Noah kept his eyes firmly on the mountains on the horizon as he directed the flying sword through the sky. The howl of the wind had faded to a distant whistle at the back of his head. It had been a day since Lee had found him.
They’d been traveling pretty much ever since, only stopping briefly to kill a few insignificant monsters that she spotted on the way. That had been just enough to...
2025-09-30 16:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostWallace and Koyu both woke not long after Uriel had left. Arwin was still standing there, Lillia cradled against his chest, staring at where the enormous suit of armor had stood just a short while ago.
“Where’s the daggum armor?” Wallace asked, looking around through a deeply furrowed brow. He tugged at his thick beard. “Did we fail?”
“Fail?” Koyu asked. “Look at you...
2025-09-30 16:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! I'm hyped to announce that Nightmare Realm Summoner is finally out on Amazon & Audible!
Amazon is kinda broken right now. It's not as bad as it was last week, but I really want to be able to write this series a long time...
2025-09-30 14:29:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that Arwin saw when he came to was gold. It blurred before his face like a molten sea of wealth, fading in and out of view in an undulating dance. A distant headache pounded in the back of his skull to the beat of a particularly inept conductor that really needed to be fired and his mouth tasted like ash and salt.
He grimaced, squeezing his eyes shut for a long second. The...
2025-09-29 15:55:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Is this meant to be an intimidation tactic?” Haley asked as Lillia sat down across from her in the back room of the Devil’s Den.
The dwarf’s two guards stood at her back — though any intimidation factor the three may have had was slightly reduced given that Haley’s head was only barely able to make it over the table. The chair wasn’t quite tall enough for her.
“Why ...
2025-09-29 15:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Wow,” Sticky breathed. The small demon’s neck craned back as she stared up at the crisscrossing rows of dim paper lanterns suspended over the street before them. They dangled from worn ropes, thin enough to be almost entirely swallowed by the night overhead.
The lanterns bobbed and danced in a faint breeze, the flames within them crackling merrily as a welcome wind coiled through t...
2025-09-29 15:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostAlex and the others continued through the Mirrorlands for around half an hour before making their return to the Ancestry. The chances of Crimson having left someone on watch for their return were a bit too high.
Fortunately, Alex stepped through the portal he had opened back open into the dank, fetid halls of the Ancestry, nobody was waiting for them. He stood in a dark hallway not too di...
2025-09-29 15:52:57 +0000 UTC View PostAlex eyes snapped open. Warped stone rose overhead, riddled with cracks and broken sections that gave way to the churning sky overhead. Coils of red and purple smoke roiled in the distance and the faint hiss of magic came from every direction around him.
His body seemed to have forgotten how to breathe. For that matter, it didn’t seem to remember how to move, either.
He laid perfe...
2025-09-28 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe dwarves were taking longer than Art had expected.
That wasn’t really too big of a problem. The mercenaries were certainly skilled, there was no doubt about that. But the Blacktongues clearly hadn’t expected an enormous amount of resistance. Compared to the teams Art had gone up against in the Proving Grounds… well, the mercenaries weren’t exactly at the same level.
The o...
2025-09-25 16:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostArwin lost himself in the song. His body moved to its own accord and the ring of Caldera against metal echoed through his mind like a distant drum. It was impossible to say for how long they’d been working, but it didn’t feel like it had been long.
He’d only managed to lead the group for a few minutes before he’d been forced to take a step back from the front. Keeping everyone syn...
2025-09-25 16:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostLee clung to Noah’s back as they tore through the sky upon his flying sword. Wind howled past them in a keening wail as the left Frostlake behind, hurtling away from the town and the frozen mountains behind it.
Noah felt a bit bad about stiffing the inn. Especially since Lee had destroyed their window upon her arrival — but there was no way he was going to sit around with a bunch of h...
2025-09-25 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA loud crunch split the din as Alex’s enormous anchor slammed home into the Herdmaster. Already damaged carapace shattered beneath the weapon and it dug deep into the center of the monster in a spray of blood.
Alex slammed feet-first into the monster, landing just a foot away from his anchor, an instant later. A powerful vibration raced up his legs and rattled the bones in his body from...
2025-09-24 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: I made some small tweaks to the chapter to improve the meeting between Noah & Lee. Nothing huge, but I think it makes the chapter a little more fun.
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Noah’s mind reeled. It took him nearly a second to process what he was seeing before a disbelieving laugh forced its way free from him. Lee was here. He had no idea how or where she’d come from, but it didn’t matt...
2025-09-24 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostArwin had just finished feeding Lillia’s food to the Infernal Armory when she rejoined him, Koyu, and Wallace in the smithy.
Lillia had retrieved the core from where it had been baking in her oven. She had it wrapped in a tablecloth, but Arwin felt its presence before she even had a chance to start unwrapping it.
He wasn’t the only one. Both Koyu and Wallace spun toward Lillia t...
2025-09-24 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostCaldera collided with the Golden Guardian’s head with an echoing crunch. The statue crumpled in on itself. Obsidian spikes of jagged, solidified magma tore out from beneath the hammer and sheared through the crumpling gold with loud shrieks.
Arwin’s blow slammed the statue back down into the ground and embedded it a foot within the stone like a squashed bug. The entire Guardian lurche...
2025-09-23 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m bored,” Grim said.
