“I feel some regret,” Cal muttered as the trees fell one after another.
“I can order them to stop if you want, Apprentice Cal. We just started, so there won’t be much damage to recove...
2025-10-08 17:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Shouldn’t we just take these two back? Why are we waiting?” Nibbles commented from her perch on top of the old wolf’s head. Of course, the wolf just ignored her.
They had al...
2025-10-04 16:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostI have to get two hundred guildmarks in a few weeks. Probably more to be safe. Auctioning one rare-ranked tool won’t be enough.
Cal would have to speak to Bran and see if he had an...
2025-10-04 16:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Found out that a story called Depthstrider plagiarized parts of Spearbound and went to Amazon a month before me. Spent most of the month worrying about the future of the story before Am...
2025-10-01 06:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostCal saw the builders taking a break for the first time as he left the storage room. They were scarfing down patties as if it were the most delicious meal they had ever had. For all he knew, that co...
2025-10-01 06:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe day started with no surprises. Cal had primed the field for the Sunfire Grain seeds, which he would spend the day planting. Seris and Orrin had fallen asleep as they watched the construction, a...
2025-10-01 06:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostCal shaded his eyes from the setting sun and looked toward the tree line. The first cart that passed wasn’t what he expected. Instead of Mirren and her builders, it was Seris and Orrin, the forme...
2025-09-30 17:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostAN: 2 more chapters by the end of the day. Done with them but haven't had the chance to edit.
Cal had plenty of time on his hands, but that didn’t mean he liked to spend it doing something ...
2025-09-30 17:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Apprentice Cal! It’s been too long!” Drex beamed as he jumped down from the cart. The porters on the other carts followed suit. “Initiate Liora told me you were back, but I would have thou...
2025-09-23 17:09:27 +0000 UTC View PostCal snapped out of his state when a flash of gold hit his eyes. He was greeted with the shovel shimmering a bright gold and the interface showing him a message.
Your alternate [Advanc...
2025-09-23 17:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt was early the next morning, and Cal was surrounded by a variety of tools on the empty field. The harvest yesterday had been completed without a hitch, but given the restriction on his mana reser...
2025-09-23 17:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe two figures of the pack leader and Nibbles grew smaller as they walked off into the wasteland. Neither was happy that Cal told them that the two oxen needed to be returned safe and sound, but t...
2025-09-16 21:54:02 +0000 UTC View PostBig was a confused ox. Too many things had changed.
He and his brother, Little, were taken from the herd and put under a low sky.
They didn’t like it. Too smelly, noisy, lonely. There...
2025-09-16 21:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostCal hid his joy, but he couldn’t have been any happier. He was more energized than he had felt in a week, the release exactly what he needed after a week-long dry spell, and given how relaxed Tav...
2025-09-11 22:22:48 +0000 UTC View PostCal waited for Tavia to absorb everything he had said. He had told her everything… well, everything relevant to this life.
He was free in airing his doubts of the guild and the pat...
2025-09-11 22:22:16 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Dealing with Amazon issues and that slowed this post. I hoped to have 5 chapters, but only have 3 ready.
Cal had never felt so bored. He had only been in the healing ward...
2025-09-11 22:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostCal had decided what to reveal long before he had left the sinkhole. All he needed to do was make his experience similar to Tavia’s.
Overseer Marek stared at Cal with a puzzled expression a...
2025-09-02 00:16:02 +0000 UTC View PostTavia had the strangest urge to growl like a cornered beast, though that was probably the worst thing to do when surrounded by so many Masters. On second thought, that was the second worst thing. T...
2025-09-02 00:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostSeris hummed as she cleaned her arrows. It was something she had neglected, much to her own disappointment, but better late than never. In her defense, Cal had bought her arrows that barely needed ...
2025-09-02 00:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostCal might have sounded confident, but he knew this was a gamble. He spoke as much for Tavia’s comfort as his own.
The idle thoughts disappeared. There was no room for them.
His mind s...
2025-09-02 00:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe brief discussion confirmed what Cal had suspected. The only difference was the area with the hanging corpses. Whoever designed this place had never intended that area to be accessible. That sti...
2025-08-17 03:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Only 2 chapters today instead of 3. I'll post the other one tomorrow.
Cal no longer felt the suppressive effects of the corrosive air. He hadn’t realized how much it we...
2025-08-17 03:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostCal wasn’t sure how long he stared at the gems growing on the branch. Benan told him they were found in mines in some distant territory, but this was neither a mine, nor was it a distant territor...
2025-08-15 02:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Struggled with these chapters before deciding where the story should go. I have the next 3 chapters written and just need to edit them to fit the changes I planned. It'll be posted eith...
2025-08-15 02:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe sudden release of corrosive gas was the biggest reason Cal had taken the damage. If he had known how severe it was, he could have pushed more mana into the protective layer to keep himself safe...
2025-08-05 19:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe air bit at his skin and wanted to seep into his body to cause havoc.
Cal appeared in an area covered in a ghostly, green-tinted fog. He couldn’t see over twenty feet beyond the spot he ...
2025-08-05 19:06:38 +0000 UTC View PostCal could feel his skin tingle from the mana release from the beast’s explosion, but he didn’t care about how remarkable that was. It was interfering with his ability to cast spells.
He r...
2025-07-23 20:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostFire. A lot of it.
A blast of heat slammed into Cal’s body, and he immediately felt the ground he stood on disintegrate. He instinctively jumped to another platform below—which was barely...
2025-07-23 20:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostHe was almost disappointed that the area wasn’t pitch black. Instead, the light was at its lowest possible—this allowed him to see most details with his superior vision, but some smaller detail...
2025-07-21 02:49:51 +0000 UTC View PostCal slowed when he approached Silverpine. He didn’t know where the sinkhole was, so he used [Mana Sense] to find his way. The mana tendrils weren’t meticulous with the information gathering thi...
2025-07-17 14:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post