Arthur nursed his throat. The wound that had been troubling him for so long, delivered by a corpse puppet, was finally gone, and it felt strange finally touching unmarked flesh after so long. Following his interrogation, Arthur had been brought to humanity's last remaining stronghold with the help of a dimensional mage. It was a massive city, capable of housing hundreds of thousands, situated i...
2025-10-07 23:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostA/N- First and foremost, I apologise for not posting any updates on Patreon or RR about when releases would return to normal. i won't apologise for not writing, because life made sure that was out of my control over the last month, but a quick update— a single sentence even— probably would have been welcome. I wasn't going to release anything until next week, but a comment over on RR, lef...
2025-10-03 23:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostArthur stared at Vira, taking in the positions of everyone around him. He was perfectly surrounded, with no avenue of escape, not that he could attempt it right now anyway, with the state of his body. The naked hostility in everyone's eyes was clear as day, and he could tell they were itching for violence. Maverick, unfortunately, seemed to be drifting in and out of consciousness, so there...
2025-08-29 00:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostWovan's teleport was far more stable than anything Arthur had experienced before, though with the current condition of his body, he was still left reeling and dizzy from the sensation. Sprawling to his side, Arthur hacked up a piece of flesh he didn't try to identify and vomited the contents of his stomach onto the ground. Arthur rolled onto his back and stared at the fiery Haadran sky.
H...
2025-08-06 23:12:52 +0000 UTC View PostAN- I apologise for not posting in a while. My life's gone through a little upheaval over the past few weeks and I've had little to no time for my writing. The good news however, is that because of said changes in my life, I now have far more time on my hands to dedicate to my writing, which you'll hopefully be seeing the effects of in the coming months. Once again, I truly am sorry for my exte...
2025-07-29 23:35:53 +0000 UTC View PostTravelling through shadows was always a strange experience. Even though it was near instantaneous, Arthur always experienced a slight delay while in the shadow realm. As heightened as his senses were right now with his elevated stats, that delay felt even longer. Arthur saw more. For the first time, he was able to see the shadow realm in greater detail—a place of darkness and silence, and at ...
2025-07-08 20:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the chapter delay. I've been finalising edits for Etherious: Originator, which will be released a few hour after you read this chapter. Please check it out and advertise it wherever you can. Word of mouth goes a long way.
Chapter begin->
Arthur's first instinct w...
2025-06-30 21:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostArthur placed his inscriber on the blackboard. The tool was made from some kind of metal and incredibly cold to touch, well below freezing if he wasn’t mistaken. Temperatures were hard to judge these days. It was also incredibly light, weighing about as much as an ordinary ballpoint pen. Arthur looked at Cyprus and then the rune he’d drawn. The old elf smiled at him, seemingly content to wa...
2025-06-25 22:39:16 +0000 UTC View PostArthur was hit by a wave of nostalgia as he looked down at his desk. It had been recreated from his memories in perfect detail and he lost himself looking at the doodles before him. Swallowing thickly, he turned his attention back to Cyprus, who seemed content to wait for however long it took Arthur to get his bearings.
Arthur moved his desk to the front of the classroom. The only other c...
2025-06-20 22:34:13 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement at chapter end->
Rosano walked through the scorching desert, trailing his wayward partner. Mysha had taken him on a wild goose chase and Rosano had long ago learned there was no point arguing with her when she got like this. His best friend was insane, her mind broken beyond all shadow of a doubt, but he’d learned to trust her minor bouts of lucidity. It wa...
2025-06-18 22:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostWith her guardian knight gone, Arthur dealt with Maya in less than twenty seconds. Isaiah had been carrying heavily in that fight and with him out of the picture, Maya quickly followed. Arthur spent the next few minutes going through the corpses of all his slain enemies, searching for loot. He'd yet to find a single monster core in all the deepstone gremlins he'd killed and he was beginning to ...
2025-06-13 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostWith the Magma Serpent dead, most of the waiting predators slunk away and returned to their territories. Not all of them, though, and Arthur was forced to spend the next twenty minutes battling an increasingly bizarre series of monsters. Wovan was returned to his soul core to recover—while she was a force to be reckoned with, this wasn’t the carefully selected battle her first fight had bee...
2025-06-11 22:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostWovan began the battle without delay. Her two revived bodies teleported down to land on the Magma Serpent's back, right on the spot where a falling boulder had cracked its scales. The spiders immediately attacked the weakened area, using their legs to pry the cracked scales away and expose the pale flesh beneath. Wovan had a pitiful strength stat, but she made up for it by using telekinesis to ...
2025-06-04 23:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostA significant portion of Arthur’s powers came from the numerous titles he had to his name. He wouldn’t be mistaken in saying that it was the cornerstone upon which his build was crafted, the only reason why it was viable. Titles truly were what separated the extraordinary from the mundane. With Wovan able to gain her own, Arthur had already decided he’d do whatever he could to ensure she ...
2025-05-29 22:31:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt took all of ten minutes to explain to the little avatar why giving away ownership of the planet was a very bad idea. Their visitor outside seemed content to wait and Iris wasn’t in a hurry to meet them either. This was far too important to rush, anyway. The fate of the world quite literally hung in the balance.
In the end, with Alyssia’s help, she’d finally managed a secure...
