To cull the herd, Kairos thought as he walked around the celebrations. People danced all around him and officers invited him to partake in their feast, but he didn’t listen. He couldn’t get his father’s words out of his mind.
Many heirs of the Senex had taken roles of leadership in the campaign, away from Lyce’s center of ...
2022-01-15 09:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole plane was alive.
Valdemar had never seen a ‘jungle,’ though he had read of them in the ancient texts detailing the world before the Whitemoon’s arrival. He had imagined them as lush and verdant forests of mushrooms and moss like those found in Underland; but the one he was seeing right now couldn’t be more different.
<... 2022-01-11 09:28:08 +0000 UTC View PostA year ago, Cassandra had followed Kairos to the Lycean Republic for his wedding.
She had worn a different dress back then, and her current one put the previous to shame. Made from expensive golden linen and crimson silk gathered from Vali and Orichalcos, the gown espoused her forms perfectly. A cloak of velvet and translucent flowers fell...
2022-01-11 09:27:55 +0000 UTC View PostSwords clashed and Marianne’s weapon broke first.
Her bone blade, crafted from her own harvested forearm, cracked above the pommel as it parried Lord Bethor’s strike. The shattered edge of her weapon went flying and bounced off a steel wall. Marianne barely had the time to take a step back to avoid a strike to the throat and manifest a...
2022-01-08 09:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostIf you haven't noticed, an additional chapter was posted yesterday night here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kairos-94-god-of-60865086
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The Lycean reinforcements arrived in the morning.
Se...
2022-01-08 09:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise update!
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Months ago, back when they were unsure if their child would be a boy or a girl, Kairos and his wife had agreed on two possible names.
Aurelius if it were a boy, to honor Kairos’ mother Aurelia.
And Rhea if it were a girl, to honor Julia’s ancestor.
In the end, the...
2022-01-07 19:48:04 +0000 UTC View PostKtulu loved water.
Ever since Valdemar introduced his familiar to his bedroom’s shower, the alien child had spent his time smashing its button to enjoy the feeling of water on its skin. Ktulu liked it cold rather than warm, perhaps because it reminded him of his native plane. To cut costs on water, Valdemar had set a basin aside and crea...
2022-01-04 09:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe monstrous armada sailed on the calm spring sea, carried forward by a holy wind.
Flying at the forefront of his new griffin rider company, King Kairos of Travia looked down on his fleet as it engaged in complex naval maneuvers. A hundred ships from mighty galleys to troop transports adopted tight formations, circled around imaginary bat...
2022-01-04 09:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys,
First of all, as 2021 comes to an end, I want to say thanks to all of you who supported me that year.
When I started writing my first RR work Magik Online in 2018/2019, the thought of living from writing was only a dream. The early days were so difficult, both in my personal and professional life, that I burne...
2021-12-31 16:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostHe dreamed of rats that night.
They crawled in a grotesque pit dug in black oily stone, squeaking and gnawing on the flesh of the innocent. Hundreds of sharp teeth sank into the bones of unbelievers, breaking it down to feast on the marrow. Their bloodshot red eyes saw movement in the darkness, their claws unable to let them climb the smoo...
2021-12-18 13:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe bed was cold and Valdemar’s fingers were warm.
Marianne grunted as they stabbed into her back like daggers. Although he had used some kind of healing spell to lessen her pain, her enhanced sense of touch reduced its effectiveness.
“If you could please stop moving,” Valdemar asked. While Marianne kept her eyes closed, she vi...
2021-12-18 09:05:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys,
As promised, here is the downloadable second volume of Kairos (tentative title 'Dawn/War of the Pirate King') for your patron eyes only, available in PDF and Epub. There may be some issues with the tables due to formatting in the epub but I hope it will show up nicely.
I also confirm that Kairos will start goi...
2021-12-18 09:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys,
It's a pleasure to announce not one, but two good news on the Perfect Run front!
First of all, the second volume's Audiobook is now available on Audible for pre-order: https://www.audible.com/pd/The...
2021-12-16 12:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe machine was right above her, stalking her, hunting her.
Marianne could hear the clinks and clanks of its armor reverberating through the thin metal ceiling separating them. Though her gaze remained obscured by blindness, her mind visualized the creature from the sounds it made: a gaunt, two-meters tall skelet...
2021-12-14 09:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe New Gods rarely visited mortal cities nowadays.
A New God and an Old One making an appearance at the same time was unheard of, and yet here they were on Histria’s shore facing the heroes of the day.
