The investigation turned out to be a surprisingly brief matter. Misty Peak and her foxes spent less than a day on it before returning with their evidence. That didn’t make the entire thing a pleasant affair. Many of the detained nobles complained relentlessly, even the one who hadn’t s...
2025-02-28 03:39:25 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve got a pretty bad migraine today. I’ve taken something for it, but I’ll just have to wait and see if it helps. Worst case scenario, you’ll get two Unintended Cultivator chapters tomorrow.
2025-02-25 23:38:50 +0000 UTC View PostIn case any of you were wondering what Terry’s map looks like. This is a nearly photographic reproduction of what it would actually look like.
Kang made the only choice he could. The only choice available to a man who cared in the slightest about what happened to his family. He talked. A fact that was not received with universal joy in the throne room. As Kang named the people he’d been conspiring with, space opened up around certain ...
2025-02-25 06:43:16 +0000 UTC View Post“What?” Kelima shouted as she spun around, hastily drawing her sword.
Terry continued leaning against the tree and petting Dusk as he watched the girl desperately parry the clawed slashes of some kind of big cat. It wasn’t something that Terry recognized immediately, mostly because it...
2025-02-23 05:19:03 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I've been talking about this for a while now, and I'm finally pulling the trigger on a decision that I probably should have made about 6 months to a year ago. I'm hiring an assistant. Or, rather, a virtual assistant. In practical terms, it shouldn't mean huge changes for how this page opera...
2025-02-21 13:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostSen didn’t let it go on for very long. At least, he knew that was objectively true. He didn’t think a full five minutes had passed. Of course, Chan Dishi was a core cultivator. He could get a lot done in five minutes, and he had apparently been feeling motivated. He’d broken bones, shattere...
2025-02-21 12:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Lord Lu,” stammered Kang, having finally seemed to realize just how bad this situation could become for him.
“Do not speak again,” commanded Sen. “Your words will not be required to settle this matter.”
“Lord Lu! I must protest!” shouted Ka...
2025-02-21 08:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostIt was clear in the way that people hesitated ever so slightly at the door, the way that their eyes widened slightly, that no one had expected Sen to be openly sitting on the throne. After all, he’d made a point of not sitting on it since he’d arrived. It had been an indulgence he’d allowed...
2025-02-20 07:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the sound of running water that made Terry come up short. His eyes narrowed as he stared in the direction of that sound. A moment later, Kelima stopped next to him. She looked at him, looked in the direction he was glowering, and then back at him. When he just kept glowering and didn’t b...
2025-02-19 10:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe throne sat there blithely ignoring Sen’s baleful glare. He tried glaring a little harder, but it seemed that scaring lifeless objects was still beyond his power. He knew that, all things considered, that was a good thing. In this one situation, though, he wished could intimida...
2025-02-19 07:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostSen had thought that it would feel like a long time when he initially set the goal to march the army in a month. As one thing had piled up on the next, he realized what a naïve thought that had been. He was training the emissaries, monitoring the army, and sidestepping nobles with all their delu...
2025-02-18 06:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post“He’ll need a mana ring. One that can hold at least twenty or thirty mana if you have it,” said Sig.
“He’ll need light armor,” said Seiran. “He’s as fast as me, so we don’t want to slow him down too much.”
“Yeah, but he’s as strong as me,” objected Chrosan. ...
2025-02-18 01:46:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, that was awful,” griped James as soon as they were out of the guild.
Sig gave him a sympathetic look and said, “I’d like to say it could have gone better, but I’m struggling to imagine how that might have happened. At least, short of you being someone else entirely.”
<... 2025-02-18 01:43:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a while since I posted chapters of this, but I was a busy boy this weekend. So, you get multiple chapters of this today. Enjoy! ~Eric
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“Wait,” said James as Sig led him away from the practice area. “Aren’t we going to practice th...
2025-02-18 01:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, that’s obviously a trap,” said Jing.
