[Shapeshifter] Chapter 8: Shapeshift
Xen cautiously watched the two approaching wolves as he cast Devour on the wolf's cracked head he h...
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[Tree] Chapter 268: Inner Circle
"Stella, withdraw your blade," Ashlock instructed.
His adopted daughter huffed the hair out of her eyes in annoyance but thankfully listened to him. She wiped the fresh blood off the black metal with a cloth before depositing the sword in her spatial ring in a flash of silv...
2024-02-20 19:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 267: Misunderstandings
Ashlock was curious about what the Silverspires could want. They had been quiet since their last meeting under his canopy, where Sebastian had helped pick out the mirror artifact for Stella and contacted a Sage Advisor of the Eternal Pursuit Pavilion to get Diana registered.
It had been one...
2024-02-19 12:29:10 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 266: Worthless Master
What followed were a lot of questions from Jasmine that Stella realized she didn't have good answers to. She may have a library of information in her head, but she could not access that latent knowledge if she didn't take the time to research something in depth.
I never had anyone to te...
2024-02-16 20:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 265: No Secrets
Stella felt an oddly warm connection to Jasmine, and it was not because she called her cool—though that did make her happier than it probably should have. Stella looked away from Jasmine, and the warm buzz turned cold; then, looking back at the little girl, the warmth returned.
"Well, tha...
2024-02-15 20:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post[Shapeshifter] Chapter 7: First Fight
The trail of blood that hung in the air like a lingering haze led Xen to a bend in the dungeon. Up ahead, he could hear the shouts o...
2024-02-14 13:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostBook 2 is on Amazon!
Hello, it is I, the dumbass behind the keyboard that writes about a tree for a living.
I come to humble myself before you to ask for some support in the form of ratings/reviews and maybe even a download or purchase of book 2...
Jokes aside, I really couldn't keep writing this web seri...
2024-02-13 18:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 264: Jasmine's Master
This early chapter is in celebration of book 2's release!
Stella approached the swirling wall of mist that obscured Red Vine Peak from the outside world.
From afar, all that was visible apart from the mist wall was Ashlock, who towered over the entire mountain peak. H...
2024-02-13 12:09:40 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 263: A Cultivator's Perspective
Stella took her hand off of Nox's bark. She could tell Ash and Nox were talking to one another by the indescribable flow within the tree but could not comprehend their words. Maybe one day, she would figure out how to speak tree, but until then, she would have to rely on Ash projecting his presen...
2024-02-12 20:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post[Shapeshifter] Chapter 6: Run
The first five chapters were rewritten from the feedback given by Patreons last month. You can read the updated chapters on Patreon here or on 2024-02-10 16:02:19 +0000 UTC View Post
[Shapeshifter] Revised Chapter's 1 - 5
From the feedback provided in the last post, I rewrote the first few chapters of Shapeshifter, which can be seen below. There will be more chapters posted slowly over the coming months before it hits RoyalRoad.
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[Tree] Chapter 262: Soul Damage
Ashlock surged his power through the mountain to create a portal before Stella.
She had been focusing on axing the shadowy humanoid floating before Nox's tree, so the sudden portal's appearance caught her off guard, and she let out a yelp as she tumbled through face first and ate the dirt n...
2024-02-09 21:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 261: Shadow Tree
Nox had never liked the sun. She had kept to the shadows for centuries, drawing on the darkness to fuel her power and expand her Soul Core. She had felt exposed in the sunlight, like a fish out of water. Not only because her powers were heavily restricted and weakened under the intense light Qi, ...
2024-02-08 21:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 260: World Tree's Daughter
Stella's Mother was the World Tree? How the fuck was that even possible?
Ashlock had... questions. Many questions. Even with his system's vast powers, he wasn't yet capable of making a human-looking child and doubted he ever would.
The image of Stella's Father turned to a tre...
2024-02-06 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 259: Ancient Bloodline
Ashlock had seen Stella distraught, scared, and angry in recent years, but she had almost only ever cried when she feared his demise. She was usually quite a strong girl when it came to her own problems, so something drastic must have occurred for her to go from battle maniac to crying within sec...
2024-02-05 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 258: A Cosmic Truth
Despite Ashlock's protests in her mind, Stella refused to let the duel end.
She knew it had deviated from its original purpose—Diana had become consumed by her bloodline and entered a berserk state where all she saw was red—but Stella felt like she was on the cusp of something. Now wasn...
