Now with Leon in tow, their pace was slower. But little by little, Leon came back to himself and realized the horror was behind him and opened up to Howie and Roxy. It began to feel closer to a backpacking trip in the Georgia woods than an otherworld excursion ...
2025-08-28 00:05:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe soldiers had been born in a Lewis Field. Grown up in it. Presumably they had classes and enhancement metrics of their own, because Cole felt abilities being burned all around him as he pushed forward. But it just wasn’t enough. Bricker had said Eart...
2025-08-25 17:15:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Cole,” came Nona’s voice. “I’m in place. They’ve got our boy up on the battlement on the north side. He’s got his two guards with him. Their priestess has a communication crystal. The armored one took charge of the fort. 2025-08-24 16:28:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The landscape had been marred with craters similar to the one he’d fought Vak in. Cole staked out a good one for them to wait and observe the fort a few hundred meters back from the line. Within the barrier, a new chem paper didn’t show any signs of ...
2025-08-24 02:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Lay down,” said Cole. One-hundred meters east of the underground storage room where the rest of the team waited was the remains of what might have been a cistern or a dug-out grain silo. Now it offered a level firing platform with an angle down into th...
2025-08-22 17:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe sidearm bucked in his hands, held at such an odd angle and completely unsupported. But the soft innards of the demon served to muffle the report of the gun. Mostly. Vak Hissed and screeched, which was even louder, and his long, segmented body tightened as his...
2025-08-21 16:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostNote: The Patreon will be getting daily chapters until we're up to 20 chapters ahead of this Friday's update on Royal Road (Chapter 32). So you can keep reading updates through the weekend.
“She was right in front of me,” said Besson. “S...
2025-08-20 23:01:35 +0000 UTC View PostDon't forget, you can join the official discord to hang out and chat with other friends whether you are a paid or free member. The link is: https://discord.gg/9kJnV28rTv
2025-08-19 20:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to the surge on the Patreon, I've been able to commission the permanent cover for Department of Otherworld Rescue to replace the temporary. It's currently in progress. Thanks for your support, guys!
“Get that fucking gun out of my face,” said ...
2025-08-19 16:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostWell, we hit our milestone of 150 members, so over this next week I'll be upping the number of advance chapters with additional updates. Next milestone will be at 350 members! I don't know that we'll ever get there. But if we do, I think it deserves another five chapters.
The old abandoned watchtower on the ridge had a prime position to watch descents from the mountains to the west, and in fact that’s what Cole expected the Vaelians had made it for. The fact the two forces now clashed on the regular just a dozen klicks north h...
2025-08-18 00:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostLoot distributed, Besson volunteered for the first watch. Probably the guy was already done with being forced into tight confines with other people. Cole doubted he’d come back to the bivouac even when his turn at watch was over—which was confirmed ...
2025-08-15 20:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostCole turned and ran toward Howie, who was in the process of running towards Cole, lacking as he was in the close-quarters combat department. When he saw the look in his Cole’s eyes, he hesitated, realizing what was coming.
“No!” he shouted, just as...
2025-08-15 03:29:46 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be taking a break from uploads here and on Royal Road tomorrow, then after Friday's chapter Royal Road is going to be transitioning to a M/W/F upload schedule. Patreon chapters won't follow exactly the same schedule, but I'll be aiming to keep it 12-15 chapters ahead so I'll be making up the...
2025-08-13 23:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe pit siren blared, and power flooded into Cole. The artificial Lewis Field seeped into his body, awakening the attunement levels he’d built up in Curahee. Suddenly, the pack that had been weighted down with weapons and ammo to the point of being practically unmova...
2025-08-12 21:15:29 +0000 UTC View PostSo, the launch blitz went on a bit longer than I intended, but when you're on a roll you're on a roll, and I'm managing to stay about 30 chapters ahead of the Patreon, which is about 15 chapters ahead of the Royal Road version, despite two weeks of daily uploads.
I can't keep this pace fore...
2025-08-11 03:57:45 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re shitting me,” said Roxy. “Nona? Asked to join our team? You told her to fuck off, right?”
Two nights before the op, he’d gotten the four of them together at a dive in Fredericksburg with outdoor seating and broached the subje...
2025-08-10 18:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostNow, with the run of the base, Cole went looking for the Kicker who had requested his support. He found a familiar face on the way.
“Hey, hey!” said the enormous gunner, Deadlight, clapping him on the shoulders. Even without a Lewis Field, t...
2025-08-10 03:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Who can hear you talkin’ like we can’t,” said Bjorn.
Cole looked down. “I just didn’t know we hosted otherworlders.”
Jeff clapped a hand on his shoulder. “Believe it or not, there’s about one hundred and twenty otherworld refuge...
2025-08-09 16:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve already got a ticket booked for Georgia to pick up your truck and drive it back to Fredericksburg. For the meantime, I’ve secured you a rental vehicle. Do you have an idea of whether you’d prefer to live on the compound or out in town? And if so,...
2025-08-08 04:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, no one interrupted his downtime until Roxy knocked on his door at 0800 hours, ready for chow. She still had on gym shorts, and now a faded Guns and Roses t-shirt—seemingly an endless supply of old band merch stocked the girl’s closet....
2025-08-05 16:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostDespite his mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, now that he was out of hell and back in the real world, he needed something, anything, to push off the crash he knew was coming, and aquatic flagellation in a scalding hot shower was not enou...
2025-08-05 04:05:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe transition this time wasn’t as jarring or sickening, which Cole attributed to his increased resilience propping him up.
The swirling field of blue around him dissipated, leaving the pit in the bottom of the portal complex back at the DOR compound....
2025-08-04 03:11:47 +0000 UTC View PostThanks everyone who has been reading along so far! I hope you're enjoying the story. We've caught up to the launch blitz deficit on Royal Road, but I'm going to try and keep the momentum going as long as I can keep the backlog far enough ahead to stay about 95% consistent between the Patreon and ...
2025-08-02 16:22:12 +0000 UTC View PostCole dropped and started to low-crawl his way through the tunnel, pushing his pack ahead of him. There was barely enough clearance for his torso and kit in the claustrophobic space. “This shit is why I wasn’t a submariner,” he muttered u...
2025-08-01 19:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostCole barely managed to duck, feeling Ram-head’s pole-axe skim across the top of his high-cut helmet. Undeterred, the armored giant shield-slammed him right in the front plate, sending him rolling across the ground. The man looked worse for wear, stained and sulli...
2025-08-01 16:21:27 +0000 UTC View PostThey closed and barred the sally port behind them before pushing open the double doors to the courtyard. Rows of old, infested trees swayed in the wind and rain. Now out of the close quarters, Cole loosened his sling and raised his otherworld rifl...
2025-08-01 03:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe lift platform had been built on a rise with a steep drop of about twenty feet down to the floor of the mountain terrace. Cole reduced his fall speed and slid down the side of the rise ahead of the rest of the group to range ahead, eyes and ears peeled for any hi...
2025-07-30 21:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Besson didn’t join them at dawn, Cole had Howie take him out to the forest where he’d spoken to the K9. They left the gate along with the flux of traffic from the field workers and lumberjacks. Most of them stared at the pair of Kickers that towered ...
2025-07-30 20:45:38 +0000 UTC View PostLudwig left not long after his long-winded story and bare-bones description of what was in store up the mountain. Being the baron of humanity’s last dying gasp still included plenty of chores and petty dispute-solving. Cole knew he was far from the first p...
2025-07-29 23:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post