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The Third Step: Chapter Eight

The following morning, after eating at the ship’s attempt at a breakfast scone, Kene headed to their room to work on ingraining the last few spells they needed before they could work on breaking into peak fourth gate. The soul array had helped strengthen their spirit, and their advancement had ...

The Third Step: Chapter Seven

I stared at the door, then let out a sigh and stepped through. There was no sense in not at least checking, but I also needed to balance my own health. If I thought I could easily take it on, great, but I wouldn’t push myself. 

I cycled Mantle Dragonfyre, then stepped through the doo...

Minor Tweak to Dates

Hey! As previously mentioned, I'll be gone the first week of June to visit family. In order to best align with my writing cycle, however, you won't get any chapters of The Restored on June 26th or 27th, but will get them July 3rd and 4th. The total number remains the same, it's just a shuffle of ...

The Restored: Chapter Thirty-Eight

The tires of the automobile screeched down the street, and Rhys let out a scream almost as loud as the tired were as yet another demon was dissolved by the magic of the spell components they were holding.

“Stop being a baby!” Hadiya said as she pulled the automobile to a stop, slamming ...

The Restored: Chapter Thirty-Six

Hadiya’s eyes slowly opened, and she let out a groan of pain as she shoved herself to her feet and looked around. The entire world around her was glowing red…

No, that wasn’t right. It was the lights in the ceiling that were glowing red, and crackling as they passed magical power from...

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The Third Step: Chapter Six

I appeared on sand, and forced myself not to move. I’d never beaten the mid-fourth competition so far, but I had entered it twice before. The first time, I’d tried to take a step forward, and immediately been blown up by something under the sands – a ward trap, single use enchantment, or al...

The Third Step: Chapter Five

After Meadow grew tired and decided to take a nap, I flickered back to my room using a couple of Foxsteps, then opened a portal in my room and wandered to my scrying mirror. I tapped the glass and injected a bit of ungated mana, shaping the number for Elio. The mirror flashed in waiting a few tim...

The Third Step: Chapter Four

“I don’t suppose there’s any way I could fit the Cwn Anwnn spell in my death gate, is there?” I asked hopefully. “Between my Magister’s Body and the organshield providing some more telluric flavor to my spirit. And I mean, it’s a spirit interacting spell, and I’ve got death mana.�...

The Restored: Chapter Thirty-Five

Slipping onto the Malapert was a strange mix of impossibly hard, and incredibly easy. 

Devi led them through the endless gray landscape until they stopped in the part of the Wandering Path that geographically mapped to where the Malapert was apparently hovering in the air. Kelly wasn�...

Release!

My first collaboration work is now out and released! You can read Loss of the Star's Tranquility here: https://www.amazon.com/Loss-Stars-Tranquility-Travis-Riddle-ebook/dp/B0F4RD2SR...

The Restored: Chapter Thirty-Four

The instant the three teenagers hit the ground on the other side of the portal, Devi was already pulling herself to her feet. Jin kipped up an instant later, and Kelly staggered to his feet. With his aura so low, he could feel the Wandering Path already starting to suck him dangerously dry, so he...

Poll Redux

Sorry, I missed an option on the original poll, and patreon doesn't allow retroactively adding options

The Third Step: Chapter Three

I found Meadow sitting on one of the top decks of the boat in a beach chair, with a large, floppy hat and cheap sunglasses on, reading a book and sipping on an iced tea that smelled faintly of shaved aniseed root. When I flopped into the beach chair next to her, she lowered her glasses and looked...

The Third Step: Chapter Two

I flickered along the boat with a handful of short teleports, then unlocked the door to the room and slipped into Dusk’s realm – technically, I could have done it from the boat’s small training room, but it was a good idea to let the staff see me entering and leaving the room if I wanted to...

The Third Step: Chapter One

I lifted a silvery shovel and slammed it down into the earth. With one final grunt, I finally ripped out the last scoop of dirt from my mana-garden. Power flooded through my entire garden, and I took a step back, shielding my eyes as dust blew around me and the bricks transformed. 

I l...

The Third Portal: Chapter Seventy

After the ascension, things moved quickly. The city seemed largely unbothered, and it was a stark reminder that despite all the power that a high gate mage like the Amethyst Mask could wield, most people weren’t interested in snapping up every bit of power they could find. They were more concer...

The Third Portal: Chapter Sixty-Nine

We were silent after leaving the shop until we had nearly arrived in the middle of the city, where Meadow explained a few key details about the masks. The magic they used was partially suppressive, partially concealing. While they were on, we could choose to make them either, or shift between.&nb...

The Third Portal: Chapter Sixty-Eight

Jinwei, Meadow, Kene, Dusk, Dawn and I all gathered together on the decks of Port Ruby, and Meadow tapped her cane against the thick, forged stone beneath her feet. I could feel a public teleportation platform a few feet ahead of us, and focused my attention on it. 

“You said you hir...

The Third Portal: Chapter Sixty-Seven

While the rest of the world had their eyes locked onto the Crystal Cove, Vivian clicked down the halls of the vast tomb under the capital of Nightflock. In the nearly two centuries since she’d broken Orykson’s leash and Nightflock had become independent, nearly every single citizen of her nat...

The Third Portal: Chapter Sixty-Six

Weird thing: To fit with my schedule, I'm actually going to be posting five chapters of the Third Portal this week, and as such, have to skip the chapters of The Restored. Things will eventually go back to normal, fear not.

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“You’ve been aiming ...

A Quick Update

Hello everyone!

Thank you all for taking a moment out of your day to read through this.

We are coming up on the end of The Third Portal, and once it completes, I'll be taking a break for the week. I've been pumping out a lot of content recently, and I'm starting to feel close to burn...

The Restored: Chapter Thirty-Three

The world around me started to grow fuzzy under the choking grasp of the Arenamaster’s claws. I couldn’t even breathe now. My soul was being assaulted by demonic power on all sides. 

I was going to die. 

I didn’t know how. Maybe I’d choke out and die that way, maybe ...

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The Effaced is out now!

Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that the Effaced, the first of the Secret Logs of Axel Font Duology is out now on Amazon!

Here’s the description for book one:

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