“What do you expect me to say?”
“I don’t know.”
“Why did you even tell me?”
“I…I thought you deserved honesty.”
Elijah sighed and shook his head. “I wish you would’ve just lied.”
“Elijah, I –”
“It’s fine. I mean, it’s not. You probably just ensured I’ll never get home. Or that it’ll take anothe...
2026-01-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“I’m afraid to look.”
Jasai’i took Benedict’s hand, giving it a comforting squeeze. “I was too. It turned out well enough.”
“That was different,” Benedict mumbled, looking away. “A lot less rides on ascension. This is demi-god. I’ll be stuck with this decision for centuries. And if I choose wrong…”
“You won’t....
2026-01-07 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Elijah stood on the cliff overlooking the ocean, watching as the massive waves warred with one another for prominence. It was like looking at a mountain range in motion. From above descended gargantuan tentacles, splashing into the water, only to reemerge moments later and clutching deceptively small prey.
From experience, Elijah knew that the creatures snared by those t...
2026-01-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I just wanted to make a quick post to announce that book three of Path of Dragons, called Shadow of the Hunter, is now available on Kindle and Audible (narrated by the always awesome Eric Jason Martin). For those who don't remember the events of book three, don't worry too much - I include a recap at the beginning of each book so nobody gets lost.
Here's the blurb:
2026-01-06 19:47:54 +0000 UTC
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The weight of silence was crushing.
In the aftermath of Vhalor’s death, the world stood still. Even rivers of corruption cutting through the sky seemed frozen in place. And Elijah knelt beside the man’s corpse, his hand resting on his forehead, staring off into nothing.
By all rights, Vhalor had been a monster. A man who’d clung so tightly to power that...
2026-01-06 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The ground shook with the force of each landed blow as a cloud of yellow spores surrounded the pair of titanic combatants. For once, Elijah was shorter than his opponent, though not by as much as he would’ve been before his most recent advancements. He was still much heavier than Vhalor, though. And he used that added weight to lend power to his attacks.
In some ways, ...
2026-01-05 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Elijah rushed in, narrowly avoiding the descending blade of Vhalor’s sword. It skipped across his shoulder, carving a slice from his scales. He grunted in acknowledgement of the pain before ramming into the man and knocking him off balance. The stumble only lasted for a split second, but that was all Elijah needed to latch onto the Emerald Tyrant, wrapping his claws around h...
2026-01-04 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Vhalor glanced at the fallen Marith before his eyes flicked toward Searathe. Neither were dead, but they might as well have been. From experience, Vhalor knew that it would take quite a bit more than what she’d experienced to put Marith down, but the Mirror Saint was far more fragile. If she ever rose again, he would have been surprised.
He tightened his grip on the hi...
2026-01-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The world ignited as dense flames rolled across the land. When that wave crested, another replaced it. Then, another after that. Nine separate pulses of fire, each one hot enough to melt rock in seconds, scorched across the army. And at its center stood Elijah, screaming in pain as his entire mind – every single leaf – was overwhelmed with the agony of being burned f...
2026-01-03 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Elijah’s talons ripped through a soldier’s throat, sending a spray of blood and bits of flesh into their closest ally’s eyes. The woman reeled, but only long enough before Elijah kicked her in the chest. She flew backward, her breastplate so dented that it had split apart, knocking a few other fighters aside. By that point, Elijah was gone.
A hundred attacks ...
2026-01-02 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Green, silver, and gold armor glinted in the ambient light as column after column of disciplined soldiers descended the mountain. They filled the pass, snaking along for nearly a mile.
Benedict had seen armies before. He had even fought a few – particularly the war elf army that had attempted to invade his territory. With enough summoned creatures, he could stand...
2026-01-01 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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“We should just kill them all,” Benedict said, without a hint of emotion.
“That will not solve anything!” insisted one of the M’yakein’s council members. Elijah had never learned their names, so he wasn’t certain what she called herself. “And you can’t just kill the Synod.”
“He already killed one of them, and in the middle of Ithalon,” Zek p...
2026-01-01 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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A subtly sweet smell wafted through the thin slits in Obrahim’s helmet, tainted only by the metallic scent of the corrosive sea behind him. He glanced up at the enormous monument of stone, studying it with a curious eye. The thing was built to resemble a primitive arch, with every inch of the support pillars covered in carvings meant to depict writhing vines. When he looked ...
2025-12-31 16:10:00 +0000 UTC
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Elijah rested his hand against Treebie’s trunk, the pulse of the tree’s spirit sending shockwaves through his soul. He bore it with equanimity, having long since grown accustomed to the tree’s uniquely powerful presence.
Over the course of the past year, Treebie’s roots had grown to encompass the entire continent and had even progressed beneath the ocean. Elijah ...
2025-12-31 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The waves of the Restless Sea crashed against the Edge of the World, spraying caustic mist across the barren terrain. Above, rivers of violet corruption cut across the dark, featureless sky, casting the entire rocky landscape in a purple tint. Nearby, the brave men and women of the Emerald Guard fought a tumorous monster comprised of pulsing cysts and too many tentacles to count.
