Chapter 176: Relief
On his return to the cloud palace, Emirs first action was securing the scythe. His second was seeking out Jason and his team on the balcony terrace and enjoying a light lunch.
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2020-02-03 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 175: Shallow Earth
The team had been eager to test out their new abilities as soon as they reached shore, but things were a little busy. While the iron-rankers were in the astral space, even more people had be...
2020-01-31 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 174: Making an Exit
The shadow gate took Jason from the tower at the heart of the city to one of those at the citys edge. He emerged at the base of one of the archway towers, not far from where ruins gave way...
2020-01-30 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 173: Take the Loot and Go
The last set of stairs led Jason into a hallway that looped around in a ring, a huge circuit he estimated to be almost as wide as the full tower. The outer wall of the hallway was the famili...
2020-01-29 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 172: Meanwhile, Two Weeks Ago in Greenstone...
Thalia Mercer was ill at ease. Most of the citys iron-rankers had left a few days earlier and would be gone for weeks. She had hoped, in the quiet that settled over Greenstone in their abs...
2020-01-28 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 171: Irreconcilable Ideals
Shade led Jason upstairs into a square room. The stairs emerged from an alcove in the middle of one wall, with a sealed door on the opposite wall. The walls to either side were covered in sq...
2020-01-27 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 170: He Who Fights With Monsters
In the heart of the city, a crowd of adventurers were gathered in the tower square as the sun dipped below the horizon. Clumped into teams, they formed a ring around the grand tower in the c...
2020-01-24 22:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 169: Company Worth Keeping
Since they were the impetus for the rooftop party, Jason and Valdis provided the supplies. Jason set up a buffet, putting out a couple of tables, an array of large bowls full of food, tongs ...
2020-01-23 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 168: Team Change
Only seven groups had managed to breach the centremost region of the city before the blood root vine had been killed. One was made up of people with flight powers. Such abilities were mana i...
2020-01-22 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 167: Making a Spectacle of Himself
Were getting closer to the centre, Jason said, looking at his map. We could get there today if we went straight for it.
That explains why we ran into so many groups, yester...
2020-01-21 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 166: Part of Being a Team
After defeating the flesh abomination, Jasons temporary team had grown to five. With two defenders in Keane and Sophie, two healers in Neil and Jory, Jason was their only dedicated damage ...
2020-01-20 22:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 165: No One Has That Coming
In the aftermath of the fight with the vorger, Jason and Sophie had no time to catch up with Neil and Jory. The flesh abomination lumbering in their direction posed a new, albeit very slowly...
2020-01-17 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 164: A Worse Plan
Clives team were making their way up through a building that became more precarious as they went. It was the tallest building they had encountered in the city, almost as tall as the archwa...
2020-01-16 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 163: Surplus to Requirements
Jason and Sophie continued their way through the city. More cautious than ever, they exposed themselves to long sightlines as little as possible. Sometimes they used narrow streets to hide t...
2020-01-15 23:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 162: The Danger is Us
In the time they had spent allowing Sophie to recover, some other groups had moved deeper into the city. They started seeing traces of that as they went, the plants and building showings tra...
2020-01-14 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 161: A Well-Informed Man
The City of Fallen Echoes was teeming with monsters. On their second day, Jason and Sophie had an encounter almost hourly as they made their way. Sometimes they followed streets, other times they w...
2020-01-13 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 160: Giving People Choices
Sophie awoke to enticing breakfast smells. She was aching and tired, her damaged arm having given her a restless night. Only in the last few hours did she snatch away some precious, uninterr...
2020-01-10 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 159: Mixed Medication
Sophie's arm was more serious than any of Jason's wounds. Her arm was severely damaged, requiring an extended period to heal back up with her self-recovery power. Jason had been needled quit...
2020-01-09 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 158: Seriously Hardcore
The monster was mostly identical to a leopard, except for the legs. They were still covered in spotted fur, like the rest of the creature, but there were eight of them, multi-jointed and eme...
2020-01-08 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 157: Shade
Jasons cloak fluttered around him as he drifted to the ground.
Clive said that some people think the powers we get are reflections of who we are, Sophie said.
So?
Chapter 156: The City of Fallen Echoes
There was some pushing and jostling from the adventurers eager to pass through the aperture until a few low growls from Gary pulled the stroppy ones in line. Emir stood with Gary, watching f...
2020-01-06 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 155: It's A Good One
Jason and his team descended through the water as the daylight shining through the surface of the lake above grew increasingly dim. They stood close together on the platform as the sphere ar...
2020-01-03 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 154: A Rash Decision
Now, Jason said happily, this is what adventuring should be like.
Adventurers were spreading out over the surface of Sky Scar Lake like a huge flock of geese, using all manner ...
2020-01-02 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153: Legacy
Emir and Constance were walking toward the cloud palace main exit.
Who did the voice projection circle? Emir asked.
Trent, Constance said.
Do you mean the glass...
2020-01-01 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 152: I Can't Trust Any of It
A crowd of hundreds was gathered at the Adventure Society campus, in front of the cloud palace as they waited for Emir to emerge. There was a sea of iron rankers, plus all manner of city lum...
2019-12-31 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 151: Wake
Farrah hadnt had a formal memorial, just a handful of dinners and informal gatherings story-telling and everyone getting blind drunk. With the unexpected appearance of her parents, Rufus h...
2019-12-30 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPoll: Potential Schedule Change
I have been considering moving the regular schedule back a day when I return from break. It would still be five chapters a week, but the releases in the US would go from Monday to Friday instead of...
2019-12-27 04:57:17 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas. Here's a short bonus story.
Technically, it's more of a vignette than a short story, but there you go. This is completely unrelated to He Who Fights With Monsters, but I thought I'd share some of my other writing while I'm aw...
2019-12-24 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostPDF Bundle 146-150
When I posted the last bundle, it's possible that I came off as a little unhinged. In my defence, I was late and I may have been a little tired. Admittedly, that was about three minutes ago, but I'...
2019-12-19 22:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostPDF Bundle 141-145
It feels weird making a post without at least some kind of irreverent statement. In the last one I was going to say that that I couldn't think of anything and people should come up with their own w...
2019-12-19 22:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post