Ambraz let out a groan, still perched on Irwin's stomach. "Irwin, meet Pur'am, my second progeny."
Irwin watched the purple Ganvil circle them, staring at him, still pushing against his soulforce barrier.
"I see," he replied. "And how is he trying to move into my soulscape?"
"He's what?! Pur'am, stop that or you won't have another card for a week!" Ambraz shouted, flying up fr...
2025-10-10 17:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostZan slammed her hammer into the card, singing softly while Silv'am hummed a counter tune. She sensed that the card's resonance was almost complete, and as she struck it again, she let her song end in a high crescendo.
The cards hovered and their amethyst border rippled, changing into the pale yellow of a topaz-ranked card.
Zan felt her elation soar as she picked up the card an...
2025-10-05 17:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post"Now then, you have me rather curious," Irwin said. "What is going on?"
Rinbus took a deep breath, staring up at him. "Rindiri and the others weren't your own species initially, were they?"
Irwin blinked in surprise. He hadn't told Rinbus or anyone here about the Yuurindi, while he and Rindiri had made sure the ex-Yuurindi also never mentioned it. They called themselves Crathans and...
2025-10-04 19:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post"As you can see, the tree-wharf is close to being fully functional," Rindiri said as she stomped beside Irwin.
He nodded as he followed her, half of his attention on the massive changes to the eastern part of Trunkle. The wall had been expanded a few hundred feet outward, around one of the larger trees, allowing the small docks and buildings a clear view of both the city and beyond. ...
2025-10-03 17:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you alright?" Irwin asked, staring at his friend.
"Yes. Just give me a moment," he Daubutim said, the bursts of red lightning in his eyes increasing, the light from them around so bright that it was lighting up the entire room.
A few moments went by, but it quickly became clear that Daubutim wasn't going to respond. Still, from the constant storm, Irwin at least knew his friend...
2025-09-28 18:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostSlaudi leaned back in his chair, glaring at the tablet on his desk. They had been traveling for over a week, and all the news he'd gotten as he closed in on the first of his bases had been bad.
How can such a small force still hold us back? They are just chunks of flying metal!
He glared at the tablet, harder, almost wishing to shatter it. After a few moments of showi...
2025-09-27 16:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostRubini groaned and dropped the hammer on the nearby table. Feeling disgusted, she picked up the chunk of metal. She could sense the tiny inconsistencies still lingering in it, like small irregularities mocking her. Compared to when she'd started, she'd improved immensely, but she just couldn't get it perfect.
"You look like you swallowed a Cinder Bug."
Rubini turned to the side to f...
2025-09-26 17:21:44 +0000 UTC View Post"Make sure you stay in the house," Irwin said, as he looked at Rindiri and the two Yuurindi.
"We will, Captain," Rindiri said. "Good luck."
"Luck has nothing to do with it," Ambraz said happily, flying nearby. "Now, let's do this, kid! As soon as we are done, you can bring us out of here. As much as I love your soulscape, it's just so… empty."
Irwin nodded and floated up in ...
2025-09-21 18:01:40 +0000 UTC View PostThree days went by both faster and slower than Irwin wanted. By the second day, the headache was preventing him from sleeping or fully enjoying himself. It made it hard to keep his calm. When the others woke on the third day, he knew he would have to head back as soon as he said his goodbyes.
"Kid, next time we shouldn't stay this long," Ambraz grunted. "Why force it? Stay a d...
2025-09-20 17:38:28 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin hovered in the middle of Preg's old cave. He let his senses do a final sweep around, and he sensed Mouli, the enormous fire snake, guarding the entrance. It wasn't really necessary because the chances of anything even entering the Ghulnithair terrain were nearly impossible. Still, he'd decided to do it here for two reasons.
One was the impressive pool of Ancestral Coperion that he'd...
2025-09-19 16:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostRubini felt her entire body protest as she pulled Julla back to the edge of the merchant's storage district and the narrow streets she and the others used to sleep in.
"Rubi," Julla muttered, yawning and wiping a few hairs from her face. "Will you have time to ask around tonight?"
Rubini held back a weary sigh, wishing nothing more to postpone it again. After three full days of help...
2025-09-14 15:39:46 +0000 UTC View PostRubini walked into the building, followed by a curious and excited Julla. The entrance was already cleaned of sand, and as Rubini looked around, they saw a towering Oxarite use a comparatively tiny broom to wipe sand from one of the sides of the buildings. Her dark, slightly gleaming arms bulged with muscle as she hummed happily.
Well, at least she looks like a Smith, Rubini thou...
2025-09-13 20:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Ten times as much soulforce as you have now?" Amburaz said slowly. "You are sure he said that?"
Irwin nodded as he sat at the edge of the pyroflux lake, legs inside the hot liquid, as he watched the massive group of fire elemental snakes congregated in the distance. The Ghulnithair had been waiting for him when he rose from the depths, and their new leader, Moulinduadh, had told him to w...
2025-09-12 16:28:03 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin frowned as he stared out across Flamerock, which had new walls and towers, with Ignitzians walking across everywhere.
"After the Smiths War, Flamerock became a lot less open to new people," Rinbus said from beside him. "With Lejingi able to create most of the harder cards, and them now having a dozen Cardsmiths… well, they have become a bit isolated."
Irwin's frown deepened....
