Sorin couldn’t help but contrast this moment with his memories of entering the trial grounds for the first time. Though the exact details were fuzzy—forty years was a long time to keep it all l...
2025-09-29 11:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostHunger made for the best seasoning, but Sorin wasn’t hungry enough for this. They were sitting at a small, almost intimate, table for two on an outdoor patio deep into the slums. It was almost li...
2025-09-26 11:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostThere were bloodstains on the stone floor. In fact, more of the floor was stained red than not, which made Sorin wonder if the would-be climbers at the Meat Grinder knew what the word ‘spar’ ev...
2025-09-25 11:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostJob boards were generally cut up into four sections. Most numerous by far were the requests for specific materials or soulprints. Those always varied by the needs and wants of the people posting th...
2025-09-24 11:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostLamor Street was made of packed-down dirt filled with ruts and holes and flanked on both sides by a bunch of single-story shacks all squeezed together like a row of dingy townhouses, except the onl...
2025-09-23 11:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostMy own fault for being cocky about getting out of that slum without a fight.
All three men felt like rank 1s to Sorin, probably without even five soulprints between them. Two of them...
2025-09-22 11:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sorin was already a legend in his own time. He thought his journey was complete...
2025-09-19 10:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostHere we are, the end of the story. The last book ended up being pretty chonky compared to the first two (about 30% longer), and I think that might have messed with the pacing a bit, but it is what ...
2025-09-18 11:49:33 +0000 UTC View PostVelik appeared on the roof of a watch tower in a flash of jagged, crimson light. It looked like nothing so much as a crack in reality that unfolded into the shape of a person, one that mirrored the...
2025-09-18 11:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostSix months later…
Jensen finished finalizing the roster with his caravan quartermaster, then turned to where his new assistant was silently waiting for him. The boy was perhaps a b...
2025-09-17 11:26:21 +0000 UTC View PostVelik did not have the first clue how he’d survived, but he suspected it had something to do with the massive golden ball spinning in place in front of him. He tried to drag himself to his feet, ...
2025-09-16 11:25:19 +0000 UTC View PostNow would be a fantastic time for you to do something! Velik called out to his system as he frantically pumped out [Void Lance] after [Void Lance] in an a...
2025-09-15 11:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole city was panicking, not that Jensen blamed them. Velik had told some people that the system was going to break and that everyone was going to lose their class, levels, and skills, but it ...
2025-09-12 11:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostEslaka’s work proceeded at a manic pace, hours flowing endlessly and unheeded as she ferried the fuel for her pyre to her place of power. She’d gathered the fuel in secret over long centuries, ...
2025-09-11 11:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere wasn’t a single thread of essence inside that monster, not as far as Velik could tell. Wherever it was storing it, the divine beast had secured that resource completely. Mana, on the other ...
2025-09-10 11:22:42 +0000 UTC View PostVelik watched thousands upon thousands of undead speed off in every direction. They weren’t fast, not by his standards, but they were relentless and untiring. In a matter of hours, they’d sprea...
2025-09-09 11:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop it?” The liches started laughing, though it was more of an evil hissing sound than anything Velik thought of as actual laughter. “That was never our job. We were supposed to keep people...
2025-09-08 11:27:38 +0000 UTC View PostLacking access to the real system, and with his personal system also completely silent, Velik wasn’t entirely sure he’d get the same forewarning everyone else did. He’d considered sticking cl...
2025-08-29 12:46:07 +0000 UTC View PostVelik wouldn’t say he was happy that he was apparently nothing more than an arrow the gods had pointed at their target, but he wasn’t exactly surprised either. Gods used mortals, not the other ...
2025-08-28 12:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe first question Sildra had to ask was, “Is Velik right? You can’t talk to him because he’s not part of the system anymore?”
Morgus rolled his eyes. “No, Velik is not right, not a...
2025-08-27 12:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a bit of luck and a lot of persistence, but Velik could cross a thousand miles in a matter of hours and his ears could pick up people miles away. With Jensen giving him a heading to start, ...
2025-08-26 12:25:54 +0000 UTC View PostFor fourteen hours, thousands of defenders had stood on Ashala’s walls and exhausted themselves driving the hordes back. Jensen had joined early on and killed several thousand monsters between le...
2025-08-25 11:12:36 +0000 UTC View PostSildra’s chest heaved as she struggled for breath, the exertion of the day having worn her down to a nub. Her vision was blurry and her head pounded, but there was no time to relent. Another mons...
2025-08-22 13:39:38 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I had planned on this series being four books, but then I changed my mind and decided to just extend book 3 by about 40% to close it up as a trilogy like I originally wanted....
2025-08-21 11:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostPain.
Like nothing Velik had ever felt before, so much that his brain just shut down. Or maybe that was his non-existent blood pressure due to his non-existent blood. Velik had a brief moment...
2025-08-20 12:44:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt galled him to admit it, but Reisha was struggling. Zelamir’s experiment had yielded powerful results, though the gods had certainly played a part in raising the human up to power with their sy...
2025-08-19 11:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe fetters were nothing to Reisha, either because of his sheer size and strength, or simply because Zelamir had control of them and wasn’t trying to hinder his ally. Similarly, Eslaka ignored th...
2025-08-18 13:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostZelamir ran through the air in much the same way Velik did, one bounding leap at a time. He had a decent lead and was remarkably quick, but it was still just a matter of seconds until Velik closed ...
2025-08-15 11:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostVelik was under no illusions that he had an ally in this fight. If anything, Eslaka represented a thirty party interfering. In his opinion, the most likely scenario here was that she would try to k...
2025-08-14 11:54:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe specimen was honestly more than Zelamir could have hoped for. He was fast, strong, ate basically every type of magic that got close to him, and had… well, not exactly impressive control over ...
2025-08-13 12:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post