Hey guys! Once again, it has been way too fucking long. However, I am now finally moved into my new apartment, the wifi is set up as of about ten minutes ago, and I should actually have time to write consistently for at least the next month and a half or so.
Thank you to e...
2023-06-05 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostIts been quite a week (and a bit. Sorry about that). I'm no longer working where I used to work, which is both a good and a bad thing I think. An old friend from highschool I haven't spoken with for the better part of a decade passed away, which was very strange to find out about. It also looks like I'm going to be moving soon, so expect...
2023-05-17 03:46:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, sorry about the long wait. It's been a very hectic few weeks and then some fun added complications arose that delayed things further. I was planning to post this chapter on Monday afternoon, but then I lost power and it only came back on a few hours ago. In other news, I no longer work...
2023-05-03 17:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostClass on Monday sucked even more than it usually did. I was in no way, shape, or form recovered enough to make attending a good choice, but unfortunately skipping was an even worse option. Not only was this our last class before the final, but missing it would also be an obvious sign of weakness to all of my watching classmates.
Disappeari...
2023-04-20 19:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I finally made it back to my room several hours later, I barely managed to step inside and shut the door behind me before my legs simply gave out. Only Miranda’s quick reflexes saved me from face planting into the ground and instead I slumped onto my side, head lolling to rest against her bare thigh.
My bones were like lead weights ...
2023-04-10 16:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Its a new month and I wanted to thank everyone that has stuck with me despite my somewhat... sporadic update schedule. To all of you, new and existing Patrons, I really appreciate you guys and your support. It keeps me going to know that you care about and enjoy my work. Anyway, on to the chapter!
I st...
2023-04-02 21:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostI slumped forward and my arms buckled under my weight, only a sudden firm grip on my shoulder stopping me from face planting into the unforgiving stone floor. My body felt like an overfilled waterskin, my insides bloated and gurgling with every tiny movement. Thick, ropy tendrils of half-assimilated mana writhed like a nest of snakes under my sk...
2023-03-23 22:52:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You can begin once you’re ready,” Professor Williams’s voice whispered in my ear.
I nodded, glancing up towards where I knew the viewing area was hidden in the room’s domed ceiling. Though I couldn’t see them behind the opaque stone between us, I knew the rest of the class was watching me on specialized illusionary screens des...
2023-03-19 02:33:22 +0000 UTC View PostI met Professor Williams at her office nearly eight hours before class. She’d arranged things with Professor Shrike such that I would not be penalized for missing one of his lectures and it wasn’t like we were going to be covering any new material anyway. It was our last real class since next week was going to be two days of exams and he’d...
2023-03-10 06:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes later, a beat-red Lea disappeared into the bathroom and Miranda hurriedly shifted from where she was still lounging across the stone floor into a kneeling bow. She opened her mouth to say something, but I raised a hand to stop her.
“One moment,” I mouthed silently and Miranda obediently bowed her head. After a few seconds...
2023-03-01 06:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostWhy do I even bother trying to say when the next chapter will be finished :( I have no idea how other authors manage to keep to a well regulated and even release schedule.
As we moved into the final weeks of the semester, I was glad I no longer had as much of a reason to go out into the city because there ...
2023-02-18 02:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here's the next one as promised! I'm trying to get a third chapter out this week as well, but that mostly depends on how fast the writing goes. Enjoy!
Daphne was nearly skipping as she left her last class of the day. Not even the heavy folder of makeup work tucked away in her bag could sour her mood. She wou...
2023-02-07 01:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, sorry (again) about the long wait. Its only January but somehow my schedule is already packed with too many things to do and it didn't help that this chapter just didn't want to be written. The next chapter should be up sometime tomorrow afternoon, hopefully that at least slightly makes up for it. For now, enjoy!
A blazing pillar of fire bore down on me like a tidal wave, tongues of white-hot flames dancing within the conflagration. The heat radiating off of it filled the room in an instant and I watched out of the corner of my eye as Cayla scrambled back away from her joyously laughing friend, arm raised to shield her face.
It was an impressive bi...
2023-01-29 00:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, it's been like a week I think? Sorry about the long wait. If you're in the discord you'd know my computer broke in the middle of last week and I only just got it back earlier today. This chapter has been languishing on my backup disk since Wednesday which feels really bad. I'll do my b...
