TL;DR:
Clive was trapped in a dimensional space by the duelling power of a messenger. Until one of them was dead, neither was able to leave. The space was an empty void, the only object being a massive flat disc on which Clive was standing. The remains of his precious familiar, Onslow, lay at his feet.<...
2022-09-28 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly, my apologies for the late chapter. My assistant scheduled it for 9 in the evening, local time, instead of 9 in the morning.
Normally this is something he watches out for at release time, but it's very busy at Casa del Shirt today. I had a morning meeting in the city, so I got to en...
2022-09-27 23:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostMessengers and adventurers alike were rushing towards Jason. For the highest-ranked people, traversing the city was not a lengthy exercise, and the diamond-ranker adventurers pursuing Mah Go Schaat arrived first.
The diamond rankers were both elves, a man and a woman. Her name was Allayeth ...
2022-09-27 23:28:15 +0000 UTC View PostSophie and Humphrey returned to the relative safety of Onslow’s hollow flying shell. Jason performing some insane act was an inevitability, and once he had, the monsters went mad. Some continued towards the ground, the control of the summoners managing to hold. Others snapped the leash and fled...
2022-09-26 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly: tier prices are not changing. This is about schedules only.
I have finally been given the chance to change the billing schedule so that people are billed each month based on the day they sign up rather than being billed at the start of the month, even if they joined at the end of ...
There was a single diamond-ranker amongst the messenger forces, Mah Go Schaat. He had no interest in the astral king’s goals, and longed for the day he would no longer have to take the woman’s directives. He was already powerful enough that she could only ask so much of him, and he gave no mo...
2022-09-23 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTaika looked down the hallway at the messenger floating at the end of it. After being impaled and smashed into walls multiple times, the once-glorious being now looked like a bird that couldn’t stop flying into windows. As for Taika himself, he was in a strange state where he was both exhausted...
2022-09-22 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTaika had both hands against the shower wall as the water sluiced the ichor from his trembling body. Nothing short of crystal wash would get the foul, clinging gunk the body produced during a rank-up off, but that was fine. The cloud palace showers had the water infused with crystal wash. Jason w...
2022-09-21 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFal Vin Garath sneered and headed in the direction of the pyramid. Although no one saw it, the sneer was for his commander, for his astral king’s Voice of the Will and for Asano, who would soon be dead. Fal’s wings spread out as he wove his way through the battlefield, the image of grace and ...
2022-09-20 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFal Vin Garath was not having a good day. He detested being forced to act at the behest of the Voice of the Will, Jes Fin Kaal, and this mission was exactly why. She had sent him to kill Jason Asano, but she clearly expected him to not come back. He would relish the look on her face when he dropp...
2022-09-19 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR: The pacing for this sequence is a bit out of whack. I'm going to fix it before it gets published.
To be clear, I mean the plot pacing. Chapters will continue to come out on schedule while I complete book nine, but I may take a week in October t...
Jason floated up, his cloak shaped into gently beating wings as they carried him into Gordon’s ritual diagram. His eyes swept over the sophisticated magical orrery, his body tingling as he passed through the glowing lines. He moved to the centre of the large, central sphere. He had the unnervin...
2022-09-16 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe commander of the adventurer forces defending the entertainment district was Eilaf Hayel, a gold-rank elven adventurer and Yaresh native. He was a veteran of fighting the messengers, having assaulted their strongholds more than a dozen times. He was extremely familiar with the aura suppression...
2022-09-15 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMarek offered a mental salute to the man rampaging through the monster horde. He had managed to overhear one of the man’s companions call him Humphrey, and Marek hoped he would survive to eventually reach gold-rank. He would like to face him in battle, perhaps finding a clue in that confrontati...
2022-09-14 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason sneezed.
Jason was standing on the corpse of a monster as it fell through the sky, using shadow arms to hold himself in place. Shade and Gordon were flying next to him as he rode the monster downward, away from a spear-wielding messenger flying above.
“Mr Asano, did you just s...
2022-09-13 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHumphrey’s second foray into the main force of the summons was markedly different from the first. His Relentless Assault attack has reached such levels of power that his silver-rank sword was breaking apart every dozen or so strikes, the forces passing through it too much for it to endure. It d...
2022-09-12 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor Humphrey and his team, the fight had reached a new peak of intensity. After Belinda’s wide-scale destruction using her lightning tether, the messengers had sent a storm of summoned monsters to assault Onslow’s tortoiseshell mini-fortress. Rather than being placed on the defensive, however...
2022-09-09 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostClive looked over at the breach in between blasting at monsters with his staff and wand.
“They must have summoners stationed outside, sending more in as we kill these ones.”
“I’d say a lot of summoners,” Belinda agreed. “I know their summoners can call up more than even Hu...
2022-09-08 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBelinda was mimicking Clive, blasting at summoned monsters with her own staff and wand, but she was a pale imitation of the real thing. She could also make use of Clive’s rituals, boosting her weapons to deal more damage and chain their attacks from enemy to enemy. The problem was that her weap...
2022-09-07 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBreaches to the barrier were happening all across the city, but one was unlike any of the others. Seen and heard from across the city, the messenger’s only diamond ranker came down through the peak of the dome like an anvil through glass. The dome being penetrated released sound that reached th...
2022-09-06 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor the new patrons that came along during the very lengthy break, here is the release schedule for chapters:
Release days:
Mon-Fri or Tue-Sat, depending on time zone.
Release time:
9am Australian Eastern (my local time).
Your local time will vary across the year ba...
Jason and his team were riding inside Onslow’s expanded shell toward the entertainment district. Buried under the taverns, clubs, theatres and nightclubs was a massive subterranean bunker, one of the least secure in the city. It was large and magically reinforced, but mostly relied on a sturdy ...
2022-09-05 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe city of Yaresh was under siege by messengers and their summoned monsters. It was Jason’s first time participating in the full-blown defence of a city, and a high-magic one at that. During the defence of Rimaros he had been working monster cleanup on another island.
If not for the dang...
2022-09-02 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe sky rang with noise despite the battle at the centre of the Yaresh being a dozen kilometres away. Even from the outskirts, barely within the outer walls, the titanic figures could be seen looming over the towers at the heart of the city. The eagle-headed garuda was entangled with snakes wrapp...
2022-09-01 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith the next chapter less than fourteen hours away, I hope all you silver-rank patrons are excited for a side-chapter about Anna and Susan's anniversary dinner back on Earth.
All book 7 chapters are now down and we once again enter the awkward period where new readers have the extremel...
2022-09-01 09:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe book 7 chapters are coming down very soon. How very depends on how late my assistant sleeps in, but definitely today.
If you haven't yet, grab the PDF bundle for book 7 while you can.
2022-08-31 00:04:34 +0000 UTC
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After a much longer hiatus than intended, chapters will (finally - sorry about that) resume on the 1st or 2nd of September, depending on local time zone.
In preparation for the launch of book 7, the associated chapters (461-526) will be leaving all official online platforms. Book 7 comes ou...
2022-08-25 22:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR: Please post corrections in the report-errors channel in discord rather than the chapter comments.
Here is a discord invite: https://discord.gg/CDV5SqM
Many of my excellent readers are fantastic about digging...
2022-08-13 19:26:04 +0000 UTC View PostI have release dates for the next two books. Relevant Patreon chapters will come down a couple of weeks beforehand.
Book 7: September 13
Book 8: December 13
If I happened to be floating around Los Angeles the week of December 5th, just before book 8 comes out, would anyone be interes...