They retreated from the hole and moved back into the tunnel they’d entered the room from.
“What are we going to do?” Leya asked, looking up at Kay.
Kay stared at the ground for a moment as he thought over their options. “The problem is that that hole isn’t big enough for us to go down simultaneously. I don’t want to have ...
2021-12-01 16:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long to get to the entrance trapped under the tree, just like Cindy had said. With some careful maneuvering and a little bit of time, they were able to get the tree growing halfway over the opening out of the way without dropping the large tree on top of them.
“This would have been easier with Leaf,” Claudia muttered a...
2021-11-30 04:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what do we know?” Kay asked the cramped gathering in his office. Technically the one-room building was the office of multiple people, but he was going to milk his “in charge” status as best he could.
“There’s some kind of unknown enemy that has a group of Rittians of unknown size as minions. It either drove them mad or fou...
2021-11-26 15:14:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt turns out that darkness makes holes in the ground look a lot deeper than they are. Kay ended up falling for fifteen feet before he slammed into the ground. With the number of tiers, he had under his belt, his blood armor, and Blood Boost going, he basically bounced back to his feet instantly.
There were a few rat-men standing there, wai...
2021-11-24 21:32:50 +0000 UTC View PostSorry to my $5 tier people, I accidentally opened chapter Seventy one to y'all today when it was supposed to be Seventy. I fixed it, but y'all probably got a bunch of notifications all at once about it. My bad.
2021-11-24 15:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostKay sighed as he walked past an interesting-looking rock. He thought it was something Murunel would have commented on. He hadn’t realized how much he was going to miss her. Even though he hadn’t been with her every moment of every day, he’d actually made sure that he wasn’t in order to let her have as much of a social life as possible wh...
2021-11-22 15:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostKay, Eleniah, and Murunel stood in a small clearing in the woods north of the as of yet unnamed settlement. No one else had joined them, probably for various reasons, but Kay was thankful for it. It was Kay, Eleniah, and Murunel when they’d managed to break part of the trap and allowed her to talk to them, and now it would be the three of them...
2021-11-19 15:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostRaising an eyebrow, Eleniah stared at Kay. “You want to do what?”
“See if I can figure out a new skill by experimenting with a concept from Earth,” Kay replied.
“No, I understand that part. I want you to repeat the other part.”
“One of the ideas I have is making my blood flow faster in my body so that I can boost ...
2021-11-18 01:54:05 +0000 UTC View PostKay had managed to meet most of the new people after finishing the discussion with David, but there were a few he still hadn’t met. Eventually, the settlement could become large enough that there were people Kay didn’t know working under him, but while there were less than fifty people living there, Kay would feel bad never meeting them.
... 2021-11-15 00:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe revelations of the previous night only weighed on Kay’s mind for a moment after he woke up. In the end, guns weren’t that big a deal in a world of magic. That wasn’t to say they couldn’t be useful or anything, but he wasn’t going to spend a lot of time worrying about it. Cindy seemed really interested in helping Karl with his exper...
2021-11-12 03:26:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe same soothing feeling from earlier chased away most of the pain from his headache after a few minutes. He peeked up from the comforting barrier of his arms and saw Chitel standing next to him.
“You’re still recovering from everything that happened the other day, so take it easy, alright?” She bent down and peered into his eyes fo...
2021-11-10 14:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostKay fell out of bed as he thrashed around, still mostly asleep and trying to get away from some half-visible dream attacker. He struggled to his feet and spun to face the threat and then froze as all he saw was a bare stone wall. “Wha…?”
“Oh, you’re awake!”
The unfamiliar voice startled Kay, and he spun to face it, uncons...
2021-11-08 14:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you alright?” Murunel asked in a worried voice. Kay had basically sprinted out of the area of the standing stones, and he’d run for the rest of the day until he’d been forced to rest by the setting sun. Even after sleeping through the night, he was quiet, tense, and moving quickly.
“Have you ever just known something?” He ...
2021-11-08 03:16:11 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a weird area,” Murunel said as she and Kay stood on top of a tree, looking out.
“It really is,” Kay agreed, “Massive forest to the south, two gigantic mountains that their own small mountain chains leading off of them to the north, a plateau that stretches for miles and miles then suddenly ends with no reason to be seen,...
2021-11-05 02:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe last two weeks had been productive in a number of ways, including making four fields for Rhia to grow crops in. She’d promised that she could handle the work by herself, and it seemed like she was managing. Apparently, she’d gotten a rarer Skill when she got her Novice Farmer Class that reduced the work she had to do.
