2/2 this week. Enjoy ^^
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“Incoming!” Putrid blood rained down on Silverwing’s avian army like acid arrows, melting feathers and burning away flesh. A gust of wind repelled the bulk of it then brought demonic birds into contact with terrifying abyssal bats. Bodies fell by the thousands.
“Pike line!” Jadefall shouted. Her demons raced themselves against a charge of r...
2023-07-23 15:38:34 +0000 UTC View Post2 chapters this week once again.
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The Sacred Santana Desert was blighted place, containing very little ink in its outer fringes and utterly none in its core region. What should have been yellow sand and reddish cliffs completely lacked color and appeared in varying shades of gray. As for greenery and plant life… only imitations of these things could be found.
Unlike the o...
2023-07-17 21:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post2/2 this week. The next few chapters are Huxian chapters. Enjoy!
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An arid wind blew across Huxian’s dust-laden figure. It was a cruel wind. A hungry wind. It thirsted for the moisture and energy in his body.
A baleful aura existed in this place, and it grew deeper with every battle and every death. War was endless in the Santana Sacred Desert, and this was a fact that eve...
2023-07-13 15:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post2 chapters this week. Enjoy!
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Tribulation lightning poured through the opening in the cathedral ceiling, raining bits of charred root wood onto cavern’s barren floor. Now that the Monkey King was free and his opponents were taken care of, only Cha Ming and the Tree of Good and Evil’s beating wooden heart remained.
An immortal axe was embedded in the beating heart. Lightn...
2023-07-11 16:25:59 +0000 UTC View PostCha Ming’s Dao projection expanded to fill the entire wooden cathedral with his Crumbling Canvas Domain. Matter and energy began to break down, including weapons, armor, flesh, and techniques, which were then repurposed for Cha Ming’s own use.
Concurrently, the two vice-pontiffs, Undine, and Salamani commanded their army of angels and devils to close ranks and began chant...
2023-07-07 20:19:25 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for being late on this one. 2 chapters today.
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The Root Prison was the most secure place in the Realm of Good and Evil, and even Cha Ming, who’d long since infiltrated most of the realm, could only appear just outside of it. This was due to the complex shielding provided by the tree’s root system as well as the tightly packed clay in the realm. Both reeked of potent ...
2023-07-07 20:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostThree chapters this week! Monday was a holiday in Canada, so I had commitments. Enjoy!
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Beads of sweat dripped from Undine’s forehead as she drew sigils in the void, bridging frayed and torn karmic chains that once linked the twin goddesses to the Inkwell Plane.
For months, she’d worked here, fixing and moulding, and above all, praying for her goddess’s guidance. Alas,...
2023-07-04 15:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostLast chapter of the week. Enjoy!
Note: The previous Chapter 8 had a mistake in mentioning regalia too early. I've since corrected it. Apologies one the incongruity.
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Cha Ming’s conflict with the two churches hit Mendin like a storm. The weakening of all rankers sowed doubt in the hearts of their believes, and the uncharacteristic silence of both churches o...
2023-06-30 18:21:52 +0000 UTC View Post2/3 this week! It's a short one, sorry.
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It was sixteen hours later when Cha Ming’s last incarnation was found. It wasn’t hiding but sitting in a small square located at the intersection between four temples.
Hundreds of slack-jawed rankers sat before him, unable to move, unable to speak. They could only listen as Cha Ming instructed them on matters of cultivation. “Ad...
2023-06-28 14:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post3 chapters this week. I'll post a second one right away since I was late. Enjoy ^^.
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After many weeks of waiting, Oster Fireblight – the real Oster Fireblight – received confirmation of Cha Ming’s arrival in the realm of good and evil. The painter had really outdone himself – he had arrived with an impressive array of imitation mercenary ships, and had even manage...
2023-06-28 14:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostLast chapter of the week. Enjoy!
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Oster was many things, but a gambler he was not. He would place a profitable bet now and again – that was the nature of investments – but he did not do long shots.
Which was why, after much contemplation and humming and hawing about contractual clauses, he was back in the employ of the Church of Harid Dej. A small but lucrative ...
2023-06-23 16:44:28 +0000 UTC View Post2/3 for the week!
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Sharp black thorns tore at Cha Ming’s garments as he walked through row upon row of blood red flowers. They scratched his skin and dug deep into muscle and bone. Rivers of clear blood spilled across the garden, infusing the soil with boundless vitality.
Defending would have been easy as flipping a hand, but Cha Ming did not do so. He embraced physical pa...
2023-06-22 22:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostThree chapters this week. Enjoy ^^.
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A desolate wind swept across dry, parched plains. It was an infertile land. A colorless land. The only thing grew in its chalk white soil was a rugged, ash-gray variant of spirit grass, and not much of it.
Bestial demons roamed these lands in herds. Their fur and feathers were pale, as were the features of human-form guardians. Once, ther...
2023-06-20 21:20:59 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here's second chapter! It's like second breakfast, but way better!
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A glowing brown flask hissed as Huxian brought it to a boil. Volatile alchemical reagents vaporized for exactly seven seconds. Huxian stopped it, when summoned a brown cloud above the flask that snowed brown runic characters into the mixture. It hissed and spit as it turned deep black.
Huxian then used a...
