A sudden heat boiled in her gut, just above her navel. It burned with an agony so intense her darkness crept in from the side of her vision and threatened to swallow her whole. Molten fire stabbed into her and grabbed a fistful of her intense and twisted. She gasped and doubled over, nearly colla...
2025-01-02 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So, when I said a few, I wasn’t thinking that a couple hundred is what you heard.”
Max shrugged, as he helped pick up the purple gems that lay scattered all over the road.
“Well, when I realized they couldn’t really hurt me, I started running through the trees and plants.&n...
2025-01-02 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“How long should I expect you to be gone?”
Max could see the relief but also the tension in Everett’s face. He looked to have aged a year in the months he had been kidnapped, captured or whatever everyone kept calling it.
“I don’t know. There are some other places we n...
2025-01-01 14:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostLots of you have requested a skill list… so why not give it to you now? Enjoy the long list to read or listen to. If you’re on audio - You can skip this part or you can listen and know exactly what each skill gives.
[ Skill Description - Baking ]
*****
“What the hell was that, Grace?” Max shouted at her as soon as she neared the boarding house. He leapt up from his chair faster than she thought the man capable of. He turned to his retinue of thugs and started barking orders. “Go spread the word that Grace is back and is okay. And go and f...
2025-01-01 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBook 7 is here!
The story so far…
Book 4
The tower is finally open to them and after some assistance from Everett and Tom, the party gets a 5th member. Cordellia brings a bow and a high-pitched voice, adding damage and some laughs. Obviously t...
2025-01-01 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sergeant’s eyebrows rose as confusion dawned on his face. “What do you mean another murder?” Miles glanced at the other guards, and they all shook their heads. None of them clearly had any idea what Grace was talking about. “Explain,” he finally said, “Where is this other murder?...
2024-12-31 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
We're just a few days from 2025 (and the release of book 7 UL1) and I wanted to give you a little update on things taking place and how 2025 looks.
Life in General
I'll start off here first.
This week and next week my mother officially come...
2024-12-30 20:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe well in the center of Lowtown was a designated safe place. Everyone used it free from fear. Once, long before Grace had come to the city, it supposedly had been fought over by many of the rival gangs. The number of people who died to hold the rights to the well had been so high that all of th...
2024-12-30 19:19:04 +0000 UTC View PostHer mind itched as she strolled through the city streets. It was a strange sensation. Grace honestly felt liberated—and yet by the time she’d finally broken free from her restraints, she’d already shackled herself to a new master.
But one who will give me more freedom than I could...
2024-12-30 04:02:27 +0000 UTC View PostLily sat beside her, quiet and not moving, but she was like a coiled spring, ready to unleash in a split second.
Grace found comfort in the dagger clutched in her fist. Her heartbeat thrummed through the grip as sand dried her mouth. Despite killing last night in the heat of the moment, the...
2024-12-30 04:02:05 +0000 UTC View PostMost mornings left Grace stiff and sore from working the night previously, but as she slowly rubbed the sleep from her eyes, she realized she felt fine. More than that, her body was alight with electricity like she’d managed to capture a fragment of a storm and store it within her chest.
...
2024-12-30 04:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty minutes later, after stopping by her nearest stash house to store a good portion of her loot, wipe herself down and change clothes, Grace found herself deep in Lowtown close to the place her and her brother were staying for the time being.
It was a two-story old wooden boarding house...
2024-12-30 04:01:23 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Grace even finished speaking, Azaroth moved like lightning, snatching her wrist and turning her hand over. With her palm facing upward, he reached out and sliced open her flesh with a single swipe of his fingernail.
Pain flooded through her as the cut burned and tendrils of necrosis ...
2024-12-30 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Finish it!” Fowl shouted as the last scorpion tried to jab him again with its tail, instead striking the shield and taking damage from it.
“I’m coming!” Dexic shouted as she yanked her sword from the scorpion she had just slain.
Max wasn’t sure what he wanted to do for th...
2024-12-25 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostLess than 20 mins till the end of book 6!
Hopefully you all have a great Christmas!
2024-12-25 13:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostMax reread the descriptions for the two skills he had acquired from Ezreal.
[ Skill Description - System Travel - Planetary ]
*****
System Travel - Planetary - Common: The user is able to travel between planets they have visited once a month. Travel is instantaneous. Anyone or a...
2024-12-24 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd be remiss to not mention this to those of you who enjoy the audio!
Did I mention yet that Johnathan is going to do all 9 books!? Super excited!
2024-12-24 13:51:47 +0000 UTC View PostYou all will get a rare glimpse into what most people want that’s one of the perks of being a patron
The truth is the power difference between Max and Ezreal at the start is obvious. I wont give specifics as I have a spreadsheet that tracks everything but Ezreals power lies in...
2024-12-23 16:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostBreathe!
Max retched as he felt the blood he had ingested burn his lungs.
[ Regeneration ]
A few seconds passed, and the pain and scarring healed as Max blinked, wiping the blood from his eyes and turned to see the corpse next to him.
Gone was the pain. No...
2024-12-23 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok!
Here is the Christmas moment!
I'll ship this to anyone I can around the world. If for some reason UPS doesn't deliver to you, I'll send you money via paypal.
Entry is easy - Just comment below! Google picks the winner on Christmas Day!
Good luck!
2024-12-21 17:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostSo... I guess this means you all know what's coming... Starting Jan 1st book 7 will start up!
((Sorry again about the cliff for today's chapter... man I forgot how strong that one was))
We'll do a bunch of chapters stacking up on top of each other in in March!
Just wanted...
2024-12-20 18:45:16 +0000 UTC View PostHeat and pain beyond anything Max had ever felt so far washed over him. The very hair on his head was vaporized the moment her breath found him, and Max hung there in the air as Igarra beat her wings, billowing out molten fire upon him for what seemed like an eternity.
Every ounce of his bo...
2024-12-20 14:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt was smart sending that rabbit away. Do you believe he will truly be safe?
Max nodded, his foot tapping as Jazzjak’s did all the time as he sat on the stone bench in the room that helped decrease his skill cooldowns.
If we don’t win, no one will be safe. 2024-12-19 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“AHHHHH… oh, shite!”
Max couldn’t help but chuckle as he popped out the other side of the wall, finding himself in a room that was larger and adorned with more things than Max had ever imagined.
Slowing down his steps, he set the elf down and tried to take it all in.
“...
2024-12-18 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostGlad you all are enjoying book 6!
Seriously!
Your comments are really keeping me super charged!
Book 7 currently sits at 165k words, easily 40k words longer than usual. Got some edits and changes to make before I upload for star...
2024-12-17 21:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostSo much flesh was bare, the scales removed with a precision that made Max wonder what all his skill could truly do.
He savored the bite of food in his mouth, a breakfast cooked in the Faction house, still okay, having been preserved in the dimensional storage.
Now there were enough dr...
2024-12-17 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Impossible… for one of your kind to be so strong, and yet I do not feel like you are boasting or lying. Yet here you are, uninjured and standing before me, and I can see that you are confident by the stance you have taken.”
“I felt no need to lie to you, Kuneoss. Now tell me, must ...
2024-12-16 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Just wanted to let you all know I'm going to be 'out of office' but not really during the next 5 days. I'll be on a trip and goal is 5+ hours a day of writing (no kids under 18). Looking forward to waking up, grabbing some breakfast, chatting a little with my 2 oldest and ...
2024-12-14 04:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post