The four fiel...
2021-11-04 15:29:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Kay! Kay!”
Kay glanced up from the gauntlets made of blood he’d solidified around his fingers when he heard someone shouting his name. He’d been refining his blood armor in the new training yard they’d made, which was really just a dirt yard a little ways away from anything.
“What’s up?” Kay asked as Leya ran up to h...
2021-11-03 14:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post“So that’s Meten and Darten’s story,” Kay told the gathered group of dwarves, plus Darten and Eleniah. “He asked if he could bring his people here and have them join the settlement that’s going to be built, and I said yes. He left last night to go get them and bring them here.” Kay glanced at each of the dwarves as he spoke, “So ...
2021-11-01 14:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostMeten smiled sadly. "Normally, I'd be giving you a long, drawn-out story about my home and how it came to be, but sadly I'll skip that for now. It doesn't really have a name. We just call it "home" or "the village"; we've been pretty small for a long time. Oni and ogres don't have a high birth rate, and a combination of an isolated location and ...
2021-10-29 02:16:19 +0000 UTC View PostDarten stared at the deer corpses suspended from tendrils of blood, floating behind Kay as he walked back into the base area. “That is so creepy.”
Kay glanced up behind himself. “Well… sorry? I wasn’t going to leave them behind, and I didn’t have a way to carry all five by myself.”
“Sure, just… Keep it in m...
2021-10-27 18:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostKay stood a little ways off from the base with both hands held up. He mentally weighed his decision while pretending his hands were the ends of a tipping scale. Allow the worry about the talk Eleniah is having with the other two to consume me, or ignore it and go make and test my new Class? Hell, why not both? He sighed and started walk...
2021-10-25 14:10:02 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: Changed the name of a skill to remove certain connotations.
Kay checked the area around him again before sitting down on a convenient rock and starting to draw. The charcoal pencil was much more familiar in his hand after hours and hours of use. He hadn’t started as a great artist, but a combination of the Drawing ...
2021-10-22 13:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, can you spar with me?” Kay asked Eleniah when a free moment came up. He’d been chatting distractedly with Darten and Vened, the cheerful dwarf who’d been injured in the explosion. He was a Novice Fisherman, a very rare class in the landlocked area controlled by the Weathered Clans. They’d been explaining to Vened that, no, they r...
2021-10-20 13:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostWhen they got back to the base they were making, Kay saw the group of dwarves setting up a few tents off to the side of the buildings.
He turned and looked back at Eleniah, “I still don’t feel like I’m ready for something like this.”
“You don’t have to be ready, and you don’t have to do anything. But being ready or not ...
2021-10-18 13:54:06 +0000 UTC View PostDue to scheduling issues with my day job, I won't be able to post or update anything today, normal service will resume Monday.
Sorry for the inconvenience, I don't have access to my PC.
Chapter Note: Edit: Whoops Wrong Title, Fifty-six isn't done yet
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The first time they got to a large rocky outcropping that blocked the path down the mountain, the procession of people stopped.
“Well, that’s a problem.” One of the dwarves muttered, “Do we have to go around? There’s no way we...
2021-10-13 14:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I haven't been hitting the very obvious "Notify Patrons About This Change" button when updating chapters to be open to the correct tiers. Which is probably why people weren't getting emails. Sorry about that, I am apparently blind even with my glasses on. I will be hitting it from now on, so you should all get emails updating you to...
2021-10-13 14:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs they hiked closer to where smoke was still faintly rising into the sky, Darten kept asking questions that none of them had the answers to.
“So no one knows what it could have been?”
Eleniah sighed. “No, we know what it could have been. The problem is it could have been a lot of things, and we don’t know enough to narrow it...
2021-10-11 14:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostKay looked over his stat page, slightly winded as he sat after another training session with Meten.
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Name: Kenneth “Kay” Davis
Race: Outworlder Human
Age: 24
I've submitted a project sheet for the artist I chose for the cover, and paid the deposit. She's expecting to finish it in December some time, so look forward to it! When I get the art I'll post it here first, then on RR a few days later. I'm expecting a great piece based on the artist's other work I've seen.
Also, I'm going to move someti...
2021-10-11 14:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Eleniah and Meten strolled into the new base Darten had built under Kay’s direction, there were a total of four buildings finished.
“You didn’t mention your nephew knowing any building spells,” Eleniah said to Meten as they walked towards the sound of voices.
“He didn’t.”
They shared a look.
“Well, le...
2021-10-08 14:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post