On my way to the healing hall, a man walked toward me. I stopped and stared. He appeared to be in his fifties, with salt-and-pepper hair and a simple robe, but what caught my attention was his bear...
2025-09-11 12:51:20 +0000 UTC View PostI finished clearing the backlog of patients in Outpost Three, including those in the healing hall and those recuperating at home, and even managed to regrow a few limbs. There was still neither hid...
2025-09-09 12:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostWe headed out of the outpost but stopped by the Cleaner’s office on the way. The gang waited for me while invisible, and I slipped into a shadowed corner, dropped mine, and walked in plain sight ...
2025-09-07 20:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I came down in the morning, Mahya, Rabban, and Sonak were sitting at my breakfast bar, plates in front of them. Rue was licking his chops beside an empty bowl.
“You cooked?” I asked ...
2025-09-04 10:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostI was in the kitchen, scooping coffee into the pot, when Al came down looking neat as always. He gave me a polite nod before pulling out a stool and settling on it, folding his hands on the counter...
2025-09-02 16:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostWe picked up Rue from his after-lunch nap by the hostess stand in the restaurant, and Rabban led us to the residential area. It was big. There were a lot of people in the outpost, but I hadn’t th...
2025-09-01 12:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys and girls,
Tomorrow is the first day of school after the summer vacation, and I spent the whole day with my kid. We had to buy a ton of stuff, and he wanted to have fun and eat in res...
2025-08-31 16:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostOn the way to the post leader, Mahya glanced sideways at Rabban. “Where is the closest Magitech guild?”
Rabban shook his head. “They don’t have guilds here.”
Mahya blinked at ...
2025-08-28 15:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostOn our way to the outpost, we passed a large herd of strange monsters with horns and long, bright turquoise fur, fighting with something brown. I couldn’t see what it was, hidden among all that f...
2025-08-26 14:49:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe next Gate after Earth was also a disappointment. No mana or tech level, so we just crossed it for the count and kept going. None of us wanted another assault with the contents of a chamberpot. ...
2025-08-24 17:36:52 +0000 UTC View PostMahya and Al wanted another couple of days before we moved to the next Gate. She had some idea about how to open up the parts of the Magitech cleaning robot, but after two days, it led nowhere, and...
2025-08-21 15:39:51 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note
Hi gang,
Here’s another blast from the past. This one picks up right after the chapter Luck Stat and Its Intricacies, when John saved a pregnan...
2025-08-20 20:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note
Hi gang,
I’m working on revisions of book one for publication and added a couple of side stories. This one takes place right after the chapter One L...
2025-08-20 18:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostMy original plan was to leave the next morning, but a hailstorm ruined it. For the rest of the day, I stayed in the library, searching for information about mind magic with little success. The only...
2025-08-19 19:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt was night in Zindor. I took out the core and almost opened the house, but then stored it away and took to the sky. It was better to process things with friends around. This time, I flew slower, ...
2025-08-17 16:09:16 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note
Here's an extra chapter this week as an apology 😊
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I jolted upright, fully awake, before I even k...
2025-08-15 18:28:14 +0000 UTC View PostAfter five days in the wilderness, it was time to meet the locals. I basked in the quiet. It was great, fantastic, amazing, glorious, marvelous, wonderful, and every other epithet I could think of....
2025-08-15 14:47:58 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first two days in Marita, I stayed by the Gate. All around me were the same “unnatural” colors of everything and the same pointy peaks. Of course, expecting the world to change was a bi...
2025-08-14 14:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The Gate called me with unseen threads,
Locked my mind on target.
Pulled my feet from the well-worn trail,
Unlocked the hidden secret in my blood.
An open universe, unknown,
Full of ...
Hi guys and girls,
Israel is experiencing a heatwave, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees in the shade and humidity at 90 percent. The result is a pounding headache. I tried to write and ev...
2025-08-12 14:03:52 +0000 UTC View PostTo go solo traveling, I needed to do some preparation. The first stop, or rather, multiple stops, was locating all the dungeons with the help of the wind. They weren’t ready to start clearing the...
2025-08-10 14:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe gang went out to continue clearing the first town of monsters, and I, bolstered by my successful practice with the ice, decided to train the other elements.
The first one I wanted to work...
2025-08-07 18:47:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe hailstorm lasted two days. On the first day, all of us were happy to stay at home, relax, and eat the delicious shepherd’s pie I made. Inspired by Rue’s obsession, I made it with minced dun...
2025-08-06 19:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the entire day in the warehouse, watching Mr. Stobor, the Sales Master, in action. He was the best salesperson I’d ever seen. His class registered as Supplies Expert, level 49, b...
2025-08-04 16:54:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
The summer vacation saga continues. Tomorrow, my kid is heading to a water park, and I’m tagging along as a chaperone. So, as always, you're getting the chapter early.
Ho...
2025-08-02 19:19:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Tomorrow’s chapter is arriving a day early. I’ve got another D&D tournament at my place tomorrow. This time it’s only nine guests instead of fourteen, so technically t...
2025-07-30 17:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
I’m posting tomorrow’s chapter today because I’ll be at an amusement park with my kid and some friends tomorrow.
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T...
2025-07-28 15:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we finished with my house, I had already merged eighty-four cores. The math continued to break my brain. With the smallest being approximately four centimeters in diameter and the large...
2025-07-27 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke up, I was lying in bed, with Rue curled up beside me, his head resting on my legs. His voice shouted into my head. “Mahya! John awake!” 2025-07-24 11:29:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought our stay at the lake would last a couple of weeks. In reality, it stretched into more than three months. I didn’t know the exact length of time we were there, but that was my best guess...
2025-07-22 18:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post