Author's Note:
I'm posting two chapters early because it's Zerpaderp's birthday (I don't know what your name is on Patreon, sorry). Happy birthday! Hope you like the early(ish) chapters.
There will be a third and maaaybe a fourth chapter out over the next day or two i...
2023-07-16 02:09:26 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note:
I mentioned there might not be chapters this week because I was so sick the last week, but I'm going to put out at least this chapter. The rest of this week I'll be taking to edit Book 1, prepare notes for Book 2, and hopefully come out with 3+ chapters at th...
2023-07-10 00:06:26 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note:
I've been really sick, and there's a lot I have to keep in my head for Book 4 - sorry for all the delays! I'm planning to take a small break on RR and catch up on chapters here soon, once RR gets the end of Book 3.
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Sev let himself relax. There...
2023-07-03 01:12:05 +0000 UTC View Post"I think we might have a problem," I say. The ache in my chest is only growing, and with it, there's a distinct sense of dread. I'm not sure if the dread is coming from me or from the Void, which has very much decided to start paying attention to current circumstances and is now emanatin...
2023-07-03 01:08:58 +0000 UTC View PostSo the summary of it all is... simple. I think. It's a lot of information at once, but I've got the gist of things.
The Great Cities, it turns out, are a loose coalition of various cities in the center of this particular Hestian continent, with the very rough goal of appropriating the resou...
2023-07-03 01:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note:
Some important stuff to get through before the chapter:
- I've made changes to chapters 43 and 57 to fix a continuity error (thanks to Jaroslav for spotting it). Ethan can combine the same skills together multiple times to get different skills, bu...
2023-07-03 01:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostA long line of wagons led the path away from Elyra, along with a long line of people. For all that there should have been sound — voices of people talking, laughing, sharing in their worries and their fears with one another — the whole evacuation was eerily silent.
There was th...
2023-06-25 14:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostThere are no words to describe the feeling that the Void Inspiration suddenly exudes. It doesn't speak, like it has a few times when trying to convey something to me. Something within it is suddenly raw and animalistic, and I feel the Accelerator begin to zip around again, as if in excit...
2023-06-25 14:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostWe travel for half a day before we have to stop and take a break.
Not because I'm tired. Rotar's pushed himself to the edge and beyond, and it's when he starts panting loudly with his tongue hanging out of his mouth that I decide he's had enough, and make us stop. I get him some of the wate...
2023-06-25 14:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post"You reckless," Mari says. She stares at me, wings folded across her chest. I'm sitting meekly on Tarin's bed, the straw beneath poking uncomfortably into my skin, which I have to believe is intentional, considering how comfortable it normally is.
Also, Tarin is sitting on her head. Why the...
2023-06-25 14:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sev told his story, the evacuation of Elyra began in earnest. Misa helped provide a few extra bodies, but by and large it was carried out by those more experienced in handling people — the job of an adventurer, after all, was not typically that of organization and management. So ...
2023-06-19 13:15:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I want to try is the skill combination I was able to glimpse before, just for a second. I'd been able to combine Firestep and Triplestep into Accelerate — but in the process, I'd noticed something strange. There was another way the two skills could be combined.
I let them ...
2023-06-19 13:12:05 +0000 UTC View Postmore, the Void Inspiration whispers. more?
"Not yet," I tell it quietly, like it's a pet. I wonder if there's a reason I've only heard its voice within this time-stopped space meant for choosing an Inspiration. I would have expected to hear it speak before now, but then ag...
2023-06-19 13:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post[ Select between:
Warpstep (Rank A)
Misplaced Aura (Rank B)
Sunder (Rank B)
Somatic Discharge (Rank B) ]
[ You have unlocked an Inspiration. Bonus will commence once skill se...
2023-06-19 13:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe northern gates of Elyra were absolutely teeming with people. If it weren't for the massive, massive barrier that Helix had erected, no small number of them would likely have surged right back into the streets of Elyra — but the barrier created by the Ashion heir was absolute, and none of th...
