In the aftermath of the fighting, a small army of gold and silver rankers were sweeping the area for escape tunnels, traps and anyone who had managed to hide away. The adventurers were a combined force of the Sapphire Crown guild, who served the royal family, and Amouz family members. The Amouz family had volunteered in numbers that surprised even Liara, whose husband was born into it.
Ki...
2022-02-03 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHavi Estos was not used to feeling insignificant. His connections spanned from the very top of society to the very bottom, and he was valuable enough to both that he had secured his position as the consummate middleman. He was also a successful former silver-rank adventurer. Perhaps not from a top guild, but certainly from a respectable one, and any adventurer that could hold their own in Rimar...
2022-02-02 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe streets of Livaros were thronging with people as the central areas were overtaken by a sprawling street festival. The market district was the heart of the post-surge celebrations, but it extended into the boutique store ward and even the Adventure Society campus. Tables had been brought out and food stalls were everywhere, while the Magic Society had released thousands of colour-changing pa...
2022-02-01 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Now that Dawn has scarpered,” Jason said, “I’m half of a mind to do the same. Bottle up the pagoda, portal out and bunk off. No one would notice, right?”
Jason and his friends were sitting around a long table eating lunch.
"Of course, someone would notice," Rufus said. "There are twelve people observing the building right now."
“Seventeen,” Jason and Estella cor...
2022-01-31 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a lengthy seclusion in his cloud house, still presenting itself as a pagoda, Jason was finally open to meeting with at least some of the people clamouring for his attention. There was no shortage of them, following his series of ostentatious displays, ranging from the opportunistic to the concerned. Not concerned for Jason, for the most part, but about him.
Of thos...
2022-01-28 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason and Dawn were standing in front of the arch that would take them out of his soul space and back into normal reality.
“Worried about giving up god-like power?” Dawn asked.
“Oddly, no. I feel like maybe not having limits isn’t so good for my mentality. I think I’m starting to understand why the World-Phoenix wanted to keep you grounded with mortal sensibility.”
Jason’s astral throne was a hammock chair. He made a spreading gesture and it became a hanging chair with room for two.
“Join me, Space Princess?”
Dawn shook her head as they sat together. The chair swivelled to face the wall behind them, which was the back wall of the lengthy hall. The wall sank into the floor, opening up to give them a view of Jason’s soul space island. A ...
2022-01-26 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe elevating platform stopped at the top floor of the pagoda, depositing Jason and Dawn at one end of a long throne room. Dawn turned to look at Jason.
“I know,” he said, wilting with shame.
They looked to the far end of the room, both taking on surprised expressions as they saw the throne itself. The room around it was ostentatious and perfectly designed for pomp and ceremony,...
2022-01-25 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“It changed again,” Jason said, looking around his soul space. “Not that I wasn’t expecting it. It’s been changing on the regular, and with losing the bridge and the door, plus gaining the throne and the…”
He sensed strange energies centred on Dawn. She had let go of his hand and staggered, trying to stay on her feet. Jason felt something inside of her, like an unplugged cab...
2022-01-24 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRufus had instilled in Jason an appreciation for the fundamentals of training. Since those first days in Greenstone, Jason's life had been storms of activity, followed by downtime for various reasons. Whether it was waiting for the Reaper trials to begin or staying with family in a world that ostensibly lacked magic and monsters, there were periods when Jason was not constantly caught up in the...
2022-01-21 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLiara’s family was sitting around a dining table filled with food. Liara had a glower as Baseph held her hand under the table, his eyes sparkling with amusement.
“…little did I know that your mother had leaked information about my route to use me as bait to try and catch some Builder cultists,” Jason said, continuing his story.
“She didn’t!” Zareen said with a laugh. 2022-01-20 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“I want to try opening up some portals,” Jason said as Carlos was about to leave after his latest treatment session. They were standing in the vast atrium, by the large double doors that served as the main entrance.
“I would strongly advise against it,” Carlos told him. “You are largely recovered, but if you push too hard, you could backslide. Keep doing the mana circulation exe...
2022-01-19 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCarlos turned his attention to Jason as he sat down opposite him. He hadn’t done more than glance at Jason since coming in, his attention arrested by Dawn. Even with his senses diminished, he could see that Jason was not in a good way. His skin was off colour and he was still emaciated, as he had been the last time they saw one another. He would have expected more recovery, deducing that what...
2022-01-18 22:05:14 +0000 UTC View PostCarlos was nervous as he moved through the cloud pagoda. Jason’s familiar was clearly hostile, even as it guided him, and he worried that the entire building would be as well. He could sense its power, dormant for the moment but he had already had a taste of the power it could call on. That had only been a small, reflexive thing; he had no interest in being on the receiving end of dedicated h...
2022-01-17 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"The fact that the Builder's forces effectively abandoned the Storm Kingdom as a battlefront weeks ago has lessened the local pandemonium," Dawn said.
