Misty Peak watched as that unbearable glow in the center of the city finally faded away. She shook her head and smirked. That boy just doesn’t know how to make a quiet entrance, does he? Then again, if he did know how to make a quiet entrance, he might not be as interesting. H...
2024-10-31 06:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt took nearly an hour of walking around before James’s temper cooled. He hadn’t wanted to go back to the inn so worked up. Nothing good could come from that. Best case scenario, he holed up in his room and nobody bothered him before he got a grip. Worst case scenario, he’d lose his cool wi...
2024-10-30 23:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostDespite James’s brain trying very had to convince him that the city would be some kind of post-apocalyptic hellscape, it turned out that it was just a city. There were a lot of people moving back and forth. Most of them looked to be doing work or on their way to do some work. He noticed a few s...
2024-10-30 23:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sen descended in front of the palace bathed in that furious glow, it was difficult to repress his frustrations. He hadn’t wanted to announce himself this way. He’d come to make sure that something wasn’t wrong at the palace. If things had gone a little bit right, he could have maybe sp...
2024-10-30 05:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostTerry glared at Analina and fumed internally. This wasn’t quite the “heroism won’t pay the bills” trope, but it was definitely a kissing cousin to it. He mused to himself, is there an underfunded Guild hall trope? That assumed that this Guild hall was underfunded. The problem mig...
2024-10-30 01:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs he neared the capital, the weather turned from gloomy to downright threatening. There were heavy clouds above so dark they were almost black and that cast the world in a premature twilight. Sen wondered if those storm clouds were getting some assistance, but, for once, his instincts and cultiv...
2024-10-29 07:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostJames glare balefully at the mostly repaired wall. It turned out that he did have to pay for that. He also had to give Enrica something to help offset the loss from the business they weren’t going to get while the wall was getting fixed. It hadn’t even really put a dent in his a...
2024-10-28 21:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, the glorious day when Volume Four of Unintended Cultivator goes live on Amazon is almost upon us. The official launch date is November 12, 2024, which means a few things. First and foremost, it means that most of the Volume Four chapters will soon go back behind the paywall so that Amazon ...
2024-10-28 21:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, the glorious day when Volume Four of Unintended Cultivator goes live on Amazon is almost upon us. The official launch date is November 12, 2024, which means a few things. First and foremost, it means that most of the Volume Four chapters will soon go back behind the paywall so that Amazon ...
2024-10-28 21:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, it took me a while to do this but I have given the light novel a name. For the purposes of Patreon, it's title is Unwillingly Summoned. The actual title is Unwillingly Summoned, the Hero Becomes an Adventurer Instead. Why such a long title? Well, it turns out that long, highly descriptive t...
2024-10-28 20:55:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe abrupt shortening of the distance he had to travel gave Sen a golden opportunity that he wasn’t about to waste. He’d keep moving toward the capital, but he could take just a little bit of that saved time to experiment. As much potential as this improved qinggong technique had, its usefuln...
2024-10-26 05:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostSen had traveled alone so rarely in recent years that he was almost never able to really push himself. With the exception of nascent soul cultivators, no one was able to keep up. It wasn’t something that bothered him particularly. Traveling at a pace that everyone could sustain was just a sensi...
2024-10-25 07:02:58 +0000 UTC View PostTerry stopped the cart in front of the Adventurer’s Guild, only to consider it dubiously. He’d have to leave everything outside to fetch Analina. He did not imagine she would thank him for dragging a bloody, dripping, makeshift sack filled with wolf heads across the mostly clean floor inside....
2024-10-25 04:32:54 +0000 UTC View PostLooking back on it, James could see that Enrica must have been pretty desperate because she barely put up any protest.
“No, you’re a guest. I couldn’t ask you to do that,” she said.
“I really don’t mind helping out. I might need people to show me where things are, but I ca...
2024-10-24 06:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving was something Sen was never eager to do, and this time was no exception. He was ever-more resentful when the events of the outside world dragged him away from Ai. Taking her in meant taking responsibility for her. Not just making sure she was clothed and fed, but being there for all the o...