2025-12-30 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Two insects, each about the size of Elijah’s fingernail, crawled across the stem of a plant. They looked a little like ants, though they featured eight legs instead of six. To accommodate the extra limbs, their bodies hosted an additional section between the abdomen and the thorax. Otherwise, they were almost identical to the Earth insects with which Elijah was familiar.&nbs...
2025-12-30 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The first year was the most difficult, for the refugees as well as for Elijah. His mood oscillated between gratitude for the end to his solitary existence and the anxiety that came from being close to so many people. To combat it, he focused on the outer ring that stretched across most of the continent.
The sheer size of it was daunting, and even though he’d completed ...
2025-12-29 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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For Benedict and the others from Dravkein, the journey inland to Druhmor was long and time-consuming, but not nearly as difficult as they had probably expected. Elijah chalked that up to the fact that most of the continent’s monsters had already been eradicated. There were a few that persisted, especially in the mountains where the effects of Elijah’s efforts grew more diffuse w...
2025-12-29 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Quick Note - Uploaded the wrong version of the chapter. It should have been 19 years instead of 12 that Elijah's been gone. New version uploaded.
Gargantuan waves crashed against the cliff, sending a corrosive mist over the edge. Elijah stood steadfastly against it, his eyes narrowed as he focused on the oncoming ships. Each one was around a hundred ...
2025-12-28 16:10:02 +0000 UTC
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Elijah flew above Druhmor, enjoying the feel of the air passing through the branches of his wings. As he did, he beheld the landscape he’d helped to create, and he couldn’t deny that it was more beautiful than he ever could have expected. For years, he’d traveled the desolate terrain of the excised planet, and in that time, he’d grown quite accustomed to the dreary hopelessn...
2025-12-28 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The wind howled across the landscape, whistling as it passed between the curiously shaped stand of tall pillars. Each one was made of black, glass-like rock and reached hundreds of feet above the surface. Between them, the ground was jagged and ridged, requiring each person to watch their step, lest the sharp edges cut through the soles of their boots.
Benedict leaped nimbly f...
2025-12-27 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Obrahim stood at the front of the column, righteous fury coursing through his body and mind. Through his very soul. The upstarts – the blasphemers and heretics – had resisted the will of the Synod for far too long. Thousands had died at their hands. Years of resistance. Decades of refusal to submit to godly authority. And now, at long last, they would all...
2025-12-27 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Elijah glanced at the statues and asked, “Any input here? Sage advice, maybe? Carmen, you usually have plenty to say about how I make rash decisions without thinking them through.”
The clay statue remained silent.
So did Treebie.
Despite reaching the goal he never thought he’d reach, the silence served to undercut his excitement and accentuate the indisputabl...
2025-12-26 16:10:00 +0000 UTC
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Elijah fell to his knees, exhausted. Despite that overwhelming sense of fatigue, he was filled with excited anticipation. Because for the first time in longer than he cared to remember, he had gotten a genuine and uncorrupted notification from the system.
And it wasn’t alone.
The World Tree has recognized your efforts. The tree “Treebi...
2025-12-26 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Elijah glanced up, only to see Treebie’s limbs stretching far and wide. The innumerable leaves glittered in the wind, casting the whole of Druhmor in starry illumination. The plants below drank that light like it came directly from the sun, using it to fuel their growth.
Vitality, dense enough to become visible, hung in the air like a light fog, while the ambient ethera infu...
2025-12-25 16:10:00 +0000 UTC
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“Happy birthday to Treebie,” Elijah sang, gesturing like the conductor of an orchestra. “Happy birthday to you!” He finished with a flourish, adding, “And many more!”
He glanced at the surrounding clay statues and rolled his eyes. “C’mon guys. It’s Treebie’s eighth birthday! I need you to participate, or you’re going to give him an inferiority...
2025-12-25 16:00:49 +0000 UTC
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Benedict nimbly stepped around the woman lying on the floor. She stirred slightly, but she didn’t awaken. Meanwhile, he pushed past her, then dodged another three prone figures before slipping through the door.
Not for the first time since he’d started sharing his home with refugees, he wanted to take a page out of Elijah’s book and simply leap free of the balcony....
2025-12-24 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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“How big do you think you’re going to get, Treebie?” Elijah asked.
The tree did not answer. It never did. Probably because it was a plant and incapable of speech. But that hadn’t stopped Elijah from holding long, one-sided conversations with it.
It had all started because he’d remembered multiple studies that suggested that plants fared better when ...
2025-12-24 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Gorveth shuddered with a dense blast of ethera that tore across Druhmor and out into the abyssal landscape of the excised world. It wasn’t the first time Elijah had experienced such a pulse, which left flowers blooming in its wake, but it was far denser than any that had come before.
And given what he felt from the tree, it marked a significant event. The end of an era...
2025-12-23 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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For Christmas, I've decided to do double chapters until the end of the year. I hope you all enjoy it! Happy holidays, everyone!
A legion of black-armored figures raced across the fields, trampling crops with every thundering step. They moved in unnatural silence. No shouted warcries. No grunts of effort. There was nothing...
2025-12-23 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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