Dan clenched his jaw and weaved side to side as he tried to avoid the sudden influx of shots directed his way. Only a handful of second had passed since he began charging Best’s powered armor, but his regret was immediate. Unsurprisingly, most of the defenders focused o...
2020-06-29 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
I noticed a lot of new faces so I wanted to say hi to everyone and welcome you aboard. You'll notice a lot of posts related to my other (much longer running) web serial, Viceroy's Pride.
I am updating Blessed Time in a different fashion, namely periodic PDFs w...
Dan frowned into the binoculars, adjusting them slightly to compensate for the lurching mech beneath him. It was hard to tell which of the squat concrete buildings clustered on the outskirts of the City were built by Peter Best’s forces, and which had already been there. &nbs...
2020-06-27 19:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post
With a whir and a crunch the fifteen foot tall robot plowed forward through the drab scrub next to the highway. They only had about ten of the mechs retrofitted to run on mana, and at William’s suggestion they weren’t running them on the roads. According to William they were too ...
2020-06-27 19:34:09 +0000 UTC View Post
San Francisco lay smoldering in the early dawn light. Dan took a sip of coffee, wincing at the liquid’s heat and bitterness as he took in the devastation. Between the drones and the Viceroy, a good portion of the skyline was leveled in attempts to break up clusters of resi...
2020-06-27 19:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan fumed in the Viceroy’s engine room. They’d have to find and train another spatial mage sooner or later because he was absolutely sick of being sidelined during important battles. The Viceroy could fly and fire its main cannon without him, but a voidship with...
2020-06-27 19:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post
“I’m really not sure how I feel about being turned into glorified construction equipment,” Dan massaged his wrist, trying to work the pain from repetitive runecrafting out of the protesting joint.
“Look Thrush,” Abe replied leaning back in the conference room’s chai...
2020-06-27 19:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan walked through the small factory, the whir of efficient machinery a pleasant backdrop as he inspected operations. It’d taken them almost a month to raid labs and auto manufacturing plants across the former United States to acquire all of the equipment they needed to equip the p...
2020-06-27 19:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostI know that I have some readers that are interested in advanced chapters of Blessed Time (which I actually have a substantial backlog for).
I am editing these as I post them on Royal Road, but attached please find early pdf versions of Arcs I and II of Blessed Time
“Please don’t” the stylized face on the screen shook its head worriedly. “Doing so would kill me and I’d very much prefer to avoid that.”
“You’d be surprised how many people say that to me right before I kill them,” Abe replied, craning his head around t...
2020-06-05 05:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan grunted slightly as he cleared the lip of the building. Overhead, clouds obscured the moon and stars. In stark contrast to the dark nights of Miami, brought on by rationed fuel and electricity, San Diego was bright enough to see from orbit. Dan smiled slightly. ...
2020-05-29 05:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan squinted as he tried to make sense of the report in front of him. At some point the numbers blurred together into an incomprehensible smear. He knew that the tallies of ammunition, equipment, food, and combat ready soldiers probably made sense to someone, but to him t...
2020-05-27 02:27:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Four hours came and went in a flash. No one attacked their landing site although Abe’s men noticed a couple of wary scouts keeping an eye on the major streets leading in and out of the area they’d claimed, but by and large they left Dan’s companions alone.
They used...
2020-05-22 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hold up,” Dan put up his free hand to stop Abe. “We should probably get William out here. He has more clout than me among ex-soldiers and frankly he just talks a better game than I do.”
“Fair enough,” Abe replied before turning to the armored sold...
2020-05-18 06:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post
“They’re moving awfully fast,” Dan remarked to Abe before he started jogging toward the gunfire.
“I guess,” Abe replied, each one of his armor’s longer strides accounting for one of Dan’s. “We made a lot of noise when we came in. Appearing out...
2020-05-16 20:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post
“I still think we should have bumped ‘Big Willie Style’ for this operation,” Abe groused while slouched in an overly ornate chair on the bridge of the Viceroy’s Pride.
