Zeke didn’t bother telling anyone else where he was going. If anyone in the tower needed him, which was unlikely, they could talk to Eveline. She could probably solve any issues herself, and if not, there was always someone else to step up. After all, there were dozens of lesser gods within the Crimson Tower, a few of which were on the right track to take an even higher plac...
2025-08-18 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostSo ends the double chapter month-plus. I hope you all enjoyed the extra content. Don't forget that book two hits Kindle and Audible on September 2 (link HERE). If you could all throw as much support behind it as possible, it would go a long ...
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Elijah’s efforts took him all the way to two-thirty-nine, and a good ways through that as well. He wasn’t certain why the system had decided that every ninth level took so much more experience, but he’d begun to dread them. That he’d progressed nearly halfway to two-forty was a testament to both the quantity and quality of his fallen opponents.
Once the final ves...
2025-08-17 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThey made the first move.
Elijah leaped high into the air, using Cloud Step to go high enough to avoid the deluge of attacks. They blistered the air beneath him, tearing through the abyssal monster’s remains with wind blades and blobs of paralytic poison. The second was new, and Elijah only recognized its nature through Soul of the Wild.
It didn’t matter.
Each ...
2025-08-16 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah was exhausted.
He’d been at it for four days, constantly attacking the abyssal monster. He’d poured everything he could into the prolonged battle, and, at long last, it had gotten fed up with his attacks. With thundering steps, it followed him onto the chain.
And very nearly got ahold of Elijah in the process. His exhaustion, the monotony of the ta...
2025-08-16 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI've removed the chapters for book two from here and Royal Road. They will be available on September 2 when Whispers of the Wild (book 2 of Path of Dragons) releases on Kindle and Audible. Check it out HERE.
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2025-08-15 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe ruins were the most intact Elijah had encountered since entering the Broken Crown. The buildings loomed over him, towering to heights that would never have been possible back on Earth. Thousands of floors, all empty. He’d entered the city two days before, and he’d still not reached its outskirts. He had even flown for a while, and after what had to be a thousand ...
2025-08-15 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You don’t have to do this.”
“You’ve said that to me before.”
“And I’ve meant it every time, Ezekiel.”
He shook his head, turning away from Eveline. She flitted across the room, planting herself in front of him. It was hard to believe just how much she had changed, though only if he forgot just how much time had passed. The woman he’d met ...
2025-08-15 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stomped on a floundering vespiran’s head, and as its skull cracked underfoot, he felt brains and other fluids squish between his bare toes. He ignored it, whipping his head around to investigate the chamber for more survivors.
There were none.
Silence reigned throughout the space, and dead bodies carpeted most of the floor. In some places, they were piled ...
2025-08-14 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah grew, bypassing the size he normally associated with the Shape of Thorn. It didn’t stop until he was staring Zhyratha eye-to-eye. Something hit his back, but he barely even felt it. Instead, his hand shot out, and his four fingers wrapped around the vespiran High Druid’s thin neck.
He squeezed.
She croaked something that sounded a bit like, “How?...
2025-08-14 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“If you were to ask most people what they thought godhood meant, what do you think they’d say?” asked Zeke, sitting in front of his captive. Predictably, the knight said nothing, as much because he was terrified into silence as because he was bound and gagged. There might have been some post-traumatic stress in there as well.
In any case, Zeke had meant the questio...
2025-08-14 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next three weeks – as far as Elijah could tell – six more groups met the same fate as the first. Each instance was worse than the last, and not just because he was forced to endure the pain of a wasp larva boring through his skull and trying to take control of his mind.
But he had no choice in the matter. He couldn’t extend his Mantle of Authority outside ...
2025-08-13 15:10:02 +0000 UTC View PostElijah awoke to discomfort and immobility.
His uneasiness only worsened when he opened his eyes to see the setting. All around him, dragons hung, their bodies plastered to the wall by familiar resin. Elijah was no different, his arms and legs entirely immobilized by that same substance. Through it flowed a significant amount of ethera. More troublingly, he felt tha...
2025-08-13 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, I rearranged the collections section, separating the Path of Dragons books. I think this will make it easier for people to read them. But let me know if there are any issues with those because I did it at like 2AM, and I'm sure I made some mistakes!
Second, Protector of the Grove (PoD 1) is on sale on Kindle for 2.99 right now, so if you haven't gotten your copy yet, you...
2025-08-12 19:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind whistled in Elijah’s ears as he rocketed toward the vespiran. For the briefest of instants, the creature didn’t react. Then, his eyes widened. That moment of surprise was the only opening Elijah needed, and the Verdant Fang sank deep into the thing’s chest. Elijah kicked free, spinning into a backflip as he ripped the blade of his scythe from the creature...
2025-08-12 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostOne thing that surprised Elijah more than anything else was the sheer variety on display within the army. Not only was every facet of draconic society on display, but there was physical diversity within each category as well.
