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Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 8 – Minder

Kelima just stared at him with wide eyes and disbelief written all over her face. That silence went on for five very long seconds. Then, words exploded from the girl.

“What? Do you think I’ve been chasing after you this whole time because I want to be here? Are you out of your mind? I d...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 55 – The Wall

Jing stared out at the land that he used to think of as his. The hubris of that notion was made painfully evident to him as watched that ravening horde of spirit beasts draw closer and closer. Every foot they covered made it feel like it was their land and always had been. It also felt l...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 15 – Blades and Magic

“That went well,” observed Sig after a few awkward moments of silence.

James shot him a withering look that had zero impact on the other man. Chrosan stared in the direction that Seiran had stormed off before he turned a confused look on James.

“What did you say to her?” asked...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 54 – A Kind Boy

Save for the occasional rise and fall of Lu Sen’s chest and the beads of sweat on his forehead, the man might have been dead. At least, that was what Lai Dongmei thought as she stared down at him. She knew that something was wrong but lacked the training to understand what. It was an unusual fe...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 53 – Leadership

General Mo Kegong stood in the early morning light and scowled into the distance from the top of the city wall. He knew that the spirit beasts were out there. He’d expected them to launch an attack already, but it hadn’t come. Turning from the at least temporarily unthreatening countryside be...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 52 – Young Monster

Sen ultimately told Shi Ping to head anywhere at the base of wall, look for someone in charge, and tell them he was a cultivator there to help.

“If they give you a hard time, tell them that I sent you there personally,” Sen had told the other cultivator. “I don’t think they’ll giv...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 7 – Orcs!

Terry woke up early the next morning. It wasn’t quite zero dark thirty, but it was close. He’d accomplished that particular feat by crawling into his tent almost immediately after finishing his bowl of soup and cleaning up afterward, thereby avoiding any meaningful conversation ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 51 – Stick of Judgment

Sen stared down at the last of the spikes on top of the castle wall. He was waiting to receive word. It had taken most of two hours with Lai Dongmei getting increasingly nervous and trying very hard not to show it before he’d finally gotten the necessary insight to make his lightning borrowing ...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 6 – You!

While Kelima went a short distance off into the woods for some privacy as she tried to clean herself up, Terry took the opportunity to dig the core out of the ape thing. He was running about fifty-fifty on which ones he could absorb and which ones he couldn’t. That turned out to be one of the c...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 50 – I Never Understood

“Is he here?”

Lo Meifeng just stared at the man standing in front of her for several seconds. She recognized him. At least, his features held some vague resemblance to the man she remembered as Shi Ping. That was where the similarity ended. The Shi Ping of her memory was a plump, lazy, ...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 14 – Mindset

There was a rapid-fire ting, ting, ting, as James blocked the flurry of dagger strikes from Seiran with his short swords. The problem was that he didn’t know, not for sure, how or why he was suddenly able to do that when he couldn’t the day before. Not that everythi...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 49 – Borrowing

It seemed like a thousand important matters vied for every second of Sen’s attention, but there came a moment when he had to tell everyone to leave him alone. A few people reacted like he was being difficult or surly. At least, they did right up until he told them that he needed to go focus on ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 48 – Cunning on Demand

Sen had to work hard to quell his nervousness as he sat at the large table and waited for the last few stragglers to arrive. Some of them were mortals and near the outer edges of the city, so he couldn’t expect cultivator speed from them. He’d called together the main leadership in the city f...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 47 – The Worst Possible Thing

Sen spent a little of the time that he didn’t have walking to where Misty Peak had apparently bought a very large house. It was distressingly close to Lu Manor. A fact that he was quite sure she had taken into account when she acquired the place. His first impulse had been to race over, but bet...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 5 – Quit Complaining

Terry leaned against a tree and tried to catch his breath. A few feet away, Kelima Silventar was bent over at the waist with her hands on her knees and gasping for air. Terry wasn’t entirely sure if he should give the noble grudging credit or be supremely pissed. He’d sprinted down the road f...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 13 – Ill-Considered Words

Thud.