Sen managed to repress his urge to sigh and said, “Yes. I know it’s a trap. The problem is that I don’t understand the trap. I can’t plan around things I don’t understand. I don’t see any way that Kang can benefit f...
2025-02-15 05:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Isn’t there a better way than this?” asked Kelima.
The pair had been walking ever deeper into the heavily forested area to the east of the city for most of the afternoon. They were following a more or less straight line to the mountain range where Wyvern Peak was located. Terry hadn...
2025-02-14 09:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostA cauldron of mixed emotions boiled inside of Hsiao Jiayi as she stared down at the body. Her father, the king of Kanshun, was dead. There was joy at the sight. How could there not be? She had prayed for his death ten thousand times and more. Most of her brothers had been killed on battlefields o...
2025-02-14 06:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt proved much more annoyingly difficult to find a private place to have that conversation than Sen initially believed it would. People kept running up to them with messages for him or for the general. A situation the general seemed to take for granted, but one that Sen hadn’t completely come t...
2025-02-13 04:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, in deference to the fact that the argument that appeared in this chapter before made for bad reading as it was written, and that it would have taken a deeply unfunny and lengthy philosophical chapter to fix it, I scrapped that part of the chapter and started over. So, here is version 2....
2025-02-12 04:51:04 +0000 UTC View PostSen had listened with the kind of focused attention most commonly seen in predators watching prey while Glimmer of Night told him about what Ai had been doing recently. Part of him knew that the conversation would have been boring, even painfully tedious for anyone else who might have been listen...
2025-02-12 02:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostSen wasn’t sure how to react after learning that Glimmer of Night was physically there in the manor. Coming all that way just to tell him about the communication cores seemed…It seemed excessive. Particularly given that Sen had a communication core. He could have been told about any improveme...
2025-02-11 06:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
So, it is that time of year again. The day is upon us when I celebrate successfully surviving another rotation around the eye-searing fusion demon in the sky...Sun. I meant sun.
I'm am turning *mumble, mumble* years old. I might have announced this sooner, except I pretty much forg...
2025-02-10 18:59:55 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, it's taken me longer to get back to this than I would have liked, but I have done it. I got the signed copies of Volume 4 signed and shipped out to the people subscribed to that tier. Then, I went through and counted up all the copies of all my books that I have sitting around in boxes, on ...
2025-02-09 21:19:42 +0000 UTC View PostSen started the analysis with the first group because he had more to say about what they did.
“So, who knows what went wrong with your approach?”
There was some hesitation before one of the women in the group spoke up.
“We spread out. That made us easier targets whenever y...
2025-02-08 14:20:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are you in such a hurry?” asked Kelima. “And why didn’t you want me to talk to the guild master? Do you know what a wasted opportunity that was?”
“I’m in a hurry because I’m smart. As for that guild master, I don’t know who he actually is, but I do know that we want t...
2025-02-07 16:58:28 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a single second of tense silence, and then it began. The gross unfairness of the match became painfully obvious to Sen as the man in front of him charged in. A heartbeat or two later, Sen heard the person directly behind him rush forward. He parried a thrust the man in front of him. The...
2025-02-07 04:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostBy the next morning, Sen still hadn’t come up with something nice he could do for the dozen people he’d been borderline torturing. Regardless of that personal failure, he had been leaving them largely to their own devices in terms of training. They thought he had at least. He’d been checkin...
2025-02-07 02:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you mean for them to stay here permanently?” asked Grandmother Lu.
Sen turned away from the window where he’d been watching the twelve people he’d commandeered from the army’s ranked. They were in an inner courtyard and no doubt cursing his name. It was bitterly cold out and s...
2025-02-06 06:40:35 +0000 UTC View PostTarell Collonin, master of the guild hall, watched the two adventurers vanish down a street as they bickered like a married couple. Oh, to be young and foolish again, he thought a little wistfully. Not that Tarell had wasted his opportunities in those regards. If anything, he ha...
2025-02-05 06:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post