“Once you and the rest of the ground forces have touched down you can put whatever you wa...
2020-05-14 05:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
“How the fuck did you get the entire 432nd Operations Group,” General Richard’s seat crashed to the floor a second after he bolted to his feet. “Did you just walk into an airforce base and walk out with it?”
“More or less?” Dan shrugged while William snicker...
2020-05-11 06:05:39 +0000 UTC View Post
“This feels illegal,” Jennifer said for the fifth time as they snuck through the airbase’s perimeter.
“And you sound like a narc,” Abe whispered back. “What laws are we breaking? We’re in no man’s land and the troops stationed here abandoned this pla...
2020-05-07 06:16:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“I think that we’ve been operating aimlessly for too long,” Dan stood, addressing Abe, Sam, Jennifer, and WIlliam in the boardroom of the Viceroy’s Pride. “It’s been brought to my attention that these last couple of months we’ve been ‘running around lik...
2020-05-04 06:19:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan growled in frustration as the electricity running through his palms and into a pair of metal rods grounded out with a flash of ozone. He’d forgotten how frustrating developing a new spell was. By now he could cast all of his favorites as if they were second nature. ...
2020-04-30 06:03:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn addition to Viceroy's Pride I've been writing a couple other books. Burning Stars Falling Skies is reaching the end of book one, but I've also been working on a more traditional LitRPG. Sort of.
I'm not sure I'm physically capable of writing a vanilla LitRPG/Isekai (I like r...
“I owe you HOW much money,” Mayor DuBlanc massaged her temples as she sat across from Dan in her office. “That’s literally twice my annual discretionary budget.”
She paused squinting at Dan before sighing. “I suppose you’re going to want that in goods ...
2020-04-27 07:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan walked tiredly out of the landing craft, dragging the severed head of the Orakh leader behind him while Jennifer fiddled with the oversized gauntlet. Unfortunately, the damaged armor and dead soldiers were far too heavy for the two of them to extricate on their own. A...
2020-04-23 07:16:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The remainder of the Orakh spread out, allowing Dan to approach but cutting Jennifer off. They formed a rough ring around the hall, blocking Jennifer out but not taking any action against her. The gigantic Orakh dropped the armored body and hoisted its axe, quickly crossi...
2020-04-20 07:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Both of the .50 machine guns opened fire at the same time, drowning out the boats’ engines. The bullets scythed through the band of Orakh milling about the landing craft. Abe didn’t even have to aim, the Orakh were so densely packed that most of the bullets passed thr...
2020-04-14 05:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The boats were silent other than their outboard motors as they drove toward the sounds of shooting. Dan took in the murky afternoon light and the brackish swamp water as they wove through the cypress trees. He wasn’t exactly excited to go back into combat without a full...
2020-04-13 05:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
They waited. Honestly, Dan wasn’t very upset. Jennifer, Abe and him ended up playing cards while William kept an eye on the recruits to keep them from doing anything stupid under the influence of mana. Of course, Jennifer wiped the floor with both him and Abe, but...
2020-04-09 14:43:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan walked toward the sound of yelling. Around him, the seventeen remaining recruits were stacking Orakh bodies under Abe’s supervision. The work was dull, sweaty, and occasionally messy when a body would twitch a little too much and have to be ‘rekilled.’ He ...
2020-04-08 05:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The giant Orakh shouted something incomprehensible at Dan while clearly pointing at him. He grimaced slightly, wishing he still had one of the translation helmets that they used on Twilight. He’d stopped using the clunky thing when he returned to Earth. After all,...
2020-04-06 05:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The steady chatter of machine gun fire drowned out the usual sounds of the swamp. Both of the 50 calibers mounted on their landing craft’s prows swept back and forth across the island, trying to clear enough space of Orakh for the rest of the team to disembark. Occasion...
2020-04-02 03:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post