Hey everyone! Thanks so much for continuing to support Battleforged. I'm grateful to you all, humbled that you've all stuck around for this long, and I'm excited for Eric's future and your part in shaping his tale!
I always try to be true to my characters and my sense of their flow, but I think I've reached a solid point in the story where Eric's adventures could evolve in all sorts...
2024-10-15 00:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The surprised looks being sent his way by hundreds of Administrators in their changshan tunics, turbans, robes, and three-piece suits was gratifying, and the desperate promises messaged to him from a handful of women wearing silken kimonos, qipaos, enchanted blouses, and power suits was surprising. He was just grateful to sense people fleeing from the various counsel chambers.
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Servant-Master bonds are now in effect!
You are now GLOWING with Hyperion Radiation!
You have FAILED to save versus Excruciating Pain!
You have been struck by Titanic Blow!
438 Physical Resistance & Cuirass of The Underlord reduces Annihilating Blow to Critical Injury!
Eric’s world had become one of se...
2024-10-11 05:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostYuki, taking small solace in being surrounded by friends and future classmates every bit as exhausted and overwhelmed as she was upon their floating force dome piloted by a headmaster who looked as worn out as everyone else, leaned her head against the boy she had every intention of claiming the moment they landed, no matter the consequences. And the look in his cheeky grin brought a flu...
2024-10-07 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Extra long chapter today. 2 Parts! Please enjoy.
“Svena? I have a bad feeling about this.”
Svena, face covered in grime and exhaustion even through the faceplate of her power armor, gave her closest elven friend a bemused look, before turning to regard the pair of imperial agents standing beside their employer, all three now staring at Svena and her compani...
2024-10-04 04:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh fucking hell, this is bad.” Eric swallowed the awful surge of dismay he felt. His furious sense of triumph of minutes before, the sweet endless rush of shockingly fast travel of just moments before, that wondrous fiery flicker of hope… had just died to bitter ashes before the mocking laughter of his most hated foe as he forced himself to face the sight before him.
What a ...
2024-09-30 03:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“Rich? Do you think we’re going to make it?”
Yuki swallowed her own stupid words, flinching at the scowls and despairing looks on so many faces, even if her words had been too soft for any newly reforged level 0 apprentice to hear.
Richard Li smiled as he leaned beside her, giving the hand he held a gentle squeeze. “Absolutely!” His eyes lit up with a b...
2024-09-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Eric laughed with mad, furious exultation. Because final days or no, he was REVELING in the sheer rush of growing in strength and power and sheer glorious HATE as he glared down at the countless nightmare swarm of locusts that had consumed an entire province in less than a day.
An entire province.
In less than 24 hours.
And just a few miles away, protected ...
2024-09-23 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHe fought off growing panic at the inevitability of a bitter cruel mocking fate that he REFUSED to accept any twisted cards trying to link him and his world to and instead focused on the glorious shining silvery cord of possibility that made this endless night the farthest thing from an apocalyptic tragedy. Because here and now, unlike as was the case for countless struggling souls in co...
2024-09-20 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Eric howled with manic mirth, no matter his blindness, no matter his temporary Unified Restoration Suppression.
What mattered was that his army was growing like never before. Infravision and an absolutely absurd Perception meant that he could easily make out the battlefield with all its exquisite nuances and degrees of heat, much as he had once used to hunt rats in pit...
2024-09-16 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Bunbun, report!”
For endless, agonizing moments, Eric heard nothing, even as he raced for the heavens once more, the air going bitter cold and thin before he turned back around and dove with a hawk’s fury, the air screaming with the charge of his revenants racing beside him. Working with increasing practice and cohesion, they kept an extremely tight formation to minimize air...
2024-09-13 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Eric! They’re swarming! There’s too many of them! The sky is black with locusts!"
Eric took a ragged breath, heart spiking with panic as he snarled and raced through the sky faster… faster… as fast as he fucking could. As fast as 60 Usain Bolts cracking Mach 2 as the shrieking air kissed his face no worse than the breeze he needed to suck great big gulps in...
2024-09-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Yuki's POV
Gore from the fresh screams of yet another Paladin perishing despite their best efforts spattered across Yuki’s face as she screamed with the glory of her very first ascension and what a breathless Richard assured her would normally be the beginning of Core Compression if she was prudent and wanted the best possible Bronze ascension… but that was...
2024-09-05 04:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Yuki's POV
Yuki’s heart was pounding. Her lips were dry and cracked, her mouth tasting of iron and despair. Senren whimpered along with half a dozen other students, and Richard was pleading with someone or something with feverish intensity and all Yuki could do was stare as Headmaster Wyrmwood’s voice roared with desperate urgency.
“Retrieve the Pal...
2024-09-02 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N POV - Eric's future classmates!
Yuki, fully kitted in lamellar armor, squeezed the hilt of her ko-naginata, glaring through the protective force dome over the flying disk that she and all the Mistridge classmates that had joined her were now riding, more than a few shivering from fear far more than wonder as they gazed out at the scene of horror in the dista...
2024-08-30 04:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Bonus Chapter! Please enjoy :)
“Eric, there are too many of them!”
Eric snarled his hate for the massive swarm of locusts below. A swarm so vast that his heart had lurched the moment he saw the mile wide devastation as multiple paths demarcated by wreckage and massive stumps had coalesced, less than five miles from the border between ascendi...
