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Ch. 6: Eyes

Cass helped Salos clean up in the little tub Telis had brought for him. He put up with the scrubbing admirably, though he glowered through the entire ordeal. He was quick to hop out and shake himse...

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Ch. 5: Eaves Dropping

Cass jerked awake, disoriented and alone. Water splashed as she flailed. 

She stood at the bottom of a deep crevasse. Water poured silently down the sides from above, pooling up to her k...

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Ch. 4: A Quiet Bath

Telis led Cass through the house to one of the back rooms. It was tiled from floor to ceiling. A basin was built into one wall, already filled with gently steaming water. Beside it hung an orb of b...

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Ch. 3: Future Plans

Cass followed Telis and Alyx through town and into a small townhouse.  

Alyx flopped into the armchair in the main room with an exhausted sigh of relief. Marco took his place behind...

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Ch. 2: The Town of Hervet

As the sky brightened with the amber glow of dawn, a landmass appeared ahead of the ship. The stars faded, yet the sun was nowhere in sight. Off the right side of the boat, the crescent moon hung l...

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Book 2 Begins!

Hello! We are back with Stormborn Sorceress Book 2: Unhallowed Catacombs!

To celebrate the start of book 2, and to get ahead of Royal Road again, look forward to a chapter every day for the ...

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Ch. 1: An Unusual Voyage

Cass stared at the starry sky above her as the dark clouds parted around the boat. A warm certainty settled over her. For the first time since her arrival, she felt like maybe she had a handle on h...

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Ch. 88: The Boat

 The boat was waiting on the far side, just as they’d said. It was both bigger and smaller than she’d expected. She had expected a sweeping passenger liner, tall metal sides and sleek angl...

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Ch. 87: After Effects

Cass woke up with the worst headache of her life. She pinched the bridge of her nose and blinked up at the ceiling. It was all grey stone cut into regular bricks. 

What had happened?&nbs...

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Announcement!

Hello!

I'm excited to announce that we are nearing the end of book one of Stormborn Sorceress! The last two chapters will be posted at our normal schedule, the last chapter goin...

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Ch. 86: Death

Cass stared. Levina couldn’t actually be dead, could she? Hadn’t she done the shadow dissolve thing? Had she really run out of uses? Why hadn’t she retreated before that? 

She coul...

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Ch. 85: Boss Fight

Cass Sprinted with everything that she had. The boar charged behind her. 

Her heart pounded in her chest. 

All of its considerable Strength propelled it forward faster than a ...

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Ch. 84: Baiting the Boar

The boar was even bigger up close. It was a hulking thing, its shoulder two or three heads taller than Cass. Its body was covered in steel grey bristles. They had a metallic sheen, that promised th...

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Ch. 83: Pinned

Suddenly, Cass couldn’t sense the assassin’s breathing behind her. She was simply gone to her Atmospheric Sense. If escape had been all she cared about, Cass would have just kept running. ...

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Ch. 82: The Assassin

The time for planning ended as the assassin hissed in surprise. 

Cass turned to see Salos phasing out of existence and settling back in his necklace. 

A deep gash spurted bloo...

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Ch. 81: The Pyramid

They arrived at the pyramid without any trouble, despite Trap Detection screaming in Cass’s head. She was tempted to dismiss it, but that wouldn’t actually make her any less anxious about it. A...

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Ch. 80: Descent

The three descended the path on the far side of the ridge. This side was no less steep than the way up had been. Cass leaned heavily on her staff, stabilizing every slipping, sliding step as the gr...

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Ch. 79: Treasure of the Pass

They found the epherwing’s nest a little after midday. Cass wasn’t sure when she’d realized she could sense the position of the sun through Atmospheric Sense, but she wasn’t complaining.&nb...

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Ch. 78: Upgrades

It was the next morning that Cass finally opened the notifications from the previous night’s fight. She could barely believe what she saw. 

Herald of the Pass has been slai...

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Ch. 77: Dark Night

Everything hurt. 

Pain radiated from her chest. Blood pooled in the wound even with the bundle of fleece she’d torn from her shirt sleeve and shoved into the wound. Breathing was a spu...

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Ch. 76: Salos - The Epherwing

Salos whipped around at the sound of Cass’s scream. His heart pounded in his ears. He could see her thanks to his Dark Vision. Her wide eyes were filled with shock. Why were they shocked? What ha...

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Ch. 75: The Epherwing

They reached the crest of the ridge as the sun was setting behind them barely visible above the mountain line through the thick cloud cover and Cass was given a panoramic view of the Valley. It ran...

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Ch. 74: The Climb

They hiked for two days, stopping only to sleep. Alyx did not loiter to let Cass forage interesting plants, pushing them relentlessly forward. She barely spoke to Cass either, caught up in her own ...

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Ch. 73: About Concepts

The next day was another long day of hiking, interrupted occasionally by attacks by monsters. Alyx dealt with all of them quickly and efficiently with her new sword before Cass or Salos could offer...

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Ch. 72: Hidden Agendas

They continued on their way without further fanfare. It was a quiet hike. Cass spent most of the walk chewing on the pain-killing root she found and scooping up other interesting plants with Foragi...

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Ch. 71: Regroup

Her new Bag adjusted over her shoulder, it was time to regroup with Alyx and Salos. 

Cass struggled to stand, her wounds complaining loudly with the effort. She fell back to the ground w...

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Ch. 70: Orb of Resonance

Defeated Herald of the Forest. Touch Orb of Resonance to Manifest Treasure.

Only when she saw the system notification did she breathe a sigh of relief. She’d done it. S...

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Ch. 69: Lightning-phased Lion

Cass glanced up. The lion was looking her directly in the eyes.

“Cass, run!” Salos and Alyx yelled simultaneously. 

The lion inhaled. The lightning gathered with the growing wi...

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Ch. 68: Herald of the Forest

The lion was enormous, twice the size Cass had imagined them to be. Its fur was pitch black. Electricity sparked off its fur and streaked down its flanks in brilliant flashes of blue. The air aroun...

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Ch. 67: Alyx - On Cass

Alyx woke unreasonably fresh and rested for having slept on the ground without a bedroll or even a travel cloak. Just another oddity she was going to chalk up to the strange woman sitting with a ca...

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