Nate took a deep breath. Arikanvil had just dropped a bombshell on them. The Law of Reciprocity might keep the True Divine being in front of them from attacking them once they ascended, as being a Lesser Divine put them outside his strata. There would be no such protection from any Lesser Divines...
2025-03-13 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate suppressed his knee-jerk reaction to immediately deny Arikanvil. The tall, purple Divine watched them passively waiting for an answer and Nate used the moment to review everything he had deduced since their last meeting. Arikanvil was bound by the Law of Reciprocity. Everything he had done h...
2025-03-11 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostKiri stared at her falling body as she stood within her Soul Sanctuary. Two Soul Twins waited behind her, a third fading as she spent the contained soul energy within it to restore herself. Back in her body, completely restored, she was still falling towards the sand, but her focus was elsewhere....
2025-03-09 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostNate watched as the tree Evindal rode shifted to catch his falling wife. Portos didn’t seem inclined to let up and rushed for the finishing blow, only to lunge through a rift that opened up in front of him. The other end of the rift was in the sky so Portos appeared in the air above and immedia...
2025-03-06 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate shielded his eyes as light exploded across the sky like a miniature sun. When his vision had cleared there was no sign of the lightning tree and he could barely make out a figure that he assumed to be Aisling fleeing from a snake made of light. Destroying the lightning tree must have managed...
2025-03-04 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate stood in his room, checking himself over one last time. Five days had passed in a rush and the hour of their planned attack was fast approaching. Five days had felt like forever, and yet, it was still not enough. Not enough to be as prepared as he would have liked, at least. But he had finis...
2025-03-02 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBordain walked onto the battlefield, confident in his eminent superiority. Three days, he estimated. That was how much longer the Asmuisillans could hold out. Far to his left stalked Topaz. Today she had taken the form of a Feralli. Smaller than her usual forms, it only came up to his hip, but th...
2025-02-27 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNate tried very hard not to be distracted by the thoughts running rampant through his mind. He failed miserably. The night with Britt had been bittersweet but the morning had come and they still hadn’t talked about what they were. It seemed to him that his girlfriend was evading the discussion ...
2025-02-25 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDetermining the exact nature and content of the deal Nate made with Asmuisil had taken far longer than the initial discussion. In the end, Nate got everything he wanted. Promise of payment of enough Stat Orbs to max out both Kiri and himself at level sixty. Of course, he hadn’t told them his le...
2025-02-23 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat in what he assumed was one of the logistics tents of the Asmuisillan Army, under guard. His escort had handed him off quickly to someone of a higher rank, who had done the same, until Nate had found himself seated in this tent, surrounded by a squad of six mid-Golds. He’d already check...
2025-02-20 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNate teleported across the plains, headed in the direction of where Bordain’s forces faced off against an Asmuisillan army. After spending time talking through his experiences with Aisling and Evindal, and his discovery of the tier beyond Mythic, they had all agreed that their initial plan need...
2025-02-18 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNate held the golden flower in his hands as it vibrated with a powerful affinity for Life. With a simplistic rune he was denying the flower access to the ambient mana but, even with that protection in place, he could feel the Concepts within the flower butting up against his Barrier. He could eve...
2025-02-16 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNate stopped talking immediately, doing his utmost not to contribute to the chaos.
“One at a time,” demanded Aisling, her tone brooking no dissent.
Everyone stopped talking. Everyone, except for Kiri, who used the opportunity to drive the topic in the direction she desired.
...
2025-02-13 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNate had taken to painting a new wall within his room. The delay of one hour before they would gather to talk had been extended after Kiri sensed Evindal approaching the city. With that delay, everyone had taken up various tasks to keep themselves busy and Kiri had gone to find Evindal. Deverell ...
2025-02-11 19:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostNate had frozen for a moment seeing who was arrayed against them. Three Platinums was a problem on its own and one he wasn’t sure they could challenge. Especially not with the Guildies they had just rescued unarmed and unarmoured. But those concerns paled against being in Bordain’s presence w...
