[Galactic Inferno] lay waiting, a coiled whip of qi churning in his gut, growing weightier by the second. He stepped up to greet Jez as any proper host should: open arms, and a pleasant smile. ...
2023-01-12 17:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostThere were times, in battle, for thinking. For strategy. For sussing out the strikes of one’s enemies and planning counters. This was the sort of fighting generals taught, the sort of fighting fo...
2023-01-11 22:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: >:( More chapters!! Hopefully soon! Almost there! I am hyped!
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Horns blew. All along the walls soldiers readied their Sticks, qi Techniques boiling ...
2023-01-08 01:46:41 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Back home after a hectic week of traveling! We're coming up to the last few chapters of this book...
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Dorian sat cross-legged at the edge of the blackened ...
2023-01-04 22:20:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt was beautiful and it was terrifying.
There was ash everywhere. Black misshapen forms were lumped about the sands. The walls of the Sinkhole were glazed with a fine layer of soot. It all se...
2022-12-31 16:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostAs Dorian walked the main street to the Sinkhole, there was not a soul in sight. Most everyone was grinding in a factory, manning artillery, conscripted into an army, or otherwise holed up. The who...
2022-12-27 02:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostDorian woke with a start, fully healed and very confused. For a few breaths sat there, still and silent. His mind felt like a clogged throat, choked with thoughts, and he was having no small diffic...
2022-12-23 23:34:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe story is nearing the end of Book 2, and though I've not got writer's block, I definitely at least have writer's constipation--and it's been quite annoying to work through. There's a lot of movi...
2022-12-22 01:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostA few hours of sky treading later Dorian was back to the Oasis. The sun was setting, spilling harsh light over a bloody battle.
Not a big battle, nor a devastating one. A small wave of sandwo...
2022-12-10 23:31:49 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Book 2 is drawing closer and closer to an end… I’m excited! A one-chapter interlude. Then back to main story.
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Kaya thought about his offer. For a few second...
2022-12-08 00:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostNow that Dorian was infused with Law he was exposed to a new world. It was like he’d been seeing in black-and-white all this time and could now perceive color. Laws of Fire and Darkness threaded ...
2022-12-06 20:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostHe was this close! How dare that wyrmshit heart of his give out?!
He probed his body, and then realized it wasn’t entirely the organ’s fault.
Huh. It appears I...
2022-12-03 01:12:33 +0000 UTC View PostIn the middle of the volcano known as Drakestail Peak, one explosion after another rattled the earth. Rivers of qi were sucked in and blasted out and sucked back in again, like a whirlpool which co...
2022-11-30 23:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostOut in the frozen tundra, a girl lay flat against snowy ground. Around her was a fresh graveyard, newly made; hours before there had been only bodies. Then snow fell, and fell, and fell, gently and...
2022-11-29 02:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a tail. A big black spike-rimmed tail so big it nearly tripled Dorian’s height, coiling around him. Where he sat he couldn’t make out either its end or its beginning. The creature the ta...
2022-11-27 01:13:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis was the part where Dorian magicked some incredible plan out of his behind, turned the tables, and won the day! He was Dorian, for Heavens’ sake, a legend of the Multiverse, a Godkin...
2022-11-25 03:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe lack of monsters was starting to grow suspicious. Dorian was nearly relieved when he came across his first.
It wasn’t much, as monsters went—a serpentine form Dorian had no name for. ...
2022-11-21 23:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostKaya had been running for so long she didn’t recall when she’d started. Could’ve been a day ago. Maybe two? But she was still brimming with energy, energy leaking out her skin as a pale gold ...
2022-11-20 23:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostHe sprung off a shelf of stone, climbed up a steep rock face, and emerged at the top of the volcano. The lip of the thing was barely thick enough to fit his two feet before it dropped off into the ...
2022-11-19 21:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt was less hot than he’d expected! The outskirts of the Volcano, that was. He pattered along pockmarked rock which should’ve felt scalding, but only left a warm tickle on the soles of his feet...
2022-11-17 23:12:40 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the late chapter! Half my day yesterday got knocked out by an unforeseen event... this is on me, though. I'll try to write an extra reserve chapter so this sort of t...
2022-11-16 03:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Last interlude chapter…
“No,” said Houyi.
Fate choked. “Pardon?”
Houyi was silent, his stare impassive. It was plain nothing else was coming. He’...
2022-11-13 22:05:22 +0000 UTC View PostHouyi was a myth in flesh. As Fate was led up the gentle blue slopes, past cozy little hamlets up a gravelly path, he was feeling a smidge unsettled. It wasn’t that there were hymns sung about hi...
2022-11-12 20:54:49 +0000 UTC View PostEdge of the Multiverse
Old Man Fate dipped an oar into the pitch-black depths, and rowed. “Hup!” He gasped, pulled back, and went for another. “Hup!”
It made fo...
2022-11-09 23:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostCore three started off smoothly. A flood of Bloodline and qi rushed in, and his body quickly set to burning it up and stuffing it in. The percentages crept up and up, to Dorian’s mind linear— t...
2022-11-08 00:22:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest was but a formality.
Yama’s Chains struck out and bound up the leftover Torchdragons. They writhed and flopped weakly like fish stuck on hooks, but they were too sapped to put up a...
2022-11-06 23:17:18 +0000 UTC View PostDorian wracked his brain for a plan and came up blank. The bone around him was now so scalding it were gave off a sickly pale light. Where he was crammed up against it he felt his skin curdle; sear...
2022-11-05 00:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostA master cultivator never entered a fight without a clear strategy if they could help it.
A master cultivator never entered a group fight at all, strategy or not, unless the...
2022-11-02 22:48:07 +0000 UTC View PostDorian pierced the heart of the Frost Dragon. Blood and innards spilled out the back end, a glorious shower of gore that splotched the sands crimson, drenching soldiers and Beasts alike. They all s...
2022-10-31 23:13:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt took him six shadow jumps.
A step into an alley shadow took him to a chimney’s shadow cast on a nearby Guild roof. Then another shunted him down the street, and another farther down, and...
2022-10-30 22:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post