Shirtaloon

Book 11 complete and upcoming break

TL;DR:

• Book 11 is complete for silver rank and above patrons
• Chapters will continue until the end of the month
• There is a poll to gauge community opinion on how the break should happen

2024-03-18 22:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 882: Everything is Going to Be Fine

The residents of Jason’s soul realm were sitting on the long deck of a treehouse. Furniture was set out in a long row for them to watch the swirling kaleidoscope of unmade reality beyond the tree city’s boundary.

“Once this is done, I can finally move to the next stage,” Carlos said...

Chapter 881: The One You Feed

The World-Phoenix and the Reaper walked down the road leading into the caldera valley. The whole mountain range was a melange of geographical quirks that, individually, would be highly irregular. While not as high as the peaks framing it, it was odd to have a valley so far above sea level. An exp...

Chapter 880: Regrets

The World-Phoenix and the Reaper had been walking down an empty road for two years. No fights, no obstacles. No objective to fight over. The pair walked in silence along the unchanging and seemingly endless road. Two years almost without pause, except for one moment where the World-Phoenix stoppe...

Chapter 879: Becoming Who You Want to Be

The great astral beings stood in the middle of the massive road while the nameless ones formed an army of monsters around them.

“It is over,” the Reaper said. “Asano chose the scenario poorly. He prioritised mortal growth over completing the greater objective and failed. It is time to...

Chapter 878: A Power You Can't Overwhelm

In a luxury van moving through the streets of Manhattan, Rufus sat up front, next to the driver, while five Asano clan scions were in the back. These weren’t the strongest or most promising essence users but the ones most suited to future leadership. They were seen to have the most potential fo...

Chapter 877: Something That's Inside You Already

The famous towers of Vitesse looked like living skyscrapers. With flowering vines covering the walls and plants dangling from the balconies, they were the reason Vitesse was called the City of Flowers. Not only were they beautiful but the magical flowers filled the air with sweet aromas.

On...

Chapter 876: What Will Get You to Gold Rank

On the podium of a Remore Academy lecture hall, Belinda pointed at the floating hologram of a partially complete ritual diagram.

“Unless you are lost or getting expelled at the end of the semester,” she said in a magically amplified voice, “you will all recognise this. The Hagstrom Cy...

Chapter 875: Hope Only Needs a Chance

Jason stepped out of a monster’s shadow, his blade already flickering through the air. All around him, a sea of monsters were slowing down and dying under the effects of his afflictions. It didn’t put much of a dent in their overall numbers as, like Jason, they would just respawn. He was sati...

Chapter 874: Different Rules

The astral spaces belonging to the Asano clan were attached to Earth while also being separate, like an artificial limb. They operated by their own rules, especially regarding magic. Inside the cities that were the heart of each astral space, both physics and magic were stable, balanced and relia...

Chapter 873: The Promise of Gold

Rufus, Erika and her husband Ian were walking together towards the administration centre of the Asano Clan’s French domain. Incongruous amongst the buildings of Saint-Étienne, the towering pagoda was too tall and too Asian to do anything but stand out. It was still off in the distance, the tri...

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Chapter 872: Starting to Unravel

The war was not going well for the vampires. On the ground they were dangerous and powerful, overwhelming any conventional forces not fielded by the magic factions. Their leadership, however, had been sleeping for centuries, if not millennia. These gold-rank vampire lords were personally powerful...

Chapter 871: Not Enough For Forever

“…can’t believe you didn’t tell me,” Zara continued, as she had been doing since Greenstone.

“You would have insisted on participating,” Sophie said. “We couldn’t allow that.”

“I may only be a temporary member of this team,” Zara said, “but—”

“It�...

Chapter 870: Time, Resources and Dedication

Jason’s martial art, The Way of the Reaper, was unlike anything from Earth. Anything realistic, at least; there were plenty of sketchy ninja movies from the eighties with a similar feel. More than just a martial art, it was a full training system for a magical assassin. It incorporated combat s...

