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Web of Knowledge - Chapter 40: Chaos

Relia stumbled through the staff room with Elise’s limp body over her shoulders. Mana soared through the chamber beyond, and Zukan’s footsteps echoed through the high ceiling as he chased down ...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 39: Top of the Class

Akari trailed Zukan through the library's basement. The massive dragon was surprisingly light on his feet, hardly making a sound as they passed through the shadows. Relia kept pace behind them, whi...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 38: The Library

Akari lowered her gun and withdrew her knee from Arturo’s chest. Her legs shook from kneeling for so long, and the left one was half-frozen. Kalden and Zukan had only been talking for a few minut...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 37: The Cult of Solidor

“I found it!” Glim floated over in her Missile form. “It’s the white one on the left.”

Elend gave a slow nod, never breaking stride as he and Irina walked down the sidewalk. The sky...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 36: Trust

Zukan leapt down the stairs like a drake devouring its prey. He landed hard against the concrete floor, and the house seemed to shake on its foundation. His shield filled Kalden’s vision, a burni...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 35: Hunted

Fire fell from the sky. The Missiles came as compressed orange spheres against the night, arcing from some unseen place on the campus below.

“Incoming!” Relia shouted.

The attacks s...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 34: One Alliance

Elise Moonfire strode between piles of stone rubble, surveying the ruined cafeteria. Gusts of wind blew in from the shattered windows, and glass shards littered the tile floors. Wooden tables lay o...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 33: Hideout

“Okay,” Akari said. “Let’s get out of here.” She extended a hand toward the brick wall and formed another portal on its painted white surface. Unlike the last few portals she’d used in ...

Sorry For the Lack of Recent Updates

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to apologize for the unplanned hiatus this past week. My wife and I both had strep throat, and then I had a bad reaction to the antibiotics which caused a few days of...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 32: Battle Mana

Kalden slammed into his foes with the force of a rolling boulder. His blades spun like propellers, cutting through Constructs and Cloaks, tossing clouds of white mist into the air.

By now, he...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 31: Middle Ground

Relia knelt on the pavement, forcing life mana around Kalden’s wound. Her other hand stretched toward the sky, maintaining a dome of pure mana around them.

“Sorry.” Kalden gritted his t...

How’s the Pacing in the Web of Secrets series?

I’ve gotten a lot of comments lately (mostly on Royal Road) that imply the pacing in this series is too quick. One comment mentioned time jumps, and how they happen too frequently with not enough...

Added a New Scene to WoK Chapter 25, Plus a New Aeonica Novella

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that I wrote a new scene (500 words / 2 pages) and added it to the very beginning of Web of Knowledge - Chapter 25: Ethics of Combat.

This ide...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 30: A Promise of Peace

“What’s the situation?” Kalden asked as he entered Blood Army’s command tent. In all honesty, it wasn’t much of a tent—just a covered section of the parking lot near the Artegium. Porta...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 29: Wandering

“Wait here,” Kalden told his minions as he stepped through the bungalow’s front door. Back in the real world, this house belonged to his alchemy teacher, Professor Coleman. It wasn’t much o...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 28: The Darkest Side

Elend sat in his office, waiting for the qualifying rounds to begin. It was a bright Talekday morning, and the sun cast its golden rays over the campus. Not that Elend saw much of it from in here. ...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 27: Betrayals

Akari’s mind raced as she processed everything. First, a wave of relief washed over her from head to heel. The real Koreldon City was fine. That meant her friends were fine too, and Kalden’s br...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 26: Apocalypse

Akari woke sometime later—she couldn’t say how long. Her body was curled up in a ball with her cheek pressed against a rough carpeted floor. Gusts of cool wind ruffled her hair, carrying the sc...

Web of Knowledge - Chapter 25: Ethics of Combat

Akari practically skipped into her Theoretical Aspects classroom the next day. Her teacher sat behind a wooden desk at the front, leafing through a stack of papers as she settled in. A thirty-ounce...

Web of Knowledge - Bloopers

Happy New Year’s Eve! Here are some blooper scenes as an end-of-the-year bonus. For those of you who don’t know, bloopers are something Will Wight does in his Cradle series. They’re u...