For instance, some of the dragons looked much as he’d been led to expect. Four-legged, reptilian creatures with scales, wings, and serpentine nec...
2025-08-12 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostZeke crushed the man’s throat, then tossed him aside. He didn’t even know his title. Just that he was head of the Temple of the Sun, as evidenced by his once-fancy robes and elaborate scepter. And the fact that everyone there seemed to defer to him.
Looking down, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of regret. Fires raged all around him, hot enough to weak...
2025-08-12 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“The Red Tyrant's work. Impressive, is it not?” asked Dolo, one of his arms on his hip. The other had been severed during one of the previous battles. When it had happened, the tetradrak had been only a little distraught, mostly because he wasn’t looking forward to the cost of having it regrown. He was even considering simply replacing it with a crafted prosthesis,...
2025-08-11 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe sky roiled, billowing clouds of corruption staining the atmosphere. Even though he knew it couldn’t touch him, Elijah watched it like it was an impending natural disaster. A tidal wave of wrongness that would sweep over what was left of the planet and infect them all. Having experienced a taste of the abyss once before, he knew this was different. If that cloud wer...
2025-08-11 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostJonah took a swig from his beer as he studied the enigmatic stranger across the table. The man had shown up at his gate only two days before, and since then, Jonah still hadn’t quite figured out what to think of him. Immune to inspection and teeming with power, the guy was clearly an elite.
But he didn’t even carry any equipment. And he dressed like he’d been livin...
2025-08-11 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostA swarm of glittering flies billowed, spreading in every direction and descending upon every wasp within a quarter-mile radius. At the center of it was Elijah, spinning and leaping as he fell into the rhythm of battle. Every now and again, lightning arced out, finishing off or stunning any vespirans or drachnids who got too close. He was a whirlwind of a natural disaster, taki...
2025-08-10 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostGunnar wanted to shoot someone.
Or maybe more than one. Over the past few weeks, he’d added multiple names to his list. Not only were there the ones he’d expect – like Lefevre and Kaffey – who’d more than earned their placement, but there were plenty of others as well. At times, it felt like everyone who lived on the surface was a terrible person who deserved a...
2025-08-10 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stared at the portal, still unsure of which path to take. He’d been sitting there for hours, endlessly debating each option. And he was still no closer to a definitive decision. The problem, as he’d first noted, was that each of his available options was attractive.
Might would obviously make his physical body more powerful, and he expected that to exten...
2025-08-09 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah pushed himself to feet and finally let himself see the carnage he’d wrought. Tens of thousands of wasps, spiders, drachnids, and vespirans lay dead. But for the hatred flowing through him, it was not enough. He knew that, even when they were all dead, he would want more.
So, when he saw the large vespiran, followed by a squad of lesser wasp-men, leap free of the...
2025-08-09 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostArriving at the Circle of Lost Seas was a little disconcerting, and not just because of the sudden change in temperature or the mostly imagined stink of wasps. No – what Elijah found most jarring was the presence of a Conclave compound only a few hundred yards away from his dolmen.
“What the…”
He didn’t finish his rhetorical question. Instead, he strode f...
2025-08-08 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostMiguel blocked a thrown dagger, slapping the blade aside as he charged forward. With a surge of speed, he rammed into the goblin-sized troll, slamming his sword through its chest. It erupted from the thing’s back in a shower of gore that sprayed the next sapper in the narrow corridor. Miguel’s momentum sent the first creature into the next, and his blade had little difficu...
2025-08-08 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly, the City Registrar was located on the first tier. Though Zeke did note that its surroundings were much better maintained and far cleaner than the rest of the tier. It also played host to a great many guards, all of which sported the sunburst badge signifying allegiance to the Temple of the Sun.
Every time Zeke looked upon one of those badges, he wanted to...
2025-08-08 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostFor a few hours, Elijah just wandered the grove, wondering where everyone was. He could feel them nearby, but so vaguely that they were barely even noticeable. It was similar to what he felt from the people in Ironshore. The city was within his grove’s sphere of influence, but not of the grove itself. That put it in something of a gray area when it came to his authorit...
2025-08-07 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I have to admit – that went better than expected,” Elijah remarked, looking down at the rapidly rotting troll. Even with half its flesh having turned into a decaying slurry that mingled with the massive pool of congealing blood beneath it, the thing was huge. His previous assessment that it was at least twice his height had been a slight underestimation. If it was less ...
2025-08-07 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke approached the tiered city with characteristic nonchalance. He was unconcerned with how he was viewed, largely because there was nothing in the realm that could inflict consequences upon him. Perhaps not in the entirety of the multi-versal landscape.
Instead, he focused on the city itself, which, at first glance, looked much like its predecessor. There were fi...
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