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5.21 Spin

5.20 Concluded by dusk

5.19 A day, born

5.18 Peonic

5.17 Vicious streets

Difference: MinimalBy the time Irwyn managed to notify the rest of his group of what he was feeling, the battle was already starting in the distance. He reinforced the shield around their whole group and then felt an impact against them just a few instants later. A pathetically weak one, but they had been undeniably at...

Chapter delay

Hey, so I, frankly, fucked up. Some of you who keep up with my AN might know that I always participate in the RR community in January and June. I did so again this time around. Usually, that results in me having to finish half the story over the last few days. That is something that I have done before and can bouce bac...

5.16 A green hat

Difference: MinimalAN: Some of you may have noticed a mild retcon. If you don't know what happened, don't worry about it. It's just a tidbit from volume two that I accidentally contradicted. Just making this statement here to say that the current version applies.Also, sorry about the delay. Had an important...

5.15 Towering

Difference: MinimalNeedless to say, Irwyn experienced perhaps the least guilty arrest of his life. Once their group was safely subdued, a group of Domain mages gathered them in an impromptu interrogation room that had just been erected. As soon as they were seated, and stared down upon by several rather angry old men, ...

5.14 As in Black, so in Teal

Difference: MinimalDesir watched from a distance as Irwyn and Alice experimented in the field outside the mansion. There was a single large stretch of flat ground and well-kept grass. Him and the rest of their party had taken up the large gazebo that had seemingly been set up specifically to observe people in said fiel...

5.13 Debriefing

Difference: MinimalAN: Fun fact - I found out that the spellcheck I have been using after getting sick and tired of Grammarly has disabled its free functionality and just turned off. I did not realize this until after editing the chapter... and possibly some previous chapters. I did another sweep, so I hope there are ...

5.12 Unvaulting

Difference: MinimalIrwyn was contemplating whether he should escalate his actions or just keep defending as the situation developed. For the moment, he had settled on repeatedly feigning exhaustion and thus baiting massive waves of relatively more powerful undead attempting to finish him off. Though by the third time h...

5.11 Familiar bowels

Difference: MinimalAN: Happy holidays.Waylan tapped Irwyn on the back again. The first time, his friend had clearly not felt the sensation - probably his own fault for accidentally concealing it. It was hard to balance being hidden from enemies yet able to signal allies. The taps happened in a pattern, almost a code, t...

5.10 Dilemma

Difference: MinimalIn between moments, Elizabeth found herself elsewhere. She had felt the slightest tug, but had been dragged away without a chance to resist. And Irwyn was not with her. She suppressed the pang of fear, then tore it to pieces when it tried to surface again. Her love deserved nothing less than absolute...

5.9 To be expected

Difference: MinimalAN: Not as early as I had hoped, but still within reason. Enjoy.A few minutes into the siege, the dynamic began to shift. Firstly, the Rot came up with a method of countering Alice’s snatching move. Irwyn couldn’t see exactly what was happening with Time, but at some point her magic stopped being...

5.8 Vault spiral

Difference: MinimalAN: Sorry about the delay. Sometimes life just hits me a combination of writer's block, busyness, and crippling fatigue. As has been happening over the last two weeks as my uni semester has been ending and several months of perpetual sleep deprivation is catching up with me. As some of you may kn...

5.7 Deja glue

Difference: MinimalAN: Sorry about the delays. End of semester hitting me like a truck. Good chance I will be a day or two late next week as well, given how much work I already know I have to do over the weekend. Already can't wait for the holidays for a chance to breathe and sleep more than 16 hours total mo-thu.T...

5.6 Runback

Difference: MinimalAN: Hope the editing isn't noticeably rough on this one. I think I have briefly fallen asleep like 3 times while finishing this at my desk. Anyway, enjoy.Their welcome to the outpost was far from warm. Their group dropped out of the sky as they approached the nearest gap in the fortifications - a...

