“Are you insane?!” Felicity shouted at him so loud it made his ears ring.
“No, I’m not,” Tristan replied as he began the ascent to Highreach. “The events at The Towers are going to take some time to filter their way up to the higher ranked nobility. I will return the king’s scepter, show him the corpse of the fairy dragon, an...
2024-11-26 03:04:27 +0000 UTC View PostTristan got enough mana into the ring to activate it, and with a white flash he was back in the Fey Realm. Getting some of the fairy dragon’s attention, he got their assistance in moving the rest of the clearcool elixir into Felicity’s storage space. One-hundred and forty doses, as a few of the fairy dragons had shared a handful of them.
... 2024-11-26 02:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostHuge lore drop chapter. Prepare to have your mind blown as the true nature of reality is revealed!
This is me giving concrete foreshadowing as to where the series will eventually lead, and hints at what awaits for Jace and the other Dark Between Stars Signers.
At the end, there are also level ups and some S...
2024-11-25 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTristan ducked into an alley and reestablished his Human appearance with another use of Disguise Form. But something was ‘off’ when he spun his mana core. The icy-blue was mingling more with the sliver, and there were fewer flecks of crimson and gold. When he explained what he was visualizing within his mana core, Felicity shook her head; he...
2024-11-25 04:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostTristan had Felicity store fifty of the leaf-covered jars inside her extradimensional storage space before reactivating his ring and sending the two back to the Mortal Realm. Repeating the Disguise Form spell, he left the building with Felicity hanging around his neck once more.
“Where we heading?” Felicity asked. “Hopefully some pla...
2024-11-25 03:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostPriam was following closely behind Greg. He had received the update when the Quest completed and knew that Jace had killed the returned Conclave member.
“Can you believe that?” Greg asked as he cleared the hallway with his rifle before moving deeper into the server room. “An Ascendant came back to life just to fight Jace again? And w...
2024-11-24 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBrom had been kneeling before Troxanir for an incalculable amount of time. Death at the hands of Jace Seren had left him furious, but being a member of the Black Hole Conclave, he was pulled to the singularity at the center of reality. And his whole being was permeated with incalculable pleasure beyond reckoning.
He had ceased to become an...
2024-11-23 16:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostJace grimaced as he took up his ready stance, Priam’s golden barrier re-established around him, the contingent heal ready-to-go, and his blade blazing with its purple and crimson. “I gave you a chance to run. Last warning!”
He saw the crackling electricity running along the four armored figure’s weaponry. The red one held a mace in...
2024-11-23 16:56:41 +0000 UTC View PostTristan left The Towers and headed back towards the middle levels of the city. The whole time he was walking, he was spinning his mana core, feeling the cool, refreshing breeze inside his chest that comforted him despite the disquiet at learning details surrounding his mother’s murder.
Every rotation of the mana core, every time he spun ...
2024-11-23 02:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostI was interviewed for a podcast!
Go take a listen!
And, there's even me doing the audiobook recording of Chapter 1 of DMA.
https://longwinded.one/episode-234-interview-with-serasstreams/
Jace got across the street easily enough, but as he approached the doors to the building, the hackles on the back of his neck rose up, and he took a few steps back. Something is off. The air had grown still. Quiet. He could feel something along his body; like a static cling of electricity that hugged him tightly. It g...
2024-11-22 14:47:32 +0000 UTC View Post[23 Days remain until the Earth portal lock ends.]
Jace woke up and for a moment felt a sense of panic as he was surrounded by water. Sucking in a breath instinctively, he remembered the changes from the day prior, and glanced sideways. Shhiv was floating in the water cube, still asleep, and he gently shook her awake.
“Hmm?” she ...
2024-11-21 14:55:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter warning: body modification.
Jace is going to be replacing his skin, his bones, and having a few other changes made by the good doctor (nothing explicit, and the descriptions are tame compared to some of the dark stuff I’ve written before for Echo’s Evolution.)
This is your heads-up if you’re not a ...
2024-11-21 14:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostNo Jace this chapter. Priam, Greg, and Quinn are all going to be leveling up.
>>>---<<<
Priam was buzzing with excitement as he ran into his apartment, popped into the hygiene station, and sat down in his dad’s cozy study. “Okay Bloopa! Let’s get this level up underway!”
Of c...
2024-11-21 14:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Last time I was here,” Felicity commented as they came into sight of the city’s walls, “I didn’t’ get much information about the capital. I just broke into the palace and stole the scepter; well, that, and then I lifted the king’s chamber pot, and dumped it on his head while he slept.” She giggled and then laughed before composi...
2024-11-21 05:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostTroxanir recoiled as his physical avatar on Oblivion’s Edge, the Penrose ring world surrounding Oblivion’s Maw, suffered actual damage for the first time since his fight with Star Daddy some thousands of years ago.
