Chapter 16
I’d made something of a promise to my parents, my father specifically. One could argue the semantics, that I’d merely said I couldhelp them ignite their cores, not that I would. But I ...
2023-11-20 12:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 15
It was no surprise to me to see Malra heading our way within twenty minutes of getting back home. Father left for work and Mother started her daily ritual of feeding her mana to the plants in our g...
2023-11-18 12:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14
The thing about emitters was that they needed to be regularly cleaned out in order to keep them operating at full capacity. A tiny bit of mana crystallized during the emission process, and if no on...
2023-11-17 12:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13
The tension was palpable. My parents had retreated to one side of the hut and were whispering back and forth rapidly while Senica sat at the table and angry-cried. It wasn’t hard to guess what wa...
2023-11-16 12:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12
The next few days of my life was a mixture of awkward tension and peaceful, uninterrupted work. My mana crystal progressed by leaps and bounds, so much so that I had to revise my initial estimates....
2023-11-15 12:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11
“I love you,” I told my father.
He smiled back and said, “I love you too.”
I wondered if he’d still say that ten minutes from now. I hadn’t truly replaced his son, but the d...
2023-11-14 12:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostKeiran- Book 1: The Faded Land. Chapters 1-10
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2023-11-13 15:24:38 +0000 UTC View PostKeiran Sample Chapters
Keiran of the Night Vale has staved off death for two thousand years, but even he’s reached his limit...
2023-11-13 12:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue
Author's Note: I decided to do a double post today rather than break up the last chapter and the epilogue over the weekend. On Monday, I will start posting chapters of my new story to this ...
2023-11-11 12:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 221
At first, letting System work through him had been a sight to behold. It was like watching his own hands put together a jigsaw puzzle so fast that they were a blur, but he could somehow not only st...
2023-11-11 12:34:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 220
There was an easy, obvious solution to the problem. Luke needed what System could do, and System needed what Luke could do. If they combined their abilities, they could reinforce the system with de...
2023-11-10 12:42:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 219
Zea appeared behind the screen, where Luke was waiting for her with some clothes. She took one look at him, flinched back, and stumbled.
“Easy there,” Luke said. “You’re okay. Everyth...
2023-11-09 12:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 218
Luke grimaced internally, but he had too many skills folded into [Omniscience] to give away a facial expression he didn’t want to now. He’d expected this was coming, but hoped ...
2023-11-08 12:23:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 217
The man who appeared in front of the Bennet children did not much resemble the father from Luke’s memories. For one thing, he would have been about sixty years old at the time of his death judgin...
2023-11-07 12:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostBook Wyrm January 2025 Link
Hello Everyone!
New Year, new link!
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2023-11-06 12:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 216
It took Luke over two weeks of work before he stopped finding new demons to catch and destroy. The first few days were non-stop, just scooping them up and pulping them for demonic essence, but afte...
2023-11-06 12:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215
Luke just stared blankly at System. “What does that mean?” he finally asked after the apparition remained silent.
“In the short term, the entity imprisoned in the God Machine will consu...
2023-11-04 13:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214
“They tortured us, Aldrick,” Zammin’s shade moaned, referring to Luke by the alias he’d used when he’d met the dwifkin arena fighter. “Came in, killed a hundred people, captured twice a...
2023-11-03 11:37:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213
System hadn’t been lying when he’d told Zixin that there was a possibility that killing Luke Bennet would result in the entire system collapsing. Redundancies had been placed after-the-fact onc...
2023-11-02 11:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 212
It took a few seconds for Luke’s brain to unscramble. When it did, he realized he was about half a mile away from the cathedral out in the open plains, balanced on his knees with Zixin’s hand a...
2023-11-01 11:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211
System stood frozen in place next to Luke while his red doppelganger started working. It—he?—ignored Luke. A new system window popped up, this one red to match the doppelganger, and he started ...
2023-10-31 11:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210
Luke stood in front of the doors leading into the cathedral. Each one was a sheet of what could easily be mistaken for gold, but which he could tell wasn’t. It was impossibly smooth, the entire t...
2023-10-30 11:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209
Getting through 100 stamina was no joke, even for Luke. Sheer mass also factored into the equation, and despite hammering the dragon with more than a dozen hits infused with [Power Strike]<...
2023-10-27 11:37:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 208
Luke was expecting to find some sort of scaled foot or claws to be pressing down on him, but when he twisted his head to look, there was nothing there. Whatever was holding him down had his arms pi...
2023-10-26 11:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 194
Electric blue sparks rained down overhead as imps tore up the enchanted anti-spider mesh. They provided the only light since the imps had blotted out the morning sun, and in those flickering sparks...
2023-10-06 11:25:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 193
Luke had an hour left until sunrise, and he still needed 3000 XP. That was pretty much a non-starter by itself, but he also needed to backtrack to the hunting lodge to leave with everyone else, whi...
2023-10-05 11:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 192
With about ten hours on the clock until they departed, Luke didn’t think he could scrape together the last 11,000 XP he needed to level up one more time, not unless he got lucky with another clus...
2023-10-04 11:29:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe God Machine Book 1 is now live
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Book 1 of The God Machine is live on Amazon today in ebook ...
2023-10-03 12:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 191
After the incident with the crystal fang widow makers, Luke started paying a lot more attention to what was going on behind him. He’d been a sloppy idiot for his first week when he thought there ...
2023-10-03 12:23:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 190
One thing that Luke really, really liked about the spider forest was the trees. More specifically, he liked how much space there was between the trees. It was far more open than the almost jungle-l...
2023-10-03 12:23:22 +0000 UTC View Post