Epsilon Twilight

8. Paper

After a bit of a discussion, Aloe tried wearing the slaver's clothes again. Her new hourglass shape actually made it easier to wear the pants, which she would have expected to go otherwise, but there still was quite a bit of an issue with the shirt. Her shoulders weren't as broad as before, but now she packed quite the rack, which also made it i...

7. City

There was something very wrong with the landscape. Buildings couldn't be that tall, it just didn't make any sense. At most, Aloe had seen buildings – or more accurately noble dwellings – with four floors, but from what she could see with her enhanced sight revealed that even the shortest of buildings had five floors, and the tallest ones wer...

6. Disciple

"Morning, sleepyhead~" Aloe booped Xochipilli on the nose once she noticed the child was waking up.

"M-morning?" He looked around in confusion before assimilating where he was. She didn't blame the boy for thinking all the past events had been a bad dream, she had thought that more than once.

Wished that were the case more than once....

5. Coziness

One may think that Aloe was embarrassed by her nakedness, but she had long outlasted that type of shame. For better or worse, her life had forced her to throw away her clothes more than she would have liked. No, what made her blush – her cheeks heated up, but she doubted the color of bark could change – was the fact that she had been called ...

4. Perennial

Aloe felt bad for having reacted that strongly to the kid, Xochipilli, having seen the contents of the veritas, but some things should stay outside of the minds of people. Of any mind.

Even after being shouted at, Xochipilli dutifully obeyed him and broke one of the leaves on her hips for her. She hadn't purposely planted them there, but t...

3. Goddess

It all occurred in one heartbeat. In one moment, he was facing certain death; and in the other, a regal figure stood between him and the slaver. He had heard of the creatures across the ocean, but he had never expected one so… arboreous.

The monster – which looked slightly female with its curves – grabbed the slaver by the head and s...

2. Joy

The sheer greenness of the scenery stunned Aloe. The soil was overflowing with grass and a thick undergrowth, the skies were partially covered with ample canopies of foliage, filtering through lovely rays of gold.

"Ah~" Aloe moaned as she basked herself in the soft breeze and sunlight. "I don't know what's better: the sight or the light. R...

1. Garbage

This is by all means and accounts the most visceral, disgusting, and brutal chapter I've written.

Content warning for: slavery, rape, pedophilia, gore, and heavens know what else.

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The foliage was dense, but the pants were more. Noise filled the surroundings, not just that of the birdsong and the cru...

Release Update

Hello there,

I decided from now on that I'll post 20 chapters ahead of time on Patreon instead of just 10 to offer more value, so enjoy! For now, I'll be releasing two chapters each day until we reach that number, and I don't discard the possibility of publishing even more. I'm kinda sitting in 100k unpublished words, though most of them a...

Evolving Self Finished!

Hello there,

As some may have seen already, book 4 of Cultivating Plants, Evolving Self is now completed! The addendums have been quite fun to write this time.

As always, this will mean a one-week hiatus before starting with the next book which will be Infusing Ideals. I'll leave an attachment of the cover for y'all. As a bonus, I in...

Addendums

Infusion

First of all, it would be wrong to call Infusion a power system; a complete misnomer born out of the ignorance and lack of understanding of mortals. Infusion is not aligned with any Aspect or Incarnation, so it would be wrong to call it as such. The term 'magic system' would be correct though. After all, Infusion does engage wit...

75. Evolution

Many things should be said about the grafting of Heartgrowth body parts, but the only one that mattered to Aloe was the loss of vitality. She had been long aware of the fact that loss of blood correlated with loss of maximum vitality, and amputating her fingers did – in fact – cause a lot of blood loss. The answer to such a conundrum was qui...

74. Symbiosis

If she let her mind wander, time truly was a construct devoid of innate value. Before she became aware of the passage of time, Aloe was already evolving Heartgrowths. Even if she didn't even need half of her reserves to evolve the living stones, she still had to have maximum reserves of one hundred and fifteen mansworth to avoid any exhaustion a...

73. Garden

After a few more weeks and restoring the mansworth-sized hole that the blood infusion had made on her reserves, Aloe was ready to evolve a new Heartgrowth. Even readier than before as her reserves edged on the three digits.

With recovery on, she had nothing to worry about as she poured her copious reserves into the living stone seed, but s...

72. Slime

Aloe rested for the following weeks. The massive blood infusion had wrecked her body more than she had originally thought, even five days later she was feeling a modicum of discomfort. But that didn't prevent her from evolving five Slowtides per day. Whilst twenty mansworth were still a considerable amount of vitality, she now had frice that muc...

