After practicing my new communication skill all night, I was starting to be able to “say” proper words! It was still a little rough, and it wasn’t quite as deep as my mental voice was, but it was still better than having to force a mental connection to strangers. After the fiasco with the elves, I wasn’t as willing to trust others with a...
2025-11-16 22:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Lightning Magic was a lot harder to aim than I thought it would be.
As I charged up the bolt of crackling electricity in my hands, I imagined ensuing destruction happening in a generally forward direction from my current point of view. But when I released my hold on the magic, it shot forward for a few feet before dropping...
2025-11-09 22:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Very good! Add more mana to the spell structure, it should make the flames even hotter!”
I called out tips to the mage-golems whenever I could to help them improve their magic and be better at their jobs. From the moment we first started this exercise, bursts of magic power could be seen all around the expanded clearing. In areas wher...
2025-11-02 22:00:00 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, now that only I can use magic around here, it’s time I set some magical defenses.”
I went up to my branches and created a new acorn, one that had Earth Magic and Water Magic as its two skills. I made sure it had a militaristic mindset and viewed me as its general, and gave it a very territoria...
2025-10-26 21:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“My second Epic skill! Woohoo!”
I was about to open the skill description before I stopped and realized that no, this wasn’t my second Epic skill. This was my third!
In my rush after finally gaining the Golem Creation skill, I had forgotten that the previous skill/upgrade points were refunded and went ...
2025-10-19 21:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I forgot to mention this last week. From now on, chapters will be released at Sunday 5pm EST
2025-10-19 19:07:20 +0000 UTC
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Before I go any farther, I should figure out what exactly this golem of mine can do. I gave him a few minutes to get used to his body and make the changes he wanted to before giving him some basic exercises. When he was done with the sprints, I used Identify on him.
Autonomous Golem
· &nb...
2025-10-12 21:00:07 +0000 UTC
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build doll
add mana water
place core in chest cavity
doll explodes
build doll
add mana water
……
The cycle of golem development continued for quite a while, only interrupted when I had to take time to find more cores to experiment with. Thankfully,...
2025-10-05 16:29:11 +0000 UTC
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First things first, I need to recover the core.
During the explosion of my first semi-successful golem prototype, its limbs were ripped from the torso, which was also broken into several pieces. Frankly, the whole thing would be just as useful as mulch now.
I searched the debris for the precious monster core, but I found it almost a ...
2025-09-21 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Patreon changed the way stuff gets posted while I was gone. I guess I didn't do it right when I scheduled the post to drop. I hope this is the only mistake going forward. Sorry bout that!
It's weird because I got notifications of people liking the post, and one of my subscribers even said he got the full post in his email when I scheduled ...
2025-09-15 09:49:08 +0000 UTC
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“Soo, that happened.”
Silvan said to her partner. They had been riding in mostly silence for the last few days, heading back to the elven forest nation, they’re only conversation being “pass the water” or “hand me the dried nuts”. It’s been tense while they process the biggest failure of their career.
“That it did,...
2025-09-14 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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It’s been 5 weeks since I ran Elvis and Silvan out, and quite frankly, I don’t feel like I’ve done enough since then.
I spent a couple of days growing a crap ton of vines throughout the portion of the forest I control. In fact, almost every tree that was under my influence got a makeover. I grew out their hair (vines are now all over...
2025-09-07 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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“A non-sentient dungeon creature will follow their master’s orders to the letter. If you were to tell a skeleton monster you summoned to remove its left arm, it would. If you tell a wolf you summoned to kill itself, it would follow your orders. The issue with order obedience comes with intelligence, or rather, sapience.
A monster summo...
2025-08-25 01:52:36 +0000 UTC
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“What do you mean ‘take me despite my protest’? How could you?” I bore down on Silvan with the full weight of my mind while asking her that.
“What do you mean ‘take me despite my protest’? How could you?”
I bore down on Silvan with the full weight of my mind while asking her that. So far, I had maintained a boundary o...
2025-08-05 01:59:04 +0000 UTC
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Billing is going to be paused for the month of August. I need a break from writing, as I'm starting to feel too pressured to write, taking the fun out of it for me. Don't worry, though. None of you should be charged for this month, with billing continuing in September.
