Just as a little reminder--only two chapters in the next week. I'm just a bit tired and recovering from sickness, so reduced chapter output until next Thursday.
TJ introduced himself more formally to the other paren...
2025-05-21 15:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post“The ants!” He shouted. “There’s something that’s changed about them. They aren’t responding to our influence nearly as completely as before
“The ants!” He shouted. “There’s something that’s changed about them. They are...
2025-05-21 03:25:17 +0000 UTC View Post
No real words for this, but check it out! Holy crap!
I saw Whitehorn liked this--if I'm not mistaken, that's the illustrator! Yes. Yes it is. Here's his artstation!
A/N: BTW--book 1 is going live for free tomorrow. As such, I'm going to take a week off posting for free. Ordinarily, I take that time to just get further and further ahead on Patreon. This time, though, I'm going to post two chapters for the True...
2025-05-20 16:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post***
More weeks passed, and there was precious little for us to do except to continue preparing for the attack of the Misti Hawar. That the ants continued to grow more and more active wasn’t helpful, but we had a tenuous relationship with t...
2025-05-20 05:43:42 +0000 UTC View PostHe was grateful he’d deactivated Divine Transformation, because while people could Appraise him and quickly figure out he was a person, there was no way that TJ could expect rational initial reactions from anyone, himself included. As such, he r...
2025-05-18 15:28:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat he’d thought was the sewer was much more than the sewers that he knew about. Where pipes had once been the sole reason the earth hadn’t collapsed, now there was a full cavern. Disgusting water dripped from the roof, but TJ couldn’t take...
2025-05-17 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post***
Look, you all have seen the soldiers and militia. You have seen the Red Abbey’s graduates immediately step into positions of power. You have heard of the Synod and Families. You’ve seen their strength and their power, how...
2025-05-17 04:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe night passed, and TJ hadn’t made any meaningful headway in teaching himself Lightning Manipulation. As he’d attempted it, though, he pretty quickly realized that having the thing he was trying to move with his mind be around would be neces...
2025-05-16 17:28:54 +0000 UTC View Post[The Alpha of Tala POV]
As one, the Alpha rose. They had spent the vast majority of their life like this, and when one heard something was of import, they both would learn of it. The dream that one had received came to the o...
2025-05-16 04:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s kinda weird.” Sam said as they sat around a folding table in TJ’s room. “Everyone who comes in is getting pulled apart to different groups, and each group is being taught by one of the people from Sven’s Tutorial. They’re talki...
2025-05-15 08:38:53 +0000 UTC View PostFoire had obviously prioritized reducing his footprint over anything else. Even so, there were a couple signs of his presence in a clearing: a discarded bone here, a broken branch much too large to have been snapped by any of the creatures nearby,...
2025-05-15 04:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostLuz struggled as TJ carried her through the streets back towards campus. His plans of how he would go and train were dashed, and he didn’t care. Thoughts of serving himself died as, instead, he cared for the confused child. She didn’t say anyt...
2025-05-14 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSince it had been as long as it had since anyone around had seen Foire, I looked for Trai first. She was as flighty as ever, but her most recent obsession had been the nursery, so I looked there first. I was lucky enough to find her right away, te...
2025-05-14 03:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Bit of a warning at the end of this chapter.
TJ dropped off the entirety of what he considered to be valuable from his home back at the New Republic’s headquarters. He’d been assured by Raya’s assistant, a Dirt tier man named Geor...
2025-05-13 17:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostAs far as I could tell, there wasn’t any [Skill] for using a spear. At least, not one I’d gained in the past days. I could feel that I was getting more competent and comfortable with the weapon, but I knew that, in terms of skill, I would be f...
2025-05-13 04:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe path through campus was easy, especially since more than half of it had been left untouched by the New Republic. The places that Sven and Raya had seemed to decide they couldn’t protect were left alone, and they’d chosen to disregard the b...
2025-05-11 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe two greatest shifts in the physiology and potential for any Participant come at the time of evolution to the Copper (I) tier and at the time of evolution to the Ruthenium (VII) tier. This is due to the injection of Divinity at both tim...
2025-05-10 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI nodded at Trai, who pouted as I stepped back from ambushing her. I’d finally made the progress I was looking for, and I quickly thanked her as I turned my attention to the [System] notification.
[Skill: Soundless Stealth; This is a Skill...
2025-05-10 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“They seem to have a good system going on for getting people experience.” Sam explained. “It sounds like most Tutorials were like ours, pretty laid back compared to yours and Sven’s. Theirs had 60 survivors, so yours must have been the mos...
2025-05-09 17:47:06 +0000 UTC View Post[Varali POV]
She walked with her head down, her focus entirely on staying out of notice. Nobody had said anything that wasn’t supportive since the High Colonel di’Thnufir had thrashed Leiyalt for her, but she felt like a...
2025-05-09 06:31:25 +0000 UTC View PostSo. I don't have any specifics for them, but Book 2 of AR is nearly done with edits, Book 1 is being sent to the Audiobook production team relatively soon, and I'll move onto Book 3 edits soonish. Book 1 of SoK should be finished getting edited so...
2025-05-09 06:28:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Yeah,” Gus said as he gestured to TJ, “this is TJ, and he’s pretty strong. Brought these other people with him too, which could be promising too.”
TJ Appraised the man that was almost a foot taller than him with a quick thought. 2025-05-08 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Gran Verat has called, and we will answer! Efforts in colonizing the northern Akitla Peninsula will be resumed in earnest. If you’re interested in lending your strength to the militia that will be necessary to maintain control over the land ...
2025-05-08 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTJ didn’t hesitate to summon a blade of wind just behind and above his head as he stepped in front of the other Participants. His Perception had slid over this person until he was aware of them, and he didn’t like that. It was probably a Steal...
2025-05-07 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve seen how they ambush, this is a better trap!”
“You were only on the other side of the swarm when they met three disgraced and outcast members of their people. You know nothing about how to watch the Zaaktif kill Misti Hawar.”...
2025-05-07 04:28:09 +0000 UTC View PostTJ slept fitfully. Every movement he heard outside had him out of bed and patrolling the area. There were a dozen interruptions to his sleep, but TJ didn’t begrudge that, as being ambushed would have been a lot worse than sleep less with a body ...
2025-05-06 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI brought Tar to speak in front of the rest of my council, though most didn’t have a language in common with the rat. Or, the Beastkin, as he had told me. I had burning questions about his people and what they were capable of, but the Beastkin h...
2025-05-06 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to be an Armorsmith.” Sam said simply. TJ didn’t respond, instead letting the teenager explain himself as they walked into the remains of Roger and Susan’s house. “I want to be able to protect myself as well as others. That’s w...
2025-05-04 14:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostSorry! I just... forgot to schedule this.
With a snarl and the ripping of wood and brick, the entire side of Roger and Susan’s house disappeared. As TJ watched, a horse-sized wolf pulled its head back and howled at the sky. The hole it’...
2025-05-04 04:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post