Hey everyone!
Hope you're all doing well. I'm happy to share that I'm almost done with the edits on the final chapters, and will be updating most of them in 2 days with the first updates coming tomorrow.
Some of the plot holes will be corrected, notably Valiant's size inconsistency - ...
2025-03-10 19:14:11 +0000 UTC View PostMax screamed through the battlefield like a comet—not because he wanted to, but because that's what happens when you're clinging to the back of a warhorse charging at full gallop through a sea of fighting, dying men.
"MOVE! GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
His voice was lost in the chaos, but t...
2025-03-09 21:53:04 +0000 UTC View PostAdom woke up slowly, his consciousness split between his own body and John's. The golem's vision overlapped with his - a strange double-image of the brightening sky and the inside of the tent.
Maybe calling him 'John' was weird, even just in his thoughts. But it helped maintain the illusion...
2025-03-08 23:43:05 +0000 UTC View PostHaah... haaah... haaah...
Max's lungs burned. His legs trembled. Every step felt like moving through concrete.
"What the hell is wrong with this body?" he gasped, struggling forward through the churned mud of the battlefield.
He'd made it maybe thirty yards from where he'd "resp...
2025-03-07 03:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"Grandfather?"
"Yes?"
"What does it
2025-03-07 03:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Just wanted to check in as I'm deep into writing content for Book 2. It's been quite the journey, and I'm actively trying to avoid some of the mistakes I made in Book 1 while making sure I don't lose sight of what made me start this story in the first place.
One thing I'...
2025-03-07 03:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostHaah...haah...
Adom stood in his fighting
2025-03-05 19:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post"...What?"
"I said, I'm putting together a team, and I think you might be exactly what we're looking for. Are you looking for a better job?" Adom repeated, still leaning on the counter.
The girl stared at him like he'd suggested they should juggle the oranges while riding unicycles. S...
2025-03-04 07:50:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
How's it going?
I still intend to upload today's chapter before today ends, but I just got an unexpected thing I gotta deal with. Just wanted to update you on the state of things instead of leaving you hanging.
This situation actually made me realize I should proba...
2025-03-03 23:29:28 +0000 UTC View PostSlurrrrrp
"And then, like, we could totally set up camp in those alcoves the seniors mentioned. You know, the safe spots? Imagine having an actual fire going down there, cooking whatever we hunt..." Sam took another loud sip of his frosty, the ice crystals crackling against his tee...
2025-03-02 20:25:42 +0000 UTC View Post"How is your training going?" Adom dodged a rushing messenger, his voice barely carrying over the morning crowd. The new checkpoints had turned their walk to Xerkes into a strange sort of dance - weaving between people, ducking under floating cargo, waiting as guards checked identification crysta...
2025-03-02 01:09:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey Archmage folks,
So Book 2 is rolling now with 2 chapters out already, and I wanted to let you know what's coming.
I'm going to be uploading chapters every day until you guys are about 40 chapters ahead of our RR friends. That's like 20 days of daily drops heading your way. I'll mi...
2025-03-01 00:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post"LAND HO! ARKHOS IN SIGHT!"
The shout jolted Adom from his half-doze, nearly sending him tumbling from his perch on the ship's bow. Three days at sea had taught him every comfortable spot on Captain Voss's vessel, and this particular nook, where the wooden railings curved just right, had be...
2025-02-28 22:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe waves whispered against the shore, a soft rhythm like someone humming a lullaby. Shhhh... shhhh... shhhh...
Something tickled against his leg. Sand, maybe. Warm and soft. The sun pressed against his closed eyelids, turning the darkness red-orange.
Five more minutes.
"Opre!" someone called from the bow. "More speed!"
The winter winds grew stronger.
The Veyshari boats had left Arkhos four hours ago, the city's lights now just a dim glow on the horizon. Morgana sat at the stern, watching the moonlight play on the dark, cold waters. She'd been waitin...
