Still wary of those guns, Cole headed for the gate. The knight or castellan or whatever he was, disappeared from the ramparts. By the time they reached the gate, a pair of guards had engaged a set of gear works that ratcheted the door open, and the man from the ramparts was waiting for them. He bowed deeply.
“Welcome. I’m Baron Ludwig. I had the h...
2025-07-29 18:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe break from the rain didn’t last long. Less than an hour later saw them all in rain ponchos once again with the sun low on their left side beneath the clouds. The climb had become steeper as they continued, and twice had to cross fast-moving water where the mountain runoff was funneled into swift channels. This was the kind of terrain where Cole imagin...
2025-07-28 16:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, shit!” said Howie. “We’re fucked!”
Cole looked around and then up to the canopy. “Howie, please tell me you have another ice charge left.”
“Last one,” said Howie, holding up his hands. His fingertips started to glow blue and he pointed his hand ahead of them. Cole grabbed his wrist.
“Not there, up there,...
2025-07-28 15:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be getting one additional advance chapter up today, as we've still got some ground to cover to get up to the 15 advance chapters figure after the Royal Road launch blitz.
As soon as Cole entered under the gossamer canopy, he began to see shadows skittering on the underside of the silk domes woven over and between the trees. Dog-sized shapes cr...
2025-07-27 17:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Last thing from my pile,” said Besson, hefting up a stubby, thick-barreled otherworld firearm with a manual breech-action. “Grenade launcher, I think. Looks like 40 millimeter. You want?”
“I’ll save it for Howie,” said Cole. “He can make magic ordnance.”
Besson pushed off his log. “Ah, he got a Bombard class. Howie is pr...
2025-07-27 02:21:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Just to let you know, Department of Otherworld Rescue has launched on Royal Road! The release version can be read here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/126289/department-of-otherworld-rescue-litrpg-isekai If you're following along on Patreon, please also...
2025-07-26 19:54:27 +0000 UTC View PostTo hell with this! Cole dropped his other stick and whipped up the muzzle of his rifle, putting it out and jamming it into the ogre’s chest as the thing grabbed him and slammed them both against the tree. The stock drove into his front plate, driving the wind from his lungs. Cole felt bone grinding under the pressure of the creature’s grip, felt the...
2025-07-25 21:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostCole kept his head on a swivel, always watching their right flank for signs of Ram-head as they headed north toward the rendezvous with the others. Nutmeg wasn’t exactly stealthy, but she could range out ahead and on the flanks. Besson seemed to have a good idea of what her various barks, howls, and growls meant. The rain kicked up about two hours into...
2025-07-23 21:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick note: the official release of Department of Otherworld Rescue will be going live on Royal Road this weekend. If you've been enjoying the advance release, please be sure to still give the Royal Road version a follow or a review to help the story grow. My plan for now is to keep the Patreon version at least 15 chapters ahead, so there's going to be a lot of chapters over the next we...
2025-07-22 20:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhump
Cole opened his eyes, immediately alert. The distant clap of an explosion touched hard-wired nerves in his brain that took him back to the Middle East before he remembered his was in a much worse place. He pulled his poncho liner off and rolled over. It was still dark, and Roxy was already gone. He looked around the small camp and spot...
2025-07-21 19:07:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt's finally time! Thanks everyone that has followed along and supported the story throughout the writing process. Don't forget, you can preorder the physical or ebook version of Book 1 on Amazon if you want to reserve a copy for your collection, which has been edited and cleaned up for release through Podium Entertainment.
I really appreciate everyone who has read and enjoyed this story,...
2025-07-20 17:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostWith the Ifrit safely away, I took Armstrong, and together we pushed the payload to the mouth of the tunnel. A steady supply of builders were still going in with shoring equipment and coming out with dirt. Warm air billowed out of the mouth of the tunnel, and I held a hand against it.
Buzz came up beside me. “We’re close, boss. We can feel somethin...
2025-07-20 02:45:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn a way, not being stealthy had probably been something of a benefit to Roxy and Howie. Part of the reason they were here was to kill monsters, after all. So, attracting them had the effect of funneling LF experience right to them. But following Cole’s lead, if not quite as quietly, they were able to avoid any encounters for the remainder of the nigh...
2025-07-16 20:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostMorgan raced through the woods of the lower forest. Trees and monsters blurred past, but none of the locals even had time to register her presence. A level twenty Kicker with four primary class evolutions was such overkill for all but the toughest monsters in Curahee that she might as well have been walking past squirrels and ducklings in the park. Even the fully-g...
2025-07-15 18:35:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe pool of power within him broke open, and Cole took flight. The canopy flashed by in a blur. He brought his fall speed down as low as he could, letting himself hang in the air for a moment at the apex of his leap, maybe sixty feet off the deck, level with all but the highest treetops. Below him, just like his NODs edge-detect feature, the silhouette of t...