2024-08-28 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - I actually have a SURPLUS! YAY! And you know what that means... extra bonus chapter coming in two days!
Eric’s heart was pounding with a growing sense of urgency as he tore through the air, racing to the next hot spot, the air filled with the sharp chirps and grinding squeals as he slowed his pace enough to glare down at the scene of absolute devastation below. The...
2024-08-26 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostElonia's POV - Eric's back next chapter!
“I demand you unhand me at once!” Sir Fesspot roared, now covered in smoking burns as gold bands were wrapped around him and all four of the now hogtied and blindfolded goblins. Fesspot’s tweed jacket seemed to boil as if it had been sewn together with fibers far less stable than wool.
The souls of his victims, El...
2024-08-23 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Elonia's POV
“Your position is not quite so secure as you seem to think, Elonia Silver!” Sneered the stick-thin bureaucrat dressed in tweed gazing up at the cool demeanor of the queen before him. He paid no mind to the pair of paladins stationed to either side of Elonia’s throne, mithril halberds resting upon the marble tiles that could so easily be used...
2024-08-19 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Eric exchanged a fierce grin with his familiar. “We’re fucking doing it, Bun! Raising high level locusts just like those fucking orcs of last year! Has it been a year? Just weeks? Fuck if I know. Fuck if I care! How you feelin’ Bunbun?”
“Incredible, fearless leader!” Bunbun hooted, crimson lightning crackling from her ears to fork between a half dozen locus...
2024-08-16 03:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Eric came back to himself with a gasp, his feeling of utter euphoria turning to dismay when he found himself in the heart of a roaring inferno, with everything within fifty meters utterly obliterated.
Dismay turned to panicked alarm.
“Fuck! Elly! Bennet! Are you guys okay? Roboro Vuentus! Iram Ignis! Plures Attentio!”
He didn’t bother trying to formul...
2024-08-12 03:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Please… help me!”
A desperate cry rang through the darkness as Eric came to with a gasp. Somehow he wasn’t surprised to find himself back in the concrete and steel bunker that stunk of rust, blood and death that had come so close to spelling his end, just days ago.
He gasped in horrified dismay, to see the girl who had come so close to killing him now bound in horrif...
2024-08-09 03:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post* This is Liutenant Rake of Silver Wolves! Rising Sun, do you copy? Rising Sun! *
Svena glared at the lush foliage all around her, wiping the humidity off her faceplate.
“Fucking hell, Bennett. Flying swarms of giant insects that would be a nightmare for anyone not wearing powered armor are bad enough! We also got giant spiders filling entire forest wi...
2024-08-05 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Sanguis Fulmin!” Bunbun cried, crimson bolts of crackling death flashing in a jagged arc to strike and chain between the trio of now smoking wasps that had been a heartbeat away from striking them with their spear-like poison-tipped stingers.
Only to rejoin their arachnid phalanx leader, seconds later.
“Surge Centuria! Imperator Imperat Tibi!”
...
2024-08-02 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Seriously? You're offering me another diplomatic mission?” Eric chuckled, though when his familiar hopped up and claimed the envelop before returning to his side, he didn’t hesitate to take it.
“Indeed,” the Silver-tier headmaster assured, eyes twinkling. “Should you find yourself heading to New York…”
“Or Boston,” Elonia said with an anxious smile of her...
2024-07-29 03:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Exciting News! Book 4 of Battleforged will be coming out on KU shortly! To celebrate, I'm releasing a fat (nearly 8000 word!) Chapter. I hope you enjoy!
Richard’s excited nod was followed by them all crossing the sparkling bridge. Morlekai and Alice tried to play it cool, but their wide-eyed looks of wonder were the equal of Richard’s own. Jack, Yuki, and M...
2024-07-26 03:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Thanks again for your patience, everyone. I do hope you enjoy the chapter! - After this will be another slice-of-life chapter on Friday and then Eric will get back to doing what he does best before the school arc! And Eric will do his best to cram ALOT in before the new semester!
Eric could only focus on dreams of conquest and the financial mecca he’d...
2024-07-23 02:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
“Captain Arnor of the Blood Ravens. You’re timing is perfect!” Eric said with a perfectly straight face. “So, you got the interface message I shot your way? I was afraid it wouldn’t cross different domains. I’m not that strong yet, but you’re elite, so why wouldn’t you get a business message?”
The mech-warrior slowly shook his head. “Sorry, kid. We’re no...
2024-07-19 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“I just sent a message to Queen Elonia. I hope she likes my gift.”
Eric scowled. “You just gave her Queensland. You’re trying to impress her.”
Richard flashed a shameless smile. “Wouldn’t you want to impress the most beautiful girl in the entire world?”
“Not if she’s my sister!”
Richard gave him a look. “Well, she certainly isn...
2024-07-15 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank fuck, they’re backing off!” Jack said with a relieved curse after just a handful of minutes, the Blood Ravens playing it cool enough, slowing down and flying back around with a final wave of a salute before heading back.
Marsha flashed a weak smile. “Maybe they were just giving us a, um, honor guard? It makes sense, right? We did just sign a major treaty with them an...
2024-07-12 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post