Only a few hours after Helios’ public defeat and Kairos’ ascension to [Demigod], Orgonos teleported into the city with a crowd...
2021-12-14 09:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt took him hours to reach the bottom.
Valdemar had long stopped feeling pain by then, or anything else for that matter. The boiling blood had consumed his skin and his pain receptors along with it, leaving nothing but the flayed meat underneath.
Any other man would have perished from the experience, the flesh stripped from their bon...
2021-12-11 09:33:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe altar crumbled as a sun was born anew.
Rook and Kairos had already taken flight by the time Helios’ light dimmed, allowing them to perceive him. The handsome, five-meter tall figure that arose from the altar’s flames looked every bit like a god. His skin was the color of brass, his armor made of gold, and his helmet crowned with fl...
2021-12-11 09:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostPower.
Valdemar had long wondered what made a Dark Lord who they were. Their immortality? Their ability to command vast armies? Their unrivaled magical knowledge? Their awe-inspiring spells?
Now he knew.
As he opened his eyes, the aura that came from Lord Bethor dwarfed even Lord Och’s at his most intimidating. The lich’s d...
2021-12-07 09:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone must die one day. Even the gods.
This was a law of nature as unbreakable as gravity. Not even Thanatos, the incarnation of death itself, could escape this fate.
Nor could life incarnate.
No, Kairos thought as he held Andromache against his chest. Nessus hadn’t sacrificed his current life because Fate caught ...
2021-12-07 09:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostFrigga’s workshop looked more like a noble’s boudoir than a lab.
It was a bit larger than Valdemar’s own room and far better decorated. Deep red carpets covered every inch of the ground while beautiful tapestries and paintings occupied the walls. Most represented triumphant scenes of dokkars conquering each other in wars, founding ci...
2021-12-04 09:43:43 +0000 UTC View PostThere was light and then numbers.
A veil was lifted off Nessus’ lone remaining eye as he absorbed his other half into himself, and for the first time in his life he was no longer blind. His piercing gaze cut through the illusion of forms and colors to witness the true, underlying structure of all things.
Life <... 2021-12-04 09:43:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The eyes were looking at him through the window.
The walls of Lord Och’s fortress kept them away, but as they infested the Domain’s ceiling like moss, he couldn’t escape them.
“Val… mar…”
They had watched him since the moment he was born, though he couldn’t see them then. He thought his grandfather’s death had...
2021-11-30 09:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe clock struck and the timer went down.
They had spent a minute rushing through the corridors, but they couldn’t outrun time.
“This way!” Nessus shouted as he guided his group through the halls of the palace towards the northeast wing, his bow ready for a fight. Agron sang a song to empower the group as they followed in a mad...
2021-11-30 09:23:22 +0000 UTC View PostSPOILER WARNING for chapter 88.
Don't vote before reading the chapter.
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Select who dies in chapter 89.
The choice is between everyone with a [Doom] counter (excep...
2021-11-30 09:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe wererat’s guts had spilled all over the dead-end alley, his poisoned blood reddening the stone floor of the city of Pleroma.
Marianne resisted the urge to pinch her nose from the foul smell. Her blood-tracker burned against her skin as if she had finally completed her hunt. And yet, even a cursory glance at the creature at her feet d...
2021-11-27 09:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been countless centuries since Nessus had last set foot in his late uncle’s palace.
Or did he ever visit it in the first place? Maybe he was mistaking it for another castle, one of the many fortresses he had conquered or explored in his glory days? The dark obsidian corridors felt awfully familiar, and yet the fallen god didn’t ...
2021-11-27 09:27:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Valdy,” Liliane’s voice called through the workshop’s door. “Valdy, are you inside?”
Valdemar stared at the ceiling while laying on his mattress. The bed sheet covered his grandfather’s portrait in a corner of the room, hiding it from view.
“He is…” Hermann muttered. “But I… I don’t think now is the time…...
2021-11-23 09:09:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe entrance of Hades’ palace laid open like the maw of a great beast. The rubies on the archway shone with bright light as Andromache cast spells on them, lifting one protection ward after another. Nessus and Thales assisted her by inspecting the doorway for non-magical traps, clearing the path ahead before the party could walk inside.
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2021-11-23 09:09:40 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys,
It's been a while since I gave a true update, and while it's a bit early for New Year Wishes, I've got some news that can't wait for December. 2022 is going to be a very different year for you and me, especially with the inevitable release of the Vainqueur webtoon (no set release date yet, but almost certainly early 2022; roughly ...
2021-11-21 11:21:45 +0000 UTC View Post