Talia saw it coming, but for the first time in years, she found that she was too slow to stop it. Just after the archer loosed his mana-enriched arrow, Talia reached him. She didn’t bother using any skills. Instead, she simply rammed her claws through his leather armor and int...
2024-11-19 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Ain’t nothin’ ‘round here to get all worked up about,” Kurik grunted, kneeling next to the tunnel wall. “Don’t know why you decided to tag along.”
Miguel didn’t immediately say anything. Instead, he focused on the darkness just outside the circle of light crea...
2024-11-18 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“I see it, you know,” hissed Ignatius. “The fear you try to keep hidden. The weight of expectations presses down on you. The pressure will be your undoing.”
Zeke ignored the man. Instead, he walked through the streets, looking neither left nor right. Ev...
2024-11-18 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMillions of dragons waged war all around Elijah, and for the first time in recent memory, he froze. He could scarcely think, much less move. The scope of the conflict was just too much to process, especially when the Eldertalon reached the mass of other dragons, snapped out, and devou...
2024-11-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostElijah had almost forgotten how strange the core visions were. Not only was he surrounded by unfamiliar sights on an entirely alien world that, as far as he could tell, was comprised of an unfathomably large city of innumerable towers, but he also wasn’t entirely in control of his own act...
2024-11-16 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stared at the fantastic scene before him, unsure of how he was intended to react. He was perched upon a tall spire overlooking an enormous city of ivory towers, marble platforms, and domed palaces. Delicate bridges stretched between them, bearing countless tiny figures. A...
2024-11-15 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“You should not do this,” Adara stated. “We can just wait them out.”
“I concur,” Tucker said. “There’s no real benefit except time, and a whole lot of ways it can go wrong. We have no idea what this is going to look like.”
Jasper added, “That’s ...
2024-11-15 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostControlling the ethera in his body was no easy feat, but everything leading up to that moment had prepared Elijah for it. That was part of the reason core cultivation became easier when the other aspects of cultivation had already reached that next level. Making those leaps had forced...
2024-11-14 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostZeke crushed a knight’s head in his hand. It burst like a melon, sending brains and other gore oozing from the eye openings of the man’s helmet. Once the knight was dead, Zeke tossed the man’s body aside like the trash it was. It clanged against the ground before rolling t...
2024-11-14 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostElijah watched via Soul of the Wild as Miguel completed his sword. The weapon itself was nothing particularly special, and Elijah had difficulty not jumping in to help with the carving. However, because of the advantages associated with working in the grove – and of being tied to it...
2024-11-13 16:10:30 +0000 UTC View PostMiguel hunched over his project, his face only a few inches away from the blade he’d spent the last couple of days carving. He didn’t have the patience of his uncle, and what little he did possess had long since worn thin. As much as he valued the end product, crafting just wasn...
2024-11-13 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick message, and then we can get to today's chapter. It seems that we've once again been hit with a bunch of 0.5 ratings on the second chapter on Royal Road. As I've said before, those ratings could have occurred for a variety of reasons, but based on the c...
2024-11-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Abby leaped to the side, narrowly avoiding being impaled by a descending spear. Its blade still sliced through her calf, eliciting a strained shout. She landed in a roll before springing to her feet. The wound she’d just incurred was only one of many inflicted upon her over th...
2024-11-12 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostElijah sat upon the tree limb, high enough that no one could see him, and closed his eyes. Placing his hand on the rough bark, he pushed his awareness through his expanded channels and into the tree. Only the thinnest tendril of ethera – barely perceptible even to his trained and po...
2024-11-11 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAthis spun and heaved a large knight across the street. The man crashed through the reinforced wall of a building, though due to some sort of magic Tucker didn’t understand, the damage was confined to the point of impact. Despite being structurally unsound, the building remained sta...
2024-11-11 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A cacophony of noise washed over Elijah, forcing him awake. He clamped his hands over his ears, though the gesture did nothing to protect him from the avalanche of formless sound. That was when he realized that the noise – if that was even the right word – was no audi...
2024-11-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Shape of Venom and cloaked in Guise of the Unseen, Elijah perched in the branches, watching his nephew training with Trevor. The two moved in sync, fighting invisible opponents as they raced through the forest. Elijah focused on One with nature, and as the two practiced, ethera...
2024-11-09 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t talk to me,” Carmen groaned the moment Elijah walked in. His first stop had been the build-site for the Great Forge, but when he’d found it vacant, he’d rightly assumed he could find his sister-in-law working in her original smithy. He stepped inside, watching her ban...
2024-11-08 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe earth shook as Pudge led a group of nine Inashi into the depths of the city. They’d already passed a half-dozen layers, each of which had been broken up into at least ten floors, but he sensed that they still had a long way to go before they reached their destination.
Befo...
2024-11-08 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs she leaned back in her chair, Carmen let out a long sigh before downing the last contents of her mug. The beer was bitter, with a hint of ethera and an undercurrent of roasted caramel that set it apart from anything she’d drunk before Earth’s transition into a post-World Tree era.&nb...
2024-11-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZeke hit the knight with a shoulder tackle, sending him ragdolling across the square until he hit a pile of rubble. He followed that up with a spinning, backhanded swing of Voromir that launched another knight into a long arc that ended hundreds of yards away. The collapse of the buil...
2024-11-07 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostElijah certainly didn’t recognize his reflection in the mirror, which was probably understandable, given that it was an entirely new form. If he was forced to come up with a comparison, he would have likened it to a salamander, though one that walked on two feet and featured a pair of cre...
2024-11-06 16:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostElijah lay back, drifting lazily as he rode the subtle rise and fall of the waves. He knew he had things to do and obligations to meet, but there was value in immersing himself in the moment. Not only was it relaxing, but with the benefit of a Connection-boosted One with Nature, he fe...
2024-11-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanted to let everyone know that the latest Death: Genesis book is now available on Kindle and Audible (print too, but I only ever sell a few of those!). You can find them at the following links:
Elijah knew the grove had grown, both in terms of literal size as well as density. His domain was about ten feet wider than when he’d left, which according to Nerthus, was due to his increasing levels as well as the steady spread of the ancestral tree’s roots. That was cause for c...
2024-11-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBursts of fire erupted overhead, bathing the city streets in an orange glow. The world rumbled as other skills tore between the enemies and through the alleys, eviscerating anyone who found themselves in their way.
Most were slaves, but there were a few normal citizens of the Im...
2024-11-05 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBenedict sat at the somehow still-intact table, his legs crossed as he sipped his tea. The cup was chipped, and the tea itself was of poor quality, but it was a moment of normalcy amidst a whirlwind of a return to Earth. Seven imps – the lowest of the low – were there too, though ...
2024-11-04 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostA hundred thousand kobolds stood in the Entry Hall, each one equipped identically with long spears, heavy shields, and segmented armor. Their gear was the product of years of work and development for the Crimson Tower’s crafters, and its quality was second to none. However, as well-...
2024-11-04 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostElijah’s staff clacked against Miguel’s sword, and even though he’d barely put any strength behind it, the blade went flying backward. He followed that up with a gentle tap to his nephew’s chest. “Too slow,” he said.
Miguel’s fingers tightened around the hilt of hi...
2024-11-03 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostElijah let out a sigh as he sat in his favorite chair and looked out across the grove. As much as he enjoyed a bit of adventure, he couldn’t deny the contentment of home. It was hard to believe that, only a few short years before, the best the island could offer – in terms of crea...
2024-11-02 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post