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The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-Two

Two days after Orykson’s arrival, I finally made enough progress on digging out the steps of my spatial and temporal mana-gardens to hit a wall, and I prepared myself for a breakthrough.  View Post

The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty-One

I sighed, biting my lip as I considered my next move. 

I did want to see Kene – the weeks on the boat had been long without them. I also knew that the earlier I could get the portal ne...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Twenty

As a reminder, starting next week, we return to five or six chapters a week: Three Mana Mirror, and two or three of Effaced Book Two

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It took us a lon...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Nineteen

When we pushed into the anthill itself, which had been partially destroyed by the giant shovels that Mrs. Cromwell had used, the battle grew both easier and harder. 

On one hand, desolan...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Eighteen

The powerful restorative ran through my body and spirit, and my mana surged and boiled. It rushed from the elixir and into my garden, rapidly filling it back up to normal. The excess power tried to...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Seventeen

Sorry for the delay! I accidentally scheduled it for 8pm, rather than am

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I gasped as I sat up from where I’d hit the ground in front of the entry t...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Sixteen

If the ants held to their previous pattern, I would have a few hours before they attacked, so I turned options over in my head. I could try and make more potions, to seed the ground around the anth...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Fifteen

Dusk flew as fast as she could, gathering power from her birds, from her insects, and from the sky estragon within her. With all their spellcraft supporting her, she blazed through the sky, moving ...

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The Glass Orbs

The Dreamer sat, crouched over the network of more than a thousand glass orbs. 

Well. Sat was a relative term. He was in a chair, but only the balls of his feet were touching its cushion...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Fourteen

I sat above the colony, hovering in the air. I wished that I’d had the foresight to pull out as many potions from Dusk as possible before she’d left, since I couldn’t just teleport them into ...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Thirteen

I glanced at Dusk and Dawn, as well as manifesting Hannah, and we had a brief discussion. 

If I could manage to simultaneously get rid of an invasive species, get a portion of their loot...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Twelve

I turned to assist Dusk with her own battle, but it was already winding down, with the desolants retreating the long way around the tunnel. I limped over to her, and only then did I look down and s...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Eleven

The ant that had been dragging me suddenly changed its course. It turned, shoving me to the side, then rushed out. The other grave tending ants rushed out as well, and I started to move, but Dusk w...

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An(t) Ant-ense Vote

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The Third Portal: Chapter Ten

Figuring out how to get the blueshade to produce the same mildly citrusy scent as the ant’s non-threat pheromones took some time and experimentation. 

Enhance Plant Life was a good spe...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Nine

After a bit of discussion with my bonds and Hannah, I reached out my hand, then paused. 

There was something… off… about it, that was tickling my nascent truths, or perhaps the wind ...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Eight

Edgar told me about how Elio, the guild leaders, and himself had done battle against the handful of truly power beings on the island. They’d fought a peak sixth gate slaughter spirit that simply ...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Seven

“Is it going to transform my heart?” I asked. 

“The spell’s biological array is in the heart, which will cause it to turn it a whitish-gray, which will look… interesting… wit...

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The Third Portal: The First Vote

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Elysian Tournament Origins

This story is set over four and a half hundred years before the events of Mana Mirror

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If you were to ask an average citizen in the modern world what ...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Six

I bounded forwards, using Immovable Lock to catch one foot in place, then bore down on that foot to fling myself forwards again with more momentum. 

With my Foxstep currently throwing my...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Five

When I slipped inside, the attendant looked up and greeted me with a blunt, “Oh, it’s you,” before she immediately returned to reading her novel. I gestured around. 

“Which of th...

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The Second Gate is now out!

Hello!

For those of you who haven’t been following along, I’ve had an extremely difficult time getting this book out.  

Due to some issues around the copyright with some p...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Four

“There are currently four major adventure guilds with different outposts on the other slices of the island, except for the central mountains: Port Sapphire, Port Emerald, and Port Heliodor. We ne...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Three

“So, the first thing you should know is the customs house,” Ivy said, leading me away from the docks into a large stone building. It was fairly sparse, unadorned, but there were people moving a...

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The Third Portal: Chapter Two

“Idyll!” I said, reaching out and extending my hand, while Dusk buzzed over to the older worldspirit on her cloud. 

“Malachi. I am glad to see you are well,” Idyll said, bowing h...

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The Third Portal: Chapter One

A beam of crackling black and white light, streaked with electric blue seared towards me, and I Foxstepped out of the way, materializing behind my opponent in a flash. Octavian’s elbow flashed ou...

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Year in Review, Updates, and Next Year's Roadmap

Hello! First and foremost, I wanted to thank all of you for the amazing year. I've been able to write a lot more full time, despite running into some speedbumps, and I'm very optimistic that I'll b...

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The Third Gate: Chapter Sixty-Five

For my final night in Mossford before one of the few boats to Crysite arrived, we threw a potluck. Given that there were only four local Mossford guilds willing to make the journey back and forth u...

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