The second I got close, Julia lunged and grabbed me. She looked a bit out of it, dazed and shaken but thank the stars, she was okay. Mostly. Her fingers were clenched tight around that bronze feathered trinket the creepy deer-skull guy had dropped. Deathless Guide or something? Whatever his name, not the point. Julia being alive was.
I let...
2025-08-13 00:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostBedivere felt the whispers before he even heard them, those hair-raising murmurs threading up his spine the moment the ritual reached its final pulse. It might’ve been awe-inspiring if not for the suffocating pressure coiling around his lungs, or the quiet scream of his own instincts, his power gnashing at him to get the hell away from this th...
2025-08-13 00:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt all happened too damn fast. One second Julia was stepping through the gates like a sane person, the next something knocked her flat. She hit the ground hard, but even while being sucker-punched by physics, she somehow managed to curl around me protectively, probably because I was small enough that her full weight would’ve turned me into a p...
2025-08-13 00:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwo robed figures appeared on the doorstep. I peered from my hiding spot, through the narrow eyes of the skull and noticed something odd.
Behind them, the forest stretched as usual. Trees, shadowy undergrowth, and strange shadowy nope-shaped figures that sometimes lurked in the distance, creatures I never got a clear look at and, frankly, ...
2025-08-13 00:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostYou thought this was an early Jadey chapter? Sike!
Some of you might’ve noticed TDH’s worldbuilding has its share of occultism elements, inspired by the real thing a little, but definitely its own flavor. I’ve been itching to write something with heavier occult vibes, old gods and a progression system inspired by tho...
2025-08-13 00:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a full-on parade of elves. An entire entourage. I counted them twice just to be sure. There were almost a dozen.
My body was wrapped in the shimmer of my distortion technique, layered over my skill for minimizing my presence. For good measure, I kept a generous distance. I glided between the foliage, my shifting ocular lenses feedin...
2025-08-11 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlice moved with a stick in hand, scratching a strange symbol into the dirt.
"I've seen this marking show up in so many places, it’s starting to feel like more than just a coincidence," she said. Belle nodded along, eyes on the forming lines.
I crouched beside them, studying the symbol. I couldn't tell heads from tails. The middle ...
2025-08-07 00:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post[Beefy chapter today! Happy reading!]
Hmm…
I ran a quick mental audit. What would be the optimal pick here? Stealth? Already handled. Offense? Solid. Perception? Sharp enough to catch a pin drop in a cyclone, nothing had slipped past me yet, and I doubted anything ever would.
Spellcraft, though… that was where things...
2025-08-04 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAlright!
Well, not all that alright. In hindsight, maybe I should’ve spared a brain cell or two thinking through the consequences. You know, minor things like space, alarms, structural integrity… me. But who has the time for logistics when you’re in a rush?
First blunder: transforming into my dragon form in a cell the size of a st...
2025-08-01 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post[Missed yesterday’s update bc I got sidetracked adding an interlude ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌
It turned out to be shorter than I thought, so instead of making y’all wait three more days for it, I just slapped it onto the second half of this chapter and made it extra, extra beefy!
so instead of two cliffs you now get one b...
“Something go down at the main gate? Why’s there a ruckus all of a sudden?”
“Wraith trouble, apparently. I’d bet the gate squad’s already on it.”
“I thought Wraiths were practically allergic to this place? Like they could smell the boxed-in space past the gate and knew walking in meant signing their own exit papers?...
[Well, after months of procrastination, we finally have a Discord server.
Also, let me just say I had no idea that connecting Discord to Patreon would just automatically dump you all in there. I HAD NO IDEA, OKAY?!?
So there I was still setting things up and suddenly bam! you all flooded in without warning or consent.
Any...
2025-07-20 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHow does one categorize this sensation?
Jord—ugh—used to ramble about guardian angels and shoulder-perched devils. One whispering virtue, the other vice. Ultimately, he’d insist, the choice was yours.
Presently? I felt like both.
Hovering over Sergiy’s psyche, phantom fingers cradling his frayed ...
2025-07-17 01:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was Vyra’s idea. Let that be known. I would never do something like that myself. Creeping up on Viper and executing a flawless pants-yank
It was Vyra’s idea. Let that be known. I would never do something like that myself.
Creeping up on Viper and executing a flawless pants-yank without detection was entirely her brand...
2025-07-14 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostWas this kind of talk really necessary? “It’s how Lysska talks when she wants to intimidate someone! Call them something lesser, like cute l
Was this kind of talk really necessary?
“It’s how Lysska talks when she wants to intimidate someone! Call them something lesser, like cute little playthings!”
Vyra’s e...