2025-02-26 14:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostDing. Dong. Ding. Dong.
2025-02-25 21:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
This one's not a chapter, but it's coming.
Just settling in with a cup of tea to tackle these final edits. I'll be uploading the last chapter today, after I'm done polishing up a few more sections and fixing some plot inconsistencies that you have pointed out and have b...
2025-02-24 17:14:56 +0000 UTC View PostFootsteps crunched in the snow outside Xerkes' walls. Back and forth, back and forth, leaving messy tracks in the pristine white.
"What do I do what do I do what do I DO?!"
Sam's voice cracked on the last word. He kept pacing, hands buried in his hair, completely ignoring the fact tha...
2025-02-23 17:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The hour of the wolf.
Coldest, darkest part of the night, when even the stars seem to dim and huddle together for warmth. When old folk say evil spirits walk freely, when madmen hear their demons clearest, when the world belongs more to monster than man.
A blizzard ripped through the ...
2025-02-22 06:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostDrip. Drip. Drip.
Valiant Maus perched on Thormund's massive shoulder, whiskers twitching in the damp air of the empty Undertow. The corridor stretched before them like the gullet of some ancient beast—all crumbling stone, flickering torchlight, and the constant drip-drip-drip of...
2025-02-20 04:01:12 +0000 UTC View PostDawn crept over the Dregs like a thief.
In the grey half-light, a rooster shifted on his perch, preparing for his sacred morning duty. Every morning since he could remember, he'd announced the sun's arrival to his corner of the world. The ritual was about to begin.
He puffed up his ch...
2025-02-20 03:54:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe Veyshari camp was alive with color and sound and constant motion, despite the winter chill. Steam rose from the massive bonfire at the center, its warmth a stark contrast to the cold sea breeze coming off the shore.
The massive bonfire roared at its heart, sparks dancing up into the dar...
2025-02-18 14:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turns out, an angry Stoneblood charging at you is a pretty terrifying sight. They're built like small mountains, and Fili, despite being one of the shorter ones, still had arms thick as tree trunks from all the smithing. Arms currently trying very hard to reach Adom's face.
"Wait- wha...
2025-02-16 08:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostQuestion.
How do you face the people you loved and buried?
Not in dreams, where everything feels half-real and fades with the morning light. Not in memories, growing fainter with each passing decade. But here, now, solid and warm and alive?
Adom had imagined this moment countles...
2025-02-16 07:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn a blink, Bob materialized inches from Adom's face. Adom yelped and stumbled backward, landing hard in the snow.
"Holy shi-!" Valiant's tail went rigid.
Adom chuckled, brushing snow from his cloak. "Bob, you really need to stop doing that when it's not expec-"
"Ya feckin' eeji...
2025-02-15 07:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post"By the way," Valiant said as they made their way through another identical-looking tunnel, "that whole 'prey' speech back there? Pretty edgy."
Adom kept his eyes on the path ahead, testing each step carefully. His body still felt strange - so smooth, so perfect. "What speech?"
"Oh, y...
2025-02-14 11:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostGhouls.
Adom's elementary school teacher,
2025-02-13 06:13:52 +0000 UTC View PostNorth.
That was where you went when you wanted out of a dungeon. Always north. Some scholars claimed it was tied to the magnetic fields that most dungeons generated, others thought it was just God's way of giving people a fighting chance. Not that it mattered much to Adom right now - knowin...
2025-02-12 00:05:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe cave system had no secrets left. Well, almost none. That crack in the eastern tunnel's ceiling - just wide enough to squeeze through if blasted open. The underwater passage in the northern section that probably led somewhere. Three potential escape routes, all mapped, all viable.
All us...
2025-02-10 05:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostJust give up.
Seriously.
There are moments in life when the situation becomes so utterly hopeless that all you can do is accept it. When the walls close in, when every path leads to a dead end, when fate itself seems to have written your final chapter - sometimes, the only peace comes...
2025-02-08 02:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post