Dear Goddess, please take your devoted son Alistair into your loving arms, Rosslyn silently prayed. Heal him. Make him strong again, so that he can lead the Kingdom and protect those w...
2024-12-11 04:44:14 +0000 UTC View PostMina was coming down the stairs with James, Junior in one hand and little Deepam in the other. Indira trailed behind her, taking the steps slowly and carefully at Mina’s insistence.
Then it...
2024-12-10 02:14:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe bear’s body shuddered violently, and its jaws clamped shut hard on Adon, testing the butterfly’s magical reinforcement of his clam shell form once again.
He felt the walls of his body...
2024-12-07 04:55:48 +0000 UTC View PostBear’s fists clenched and unclenched for a moment, then stilled.
“You have—” He spoke a word that was not in English, which the System surprisingly did not translate. Bear seemed to r...
2024-12-05 04:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhat?
As Adon’s body threw itself headlong after the bear, his mind tried to grapple with what he’d just heard. It wasn’t in Claustrian. It was a half-remembered language from ...
2024-12-04 00:49:02 +0000 UTC View PostJames watched his army move out.
There were the Goblins, armed and armored like dimestore hoplites in slightly too shiny equipment that a keen observer could tell was homemade and had never s...
2024-12-04 00:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostBrief Announcement: With the newborn baby at home and Thanksgiving this week, updates will be a bit delayed. I thank all readers in advance for your understanding.
2024-11-27 23:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostNo!
As Adon shouted in his own mind, he recalled one of his magical abilities that did not require his body to coordinate itself. His limbs were still stunned from the bear’s sonic...
2024-11-24 01:36:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Fuck!”
Dean Crocetti swore quietly and resisted the urge to throw something, anything, from his desk.
In the moment before he contained himself, he saw the others in the room visib...
2024-11-22 04:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostHow do we get into these situations?! Adon screamed inside his own mind.
He hoped the words did not leak telepathically, but in the moment, he knew his self-control was not the ...
2024-11-21 20:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostAs Rosslyn strode toward the audience chamber, dressed in full royal regalia, a door opened in the hall.
Out of the corner of her eye, the Princess saw a male figure begin to move through the...
2024-11-18 20:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostA pair of claws parted a thin layer of branches, and a gleaming set of yellow-green eyes stared out of the jungle foliage.
A different, forest biome unfolded before Wind Whisper’s eyes, but...
2024-11-18 19:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostGoldie pointed out a gap area in the nearly invisible outer barrier of Goldie’s deadly silken zone of death.
Then Adon and Goldie followed Samson’s lead as he walked down what Adon quickl...
2024-11-16 17:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostAs Adon stared at his brother’s enlarged exoskeleton, no longer glowing, now slightly gray, cracks began to form in the carapace.
Oh, of course, this whole thing is going to fall off 2024-11-14 01:41:45 +0000 UTC View Post
After completing their business in the throne room, Zhang Chāo and Han Jianguo left the hub of Zhang Chāo’s authority and walked out toward the street entrance of the building.
Zhang Chā...
2024-11-14 01:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I'm not sure where to stick this (and the interlude chapter that will follow it) in the narrative of Volume 4. It follows directly up on the events in the Prologue. Intereste...
2024-11-11 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s nothing I can do, Adon thought. All right…
He looked glumly at Samson, who continued to emanate pretty lights as he changed—the little spider’s body was clea...
2024-11-11 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostJames blinked, and then his eyes and nose were full of Mina’s long, dark hair.
She had thrown herself into his arms. He instinctively bent and clutched her to him. She smelled like home. 2024-11-08 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
As the fox turned to run away from her, Goldie only had a split-second before she understood what was happening.
She immediately sprang into motion to follow the creature. Her Mana ball only ...
2024-11-08 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, Mina’s fine,” Carol said, her voice coming from the air around James. “She finished her fights and made it back to the entrance. She’s just resting now. Um, well done in clearing the...
2024-11-06 18:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostGoldie looked down at the fox’s blood-stained smile, gathered her courage, and tried to remember every single thing she could do.
Her silk was stronger than it had ever been. Her Silk Manip...
2024-11-06 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJames looked the monster in the eye with difficulty.
Though the creature had the same yellow eyes as the Red Oni and the Blue Oni, much else about it was different. Its skin was a sickening p...
2024-11-04 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAdon flitted through the air, flying almost effortlessly—he had allowed his wings and body to revert back to their original forms, so the flight felt relaxing.
He moved in slowly widening c...
2024-11-04 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOh my Goddess, I can’t believe you did that, Adon sent, almost before he knew what he was saying.
Well, of course I did, Samson replied instantly, his voice chipper. The g...
2024-11-01 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostJames instantly shifted into a defensive stance, hands and short sword raised defensively, stepping to place the Red Oni between most of James’s body and the Blue Oni’s.
“I guess you un...
2024-11-01 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs Adon and the spiders left the royal property for the first time, the air whistling all around them, there was a period of peaceful silence, while all three arthropods enjoyed the view.
For...
2024-10-31 03:54:43 +0000 UTC View PostOn the morning of the fourth day, Samson woke up.
It happened when Goldie, Adon, and Rosslyn were all present, while the little spiders were in a corner of the ceiling, relaxing in a web they...
2024-10-31 03:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostJames and the Green-Skinned Ogre made eye contact as the monster rose to its feet.
The creature seemed to sense there was no point in trying to run away anymore, so it directed all its attent...
2024-10-29 20:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostJames walked down into the darkness, tracing his hand along the wall. He did not need to do this for balance, but he enjoyed the feel of the cool stone on his fingertips. It helped keep him grounde...
2024-10-29 20:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Mina! Mina, please wake up! Oh my God, Mina, please tell me you’re okay! Oh my gosh, you have a baby, what the fuck is wrong with me letting you walk into this crazy fucking hard Dungeon mode ...
2024-10-26 15:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post