2023-01-24 06:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostDamn, chapter 100!? That's... a lot of chapters. Didn't really think I was going to get this far when I first started writing this story a little over a year ago. I had hoped for something a little bit more exciting for such a big benchmark (triple digits, feels weird), but this is the chapter that it fell on so that's what its going to ...
2023-01-14 07:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostEmotions and people talking to each other are both hard and complicated, but I did my best.
I waited patiently with my back turned as Lea changed out of her rumpled night clothes. Once I’d promised that I wasn’t going to leave without her, her previous reluctance vanished and she shyly warned me not to...
2023-01-12 03:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostWriting people talking to each other is hard. Writing heavily traumatized people trying to talk to each other is even harder. I hope I properly captured the emotions I was going for here, let me know what you guys think!
I woke three hours later than I had planned feeling physically refreshed yet mentally exhaus...
2023-01-07 23:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe books that Professor Williams pointed me towards proved to be technically helpful. Unfortunately, the ‘technically’ was a key modifier in this case. The books were about rituals using outsiders as components, but they were all deeply technical and arcane to the point that I struggled to follow what the authors were saying.
One of t...
2023-01-01 19:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostI got to the classroom about twenty minutes before class was scheduled to start and was very glad to see that Professor Williams was just as early as usual. I would have liked to come even earlier than that, but unfortunately I was unwilling to miss class and I could only make it down from Professor Shrike’s classroom so quickly.
“Good...
2022-12-31 04:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostNot quite Monday, but less late than things have been recently? Next chapter is mostly done, should be up soon. Enjoy!
Analyzing outsiders may as well have been a field of study all its own. Avalon’s library contained records of nearly ten-thousand unique specimens, not to mention their various offspring and h...
2022-12-28 03:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe current goal is another chapter on Monday and hopefully at least two more during that week. I don't think I'll hit 100 by the end of the year like I wanted to, but I'm gonna do my best! Enjoy!
I wanted to move immediately onto the next part of our training, but apparently I had overestimated the girls’ man...
2022-12-24 21:08:13 +0000 UTC View PostDespite being what some might describe as a lawless hellhole full of murderous sociopaths, Avalon did have a number of very strictly enforced rules. The student handbook they gave out at the start of every year was nearly four-hundred pages long and reading all of it was not so much required as it was just common sense.
Every year a few pa...
2022-12-21 22:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostI've been fighting with this scene (and the next like... 5 chapters tbh) for way too long. You guys deserve at least a vaguely reasonable schedule. At some point, I just need to be happy enough with it I think.
Sorry about the long absence, I will try to make sure that isn't a common occurrence. I have a lot ...
2022-12-09 06:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostNext one should be up either tomorrow evening or sometime on Thursday. For now, enjoy!
EDIT: I've made some changes to the chapter to better describe what Orion thinks he is seeing.
As you can probably tell, I did not post another chapter last week unfortunately. Doing things with...
2022-11-23 02:42:40 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about the delay, I wanted to have this chapter out on Monday but time has not been accommodating. I'm not working most of next week thankfully so I hope to hammer out 3-4 chapters. For now, enjoy! If anyone has forgotten the first part of what is going on here, I believe it began in chapter 75?
I was final...
2022-11-17 20:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, one of you recently brought to my attention that the button to connect to discord is there, but doesn't actually seem to be working. If you are in the discord and are interested in other people being able to see that you are a patron, please reach out to me and I will give you the role you should have. I'll have to see if I can...
2022-11-11 02:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey, I just wanted to ask everyone if you guys can see the option to connect to discord through the patreon. I set that up a while back but as far as I can tell, no one has tried it yet. I don't know if thats because I did something wrong or if just no one is interested in doing so. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed today's chapter and thank you for...
2022-11-08 03:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostFour, technically Four-Three based on the naming convention the Earthshadow’s private enforcers used but I’d never interacted with any of the other Fours, met me at one of the side gates in the wall around the Earthshadow mansion. Four was a tall, slender man with a long streak of red running through his messy dark-brown hair. With his hood ...
2022-11-07 19:07:39 +0000 UTC View PostHere's one, hopefully I'll have another chapter out on Thursday. Enjoy!
As I had decided the night before, it was time to start cleaning up loose ends. Thus, after a productive morning grinding through a small pile of assignments and some combat magic practice, I left Avalon and headed towards the edge of town w...
2022-11-01 04:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post