Hey there!
It's been two weeks since the last roundup, so here we are again!
First of all, it's been a wild week for me with all the earthquake scare and the sheer work of getting the words out. I've managed to handle that, so I'm feeling just fine. Thanks, once again, for your kind wishes.
Onto the book, with the last chapter,...
2025-04-26 07:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostValens considered for a long moment an answer to Master Archibald’s question, and came to the simple conclusion that becoming a member of the Magi Guild, a high-ranked member to be precise, seemed too good of a deal to pass on just because there might be certain complications if he were to admit he had a rather different approach to magic.
... 2025-04-25 18:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostSebastian came holding a tray over his hands, the wine glasses clinking as he shuffled his way to the chairs, looking like a stuck-up fellow from a high-standing family who got offended in a way he had never experienced before. He placed the tray gently over the table, waited for a few seconds to hear a word from Master Archibald, and removed hi...
2025-04-24 18:55:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Hold!” Sebastian screamed as Valens strolled calmly toward the old master. “Stop!” the doorman yelled as he scurried around his high desk, clutched the edges of the wooden furniture and launched himself off into the hallway, yanking at a singularly stubborn patch of his vest that got caught in a ledge, tore it through to free himself wi...
2025-04-24 18:44:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
I'm sure most of you don't know, but I'm living in Istanbul, Türkiye, which experienced a rather big earthquake some hours before. Due to safety reasons, my wife and I, with our doggo, will be staying away tonight. (We're all okay!) Hence, I won't be able to post today's chapter.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Cheers ...
2025-04-23 16:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostValens halted with one hand about to knock on the entrance. He wanted to learn and ask every question that came to mind, to seek knowledge about the arcane and how the Magi of this world approached magic, to understand the intricacies of the System and the secrets behind the spells, and to pry into their world with an open mind.
He just wa...
2025-04-22 18:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post“It really is a strange world, isn’t it?” Valens muttered when he opened his eyes in the room, the bed creaking as he pulled himself up, wincing to his feet. His body was stiff and sore from the effort, but peering out the windows by the side wall, it didn’t seem he spent too much time in that space.
He reached for a Lifesurge to w...
2025-04-21 16:47:37 +0000 UTC View Post“The Davenport Family… I remember that case,” Saah muttered. “The husband died without an apparent reason, body found floating in the Dark Sea by Belgrave’s Eastern Port. Not a single wound. Not even a sign that there had been a struggle before his death. The Priests of the Sun’s Church thought it was the shadows. Fools. If th...
2025-04-20 13:24:49 +0000 UTC View PostAnsel shivered. He tried to breathe, but his throat felt painfully dry. Parched. There was no air here. Nothing left for him to take in. The thick shroud of fog wavered across him. Upon the throne that loomed at the head of the table, the mysterious statue that never once moved in the short time since he became a part of this assembly finally sh...
2025-04-18 22:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe arms of the throne chilled his bones. The thick shroud wavered and churned about him. It choked everything around his body. His legs. His arms. His face. Left only his eyes in the open.
Where am I? What is… happening?
He tried to move, but his arms were pinned down to the throne. His whole body nailed into it as though...
2025-04-17 23:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostValens locked himself in the room after the shower. He weaved a Blockage around the door for good measure. He wasn’t sure what awaited him beyond the Gate of Surges, but with a former Wailborn in the house, and the old, dusty walls of his room, he decided he couldn’t be too cautious with his arrangements.
The bed creaked when he poured...
2025-04-16 18:26:02 +0000 UTC View PostGarran’s friend had proven his deep knowledge of the market by quickly finding an old, two-room flat in a building with a weekly rent of five Caligian crowns. The price was rather steep, and it would’ve been seven crowns if not for the sudden interruption of Marcus, who suddenly decided it was high time he was done with brooding and instead ...
2025-04-15 18:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostValens first started with the shoulders. Stress often piled in the back of a body, round the sides of one’s neck and down near one’s core. There would be pain in the head, and around one’s stomach as well. Churning mostly, without a clear reason. That, and the odd cramp that would come out of nowhere.
Sensitive work, really, bu...
2025-04-14 16:24:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Hear…” the Bishop croaked, trembling over the chair like a withered husk of wrinkled flesh, wide eyes staring at Valens, dark veins squirming underneath the skin of his cheeks. “Hear…” he wheezed, and it seemed the more he looked at Valens, the more he stooped under an invisible weight.
“Hexmender, quick!” Mas roared. He s...
2025-04-12 17:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello beautiful people. We're here for another weekly roundup!
To start, I'd like to say that we're finally done with the Rising Stars rush(for real, this time), and I can finally take a deep breath. Although I will miss the craze of the numbers going up, there's not much I can do about that.