I wanted to get 59 posted this week and 60 posted today, but I just did...
2025-08-04 02:49:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 59 will be posted at some point this week as an apology for being late recently. Chapter 60 will be posted next Sunday at 12 EST “S
Chapter 59 will be posted at some point this week as an apology for being late recently. Chapter 60 will be posted next Sunday at 12 EST
“So, how was the walk yesterday? See anything o...
2025-07-27 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Here's a quick AI rendition of what I imagine Silvan's daggers to look like.
2025-07-24 01:47:30 +0000 UTC
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Elowen was up bright and early. He watched the sky change color through the woven vines that made up the roof. It hadn’t rained during their stay so far, but he wondered what Willow would do when it came to that.
Would he tighten the weave? Would he add a layer of dirt on top to make it waterproof? He could also grow a layered patter...
2025-07-24 01:45:31 +0000 UTC
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Sorry guys, I've had a rough week. I can't get today's chapter posted, so I'll delay it until Wednesday and try to do a double chapter next week to make it up to yall.
Thank you for the support ❤️
2025-07-20 14:54:12 +0000 UTC
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I ended up relaxing for the night, opting to take some time off of the projects I had lined up. The last couple of weeks had been non-stop work, work, work, and I needed a break, break, break.
Given it was night time, I basked in the glow of the moonlight, absorbing what energy I could from the beautiful rays. In my branches rested a pair ...
2025-07-13 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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“To start with, there are three ways to summon a creature. The first way is to just summon it like normal. To do this, you open the summon tab and select the creature you want to summon. All Dungeon Masters start with a few basic monsters and a few basic critters. Each creature has its own assigned cost that must be paid to summon the monster....
2025-07-06 23:31:58 +0000 UTC
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As was previously posted, i am hoping to start a second story. For now, it will be a Patreon exclusive story, but I will be eventually posting it to Royal Road once I get a few chapters ahead here. The chapters will be posted when I get a chance to write them, and it will NOT interfere with the weekly Tree chapter.
That being said, the wi...
2025-07-06 16:34:37 +0000 UTC
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We officially have a Discord now! Feel free to join!
2025-07-06 16:20:02 +0000 UTC
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Sun’s out, guns out. Time to crush something.
I looked around for something large that I can try to make smaller and found the answer in my canopy.
As I’ve been growing larger, the Resource Berries I made so long ago have grown with me. The health berries started off looking like regular cherries, but no...
2025-07-06 16:12:43 +0000 UTC
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Here's an AI rendering of what I imagine the carriage to look like. I think it's pretty neat :)
2025-06-29 16:55:45 +0000 UTC
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Of course, the random ass elves just happen to have exactly what I need in their literal back pocket. Well, front pocket, but whatever.
I watched as the male of the two elves – Elvis? whatever his name was – reached into one of the many folds of the very cliché fantasy cloak he had on and pulled out an acorn. He had a goofy g...
2025-06-29 16:48:00 +0000 UTC
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Elowen took in the sights as he walked through the woods. The vegetation was dense here, much more so than what should be normal for a forest in the human kingdoms. He assumed that had to be a side effect of the Great Tree living here.
Elowen sent a small pulse of mana through one of the trees as he passed by on instinct. The pulse went th...
2025-06-22 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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I'm looking to expand the posts I have on Patreon and start writing more stories. Since I'm doing less violence with Willow, I want the freedom to get a bit more aggressive in a different story, as that's what I enjoy reading and writing.
This side story will take second place to "So I'm a Tree", but it will be a way for me to prevent bur...
2025-06-22 10:45:47 +0000 UTC
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And thus ends the Laughing Viper arc. I hope you all enjoy :)
Elowen rested his head against the carriage wall, watching as the human city drifted by. It had been a long journey here, and he was already ready to be out of the city yet again and back to the forest. It was stereotypical of the elven race to hate human cities, but Elow...
2025-06-15 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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As the Laughing Viper trio went to sleep, I got to work on the safe haven I promised to make. I was considering making a wooden palisade of sorts out of my roots, but I feel like that would take too much time and stamina and would be too permanent. Instead, I’ll make it a basic rock wall.
I took a large amount of dirt from a few feet und...
2025-06-11 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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