Zae Zin Nim fought against the incursion with a scowl, considering her failings as a wife. Ordinarily, that was an unpleasant accusation cast on her from the outside, but this concern came from wit...
2025-11-06 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe launch was actually yesterday, but I was posting chapters and didn't want to spam people. This one is going out to everyone following the Patreon: if you like Depthless Hunger and want to see m...
2025-11-05 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post(I promised I'd give chapters as normal, but this is release day, so let me remind you with links:
After defeating the Deepclaw, Kai was operating in a reduced condition. He could still kill the average monsters easily, but was it actually a good use of his time to go off fighting them? Yet just...
2025-11-03 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTime for the big audiobook announcement - you can preorder it here:
2025-11-01 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWith the battle against the Deepclaw over, Kai found himself strangely off balance. It was the next morning, somehow, and the incursion had been officially started for over a day. His mind was cons...
2025-10-31 17:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostAnother clash, another smashing blow, another tumble over the wastelands.
Fighting against the Deepclaw for so long had put Kai into a strange fugue state where he was more thoughtful than he...
2025-10-30 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHow many hours had it been? How many blows had they traded? Kai had been fighting the Deepclaw all across the Frontier, crushing many lesser monsters in the battle, and he wasn't sure whether or no...
2025-10-28 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post(In theory, there will be audiobook preorders available this week, but as I schedule these chapters it isn't ready. Hopefully that will change and it can occupy the Wednesday slot.)
Af...
2025-10-27 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostKai won, over and over again, and he had no idea whether or not they were losing.
Any given location he arrived at, he could easily annihilate the monsters in his path. Now that they had spre...
2025-10-24 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThough Omilaena had fought during the main waves, that had been the most boring part of the battle for her, because the calculations were so simple. By far her most efficient method of killing mons...
2025-10-23 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically, Kai should have been much less nervous going into his second incursion.
He was overwhelmingly more powerful than he had been the first time, stronger than all the normal monsters...
2025-10-21 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here, back from hiatus. The Audible release is still November 4, but prep and announcements may come sooner than I expected. Things may be hectic, but I promise not to take another hia...
2025-10-20 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post"When do we stop?" Kai asked.
The question hung over the wasteland, and to their credit, the elites seemed to consider it seriously. They were all a bit worn down from training, nursing injur...
2025-10-10 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs Kai kept sparring with the elites, more of them came to take their shot and build experience. Because he didn't want to accidentally kill anyone, Kai wasn't sure how he would do if he fought wit...
2025-10-09 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSix months.
Six months... come and gone.
On the seventh anniversary of the previous incursion, everyone made a grim final celebration, accepting that preparations were ending. Many spen...
2025-10-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. Normal chapters this week, but hiatus the next.)
Kai didn't trust the general members of the Hunters Guild not to be Lantrian toadies, but he sent a message to Gunjin to as...
2025-10-06 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post"You didn't recognize him?" Zae Zin Nim's voice in a soft void. "Then why were you all over Kai? Supporting your husband on principle?"
"Nonsense." Omilaena responding. "He just looked like a...
2025-10-03 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNo more wasting time. With the incursion potentially imminent, Kai needed to visit Monskon City to end his tour, then he could wrap up training with the elites and his students to begin final prepa...
2025-10-02 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBoosting people up to D-rank was well and good, but Omilaena was starting to view it as routine by now. She came up with a formula that she was absolutely sure could take her from D-9 to C-0, but s...
2025-09-30 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. I've had a pretty good run of chapters without any hiatuses or days off, but I will need a break eventually as we get closer to the audiobook launch. Not this week, not next week...
2025-09-29 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTraining was perfectly in Kai's wheelhouse. Whether his own, his wives', or even his students', he enjoyed making meaningful progress without any of the complications of politics. The problem was, ...
2025-09-26 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBeing granted free license by the Frontier elites had a benefit Kai hadn't expected: he could wait for people to come to him. Gunjin and some of the others in charge of teleportation apparently dec...
2025-09-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMost of the men were giddy with their new power, speculating about their new good fortune and what they might find next. They had run into several other groups of monsters on their ocean voyage, an...
2025-09-23 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThey met beside the abyss.
Kai wasn't sure whether or not he should have been surprised. It could have been a message, but if so, maybe a message to all of them. Maybe the location was just f...
2025-09-22 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCompared to the climactic end to their time in Irun, their trial period in Krysal practically drifted to its conclusion. For a few days Kai had been tense, expecting some additional fallout from th...
2025-09-19 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post"I still think that was too fast," Zae Zin Nim said. "The merchant has been arrested and within hours has collapsed his deal?"
"I'd be more worried about the Irunian side." Omilaena sat back ...
2025-09-18 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThree of them in a row, all nervous, all cultivating, all waiting. Kai took a deep breath and tried to focus.
There was nothing else they could do while they waited for the operation to begin...
2025-09-16 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here with news. Some of you may recall that I've signed a big six-figure deal for Depthless Hunger audio rights. This has been progressing in the background, but the relevant thing is ...
2025-09-15 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostLater, with all kinds of stress melted away, Kai was able to truly relax in the baths. He still felt a bit sad about Orillia's memory, but knew the indefatigable old woman would be glad that her na...
2025-09-12 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post