Simon left Liepzen the next day after a little shopping to replenish his supplies and buy some good saddlebags to carry them in. By the time he left town and was riding toward Slany, he was almost two full weeks ahead of schedule compared to hi...
2024-01-15 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostThat first afternoon, they stayed secluded in their rooms as much as possible to hide from Margerot and anyone else who might have known the mage that Benjamin was pretending to be. Instead, his friends watched city life from the balcony and...
2024-01-15 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven before it reached the battlefield, while it was still just a skull being carried toward the site of the dig in the steel claws of a giant four-winged condor, it knew what it must do. It had no time to prepare nor body to fight with yet. Inste...
2024-01-08 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSimon wasn’t sure what he’d accomplished, but by the time he’d prepped to go back down after a lazy morning spent contemplating it, he wasn’t so sure it was time well spent. It was only just as he was about to descend again that he reali...
2024-01-08 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of them parted company with Kalinomia and her growing army that morning. He’d spent longer than he’d care to admit brooding about her words the night before. He didn’t try to argue the point, though; that would have been counterproductiv...
2024-01-08 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven though the snows were still deep, and the temperatures were still frigid, the river ice on the Oroza began to break up early that year. It was unexpected, but such a strange occurrence wasn’t because of the weather or even an improvement i...
2024-01-01 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post(Golemancer's last chapter posts on 1/15/24, so Death After Death will start posting twice weekly after that, taking over its spot.)
The road south was untroubled, and Simon made good time, arriving five days later, just in time for a h...
2024-01-01 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Rhulvinarians would have chosen a wand for this task. Benjamin was certain of that. Something gilded and lacquered like so many of the little trinkets that he and his growing army had looted from the plantations they’d liberated so far.
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2024-01-01 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. I hope you enjoyed today's bonus chapters and are having a wonderful holiday.
2023 was a good year for me. I went from 6 patrons to over a hundred and my followers on RR/SH went up from 500 to over 8000. It feels great to see the stories I put out there read so often as they...
2023-12-25 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas! (Or happy holidays as the case may be.) Enjoy your bonus chapter present and let me know if you think the events of chapter 109 should be further extended. Thank you!
Tenebroum expected to turn the tide quickly in the weeks...
2023-12-25 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas! (Or Happy Holidays. Whichever you prefer). Please enjoy this bonus chapter from me to you! (And yes, I am still planning on ramping up to two chapters a week on this story toward the end of next month - I just gotta keep building that backlog!)
Merry Christmas! (Or happy holidays, whichever you prefer.) Today your present is an extra chapter!
“I’m sorry, but we can’t just go with you because your Lord… or Lady said so,” Benjamin announced as he strode to the front of the carav...
2023-12-25 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's still a few days off, but to celebrate the season, I made this for all of you, my dear, dear patrons.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and all of that. I hope you have wonderful plans for the holiday season and you're finding some way to stay warm.
This year I only have some extr...
2023-12-21 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTime took on a new meaning for Tenebroum in the wake of its Siddrim’s defeat, as its spirit continued to evolve. It became insufferably persistent and regular for the darkness for the first time in its long existence.
Before now, ...
2023-12-18 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip down the mountain was as exhausting as ever, but at least Simon had no need to look over his shoulder now that the apex predator of this particular level was dead. The only thing that troubled his sleep now were memories of the same trip he...
2023-12-18 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostThey left that plantation in flames before it was fully dark, though Benjamin had to spend the whole day in the back of one of the wagons rocking back and forth while he stared at the sky and recuperated. They had more people now, but they also had more h...
2023-12-18 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe very earth shook with Tenebroum’s undiluted rage as the river goddess slipped the leash and succeeded in sliding back into her river, where she immediately vanished. In that moment, she accomplished something that no one had ever done before - she ...
2023-12-11 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Simon woke up this time, he opened his eyes immediately and looked down at his feet out of habit. He knew they’d be back, of course, but he also knew that the longer he let his eyes stay shut, the more he would think about the horrible image of wa...
2023-12-11 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how much he worried, and no matter how many times he woke during the night to make sure the guards were still vigilant, nothing happened. No alarms sounded, and no lightning raids were launched. Indeed, the only thing that they should h...
2023-12-11 14:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the instant that they passed through the stone, the Paragon was almost wrenched free of Jordan’s grasp as his hand and mind slackened. Trying to teleport through a solid object was the surest way to make sure they never found a body, thou...
2023-12-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBefore this trip, Simon had considered the jungle level a pleasant place. Compared to some of the levels around it, it was a real garden spot, literally and figuratively. That was especially true by the water or at the top of the pyramid, farthest from...
2023-12-04 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, Lord Grevin, Lord Pauciss, and the overseer they’d slain on their hunting expedition the other day, Mage Brogen, had amassed a great many trinkets and weapons of interest in their quarters and personal armories. That was the good news...
2023-12-04 14:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't get the chance to celebrate Thanksgiving this year because I'm in Europe. It might be the first time I didn't do something for that holiday in over a decade. It's actually one of my favorite holidays because it's one of the least commercialized and most focused on family/togetherness.&nb...
2023-11-30 20:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post!00 chapters. Can you believe it? The first 100 chapters of this story is 100 chapters long and I don't consider us quite to the halfway mark. Crazy, right? Thank you for reading this far and joining me on this weird journey into the dark.
“Damn it!” Simon cursed as soon as he felt himself lying comfortably back in his own lumpy bed once more. It was a cheap fucking death, and he pounded his fist against the straw mattress in frustration. Just like that, less than a week into th...
2023-11-27 14:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the aftermath, Benjamin tried to stay alert to other threats. He tried to focus on what was going to happen and what needed to happen, but he couldn’t. None of them could.
There were a thousand things to do. They needed to start wakin...
2023-11-27 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Jordan first saw the lights on the horizon, he thought that they were torches, even if they were a bit too small and a little too bright. Morning was approaching, and though it was no longer bright enough to make the horizo...
2023-11-20 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 73 - Looking for Answers
No one was happy about how the battle at the main gate ended, least of all Simon. Strangely, though, none of the survivors blamed him for what had happened. By this point, he was more than a little used to being the scapegoat whenever anything w...
2023-11-20 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey didn’t leave immediately because Raja pointed out that the carrion birds that gathered for that feast would have certainly alerted their enemy of the massacre. It was a good point. If they wanted to try to save as many people as possible, ...
2023-11-20 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostThough it should be first noted that you are here for one (or more) of my many fine web novels, I have finally self-published my first novel on Amazon, where it is now available for pre-order as an e-book for $5 The pape...
2023-11-15 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post