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[Message and portal functionality is disabled for all nodes within the Zenith Control Zone until City Control is determined]
[Zenith Node information available]
Serenity groaned. He’d forgotten that City Node features were often disabled during the attempted takeover o...
2022-09-11 23:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The run was plenty long enough to tease out what he needed from the mana field and determine that it was essentially a suggestion field saying ‘you want to go this way; the thing/place you want is this way’. All he’d need to do was keep Andarit isolated from it and she should come out of it. Possibly a little ...
2022-09-10 23:01:17 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, I can't blame anything for being late tonight. I thought I'd posted it, but it looks like I only did the final edits without actually posting.
Sorry!
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Other than the roar of the fire in the distance, the city was eerily silent. Serenity had traveled the route to and from the Palace a number of times...
2022-09-10 01:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Akert was smaller than Rissa had expected from Katya’s descriptions; she’d assumed it would be a major city, with everything Katya had said about the market. It wasn’t.
At least, not by the standards of someone who lived in one of Earth’s cities.
Rissa guessed that she should have known better wh...
2022-09-08 22:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Andarit and Arrin were appropriately impressed as Serenity hurried them towards the creeper rot. The demonstration was worth the time and mana use, but he didn’t want to take more than that. He still didn’t know how big the patch was, after all.
As they moved, Serenity felt when they passed near strands ...
2022-09-07 23:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Creeper rot?” Andarit turned to Serenity, confused. “That doesn’t sound that bad. What is it?”
“A magical fungus, I think. The important thing is that it eats organics and spreads really easily. When it dies, it quickly turns into rich soil without any outside help. The problem is that it doesn...
2022-09-06 22:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Arrin bit his lip before he continued, looking uncertain. “Dead paid more but gone was enough. It wasn’t just the Lowpeaks; I don’t know who the other targets were, but I know they were nobles and the date was the same. I wasn’t in Zenith then so I didn’t get the details. I was given the contract after th...
2022-09-05 23:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Yeah, I do. I want to know what he was after. Why were they targeting us? For that matter, why didn’t he wait until we were out of the dungeon? Soloing a dungeon is risky and he’s not prepared.” Andarit sank onto her bed. The adrenaline was clearly leaving her; she looked exhausted. “Why did he have to a...
2022-09-04 21:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Arrin was pretty confident he wasn’t gaining on Andarit, but he didn’t think he was all that far behind her. It was pretty clear that he was fighting whatever she didn’t kill; the birds he fought were followed by sections of scorched forest, and there were quite a few monkeys on the ground a few minutes afte...
2022-09-04 00:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostToday's chapter will be out shortly. I got grabbed by my family for dinner and didn't get it posted ahead of time. Oops!
2022-09-04 00:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Arrin followed the trail into a small room with two beds and two chairs. He noticed the door vanish, but it wasn’t like he was going to try to go back until he’d killed Andarit anyway. He only had three days, now. It wasn’t enough time.
A quick look around the room didn’t tell him anything; he couldn...
2022-09-02 22:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The first four entrances seemed to support the “evacuation” guess. They were small shops and restaurants, and they’d been cleaned out. The fifth entrance was boarded off and locked; they skipped it, figuring they could come back if it was important and it was probably just someone who wanted to try to keep ...
2022-09-01 23:03:41 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the release delay today - my computer decided to lock up when I went to upload the chapter, which led to a reboot, and my computer's reboot is ... let's just say that it's slow. The computer's been showing its age for about three or four years now, but it keeps working so I've kept not paying for a replacement. One of these days it'll ...
2022-08-31 23:38:14 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Why is the hole here? I can guess why the car stopped if the Mana Eater damaged the enchantments, but how did it make that hole?” Andarit stood next to Serenity outside the subway car, staring at the hole she’d exited through.
Serenity stared at it, frowning. “It looks like it goes through some of the...
2022-08-30 23:02:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It seemed like this particular Station Node, Station Node 2, was a sort of massive interchange; upstairs had symbols that looked like a bird and a flying carpet, while this level and the level below seemed to lead to different colored lines, probably subway lines. Serenity followed the yellow line markers down the...
2022-08-29 23:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Zonal Evocation Mage
Level 10 - Magesight - Advanced Sight Skill that combines Mana Sight, Basic Sense Raw Mana, Essence Sight, and Vital Sight into a single improved Skill. Passively view all forms of magic. Observe how they affect each other and can transform from one to another. ...