71. Heartgrowth

As much as her lust for knowledge and discovery was assaulting her, Aloe still had to do some chores. Namely cleaning and dressing herself. Now not even the coldness and the dampness of the Tehen River could faze her with toughness on, but in the name of civility and decency, Aloe chose to wear clothes.

Once she had cleared the mess she ha...

New Story

Hello there,

Today besides publishing a chapter of Cultivating Plants, I also posted the first two chapters of my upcoming story, Astrotemporal Alignment.

Here's the blorb (please comment if you think I should change something for the release):

Nolotl Xocoyotzin, prince of the Tezlan Confederation, was a student like any other ...

Chapter 2: Information Magic

Instantly, Nolotl could tell something was amiss about the Empyrean. And he wasn’t talking about the status.

“I am surprised with your Alignment,” the Empyrean of Information explained tentatively.

“Really? I always come here at the start of the month.” Enantyum said.

The gnosiamancer briefly connected to the Cognitio...

Chapter 1: Diviner and Regressor

Stars poured into his eyes.

The texture of parchment in his fingertips, the cold touch of the stone on his back, the frigid breeze of the mountain midnight, it all disappeared as his whole being was overtaken by the astral entities.

Constellations became his only sight, information freely flowing across them. The Ocelotl constellatio...

70. Secretions

Nothing could stop the shiver that traveled down Aloe's spine when she read the description of the newly evolved seed. The seed as such didn't generate the heebie-jeebies that some other seeds may induce, her problem was with the Aloe Veritas description. Perhaps it was her tired mind, but she was imagining already awful things.

"Don't jud...

69. Meaning

It was an infuriating experience failing at everything one was disposed to do. Aloe boiled in the hatred of frustration. Countless dreams in the world of ideas had only brought her enhanced insight, but insight was useless without knowledge to complement it.

No matter how many times she pressed herself into one of the hells, she was unable...

68. Mastery

Mastery over her dreams was an achievement Aloe had never expected to strive for, nor obtain for that matter.

The Dream Spores allowed her to maintain a greater lucidity and memory of her dreams as they were connected to the world of ideas. The cultivator had no idea why that happened – pun not intended – but the assassin that had such...

67. Far

It spoke at great lengths about Aloe's common sense and mental state when she considered burning her fingertips to charcoal a normal thing and a necessity.

Each day she would evolve three patches of lichen, and each day she would obliterate three patches of Slowtide alongside her fingers. They had started to lose some sensitivity because o...

66. Blur

If the lack of a day and night cycle didn't mess with Aloe's perception of time enough already, her lack of hunger put the nail in the coffin. Not needing to eat meant that she didn't have a natural clock to measure the passage of the day, and she now had more free time on her hands as the many hours she dedicated to cooking had vanished.

...

Schedule Update

Hi there,

With the latest chapter, Royal Road's Writathon is over for me!

Not only I've written more than the required 55.555 words in less than the allotted time, but also published and edited each chapter. Now, the uploading schedule will take a hit as one chapter per day isn't sustainable. The previous schedule was four chapters p...

65. Nutritional

Waking up from a Dream Spore-induced sleep wasn't exactly comfortable, but Aloe appreciated the good sleep that accompanied it. Even more now that she had grabbed a blanket and stuffed it with cotton so it worked as a makeshift bed. A poor man's sofa was a better description.

The first thing Aloe did after waking up was evolve a death cap ...

64. Ideas

Working with the Dream Spore was a complex matter, mostly because Aloe lost any notion of self whenever she fell asleep. Which was always instantaneous if she was donning any internal infusion other than toughness. Especially if her active infusion was acuity.

But dreams could be manipulated, so Aloe worked on her lucidity.

Sunlight ...

63. Board

The sounds of the Whistling Sands were getting into his mind, that was something Hassan hadn't accounted for. Most assassins, though, ignored the song of the dunes as they were high out of their minds. The tent's curtains suddenly flapped open as a man entered, the song of the Whistling Sands infiltrating the tent until the flaps closed behind.<...

62. Surreal

Sunlight warmed Aloe's skin, it was truly the most pleasurable of caresses. However, that could also be attributed to the women surrounding her. The bed was so massive that she couldn't see the end of it, big enough to fit Rani at her side, a half-naked Naila, Fatima spreading her legs before her, and…

"Mirrah?" Aloe half-said half-moane...

61. Applications

Aloe played it smart with the Cottonpull's sack as she could already predict the future, the image impossibly clear in her head. If she broke the sack, the cotton balls would be sent flying, and she would be unable to recover them.

Her imagination was completely unfounded, but there was no reason to go against it. And she'd like to think s...