Normally, Velik chafed at moving so slowly. What took most people a week to travel, he could do in an hour or two, and he had no doubt he could reach the boundary in a few days. For the time being, it suited his purposes to move slowly, and...
2025-07-01 11:58:48 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
So, today is launch day for the series. Subscribing patrons should already have the epub (it's been posted a few times), but I wanted to let you know the official, live versions are available. If you're an audiobook listener, that's f...
2025-06-30 13:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostOver the last three days, Velik had managed to eat five stat boosters. He quickly discovered why the general recommendation was to wait a day between each one, though. It turned out that piling on too much too quickly hurt quite a lot. It w...
2025-06-30 12:30:51 +0000 UTC View PostVelik wasn’t really sure what he was expecting. The crate was about ten feet long and a foot wide, resembling an over-long casket more than anything else. There was a stable mana matrix in it, indicating it was enchanted somehow. The conf...
2025-06-27 11:32:48 +0000 UTC View PostAs far as I can tell, this skill is functionally the same as [Mana Sense],” Aria said. “There are no blind spots that are commonly associated with what we consider to be failed merges. Other than the strange way you’r...
2025-06-26 12:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe two liches returned with new bodies eight hours later, only to find the cathedral empty. There were no signs that the intruder had breached the inner sanctum, but he was so powerful that neither of them were willing to take anything for grante...
2025-06-25 10:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis would be so much easier if there wasn’t all this other mana around, Velik thought to himself as he triggered the trap for the fiftieth time. Mana flashed out of nowhere, crawling out of whatever hiding place it had, and formed the ...
2025-06-24 12:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone had their thoughts on how best to accomplish the creation of [Mana Sense], and thus far, Velik had been dutifully taking their advice. He’d done his best to try it every which way, but nothing had really resonated with ...
2025-06-23 12:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as Jensen wanted to enjoy spending some time with Sildra, it was difficult to do. She’d been in the city for the week, and most of her time was spent either trying to help Velik, or complaining about his abrasive personality. It took him...
2025-06-20 12:26:47 +0000 UTC View PostSildra took a moment to collect her thoughts. Morgus had appeared to her in her sleep, something he rarely ever did. Usually, she heard his words as a sort of whisper in the wind on nights when the moon was full. She wouldn’t exactly say she was...
2025-06-19 13:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t enough to see the mana. Velik needed to be able to differentiate it. In some cases, that was very easy to do. A divine beast’s mana was so utterly different from anything else’s that he could easily pick out its trail. Velik had ev...
2025-06-18 13:48:11 +0000 UTC View PostWith a little help from Jensen, Velik found Aria in a coffeehouse on the south end of the city. She was reclining in a chair big enough to hold two of her, a steaming mug on an end table next to her and a book held in her hands. Other patrons were...
2025-06-17 12:42:32 +0000 UTC View PostVelik sat in the woods under a night sky full of stars and fed sticks into a crackling campfire ringed by stones. It was… strangely relaxing. He scowled down at the flames, annoyed for some reason he couldn’t quite understand.
It came to...
2025-06-16 11:55:36 +0000 UTC View PostVelik didn’t know what lies the guild leadership spun about Torwin’s death. They had a service for the old hunter at the guild hall in Cravel, which he didn’t attend. Not being a member of the guild, he wasn’t welcome anyway. Two days late...
2025-06-13 13:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostJensen’s thoughts chased each other round in circles. Torwin couldn’t be dead. It had to be a joke, but he was pretty sure Velik had never deliberately told a joke in his life. He certainly never caught when someone else was joking with him. T...
2025-06-12 12:52:40 +0000 UTC View PostTorwin was not hard to find. At least, most of him was not hard to find. Velik recovered three main pieces: his upper torso, head, and arms in one, a leg in a second, and another leg and pelvis in the third. About eight inches of spin and its atte...
2025-06-11 13:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostVelik’s nose was filled with the stink of burnt hair and meat, and every single joint in his body ached. He’d been ten feet away from whatever it was Torwin had used at the end there—One of those specialty arrows he took from that bounty...
2025-06-10 13:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow, despite half his rib cage being blown out and an entire arm missing, Tesir was still on his feet. Mana raged through him, clearly visible to Velik’s [Mana Sight], flooding into the missing flesh and rebuilding it. N...
2025-06-09 13:08:05 +0000 UTC View PostVelik knew plenty about divine beasts, though he’d had most of the research done on his behalf so that nobody would link his interest back to him. Most of what was out there was speculation, with a lot of claims that they didn’t and couldn’t...
2025-06-06 12:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe fact that [Apex Hunter] was completely silent for no apparent reason scared Velik more than he wanted to admit. The stranger was dangerous; that much was obvious just from watching him move. Ways to block [Identify] 2025-06-05 12:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Every time Velik went out on an expedition with Jensen, he inevitably spent the majority of his time walking in circles around the slow-moving caravan. Even with the storage box reducing their needs down to a few wagons—mostly for those who dema...
2025-06-04 12:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Level 50 is a huge milestone, one that almost nobody reaches,” Torwin said. “And to do it at your age… Frankly, it’s insane the number of times you’ve risked your life and are still breathing. Were you always this reckless or have you...
2025-06-03 12:09:27 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no time to think. The agent was already past the tip of his spear, its body swooping around the wood even as Velik tried to bat it away. In less time than it took to blink, it was at face level. Velik’s hand snapped into place to block...
2025-06-02 11:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Torwin roughly two minutes from when he heard the first explosion to when he got a visual on Velik and the three Slokarans he was fighting. It only took a moment to assess the problem: the archer. The man was picking his shots carefully, e...
2025-05-30 12:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostArrows ripped through the space Velik’s head had been occupying an instant before. Each one had waves of heat rolling off them and, despite missing their target, exploded into small balls of fire right next to Velik’s face. The flames were alm...
2025-05-29 11:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe mysterious hunter stood over a perfectly stamped boot print in a patch of mud and frowned down at it, showing that he wasn’t stupid. Velik had left it there as bait not two minutes earlier, reasoning that it was easier to provide the man wit...
2025-05-28 11:27:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Duskbound is migrating to Amazon on June 30th and book 1 will be stubbing on the 25th. Here's a free copy of the epub you can download early. This is 99.9% what the final live version will look like, but feel free to reach out to me i...
2025-05-27 12:41:19 +0000 UTC View PostVelik found Torwin about eight miles away from the cellar he’d been shoved into. The old man was climbing out of a ravine, a deep scowl and some dried blood on his face. “Snakes,” he said shortly when he spotted Velik.
The ravine had h...
2025-05-27 12:37:51 +0000 UTC View Post“The whole dungeon is falling apart,” Torwin growled.
“We need to get the seed now, before it’s too late.”
“No.” Torwin grabbed Velik’s arm. “It’s too dangerous. This was risky enough when things were stable. What a...
2025-05-26 11:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostHuman fingers clung to the core through some sort of magic that Velik didn’t understand, but he could see the mana coursing through the monster’s body and out to the stone. Whatever skill it was using, it was secure in its perch, unlike Velik....
2025-05-23 12:58:43 +0000 UTC View Post