I expect this will be done in another chapter or two. It's already longer than I expected. Once it's finished, I intend to use the Monday slot for Unbound Soul for the rest of June.
"How?" asked Damien. "I saw your corpse!"
"Turns out Gaia had a rank nine healer hidden away who could resurrect. Your mother, Grace an...
2023-05-29 04:56:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the second of the character designs. Kellela somehow manages to continue looking mature and motherly despite being age-regressed back to a teenager.
Does she look how people imagined? Iirc, in the first draft, she ended up with long hair in her magical girl form. I can't remember when I changed that, but if it was after it was poste...
2023-05-22 08:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostLittle had changed by the time Mystery re-emerged.
She popped out of Kellela to find her bandaged but standing, spoon feeding soup to Hayedalf. He was in a chair, arms hanging limply by his side.
"... Dad... okay...?" whispered Mystery.
"Heck no," he grumbled, as Kellela put down the spoon. "Damn demon severed my spine. I'm com...
2023-05-16 04:46:56 +0000 UTC View Post"Thank you," said Damien rather hoarsely, walking out of the store in fresh clothes. The amount of use [Whispers of the Void] had seen while purchasing them—trying to convince everyone that he wasn't dressed in, effectively, a bubble of blood—had left his throat raw. Human vocal cords just weren't designed to make such discordant sounds.
... 2023-05-15 04:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostSome laws of common sense varied between universes. Kellela, for example, would struggle to imagine a world where magic didn't exist, despite plenty of such worlds existing. On the other hand, some laws were ironclad, utterly inviolable no matter how far through the Void one travelled.
One such rule was the utterly stupid and self-defeatin...
2023-05-12 04:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember that brief period* of time when I hit 200 patrons? Well, here's the first bit of the resulting artwork; a character design for Aster Blue. Given that patron numbers have dropped back heavily since then, there's not going to be a huge amount of art, but there are designs for the other four magical girls on their way.
The artist is ...
2023-05-09 04:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post"So... To avoid ageless races cycling through every occupation and learning every skill, they're cursed to grow older with each new skill or sub-skill they learn?" asked Rose, having never heard that little factoid before.
"Indeed," confirmed Rrillandral. "Accumulating too many skills is fatal to an elf. Furthermore, spells which slow or r...
2023-05-09 04:32:56 +0000 UTC View PostDamien thrashed around, struggling uselessly against his bonds of shadow, his screams choked by lack of air. His movements weakened, then ceased completely as the hungering monster sucked him dry, leaving his body dessicated, with not a single drop of blood remaining in his veins. His mind blanked as his body perished once more.
And then, ...
2023-05-08 04:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostRose lay awake despite the time of night. She was desperate for a wee, but the princess clamped onto her arm made the normally simple task of getting out of bed rather difficult.
She poked the aforementioned princess a few times, but the only response she got back was louder snoring.
"Okay, we're at the point where either I employ vi...
2023-05-05 05:07:13 +0000 UTC View Post"So if we dance while transforming, we get a third stronger?" asked Grace, the entire magical girl squad having got back together in the evening for a meeting.
"Ish. It varied," explained Kellela.
"... Why?"
Mystery replied with an extensive explanation about proper behaviour, the situation of someone standing in front...
2023-05-02 05:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostDamien stalked through the mists, ignoring the whispers in the back of his mind. Nothing more than an inferior imitation of his own abilities. Just like the way it uselessly tried to sap at his strength. Yes, it had been somewhat alarming at first, but he'd grown used to it, and now it hardly impeded him at all. He did have to admit, though, tha...
2023-05-01 04:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostMystery thought very hard about a series of purple lines criss-crossed with streaks of blue, white dots dripping from them like rain.
Her mana responded, a bolt of white lightning leaping from where she was hovering to the target they'd set up in their garden, her mystical vision flashing in the angry yellow of thunder.
ding...
2023-04-28 04:46:14 +0000 UTC View PostMystery perched atop Grace's head as she travelled to school, a stunt that was considerably easier to maintain than her usual seat on top of Kellela's. Grace's soul was more tangible to her than Kellela's, so any momentary lapses of concentration didn't cause her to plunge into brain tissue.
ding
For breaking your personal ...
Damien ambled away from Thale, turning every now and again in response to a particularly loud crash or bright flash. Multiple plumes of thick, black smoke rose above the city, which was somewhat interesting in itself; none of the demons Damien saw had seemed aspected to fire. How had chunks of the town caught alight? One of life's trivial little...
2023-04-24 04:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post"For... friendship and... and... justice..." stammered out a heavily blushing Grace, before giving in. "Dammit. Why did you have to tell me what it meant? Now I can't say it without cringing so badly I fail to get the words out."
"You were the one who insisted we tell you," pointed out Kellela.
"Yes, it is pretty embarrassing, but lo...
2023-04-21 04:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostYou have learnt to detect the presence of spirits, upgrading [Soul's Eye] with [Sense Spirit]. Level cap of [Soul's Eye] increased by 10.
