“I’m grateful to you all and to you especially, Ethan. I wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for you. But after seeing how things are going, I don’t think I’m cut out for what’s to come. I’d prefer to make myself useful to those who can’t defend themselves. Or to those young people over there. But I don’t think I’ve got what it takes to push ahead like you do. So I’m taking ...
2025-01-02 20:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostHenry’s eyes shot open as he felt Maurice’s nudge, and he tuned into his Octominds. Instantly, he became aware of what the subminds had seen and noted.
In the schooling floor, two Octominds had been watching the small crowd of children still hanging around Stormsong as she displayed her control over the nimbus of water under her. Now that he had to suffer through Arisia’s trai...
2025-01-02 20:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAN: We're back! Hope you got to enjoy the holidays, and I wish you all a happy new year! Hope you kick some ass this year.
Did you manage to stay late? I was out by 10.30pm.
In any case, I managed to finish the editing of book 1 for Undersea ( at least enough to send the draft), and I only got a week or so left before I head back home from spending time with the fam. The goal's to i...
2025-01-01 18:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostAN: We're back! Hope you got to enjoy the holidays, and I wish you all a happy new year! Hope you kick some ass this year.
Did you manage to stay late? I was out by 10.30pm.
In any case, I managed to finish the editing of book 1 for Undersea ( at least enough to send the draft), and I only got a week or so left before I head back home from spending time with the fam. The goal's to ...
2025-01-01 18:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm off! Next chapter's on the 1st. I'll be working and resting a bit. I hope you all enjoy the holiday season and thank you so much for supporting me.
You all rock.
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“[That sounds... Like a giant pain in the fur],” growled Ember as both of them stared out into the agitated cave. The loud roar had finally begun to abate, but no s...
2024-12-20 20:24:49 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm off! Next chapter's on the 1st. I'll be working and resting a bit. I hope you all enjoy the holiday season and thank you so much for supporting me.
You all rock.
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Henry stared at the woman, and after considering it for a second, he summoned a visual illusion to emote for him. After all, expressions were an important part of communication,...
2024-12-20 20:24:36 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: One of the dev edits on the todo list is to have a vision for the prime wand activation! I have to go back and add Ethan’s, but here it is for now. This would happen as the “body upgrade” is ongoing.
— Ethan’s POV —
As the magic poured into his body, burning, crushing and tempering him, Ethan’s mind was whisked away. The pain faded into the background a...
2024-12-19 19:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few minutes of climbing where Arisia swore every oath Henry had put Zerathstra through and then a couple to really emphasize that she couldn’t use or spread what she learned against him in any way, the two arrived in the stadium-like space he’d visited only a day prior, where he’d learned that this would be where the tournaments would be held.
Arisia took a sha...
2024-12-19 19:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey all! Thank you as always for your support. Hope you like this week's chapter and don't forget, I'm off next week ( to recharge some batteries and finish Undersea B1's editing)
Peace!
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Ethan paced while the tier-3 list of spells floated in front of him.
Wings, or weight?
On one hand, he had just been thinking and hoping for a spell to f...
2024-12-18 19:25:42 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey all! Thank you as always for your support. Hope you like this week's chapter and don't forget, I'm off next week ( to recharge some batteries and finish Undersea B1's editing)
Peace!
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After months of dreading his first encounter with humans, Henry was glad to see it had gone well. Sure, it had looked a bit dicey early on, considering his first meeting with...
2024-12-18 19:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Have a great weekend everyone!
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Ethan eyed the two options at the bottom of the list and hummed.
He was very much interested in both. Considering regular wands’ traits were called unique, he assumed he could only have one active at a time so even though he was very happy with [Wand of the Lesser Fire Elemental], he wanted to see what else he could get. Then...
2024-12-13 18:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Have a great weekend everyone!
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Henry’s nap only lasted for a couple of minutes until he realized he hadn’t checked his notifications just yet. While his companions slept and while his Octominds struggled to control the unstable blob of water hovering over the pool and through the disguise, Henry, still on his back, pulled them up and read through them. He was...
2024-12-13 18:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey folks! Hope you're all doing well. I'm visiting family and I wanted to announce that I'm taking the week of the 23rd off (in two weeks).
I wish I could say I'm taking a break, but I'm not. I still have work on Undersea's book 1 edits, so I'm gonna just work on that and get it over with. The deadline's looming, and it's getting hard to focus on much else.
I'll remind you all ...
2024-12-12 19:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey folks! Hope you're all doing well. I'm visiting family and I wanted to announce that I'm taking the week of the 23rd off (in two weeks).
I wish I could say I'm taking a break, but I'm not. I still have work on Undersea's book 1 edits, so I'm gonna just work on that and get it over with. The deadline's looming, and it's getting hard to focus on much else.
I'll remind you all ...
2024-12-12 19:35:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs his companions closed their eyes and tried to trigger their tiering-up process with varying success, Ethan turned to the cat. Not wanting to disturb the others, he focused on his connection to the cat elemental and tried to push his thoughts through the link they shared. Just like Ember herself did.
The first couple of tries, nothing happened. But after the third, he felt something sna...
