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“The first step is always design. Nothing else matters if you don’t know what you want to make. This is too early to know everything about what you’re going to make, but you need to have a pretty good first ide...
2023-04-04 23:34:19 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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There was, in fact, a shower in the bathing room. The water clearly came from elsewhere, but the heat was generated at the showerhead with a fairly intuitive to use magical design. It was one that Serenity didn’t ...
2023-04-03 23:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“What took you so long?” Daryl didn’t sound happy when Serenity arrived outside the dungeon. He didn’t seem to have noticed that anything had changed about the dungeon, simply that Serenity was late.
Sere...
2023-04-02 23:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostQuick reminder:
Lex (Alexander) Rothmer is Serenity’s father. Thomas Rothmer is Serenity’s name from before everything started. Baxter is a friend of the family with his own charter service (and airplane).
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2023-04-01 23:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity felt the chair try; he felt as it followed the ley line network as far as it could. He even vaguely felt it ask Asihanya’s World Core. Compared to the dungeon, the World Core was placid and unruffled. Unfort...
2023-03-31 23:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity waited for a moment to see if Daryl was going to say more, but unfortunately the archer seemed to think better of it. However much Serenity wanted to pry, he wasn’t certain he should. On the other hand, he a...
2023-03-30 23:29:30 +0000 UTC View PostToday's late post is due to a pair of SpaceX launches (the second one scrubbed again - it was weather delayed from yesterday, not sure what caused today's delay to tomorrow) and my parents' desire to watch them with me. So ... yeah, I was having a...
2023-03-30 00:50:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Naomi gave Serenity an odd look. “What are you laughing about?”
Serenity’s laughter trailed off into a chuckle. “Myself. Or maybe the surprise.” Serenity didn’t want to explain his laughter, mostly be...
2023-03-28 23:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostPathed: As I said in the other note, this is a double-chapter release today so no chapter tomorrow. We will continue with the one numbered 665 the day after tomorrow, but it is *really* 666.
Original comment:
While I was still trying t...
2023-03-27 23:31:05 +0000 UTC View PostThere's an important note about the next few chapters in the Author's Note at the end of the chapter.
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When Serenity finally managed to get far enough behind the Guardian to slice a rear leg, the strike was far m...
2023-03-26 22:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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If he were being fair, Serenity would admit that his ax was only Tier Five. That really wasn’t good enough at Tier Eight, though it retained some usefulness since it was specifically designed as a magic-draining ax. H...
2023-03-25 22:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity hadn’t expected that at all. As far as he knew, there wasn’t a Dungeon Binder in Takinat; if there was, the guy at the Mercenaries’ Guild should have mentioned it. On top of that, this didn’t really...
2023-03-25 00:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The Death attunement in the Layered Dungeon’s ninth level felt slightly off. It was definitely Death, but there was a slight hint of something else. Undeath, maybe? It was familiar but at the same time slightl...
2023-03-23 23:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity didn’t have strong feelings either way about the plan; if it was a Death-based level, he’d be fine and could probably keep Naomi safe, but he had no idea if he could open a shortcut or not. At least, he wa...
2023-03-23 01:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was clear Serenity wasn’t going to convince them in a single talk; he needed something more than just his words and experience. “That’s not how we do things” was always a powerful opponent.
Serenity...
2023-03-21 22:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostLate, but not nearly as late as yesterday. Today was busy as anything but still not as bad as yesterday! At this rate, I should be caught up again tomorrow. Here's hoping!
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Serenity followed Gabriel out of the t...
2023-03-20 23:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sorry for how late this is today. I know I've mentioned Wednesdays being bad, but today was extra Wednesday if that makes sense. On the other hand, at least my computer didn't get fried!
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2023-03-19 23:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Aide was happy with his Paths, and at the end of the day, that was what mattered. They had to fit him, not Serenity.
Serenity’s Paths had to fit Serenity. On that note, it was finally time to look at his n...
2023-03-18 23:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was a good thing Serenity’s tent blocked the light completely. It gave him somewhere he could try things without being in the blinding light of the dungeon level. He didn’t get the sl...
2023-03-18 00:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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After that pair, the lightning started spitting out pairs of monsters in all sorts of combinations, followed by triplets. The penultimate group was four monsters, one of each type. The last one to fall was the fulgur...
2023-03-16 23:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Daryl rushed around to the far side of the golem while Gabriel set up an Ice Wall behind it and Naomi rushed the golem to get its attention. It was clear they’d done this before, since they did it without any direc...
2023-03-15 23:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Daryl handed Serenity a fist-sized chunk of black fireglass. It was probably obsidian, at least notionally, but since it came from a dungeon and was used in the same dungeon it was hard to be certain. “If the gia...
2023-03-14 23:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The discussion died out again, leaving only the crunch of carbonized plant matter to break the stillness of each step. The fire-ember field didn’t particularly bother Serenity; his eyes were protected and when he acc...
2023-03-13 23:09:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity gaped at Daryl. Why hadn’t he ever thought of pretending to be a follower instead of the leader? The symbol on Ita’s chest wasn’t any different from his own; how had he missed that?
Also, did the...
2023-03-12 23:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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They packed up; moments after they left the clearing, Serenity felt something change in the air of the dungeon. There were no other signs and no one else seemed to notice anything; on the other hand, he didn’t say a...
2023-03-12 00:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Lunch or overnight?” Naomi looked around the group. “I know we normally overnight here, but it’s been fast so far, having another person is making things a lot easier.”
“Five would be better,” D...
2023-03-11 00:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Carrying Gabriel did make it faster - slightly. It didn’t change the number of Giant Waves they had to face, but it meant that Gabriel was able to attack the cuttlefish that tried to grapple Naomi and Daryl wi...
2023-03-10 00:02:07 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity was grateful he’d thought to bring his tent; while he’d offered to loan it to Rissa, she’d turned him down. He’d spend several days in the Layered Dungeon, while the dungeon she was headed towards was...
2023-03-09 00:01:21 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity ignored the new sense telling him everything about the area around him as best he could and focused on what he could see, hear, feel, and unfortunately smell. The Silver Blades had mentioned that the first...
2023-03-07 23:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: This chapter is the ORIGINAL version. The REVISED version is in the chapter titled 685/664+1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chapter-685-664-80640883 2023-03-06 23:47:30 +0000 UTC View Post