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Chapter 307
Chapter 307Alice reminded Aster of Luna in many of the cat’s best ways. Matt claimed to not understand why Aster, who had certainly chafed under the yoke of their ever-strict manager more than either him or Liz had, would want to run all of her business in this realm through someone so similar. But to her, it was perfectly obvious. For one, she was the boss in this dynamic, and as such, she could offload all serious-ness to her underling.It was a simple delegation. Mara had taught her that.As ...
Chapter 306
Audiobook for book 5 comes out April 5th.***Chapter 306The wheels of bureaucracy turned slowly, immortal bureaucracy all the more, and that meant Matt managed to escape any non-military meetings for months after their return from the guilds. But months on the outside, and years on the inside of the rift passed nonetheless. So in time, Matt received word that he had a meeting scheduled for “tomorrow.” At least it was a meeting he’d been looking forward to, so he couldn’t grumble too much....
Chapter 305
Note we are approaching the end of this arc pretty quickly so well have a two chapter break like always after the manny chapter.Chapter 305Aster reclined in the chair and gathered herself, then promptly got distracted by everyone that she could feel standing on the other side of the glass that took up a full wall of the room. On the other side stood essentially every person she knew on a first-name basis in Camp Lightfoot.Matt and Liz were there for moral support, as Aster wouldn’t have wanted...
Chapter 304
Audiobook for book 5 comes out April 5th.Chapter 304Drifting through the emptiness of space, Matt listened to Dena grumble with Morgan and Joy. They should have been picked up well over an hour ago, but their teleporter was nowhere to be seen and they were all starting to get grumpy.Finally, after three hours Allie appeared in the lounge with a casual wave and a murmured “Sup?”Morgan, who was closest, kicked her right off the bench without hesitation. “That's all you have to say when y...
Chapter 303
The big news is PoA is getting a comic made! I asked but I can’t share art yet but it looks sooooooo good so believe me when I say the moment I can share I will.You can read a bit more about it here. (https://www.cbr.com/webtoon-aethon-books-fantasy-webcomic-collaboration/)Next step is getting this so popular we can get an anime. Fingers crossed lol.***Chapter 303After their latest victory, Matt expected their Guild contacts to encourage them to keep pushing into Federation territory. After al...
Chapter 302
Manny chapter to end this book looks like its going to be 310 FYI. Expect no chapters on the 26th, the 1st, and the 4th. Chapters returning on the 8th. This next arc is going to be shifting gears and the chapters didn't line up to give me two weeks off like normal so I'm taking an extra day off.***Chapter 302The five of them and Guild leadership spent a little more than a week planning for the raid on the anti-speedster base, but they knew they couldn’t wait forever. They’d planned t...
Chapter 301
No chapter on Monday because I need some extra time to get the fight in 302 to the level I want and I want it to land properly.Chapter 301Matt wanted to throw himself into practicing the lessons as they flew to relieve the sieges, but didn’t feel right about their entire team going down like that. Instead of just moving through chaotic space with Drifter darting around like a minnow, they were moving with two full ‘armies’ which meant they were moving at a third of their normal speed.Excep...
Chapter 300
Manny chapter to end this book looks like its going to be 310 FYI. Expect no chapters on the 26th, the 1st, and the 4th. Chapters returning on the 8th. This next arc is going to be shifting gears and the chapters didn't line up to give me two weeks off like normal so I'm taking an extra day off.***Chapter 300Matt was almost disappointed at the order to return to Guild space that Mercury passed along to them. There was a thrill about waltzing into an enemy’s territory, taking over a pos...
Chapter 299
Chapter 299Agent Atrisa Gloomwood carefully ran a brush down one of the support runes of the backup life support system. It was made out of a single hair, plucked from a Tier 25 antelope friend of hers, and just about the finest rune brush that was possible to make. She was no master rune smith, far from it, but sabotage and spy work didn’t require expertise in the field of runecrafting. She couldn't do that if her life depended on it, but she was a master of manipulating existing runes an...
Chapter 298
Chapter 298Captain Elkdren jogged alongside his men as they went through the start of an exercise routine. His unit, like all stationed here, had taken serious losses and damage on the frontlines and were being given time for rest and recovery. They needed to be in top condition when they reentered the war. Elkdren was just happy his people were only in the horrifically wounded category, as while they had needed months of healing, none of them had died on their last assault. A fortune few other ...