“Things are a little more hectic elsewhere,” Humphrey added. “The Builder’s forces staging a complete and immediate withdrawal is causing confusion and havoc elsewhere. Welcome confusion, but people don’t know what’s going on or...
2022-01-14 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Jason woke up, everything ached. Dawn had helped him recover a little, but then he went and used some of the authority he had before trading the rest away. The after-effects made his entire body feel like it had cramped up, leaving whatever he had instead of muscles feeling like a taught rubber band.
Jason pushed himself out of his cloud bed with a grunt and tried walking around the ...
2022-01-13 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason and Farrah were standing at the balustrade of a balcony, looking out over the water as the sky grew dark.
“You know there’s going to be an inquisition waiting for you when you leave this cloud house,” she said. “Probably the most polite inquisition ever held, but some very powerful people will have some very pressing questions.”
“I know. Dawn has gone off to lay so...
2022-01-12 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“That looks good,” Jason said, eyeing off the pink liquid in the delicate crystal bottle. It was sitting on the low table in front of the cloud couch where Jason and Dawn were still sitting, outside of Jason’s pagoda. Jason’s own drink was a tall bottle where the liquid rested in rainbow layers, magically enchanted to retain the separation when poured into a glass.
“You just wan...
2022-01-11 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s cloud house had undergone yet another transformation when he accidentally spent some of the authority he had taken from the Builder on it. It was currently in the form of a pagoda made from smoky crystal, which was dark but for speckles of gold, silver and blue light dancing within it. It was the same as the pagodas at the heart of Jason’s permanent spirit domains on Earth.
While Dawn and Shako stood eating fritters from the plate he had handed over to Dawn, Jason prepared for his imminent discussion. A floor of white cloud substance extended from the wall of the cloud house, covering the grass like a plush carpet. Three chairs rose up, facing each other in a triangle formation, with a small table in the middle. Each participant claimed a chair, the plate going on...
2022-01-07 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the PDF bundles for book 8.
2022-01-07 09:48:58 +0000 UTC View PostG'day all.
As many of you are aware, there is a channel on the discord that silver rankers can read, but only gold and above can post in. This is the author questions channel, but in the lead up to my break it went rather by the wayside because I was too exhausted.
My original intention was to catch up on all the questions I missed, but that wouldn't be practical from a time perspec...
2022-01-06 22:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You are breathtakingly presumptuous,” Shako told Jason.
“Of course I am,” Jason told him. “Have you not been paying attention?”
Jason and the two dimension-travelling diamond-rankers were talking outside of his cloud house. Jason couldn’t sense the various eavesdroppers from the local factions because of his injured state, but he knew they were listening avidly.
Jason Asano’s cloud house was currently part house and part dark temple; not a clean division but a disorienting mismatch of pieces. It was as if someone had taken the shattered remnants of two very different buildings and assembled a new one from what they could salvage. This was the result of Jason slowly transforming the building from the state it had been left in after the events that tra...
2022-01-05 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4 is now available to buy with money or listen to or just read if you already have Kindle Unlimited. This time the editing should be a lot better, because we are trying to improve that aspect for the Kindle releases.
Not sure what else to say. There's a reddit post with some shameless self-marketing (buy Shirt's shirts!) and an exploration of potential subtitles that takes a brief an...
2021-12-28 14:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you go to a magical alternate universe and miss out on your t-shirt? Then see a therapist or something, because that's not really a thing. If you want a the shirt anyway, you now can.
2021-12-23 05:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR: A writer I know and like has has the Amazon launch of his first book buggered up by the Amazon Web Services outage. It's a fun litRPG about an orc chef, and it deserves some attention:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GHTCFMD
One of the great things about becoming an author has been the chance to g...
2021-12-07 22:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostG'day all.
I'm digging into my break, although I'm still catching up on all the stuff I'd been putting off - I'm doing my taxes next week. I haven't quite gotten into the swing of relaxing, but I'm working on it.
Book 4 is coming (ebook & audio) on December 28th, so those chapters (267-340) will be coming down from Patreon, Royal Road and Scribblehub on the 14th of December, in ...
2021-12-04 16:29:08 +0000 UTC View PostDawn’s dimensional vehicle, a garden cottage inside an orb, approached Jason’s cloud building. Standing at the edge of the garden, Dawn looked at the building that was now an architectural chimera of fluffy white cloud house and stark, black temple. Despite being unable to extend her senses into the building and check on Jason, she had stayed away since warning his friends. She had gone fur...
2021-11-30 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s body was rigid and tense, trembling with pain as he channelled mana, teeth gritted and fists clenched. Forcefully cycling mana through the matrix that was the magical framework on which his body was built accelerated Jason’s recovery. This made the massive quantities of mana required to form new bodies for Shade the perfect physical and magical therapy.
Jason let about a groan...
2021-11-29 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post