NOTE: Hi everyone. Getting real close to the end of the book now. Just wanted to give you a heads-up that I'm going to be adding a couple of retroactive chapters during Vir's mindscape to show the ...
2025-09-18 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I raced away from the cliff, away from the army and the monster that wanted to kill me. That said, I couldn’t exactly take my time.
It didn’t take a genius to realize the system was...
2025-09-17 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Prince Kyren Kin'jal gazed upon the vast army of a hundred thousand elites that marched before him, unable to recall a time when this many souls had been fielded.
Moreover, these were no o gr...
2025-09-16 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The dark tunnel wasn’t dark for very long, with the proverbial light at the end very much present.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I reached that light. Monsters, m...
2025-09-15 18:00:12 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: And we're back to the land of the living! What did you all feel about that mindscape sequence? The chapters were a bit shorter mostly because I wanted to keep the prose tight and visceral. We...
2025-09-13 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Vir reached out to his body—his real, physical body, not the one stuck inside this mindscape. The one that no doubt rested on a comfortable bed somewhere.
He felt the pulse of his hea...
2025-09-11 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t dare venture into the depths of the compound until Aerion had recovered. If the elves had stopped here not because it was sacred ground but because there were monsters inside, t...
2025-09-10 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Vir felt the effects of the Crown in a way that no other Chakra ever had. The aura was more than just a suppression field. Vir’s existence felt heavier, more grounded, more solid than it ha...
2025-09-09 18:21:13 +0000 UTC
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Any doubts I had as to whether the Sylvan Reavers possessed the same ability as Aerion, vanished in about a second when half a dozen Reaving elves swarmed me, attacking with a level of spe...
2025-09-08 19:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Vir stood atop a high bough of a Godhollow at the edge of the forest, gazing into the nebulous distance for must have been the thousandth time. Details became faint at the periphery of the landscap...
2025-09-06 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Worrying about time felt like a fool’s errand in a place with no days and no nights, let alone a realm as broken as Vir’s mindscape. And so, he didn’t, casting the very concept of time out of...
2025-09-04 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hope everyone who celebrates it had a restful & fun Labor Day weekend! DragonCon was incredible. Sold a bunch of books and I got to meet my good friends JM Clark, Nicoli Gonnella, Melas, Xkarna...
2025-09-03 16:45:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, just a heads-up that the next several chapters that lead into the climax of the book (can you believe we're almost done?) are a bit on the shorter side. That's just how they ended u...
2025-08-28 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Even Galia sensed the tension, and with what I assumed was a subconscious gesture on Cosmo’s part, the bar patrons all went silent—all staring at Aerion. It’d be kinda creepy if it wasn’t f...
2025-08-27 18:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Prana cycling.
Aspect of the Demon God.
Haste.
The pillars of Vir’s abilities did more than simply enhance them. They augmented each other...
2025-08-26 18:33:30 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: It's DragonCon this week in Atlanta! As such, there will be no chapter on Monday of next week (which is also Labor Day). We'll return a week from Wednesday's chapter.
What do you do whe...
2025-08-25 19:27:01 +0000 UTC
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“The allied army,” Vir said, aghast. “I told you to ensure they fled, not capture them!”
Raoul smiled wryly. “Be at ease, Akh Nara. For we’ve captured only the Chitran half. Their...
2025-08-23 18:26:41 +0000 UTC
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Vir arrived at the audience chamber to find a room on the brink of all-out war. Though Annas sat leisurely on his throne, smirking down at the room, the death glares Vir’s forces were throwing hi...
2025-08-21 19:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Either spontaneous fires were common around here, or the elven tenders of the Sylvan Guard were just unreasonably prepared for all eventualities, because hardly anyone batted an eye when the...
2025-08-20 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Vir watched Saunak’s automaton trundle out of the forest, crushing trees beneath the enormous white sphere it used as a leg.
This was the largest of his Automaton arsenal, chosen specifical...
2025-08-19 18:57:06 +0000 UTC
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I had to admit, the Sylvan Guard had a pretty incredible animal nursery near the bottom of the tree, where they raised everything from horses to messenger birds to strange kangaroo-...
2025-08-18 18:21:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing well!
Starting next week, Ashborn Primordial will return to serializing 3x a week. Soulweaver, however, will stay at 2x for the foreseeable future and ma...
2025-08-14 19:47:32 +0000 UTC
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“Impossible,” Vir and Cirayus said at the same time.
Jagath was one thing, but the Aindri at large?
“Your clan has never succeeded in taming Ash Beasts!” Cirayus cried.
...
2025-08-14 19:27:37 +0000 UTC
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The next days passed in a frenetic blur. Our life became a literal training montage. From dawn to dusk and well past, Aerion and I trained relentlessly with Syrril.
Duels, retrospectiv...
2025-08-13 18:22:36 +0000 UTC
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When fighting a powerful foe, use a distraction. When one distraction wasn’t enough—use two. Annas was no fool. As much as he utterly loath
When fighting a powerful foe, use a distr...
2025-08-12 18:30:08 +0000 UTC
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“Why?” Maiya whispered, staring down at the goddess’ feet. “Why am I so weak?”
The nearby wolf’s judging eyes only doubled her guilt.
“You are not weak, Maiya,” As...
2025-08-07 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Syrril must have seen what I felt, because what followed was nothing short of brutal, relentless training that stretched so late into the night that even the most dedicated of our peanut gal...
2025-08-06 18:34:29 +0000 UTC
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“Don’t call me that!” Aerion snapped, turning her head away. “That life is gone.”
“Doesn’t have to be,” I replied. She acted tough, but those red ears gave her away.
2025-08-06 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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As a storm of ice and cold manifested around Maiya, she realized she might have been better off following her own advice of not fighting unless absolutely necessary. But if she fled now, t...
2025-08-05 18:53:21 +0000 UTC
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I quickly realized that my heart might’ve acted before my head in this case.
Combining all my undergarments and reallocating those stats to Order had actually dropped my Grace’s ma...
2025-08-04 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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