Chapter 297
Big news! PoA is getting a comic made! I asked but I can’t share art yet but it looks sooooooo good so believe me when I say the moment I can share I will.You can read a bit more about it here. (https://www.cbr.com/webtoon-aethon-books-fantasy-webcomic-collaboration/)Next step is getting this so popular we can get an anime. Fingers crossed lol.***Author’s note, Quicksilver will now be named Mercury so I don't run the risk of getting sued by Disney no matter how unlikely it is for getting...
Chapter 296
Chapter 296Matt was a little surprised when he got a non urgent message about their next mission. He had been waiting on tenterhooks to receive a message that they were being called in to solve some crisis, when he got a message telling him they would meet up tomorrow afternoon to be deployed again.Getting hours to look over his new armor and weapon just felt odd after their last few missions, where they were being used to put out fires.General Darrow nodded to the three of them as they arrived ...
Echos Chapter 7
Echos Chapter 7A scream wrenched itself from Lienna’s throat as she woke up, her body spasming once again with renewed agony. Though calling it a scream was a gross exaggeration, when in truth it was more a pathetic wheeze, as all of the air from her lungs found its way out through the holes in her throat.The pain meds had worn off earlier than they were supposed to. Again.She still couldn’t take new ones until the morning. Or at least, she shouldn’t…Lienna enviously eyed the crystal dec...
Chapter 295
Big news! PoA is getting a comic made! I asked but I can’t share art yet but it looks sooooooo good so believe me when I say the moment I can share I will.You can read a bit more about it here. (https://www.cbr.com/webtoon-aethon-books-fantasy-webcomic-collaboration/)Next step is getting this so popular we can get an anime. Fingers crossed lol.***Chapter 295Heidi gasped as she fell back from the patient who had just been brought into her healing station.Even as she tried to catch her breath an...
Chapter 294
I will be taking the 25th, the 29th, and the 1st off for my birthday (dec 30th) so chapters will go from the 22nd to the 5th.***PoA book 5, the Tournament arc is now on amazon FYI, no need to buy but its there for anyone looking for it. https://a.co/d/9yAjXsAAudiobook is delayed until late January at the earliest. Narrator is apparently very busy.***Chapter 294Liz gingerly set her seed on a germination tray, activating the growth enchantments at a very low level while she spritzed it with potion...
Echos Chapter 6
Echos Chapter 6Juni pushed the weight slowly, letting his muscles contract and letting himself enjoy the strain.Racking the weight, he sat up and looked around.Albert was still running on the treadmill.Juni knew his friend well enough to know that he was still trying to run from his problems, but once more hoped he could reach a destination. Or at least, a realization. Something, anything to wake him up from the funk he had fallen into after the disaster that was the vassal war and the war where...
Chapter 293
Big news! PoA is getting a comic made! I asked but I can’t share art yet but it looks sooooooo good so believe me when I say the moment I can share I will.You can read a bit more about it here. (https://www.cbr.com/webtoon-aethon-books-fantasy-webcomic-collaboration/)Next step is getting this so popular we can get an anime. Fingers crossed lol.***Chapter 293It took them another three weeks of dodging patrols to make it out of the occupied territories, but Joy managed it despite the ship trying...
Chapter 292
7777 words.***Chapter 292Matt stood up with the rest of Team Zero. Or, most of Team Zero.There was no time to prep, no time to down their boosting potions and pre-cast their buffs. They were tired, and while they were full on mana, that did little for their taxed spirits and Domains.And yet, there was an army waiting for them and they had a job to do, so they rallied without complaint.Drifter was trying to pilot the ship through the asteroid field they had been pulled into, while also avoiding t...
Chapter 291
Chapter 291Matt looked around the barren wasteland that was Pator-Sul and shook his head.They had won, but Pator-Sul was probably going to fall once more before Empire reinforcements managed to secure the system. The surviving Empire troops had retreated to underground shelters, but they had still taken heavy losses in the Sects initial push. Less than a quarter of them had survived to see their rescue.Intellectually, Matt knew that casualties were always higher when fighting with the Sects, but...
Chapter 290
Chapter 290Matt was sitting with Aiden, working on utilizing his Intent with the help of the older Ascender, when an alert bypassed his mutes.Reading it, he realized he was finally free from the Tier 31 who refused to let him train alone. “A red alert for Team Zero. Thanks for the tips.”Aiden nodded and waved him away. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go have fun killing things while I have to sit here for another few months.”Matt rolled his eyes even as he cranked his perception and left.Duke Waters ...
