All it took was one spark. One person to step over the line and push too far. Once it happened, the fighting spread like a wildfire. There was no thought or organization to it, just raw emotion bey...
2024-09-27 16:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostDoubt, suspicion, uncertainty. A wedge had been driven into the army besieging Kucheon, and Gao Yuanjun wasn’t sure where he landed. On one hand, the elders were right to be suspicious of the Fox...
2024-09-25 20:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone had their own reason to fight. Duty, loyalty, ambition, insatiable bloodlust—it was hardly an exaggeration to say that there were as many reasons as there were soldiers in the war. Those...
2024-09-23 18:20:42 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no such thing as a war without bloodshed. There could be more or less violent wars, bloodier battles, or territories subverted by political guile. The Fox Princess had infamously taken Ku...
2024-09-20 13:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe war had been going well ever since Bu Dong Rushan’s fall. Qin’s army took repeated losses and grew more and more aggressive in their deployment of xiantian threats. The front became a never...
2024-09-18 17:11:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Elder Qian Shi, when you assured me that Bu Dong Rushan’s defense was invincible, I believe we may have gotten our definitions mixed up. You see, I had assumed that meant that he wouldn’t be...
2024-09-16 18:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostJiaguo’s forces had been struggling after earning their first victory. They focused on mobile strike forces and quick skirmishes, but the semi-circle of Qin’s armies ensured that they were alwa...
2024-09-13 16:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter that first engagement, neither side had been able to gain any decisive victories. There had been fighting, and even Gao Yuanjun’s unit had seen some action, but Jiaguo wasn’t willing to c...
2024-09-11 16:16:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt happened almost exactly as he predicted. The Goryeon forces made their camp inside their infamous magical shields, while the empire sought to project as much force as possible by encircling the ...
2024-09-09 15:51:03 +0000 UTC View PostCultivators marched shoulder to shoulder, an army unlike any the world had seen. Fifteen thousand in number—which didn’t sound like much in the scale of armies. Until you stood in the center of...
2024-09-06 18:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostOne of Yoshika’s earliest lessons in the old academy was that Qin’s cultivators could move deceptively fast. For a long distance march, nobody could match Yamato’s armies, but in a sprint? Qi...
2024-09-04 20:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostAnger came in many forms. Lee Narae’s anger burned hot and burst out in a vicious flash that died just as quickly. For Yoshika’s other disciple, Seong Haeun, it was a layer of cutting barbs and...
2024-09-02 18:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostWar was not fast. The campaign in Yamato had taken nearly a year, and that was rather brief as such things went. Armies moved slowly, held back by the need for supply trains and only able to keep t...
2024-08-30 19:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostMingxia wasn’t sure what to make of her new liege. Contrary to what one might expect, Kucheon hadn’t always been obsessed with the city’s founder. She could remember a time when there was muc...
2024-08-28 16:57:36 +0000 UTC View PostKucheon was an odd city, even setting aside the way they all fawned over the memory of Seong Heiran. It had originally been a Qin settlement, and the people and architecture represented that. Aside...
2024-08-26 18:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostNobody truly knew what it meant for an empire like Qin to go to war. Officially, they never had before—with border disputes and skirmishes largely being the business of the sects, rather than the...
2024-08-23 20:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostYue’s hands were shaking as the angry princesses cut off the connection to Jiaguo’s reflecting pool. It was just as well that they’d been communicating over such a long distance, as she doubt...
2024-08-21 20:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here they are! The last of the smols, no longer so smol now that they've had a chance to grow up. Of course, they're still children by human standards, but spirits and elementals age a bit differen...
2024-08-19 20:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostForeign intelligence was always a murky subject. Information from spies and informants couldn’t always be trusted, and Qin had always been highly secretive. The mighty empire took up over half th...
2024-08-19 20:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostLee Narae kicked her feet idly as she stared up at the clear skies above. She was lounging on some sort of plush cross between a chair and a bed that only someone absurdly wealthy could have come u...
2024-08-16 19:18:14 +0000 UTC View PostEunae felt a bit ridiculous standing nervously outside her own house. Dae was right—she had no excuses. It was trivial for her to travel back to Jiaguo through her soul realm, even without Yue’...
2024-08-14 17:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Time, that cruel mistress, comes for us all. Yoshika's little disciples aren't so little anymore. Tsuu did a lovely job, as always, and they each take after their sisters in their own way.
To...
2024-08-12 17:55:41 +0000 UTC View PostWith Eunae’s ascension and its aftermath successfully handled—for certain definitions of success—the newly expanded Jiaguo empire quickly settled into its new status quo. The sudden annexatio...
2024-08-12 17:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostEunae watched with trepidation as Heian prepared a small magical circle on one of the few surfaces in Misun’s lab not dominated by the enormous prototype mana-amplifier.
“Heian, sweethear...
2024-08-09 17:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn the wake of the Yeong clan’s chastisement, none of the other high nobles were willing to oppose Eunae as the new queen. The Kim were already allies, and Yi Gong had to tread carefully now that...
2024-08-07 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe high council of Goryeo was an assembly of representatives from each of the so-called high noble clans. Historically, the high nobles each claimed ancestry to a particular great spirit, though m...
2024-08-05 17:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 6 is now out on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!
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2024-08-03 17:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostMercifully, Yue’s plight didn’t last long. After a few moments, Seong Eunae emerged from Yoshika’s inner sanctum, prompting the spirit fox to release Yue and pester the princess instead. Yue ...
2024-08-02 19:31:28 +0000 UTC View PostYue was doing her level best not to panic. Jia had vanished abruptly, which wasn’t necessarily cause for concern—she just did that sometimes—but shortly afterwards Yue received ...
2024-07-31 20:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostA brilliantly shining plume of rainbow-colored fire burst forth from each of Yoshika’s bodies, devouring the destructive bolt of energy and coalescing into the bestial form of a six-tailed fox. T...
2024-07-29 17:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post