The three reflections had some commonalities. Hair color, facial features, and body build. The person that was reflected had little in common with my previous appearance. There were a fe...
2023-08-04 13:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostI lost myself in disbelief and wonder as I internalized the historical information about my racial heritage. I felt excitement and embarrassment when I realized the gift I had been given. The histo...
2023-07-25 09:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostChanging races was nothing like character creation in a game. The process required a quantum shift in a person’s being. There were changes made on the genetic level, a complete rewrite of DNA tha...
2023-07-17 14:56:40 +0000 UTC View Post“If she chooses a race that has no ties to you or your [Domain], any Karmic ties that bind the two of you will be severed,” the [System Administer] warned as they watched [Time] rewind and Syst...
2023-07-17 14:55:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Why her?” The System Administrator asked.
Teigh, God of Illusion and Glamour, had been granted a boon. The System was given the people of Earth a do...
2023-06-20 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Membership will now renew monthly on the day you subscribed instead of monthly. This should resolve double billings.
2023-06-15 19:44:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The next arc of Growing Pains will follow Geon and Syha. I've come with a few book covers. Only one for Geon... Take a look and see if you have a favorite.
2023-06-13 08:12:51 +0000 UTC View PostOf those applying for the managing positions, Sen Feng, Chao Kho, and Lu Hong made the final cut.
Sen Feng would have been a scribe and librarian if he had managed to awaken his sp...
2023-06-07 18:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostI’m sure there were times when ruling a kingdom would be boring, but I hadn’t come across those moments yet.
Of course, things might have been less frantic if I didn’t insist...
2023-06-07 18:49:16 +0000 UTC View PostI had blocked a few hours before the start of the day to consolidate my gains from reaching the Nascent Soul Realm. Besides the quantitative leap in power, an exponential increase that I was slowly...
2023-06-04 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“I worry that you are too reliant on the Hindel,” Clement advised me. “You will have to be careful that you don’t become a vassal state of their Empire.”
“I’m not sur...
2023-06-03 10:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostFirst surgery is done, and the eye is healing. The next surgery will be June 20th. I am going to try to post a chapter a day until then, before I have to take another week or two off.
I did t...
2023-06-03 10:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostI stayed until the last spec of earth had been sifted for clues. I doubted we would ever know what family those toddlers belonged to, but I didn’t want to leave behind a mystery that could have b...
2023-05-23 08:03:45 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow I managed to detach a retina. It is causing real issues with my vision. I've lost almost total sight in my right eye, and what is left is causing my left eye to have problems focusing.
<... 2023-05-05 21:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostHer Hanfu also had layers of enchantments that affected perception skills. It was like a stealth field that wrapped Qi acting like a mirror so that my perception skill focused on what the enchantme...
2023-05-03 00:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe room Ja Fiat had created seemed innocent enough at first glance. But when I swept the room with my perception, I was able to identify the runes and arrays that had been crafted using blood.
... 2023-04-29 14:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostWe had to get past the defensive fortifications to get inside the house, so there was no point in hiding our presence now that I had explained the situation to my House members. They had taken up p...
2023-04-27 14:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t give any warning or reason for my anger and killing intent to explode. I registered that a few members of the team were forced to their knees, but no one was hurt. Activating [Lightning...
2023-04-25 18:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostStorm was confused.
The flock she had ordered to watch younger brother and sister and begun squawking and chitting at her the moment she arrived at the perch she preferred to rest ...
2023-04-24 13:21:11 +0000 UTC View Post“This explains so much,” Aki muttered to herself. I had called Clement and Aki asking to figure out what the creature we were dealing with was and if we should remove it or let it be. Clement a...
2023-04-23 16:47:54 +0000 UTC View Post[Reap the Wind] was the newest martial technique in my arsenal of [Tessenjutsu].
It was an evolved form of [Dancing Wind and Rain], [Wind Over Water], and [Thunder Strikes]. I flic...
2023-04-22 11:18:38 +0000 UTC View PostWe cleared the upper tunnels, searching every offshoot tunnel and out-of-the-way cave in the process. We could have ignored some areas, but I wanted us to get used to working together as a team. 2023-04-20 11:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Finding out more about my Dark Elf heritage was interesting, but only academically. Once I was certain that a band of bloodthirsty assassins wouldn’t be attempting to track us down, I filed the i...
2023-04-19 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Your father and I met in that town, both lost and lonely,” my Mother continued, “meeting each other only by chance.
“I had apprenticed to a local potion maker, and your fa...
2023-04-17 13:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Mother?” I said, turning to confront her directly. “Are you a Dark Elf?”
That made the most sense. Her skin tones had more shades of purple than Father, and while I admitt...
2023-04-13 11:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Jai,” I heard a second before I felt someone jump on me, “Mom says it’s time to get up. We have things to do before we get to the Sect.” Each word seemed to be punctuated with another bo...
2023-04-09 23:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post“How are they?” I asked.
I had been right in my hypothesis of what was happening to my younger brother and sister. They had formed a spirit root. One that had never been seen b...
2023-04-06 01:52:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Is it finished?” Duke Ishiroi demanded. The Duke wasn’t usually this impatient. He had schemed for centuries, stolen, killed, or bribed Sect Heads, Clan Heads, and bureaucrats alike to get t...
2023-04-04 21:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostRoyal Road's Writathon for April has started. I am going to try to release enough content for both Growing Pains and Tuatha de Danann.
Some of the word count will come from editing old conten...
2023-04-03 00:35:39 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t stay to see if there were any ramifications from my edict. The former Baron would either comply, or he would die. I only stayed long enough to make sure there was someone in charge, some...
2023-04-03 00:31:36 +0000 UTC View Post