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Duskbound 3- Chapter 53

Normally, Velik chafed at moving so slowly. What took most people a week to travel, he could do in an hour or two, and he had no doubt he could reach the boundary in a few days. For the time being, it suited his purposes to move slowly, and he found that he appreciated the luxury of being ...

Duskbound 1 is now live on Amazon and Audible

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So, today is launch day for the series. Subscribing patrons should already have the epub (it's been posted a few times), but I wanted to let you know the official, live versions are available. If you're an audiobook listener, that's finally an option. If you just like collecting epub...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 52

Over the last three days, Velik had managed to eat five stat boosters. He quickly discovered why the general recommendation was to wait a day between each one, though. It turned out that piling on too much too quickly hurt quite a lot. It wasn’t physical pain, either, or at least it wasn...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 51

Velik wasn’t really sure what he was expecting. The crate was about ten feet long and a foot wide, resembling an over-long casket more than anything else. There was a stable mana matrix in it, indicating it was enchanted somehow. The configuration reminded him of the one on his cloak tha...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 50

As far as I can tell, this skill is functionally the same as [Mana Sense],” Aria said. “There are no blind spots that are commonly associated with what we consider to be failed merges. Other than the strange way you’re experiencing the world, the skill is identical.�...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 49

The two liches returned with new bodies eight hours later, only to find the cathedral empty. There were no signs that the intruder had breached the inner sanctum, but he was so powerful that neither of them were willing to take anything for granted. Accordingly, they both set their minions to sea...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 48

This would be so much easier if there wasn’t all this other mana around, Velik thought to himself as he triggered the trap for the fiftieth time. Mana flashed out of nowhere, crawling out of whatever hiding place it had, and formed the platform to throw him into the air again. Dutifull...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 47

Everyone had their thoughts on how best to accomplish the creation of [Mana Sense], and thus far, Velik had been dutifully taking their advice. He’d done his best to try it every which way, but nothing had really resonated with him. That simple, ten-minute conversation with Jen...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 46

As much as Jensen wanted to enjoy spending some time with Sildra, it was difficult to do. She’d been in the city for the week, and most of her time was spent either trying to help Velik, or complaining about his abrasive personality. It took him a few days to realize what the problem was, since...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 45

Sildra took a moment to collect her thoughts. Morgus had appeared to her in her sleep, something he rarely ever did. Usually, she heard his words as a sort of whisper in the wind on nights when the moon was full. She wouldn’t exactly say she was jealous that Velik had experienced a full-on drea...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 44

It wasn’t enough to see the mana. Velik needed to be able to differentiate it. In some cases, that was very easy to do. A divine beast’s mana was so utterly different from anything else’s that he could easily pick out its trail. Velik had even gone back south and confirmed that, over a week...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 43

With a little help from Jensen, Velik found Aria in a coffeehouse on the south end of the city. She was reclining in a chair big enough to hold two of her, a steaming mug on an end table next to her and a book held in her hands. Other patrons were scattered around the room, either solitary or in ...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 42

Velik sat in the woods under a night sky full of stars and fed sticks into a crackling campfire ringed by stones. It was… strangely relaxing. He scowled down at the flames, annoyed for some reason he couldn’t quite understand.

It came to him eventually that he’d never done anything li...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 41

Velik didn’t know what lies the guild leadership spun about Torwin’s death. They had a service for the old hunter at the guild hall in Cravel, which he didn’t attend. Not being a member of the guild, he wasn’t welcome anyway. Two days later, there was a small memorial in Ashala. Velik bri...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 40

Jensen’s thoughts chased each other round in circles. Torwin couldn’t be dead. It had to be a joke, but he was pretty sure Velik had never deliberately told a joke in his life. He certainly never caught when someone else was joking with him. The man had the social skills of a sack of potatoes...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 39

Torwin was not hard to find. At least, most of him was not hard to find. Velik recovered three main pieces: his upper torso, head, and arms in one, a leg in a second, and another leg and pelvis in the third. About eight inches of spin and its attendant organs were simply gone, obliterated when he...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 38

Velik’s nose was filled with the stink of burnt hair and meat, and every single joint in his body ached. He’d been ten feet away from whatever it was Torwin had used at the end there—One of those specialty arrows he took from that bounty hunter?—but it still felt like he’d been...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 37

Somehow, despite half his rib cage being blown out and an entire arm missing, Tesir was still on his feet. Mana raged through him, clearly visible to Velik’s [Mana Sight], flooding into the missing flesh and rebuilding it. No, not rebuilding it, Velik realized.

H...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 36

Velik knew plenty about divine beasts, though he’d had most of the research done on his behalf so that nobody would link his interest back to him. Most of what was out there was speculation, with a lot of claims that they didn’t and couldn’t exist. No one in living memory had ever seen one,...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 35

The fact that [Apex Hunter] was completely silent for no apparent reason scared Velik more than he wanted to admit. The stranger was dangerous; that much was obvious just from watching him move. Ways to block [Identify] and other assessment skills weren’t commo...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 34

Every time Velik went out on an expedition with Jensen, he inevitably spent the majority of his time walking in circles around the slow-moving caravan. Even with the storage box reducing their needs down to a few wagons—mostly for those who demanded something to sleep inside of—and horses for...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 33

“Level 50 is a huge milestone, one that almost nobody reaches,” Torwin said. “And to do it at your age… Frankly, it’s insane the number of times you’ve risked your life and are still breathing. Were you always this reckless or have you gotten worse since I met you?”

They were ...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 32

There was no time to think. The agent was already past the tip of his spear, its body swooping around the wood even as Velik tried to bat it away. In less time than it took to blink, it was at face level. Velik’s hand snapped into place to block, even as he realized the agent would simply flow ...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 31

It took Torwin roughly two minutes from when he heard the first explosion to when he got a visual on Velik and the three Slokarans he was fighting. It only took a moment to assess the problem: the archer. The man was picking his shots carefully, each one infused with magic that made them too dead...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 30

Arrows ripped through the space Velik’s head had been occupying an instant before. Each one had waves of heat rolling off them and, despite missing their target, exploded into small balls of fire right next to Velik’s face. The flames were almost blinding, but he knew better than to close his...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 29

The mysterious hunter stood over a perfectly stamped boot print in a patch of mud and frowned down at it, showing that he wasn’t stupid. Velik had left it there as bait not two minutes earlier, reasoning that it was easier to provide the man with a reason to stop than to try to catch up to him ...

Duskbound Vol 1 Epub

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Duskbound is migrating to Amazon on June 30th and book 1 will be stubbing on the 25th. Here's a free copy of the epub you can download early. This is 99.9% what the final live version will look like, but feel free to reach out to me if you find any typos in it.

As always, thank...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 28

Velik found Torwin about eight miles away from the cellar he’d been shoved into. The old man was climbing out of a ravine, a deep scowl and some dried blood on his face. “Snakes,” he said shortly when he spotted Velik.

The ravine had hundreds of dead snakes scattered across it, some n...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 27

“The whole dungeon is falling apart,” Torwin growled.

“We need to get the seed now, before it’s too late.”

“No.” Torwin grabbed Velik’s arm. “It’s too dangerous. This was risky enough when things were stable. What are you going to do with no lifeline to save you wh...

Duskbound 3- Chapter 26

Human fingers clung to the core through some sort of magic that Velik didn’t understand, but he could see the mana coursing through the monster’s body and out to the stone. Whatever skill it was using, it was secure in its perch, unlike Velik.

It was definitely a flesh beast, the first ...