2022-08-28 23:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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As they walked to the doors, Serenity queried the Voice.
Am I remembering correctly that XP from actions in a dungeon awards at the end of each level, not just at the end?
Ever since he’d come back in time, the only multi-level dungeons he’d been in other than the Great Tutorial Dungeon w...
2022-08-27 23:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent some time playing with some AI art generators today. I was hoping to come out with either some cover art or a good image of Serenity.
I wasn't very successful. I figured I'd share the hilariously bad dragon pictures anyway.
It is very, very obvious that the AI does not know what a dragon is, and it's a little questionab...
2022-08-27 05:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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At the end of the corridor was only the single doorway. It looked exactly like all the others, so Serenity chuckled. “Well, now I know we’re traveling through a representation instead of an exact replica of what happened. That means this is probably far smaller than the original. I prefer this type.”
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2022-08-26 23:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostI just realized I forgot to post Serenity’s Status in chapter 466. Oops!
It’ll be coming in 475 instead. I added a note this time to make sure I don’t forget again.
The primary changes at this point are the Death Magebolt, Crystal Seed Remote Link, and the addition of a ‘Planetary Enabled Features’ section.
E...
2022-08-25 23:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The meditation room was situated on top of the tallest tower on the Palace, and there was an odd slit in the half-sphere that formed its roof. Serenity had had a suspicion of what the room was when he first saw it, but he hadn’t been able to immediately confirm it because it was another room with extremely comple...
2022-08-24 23:05:49 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Prince Ora showed Serenity around the palace for the next few hours, introducing him to the different areas. It turned out that almost all of it was a single building, though Serenity suspected it hadn’t started that way.
The Palace was divided into three types of area - public, private, and staff. They s...
2022-08-23 23:07:28 +0000 UTC View PostYes, there’s been a persistent typo over the last half-dozen chapters of Lykandeon’s name as Lykandaeon. I think I have them all fixed in the RR releases, but I didn’t go back and find all of them on Patreon. I must remember: don’t get the planet confused with the character…
He’d like it too much, and no one wants that!
E...
2022-08-22 23:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The house was nearly empty.
Kalo had left the day before, along with his son and the rescued slaves who wanted to resettle on Zon. Andarit was still in Zenith, but she was getting ready for an event that evening. Serenity was already ready; he didn’t know what was taking Andarit so long, it was just anoth...
2022-08-21 22:52:45 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Margrethe stared at the comfortable confines of her room in the Ranar Guild Hall, letting her eyes rest on the Knife’s Banner she’d hung on the wall when she was first admitted to the Guild. It was good to be home, but she couldn’t just sit around; she needed to report to the Guildmaster.
That was always ...
2022-08-20 22:55:36 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Blaze reappeared at the same place he’d left from: a few steps outside the boarding house he’d lived in before accepting the Tutorial invitation. He hadn’t expected it to last six months, and he was grateful he hadn’t tried to keep his room. It would have been long gone, along with anything he’d left in...
2022-08-19 23:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity patted Curio as the kitten squirmed in his lap and mewed at him, annoyed at the lack of attention. “It’s fine, boy. I’m just a little distracted.”
He made sure to give Curio some under-the-chin scritches and the kitten settled back down.
[Tutorial Instruction Complete]<...
2022-08-18 22:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostQuiet moments never last - but they’re oh so helpful while they happen.
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Curio mewed from his hiding spot, which seemed to be between Serenity’s belly and his armor this time. Serenity was certain the shadowkitten was mostly shadows right now; otherwise, he wouldn’t fit. No matter his shape, though, Curio...
2022-08-17 23:03:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity stepped firmly out of the shadows, searching for the person wearing the burgundy he’d seen. Unintentionally but usefully, his step echoed in the quiet room and he saw a man spin around.
He stumbled when he spun and Serenity grinned. “There’s no need to be jumpy. I’m not planning to hurt yo...
2022-08-16 23:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It turned out that Serenity could summon water. Unfortunately, he couldn’t control it very well, so he ended up summoning it to more or less fill a bucket that he dumped on himself. The fact that it went away if he didn’t maintain it was the only reason he wasn’t soaked and covered in mud. Instead, he was p...
2022-08-15 22:51:10 +0000 UTC View Post