2024-12-11 19:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the agricultural platform, the trio continued the visit along with Zamir and Semea, with the latter having finally warmed up to them and struck up a conversation with Stormsong. As for Maurice, he was very much keen on going back to the farmers and botanists. Not just to sample their fruits and vegetables—though that was most certainly part of it, especially the fruits—but he was just...
2024-12-11 19:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: As always, thank you all so much for supporting me. Enjoy the weekend :)
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Ethan stood quietly over the unmoving body of Savannah as the cut near her collarbone continued to pulse. A spellcore had already fallen out of it, and now, green filaments were floating out of the blue magic and to his untrained senses, they felt different. One was sickly and pale. While the ...
2024-12-06 15:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: As always, thank you all so much for supporting me. Enjoy the weekend :)
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The stairway leading up the giant tree was the first of many wondrous little discoveries Henry had made. It was as if a low branch had sprouted near the water surface, flattened itself, then curled around the tree all the way up and now that he was climbing the natural-looking steps in his hum...
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EDIT: Tweaked the scene a tiny bit and removed a couple of typos. If you read through emails, read this version!
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Amelie’s and Liz’s bolts of magic turned to dust as the visible green ripples of Savannah’s wail reached them, and Ember’s powerful, thick jet of fire was reduced to flickering flames, much like those of a candle.
For Ethan, it f...
2024-12-05 16:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostZerathstra picked up Maurice who didn’t seem to mind it at all and turned him around, intently examining the crustacean. “[They used to be common throughout the coasts of the Reach. If it’s still being called that. They were fished and hunted to extinction though. Their abilities are extremely valuable to treasure hunters and they do possess the ability to copy skills. In a tragic but...
2024-12-05 16:50:40 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Happy Wednesday! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays (if you celebrate them) and thanks you all for reading and for supporting me.
Enjoy!
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Ethan removed the scales from his face, but he didn’t extinguish the low-flames still dancing all over his body, nor did he dismiss the claws or the horns.
“It says human because I am,” he said as h...
2024-12-04 18:38:13 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Happy Wednesday! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays (if you celebrate them) and thanks you all for reading and for supporting me.
Enjoy!
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What boon did Henry want?
He peered out into the sea ahead and rolled the turtle shell in his arms before he stored it once again.
Could he visit the settlement on the trees and have his safety guaranteed? It w...
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EDIT: Hey all! Hope you enjoyed this week's chapters. A small clarification about yesterday's chapter: I started implementing a small tweak last chapter and I will go back and make it clearer early in the story when I'm editing book 1. There was some secret math in the wand's bonus points that I decided to do away with. From now on, the wand has a pool of points, and those get e...
2024-11-29 19:55:25 +0000 UTC View PostHenry brought his arms under his body to help with the twitching while his mind went into overdrive. It felt a bit safer to have them under him. Less risk of them getting chopped off.
He wasn’t sure why that would be a concern for him.
Focus. This is an A-rank. What the hell do I do? And why does it think I’m human?
Henry struggled to process everything, but...
2024-11-29 19:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostEthan grit his teeth and restlessly tapped his foot as the magic dust swirled and slowly sank into his naked body. He was facing away from the team, but he wasn’t worried about anyone peeking. The sounds of frantic battle told him all that he needed to hear.
So while he waited for the upgrade process to finish up, he assigned the stat points he had gotten from finishing the s...
2024-11-28 20:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostHenry cursed. With the woman coming down from above, and the man waiting for him below, he changed direction once more and hoped he wasn’t about to find a third person waiting to get the drop on him and this time, he just swam in a direct line to his recently appointed true north: the straight path away from where they’d entered the Current.
The man realized he’d been made, so he be...
2024-11-28 20:09:02 +0000 UTC View PostEthan sat at the ledge of the tunnel, gazing down at the agitated mushroom-trees of the second layer after he assigned his new point to mana and checked his fragments
I’m at 405 fragments in the Elemental wand. I’m almost at 500. I have more than a 100 in the Prime wand but if I could just transfer them…
He couldn’t. He tried over and over. Tried to meditate and vis...
2024-11-27 17:19:19 +0000 UTC View PostHenry kept his mind shielded as he began planning around the second B-rank near them while his clone kept engaging with the human. Maybe whatever was watching them wasn’t another human, but he really doubted that.
More likely, the two B-ranks were a team, and while one of them agreed to be diplomatic and chat, the second was keeping an eye on them. Before he turned his attention back up...
2024-11-27 17:19:12 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: As always, thank you all for your support. It helps a lot, considering I'm doing this fulltime now :)
I hope you enjoyed this week's chapter. I'll pick up the pace soon (I have a lot of editing to do on my plate). But at least I got my main computer back! Can confirm that the motherboard had died.
Enjoy the weekend!
EDIT: Made a mistake that Kanashii pointed out: E...
2024-11-22 17:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: As always, thank you all for your support. It helps a lot, considering I'm doing this fulltime now :)
I hope you enjoyed this week's chapter. I'll pick up the pace soon (I have a lot of editing to do on my plate). But at least I got my main computer back! Can confirm that the motherboard had died.
Enjoy the weekend!
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The trunk of the...
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