Echos Chapter 5
No Echo next week as I need a break from writing 3 chapters a week but we will continue the Echos after that small interruption.As always enjoy.***Echos Chapter 5Darius Blackwell watched as his grandfather talked to the man in black leather armor.He knew what they were talking about because he had been training for this moment for the last five years.His great great grandfather, the very ancestor he’d been named after, had been sponsored by this man close to two hundred years ago, which was a ...
Chapter 289
Chapter 289Matt was enjoying a nice breakfast when he got a message that all of Team Zero was to report in for supplemental Domain training with the assistance of Duke Waters.The man was a famously bad Domain teacher, and he had heard Allie’s complaints about his ‘words of wisdom‘ enough times that he wasn’t looking forward to having the older Ascender be anywhere near a Domain lesson.He checked the Team Zero chat to find a tirade of insults from Allie landing on everyone and anyone they...
Chapter 288
Chapter 288Matt teleported into his living room, only to find that his unexpected guest had already beaten him there. King Rusty, clad in Tier 25 armor that revealed far too much skin to actually serve as nonmagical protection, stood in a triumphant pose and with eyes firmly fixed on him as he materialized.“There you are! Did you think you could run forever?”“Don’t know what you’re talking about,” Matt shot back. “I was starting to wonder if you were trying to ignore me.”Neither ...
Echos Chapter 4
Echos ChapterDuke Waters spun through the emptiness of space and launched a dozen [Water Scythe]s at the squad of generals who were trying to stop him from massacring their troops. It was quite rude of them. He’d so much rather be back with Liz, Matt, and Aster, congratulating them for a job well done and messing with them back in the home base, but the Republic just had to launch a deep strike. Honestly, didn’t they know how this sort of thing was done? You had to give the newbies a few sof...
Chapter 287
Chapter 287After the impromptu party ended, Duke Waters kicked them all out and shouted that camp Sippy Cup was going under construction. Fortunately, Allie had recovered enough to bring them all back to the entrance of Fort Lightfoot, and dropped them all off before bounding off on some other adventure with Aster. Liz headed back to Group Firmament, as Aiden had dragged her off while she was in the middle of something, and Matt pinged Zack about meeting up to work on their mana-type project. Th...
Chapter 286
I will be taking the 25th, the 29th, and the 1th off for my birthday (dec 30th) so chapters will go from the 22nd to the 5th.***PoA book 5, the Tournament arc is now on amazon FYI, no need to buy but its there for anyone looking for it. https://a.co/d/9yAjXsAAudiobook is delayed until late January at the earliest. Narrator is apparently very busy.***Chapter 286Leaving the mission was nothing like arriving. While the journey out and sporadic battles throughout had taken months, their return was f...
Echos Chapter 3
Echos Chapter 3Baroness Margaret Thresh was watching the ascension ceremony at Marquess Heartless’s estate. With Duchess Felicity at the actual ceremony, the next highest noble in the chain of command had taken over the duty of gathering the Empire's nobility. Similar to Light and Shadow’s Ascension ceremony, she was there more to mingle and get her name in the ears and mind of both the other barons and her superiors, the viscounts and counts. Marquess Heartless was only one of thirty of...
Chapter 285
Chapter 285After their first mission, the three of them rejoined the others in Drifter's ship just to be greeted by Shadow in full combat kit holding children’s party paraphernalia.Matt rolled his eyes at the antics and instead looked to General Darrow, who nodded at them. “Wonderful first showing. Now, Drifter, if you would?”“Punching it!'' The pilot called back, and they felt the ship shift underneath them as they re-entered chaotic space, though this time staying more on t...
Chapter 284
I will be taking the 25th, the 29th, and the 1th off for my birthday (dec 30th) so chapters will go from the 22nd to the 5th.***PoA book 5, the Tournament arc is now on amazon FYI, no need to buy but its there for anyone looking for it. https://a.co/d/9yAjXsAAudiobook is delayed until late January at the earliest. Narrator is apparently very busy.***Chapter 284Matt twisted in his seat as Drifter looked back at them. “You three ready?”They had been inside the rift for two months, but with the...
Echos Chapter 2
Echos Chapter 2Jasmine was stirring her tea while she sat and watched the initial coverage of the Ascension ceremony with her delving team and a few of their closest friends.They, like everyone else in the Empire, had used the occasion for an excuse to party. Anything that wasn’t a food establishment was shut down, and the restaurants and bars were packed to the gills.They’d had some luck with their delving recently, pulling an impossibly valuable [Light Manipulation] from a rift, and there ...
