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Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 48 - Outsider

“What level is it?” Elijah asked. 

Helen shook her head.  “A little over two-hundred,” she answered.  “But I sense that its power stems more from cultivation than fro...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 47 - Step by Step

While trekking across the Painted Wastes, Elijah was surprised at how far the influence of the dragon Primal Realm had stretched.  Its effect spread for more than a thousand miles in every dir...

Chapter 751 - Peace and Quiet

Zeke sat next to the pond, staring across the placid water as the sun set over the mountains.  The twilight interplay between light and darkness had always soothed him.  There was just so...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 46 - Punching Through

Elijah leaped high into the air, kicking off of Cloud Step and slamming into one of the mosquito-riding trolls.  His talons flashed out, infecting the troll with both Ethereal Sepsis and Sprea...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 45 - I Know

“I don’t like it.  It’s too risky,” Elijah said, leaning back in his chair.  It teetered on the edge of tipping over, but with his dexterity, he managed to keep it balanced. ...

Announcement (Death: Genesis)

Tomorrow's chapter of Death: Genesis will be slightly delayed. I'll try to get it up by afternoon, but it might be Wednesday before I publish it. Thanks for understanding!

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 44 - Arrival

Elijah brought his fists down, pummeling the final troll into submission.  And for these creatures, that meant death.  There was no quarter expected, nor any given.  The only way Eli...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 43 - A Massive Threat

One advantage of switching priorities to the Hollow Depths was that Elijah had already made all the preparations necessary.  So, he wasted no time before teleporting to the Circle of Webs, whe...

Chapter 750 - Restraint

People.

Zeke had almost forgotten how much he both loved and hated them.  On the one hand, it was gratifying to see that everyone hadn’t been infected with the evils of the Radiant Hos...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 42 - Home Again

“You know,” Elijah said.  “Sometimes, it’s easy to forget just how good we have it here.”

Nerthus, who was busy tending to one of the juvenile pillar trees, didn’t immediatel...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 41 - Military Man

It was all wrong, and in so many subtle ways that it grated on Gunnar’s nerves.  As he strode through the compound, his back straight and his eyes forward, he wanted to point out all the sma...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 40 - The Broken Crown

It was visible from at least a hundred miles away.

The fortress shimmered in the sky, looming over the Painted Wastes like a monolithic sentry surrounded by a rainbow of light.  Even fro...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 39 - The Spice of Life

Elijah crouched low, his body only inches from the cracked earth as he stared into the ravine and witnessed the ongoing battle.  Tens of thousands of spiders, newly hatched but still deadly, f...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 38 - Deeper and Deeper

The tinkling sound of a ringing bell filled the silence as Gunnar pushed through the door.  The shop – called Twill – was full of secondhand clothes, most of it discarded by the well-off e...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 37 - Resin

The spider felt wrong, and in a way that sent fear and anger coursing up Elijah’s spine.  Fear, because the thing was terrifying to behold.  With a body nearly fifteen feet long and spe...

Chapter 749 - Going Back

“You can’t do it!”

Zeke ignored the drone, just as he had been for the past couple of days.  The thing had found him the second he’d set foot into the Ways, and it had been follo...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 36 - Detestable

The Painted Wastes were disorienting, and not just because of the shimmering rainbow of colors.  That wasn’t pleasant, but as Elijah trekked through the desert, he found himself affected by ...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 35 - The Painted Wastes

The Painted Wastes.

When Elijah had first heard that name, he’d questioned whether it was figurative or literal.  As he stood atop the enormous cliff overlooking the region, he knew th...

Chapter 748 - Lattice

Zeke did not want to move.

As he sat on the balcony, his eyes closed, he didn’t allow himself to study the threads.  Still, they beckoned him forward, promising to reveal all the answe...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 34 - One Forward, Two Back

The troll vaulted over the rampart and sailed toward Sadie.  Most of its fur was gone, sacrificed at the altar of Kurik’s traps, and its torso bore the marks of a hundred fast-healing wounds...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 33 - Lost Seas

It was not a waste of time or effort.

It would actually save time in the long run. 

It just made sense.

As Elijah neglected his true mission to find the dragon Primal Realm, ...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 32 - The Brutality of Catharsis

Manual labor could be a cathartic experience.  Sometimes, it felt like hypnosis by repetition.  In this case, the job was incredibly gruesome, and to the point where he needed that hypnot...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 31 - Desiccated Past

The soft echo of footsteps followed Elijah up the stairs as stifling heat threatened to suffocate him.  The building had not been built with airflow in mind, and without active air conditionin...

Chapter 747 - The Soul of Morality

“So, she’s still around?” Zeke asked, standing at the head of the table.  Present at the meeting were Talia’s top lieutenants, each one a powerful lesser god in their own right.  ...

Chapter 746 - The Limits of Power

Accidentally scheduled this Death: Genesis chapter for 8PM instead of 8AM and just realized. Sorry about that!

“I hate being like this,” Zeke sa...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 30 - We Can Never Truly Go Home

Elijah chose not to approach in one of his bestial forms.  Doing so would have felt somehow disrespectful, but of whom, he wasn’t certain.  Honolulu was obviously deserted and half buri...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 29 - Standoff

“You’re Elijah Hart,” said a man of middling height.  His shoulders bore a couple of chevrons, which Elijah interpreted as being a sign of his rank within Seattle’s military.  He ...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 28 - Distant Grief

Eventually, Elijah internalized his own reprimand.  Nearly dying had a tendency to prompt self-growth. And even if Elijah was so hardheaded that it took multiple such instances to hammer it ho...

Path of Dragons 11 - Chapter 27 - Lessons Reiterated

I saw some complaints about not explaining Rosabella's class. And I'll be perfectly honest - I thought I'd included it in one of the recent chapters. It was in my outline and ...

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