2025-02-09 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNate walked across the grass of the University calmly. Luc and Deverell were close by on his left with Kiri and Aisling to his right. Frick was waiting patiently inside of his Runic Gallery. Two runic arrays hovered around him and were taking up most of his focus. The Illusion rune hid them from ...
2025-02-06 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKiri sat on the edge of the bed in the Den of Desire, the two women before her nodding eagerly.
“You’re sure?” she asked Florence.
“I am,” the woman responded. “He was gloating about it. How they had dragged the Enchanter out of his bed and onto the University grounds. He ...
2025-02-04 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat around one of the workshop tables with Aisling, Deverell and Jacque as they waited for Kiri to return with Luc. The apprentices were asleep in their own room as it was already reasonably late in the evening. Frick was off working on one of the mana collection sites. Aisling and Deverell ...
2025-02-02 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate stood by the wall, his Brush of a Thousand Paints carefully colouring in the stone wall of the room he shared with Kiri. His sister lay on the bed behind him, watching from beneath the blanket as he painted a picture that was meant to represent her rebirth. The idea of being reborn was hard ...
2025-01-30 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNate glanced for the third time at the last System notification.
Congratulations on regenerating multiple limbs of a sapient being using the Concept of Life.
Your achievement has been recorded.
He was racking up Life Concept-related Achievements and was quietly confident t...
2025-01-28 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate stepped up beside one of the workshop tables sculpted from the earth of the cavern. Aisling flanked him as Kiri set Deverell down on the cold stone, disturbing a small amount of dust in the process.
“...is he dead?” a small voice asked.
Nate glanced back at Callum, the young ...
2025-01-26 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAn orb of light hovered above Nate's head, allowing him to stare up at the roof of the cave that loomed far above him. The sound of the ocean reverberated all around as he evaluated the space that had once served as both hideout and warehouse for a group of smugglers. Detritus was all that was le...
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After a bit of a delay, Book 2 is now out on Audible. For those of you who were waiting, here you go!
2025-01-22 22:46:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Where in the Capital?” asked Morgane.
“Where would you like to go in the Capital?” Nate countered.
“Is the Capital the best option?” asked the Marquess. “We should approach House Korinth and House Pleras. With Thane dead, the Duke and Duchess may support y...
2025-01-21 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, I went on the CritRPG Podcast recently and the videos just dropped. If you want to hear me ramble on for an hour the links are below. It was a fun experience!
https://critrpgpodcast.com/en-aud/
Duchess Desmarais looked upon the tree and frowned at the two burned ribbons. The Twins, her daughters, had passed from this world. She had wondered, if when they eventually failed and died, if she would feel anything at their loss. Remorse perhaps? Or regret? They had been tools she intended to ...
2025-01-19 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCoralie appeared inside the teleportation room within her mother’s villa, lying on the floor and sobbing. She had failed. Worse, she had failed, and killed the woman she loved in the process. Slamming her fists against the floor, she wailed. Why had Kiri done that? Why!?! It wasn’t fair! The ...
2025-01-16 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostNate smiled at Kiri through his weariness, his sister keeping an arm around him as they stumbled back to camp. Even with the healing restoring his body, his Feather of Renewal feeding on a constant stream of mana, the repairs didn’t change the fact that he was bone-tired. Both physically and em...
2025-01-14 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOn the advice of some other authors and my publisher I am debating changing the pricing and tiers for Patreon. Details below:
$1, $3 & $6 Tiers would remain the same and be grandfathered.
New tiers would be $2 for 3 chapters and $10 for all available chapters (min...
2025-01-12 19:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostNate appeared beyond the line of tents behind the Etruan Third Army just in time to witness the monstrous shapeshifting assassin whip a three-clawed hand at the Princess or Hildi. He couldn’t tell which of the two women it was. The assassin's arm moved so fast it blew away the nearby grass befo...
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