Chapter 405: The Essence Of Things
The camp of adventurers we passed on the road to Brausis was empty as we rode by. I paused and stepped off Ginger for a moment to send out an earth pulse. I didn’t find anything that suggested they had been attacked. The fire pit still held hot coals dee...
2025-06-09 00:21:53 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.patreon.com/collection/1393506
Did the final plot edit for those two chapters this afternoon and moving them over now instead of Monday. 270 was triple the regular chapters in length so it was lik...
2025-06-07 22:41:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 404: Clash of the Titans
We weren’t foolish enough to wait for the creature to emerge fully, and together, we moved toward the tree line along the cliff. One of the bugbear chieftains stumbled out of the entrance. With my aether sight, I could see he was badly injured, his steel s...
2025-06-07 03:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 403: Trouble Emerges
As we walked into the woods, Kyrenic followed behind me, with Blaze trailing behind him. Neptune’s tear was bright tonight, and my companions didn’t need the ambient light of wisps to see. In a soft voice, Kyrenic asked, “Fortuna’s Chosen? Isn’t that t...
2025-06-06 04:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57: Lightning Quick
I woke early and was anxious to increase the level of my lightning reflexes spell. Although I wanted to demolish Gareth in a spare badly, I decided to keep the new spell secret. If I openly displayed the spell, then the news would travel, and I would lose my adva...
2025-06-04 23:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 402: Weight of Leadership
No one looked eager to begin the cleanup. Many of the defenders had injuries that were being treated and were in shock from the intense fight. Kyrenic was starting to direct people, breaking their malaise. The mayor had fled, leaving the guard captain in ch...
2025-06-04 03:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 102: Father-Daughter Time
When I was alone, I could finally examine my options in more detail.
This choice was a lot harder than I thought it would be after seeing what else the Divine Favor could do. Finishing a building instantly was a huge boon, but there were other possibi...
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2025-06-02 22:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostSo things are happening. Eryk's aether pool is nearing 40, which means he can unlock another affinity. That also means he is close enough to imprint his displacement spell form. Furthermore, he is accumulating enough energy / lightning essence to learn a spell form for that affinity. Having all t...
2025-06-02 02:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 401: Buggers
Blaze opened a barrel and started to refill his quivers without asking. He was actually spending a few seconds to inspect each arrow before sliding them into place. He had defended enough walls to know he had time.
Kyrenic dumped our bag of heads onto the wall. He...
2025-06-02 00:10:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 400: I Invited The Neighbors Over
“Last arrow,” Blaze muttered bitterly. Blaze aimed and released and cursed a second later, “Dragon shit.”
We watched the wisp as it fluttered in circles high above before drifting away from us. It had been a good night: eight will-o'-t...
2025-05-31 03:29:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 399: Grandstanding
As we moved to a clearing to give Blaze a line of sight, I skewered a gremlin hiding in a rotten log with the Heartseeker and another hiding in a shallow pit beneath a carpet of moss. I used the spear to trigger their simple traps before I harvested them. My earth...
2025-05-30 03:17:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56: Finally!
The week was miserable for everyone. Cold, heavy rain fell non-stop from the 2nd to the 5th day. Having so many days of continuous rain on the floating island was more than unusual; none of the instructors could remember it raining for so long. That didn’t stop the in...
2025-05-29 03:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55: Floor Plans
Was this some kind of joke? A Bricio? Why would Loriel send a member of Bricio family? The Bricio family was everything that was wrong with Skyholme. Power-hungry, manipulative, and willing to exploit others to achieve their goals.
“I am sorry, Isla, but I th...
2025-05-29 01:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54: Gareth’s Folly
It was late evening when we walked back to into Hen’s Hollow. When I got back to my room, dinner was over, and I found Gareth lamenting on his bed. He bemoaned, “Oh Storme, I wish you hadn’t left today. I did something stupid. So, very stupid.”
I t...
2025-05-29 00:11:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53: The Shiny Platinum
We followed Bylura closely. The wolf girl’s ears constantly twitched, demonstrating her alertness as she tried to track everything happening around us. When Callem spoke to me, her ears stilled as she focused on our conversation, “Storme, are you sure you ...
2025-05-28 21:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 398: Wishful Wisping
Kyrenic led us across the city to the artificer. As we walked through the town, everyone seemed to know the foreign knight and greeted him by name or with a smile. I checked, and the aetheric haze aura surrounded him. My curiosity finally won out. “What is you...
2025-05-28 02:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 101: God’s Revival
The fate of the other hard-wired players weighed on me. I was only worried that they might decide to raid the Duchy and kill my NPCs, but it still wasn’t fair to them to have an insurmountable mountain to climb to freedom. Some of the hard-wired players had be...
2025-05-27 03:17:17 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.patreon.com/collection/1393506?view=expanded
I'm going to edit two chapters of Book 5 this morning before heading to a family BBQ for Memorial Day. Tonight, I will finish the Town Bu...
2025-05-26 13:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 397: Brausis
With the elemental confused, I swung off of Ginger and slapped her rump, “Run!” My other hand was already raising an aether potion to my lips.
Blaze’s riding horse had dashed ahead, and he was trying to regain control of the spooked gelding. The earth elemen...
2025-05-25 04:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 100: Thieving Bastards
It didn’t take me long to come to a decision. “I will not resist if you let my companions go.”
The elementalkin's hands were engulfed in blue flames, dancing up his arms. He seemed to be deferring to the human woman. She glanced over at my companio...
2025-05-25 00:19:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 396: Fork In The Road
I found I had copied a dozen books that referenced dungeon purges in Godok, and the news was not good. I had only briefly recalled what a dungeon purge was during my time flipping through the Archives. These occurrences were extremely rare and usually signaled ...
2025-05-24 03:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 219:
I pushed the Maelstrom to return as quickly as possible to Skyholme. Partially, I wanted to impress our passengers, but also because we had been gone for three days. Wynna and Callem were wooing the five dark elves from the Quartz Creators Guild on the trip, and I thou...
2025-05-23 15:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 395: A Purge
Kyrenic spun his long sword, loosening his wrist. Although the hilt was unadorned, the glossy silver blade immediately indicated that it was a dungeon-forged artifact. He freed his shield from his saddle, and it was clearly an artifact as well by the silvery runes on th...
2025-05-22 02:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 394: Heart Of The Storm
Evie had been excited to finally get some serious lessons with her new blades, and I had been hoping to see what a Queen’s Champion was capable of. However, this was not meant to be today, as the crew raced across the deck. The blue sky quickly darkened int...
2025-05-21 02:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 393: The Shadow Belt
We were four days from our second layover in the port city of Delpsa in the Kingdom of Gorgiphia. The days melded together, and I was shocked how fast Evie was not only learning Elvish but also her fluency in Telhian was rapidly growing. Granted, she spent most ...
2025-05-19 04:24:33 +0000 UTC View Post75% done with chapter 393, but taking a twenty-minute break.
These polls are only open to Seraphim subs because you are the only ones who understand the choices!
I know we just started book 7, but chapters tend to fly by. So, know that you all, as a group, get to decide from whose per...
2025-05-19 00:01:09 +0000 UTC View PostMoved it today because I am driving a lot tomorrow. Soldier Seraphim Cahpter 393 is coming tonight. Just passed halfway point
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2025-05-18 01:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 392: Compounding Interest
The great thing about dungeon artifacts in general is that you are not required to have a specific affinity to use them. The artifact itself converts the raw aether into the required affinity for the spell form. Artificers can do the same thing with manmade...
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