For observing a new aspect of reality, [Soul's Eye] advances to level 34.
For refusing to shut up, [Telepathy] advances to level 2.
For bringing a touch of hope to the d...
Be warned that this what-if gets darker before it gets brighter...
Damien's eyes flickered open, but it took him a moment to remember where he was. Unlike Valerie, he had no experience of personal resurrection, and the process left him heavily disconcerted.
As he looked around the former battlefield, he realised it ...
2023-04-17 04:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostRose peered up at the black sky, shivering in the cold, violet sunlight. "I need to find shelter..." she muttered to herself.
Alas, there wasn't any. The landscape was lifeless and desolate, an empty expanse of flat stone. The only point of interest was a mountain range in the distance, poking above the horizon like a row of teeth.
"...
2023-04-14 04:43:19 +0000 UTC View PostRose sat at a desk in the room she'd been given at the palace, more permanent accommodation for the party not yet having been found. A book was open in front of her, and a small amount of her attention was devoted to turning the page whenever a light blinked.
Kellela and Hayedalf shared the room next door, and had—after Hayedalf spent so...
2023-04-11 04:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostPointless deaths. Damien had never shared the secret of his class. There was no greater conspiracy, at least not in Thale. If Murill wanted to know her enemy, it was close to her indeed, among her very own pantheon, and yet she'd acted to obliterate all that Damien had touched instead.
Out of ignorance and fear, she'd turned her believers'...
2023-04-10 04:59:45 +0000 UTC View Posttl; dr - Effective immediately, I'm going to enable annual billing, at the maximum possible (which imho is still too low...) discount. Please be aware that I'm not making set-in-stone commitments further out than the next month. I'm also considering offering draft chapter access to anyone who's been subscribed for 4+ months, and any thoughts or ...
2023-04-09 06:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe [King] and [Queen] sat on a decorated sofa, colourful fabrics draped over it. The four magical girls and single magical person of indeterminate gender sat on seating of their own, eating light finger-food served by a team of maids. Rose in particular was making the most of the opportunity, having been too nervous to eat during the ball.
<... 2023-04-07 05:17:12 +0000 UTC View Post"I think that wipes away the need to invent Grace's engagement..." mumbled the [King], watching as the entire room stared at the nonsensical world notification.
"Don't be so sure," cautioned the [Royal Knight]. "With her appraisal blocker, they have no means of confirming Rose's name. All they have to go on is the glitched age. I suggest y...
2023-04-04 04:49:08 +0000 UTC View PostDamien awoke in the morning light, pondering what to do with his time. He'd never dreamed that he'd one day find himself complaining that the island didn't have enough monsters, but he needed entire nests to stretch his combat skills, and, for some strange reason, everyone else on the island seemed to disapprove of deliberately letting nests dev...
2023-04-03 05:09:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis side story covers some of the events of the volume 8 afterword, in the description of Peter's adult status, and takes place a couple of years after the previous mating season chapters.
I stared at the portal that separated me from the final boss of the dungeon. A portal not of magic, but of stone; a circular slab fiv...
2023-03-28 05:13:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a what if? side story for unwavering craftsman, which diverges right at the beginning in chapter 2, at the ceremony of paths. It's 6-ish chapters long.
"H̵̰́ë̴̪ ̶̩͝w̵̘̉o̷͓͂u̴̘͝l̵̨̀d̸̘̋ ̸̲͒s̶̰͑t̵̙͋i̷̳͠f̴̼̈́l̷̞͒ȩ̷̛ ̴̧̚y̷͓̆o̶͍͐u̷̟̾.̶̥̇ ̵̫̒C̶̨͑r̴͎̃i...
2023-03-24 05:38:59 +0000 UTC View PostIs once more on discord. This is the final one of the three.
2023-03-21 05:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostThrough unwavering effort, you have unlocked the [Cosplay] skill.
For consuming most of your mana in one go, [Increased Attributes] advances to level 8.
Cosplay (Uncommon)
Alteration spell created by μ̵̼͉̐υ̴̡̽̿σ̷̭͓̃̀τ̸͉̤̾̆ή̶͎̱͌ρ̸̤͕̏̿ι̷̬̾͜ό̸͈ the human. Changes ...
Can't say I saw this coming, given that I barely breached 150 even at the heights of Fetch Quest. Unborn Hero is proving unexpectedly popular. (At least, I hope it's Unborn Hero, and I haven't attracted an influx of people looking for the Peter x Cluma NSFW chapters...)
Anyway, I had a patreon goal of commisioning some artwork whe...
2023-03-19 06:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostEighth Brother peered at the invitation in confusion. The contents were straightforward enough; a simple handwritten invite to his mother's birthday party. The problem was that the handwriting wasn't hers. Nor was she having a party. He knew that full well, because he'd apologised that morning for not being able to arrange one.
"Hey, what....
2023-03-17 06:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post