copy was posted here on Patreon over the weekend. To comply with Amazon's guidelines, it will stay up for the rest of March, and then it will be gone.

There's likely also the question - will I start posting chapters of The Archmage?

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Should I continue posting the two Abjurer chapters, twice a week?

Since I posted the completed version of the rough draft, I wasn't sure what people would want.

The Abjurer - Final Beta Draft

With the Abjurer finished being written, I've decided to hand it out to my patrons! This is not the final draft, only the final beta draft. There may be changes, minor or major, to the final draft of the Abjurer. 

This post will be removed when it is uploaded to Amazon, as having it he...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Fourteen

“Oh,” I said softly as we landed in the soft, loamy soil at the bottom of the pit.

What I saw was not an intense battle with an abyssal shambler, deathfrill maiden, fungal tyrant, or other mobile mushroom monster menace.

No, it was far more somber than that.

The cave tapered...

What do, what do, what do?

The Abjurer: Chapter 42-43

“The third year tournament will be simple,” Eira announced. “Be it by fate or fortune, there are forty members of your year. As such, the first round will be one on one elimination matches, to cut us down to twenty.”

I bit my lip and hoped I wouldn’t have to face any of my friends...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Thirteen

With my mana senses spread out over the area, I expected the presence of a guardian to be obvious, but nothing in particular jumped out at me.

I could sense forest estragon moving through the trees, and I thought I might also feel a river estragon moving along somewhere, but nothing that st...

The Abjurer: Chapter 40-41

We circled each other for a moment, waiting for one of us to make the first move and start the battle.

I snapped one of my knives off my belt and released a force spear at Osheen. Infused with the power of constellations, rather than just having the slight translucent color that most force ...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Twelve

The following morning started out slow. I awoke to the sounds and smells of food from the kitchen, and emerged to see Kene cooking, alongside a group of brownies.

“Morning babe,” Kene said when I emerged.

“Morning… How?” I asked, nodding to the kitchen. I didn’t have a man...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Eleven

I stood in the center of the ritual and let my mana swirl out through the loops and assorted mana sources. My ungated mana connected to the centerpoint, then my first gate mana clicked into place, then my second.

Resonance began to form, but instead of shaking the entire world, it was a cen...

What do?

Several of these options aren't as directly written out, but are still viable, and as such, are included.

This one vote will not determine everything in the Idyll-Flume. Like Liz said, there's nothing stopping them from tackling the second floor together. The quests will, however, change ov...

The Abjurer: Chapter 38-39

I spent a while between classes and spending time with Osheen trying to track down my target for my next enchanting project.

From the very beginning of the year, I had been wanting to create some sort of enchanted item that would let Oracle and Bridgette’s vessels spend more time out and ...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Ten

The moment it slid into my mana-garden, something strange started happening. It reminded me of the reflection feeling that happened when I had chosen my mana types, but… different.

Instead of a mirror facing itself and bouncing back and forth until two solid, equal types of mana formed, t...

The Abjurer: Chapter 36-37

I checked everything that Travis had told me against my copy of his own notes, of course, but once I was sure it was mostly correct, Osheen, Tara, and I were forced to make a trip I didn’t want.

It was time to return to the king’s summoning site.

There were two main reasons for th...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Nine

I glanced at Kene, and then at Mallory, then the bald guy, then the mineral mage. They stared back.

I drew in a deep breath and released my mana.

Four Pinpoint Boneshards burst from my spirit as Briarthreads lashed out around me. Two of the bone shards flew at the mineral mage, and tw...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Eight

We arced around in a semi-circle as we moved back to make sure that we didn’t just walk back along the paths that we’d already picked over. Midway back, we found another small clearing.

The center of the clearing was dominated by a small chunk of soil that was floating in midair, with a...

Votey McVoteface

The Abjurer: Chapter 34-35

“Your archmage killing spell?” I asked, eyebrows raising at the phrasing.

“If I can’t have a little bit of drama for this, when can I?” Tara asked, a small, mousey smile on her face. I nodded my head in inclination, though I didn’t necessarily agree.

“I thought you kept ...

The Twin Trials: Chapter Seven

As I let out a slow breath, Kene paused his hand.

“I really need to master those new spells,” he said. “I wasn’t even able to finish sketching before the fight was over.”

“That was weird, right?” I asked Kene. “Like, it’s not just me. That was weird.”

“It m...