Terry and Kelima were nearing the top of the mountain when Dusk finally came bounding out of the growing evening darkness. She came over, rubbed against Terry’s leg for a few moments, then looked up at him expectantly. Snorting to himself, he picked up the cat. He stroked her fur and scratched ...
2025-11-19 13:05:58 +0000 UTC View PostKelima looked from the death weasels to Terry, then from Terry back to the death weasels. She closed her eyes and shook her head. Then, she looked at the monsters again.
“You know,” she said, “I think I get now why you always got so mad at me for this.”
“Thank you,” said T...
2025-11-19 09:44:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter catching a very long nap, Terry dragged his sorry ass out of the tent. He took a few minutes to eat some leftover murder-bird and splash some water on his face. Then, mostly because it was the path of least resistance, he took them onto the actual path up the mountain. It was wide enough th...
2025-11-19 08:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving a conquered capital was always a logistical challenge for Sen and his people. They needed to leave enough soldiers and cultivators to realistically defend not only the city, but the nation at large. He couldn’t count on the nobility to do it, since many of them were dead or their houses...
2025-11-19 01:04:18 +0000 UTC View PostOnce word spread that he’d ordered the army to prepare to march, it was like everyone lost their minds. The lines of people that thought they needed to speak with Lord Lu had stretched out into the hallways and out of sight. The strangest part for Sen was that many of those people would have be...
2025-11-18 01:11:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t until Terry found himself standing in a sunny little clearing with nothing attacking that he realized he’d been bracing for an attack. Oh, right, he thought. Getting attacked when coming out of a dungeon doesn’t really happen unless there’s some kind of nar...
2025-11-16 13:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostPoke. Poke. Poke. Terry was vaguely aware that someone was nudging his shoulder. No, he thought. Still tired. Go away. Poke. Poke. Poke. That dragged him a little closer to being awake. Dammit, he growled mentally. I don’t want to get up! Poke. Poke....
2025-11-16 11:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this is arriving late. My weird sleep schedule and expanded daily writing duties caught up with me. Wound up sleeping through some of my normal writing hours. But, here's yesterday's chapter. Enjoy! ~Eric
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Sen landed outside the palace. He ...
2025-11-15 12:56:41 +0000 UTC View Post“What could you possibly be so happy about?” demanded Kelima. “Look at that thing!”
It was only then that Terry realized that Kelima had seized his arm in a death grip with one hand and was pointing at what had to be the floor boss with the other. Wait, thought Ter...
2025-11-14 09:39:23 +0000 UTC View PostAs they made their way through the dungeon floor, Terry made what was, in retrospect, a very obvious discovery. The minotaurs were warm-blooded creatures, so blasting them with ice was a great way to slow them down. What was a more interesting realization was that the frozen soil beneath him made...
2025-11-14 04:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so we're into November now, which is pretty much the beginning of the holiday season here in the US. Last year's holiday season was mostly a wash for me because A) I'm an adult and therefore have very few needs or wants (or can get those things for myself), which means the orgy of greed at ...
2025-11-14 00:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostSen and Master Feng walked out of the compound gates to find what looked to be a tense standoff. Guarding the gates were numerous mortal soldiers and what looked to be Sen’s entire cultivator honor guard. Even Song Lan and Xu Xiao Dan were there, facing out toward what appeared to be a signific...
2025-11-13 23:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter giving the matter some very deep and extensive consideration for approximately nine seconds, Sen came a conclusion.
“You know,” he mused aloud, “I don’t have to answer anyone’s questions. For that matter, neither do you. It’s not like anyone can really make us tal...
2025-11-13 08:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that Master Feng didn’t know what had happened. He had heard stories about weapons that endured tribulations, but had never actually seen. He hadn’t even met anyone who had seen it.
“I’ll admit,” said the elder cultivator, “I thought that it was a myth right up unt...
2025-11-12 01:20:59 +0000 UTC View PostMan, it seems like just four months ago, Volume 6 was coming out. Now, it's time for Unintended Cultivator Volume 7 to makes its official debut in the world!
It's available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook form over on Amazon. It's on Kindle Unlimited too!
