“Why are you willing to toss Zara’s reputation into the fire?” Jason asked. “How does that help you with the Irios family?”
Vesper looked unhappy but Liara, sitting next to her, nudged her shoulder.
“You might as well tell him,” she said. “He'll be more trouble than yo...
2021-07-22 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhile still a bustle of activity, the Adventure Society campus wasn't the shoulder-to-shoulder throng it had been in the opening days of the surge. The queues no longer reached outside the jobs hall building and Jason could go straight in. He went up past the floors for the lower-rankers, noting ...
2021-07-21 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhat looked like a refugee camp with rows of tents had been set up in a forest clearing. Adventure Society and Magic Society officials were managing a group of people variously panicked, nervous or demanding. Miles led Humphrey, Gary and the others around the outside of the camp towards the large...
2021-07-20 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat had once been an idyllic, mist-shrouded valley was now a bombed-out wasteland of craters, broken buildings and broken bodies. The mist had faded away, the air now filled with an ozone tingle of lingering magic and the iron taste of blood. Little more than a few buildings, lucky to have even ...
2021-07-19 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHere's are the PDF bundles for all the volume 3 chapters thus far.
2021-07-19 04:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostMy publisher reminded me that nominations for the fan-voted Dragons Awards are about to close (I honestly forgot it was a thing) so I looked up the link in case anyone felt like voting for me in the fantasy book category:
The gold-rankers secretly trailing Jason watched with surprise as three people appeared out of nowhere.
“This is it,” Liara Rimaros said. She was with two members of her old team, from when she had been a restricted essence enforcer for the Adventure Society. Like many gold-rankers, the...
2021-07-16 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason was once more riding a land skimmer along the road network that wove through the local equivalent of Central America. Each side of the broad thoroughfare was lined with dense jungle. According to his map, Jason was less than an hour from the final destination on his journey before he could ...
2021-07-15 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe original plan had been to sneak into the dam quickly and quietly in two small groups while the defences had been pulled away by the attack on the valley. From the outset, it was clear that the defences had been massively increased since Clive, Humphrey and Sophie first scouted it out. Their i...
2021-07-14 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe next fortress town Jason visited wasn’t under active attack, letting him get in and out quickly. Situated on the coast, it was connected to several storm accumulators. The offshore, windmill-like devices collected power from magical weather events for which the Sea of Storms was named. The ...
2021-07-13 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post"So much for drawing away the defenders," Neil said as the heavy land skimmer threaded a swift and dangerous path through the trees. In the driver's seat next to him, Belinda was concentrating on controlling the skimmer. The heavy combat skimmer procured specifically for the mission had full-cove...
2021-07-12 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe lobby of the Adventure Society office was not large, even though it served double duty as the public face of the society and the jobs hall. About a dozen adventurers were standing around inside, with even this small branch made busy by the monster surge. The team of silver-rankers whose auras...
2021-07-09 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOutside of the rocky gorge, the coastal landscape was filled with greenery, white sand and blue water. Jason stood on a hilltop, looking out at a gorgeous beach and the sea stretching out beyond it. Next to him stood his familiars. Shade had once preferred a shape akin to Jason in his cloak but n...
2021-07-08 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe fortress town of Arcazitlan favoured defence over comfort, with its stone chambers and claustrophobic corridors dug right into the stone wall of the gorge. This was worst in the spaces set aside for the civilians sheltering from the monster surge, with people crated-up like animals on a truck...
2021-07-07 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDespite his mana-efficient abilities, Jason’s reserves depleted as the fight dragged on. He and Colin had tainted dozens upon dozens of the monsters carpeting the bottom of the gorge, pushing Jason’s mana towards empty.
Jason was uncertain of how many monsters were swarming around like ...
2021-07-06 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe bottom of the gorge had a small river running through it, with a wide road running alongside it. The road was stone-paved and well maintained, its purpose being for bringing people into the fort from the surrounding towns and villages, along with their provisions and whatever herds the fort c...
2021-07-05 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOn an island off the coast of Vitesse, there was an Adventure Society way station where various magical vehicles were stored. In Greenstone, with its weak ambient magic, only people with the right power could operate magical vehicles. In high-magic zones, magic vehicles were available to all, but...
2021-07-02 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Geller residence was high in one of the famous garden towers of Vitesse. During monster surges, the residence welcomed many guests, from the team members of family members to various allies. Humphrey Geller’s team, along with Gary, were no exception and were housed in a small suite, befitti...
2021-07-01 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Zila’s Promise departed Rimaros airspace, heading west. It ascended to an altitude where only the most exotic or dedicated monsters would encounter them. Trenchant Moore ordered the adventurers to stay out of the way of the crew and most stuck close to where the gold ranker stood a...
2021-06-30 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOn the island of Livaros, the sky port was the busiest part of the skyline. Looming towers had skyships docked up and down their exteriors while more ships drifted in and out of the port air space. It was busy enough that Jason wondered how air traffic control was managed.
The ships came in...
2021-06-29 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason left through the main doors of the temple of Fertility, his storage space freshly loaded with supplies. He was motivated, having discovered how critical the temple’s delivery was during the monster surge. Fortress towns were of paramount importance during a surge, sheltering the evacuated...
2021-06-28 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSupply depot number three was in the same warehouse district where Jason had carried out his big trade, not far from the main markets of Livaros. He portalled to the destination square in the market and made his way on a black horse with glowing white mane and hooves.
There were plenty of d...
2021-06-25 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFarrah looked at Jason with concern as they sat around a table with Rufus, eating the breakfast Jason had just cooked. After leaving his own world, Jason had immediately undergone a shift in temperament. The dark clouds that had accumulated over the past few years had finally parted, only for the...
2021-06-24 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s barbecue was in full swing, with people crowded along the cliff top and kids splashing in the river, letting it carry them into the magic barrier that stopped them from going over the waterfall and bounced them back. Jason had a steak sandwich in one hand and a drink in a hollowed-out c...
2021-06-23 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLiara Rimaros made her way back to the royal sky island, half-asleep in the back of a flying carriage. She'd been working without rest as the city was overrun with adventurers that had to be filtered through for potential Builder cultists and was finally going home to sleep.
The carriage wa...
2021-06-22 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Vitesse branch of the Adventure Society was bustling with activity. Miles Cotezee walked down a hallway towards one of the large briefing rooms with an unusual adventurer at his side. The man was an elf with reddish skin, stark white hair and golden eyes. His sand-coloured leather outfit had ...
2021-06-21 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe PDF for chapter 475 and the weekly bundle have been fixed. Sorry for the error.
2021-06-19 08:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Farrah could easily slip into the role of a specialist, Jason could not do so as easily. No amount of items would turn him into the plague cannon the locals wanted in their affliction specialists, able to blanket groups or burn down individuals with equal ease, usually at range from behind ...
2021-06-18 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe kids playing in the river spotted Farrah disabling the magical barrier around the hole in the ground and came ashore to watch her uproot the fence.
“You can fix that afterwards, right?” Rufus asked.
“Easily,” Farrah said. “It’s designed to be easy to maintain, so I’m...
2021-06-17 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s yacht arrived at the narrow reef passage to a lagoon on the island of Arnote. Normally inaccessible to large water vehicles, the cloud vessel had no problem skimming over obstructions that would ground vessels with all but the most shallow of drafts.
Jason, Rufus and Farrah stood ...
2021-06-16 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post