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The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 108-109

Ch. 108 - A Bloody Game

The following day, the King’s children started to arrive in ones and twos. Those were the ones who lived in the capital, and most of them were too...

Brewing Bad Ch. 166-167

Ch. 166 - Getting her Attention

The following week, Lucas attended two more parties. That wasn’t because he wanted to, of course; it was because he needed to. His to-do l...

Death After Death PLUS 288-290

Ch. 288 - Just a Shadow

Simon had started this life with high hopes. He’d planned on a nice, peaceful existence. He was going to relax, learn some magic, and learn more a...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 106-107

Ch. 106 - An Entreaty

It was only when all of that was done, and the throne’s bonfire glow caused by the blade’s expenditures had dimmed substantially, sometime after d...

Brewing Bad Ch. 164-165

Ch. 164 - Achievement Unlocked

After their successful poison test, Heisenburgle came up with a long list of minor improvements that he wanted to make to things, including a...

Death After Death PLUS 285-287

Ch. 285 - Into the Dark

No one else woke at their passing, but even though the man wasn’t particularly quiet, the way that his peers lay completely still implied that mag...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 104-105

Ch. 104 - Last Gasp

The Ebon Blade watched as the ad-hoc army assaulted the gates and curtain walls for several minutes with cautious, probing attacks. Some of these were q...

Brewing Bad Ch. 162-163

Ch. 162 - Dialing it In (part 3)

The following evening, as Lucas and Heisenburgle prepared for their third test, with a higher charge and a lower viscosity poison, they dis...

Death After Death PLUS 282-284

Ch. 282 - Stepping Stones

That morning, Simon was offered a feast, but he forced himself to eat sparingly. He’d starved before, and the body did not like to switch from f...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 102-103

Ch. 102 - Lonely is the Throne

Feeling alone and vulnerable, the first thing that the Ebon Blade did was search the room for its wielder. She wouldn’t have abandoned it. Th...

Brewing Bad Ch. 160-161

Ch. 160 - Dialing it In

While it only took a day to gather the ingredients, it took Lucas a week to make something worth testing, because in its natural state, the Wyrm’s b...

Death After Death PLUS 279-281

Ch. 279 - Lessons Learned

That night, he had another fight, and this time, it was against three boys. There was no attempt to challenge him publicly, as his rival had done be...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 98-101

We're having 4 chapters this week since is the finale of Book 2. Book 3 starts on chapter 102. That's the good news. The better news is that I might extend it to a four-book series instead of the o...

Brewing Bad Ch. 158-159

Ch. 158 - Hangover

The following morning, Lucas’ intelligence had fallen by one. Bringing it down to nineteen. While that was expected, it turned out to be the tip of the...

Death After Death PLUS 276-278

Ch. 276 - A New Home

It’s all part of the brainwashing, Simon reminded himself as he lay there pretending to sleep. It was hard to sleep on cold stone, but he ev...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 95-97

Ch. 95 - Getting Her Affairs in Order

When they returned to Evelyn’s domain. The first thing the Baroness did was make a perfunctory visit to her dead husband’s grave. ...

Brewing Bad Ch. 156-157

Ch. 156 - An Unexpected Audience

After that, the hits kept right on coming. Lucas wasn’t given the chance to even talk to Heisenburgle about this. Worse, as soon as he wa...

Death After Death PLUS 273-275

Ch. 273 - The Selection

Simon didn’t have to wait too long to take the plunge. Though it sometimes took weeks of exploration and play through the vast and crowded city of...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 91-94

Ch. 91 - Toughening Up

For the next two weeks, the blade ran its wielder into the ground. The fact that Evelyn was a Baroness or even a Princess didn’t matter to it. All ...

Brewing Bad Ch. 154-155

Ch. 154 - Strengths and Weaknesses

The following night, they didn’t get any work done because Heisenburgle was still feeling unwell. Lucas didn’t blame him for that. It...

Death After Death PLUS 270-272

Ch. 270 - Coming to Fruition

It felt strange to cast his first spell in months, but it was even stranger to watch what happened next. As the taste of sulfur filled his mout...

Better is a Process

Hello everyone. I’ve been pretty busy lately writing (as always) and doing online classes (only nine more left before I finish this degree!) Still, I wanted to pop in with a few updates. Though I...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 88-90

Ch. 88 - At Any Moment

Over the next few days, nothing happened. Evelyn kept the Ebon Blade’s new wielder abreast of the latest developments, but it was not moved from it...

Brewing Bad Ch. 152-153

Ch. 152 - Only Helping

For a moment, Heisenburgle looked like he was going to explode like a particularly volatile mixture. “Preposterous!” he shouted. 

“Y...

Death After Death PLUS 267-269

Ch. 267 - Further North

Simon rode off and on for three nights before he decided that he was far enough away from whoever might be pursuing him to risk another act of necro...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 84-87

Ch. 84 - A Dead End

The first thing the blade did was study the man that held it. It was not yet convinced he would ever earn the title of wielder, but even as he struggled...

Brewing Bad Ch. 150-151

Ch. 150 - Aftermath

When the potions wore off and his attributes fell back to their normal level, Lucas braced for the worst, but surprisingly, he felt mostly fine, at leas...

Death After Death PLUS 263-266

So, you may have noticed that this week there are four chapters, not three. This is because I screwed up the chapter numbering of DaD (somehow there were 2 chapter 262s), So briefly last week I pos...

The Blood-Stained Blade Ch. 81-83

Ch. 81 - At Last

Ivarr! The blade screamed in Var’gar’s head as the orc merely gazed at the nearest figures and growled. It had longed to kill this man. Other than the dangers ...

Brewing Bad Ch. 148-149

Ch. 148 - A Moment of Truth (part 2)

In the end, Heisenburgle wouldn’t arrange the thing until Lucas had filled crates with the dragon’s drug of choice, but that was fine. He made a few...