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Dungeon Tour Guide ch. 7

The basket was full of food, packed bottom to top. I’d kind of been able to sense it through my abilities as a dungeon, but I hadn’t appreciated what that meant until Rose took an entire picnic blanket out to put them down on. There were three full platters in there, each of them full of good...

Dungeon Tour Guide ch. 6

“You’re sure he’s still there?” Troy asked. The three of them were still bunched up in my entrance room, hesitant to take another step forward.

“Where else would he be?” Rose replied.

“Out dealing with the Kingsguard, maybe,” Ryan said. “He did say something about th...

Dungeon Tour Guide ch. 5

The two men that Ryan had identified as Kingsguard were still in the room where I’d left them. They must’ve been rather confused, having the dungeon close the doors on them, since even though that wasn’t entirely unprecedented, it certainly wasn’t something that was supposed to happen in ...

Dungeon Tour Guide ch. 4

Making this one had taken me some time. At first, I had only had the use of [Spawn Monster] and its resulting [Spawn Snake] to create mobs with. Theoretically, I could’ve just made a final room without a bossfight, choosing instead to just dump snakes on them from high above, but that would’v...

Dungeon Tour Guide ch. 3

“I don’t see how this is supposed to help,” Ryan said.

When I’d been making this room, I had had the idea of people parkouring up the poles and platforms in mind. How couldn’t I? Even if my last party hadn’t had anyone like that, I’d watched a few of the agility contests in to...

Dungeon Tour Guide ch. 2

The three new adventurers were hitting their stride, now. They were still pretty weak, but Troy had learned both the [Missile] cantrip as well as the ubiquitous [Fireball]. Impressive for a newbie, though I did have to question why he didn’t have a single piece of equipment for wizardry beyond ...

Dungeon Tour Guide ch. 1

[Warning: Dungeon Core overloaded.]

That wasn’t good. The entrance was sealed, and the core was glowing bright white. I was pretty sure that wasn’t supposed to happen.

[Critical core failure in ??? seconds.]

This was only my second dungeon o...

17.3: Escalation III

There were eleven of them, I counted. Just yesterday, that might’ve been too much for me. With the power that they wielded, built through decades of practice and prayer, I would’ve been no match for even two or three of them, let alone nearly a dozen.

“Move the nobles if you’d like ...

Chapter Delay (life update)

Yo. What's up, guys?

So... I'm moving out this week. This Friday, to be exact. I'm going to college! It's super exciting for me, but it's also kind of scary. I've never spent more than a month or so away from home, and I'm shifting my entire life out of the place where I was born and raised...

17.2: Escalation II

When we woke up, things had gotten worse. Of course they had.

The sun was still low in the sky when the sounds of distant detonations shook me out of sleep, though I could forgive it for that when I woke into Jasmine’s arms.

The moment had to end at some point, but I held her for a ...

17.1: Escalation

“Where do we stand?”

That was a good question. Physically, we stood somewhere in the streets of Dakheng, the blood and dust covering us the only signs that a brutal conflict had just occurred beneath our feet. I had been able to displace us far away from where we’d started, but I hadn...

16.12: Rescue XII

“You’re alive,” Jasmine said, relief flooding her voice. “Where are we?”

I was intact. Whatever bringing my body here had involved, it had also undone whatever damage had been inflicted to it in the moments before. The benefits of drawing so deep on my oath, maybe.

Jasmine w...

16.11: Rescue XI

A/N: This one's a little rushed. Expect some moderate rewriting of the ending at some point.

Laur didn’t bleed like a normal person did. I’d had my fair share of experience with stabbing people in the throat or slitting them, and those always tended to have some sort of...

16.10: Rescue X

The door swung wide open, revealing a passageway into the ground that would’ve looked like a pretty average tunnel if it hadn’t been for the fact that it was apparently the Church’s secret domain.

Before we could take more than a step inside, a sickly green cloud exploded into an exis...