2024-02-02 18:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 257: I am a Monster
Diana crept through the dense demonic mist, flexing her wings and fingers in anticipation. Having taken on her demonic form and surrendered to her bloodline, she had a primal urge to charge at Stella, who stood on the other side of the mountain peak with an annoyingly unfazed look despite the enc...
2024-02-01 11:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhere did you first find Tree?
Mainly wanted to see if any of my Amazon readers have found this patreon or not!
So which site did you first read tree on which led you to sign up to this patreon?
2024-01-31 14:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 256: Duel
Ashlock inspected Kaida and discovered the reason for his explosive growth in size.
"My summons and monsters generally don't follow the same cultivation system as humans, but if I had to guess, Kaida has gone up around three stages in the Star Core Realm," Ashlock muttered with a hint of su...
2024-01-30 17:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 255: Divine Ash
Ashlock looked down the short list of options, and as with Kaida's evolution, there was a very obvious one at the top that glowed with a sense of grandeur and divinity.
But he skipped it to check out the others to satisfy his curiosity, as this was the first ever S-grade evolution that woul...
2024-01-29 17:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 254: Ethereal Roots (Start of Book 4)
Ashlock had never been a morning person. Even when he had been a human back on Earth, the morning sunlight filled him with more dread and sleepiness. Rather than waking up to the constant chirping of birds, he would roll over, bury his head deeper in his pillow, and pray for a few more minutes of...
2024-01-26 19:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 253: Inner World (End of book 3)
Through all the chaos of the fight, Ashlock had kept one thing in the back of his mind: To make sure that Nox's infant soul didn't manage to escape. He wasn't sure how it worked with Nascent Souls and what this infant soul would look like, so he kept his demonic eye peeled, which he had re-opened...
2024-01-22 22:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 252: Turning over a new leaf
Nox looked into Stella's tranquil eyes and had more questions than answers.
The curse had been an enigma from the start. Its immunity to the void aside, it was unrecorded in the Eternal Pursuit Pavilion's archives. Therefore, her only lead to a cure had been Stella. The one who had cursed h...
2024-01-20 22:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 251: Soul Devouring Tree
"Did Stella go anywhere else?" Dante asked Nox as the wind rushed past them.
"No idea," Nox said as the flying sword shot toward the mountain peak, "My technique can only track the lingering shadow Qi left behind for a week. After that, it becomes too weak to accurately track."
"Still...
2024-01-18 18:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 250: (Interlude) Rising Sun
Dante tasted iron as blood splashed on his face and clothes from across the room.
It seems Father finally lost it after a week of no answers.
"They didn't have to die, Dante."
And you didn't have to kill them. Dante rolled his head to the side and took in the s...
2024-01-16 21:14:15 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 249: Unleash the Mudcloaks
As the dust settled and the world stopped shaking, Ashlock found himself facing sideways and at the bottom of a crater.
"Ugh," he groaned, and he shared Willow's pain. Cracks leaking soul fire were running down Willow's trunk from the impact, and despite the spatial shield Ashlock had summo...
2024-01-15 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 248: Titan Tortoise
Ashlock watched the chaos descend upon Ashfallen City.
People rushed and pushed to get what they felt would be prime real estate, and he could hardly blame them. For those who had lived in the slums of Slymere at the base of the mountain, this was a chance at a new life. If they just ran a ...
2024-01-12 16:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 247: Starting Over
"I am surprised that worked," Ashlock mused as he felt heaven establish a connection between himself and Julian. It felt similar to when the Redclaws swore an oath to the Ashfallen Sect. "Since anything to do with Ashfallen is linked to me, they will be oath-bound to me even if they didn't know o...
2024-01-11 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 246: Heavenly Contract
Ashlock saw no reason to deny Douglas's request. If the Mudcloaks advanced their cultivation in the Mystic Realm, future construction projects would be completed even faster.
"I have no issues with that, but can I ask why?" Ashlock was curious why Douglas wanted to care for...
2024-01-09 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Tree] Chapter 245: Rounding up the gang
Ashlock wrestled off the sluggishness far faster than usual as he woke up. "Huh, weird, the shorter I sleep, the easier it is to wake up?" That was almost the opposite experience of when he was a human.
Staying up until 3 A.M to wake up the next day for work as a software developer had felt...
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