2023-06-15 15:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt took effort for Vex to hold back his mana as much as he did. A not-insignificant part of him wanted to unleash it all, in no small part driven by the frustration he still felt with his father — but he grit his teeth and held it back. The dragon-transformation had done a lot for his mana chan...
2023-06-12 14:47:27 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Edited skill selections to four options per roll, as Pete kindly pointed out.
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I'd almost forgotten about the Chromatic Root and Chromatic Threads, wrapped up in the rest of the rewards as I was. I'm not sure what to do with the Root, but I'll maybe ...
2023-06-12 14:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostMari's skeptical of my plan, if only because I don't have any idea where to even begin. Gheraa isn't anywhere near the planet. I speak with a confidence I don't really have, but it feels wrong to do anything else — to leave something like this to chance. I need to state the goal so I can try to...
2023-06-12 14:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: There were some errors with Ethan's status in the last chapter. They should all be fixed now. Here's his updated status:
[ Status:
Name: Ethan
Strength Skills: Crystallized Strength (Rank C), Conc...
2023-06-12 14:44:25 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no single system spell that could be used here, and nothing the system provided was reliable at the moment, anyway. Karix for the first time had to rely entirely on what his son was telling him — had to guide his mana according to Vex's wishes, rather than play by his own rules. As mu...
2023-06-09 13:02:29 +0000 UTC View PostDerivan's eyes glowed as he focused on keeping the portals open. The effort involved was immense — this was more than he had ever stretched Shift, and he could feel the way it was pulling at something fundamental to him, like he was stretching a muscle to the point of tearing.
Ev...
2023-06-09 13:01:48 +0000 UTC View Post[ Phase-shift has begun. Pausing all Interface functionality until shift has been completed. ]
[ Phase-shift complete. Calculating changes. Removing notification suppression. ]
[ Phase-shift Rank: S ]
[ Firmament base ha...
2023-06-04 09:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe second set of blows resonates through both of us. The Firmament-creature roars, an erratic, flickering sort of thing, a mouth gaping open in its featureless face with an appearance not unlike television static. I grit my teeth as a sudden headache pounds through me, and Ahkelios clin...
2023-06-04 09:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a moment before Tarin gathers himself again, and I don't blame him. My own mind is awhirl with thoughts, the main one being about Tarin's memory of all this. I'm under no illusions about it; there's every possibility that he might not remember anything into the next loop, but the fa...
2023-06-04 09:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post"Whoa, whoa," I say, holding up both of my hands. It's not that I'm against fighting — it's that I'm not prepared. This is the first I'm hearing of this. The Interface is a massive, powerful thing that the Integrators control, and I've tried directly fighting it once to no avail; I can...
2023-05-30 11:43:12 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: It's my last couple days of work so things have been super busy. 48 will be out tomorrow, sorry for the delay! Things will calm down once I've had my last day on Wednesday.
As a distraction, check out the comments, where I'm linking a bunch of fanart I got that I think...
2023-05-29 15:26:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe obelisks cracks to pieces, crumbling into so much dust before me; in the same breath, color slowly returns to the world. I blink away the tears a few times, struggling against the sudden glare — apparently, protection against light isn't something that Tough Body accounts for.
There's...
2023-05-29 15:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Come on, son," Karix said. He placed a casual hand on Vex's shoulder, which the lizardkin was tempted to shrug off. Neither of them had really earned his trust, and while he was cautiously optimistic, the more realistic part of him thought that this was quite likely just another ploy on...
2023-05-24 14:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a beat before Gheraa responds, like he wasn't expecting me to notice or care. It's a beat I'm familiar with and one that makes a familiar heat grow beneath my skin — anger at the Integrators, for all that Gheraa himself might be one of them.
It doesn't mean I trust him, but I'm intim...
2023-05-24 14:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostQuick A/N: 45 will be out tomorrow. 44 was unexpectedly long, and I had to handle some life things today (like quitting my job). Does mean there should be more chapters soon, though.
Thanks for all your support!
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It is the 4,625th day of Awakenin...
2023-05-22 15:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post