The throne room was, to Sen’s surprise, substantially more ornate than the one that Jing was no doubt occupying at that very moment. Not that it bothered Sen. The man had to work somewhere, and i...
2025-10-07 00:21:35 +0000 UTC
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Okay, I don't know if a few people took it as a challenge, or maybe they thought I was lying about the comments still being monitored, or maybe they thought I didn't mean it about the ban hammer, o...
2025-10-06 16:14:26 +0000 UTC
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Even for Varal, moving such a large sum of money, to say nothing of summoning a reliable solicitor, were not tasks that could be settled in a day. He ended up spending most of a week in that small ...
2025-10-05 21:46:40 +0000 UTC
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Okay, I've had a few days to cool down. I'm not shutting the page down. I suspect anyone whose been here for a while knew that's what would happen before I did. Pulling the plug on the entire page ...
2025-10-05 21:44:48 +0000 UTC
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Yeah, I know I said no new chapters on UC today or tomorrow. Apparently, my brain decided that meant that this was the ideal opportunity to push this idea back to the front of my head strongly ...
2025-10-03 08:19:26 +0000 UTC
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Sorry everybody. There won't be any chapters today or tomorrow.
On a completely related note... For anyone who thinks that the best way to encourage more and better work from a writer, one wh...
2025-10-02 23:40:29 +0000 UTC
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“I always feel like a fool when we do this,” said Sen under his breath.
“It’s necessary. It projects the appropriate bearing,” said Master Feng.
Row upon row of soldiers march...
2025-10-02 04:25:47 +0000 UTC
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Just an FYI, Patreon is monkeying around with things under the hood and changing things to work less efficiently. So, expect problems like their help center not working, messages not posting, comme...
2025-10-01 17:40:57 +0000 UTC
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Something Sen had learned was that battling spirit beasts and battling other human beings was both fundamentally different and oddly similar. It just depending on which part of the battle one focus...
2025-10-01 02:12:11 +0000 UTC
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The cultivator came running up to Sen with qinggong technique speeds. This was one of the handful of cultivators he’d personally, well, trained was too strong a word for it. He’d nudge...
2025-09-30 03:41:38 +0000 UTC
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While Varal was often direct, it wasn’t common for him to be quite so blunt. Most nobles would take immediate offense, and the commoners in his service would often infer that he was angry with th...
2025-09-30 01:25:12 +0000 UTC
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So, as seemingly always happens on my "week off" between volumes, nothing went quite as a planned. All of that productivity I was hoping for got swept away on a wave of migraines. I think i had fou...
2025-09-30 01:23:30 +0000 UTC
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And here it is, the lost bloopers chapter! Enjoy! ~Eric
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Boulder’s Shadow continued, “One cultivator wiped out the entirety of our force...
2025-09-25 08:46:46 +0000 UTC
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Salutations! Kat here, I JUST NOW realized the previewed double sentence isn't actually preview and it's publishing direct to ya'll. I'm so sorry. I didn't take full account of ALL the updates t...
2025-09-24 12:58:43 +0000 UTC
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After a moment or two, Sen recalled something that he’d been meaning to ask about for a while.
“Did Laughing River ever ascend? I mean, I went through a lot of trouble to get that ...
2025-09-20 00:37:56 +0000 UTC
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In contrast to the chaos and violence he’d experienced when arriving at Emperor’s Bay, leaving the city seemed strangely quiet to Sen. It was almost as if the entire city was holding its breath...
2025-09-18 12:28:14 +0000 UTC
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It was a relief to both Varal and Aima’s parents when Jarem came in to announce that dinner was ready to be served. It gave all of them something to do other than reflect on what had just transpi...
2025-09-17 08:30:15 +0000 UTC
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Despite the fact that the orphanage and school only existed because of his word, Sen had spent almost no time there. There were reasons for that. Some of it was simply time. There were many demands...
2025-09-17 05:48:04 +0000 UTC
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What remained of the local nobility and politicians stood before Sen. With one exception, they were pale-faced, sweaty, and wouldn’t meet his gaze. The magistrate stood alone among them in that h...
2025-09-17 04:11:42 +0000 UTC
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Sen found himself both relieved and sad as he watched Uncle Kho fly off on a qi platform with Shui. The girl had not been enthusiastic, at all, about the prospect of being separated from him.
2025-09-13 05:09:27 +0000 UTC
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Sen wasn’t sure where to direct his attention. His first instinct was to look at Shui.
“Again!” she shouted with the kind of enthusiasm only a small child can muster.
Master Feng,...
2025-09-12 03:55:16 +0000 UTC
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There was something truly odd about watching an army prepare to leave in Sen’s opinion. There had been at least semi-orderly rows of tents, makeshift paddocks for the officer’s horses, a...
2025-09-11 05:19:30 +0000 UTC
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It only took Varal one look at the condition of the Jareks’s estate to recognize the true desperation of their current plight. Pains had been taken by someone to keep the gate and exterior of the...
2025-09-10 07:26:22 +0000 UTC
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Sen hesitated at the door for a long moment. He knew the visit was necessary and unavoidable, but that didn’t make him eager for it. Like most unpleasant, necessary things, he also realized that ...
2025-09-10 04:26:55 +0000 UTC
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“They’re already calling it The Night of Widows and Orphans,” said a pale-faced general.
Sen had noticed that all of his mortal generals had suddenly found much more patriotic ...
2025-09-09 04:25:49 +0000 UTC
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Yup, the writing brain is back in gear. Once I got going, it really got going. I wrote this and my brain wants me to write another chapter because of course it does, but it's 3am here. So, i'm ...
2025-09-07 07:13:59 +0000 UTC
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Okay, the con-plague seems to have worked its way out of my system after several days of not doing much but sleeping. My attempts to write yesterday were...less than stellar. Here's a representativ...
2025-09-07 03:31:35 +0000 UTC
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It literally took me until today to finish this one chapter. That tells you how well trying to write yesterday went. But, I think I've kicked my brain back into writing gear now. in the meanti...
2025-09-07 03:19:53 +0000 UTC
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As promised, here is the con-plague update. I am feeling better...ish. However, I also spent most of the last 24 hours sleeping, dozing, or napping...and I'm still feeling tired. I'm not c...
2025-09-04 19:39:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone. I made it back from Dragon Con alive and with only a small duffel bag’s worth of new books and stuff. That’s more of an accomplishment than it sounds like when you got floor after...
2025-09-03 16:24:04 +0000 UTC
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