16.9: Rescue IX

“The Church maintains a set of catacombs underneath the city,” Seb said, waving his hand over a table-wide map of Dakheng. “Entrance points are here, here, here, here…”

Seb was under the influence hard. I didn’t know why the veiled woman hadn’t done the same to us—m...

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16.8: Rescue VIII

The cafe that we’d ended up in wasn’t something I would’ve exactly called a safe house. It wasn’t the most conspicuous building, but it wasn’t like it was actually hidden away from any prying eyes. Then again, maybe that was the point—having something so mundane that any inve...

16.7: Rescue VII

The sensation of someone invading my mind was unfortunately no longer an unfamiliar one. Oathtongue had become something that I’d gotten used to seeing recently, and yet this… this was different. This was familiar in a way that spoke to me in an almost nostalgic manner, except I would have be...

16.6: Rescue VI

Six enemies. Only six, and none of them were using oaths.

Seriously, who did the Church think I was? Against the seemingly unstoppable combination of a bunch of their strongest oathholders, I was pretty sure I didn’t stand a chance. And now they were throwing that away just to send a mess...

16.5: Rescue V

“Here we are,” I said, staring down the headquarters. It was a formidable building, I had to give them that.

“This has to be the tallest building in the town, right?” Kyle was fooling around with his knife again, causing it to disappear and reappear with a few flicks of his wrist. W...

16.4: Rescue IV

“There’s people coming from each hall,” Kyle said. “Just cast a detection spell, that’s what I’m getting. Looks like they’re split up and attempting a pincer.”

With the alignment I’d fallen into, the weird ability to sense the presence of other oaths even when they were ob...

16.3: Rescue III

The first thing I noticed about the Church’s church was how big it was. We weren’t in a part of Dakheng that was particularly affluent—as a matter of fact, I was pretty sure I’d passed through here with House Alzaq earlier this week when we’d been canvassing the city looking for enemies...

16.2: Rescue II

Kyle thrust his hands out, and the particles from his spell spread out across the area, coating it like a thin layer of snow. Not that I’d seen all that much snow—Syashan had been in a pretty temperate area, after all—but from the little I’d experienced up in the far north on the one or t...

I am sick

Well, this sucks. Just after I have a huge chapter delay, I have another one. I'm in bed with a huge fever, so chapter is late. Sorry, and thanks for sticking with me <3

16.1: Rescue

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

I hadn’t been in Dakheng in literally over a decade. I hadn’t been involved in noble affairs—events of last night excluded—in that same period of time. I hadn’t the faintest idea of what had happened, where Jasmine was, and even if there was hope for her...

Chapter Delay

I am at NSDA Nationals, a weeklong tournament.

This unfortunately means that I currently have extraordinarily little free time. Thus, there will almost definitely not be a chapter on Tuesday on RR or Patreon. I'm sorry. Will do my best to ensure a release on Wednesday or Thursday.

15.11: Dakheng, Divided XI

“Fancy seeing you here,” Seb said, his voice as wild as it had been when we’d parted ways.

I squinted at him. That voice… had it always been like this? Maybe it was more apparent today, but there was an element of calculatedness to it, like he was intentionally pushing it forward. M...

15.10: Dakheng, Divided X

“Full disclosure,” Kyle said, flipping a knife around, “I saw the [QUERY] you used.”

“And?” I asked, restraining my curiosity. I had to tread carefully here. One wrong step and the critical information about my past might leak to people that really had no busine...

15.9: Dakheng, Divided IX

“There are multiple groups of commoners,” Jasmine said. “Some of them we know the origin of.”

“Sorry,” Orchid said. “They are likely still under the control of House Alzaq in some fashion.”

“I wouldn’t be too sure about that one,” I said. “The one that I bumped...

15.8: Dakheng, Divided VIII

We didn’t run into any commoners that recognized Orchid on our way to the meeting place. We definitely did pass commoners, and some of them were even armed and rushing towards the location we’d departed from, but few of them seemed to connect the tired, limping pair of travellers with the nob...