2025-09-07 18:30:38 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: So, some of you will be like - wait, didn't we have a chapter 470 already? Yes, you did. However, I had a lot of feedback on it, and in hindsight I agreed with a lot. So, I've rewritten nearly all of this chapter, keeping only a few parts while changing a few others.
Part of this chapter, the final bit in the new Silver city isn't in here now, and will be the start of the ...
Sooooo it seems I might have gone a bit to fast with my desire to reach the next part of the story. Chapter 470, the one from yesterday is getting a bit more push back than normal, with the general tendency seeming to be that people don't like how fast things went and how passive Irwin was in the entire ordeal.
I had a chat with one of you guys on discord yesterday before bedtime and th...
"-and how many? We don't know. The short of it is, we found portals deep within every Eternal Mine, and any other chasm and hole," Flowrishin said.
Irwin stopped pacing, focusing on her. Flowrishin was the only one left, as Brecka and Nimlarel had headed out with Rorin to find Rinbus. She had been telling him and Ambraz about what had happened over the last almost two hundred years. It wa...
2025-09-05 16:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, after a long and grueling slo- Uhh, I mean, after a great deal of fun times, I bring you the third edited book of Irwin's Journey!
I'll not rehash what I already did during the last post, but for those who haven't you can read some more about things here.
2025-09-01 15:05:04 +0000 UTC
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Irwin hummed as he walked into the Smiths Guild. Except for the main entrance, most of the area behind it had been changed from what he remembered. Not that it had been set in stone yet when he left, but he had expected at least the main entrance to remain the same.
Instead, the doorless pathway led them into a sprawling chamber dominated by six enormous counters. Each had a colored symbo...
2025-08-31 17:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostAuthors note: I added an entire section to this chapter to hopefully better explain what Irwin's new heartcard does. Well,the Aura soul part at least. I usually don't alert people of changes to chapters, but because its not the last chapter, and a substantial edit, I'm making two exceptions. One for this chapter, and one for the next which I'll be editing later today. The new part is in the int...
2025-08-30 17:23:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt took them a few hours and some searching to find the pillar of glass sand that surrounded the exit portal. Nothing seemed to have changed from it, not from the outside nor the inside.
"It's incredible," Nimlarel whispered, staring at the black tear in reality with the small lightning bolts jittering across the edges.
"Wait until you go inside," Brecka exclaimed, walking for...
2025-08-29 16:53:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
So book three is back from the editor and proofreaders, and will be releasing as soon as I've gone over all changes. Probably September 1e. Things are going much faster than usual but I've had some things going in the wrong order. For those with the ability, if you could get me a shout-out somewhere, or let people know about it, that would be awesome!
-- Below is the s...
Irwin woke with a start, the vestiges of a dream fading. He faintly recalled it had been about him traveling through the Portal Gallery with his family. It took two seconds for him to remember which day it was, and when he did, his eyes snapped open and he surged out of his sand bed.
He sensed his otherself snapping awake in his soulscape, hurling Ambraz, who'd been sleeping on his chest,...
2025-08-24 17:53:09 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin kept humming and moving around the sound waves as he zipped through the building and cavern, picking up the loose cards. During his chat with Ambraz, he’d moved more Ancestral Coperion into his soulscape. He could now constantly sense how it slowly absorbed his own ambient soulforce.
Odd, how it ejected all of its soulforce when I moved it in, he thought.
Perh...
2025-08-23 19:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostSo, three bits of news for you!
1. Irwin’s Journey Book 3 Release
Book 3 of Irwin’s Journey will release on Amazon next Thursday! I’ll be sharing a sneak peek of the cover this weekend.
2. Moving from Self-Publishing to a Publisher
This will be the last book I self-publish. Over the past few years, I’ve found myself procrastin...
"Do you think he will be back again tonight?" Brecka asked, arms crossed as she stared down the enormous gorge far below the tree.
She didn't notice the worried glances of Rinbus, who was standing a short distance away.
"I don't think so. He told us he was going to go a lot deeper today," the Accenti said, visibly holding back a sigh.
Yeah, Brecka thought, her h...
2025-08-22 16:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostHilbarin snuck forward, trying to ignore the raging battle behind him. The occasional shaking of the ground was a great cover for his not-so-subtle sneaking, and he glanced around at the others. He knew many of them; old lords and ladies that had once been in control of families and ridges, and now lived in the Capital in bored splendor, sometimes helping when needed. None had done battle for d...
2025-08-17 19:09:30 +0000 UTC View PostSalezina, still Empress though she hoped not for much longer, stood with arms crossed behind the secret wall, staring at the shade walkers move into her room. The runes covering the wall showed them like rapidly moving clouds, darting back and forth as they searched for her.
"I guess you were right," she said sadly.
"I wish I weren't," Vaidara said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "...
2025-08-15 15:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostA day after he had arrived, Irwin stood in what he was told was the official Imperial treasury. Masses of metals and cards filled the chamber around him, though from what the Empress had told him, most were either useless or fake.
Not all, however. And Irwin slowly turned around, six cards already in his pocket as he scanned for more that had eluded the Oxarite cardreaders.
'Her...
2025-08-10 19:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post"I always worried about her," Vaidara muttered, as she leaned back and rubbed her eyes. "Still, after she joined with Lord Sachindrian, things seemed to be calming down. I had hoped that not having to do Burrows for a while, and being together with Sachindrian would help her forget…"
Forget what? Irwin thought, but he asked the other question her muttering brought up.
"To...
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