Chapter 869: No Question Over Who It Was

Greenstone was divided into two sections. The smaller portion of the city, although still large, was an artificial island. It was the domain of the nobility, adventurers, and those with the wealth and influence to keep such company. In a stunning failure of imagination, the artificial island had ...

Chapter 868: Things More Intimate

In the wake of Jason’s departure, Team Biscuit had taken a break in Vitesse before going on an intense contract-taking spree, pushing themselves through silver-rank as fast as they could. After the monster surge and the subterranean expedition, taking ordinary contracts like normal adventurers ...

Chapter 867: The Responsibility of Making it Possible

The presence of avatars made sense immediately to Rufus. Someone as powerful as Velius was a danger to Earth’s fragile dimensional boundary, just as Dawn had been. Avatars allowed him and the others like him to operate on Earth not just with less power but while leaving their true selves free t...

Chapter 866: Not All of Them Have a Plan

Much of Emi’s nervousness about her soon-to-be-claimed essences had faded away. She only realised after the fact that a lot of that had been thanks to the daunting but capable mentor who would be conducting the ritual. His lessons were excellent but she found him intimidating, not connecting wi...

Chapter 865: Suspicions

“Formation interactivity is a fascinating magical specialty,” the projection of Clive said. “I very nearly pursued it myself, but there was very little material on the field where I was trained, and a surprising plethora on astral magic. Which may not be as much of a coincidence as I though...

Book 11 and epilogue chapters

TL;DR:

• We are now into the epilogue chapters of book 11
• No break after book 11 ends
• Sorry about all the billing problems

As with books 3 & 6, book 11 represents a major shift in the narrative. Like those books, there will be a series ...

Chapter 864: An Empty Chair

The Asano clan held two astral spaces, consisting of cities cut off from the surrounding wilderness by massive defensive walls. The cities were mostly empty, as they could hold far more people than the population living there. To avoid them feeling like ghost towns, specific sections w...

Chapter 863: I Would Like to Buy a Meat Pie

The two kilometre stretch between the ring of standing stones and the surrounding facilities was a flat expanse of magic-blasted ground. There was no trace of the town that had once occupied the space, only red barren dirt.

The standing stones had been inert since the blast that had wiped o...

Chapter 862: Vacation Days

In a section of central Australia, the landscape was flat and dry, the red dirt occasionally marked by scraggly yellow grass. There had been a town there once; a pit stop between nowhere and nowhere else. The last few residents had been evacuated when the monster surges hit and no one had bothere...

Chapter 861: Staring Out at the Dark

Rufus and Taika were handed dimensional bags filled with items, including recordings from Jason and Farrah. They each moved to the middle of a ritual platform and were slowly sealed inside egg-shaped conjured dimensional vessels. The brown ovoids spread from the platform up, and Rufus locked eyes...

Chapter 860: We Set Out to Have Adventures

On a wide road in an otherworldly jungle, Jason and the World-Phoenix stared at each other.

“I had this whole speech planned out,” Jason said. “About how you used me, only to throw me away when something more important came up. It had this great running metaphor about how people respe...

I'm on a live panel today.

Today I'm on a live panel for TBR Con with a number of other great writers. This includes Casualfarmer (Beware of Chicken) and Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl), two of my absolute favourite authors.

The panel goes live at 6pm US eastern time and I'm definitely not onl...

Chapter 859: What I’m Scared of on the Other Side of This Portal

When Jason ended the transformation zone, bringing it back into reality, he claimed the soul forge for himself. Having done so, he had all the tools to become an astral king; the forge, the gate and the throne.  With the full set completed, the clock on his mortality had started ticking.

Chapter 858: Compassionate Strangers

“You really are starting to look rough,” Humphrey told Jason.

“Yeah,” Sophie agreed, wrinkling her nose in distaste. “That pretty gold light coming off you is turning into rainbow smoke — including the smell.”

“It’s only going to get worse,” Jason said. “That’s...

Chapter 857: Farewells

Everything outside of the tree city that was now the heart of Jason's soul realm was off-limits. Beyond the point where final trees stood was a sharp edge where reality came to an end. Beyond that was border, nothing could be seen but gold, silver and blue haze. There was a private mountain fortr...