2024-10-24 04:42:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe paper gave off a vague crinkling noise as Sen’s fist crushed it. He wasn’t running out of time anymore. He was just out of time, plain and simple. The message from Jing had been a little vague, no doubt as a security precaution. That didn’t stop Sen from deciphering the salient details....
2024-10-23 05:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe inside of The Verdant Field was, well, it looked like one of those restaurant slash bars back on earth. There was the bar itself and a number of heavy wooden tables that were mostly empty. The few people sitting at the tables gave James a moment of pause. He didn’t quite know what to make o...
2024-10-23 02:19:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Stupid dire wolves,” grumbled Terry as he gave one of the bodies a desultory kick.
Then, with a sigh, he threw another oversized wolf’shead onto the big blanket. He had managed to secure a cart to transport the evidence of his mass slaughter to the Adventurer’s Guild. Unfortunately...
2024-10-23 02:16:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late afternoon by the time James found himself standing at a gate in front of what he now knew was the palace. It was a small group of people that had come to see him off. There was the princess, for some reason. She was still giving him pleading, mournful looks. There was the Karissa girl...
2024-10-22 06:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the king had said he’d set James up for a comfortable life, James’s expectations had been decidedly low. He’d fully expected to be handed what amounted to pocket change and immediately shoved out the front door. That was assuming that the king didn’t have him beaten and tossed in an ...
2024-10-22 06:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostSen watched as some of the qi-condensing cultivators worked forms with their weapons. It took a true effort of will to his expression calm and neutral. None of them were bad. He reminded himself of that repeatedly. They were all adequate. Some might even rise to the level of gifted for their leve...
2024-10-22 06:22:34 +0000 UTC View Post“This can’t work for our needs. Not in the long term,” said Sen, gesturing at the walls of the room.
The walls in question were nothing but stone shelves. For the moment, most of the shelves were empty. There were, however, a few shelves filled with communication cores. Some of them g...
2024-10-19 04:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostSen winced as he saw the aftermath of the fight with the beast tide in the full light of day. He’d put it off as long as he dared. It wasn’t until after Ai had woken up, shrieked in delight at seeing Falling Leaf awake, and eventually been passed off to Auntie Caihong that he’d ventured out...
2024-10-17 03:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostFalling Leaf stretched. It was partly out of habit, partly out of curiosity, and partly out of that warm, pleasant sensation of being full of good food. She was aware that Sen had rushed the cooking, and it hadn’t been his best effort, but she didn’t care. Eating hot food in this strange ston...
2024-10-16 04:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post“I didn’t look,” repeated James.
Maggie stared at him in open-mouthed confusion before she finally asked, “Why?”
“Because it doesn’t matter.”
“How can it not matter? Your class determines what kind of powers you get!”
James didn’t think that hurling p...
2024-10-15 04:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostSen froze. Part of him wondered if he’d just wanted to hear that so badly that he’d hallucinated it. That uncertainty was swiftly put to rest when Falling Leaf gave him a bleary-eyed glare.
“Hungry,” she repeated. “Food.”
Sen surged forward and dropped to his knees next to...
2024-10-15 03:53:35 +0000 UTC View PostHope, it turned out, was not the remedy that Falling Leaf needed. Morning came and, although she remained physically healthy, she couldn’t be woken. With guilt seething inside of him, Sen made himself leave the room. He had done everything he could for her. Plus, much as he might wish it were d...
2024-10-12 05:15:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor Sen, the world stopped for the next two days. His entire universe condensed down until the only thing in it was the occupant of a bed. He simply watched Falling Leaf breathe and waited. He’d been in a flurry for the first hour or two. Then, as his panic subsided and the truth became clear, ...
2024-10-10 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he’d agreed to help Falling Leaf try to advance faster, Sen knew that they were both going to be taking risks. He’d be betting on his intuition and experience, and no little help from Auntie Caihong and Fu Ruolan, to help him overcome a stark lack of information. She’d be betting her l...
2024-10-09 05:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostSen listened with a mixture of amusement and concern to the report of all of the newly cooperative sects that were reaching out to him through a variety of means. Some were coordinating with the sects that had the communication cores while others had sent messengers. He wasn’t sure how he felt ...
2024-10-08 06:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post