Book 5, Chapter 26
I left the house feeling… I wasn’t even sure how to describe it. Disappointment? Resignation? Annoyance?
That wasn’t fair. Father had tried his best, but his advice had mostly boiled do...
2024-11-14 12:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Writathon project: Duskbound Chapters 23-25
Crescent Hill was a spiritual site dedicated to Morgus, God of Nature and the Hunt, that had been abandoned by almost everyone a decade ago. Velik didn’t necessarily think that was his fault, but...
2024-11-14 02:29:36 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 25
It took a little over two weeks for the divination blocking wards shrouding the Sanctum of Light to begin failing. During that time, the remainder of Ammun’s army, just over half of what they’d...
2024-11-13 12:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 24
The problem with setting traps was that they’d be less and less effective each time the army stumbled into one of them. They were already on their guard for another fly-by from me, which greatly ...
2024-11-12 12:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostWritathon project: Duskbound Chapters 20-22
Chapter 20
From the day Velik left to the day he returned, three weeks passed by. He didn’t go out of his way to kill monsters on his return trip, but there was still plenty of bloodshed to...
2024-11-12 01:43:59 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 23
While Querit oversaw the experiments I’d outlined, I returned to the jungles around Galdrisa just to do a bit of quick scrying and mark down the locations of any other vine-encrusted plant monste...
2024-11-11 13:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostWritathon project: Duskbound Chapters 15-19
Author's Note: I'm still not quite far enough ahead of the RR release to do a single Monday chapter drop like I said I was planning. Soon, I hope.
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Of course i...
2024-11-08 13:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 22
The more time I spent talking to Bakir, the more I became certain that he was only at stage five or six. That didn’t automatically disqualify him from the title of archmage, as it was more of an ...
2024-11-08 13:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 21
Bakir’s eyes glittered with amusement as he surveyed the meeting room I’d constructed, but he kept any comments about my security to himself. I guided him to his seat and claimed the one opposi...
2024-11-07 13:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostWritathon project: Duskbound Chapters 9-14
Chapter 9
Velik didn’t know the man’s name, but that wasn’t unusual. He looked vaguely familiar – tall, lean, and muscled, with dusty tan skin and thick black hair. He stank of horses...
2024-11-06 20:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 20
“Querit,” I said, “Did we have visitors while I was away?”
I stood in the middle of the valley on my teleportation platform and frowned as I felt out the foreign node of mana embedded...
2024-11-06 13:42:49 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 19
The closer I got to the source of the beam, the harder it was to dodge it. That might have been a problem if I wasn’t already so familiar with the spell, but I’d been on the receiving end enoug...
2024-11-05 13:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostWritathon Project: Duskbound Chapters 1-8
As a spur of the moment decision, I decided to
2024-11-04 14:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 18
Chapter 18
I didn’t even keep track of how many places I destroyed, let alone how many people I killed. All I knew was that it was a lot, and that I’d almost certainly ended the lives of ...
2024-11-04 14:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 17
As was typical, Father was out of the house when I got there. More unusually, Mother and Nailu were also gone. Then again, with the town grown significantly from what Old Alkerist had boasted at it...
2024-11-01 13:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 16
After making a few more samples for Querit to play with, I left him to his work. There were a few other things I had to catch up on, namely checking on what Ammun was doing up on the moon and helpi...
2024-10-31 13:09:57 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 15
No mage, not even me, had the mental capacity to weave a mage’s shadow on their own. It was just too complex a task to be done without assistance. That was why the sixth stage was the forming of ...
2024-10-30 13:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 14
“Keiran, it’s time to stop.”
I ignored Querit and started preparing the reagents for the next experiment.
“Keiran! Please.”
Force magic chopped the herb into thin slices...
2024-10-29 13:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 13
I’d offered to make extra potions. I’d offered the town storage crystals packed full of mana. I’d offered them a teleportation platform – though to be fair, I’d given a few dozen of those...
2024-10-28 14:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 12
I had an audience waiting for me when I landed, a full twenty familiar faces from the beginning of my new life in Old Alkerist. Shel was there, along with six other Arborists. A few random villager...
2024-10-25 13:04:13 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 11
The villager—he looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t put a name to his face—blinked at me slowly. “Shel?” he repeated. “She left years ago.”
“Left?” I asked. “Left wher...
2024-10-24 13:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 10
It ended up taking me three weeks to find what I was looking for, including a two-day side trip back to Ammun’s tower to place the rest of the mysteel generators. Those would take years to produc...
2024-10-23 12:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 9
With the temple fully secured against troll incursions, I set Senica to work disposing of the vegetation. We ignored the stuff out near the edges that lacked metallic thorns in favor of the rooms n...
2024-10-22 13:30:13 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 8
Removing the core was a delicate process, but with a bit of patience and plenty of mana, I managed to extract it without killing the thing. When I finished severing the connection, every single vin...
2024-10-21 13:04:36 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 7
The mystery of the mobile tree would have to wait. I’d left my scrying mirror down by the plant core in my rush to bail Senica out of trouble. Taking her back underground with a teleportation spe...
2024-10-18 11:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 6
There wasn’t a single inch of bare stone to be found. Instead, layer upon layer of vines coated everything, even the ceiling. I wasn’t sure how exactly they clung to the stone, but my guess was...
2024-10-17 13:29:31 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 5
I floated along behind my sister as she flew through the air, moving like a particularly acrobatic dancer to avoid the barrage of rocks the trolls were hurling at us. More and more of the monsters ...
2024-10-16 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 4
There was a backpack sitting just inside my bedroom door, presumably packed by my sister. It was the first thing I saw when I teleported to my parents’ home. I chuckled softly; Senica had probabl...
2024-10-15 12:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 3
The wastes were a bit unusual for a desert climate due to one simple fact: there was plenty of water. Hundreds of streams came down from the mountains, and near their banks, short grasses or scragg...
2024-10-14 13:40:48 +0000 UTC View PostBook 5, Chapter 2
We’d tested plenty of smaller enchantments, measured their efficiency and their output, and confirmed our theories. Everything worked as expected – they had higher initial mana costs, but then ...
2024-10-11 14:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post