In his head, Velik knew that swamps were difficult to navigate. Footing was treacherous, there was a lot of water, and the whole place was infested with various forms of bugs that wanted nothing in...
2025-01-24 14:04:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe carriage ride was surprisingly comfortable, and the best part was that Aria decided she needed to take a nap, which meant Velik didn’t have to keep her entertained for the first few hours. He...
2025-01-23 13:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Good match,” Giller said a minute later after they’d both recovered. “Told you that you should have lost that mask though.”
Considering that he hadn’t even seen the blow that had...
2025-01-22 13:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostVelik’s weapon gave him the advantage in range, and he was confident that he had a high enough physical stat to properly leverage that against Giller’s shorter sword. In truth, he was more worr...
2025-01-21 14:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Here is the unofficial epub duwnload link for the first volume of Duskbound. This should look 99% what it'll be like when it goes live on Amazon, except with the original Royal Road cover st...
2025-01-20 21:11:35 +0000 UTC View PostThey’d agreed that Jensen would do the majority of the talking. All Velik had to do was introduce himself, prove he was Gray the top gladiator, and confirm that he was signing on to Jensen’s ex...
2025-01-20 12:35:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe guild had a postal system it used to communicate between members who weren’t regularly in the guild hall at the same time. Everyone had a mailbox, even the irons. Velik was expecting a notice...
2025-01-17 14:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostVelik was a quarter mile from the coliseum, still solidly in Gold Town, when he sensed someone following him. Whoever it was, they were making no effort to hide their presence. Footsteps jogged dow...
2025-01-16 13:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Where’d you get it?” Velik asked Ned.
“You know I can’t tell you that. It’s a trade secret. Here, your winnings.”
“Fuck the gold!” Velik snarled. He smacked the bag h...
2025-01-15 13:13:21 +0000 UTC View PostVelik honestly wasn’t sure how the coliseum smuggled monsters into the city, but he imagined it probably involved paying some corrupt official to look the other way. He was sure they had at least...
2025-01-14 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostVelik skipped the celebrations that night. Dozens of new bronze-ranked monster hunters gathered at a few of the more popular taverns and common rooms of various inns near the guild hall, including ...
2025-01-13 13:52:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Is this really the trial you put golds through?” Velik asked.
“Every single one of them,” Nelspir told him.
“And… how often does someone just come in and pass this without ...
2025-01-10 13:04:56 +0000 UTC View PostNow panicking at the lack of cooperation Velik was displaying, the attendant rushed ahead of him to disarm the defenses on the stairway, something Velik was absolutely sure the man wasn’t suppose...
2025-01-09 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe guild hall was nothing like Velik had expected when he’d first arrived in Cravel. He’d expected it to look something like an enormous hunter’s lodge, big enough for a hundred people to st...
2025-01-08 13:58:46 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so ends this series. It didn’t end up being as long as I planned, but I think I covered everything I wanted to get done. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Th...
2025-01-08 13:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post300 years later…
I appeared on the teleportation platform of Senica’s demesne, just as I’d done every decade on schedule for the last few centuries. In the early days, she’d ...
2025-01-08 13:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t enough to just avoid the bull. That was easily done a few different ways. For one thing, Velik had a significantly higher physical and a class that focused on both power and agility, so...
2025-01-07 13:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me thirty years to reach this point, almost to the day since I’d defeated Ammun and dispersed his soul to the afterlife. There had been unexpected windfalls and setbacks, and I’d found ...
2025-01-07 13:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe split tailed bull stood ten feet tall at the shoulders and was wider than any three people standing abreast. It had horns like spears and hooves that could crush stone. The steel bars holding i...
2025-01-06 14:43:46 +0000 UTC View Post“You know, you could have saved us a whole lot of work if you’d just… not knocked the damned tower down,” Querit told me.
“You’re not even doing the digging. Why are you whining a...
2025-01-06 14:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post“If you’re going after the rest of those champions, you should do it immediately,” Torwin said between bites of sausage. “I’ll delay my return home as long as possible, but I already sent...
2025-01-05 14:12:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe temporary camp was all but abandoned by the time Jensen made his way back there. He’d spent most of his night in Beldrit, helping refugees get settled in. It was somewhat ghoulish to slot peo...
2025-01-04 13:25:12 +0000 UTC View PostThey’d been running hard all night, and Sildra knew if she stopped to let herself think, she’d break down. So many people had died, or worse, been killed by Torwin. She’d recognized some of t...
2025-01-04 13:24:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe spear wasn’t getting through that layer of bone, not at the angle Velik was working from. Maybe if he’d been fresh, it would have been a different story. But that wasn’t the case. His han...
2025-01-03 13:13:27 +0000 UTC View PostSomething had occurred to Velik in the last few seconds, something that he wasn’t sure he was right about, but if he was, it was very, very important. Even with a full cavern to spread out throug...
2025-01-03 13:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostI walked into the alchemy lab Querit was using two days later. He’d come out of the fight unscathed, though the combat frame I’d built had lost about a third of its functionality when he’d pu...
2025-01-03 13:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t until the monster started moving that Velik truly appreciated how much bigger than him it was. It had to way a few thousand pounds, and its weird arm-leg hybrid things were each long en...
2025-01-02 14:00:45 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe someone like Torwin would have known what was going on. The man had decades of experience and he seemed pretty smart, so he’d probably seen all sorts of weird stuff throughout his career. N...
2025-01-02 14:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe few dozen refugees streamed through the portal I’d set up to bring them to New Alkerist. Most of them were young mothers with small children, those who couldn’t fight or run on their own. M...
2025-01-02 13:57:10 +0000 UTC View Post“First, my name is Andyla Felstbater,” the Order mage said. “I am one of the ranking archmages left in the Global Order of the Arcane, a Third Order archmage.”
That was better than Ba...
2025-01-01 13:16:10 +0000 UTC View Post