Bussinger looked down at the gold-rank essence users. Not long ago, she would have said that group, acting together, could have accomplished anything. Killed anyone, no matter how protected. Taken down the civic infrastructure of a nation. That many people, with that much power, was an invincible...
2025-01-22 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostG'day all.
I wanted to give everyone a heads up on breaks in the release schedule over the next six months. The short version is that there will be a few breaks, but they will generally be shorter. No full months off, and no paused billing. I have well and truly learned my lesson there...
2025-01-20 22:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason rested his hand on the grip of his sword, but didn’t draw it.
“Before we start—”
Amstutz launched at Jason, the air around his fist shimmering with power. Jason casually tapped the man’s forearm, deflecting it to the side. A surge of force fired like a cannon beside Ja...
2025-01-20 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn the heart of the mountain was the recently looted reality core depository. The individual containment vessels were themselves miniature vaults, and some the most sophisticated magitech ever produced on Earth. As the farming program had been embarked upon cautiously, only seven cores had thus f...
2025-01-17 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTera Jun Casta looked through the transparent floor of the dirigible as it drifted across the sky. Over the course of the day, they had floated over canyons deeper than most mountains, forests painted white with snow, and deserts filled with rolling dunes and shimmering oases. The more exotic loc...
2025-01-15 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJason stepped through the portal into the long savannah grass around Tera Jun Casta’s remote villa. Tera looked at him from the porch, taking him in as he did the same. The wings she had been so proud of as a messenger were nowhere to be seen. Her clothes were a simple blouse and pants in the h...
2025-01-13 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you,” Jason said as he shook Velius’ hand. “You helped my family at a dangerous time, when the clan was being established and I couldn’t be there. You have my gratitude.”
“You should direct your gratitude to the Reaper. I serve at its pleasure. Speaking of which, the cl...
2025-01-10 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn Saint-Étienne, Vincent Baudrillard was pacing around a rooftop garden courtyard. There was a wrought iron outdoor table setting, at which Emi Asano sat. She was eating a large half sandwich while she watched his back-and-forth march. He ran a hand through his increasingly dishevelled hair yet...
2025-01-08 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Magic was revealed on Earth,” Farrah began, “when the Engineers of Ascension sabotaged the grid in what was ultimately the action that spelled the end of their organisation. Without the ability to detect and resolve proto-astral spaces across the globe, those spaces broke down and ejected ...
2025-01-06 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMoisture from the nearby waterfall took the edge off the bright sunlight, beaming into the gorge from high overhead. Trees and wildflowers grew around the houses carved out of the rocky walls, wooden decks jutting into the gorge. Clean, natural aromas drifted on the gentle breeze. Jason sat in a ...
2025-01-03 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFor me, it's all about family - for good and for ill. I wish you all the best, whatever your observances, or lack thereof.
I've been having a nice relax during my break, recharging the batteries and not paying too much attention to work. I'm going to try and catch up on messag...
2024-12-24 21:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostEverything should be back on an even keel right now. The last step was resetting the Patreon discord bot which automatically assigns discord roles. If you are still having trouble accessing your discord role, try resetting the Patreon-discord connection, following the steps here: 2024-12-14 01:54:33 +0000 UTC View Post
TL;DR: Anyone still experiencing technical issues, please message me directly.
G'day all,
I am currently in holiday mode - I am currently somewhere extremely warm and may or may not be dressed like Jason. This means that, aside from going over the editor's work on book 12, I've been ...
2024-12-07 23:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Are there any kind of warning signs I should be aware of?” Anna asked. “Some kind of indication that you or your familiars are about to go off like a powder keg?”
“Yes,” Jason said calmly, then sipped at his fruit juice blend. “Some humans, in a display of idiocy so grand I h...
2024-11-29 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR:
Tomorrow's chapter is the last for the year.
Heath has recorded book 12, chapter zero.
It is available to his $1 patrons.
Links:
He...
2024-11-29 00:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostSpiritual damage lingered, beyond the capacity of healing magic to repair. This was something Jason was intimately familiar with, but his latest spiritual injury was mild. Holding shut the rip in the universe had strained his prime avatar, but within a couple of days it had largely recovered. He ...
2024-11-27 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR:
New discord channels for chapter releases.
Billing will not be repaused for December, to try and avoid further problems.
Discord PDF chapter links:
Silver and abov...
2024-11-27 14:05:46 +0000 UTC View PostOnslow’s shell had expanded to the size of a house. It was serving as combination command centre, rest area and triage tent, always hosting one or two healers. As powerful as the adventurers were, no gold-rank monster was to be dismissed, and even silvers were a threat with numbers so high.
... 2024-11-25 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe massive torrent of transcendent light continued to gush from the giant portal, inundating the rainbow glow of the manifestation. The adventurers surrounding the phenomenon looked on as monsters swarmed out, thick as insects, despite the smallest being the size of a bread van. Most were silver...
2024-11-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEntirely anticipated technical issues have been preventing some patrons from getting access to the latest chapters. For this reason, I have started posting the chapters to pinned comments in the iron, bronze and silver channels in the discord. This will continue for the remainder of the month. 2024-11-21 13:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In Zermatt, Switzerland, it was the early hours of the morning. In a chalet of largely glass walls, Marie Finnegan sipped at a mug of hot chocolate. On the coffee table, her phone beeped a notification. She picked it up and saw a text message consisting of only the letter C. She sat down her phon...
2024-11-20 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI am aware that people are suffering technical issues with the Patreon, as predicted when I paused billing. I'm considering potential solutions, although my options are limited. They include undoing the pause, which I have not yet done but may end up doing, just to prevent even more problems. Wha...
2024-11-19 05:49:52 +0000 UTC View PostJason and Gary sat, side by side, on a porch swing. Mist wetted the trees growing from the sides of the gorge, filling the air with the scent of the leaves. Jason was still, gathering his thoughts, while Gary shifted in anticipation of long-awaited answers. The leonid was not tall for his kind, y...
2024-11-18 22:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick check-in. I won't be releasing chapters this week, but I'm currently looking at returning for the last two weeks of November.
Thank you for all the well-wishes for my mother, they are very welcome and I am extremely grateful. She had a very rough week, but she is now home from ...
2024-11-11 13:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostI forgot to change the file to a PDF when I made my last post, and released it as a Word document. Here is the PDF version. Sorry about that.
2024-11-02 17:12:09 +0000 UTC View PostG'day all.
I'll be on a plane in a couple of hours, but before I go, I wanted to thank everyone for the outpouring of support, positivity and well-wishes for my mother.
There is something I wasn't going to release until December, which a very chapter zero I wrote for book 12, a...
2024-11-02 17:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR:
My mum's health has sharply declined and she's in hospital again.
I'll be taking at least a week off to go see her and arrange a higher level of care for when she gets out.
I will be paus...
2024-11-02 07:21:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe first people from Earth to visit Jason’s astral kingdom had been a trio of government officials and the security team that came looking for them. After their experiences, they had been subject to every test that could be devised, be it magical, technological or both. There were no signs to ...
2024-11-01 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAsano Village had an auditorium for large meetings. Jason sat quietly at the back, watching a presentation by Clive, Audrey and a pair of biologists from the Cabal and the Network. With them were officers from the CIA and their Australian counterpart, ASIS. They were outlining everything that had...
2024-10-30 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostG'day all,
We now have a release date for book 12, and it will be May 20th of next year.
It has been correctly pointed out that I got my characters mixed up chapter 960. I put Li Li Mei's father in place of her uncle, which I have subsequently fixed. The corrected PDF is attached to t...
2024-10-29 13:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post