“Oh, don’t you start on me now,” Moxie growled. Stones shifted beneath her feet and she pressed her hand against the wall of the cave — though perhaps calling it a cliff face might have been more accurate.
The slope was so steep that it may as well have been a sheer drop. Even a mountain goat would have struggled immensely to try and find purcha...
2025-09-23 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostDinner came shortly after a bath — one which Arwin made absolutely certain not to be late for — and he joined the gathering members of the Menagerie in the bottom floor of the Devil’s Den.
The rest of the adventurers had vacated the premises for the night, and the only ones that still remained within the Den were back up in their rooms. Even though they were in the same building, Ar...
2025-09-23 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post“What did you do to Spark?” Claire hissed, ducking as a ball of roiling green fire slammed into the wall on the other side of their barrier, sending necrotic fire spraying down all around them, mercifully missing by just a few inches on every side.
“I made him stronger,” Alex replied.
A scream ended in a wet crunch, and a body flew across the room to crash into the side of t...
2025-09-22 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post“These are cards,” Mordred said, waggling the deck in his hands with the patience of a seasoned teacher. “They have identical backs, but their other side is completely different. Each one is unique.”
Lee stared at him.
“They’re made out of paper,” Mordred said. “They aren’t a weapon. There’s nothing to be concerned about, I can assure you. In fact, no animals wer...
2025-09-22 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostArwin and Lillia finished Rodrick’s armor before the sun had set over the Infernal Armory.
Like Arwin had expected, once the core was complete, everything else came far easier. It certainly helped that they weren’t trying to make anything overly fancy. The absolute last thing Rodrick needed was a set of armor that drew attention to itself.
The remaining Nightiron that Arwin had ...
2025-09-22 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe hot stench of death drove into Alex’s lungs like a punch as he threw himself through the hissing Mirrorlands portal and hit the ground of the Ancestry in a roll. Wet earth squelched beneath him. A brilliant flash of light followed by the roar of magic tore through the sky, momentarily blinding him.
He pressed himself to the wall just in front of the portal, keeping himself low and b...
2025-09-21 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostCold wind screamed through Ice Wretch Mountain like the ghastly howl of a scorned demon. Sleet and snow slashed through the mountain pass in thick sheets. The storm swallowed the sky itself, leaving behind nothing but a thick, stinging wall of white where the moon and stars should have been.
Countless bodies littered the pass that ran through Ice Wretch Mountain. Not a single one of them ...
2025-09-19 16:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe echo of ringing metal rolled through the Infernal Armory. The Mesh might no longer have guided any of his strikes, but it didn’t even matter. The Nightiron was practically forging itself. Every strike of Arwin’s hammer just gave it the energy it needed to move.
It was fascinating. The flaring energy from Caldera’s head flashed through the room like miniature fireworks, and Arwin...
2025-09-19 16:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostKien’s prediction proved to be right. The sound of rolling thunder heralded Arwin’s advance through the dungeon as he rung the walls like gongs, tearing the poor skeletons from their sleep before subsequently smashing them into a thousand little pieces.
It quickly became clear that the monsters in this dungeon hadn’t been prepared for a strategy like this. Their camouflage with the ...
2025-09-18 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostSeleth rubbed at her eyes. The cold night bit at her nose and lips. She wasn’t at all cut out for this environment, and the freezing mountain skin whipping her hair and slicing at her skin certainly wasn’t helping in the slightest.
She jabbed her hands under her armpits, teeth chattering. A new parasol bounced against her back with every new gust of wind. Ironically, that was one of t...
2025-09-18 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what was it you were going to tell me earlier?” Lillia asked as they watched rivers of black magma slither through the lines running throughout the floor of the Infernal Armory.
“Oh, right,” Arwin said, blinking and shaking his head. “Sorry. I got caught up and forgot. I think people have started to use the whole delivery as more of a dungeon bail out service. They’re int...
2025-09-18 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostArwin returned to the Infernal Armory with a pile of black metal chunks clutched in his arms like a chunky, malformed baby. A very heavy one. One with a lot of sharp edges and layers of dirt caking it from where it had been embedded within the wall of a dungeon.
Okay. Not really a baby at all.
Arwin stepped through the main door, breathing out a small sigh of relief as it c...
2025-09-17 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe haggard man stared at Noah in horror, his lips working but failing to muster up even the faintest of noises. His eyes were so wide that his irises may as well have been peas swimming in a white soup.
Noah tried not to be too impatient. His soul was still shifting as it adjusted to the new runes he’d just pulled into it. While they weren’t all that powerful, they were still R...
2025-09-17 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAlex’s eyes snapped back open. He was mildly relieved to find that he was still slung over Claire’s shoulder like a sack of potatoes. The scent of blood lingered in the air to mark the signs of what must have been a fairly recent fight.
He didn’t say anything immediately, instead focusing to see if he could hear the sounds of fighting or talking. They were, after all, in the Mirrorl...
2025-09-17 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Spare me, great Star Serpent!” There was a loud thump to Noah’s side as the haggard man threw himself to the ground and fell prostate before the enormous yellow eye peering down at the two of them. “Never has my faith wavered. I have offered up my sacrifices. I have kept to the pact. This newcomer is not of my doing. Please, spare me!”
“Weren’t you just praying to Renewal?...
2025-09-16 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post