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B4 Chapter 3 - Conflicting Goals

A corner before the Lifeweaver’s mansion, Vivi checked her reflection through dark a streetside window.

Her make-up was almost invisible, slightly complementing her features but nothing com...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 53 - Purchases

Back in the real world, I retrieved my stuff from the Cave with my mom, since playing there probably wasn't safe anymore. All I needed was one desperate junkie with a weapon to threaten me for gear...

B4 Chapter 2 - Do It Properly

Alda didn’t have a decisive answer to Vivi’s question. She gave an uncomfortable laugh, saying that it was her job as a hunter to protect and serve Ythar’s kingdom. Though, from her expressio...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 52 - Build Nerds

“Alright, I did some research and math,” Veyra said.

We’d barely said our hellos, when she placed a large screenshot of a real-life drawing on the wall of our usual tavern. She’d draw...

B4 Chapter 1 - Are They All Evil?

Feeling a stranger’s hand on her shoulder, Vivi’s first instinct was to release her aura of five thousand ether at the man’s face. She stopped herself, however. This wasn’t Zand. Her life w...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 51 - Nerfed

“Aiden, what was that!?” was the first gush of excitement I heard outside the arena from uncle Ricky after I finally managed to sneak past all the interviews, trophy ceremonies and and all medi...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 50 - Best Of Five

I loaded into a hot cave, standing atop steel gratings. Lava bubbled underneath, though the footing appeared solid. Tall cavernous walls surrounded the arena, roughly the size of a football field. ...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 49 - Zero Point Seven-two

The arena was absolutely packed. The remaining seats had been sold out last night, as apparently the event itself gained popularity from all the forum posts and news floating around regarding my de...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 48 - Two Raid Bosses

Author note: Bonus chapter for reaching the 1000 followers milestone on Royal Road! Thanks! The next chapter drops tomorrow, following the schedule as normal.

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A walkway ahead of me ...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 47 - Stupid Charm

We followed a trail of dead Stone Wyverns up the mountain paths, killing the occasional straggler goblins trying to jump us from the mountainside swamplands. Monster corpses stayed on the ground fo...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 46 - Consider

Author note: Bonus chapter for reaching the 100 ratings milestone on Royal Road! Another one will be dropping once we reach 1000 followers.

I won the remaining nine fights of the open ...

Future Schedule (For both books), and Ethersmith one week break.

Hello, this is an update on the future schedule of my Patreon and Royal Road pages!

First, The Ethersmith is going on a one week break. Chapter 1 of book 4 will drop on Monday the 17th. I’v...

Ethersmith Book 3 Epilogue

“So, the situation is this,” Lortel inquired. “You offended a city lord, who is directly related to the human god emperor, and you threatened him into compliance using his life.”

“I...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 45 - Disheveled Goof

“Aiden?”

I entered the warm-up room, and amongst the tens of nervous players doing stretches, waiting for their turns to use the two dozen warm-up game-pods available, I was faced with tw...

B3 Chapter 69 - Awe

The ground quaked and mud splashed as the boulders from the dead golem crashed against the ground.

A dream, Veronica thought. The sight was impossible. In her sixty years as an ether...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 44 - Family Support

On my phone, I opened up the website for “New York Wonderwind,” the official website for anything Wonderwind in my city. From there, I found the one versus one PvP competition—the biggest Won...

B3 Chapter 68 - Art

“Helegar,” Veronica snapped at the man. “This is not what we agreed upon!”

Rain droplets drizzled from the surface sky. The storm zone had not been excavated—a procedure wh...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 43 - Promise Breaker

“Shadow Dash is not just an escape tool, or a gap-closer,” I explained to Neige’s livestream, while his guild mates scowled at me. “This little dash is the backbone of the assassin class. I...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 42 - Cheater Duo

Four players in top tier gear stepped into the room. The leader’s bow was almost as long as he was tall, and that said a lot, considering he was at least an inch taller than me. He wore a red sca...

B3 Chapter 67 - Heroes On The Run

The hunter and his freshly flattened uniform flew back inside in an arch back. A wooden table received him, then promptly snapped into pieces under his weight. He collapsed in its splintered wood, ...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 41 - The Forums

Some days passed, and Veyra and I grew closer.

I continued my workout regime of bodyweight exercises, raising the number of pushups I could do from three to a whopping nine. I had to renew my...

B3 Chapter 66 - Restore

The teleporter blinked active, and Vivi’s consciousness flickered from the third level to Essi’s hometown. Mistvale.

A familiar tapping sound reverberated from the rain canopy. An open sk...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 40 - Favorites

I’m actually going on a date, I thought, as if that was some grand milestone of life I never expected I’d achieve.

I led the way deeper into the village, into what was easily my ...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 39 - Identity Revealed

Annath’s forum post included a short clip as “proof” that Veyra was cheating—a ten second video recording of the battle earlier. Specifically, it showed Annath facing Veyra one to one after...

B3 Chapter 65 - Return Home

Vivi and the demons built a simple campfire to rest at before advancing any further. They had only brought rations for two days, and even that would be a stretch. The plan was to restock on the upp...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 38 - Typing…

It didn’t take long for Annath to utterly overpower me. I blocked and dodged, desperately defending myself from the deadliest sword in the whole game.

Blocking was now even more difficult w...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 37 - SevenStrife

The tall gold-haired woman in front of us looked to me like the commander of an army of knights. Her bright silver plate and her stern scowl gave her an unbreakable presence—and she walked with t...

B3 Chapter 64 - Rescue

Stepping onto Boblin’s cliff, Vivi placed down the giant slab of meat and flared her aura, pushing it into the tunnel.

Last time she’d traveled to the surface with everyone, luring Boblin...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 36 - Those Who Like Hugs

I was no longer a functioning human being.

Arguably, I had not been that in a long time, considering I hadn’t seen sunlight in reality ever since that one trip to the corner store. Ignoring...

Assassinate Wonderwind Chapter 35 - Date?

Veyra’s carefree mood paused, totally caught off guard. Snow and Dark, both of Heywin’s cats, ran downstairs, while the tower continued crumbling under the misty sky.

Oh my god, I actuall...