James found himself staring up at the blue sky, trying to catch his breath, and wishing that his chest would stop hurting. Unfortunately, being kicked in said chest repeatedly by Seiran was not helping that pain. Given that she probably wasn’t planning to stop anytime soon, he was j...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 46 – That Lunatic

While Lo Meifeng poured Grandmother Lu a cup of tea, Sen a found a comfortable-looking chair and promptly slumped into it. The price for all the masks he’d been wearing over the last day had caught up with him. He wasn’t just mentally tired. It bordered on exhaustion, which was frustrating be...

Isekai Terry AHS: Chapter 4 – Run Away

As Terry stuffed things into his pack, he did his best to ignore Jaban. It wasn’t easy given the amount of complaining, but Terry persevered. He was committed to the task. A fact that Jaban seemed to pick up on because he increased the volume of his complaints.

“Come on! I...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 45 – Supremely Unimpressed

Dragging stone to the surface for the earth cultivators to use did take several hours of focused work on Sen’s part. It also did something that he hadn’t experienced in a while. It left him feeling drained of qi, even if he really wasn’t. There was plenty left in his core. His dantian, on t...

Updates: Unintended Cultivator Volume 4 Publication Day

Yes, the blessed day has arrived! Volume Four is now available on Amazon in ebook, print, and hardcover editions! Woohoo! If you wanted to grab one of those, you can find it here.

Also, unlike previous volumes, t...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 44 – Kindness in Unkind Times

While Sen worried constantly that the spirit beasts were going to attack at any minute, he recognized that for overactive paranoia. Yes, there were a lot of them out there. However, he’d also seen their work on the formation. It was well on its way, but it wasn’t done yet. His own wo...

Unwillingly Summoned: Chapter 12 – Job Interview

For a few, fleeting, glorious moments, James imagined himself standing in a… It wasn’t a river, but it was a healthy stream of gold coins. His balled fists were raised to the sky as he laughed maniacally. That picture didn’t last long. He’d barely had time to enjoy the thought before anot...

Update: It’s not all sadness

I know most of my non-fiction posts lately have been like a grab-bag of sad pulled directly from a bucket of suck. But, it’s not all awfulness and the tears of children. Here’s a few things that did not suck recently.

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Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 43 – City Defense Planning

It took a while for Sen to flatly deny the most obviously self-serving suggestions. He understood it, a little. Most of the cultivators had only ever thought about defense in terms of their own compounds, so that’s where their minds tended to go. He was also keenly aware that the cultivators la...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 42 – Questionably Productive Meeting

Sen could hear the shouting from inside the meeting room long before he and Lai Dongmei arrived outside the door. The prospect of wrangling all of that pride did not appeal to him. He’d been forced to do similar things with the teachers back at his sect and had not enjoyed it. He suspected that...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 41 – Imperial Conscience

The walk back into the palace was just as silent as the walk out had been, but the feeling was entirely different. Before, the nobles and even the cultivators had an air of uncertainty about them. Now, there was a palpable sense of dread around all of them. The nobles seemed keenly aware that it ...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 40 – Conviction

There was an almost deathly silence around Sen as he marched toward the front gates of the palace. No one spoke. Even the breeze had fallen away, as if it too feared to interrupt was what about to occur. It was only the sound feet on stone that broke that oppressive silence. There was a heavily s...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 39 – Gratitude

Sen’s command to gather up members and soldiers of that house, something he’d considered relatively straightforward, turned in another round of bickering. He wasn’t sure if it was the tenth or twentieth or five hundredth glance his way that made him realize that his presence wasn’t helpin...

Unintended Cultivator Vol 10: Chapter 38 – A Sufficient Example

Sen had smoothly bypassed what he expected to be a fraught moment in the throne room by just not going there. Given everything, people would likely expect him to sit on the throne. He knew that it was unavoidable, even necessary, but he didn’t want to take that step before talking...

No New Chapters Today

Okay. It doesn't happen very often, but, every once in a while, even I have a day where I just can't get my head in the right space to write. I can often get around it by switching to a non-Unintended Cultivator project and working on that for an hour or two. Today, though, everything I tried to ...