“That arrogant troglodyte! That cur! He’ll burn in oblivion’s wrath!” Troxanir felt utter, sheer, incalculable
Jace finished slicing through one of the last Pheracorp soldiers and took a few shaky breaths, leaning against the wall. Greg was relatively fresh, but Priam was showing some signs of wear and tear, as his floppy ears were constantly twitching in time with his rapid breathing.
“You’re almost at the atrium,” Quinn said over their comm...
2024-11-19 15:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostTraversing the rooftops was easier than Jace had expected. Priam was strapped to his back between his pack and him, and Greg – despite his larger frame – was able to keep up with Jace’s athletics.
Not his speed, though. Traversing the rooftops was taking longer than Jace wanted, but within forty minutes they had reached the edges of ...
2024-11-18 15:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostSome time passed – how long, Tristan was not sure. He pulled away from Felicity when he had recovered and saw that the two had been left alone. “You okay?” she asked.
Tristan nodded, “Thank you,” he muttered. “I…I’ll need time to process. But not now. I have to find out what happened.”
Felicity nodded and her form s...
2024-11-18 04:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostCommander Victoria sat at her temporary desk in one of the large warehouses just outside of Pheracorp headquarters. The lights shifted to their emergency mode, and she received the notification over her sliverscreen that the whole city was on reserve power. She knew it could last for a full week at regular functionality, and then in emergency re...
2024-11-17 19:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post[24 Days remain until the Earth portal lock ends.]
Jace willed the System screen to turn off as he looked out over the landscape and down on the enormous city of Rio de Janeiro from atop the tower. He breathed in the somewhat clean air and spied the enormous jetties extending into the ocean, the wind farms spinning slowly in the distance. ...
2024-11-17 16:20:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days’ travel was much the same as the day before. Tristan would walk until nightfall, return to the Fey Realm, rest up, and venture out the next day. He and Felicity did not speak much, as he was focusing all his willpower on spinning his mana core. Every day, he felt the little trickle get just a little bigger.
<... 2024-11-17 05:49:48 +0000 UTC View PostTristan’s day-long journey was uneventful after encountering the bandits. The entire time he was walking, he was spinning his mana core except when he re-did the Disguise Form spell each hour. Every time he used the magic, he could feel a very slim amount of the mana within slowly pushing against the limits of his mana channels.<...
2024-11-17 02:56:19 +0000 UTC View Post[Jonsar here.]
[Ollie sent me the reports of your recent fight.]
[I believe I know why the CIF acted the way it did. There is medical jargon you wouldn’t understand – no offense – so I’m going to keep it as simple as I can even if it loses some of the overall impact.]
[When you first absorbed the Cyberconnect Integratio...
2024-11-16 17:41:56 +0000 UTC View PostTristan had been walking for a few hours and was snacking on a handful of the berries from the Fey Realm. He held one up above his head, and Felicity nabbed it out of his hands before nibbling it. Her eating noises were kind of cute – a mix between a cat taking little nibbles, and a bunny rapidly chewing on a leaf.
The food filled him up...
2024-11-16 04:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s your name?” Tristan asked the young woman.
“Steffany,” she replied. “Steffany Millsman.”
“Ah, your father owns the mill here?”
She nodded and pointed to the windmill on a small hill on the outskirts of town. Thankfully, it was in the same direction Tristan was going to be traveling. “Yeah. Up there....
2024-11-16 02:26:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe evening passed quite pleasantly. Tristan was introduced to Wilson’s wife and brother, and the three seemed to form a lovely family unit. Wilson was the town’s carpenter, hence why his house was one of the few that was fully made from wood. “It costs an arm and a leg to import the raw material, but it is worth the cost. Es...
2024-11-16 02:07:55 +0000 UTC View PostJace had activated another Dark Energy Mine at Rank 1 so he could stay engaged on somewhat even ground with the flying opponent. They were roaring with anger as they must have put two and two together and determined Jace had eliminated their ally. “You bastard!”
Jace couldn’t respond even if he wanted to – he was breathing too heav...
2024-11-15 15:09:54 +0000 UTC View PostReality snapped back into place around Tristan as the white vanished and he once more was in the muddy cornfield. In the same circle he had left from. It was some time in the night, and the stars above were visible against their deep, blue and black tapestry. The five moons, called the Fingers of Night, were all aloft in their formation. Deep, s...
2024-11-15 01:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe thunder pounded overhead and lightning arced across the skies as rain poured in buckets. Scything down through the grey and black, the slightly-acidic droplets poured down onto the small yard behind the orphanage.
Jace sat under the stoop, staring up at the enormous General Logistics building across from the back lot. Every day, the sa...
2024-11-14 15:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post