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Beef and Hollow landed on the ground of the inner bailey, hammer out and crystalline daggers bristling.
Chaos reigned around them.
A monster, a hideous abomination of plants and stone, was smashing into the walls. Pit, in his enormous Tyrant form,...
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All Book 9 chapters are now in the new Patreon Collections section!
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Felix sat within his core space, holding tight to the reins of chaos.
His shaping Skills sang, a cater...
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With a final, massive blow, the ward flashed and collapsed in on itself. Tarok started forward, a hammer in his hand. Without another word, he reared back and swung, shattering the frame around the portal. The vault door and the locking mechanism that held it shut collapsed, falling inward with a grand crash.
Tarok choked up on his hammer ...
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"Captain, we've found something." Tarok calmly set down his glass of brandy and looked up at the man who had just rushed into his tent.
"Calm yourself, Lieutenant Gigg. What did you find, and where?"
"Just underneath the keep, in the tunne...
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As his Skill settled into place, Felix tested it cautiously. It spun, a subtle vibration that thrummed across the breadth of his core space as the nine rings around the planet increased their rotational speed. He could feel it working, but it was hyper specific; it didn’t af...
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Yin busied himself around the turret floor, inspecting the complicated array he had made. It wasn't an array as Vess understood these things. It was more akin to the summoning circles that the Risi Witches made use of, though thankfully blood was not a primary com...
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“Thrust!” Selin shouted, and fifteen Dragoons stabbed forward with identical spears.
“Parry!” Morag commanded. “Guard!”
The movements continued, over and over. Sometimes the words changed, but mostly it was the same. Thrust. Parry. Gua...
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Felix cleared a space for himself on the forge floor before he sat, his thoughts a whirl of nervous anticipation. He had yet to use any of the Skill evolutions he had earned from their combined Titles, and he was…unsure of how it would unfold.
"Alright, ev...
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In the days that followed, Fortress Fenwald became a flurry of activity.
Felix directed Archie to work with the refugees, figuring out what they needed and how to provide it. He was to act as a liaison of sorts, all under the name of Vessilia ...
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A deep bell crashed across the world, invisible to the villagers but more than loud enough that Pit and Tzfell flinched away. A notification appeared before Felix that was edged in scrolling designs of silver, gold, and a gleaming verdant green.
Hidden Quest Updated!
Restore The Crown!
The Crown of Elysium has been l...
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The world roared as tongues of magical flame flared within the furnace, licking up against its inner chamber as if possessed of an intense hunger to burn anything it could reach. Sigils lit up along its stone and metal surface, keeping the flame at bay, but the heat was intense. Harn was soaked in sweat as he stared at it, less than a s...
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Hallow slid down the loam-covered slope of the mountain, rapidly descending between the middling-sized trees that sprouted there in the rare patches of sunlight not blocked by their far larger brethren. Her large, wide feet were particularly suited to such activity, and the jarring stop at the end barely fazed her.
Down there, th...
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"Alright, now pay attention to the coin. See where it goes?” Archie palmed a coin, a shiny golden one he’d taken from the Vault of Nine Kings. It was worth a lot, but mostly it had a great weight. Perfect for sleight of hand tricks.
“Into tha...
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Atop the wall of the keep, Felix was mostly left alone. That was partly because of how hard it was to reach this section of the wall, as well as his occasional practice unveiling his Spirit. The few curious guards had been driven away when the very air felt l...
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The inner bailey of Fortress Fenwald was the largest portion of the structure by far, easily taking up six football fields worth of space at the base of the mountain. Raised up from the swamps that clung tight to the broken walls, it was one of the few places dry...
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Alister was having a rough day.
It was an arduous trip across the Shadowgate where they faced more than a few Voidbeasts—weak things called Tenebrils—they finally breached the portal into Haestus Temple after several long glasses. In local time, however, h...
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"What?" Atar spun just in time to catch the heel of a boot slipping out of the first-story window. "Isla! There!"
He flared his Agility, but it wasn’t enough. By the time he reached the sill, the figure was already gone.
"You’ll not run from m...
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Atar leaned over the table, closely inspecting the blasted piece of metal before him. It was covered with a delicate tracery of sigils, markings that were almost invisible to the normal eye. However, to his advanced perception and particular talents, they sto...
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The night found Vess with her aunt, quietly chatting after a long soak in a copper tub that her porters had managed to carry from the wreckage of her manor. Hot water had been hauled up long flights of stairs just for them, but Vess didn't regret the wait. She felt more r...
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That night, as darkness settled onto Fortress Fenwick, Felix plied the skies.
Sat atop Pit, Felix surveyed the dark landscape. The mountains stretched to the west and north while to the east the landscape dropped down into foothills and fields. Several hund...
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“Is this man your…protector, Lady Dayne?” Tarok asked, straightening as Felix retracted his Spirit.
Felix bared his teeth. “You could say that.”
Tarok raised a single eyebrow. “I thought that honor belonged to the Chosen Hand of the Du...
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“They will not touch this place,” Yin hissed.
“We will not let them,” Vess agreed. “Fortress Fenwald! Do you have defenses?”
Defenses Include:
Sealing Wards
Jagged Illusion Array
Acid Pour (Disabled)
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Folks, my last full day in Vegas is today (Friday) and I'm a touch behind on the chapter. I have this one almost done but it needs a few touches. I'll have it up by the end of the day!
Thanks for the understanding!
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Felix’s anger cooled as they walked. He didn’t regret his words—he’d meant every one of them. What he regretted was potentially spoiling his relationship with Archie. The guy knew how to rub everyone the wrong way and seemed t...
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Despite the rough landing, almost everyone was fine. When the bindings were released they were merely sore, bruises at worst. Nothing was broken. Pit was fine too, which had worried Felix for all of the second it took for him to review his Companion’s Statu...
I will be out of town all of next week, attending the 20Books author conference in Las Vegas. But chapters will still go up M/W/F!
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“Oof, you guys are heavy,” Pit complained, as the Eidolons were strapped down to his back. “Are those gonna hold?...
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Turns out the Eidolons could run, and damn fast too—the problem was their sheer mass. Whatever was beneath their feet was gonna get pulverized. Thankfully Felix’s Stone Shaping reinforced by Astrum Ascendence was up ...
Got some much needed rest this weekend and I'm feeling back to my normal self, finally.
Last week was the last 4x updates, so as of this week we're back to 3x week updates on Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
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The raiders were long gone by the time Fe...
Feeling a bit better. Enough to get this chapter out.
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Nestled in the Foot, Isla’s Fiendstone mansion was a luxury that many in the city would have killed to take from her. It was a status symbol among the growing populace, a...
Folks, I'm feeling a bit sick this week, which has put me behind in my writing. Never fear though, today's (Friday 10/27) Journeyman Tier chapter will be up by end of the day.
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