2023-06-18 20:45:14 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Fathers Day everyone. I'm off to do something fun with my family, and I'll post the second chapter as soon as I can.
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Gold and dark blue energies crystalized, forming golden meteors and shards of black ice that homed in on Cha Ming’s location. Cha Ming tried to use a Clear Rune Step to escape, only to find himself rejected by a holy light in his surroundings.
... 2023-06-18 15:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
Something came up today, so I'll be posting the chapter sometime tomorrow (or Sunday if it comes to that). And as an apology, I'll post a second chapter as well.
Everything is fine. It's a good thing that happened. It's just going to take up a bit of my time.
Cheers,
Patrick
Only two chapters this week. They are longer. Enjoy ^^
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A breeze blew across cracked lands, blowing clouds of dust from field to field, never stopping, never fading. It blew for days on end, never giving up despite the natural wind traps that tried to catch it, for it was not a normal wind, and the demons especially noticed its oddities.
The breeze hugged hills and mountains...
2023-06-12 17:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post3/3 this week. Greed is good. Enjoy ^^.
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The capital of the Flame Brand Republic was called Flamesworn City. The city had little going for it in terms of resources, but was located adjacent to a volcano where a temple Jezeriah had been built. It was thanks to this temple that the republic was able to train many fierce warriors, many of which were hired out to neighboring countries...
2023-06-10 03:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostToday's chapter is a short one. Enjoy!
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It took a week for Cha Ming to recover, and in that time, he familiarized himself with Mendin and its new power structure. He discovered that painted Daoists had become mainstream, and both the churches of Jezeriah and Harid Dej were fully accepting of them. It was to the point that they incorporated Painted Daoists into their clergy.<...
2023-06-07 14:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostThree shorter chapters this week. Enjoy ^^.
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A gaping hole stood where the Tree of Life of Verdant Crossroads once had. The land bore telltale signs of spatial fracture, and the sandy soil, not unusual in such a place, was too perfect, and its sparse vegetation too even.
Given the amount of demiplane fragments Cha Ming had dismantled and reassembled, he’d be a fool to not ...
2023-06-05 20:39:54 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back, and ready to start posting. Only one chapter this week, since it's a late start, but it's a long one - Enjoy!
Deep in the void adjacent the Inkwell Plane, a small ship slipped across planar fragments both old and new. The ship was old – tens of thousands of years, in fact – and its owner, though not as aged as the vessel, looked to have seen better days...
2023-06-01 19:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello Everyone,
In case anyone was wondering, chapters are starting up again beginning on June 1st. It's going to be a wild and fast-paced book, with a lot of changes. I hope you all enjoy ^^.
Best,
Patrick Laplante (RedMirage)
2023-05-29 16:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello Everyone,
I regret to inform you all that there will be no chapters in May. I will be pausing contributions, so don't worry about getting charged this billing cycle. Life gets in the way, but in recent weeks I've noticed myself returning to normal levels of productivity.
If things continue as they have, you can expect chapters in June.
Many thanks for your continued...
Hi Everyone,
I'm afraid I don't have content available for this month. With any luck, I'll be able to make something work for May - I'll let you know at the end of April.
Thank you all for your kind support. I'll do my best to get the ball rolling again.
Best,
Patrick
Hey Everyone,
The typography for the cover is finally done. Apologies for the delay. Here's a mobi and epub file for the Painting the Mists 17 - Bloodstorm, as promised. I'll be deleting it just before the book's release on Amazon March 16th. Let me know if you missed it, and I'll send you a copy.
Thank you so much for supporting me - stay tuned for the next book, Planesfall.
All right, so it's time to come clean. The past couple of months have not been as productive as I'd hoped, so I'm behind once again. There are many reasons for this, most of which have to do with moving to Canada (immigration is a pain) and dealing with the reality of working from home when you don't have in-laws living with you to help with child-minding.
I'm getting better at managing...
Announcement to follow.
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Myth had it that Yama was invincible. It was tough verify the claim, since beings of this level were nigh impossible to kill, but whenever asked who their least-favorite matchup was, famous cultivators inevitably answered: Yama.
One would therefore think that fabled invincibility would give Yama an edge in corporate meetings. Alas, engineers and city...
2023-02-25 17:29:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe storm struck suddenly and without warning, from all directions at once, battering the Inkwell Plane with enough force to sunder continents and empty oceans. This was not a normal spatial storm, but a world breaker, the kind that struck no more than once a millennium.
It was the third such storm Daoist Blackwater had seen in the past few decades. And this time, he could see ...
2023-02-25 17:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post3/3 this week. I'm going to post the epilogue and bonus chapter ahead of time, then pause contributions for next month. I'll post an update after the epilogue and bonus chapter to get everyone up to speed.
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Huxian and Cha Ming never found the remaining two fiendish bases. All that remained where they’d once been was a mess of planar fragments and large holes in void space. The d...
2023-02-25 17:27:36 +0000 UTC View Post2/3 this week.
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They split up into groups again, this time in much smaller confines. Jadefall faced off against Dark Tooth, while Undine and Wu kept their respective sides safe. Baleful Vision could not stray far from Violet Rose, as otherwise, her toxic techniques would overpower the others at short range. White Mirage had no choice but to tangle with Autumn’s Call, who, thanks...
2023-02-23 20:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post