About the Patreon, since this is the firs...
2025-04-12 06:51:00 +0000 UTC View PostValens’s skin prickled the moment that string of words took hold of the whole room. Spoken with such grace, with such ease that he turned, ever so slowly, as if taken by the allure of them, to see the owner of this voice.
Her face was pale but not sickly, crimson lips looking soft, eyes dark as riverstone. Her hair was black with hints o...
2025-04-11 19:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post“That door’s not for knocking, you fools. Enter! Enter right this instant for Blessed Father’s sake, and close the damn thing after you!” Bishop Cornelius boomed from beyond the door the second Edric made the grave sin of disturbing the man’s peace.
He’s not in a good mood. He’s never in a good mood.
Edric took...
2025-04-10 17:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt seemed all the roads in Belgrave led around in circles, crowded with a gray density of high buildings, pointy-towered churches, wide and giant factories, smoke-belching chimneys, and pits, and more chimneys further ahead, paved roads, unpaved roads, construction sites, priests, busy-looking men, fancy-dressed women and ladies, and little chil...
2025-04-09 15:49:49 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s a difference between a Hollow and a Wailborn,” Garran said, one hand dangling from the window, face turned toward the gentle breeze that rustled the leaves of the trees lining the road. “The former lacks Authority, and is mostly an empty shell. Just the foul air of the Broken Lands is enough to make a Hollow out of a corpse so l...
2025-04-08 17:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Close your eyes, and take a deep breath. Don’t think. Don’t focus on a particular thought. Let your mind wander. You might feel some pain around your neck, but that’s normal.”
Valens placed his hand on Selin’s forehead as he focused on the Resonance. The woman tightened and shivered under his palm, but he expected that much. D...
2025-04-07 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA day could have all kinds of expectations. A monotonous start to a workday was different from a holiday trip to the woods, lively and full of promises. Meeting with a lover and catching a whiff of fresh-baked pastry felt oddly the same, and yet, if you could manage a tight enough schedule, you could work them into your day. But this m...
2025-04-04 17:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostValens sat, wedged into the little space under the stairs of the basement with his legs sprawled out in front of him, a searing echo of an agony burning still in his chest, fingers of his right hand trembling like an addict dumped by his dealer and left all alone with no means against a long night ahead.
You’re not supposed to u...
2025-04-03 17:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostValens found the other Priest down in the church’s basement tending to the sick men. Simeon carried the smile of a devoted man too invested in his godly duty, his pate shining under the lights cast by the few lamps flickering across the walls, both hands stretched over a middle-aged Miner whose feet were covered in bloody bandages. 2025-04-02 21:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Some days passed and the Rising Stars rush is finally over. We're about to close the Second Arc, and start with the final Act of the first book.
When I first drafted Arcanist In Another World, it was about an OP Mage going about a different world, and doing OP Mage things. There was a slice-of-life feeling to it, a sort of calmnes...
2025-04-01 20:36:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a sunny day in Brackley, and the clouds danced lazily across the sky. Only a few of them dotted the horizon, allowing gentle light to spill generously down to the dreary landscape of the pit town.
Wooden shacks stooped under its weight as if they weren’t used to bearing light for a change, and what few men lounged about the entran...
2025-04-01 20:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostValens blinked wearily as the outside influence forcefully cut his connection with the Lifeward and flung him away back into the giant hall, the surroundings a blurry mess of wavering lines, golden lights shining, outlines of armored figures taking form. It took him a painful moment to feel the solid ground underneath his feet—a painful moment...
2025-03-30 18:55:04 +0000 UTC View PostBlazing fury and the heat of flames muted the uncertainty and fear, removing the possibilities from his mind. There was not much else to it—not much else, indeed, now that he thought about it.
The sheer size of the creature scarcely mattered. The presence with which it choked the giant hall was a mere weight upon his shoulders. So long a...
2025-03-29 19:35:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe poisonous fog washed off from the giant coffin’s lid like the waves of a dark sea, coiling subtly around the edges and spreading its poisonous influence across the hall. Through the pillars, the waves slithered like snakes out sniffing for fresh prey, as slowly, insidiously, the thick shroud made its way toward their ...
2025-03-28 18:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the design Valens sees over the door.
2025-03-27 20:58:17 +0000 UTC View PostValens stared at the mental image of the door in his mind, looming high over the Resonance with a unique set of frequencies that felt strangely familiar. It stretched across what had been a dark emptiness before like a boundary placed in the depths of his core by unseen hands.
Fashioned from an alien alloy, it had a metallic hue, th...
2025-03-27 20:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post