You can grab those 2025-11-11 18:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For Terry, the dungeon had been a mental grind more than a physical one. It had felt like crunch time back at one of his old programming jobs. Not a good crunch time when things had gone well. No, the dungeon had been like one of the bad crunch times when a project had been completely fucked but ...
2025-11-11 05:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostNodding his agreement, Sen left the forge and went outside into the courtyard. He cleared his mind as well as he could, assumed a stance, and began working through the sword forms he knew. There was something reassuring about going through those familiar motions and routines. Knowing them so well...
2025-11-10 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“This doesn’t look like a spa,” said Kelima.
“No shit,” said Terry. “Wait. How do you even know what a spa is?”
“Who doesn’t know what a spa is?”
“Sure, that might be true back where I come from, but here?”
You know, interrupted other-Terr...
2025-11-10 07:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostTerry stood there and tilted his head back. That let the drizzle that had been falling since nearly the moment they entered this godforsaken floor wash some of the blood off his face. The mud goblins, as it turned out, weren’t really that much harder to kill than their non-mud cousins. The spid...
2025-11-09 06:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostAfter doling out a bit of their food and water to Kelima and Dusk, Terry refused to let himself be sidetracked. He spread out his blankets, ignored the hard stone beneath them, and went to sleep. After all, Kelima had gone wandering around and not been attacked. That seemed like sufficient eviden...
2025-11-09 03:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostNow that he’d found Kelima, Terry’s first instinct was to get moving again. However, the idea of fighting again after all that pain actually made something inside of him cringe. There was also the problem of being tired. It wasn’t physical tiredness. His body actually felt better than ever....
2025-11-08 02:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostTerry lost complete track of the world as pain wracked his body. It was like that agony closed around him, and he was just a tidy speck of sanity adrift on an endless, stormy sea of suffering. There wasn’t anything like time on that sea. It might have been minutes. It might have been years. Ter...
2025-11-07 21:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the first few days in the forge had been marked by lengthy periods where Sen did nothing, the final day was much busier. He spent much of the day standing near the anvil, pressing his qi and killing intent into the forming blades. While he didn’t know what was happening inside the metal, ...
2025-11-07 18:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time the third day of forging the swords had arrived, Sen had started to understand why Master Feng had said it would take so much experience to master smithing. The elder cultivator hadn’t slept or even taken a meaningful break the entire time. In addition, he’d been subtly using his ...
2025-11-06 19:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs Master Feng went back to work at the anvil, Sen tried to focus on the manual again without much luck. Instead, he found himself turning over what his teacher had said about the last person he’d seen use that technique. It doesn’t matter. You’re not like her. He didn’t...
2025-11-06 05:41:23 +0000 UTC View PostI meant to post this yesterday with the chapter and just forgot. I don't normally figure out bloopers as I'm writing the chapters, but this one came to me. So, I figured I'd post it as a fun little thing for you. This may or may not make the final cut. Enjoy! ~Eric
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2025-11-06 05:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post“How many times are you going to do that?” asked Kelima.
Terry shot her an unamused look and said, “At least a thousand times more.”
With that, he summoned the queen’s source stone from his storage ring. Then, he put it back.
“How can that still be entertaining?” s...
2025-11-05 06:13:45 +0000 UTC View PostAt first, the sounds of Master Feng working in the forge distracted Sen. The heat would have been distraction, as well, if he’d been trying to study the Shadow Gate manual years earlier. Yet, the periodic, rhythmic sounds of a hammer on metal soon faded from Sen’s awareness as he was finally ...
2025-11-04 20:09:52 +0000 UTC View PostLocking Master Feng and himself away from outside disruptions proved a little more challenging than Sen initially anticipated. While his honor guard and the soldiers he’d grabbed were willing enough, the word had spread with seemingly impossible speed. Before he knew it, cultivators, mortal gen...
2025-11-04 02:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostKelima eventually got tired of throwing rocks at him. Quite literally. She kept throwing until it looked like she didn’t have the energy for it anymore. Somewhere in the middle, Terry had just gone back to punching the wall. The rocks hitting him were aggravating, but it was like being pestered...
2025-11-03 07:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post