Even with time being a precious and limited commodity in a battle, Sen couldn’t help but notice that his strike had been more effective than he could have hoped. From just below the elbow, the de...
2024-01-22 14:07:18 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the monumental amount of death Sen had just dished out, he knew they weren’t done yet. If he had been dealing with the same kinds of numbers they had to face when they’d approached the ...
2024-01-21 01:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the truths that Master Feng had imparted to Sen through their countless hours of sparring was very simple to state. Seize the momentum. Of course, Master Feng hadn’t ever said those words ...
2024-01-20 06:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that Glimmer of Night could not teach them how to do it. It wasn’t for a lack of trying, either. The spider had very patiently described his exact process for doing whatever it was ...
2024-01-19 09:52:28 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so I'm sure some of you have noticed my output has been a little sporadic the last few days. I've been getting hammered by migraines this week. I'm sure it has something to do with the terrib...
2024-01-18 22:45:28 +0000 UTC View PostSen didn’t actually care about eating, he just wanted to give himself a little while to think things through. The formation had only ever been a fallback plan, but Sen was certain that the origin...
2024-01-17 09:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostSen so very badly wanted to ask the monk a mountain of questions, but he realized that it was ultimately a distraction. As interested as he was, and as much as he might want to come back and visit ...
2024-01-15 07:55:35 +0000 UTC View PostNot even bothering to open his eyes, Sen disengaged his hands from the fox woman’s backside and stood up. He hadn’t particularly missed this kind of behavior during the long years he’d spent ...
2024-01-14 06:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostSen sat at a table and sipped tea while Brother Khu muttered under his breath and searched through chest after chest that he pulled out of a closet that could never have held them. He considered of...
2024-01-13 18:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostGlimmer of Night had followed along behind the Cluster Slayer, who he liked, and the other one, who he didn’t care about. He had been quite uncertain about the Cluster Slayer at first. He had onl...
2024-01-13 04:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostGlowering out at the empty city, Sen let his spiritual sense wash outwards. It was powerful enough that, while he knew he couldn’t cover the entire city, it should cover most of it. Sen froze in ...
2024-01-12 08:13:39 +0000 UTC View PostThings were quiet when they set out the next… Sen pondered about the right word. It still looked like morning, but he suspected it was going to look like morning all of the time for the foreseeab...
2024-01-11 05:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so my little corner of the world is bracing for what will be a fairly extreme and extended cold period. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but it's a bit of a confluence of events for me. I...
2024-01-10 14:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostMisty Peak’s head tilted to one side like Sen had started leaning and she was trying to keep him in sight properly.
“What do you mean we’re stuck in a mandala?”
Sen considered a...
2024-01-09 12:06:31 +0000 UTC View Post“As pets go, it’s really creepy,” said Misty Peak.
Sen gave her a level look. “It’s not a pet.”
“It acts like a pet. It follows you around all the time.”
“By tha...
2024-01-08 15:24:10 +0000 UTC View PostSen didn’t bother to stand as he pulled a healing elixir from a storage ring and downed it. He just lay there for most of a minute, basking in the magnificent absence of people talking at him. Kn...
2024-01-08 01:09:18 +0000 UTC View PostAll throughout Sen’s training, Master Feng had instilled in him the need for control. He’d striven for it at first because he trusted Master Feng. Then, he’d gone out into the world and witne...
2024-01-06 20:52:46 +0000 UTC View PostSen’s pushed his qinggong technique hard. He wanted to cover the ground between him and the ruins as fast as possible. Ideally, he wanted to be moving fast enough to simply run around any beasts ...
2024-01-06 09:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostSen spent most of the evening and the night in something that wasn’t quite a cultivation trance, but came exceedingly close. He didn’t want to think because that risked him getting caught up in...
2024-01-06 06:15:29 +0000 UTC View PostSen spent the entire afternoon and early evening making ever finer adjustments to the formation. He reassured himself several times that he was simply being thorough and not avoiding the galehouse ...
2024-01-05 03:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostSen stuck around just long enough for Misty Peak to return with Li Yi Nuo. The woman from the sect was bound at the wrists with something that looked like ordinary rope, but Sen assumed was somethi...
2024-01-03 05:20:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Why is that monster just sitting around out there?” demanded Misty Peak.
Sen steadfastly refused to engage in anything like conversation or banter with either her or Laughing River until...
2024-01-03 01:31:16 +0000 UTC View PostConfusion. He felt confusion. Even as he sat outside the strange stone cave and kept vigil, he didn’t know what to think or how to feel. The day had been too strange, too uncertain, and he had ca...
2024-01-01 20:58:23 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so I got answers about this faster than I expected. The audiobook for Volume 1 starts recording tomorrow! Still no firm date about when it's going to come out, but with recording get...
2024-01-01 19:10:38 +0000 UTC View PostSo, every once in a while, I like to update you guys on things that are not strictly writing-related. So, that's what this will be.
Since some of the people on the livestream asked about it, ...
2024-01-01 14:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostSen was deeply relieved when Misty Peak, after throwing a few more verbal jabs at him, departed to go try to convince her grandfather to let her join Sen in the ruins. For his part, Sen thought it ...
2024-01-01 12:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post“This is boring,” complained Misty Peak for the fifth time.
Sen ignored her while he finished adjusting the formation flag’s position. The work would have gone much faster if h...
2023-12-31 04:49:58 +0000 UTC View PostSen opened his eyes and turned to look at the thing that Misty Peak was pointing at a little more urgently. He’d sensed it a while back and, perhaps foolishly, assumed that it would get out of hi...
2023-12-29 18:56:44 +0000 UTC View PostAfter he finished coughing and wheezing, Sen threw the fox a death glare.
“Why would you even ask me that?”
The fox arched an eyebrow at Sen. “My amusement.”
Sen opened hi...
2023-12-28 20:19:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter feeling disgruntled for a minute or two, Sen realized that suppressing the glow wasn’t really any different than his passive cultivation. It was just one more thing he needed to do and then...
2023-12-28 09:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post