2025-05-27 22:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostScotland, Iris had to admit, was a very beautiful place. It was a shame, then, that her first time visiting the country had to be marred by such horrible memories. Finding the Fell humans had been incredibly easy; she could track Arthur’s blood from three galaxies away. Taking them out had been even easier, and with Alyssia assisting her, it was impossible for anyone to run away.
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2025-05-22 23:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Arthur's foot hit hard rock, he almost jumped for joy. The perfect Homunculus, he decided, was a species that didn’t get along well with sand. Raising his hand, he touched the bandage wrapped around his neck. He still hadn’t managed to heal the damage the Corpse Eater had dealt him, but his efforts had at least prevented him from bleeding so profusely.
Now he was losi...
2025-05-20 22:33:04 +0000 UTC View PostArthur stood in front of the warp gate. It was one of seven situated in the Agroth’s basement and led directly to Haadran. Although the warp gate prevented hostiles from crossing over, it didn’t stop the extreme heat from passing through. The temperature was beyond anything that could occur naturally on Earth, the type of heat that would kill an unclassed human inside of six hours. 2025-05-15 22:24:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The last time Arthur had set foot in Manchester, he’d been seven years old. It had been thirteen years since then, and the place hadn’t changed a bit. He still hated the place. It was like someone had taken everything dull and dystopian about city life and made an altar to it. That was how he'd describe Manchester.
Arthur was being biased. He knew that. He didn’t hate the plac...
2025-05-13 22:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostSolana's question lingered in the air. Why had she had to kill him?
Arthur stared at the small mist construct and considered her question. “No, I think I've figured it out,” he eventually replied. “It’s about Wovan, isn’t it?”
“Correct,” Solana jumped down from her perch on the flask and began pacing around. “I don’t think you understand the gravity of w...
2025-05-08 22:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Solana's fist touched Arthur Ward, powerful figures began to move. Lady Selyca was one of them. She’d had her eye trained on the trio for a while, but when Giants Bane attacked, she was too slow to react. Everyone was. Cursing up a storm, she called her teleportation mages and prepared for the worst. The fallout from this would be huge. An Originator had just died under her watch, ...
2025-05-06 22:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostLooking Through all the gains he'd made from the last battle, Arthur was a little surprised.
Augmented Recovery has reached level 2...
Reflective Shield has reached level 4...
Armaments of the Soul has reached level 2...
Cloaked blade has reached level 3...
Sure, he’d used all of the skills while...
2025-05-06 22:31:28 +0000 UTC View PostBig Announcement at the end of the chapter
2nd chapter of the week will most probably be delayed till monday. It's all written up but needs an editing pass which I may/may not be able to get done today.
Chapter Begin->
Arthur was dying to see Wovan too, but he wanted to clean things up first. “Just give me a moment to deal with this,” he said, almost chuck...
2025-05-04 22:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe bounty hunters were naturally taken aback by Arthur's brutal attack; some looked away and a few looked like they were about to puke. Arthur didn’t blame them. What he’d just displayed wasn’t standard battle practice, it was savage violence, pure and simple. When boiled down to its core concept, that was what true combat was, not an art form but the desire to kill your foe by whatever ...
2025-04-24 10:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing Arthur did was recall Wovan, something he’d learned was possible the moment his Soul Splinter was fully formed. The ten deadly spiders flashed red before disappearing, returning to his soul core, the place where his soul splinter would now live, it seemed. Arthur was dying to test his new minion in battle and take a deeper look at her abilities but pitting her against a group ...
2025-04-23 00:13:21 +0000 UTC View PostIn a field of grass and rolling hills, somewhere in the North of England, the universe bore witness to the birth of Wovan, The Hivemind Construct. The monster's core had become an egg of sorts, swelling to the size of a large bathtub before shrinking into the proportions of a small beach ball. The red light it had been emitting for the last few minutes finally grew dim before winking out entire...
2025-04-17 23:39:54 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay everyone. I was dealing with a number of irl issues, primarily amongst them some terrible back pain that prevented me from doing day to day tasks. Things have improved slightly on that end, but I don't know how long the recovery process will be. That being said, releases should be returning to their usual 2 chapters a week. No promises, but that number may be rising to 3 cha...
2025-04-15 22:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostArthur would have loved to see the rest of the battle unfold. He was sure Alyssia was about to deliver a performance for the ages. Unfortunately, he had more pressing matters to worry about. Namely, the fact that reality itself was breaking down around him.
Besides his class pinnacle skill, The Homunculus Hunts, Arthur only had one more ability that interacted with auras,...
2025-03-16 02:02:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe ritual started innocently enough. Once Arthur had everything in place, he stood at the edge of his blood painting. He crouched and double and triple-checked if he was in the right position. Finally, when he realised all he was doing was delaying, Arthur sat down cross-legged on the hard wooden floor. It wasn’t the most comfortable position, but it was necessary. Putting a cushion down cou...
2025-03-12 01:31:17 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the chapter delay this past week and a half. As you most probably know, Book 3 of Etherious was just released and I've been busy caught up in all the work that goes into making sure a book's launch is as successful as possible. Suffice to say, I've had very little time for writing. That being said, things will be going back to there normal 2 chapters a week schedule next week. The day...
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