5.5 Nosy by vocation

Difference: MinimalFor all the fanfare, their first assignment was not the kind of thing Irwyn would associate with the need for armed inspection. Quite the opposite, really, as it was not something Irwyn had ever thought much about. They were headed to a farm. Or something ‘close enough’, as Calm had cryptically d...

5.4 Surprisingly expected

Difference: MinimalAN: Path of exile league launch has been a blast. I am very tired but happy and with 2 locks in my stash. Anyway, enjoy the chapter.It took exactly 44 minutes and 20 seconds for them to be called. The timekeeping a courtesy of Alice the impatient. Calm had meanwhile equipped them with most of what he...

5.3 Calm during the storm

Difference: MinimalThe person who came to welcome them was, perhaps unsurprisingly, Calm. It took him all of one second to nod, then command everyone else away. Including the mage whose office they were seemingly in, though the man went without a hint of complaint. Before everyone actually cleared out though, Irwyn spe...

5.2 Doorbell

Difference: MinimalAN: Well, I am very sick and feel absolutely atrocious. At least I managed to completely this chapter, if barely. On a different note, why did I choose to name two important but radically different story things 'beacon'? If I ever publish, that should probably be the first thing to retcon, ch...

5.1 Accelerated travel

Difference: MinimalAN: I have to wake up in 4 hours, but here is the promised chapter. Volume 5 begins, yay!If you are binging: The previous two chapters were interludes. Here and hereTheir return journey to the Federation would be far faster than the way North. Before the Beacons had sounded, Irwyn had fancied some vi...

Interlude - Peers

Difference: MinimalAN: First chapter, almost double length. If I can make the second happen tomorrow is a bit of a toss-up, but you can certainly enjoy this one now.The Duke of Cyan stared dumbly at the dagger piercing his heart. Like many of history’s best diviners, he never saw his death coming.****The Archduke of ...

Skipped upload

Update: I had a pretty bad week with some personal stuff happening over the weekend. Looking at the clock, I am not gonna be able to finish a decent chapter today, and doing any good writing through the week is rough with Uni exhaustion. Doesn't help that this chapter needs a lot of fact checking and foresight to n...

Interlude - The things one does for power

Difference: MinimalDesir had an appreciation for things. A rather vague statement, yes, but it sounded right to him. Not just objects, nor ‘everything’ in general. Just… whatever was before him. That which his eyes could behold and hands grasp, Desir knew to experience viscerally - lest he forget what it is to be...

4.64 A mother's cruel grasp

DOUBLE UPLOAD 2/2 - make sure you read the previous chapter first.Difference: MinimalThe instant Elizabeth stepped forward, she was drowning. Not in watter, but in the suffocating presence of Umbra’s nothingness. The Voids familiar infinity, amplified ten thousand fold. As crushing as the most fathomless depths, and ...

4.63 A mother's gentle caress

DOUBLE UPLOAD! 1/2. Both PDF links for convenience: This chapter || Next chapterDifference: Small.AN: Buckle in. This will be weird, but hopefully comprehensible.After leaving their loot behind, the two of them descended the staircase. Irwyn tried to have a better look at what the floor actually looked like, but that g...

4.62 Farewell

Difference: minimalAN: Silksong was amazing. Bigger AN at the end of the chapter. Enjoy.By the time Irwyn awoke, the dragon was dead. Elizabeth had dragged both the corpse and his limp body over to one of the larger islands of half molten metal at some point. It gave him a brief scare to see the maw as soon as he had g...

4.61 Abattoir

Difference: SmallAN: Silksong is great. Hopefully, so is this chapter. Despite my Silksanity, I ended up making it extra chonky. Also, to give Patreon some slack after my rant last chapter, their text editor now finally has the revolutionary feature of centered text. Yay. We could see fond size customisation as early a...

4.60 Self-made omelette

Difference: MinimalAN: Patreon changed the fucking UI again. God fucking damn it. Spent two minutes trying to find the 'tag' section again and they removed the scroll wheel for the post to make space for a scroll wheel for the setting sidebar. I sure love corporations with borderline monopolies spending their R...