Matabar. Chapter 78 - Sea Breeze
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Behind them, the wailing of the guard sirens began in earnest. Arkar took a sharp turn and climbed a spiral staircase atta...
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Matabar. Chapter 77 - Firstborn District
Clearing his throat, Arkar steered the car out of the yard, and they rolled along the Markov Canal. But this time, they did not head down, toward the Martyrs’ Bridge — the main crossing over th...
2025-03-06 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 76 - Ice Cream
Ardan nearly choked on his ice cream. Oh, he’d been called all sorts of names behind his back: beast, subhuman, non-human, half-man, half-blood, spawn of the Dark Lord, and so on. But that was al...
2025-03-03 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 75 - Hearts and Healers
Ardan, who’d barely slept a few hours, finally reached the Black House. It was only his second time coming here alone, without any escort from the Second Chancery, and once again, he felt ill at ...
2025-02-27 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 74 - Corporal
The few automobiles that were driving alongside the black hulks of the Second Chancery swerved sharply aside, like frightened sheep wandering too close to a shepherd’s dogs prowling along the mea...
2025-02-24 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 73 - Bounty
Ardan struck the floor with his staff, and the ice needle that formed in an instant shot out from its tip. Trailing a faint, blurry shimmer behind it, the needle slammed into the dummy dressed in a...
2025-02-20 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 72 - Birthday and a Blue Mage
Beneath the cloak of night, which was as thick as a coat of spilled oil paint, the old detective and the young mage trudged through the snowdrifts, drawing ever closer to the mansion. It loomed ove...
2025-02-17 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 71 - An old acquaintance
Ardan blinked, and in the nerve-racking dimness — lit only by a meager oil lamp, which was barely enough to chase away the prideful darkness — he suddenly made out features he recognized.
Matabar. Chapter 70 - The Dandy
Ardan and Milar stepped inside a place that, presumably, was meant to fulfill every lofty requirement Mart believed the proud title of “restaurant” came with.
An expensive parquet floor l...
2025-02-10 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 69 - What if...
“Thus, determining the depth, length, and width of even the most trivial cut by relying solely on one’s own eyes or makeshift tools is hardly convenient,” Professor Lea said as she pushed her...
2025-02-06 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 68 - Darkness
Ardan looked around frantically, but all he saw was a blinding darkness that seemed to be coiling around them. It was so dense that you could barely see past your own nose, let alone the length of ...
2025-02-03 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 67 - Vows and Promises
A crushing silence descended upon the room for an instant, broken only by the steady drip of Ordargar’s blood as it seeped through the wrappings on his mangled leg.
“Honored guests,” Ar...
2025-01-30 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 66 - Two Hearts
Ardi pressed his forehead against the blisteringly cold, ice-covered steel handrail — it was so frigid that its frostiness bit through his woolen hat — and mulled over everything that had trans...
2025-01-27 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLaunch post
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10 chapters ahead of RR. And for the next 10 weeks, Patreon will get two chapters a week (Tuesday and Friday [CET] 2025-01-23 23:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Matabar. Chapter 65 - Duel
After setting aside his staff, putting down his grimoire, removing his boots, leaving his patched crimson cloak on a makeshift hanger, and unbuttoning his coat, which was too light for Metropolis...
2025-01-23 23:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 64 - Autopsy
Ardan sat there, twirling a pencil between his fingers — an annoying habit he’d picked up from Kelly, who often spent his evenings in the kitchen, working on documents and reports — and stare...
2025-01-23 23:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 63 - Beast and a Pawn
Ardan stepped over the makeshift threshold and found himself in a cramped, narrow, and rather short tunnel. Hewn skillfully through the foundation and hard ground, it ended in a spiral staircase th...
2025-01-23 23:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 62 - Again, Baliero
They drove toward Baliero in complete silence. With each new, desolate turn; with each new traffic officer trembling from the cold they left behind; driving past quiet streets hiding from the barel...
2025-01-23 23:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 61 - Grudge
Ardi’s instincts, drilled into him by Guta, reacted faster than he could even comprehend. Ignoring the blinding pain, he let go of his staff, hunched over to avoid the large, hairy fist swinging ...
2025-01-23 23:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 60 - Dark Names
Ardi breathed in the fragrance of grass just barely waking from its slumber. The blades of grass swayed, yawning toward the slow-moving, fluffy clouds that meandered lazily across the swiftly-brigh...
2025-01-23 23:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 59 - Just keep breathing
Ardan sat in silence, staring at the fogged-up window of the car. Beyond the gray glass, massive red trucks with eight wheels had already halted in the street, and men in blue jackets were unrollin...
2025-01-23 23:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 58 - Neighbours and Blood
Ardan retrieved his clothes from the temporary wardrobe, where the polite staff, with barely-noticeable weariness etched onto their faces, were consistently greeting and bidding farewell to visitor...
2025-01-23 23:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 57 - Barking Dog
With his sleeves rolled up, wearing a slightly-worn shirt and a loosely-knotted tie, Ardan sat on the cold floor of Aversky’s testing ground, glowering at the absurd dummy. The life-sized mannequ...
2025-01-23 23:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 56 - Warehouse
Soon, the low-rise buildings were left behind. The modest brick structures that had lined the streets gave way to towering, two-meter-high fences. Crowned with spirals of barbed wire, these fences,...
2025-01-23 23:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 55 - Crimson Lady
Ardan just stood there silently for a few seconds, trying to process what he had just heard. Boris? Kidnapped? Who? Where? How?
Questions swarmed his mind like a hive’s worth of disturbed b...
2025-01-23 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Matabar. Chapter 54 - Choice and Consequences
The days stretched into a series of unhurried copies of each other. In the morning, Ardan would wake up, wash himself, then exercise by lifting a block of ice made from snow taken off the roof inst...
2025-01-18 18:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 53 - New job or...?
In the first days after the holidays, the Metropolis looked... just like it usually did. Except for one thing: cars were still scarce. Lone trams, creaking slightly along the icy rails, moved in a ...
2025-01-18 18:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 52 - Staff of Demons
“Bandits?” Ardan repeated, disbelief flashing across his face.
For a moment, he thought it might have been a lingering dream and he’d misheard, but the conductor’s jerky nod dispelled...
2025-01-18 18:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostMatabar. Chapter 51 - Old or new journey?
“You’re leaving, aren’t you?”
“Yes, tonight.”
Ardi lay beside his brother in the snow, watching the sky. The snowy clouds clashed like rival armies, merging into vast sheets...
2025-01-18 18:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post