2025-07-11 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostUwaa, this was painfully boring! Mind-numbingly, soul-drainingly boring! And being stuck in the Veilwoods? Yeah, that definitely wasn’t help
Uwaa, this was painfully boring! Mind-numbingly, soul-drainingly boring! And being stuck in the Veilwoods? Yeah, that definitely wasn’t helping. Was there even a word for boredom so deep it flippe...
2025-07-08 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post[That should serve as a good warning…]
Thalador's balls, that blast was a proper ear-ringer. Massive. Loud enough to wake the dead, probably. I whipped around, gawking at the screen. "You knew this clusterfuck was coming?!?"
[Well, not precisely this theatrically. Figured you were aiming at that twitchy squirrel. Not the entire ar...
2025-07-05 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Sorry for the delay (again, ugh) been dealing with some health stuff lately, so apologies for that. But! I do come bearing good news: I mig
[Sorry for the delay (again, ugh) been dealing with some health stuff lately, so apologies for that.
But! I do come bearing good news: I might be able to go full-time with writing soon...
MISSION: Purge the Rot-Tainted Abomination OBJECTIVE: The vile essence of this intruder has violated the creation’s order, bonding with this
MISSION: Purge the Rot-Tainted Abomination
OBJECTIVE: The vile essence of this intruder has violated the creation’s order, bonding with this failed elven form....
“Sooo… no way to snap that ‘soul magic’ contract thing off him?” “Not unless we know the actual contents of it, Jade,” Lotte replied, calm.
“Sooo… no way to snap that ‘soul magic’ contract thing off him?”
“Not unless we know the actual contents of it, Jade,” Lotte replied, calm.
I slumped at that. So...
2025-06-23 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post[Okay, this one went full big brain, I had a loud headache after finishing this chapter. Gold Cores are the worst to write. They speak entir
[Okay, this one went full big brain, I had a loud headache after finishing this chapter. Gold Cores are the worst to write. They speak entirely in subtext, never say anything straight, and I ...
2025-06-19 00:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostElise woke up with a yawn. Ahh, another flawless morning for a flawless little mage like herself. First thing, she checked her core—yep, still working like a charm. That technique was doing its job even in her sleep, drawing in mana all night without her lifting a single mental finger.
Basically meditation without the boring sitting-stil...
2025-06-16 01:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostTruth Serum had been a spectacularly dumb idea last time. Binding magic—especially soul magic that shackles someone from revealing crucial info—doesn’t exactly vibe well with a drug that scrambles your brain into a truth-vomiting frenzy.
Now that I knew how obsessively thorough the Elves were with their magical paperwork, I wasn’t abo...
The bladed limbs on his back—and one of his arms—caught most of the force from my claw swipe. He was dangerous… just not me-level dangerous.
Even so, I still managed to rip through two of those fancy blades. Without wasting a beat, I slipped into the Shadow Dimension and reappeared on a chunk of rubble about ten meters off. He ...
Thibault stood on the rooftop, staring down at the building below. Lily’s Charms and Curios, the sign read. Entirely unremarkable structure, awkwardly wedged between others that looked just as tragically forgettable.
Still, he had to hand it to them—creative little hidey-hole. Finally. Finally! He’d cornered...
2025-06-06 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostStories? Oh, everyone hauled one around like dead weight. Viper included. The rest of the crew clung to aliases like cheap bandages over gut wounds – a necessary cover. Him? Pointless. Why hide a name you’d already incinerated? He hadn’t merely discarded his birthright; he’d spat on its ashes. Taboo, technically. Ancestors only acknowled...
2025-06-03 00:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post[Life keeps bonking me left and right. Was outta station so had to delay this chap by a day, my bad!
Anyways, here it is, enjoy the read~]
I hadn’t had the chance to sit down and properly sift through all the loot I’d earned, but I’d snuck a peek or two. Just as the quest summary promised: Morphogen, skill points, and bonus stats...
I stared at the chaos around me and sighed. Damn. Turns out, going plus-sized came with its own line of extra-large problems. Materialized into the material plane and I'd already pancaked an already-dead sofa, splintered the table like a breadstick, and sent a tentacle flailing into the kitchen side—where it promptly KO’d a few inno...
2025-05-27 00:30:05 +0000 UTC View Post[sorry for the delay (｡•́︿•̀｡) I did write another Interlude… but it was super close to the last one sooo I kinda yeeted it into the void for now ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌ also this one’s from character(s) wayyyy outta the chaos zone, two peeps who got introduced way back in book 1 (ancient times), so guess whoooo~ hint #1: both...
2025-05-24 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostEvery beastkin lineage could be traced back to a legendary bloodline—mythic progenitors who weren’t just ancient but damn near divine. These primordial beasts, born thousands of years ago, were said to have ascended to the astral plane, trading flesh for spirit and leaving behind more than just bones and bedtime stories.
They watched ...