We didn’t call it a gaming hall. At least, not out loud.
Arclight students liked polished words, and the city liked paperwork even more. On the licensing placard beside the door, the place was listed as a Bound Pavilion, sanctioned for “con...
2025-12-26 21:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostI called him because he did not call me.
That alone was enough to raise concern. Arclight Academy does not suppress violence involving thirty senior students, especially when one of those seniors is as connected as Lucien Veylan. The report I received ha...
2025-12-26 03:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the upper terrace of my family’s estate, the capital never truly slept. It shifted, recalibrated, and corrected itself in slow, deliberate motions, as if the city were a living thing that refused to be caught unprepared.
Aurelion Prime spread outw...
2025-12-25 21:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t remember falling asleep.
I remember lying there, staring at the ceiling while the dark slowly thinned, the wards in the walls humming softly like they always did. Morning crept in without asking permission, pale light slipping through the window and cutting the room...
2025-12-25 14:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe doorknob turned slowly. The hinges gave a soft, controlled sigh. The masked intruder stepped into Father’s office as though entering a room he already owned. The sword he had taken from my guard hung loosely from his hand, its blade still glowing with residua...
2025-12-13 20:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostLucien
Five hours passed.
Five hours of absolute torture.
I knew Cale was coming. I didn’t know when, but I knew he was coming. I had assumed he would arrive immediately after the confrontation with Sarien. I was wrong. He didn’t come in the first hour, or t...
2025-12-13 19:58:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21
Ellara
Evening settled over the river path like a warm shawl—soft and deceptively gentle. Lamps flickered gold along the water, each reflection stretching and snapping with the current as if the river couldn’t choose a single face to we...
2025-12-11 06:38:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe divorce papers still felt warm in my hand as we walked away from the Bureau. Lin Xia moved ahead of us with sharp, decisive steps, her heels striking the pavement in a rhythm that sounded disturbingly like triumph. Cousin Hao lingered beside her with the smug posture of a man who belie...
2025-12-07 19:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe dining room fractured into polite exits and weaponized small talk the moment breakfast ended. Chairs scraped across stone. Chopsticks clicked back into porcelain rests. Aunts gathered in a tight knot, the way storm clouds gathered over open water, their whispers sharp and layered in silk.
... 2025-12-07 19:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostCousin Hao’s toast hung in the air like a sword. Wine pooled ruby-red in the glasses; laughter bubbled down the table, brittle and watchful.
I hadn’t raised mine yet. The ASP glowed faintly at the corner of my vision.
[Prompt Available]
Negative: Decline the...
2025-12-05 14:24:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I am going to complete this one in audio format for my youtube.
2025-11-09 16:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16
Rade
There’s a special kind of silence that follows you when the whole Academy is pretending nothing happened.
Officially, the courtyard meltdown was a “training exercise accident.” The Wardhall said as much on a neat lit...
2025-10-28 21:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I know these are as good as real readers I am trying to work up the courage to read it myself. I just sound stupid. Anyway enjoy, JC
2025-10-25 13:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Next chapter
2025-10-24 20:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Some of you might have noticed a few chapters disappearing recently — and you’re not imagining things. After looking over feedback and rereading the Orc arc, I’ve decided to rewrite and compress that section of the story.
While I really like Karga...
2025-10-08 17:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostI hate traveling across the Kingdom.
Public transportation is reliable—subsidized by the Crown and half the noble houses through “progressive taxation”—but for someone like me, it’s still expensive. Normally, I walk. Mana reinforcement is free, and I ...
2025-10-07 21:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostZane
I’d spent the last three nights in the Crucible Realms. Not as SwordWannabe. That name had taken on a life of its own lately—challenge invites piling up, spam messages, idiots trying to “learn my style” by reverse-engineering fight clips. No tha...
2025-10-05 06:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends I am told that Amazon reviews are important just throwing this up there again trying to get to 100 reviews. (I know thats crazy) So if you like the story please let people know.
2025-09-29 11:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue
Captain Knight Aiden Vanta
2025-09-26 20:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I am told that I need to be Kindle Prime with a bundle? So thoughts on this cover art? I dig it. I think.
2025-09-24 15:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostSophie
“You seek to aid the Champions, knowing your role must be played for them to be successful. You seek power. You seek understanding. And most of all, you seek connection. Only through connection can each be made whole.”
The silence that followed was the loudest Sophie had ev...
2025-09-20 03:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostVivian
The river narrowed as they moved upriver, out of the walls of stone that stretched up on either side of the riverbanks. For what felt like forever, straight, almost sheer mountainsides cradled the river. They rode in silence, awed, as the watercraft glided with no oa...
2025-09-19 20:04:15 +0000 UTC View Post