2025-07-15 01:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostEven with his baseline strength boosted by about twenty percent, rucking through rough terrain with a three-day pack and body armor was hard work. Plus, his pack would be getting heavier as he pulled more gear, rather than lighter as he burned through perishables. As he moved further north, the concentration of trees and foliage infected with the orang...
2025-07-14 19:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostAttrition or no, we still had the crazed, half-dead null-whistler dragging its way to us on what remained of its shredded form. I was shocked the thing was still alive, having been separated from about 90% of its guts, and with what remained dragging across the ground behind it.
“Brace for impact!” I shouted.
The null devil slammed into ...
2025-07-14 19:23:05 +0000 UTC View PostTaquoho and his fighters had been meant to buy us time to get defenses set up and begin drilling. The fact they’d also managed to take down one of the skyborne null devils was a bonus. But those jets were also a one-and-done deal, lacking any kind of landing gear in favor of making them as light and sleek as possible. The rockets simply didn’t ...
2025-07-13 18:37:48 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the next chapter of MBGSP. Apollo an the gang continue the fight in the penultimate week of updates.
I worked with the igni and the sparkers to get the railgun assembly fixed. The power cabling had blown under the voltage load, which wasn’t surprising since it was held together with literal sparker spit and wishful thinking. But I mana...
2025-07-12 16:55:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt took four more shots to find the creature’s central nervous system—or else simply do enough damage to it that the mushroom head ceased functioning. Cole seized up for a minute as the sensation of being doused in ice water spread over him. Not only that, but the monster’s wooden body started to turn black and dissolve, just like the demon on Kevle...
2025-07-08 05:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostWhatever it was he was following, he was getting close. Close enough to catch the occasional snap of foliage ahead, or flash of movement through the trees. After another twenty minutes of stalking, he started to hear a commotion up ahead, a creature screaming, and then several shrieks. He picked up the pace, moving through the underbrush and circling right t...
2025-07-07 17:14:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Here's the next three chapters. We're getting really close now, only two more weeks of updates until the end of the story! I hope once it wraps up, you'll stick around for Department of Otherworld Rescue. Be sure to check out the preview chapters.
Chapter 180 - Reentry
The process for picking our landing spot wasn’t any simpler than the dynami...
2025-07-06 19:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Here are the next three advance chapters for Department of Otherworld Rescue. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 7 - Get Sorted
This time, when Cole went to the medical building, they didn’t turn him away. He was let in to see Brennan, who was sleeping, and Gillis, who was stuffing his face.
“The DFAC here is good, Cole. Like, Air Force good. B...
2025-06-30 18:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 177 - Myriad Station
It wasn’t just goblins and Ifrit aboard Myriad. Midnighters had insisted on coming as well. Cla’thn had come, along with her nameless elite guard. We had one of the modules blocked off for them with few electric lights and windows that could be easily covered to prevent the sunlight from hurting the priestess caste’s sens...
2025-06-28 17:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 - Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore, Sarge
In Basic the drills told Cole that he wouldn’t be fighting for his country, or his family. He’d be fighting for the man next to him. Currently the man next to him was having his chest cavity hollowed out by an albino, four-armed creature with teeth like jagged glass. Cole figured it was time to stop fig...
2025-06-28 17:48:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Here's another set of preview chapters for Department of Otherworld Rescue. Glad you guys are enjoying it ahead of its official launch in August.
Chapter 4 - Grounded
A severe hot flash hit Cole as soon as his skin hit the surface of the disc. A sense of extreme disorientation swept over him that made him think the vehicle had just inverted, the...
2025-06-23 22:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the Department of Otherworld Rescue preview from earlier this week. I'll have another 3 chapters up in a few days, but we've also got goblins going to space!
Here are the next three advance chapters of MBGSP for you to enjoy.
Chapter 174 - Synchronicity Stunt
My taskmasters sprinted down the gantry and practically hu...
2025-06-21 18:52:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey, everyone! This is maybe a bit premature as polishing the early chapters is still a work in progress, but I just couldn't wait to start sharing it with you all. Over the next few weeks, I'll be uploading advance chapters of Department of Otherworld Rescue ahead of its official launch on Royal Road. This is a modern-set LitRPG about a clandestine government agency tasked with traveling to ot...
2025-06-16 17:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Here's the advanced chapters for this week! We are only five weeks from the conclusion of the story.
In other news, as one story winds down, so does another begin. Later this week I'll be posting the first few preview chapters for DOR - Department of Otherworld Rescue, which will be my next web serial. If you like the idea of a shady government organization sending ...
2025-06-14 21:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! We're back to new chapters following the break. It'll be a straight shot from here to the end of the story in another fifteen chapters or so.
I'll also have a sneak peek for you soon on the next web serial project following goblins, which is working titled D.O.R. which will be another contemporary/fantasy mashup with a new twist and a very different focus. I'm hard at work m...
2025-06-07 20:34:09 +0000 UTC View Post