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Saltworld, Chapter 30 - Sticking Out
Sen was running.He hadn’t spared a moment to think—to deliberate. It had just taken a second after he saw the helicopter flying in the sky for his vision to tunnel down. After that, it was just buzzing. A soundless droning in his ears and the feeling of his body moving on its own, as if he had been possessed by a part of his mind that had just been waiting to snap.And he wasn’t alone. In front of him, Em sprinted forward with all her might, her arms stretched and her eyes wide, as a desper...
Back From Hiatus + Patreon Benefits Update
Hello, everyone! I recently came back from hiatus on RR, and with it I released an update regarding why I stopped writing for a while and what's going to happen going forward. If you'd like to know about the context of this post and why I'm making today's choices, you can check out my update post here:Post-Hiatus Update - Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG | Royal RoadOn that note, I'll be updating you guys here assuming that you've seen the post I left up there. There isn&#...
Saltworld, Chapter 29 - Shapes in the Fog
Next chapter here! Thanks for reading :)----Darkvision (Tier 0 – Blue) [Mind]Passive. The user’s eyes adjust to the darkness. Darkvision is improved. Vampiric origin; future skill augments affected.Available Augments:Improved Darkvision [0/250]Passive. The user’s eyesight in darkness improves further. Dark areas may now be viewed normally. Eyes become passively infused with Flow, allowing the user to see through even pure darkness as if it were dimly lit. Passively increases resistance to ...
Saltworld, Chapter 28 - Supervision
And I'm back! Lots of stuff happened over the last two weeks. Very exciting stuff. Brother finished his honeymoon and flew back overseas, I finally got my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine, and the new office chair I ordered for my back pains is getting delivered tomorrow. I can finally move on from this stupid patio chair I've been using for the last two years.After this chapter, I'll be writing one more Saltworld chapter, and then you guys can expect a chappy from LIT book 2 next. S...
Saltworld, Chapter 27 - Fun and Games
Em, Bali, and Tasha ended up playing a simple game of Snakes and Ladders. Sen watched it happen from across the board game café, a can of iced coffee in his hand. Not that it was cold anymore. With the lack of electricity in the area, all the drinks in Dubai had been rendered sad and lukewarm. It was only the lack of the desert’s usual sunlight that saved them from turning hot inside their containers.He took a sullen sip from his coffee, which he’d bought from Amir for a ridiculous amount. ...
Saltworld, Chapter 26 - Unshotgun
Brother's wedding is tomorrow! And I'm the best man, hah. Wish me luck. More chapters coming once the wedding is over.----Sen stared into the barrel of a gun.The long, graysteel barrel stabbed out of the darkness, inches away from his face. The shotgun barrel’s two dark pools seemed to suck the light in, drawing all his attention towards the gun’s deathly gaze. Sen heard a step—tap. A figure stepped out from the darkness, closer. It was an Emirati man with a neat beard, his eyes ti...
Chapter 25 - Moonrise
By the time the car passed through International City, they were going down the final stretch of the highway. Sen and Bali watched the road with somber silence as the mist dwindled.Outside, the Flow in the air had thinned significantly as well.“That thing in the mist,” Sen murmured. “It was the one letting out all that cold energy outside. It was the source of the fog; the salt crystals were evaporating on its skin.”Bali nodded blankly. “Nowhere is safe anymore,” he said. “Has God ...
Saltworld, Chapter 24 - Into the Mist
Sen wasn’t used to feeling cold air in Dubai.And yet, as they drove deeper into the sea of fog, all he could think about was the unnatural chill in the air. It was as if the entirety of this section of the city were refrigerated, to the point that Sen saw a slight coating of frost creeping along what corals they passed in the mist.Bali drove the car farther along the highway, up until they rounded a corner. They stopped there and quickly changed cars, abandoning the Volkswagen with the shatter...
Saltworld, Chapter 23 - Little Comforts
And here's the first advanced chapter, everyone! I'll be uploading two more tomorrow, and then the last two over the course of this week. The other chapters are still being made/checked out by my beta readers, so you guys'll have to wait another day before you get them. After I get to the 5 advanced chapters of my $5 tier, I'll start working on extra ones. I'm hoping to have at least 10-12 advanced chapters on my Patreon by the end of November, so here's to speeding throu...
Saltworld Advance Chapters Status
Firstly, I want to thank everyone that came in and joined the Patreon early! I've gotten a few questions about why there aren't Saltworld advanced chapters here yet, so I'll just announce that they will be coming to the Patreon starting next week on the new Saltworld tiers. I'm currently working on filling up a proper backlog for Patreon to give myself some advanced chapters + an allowance of a few chapters ahead.Thank you for your patience so far. If you're a new reader who&...
October Update! Project 2 release, LIT book 2, and more!
Hello, everyone! Just dropping by with another update on my current activities, just so you guys know I haven't been involved in any freak meteor crash incidents lately.So it's been delayed a week, but I'm happy to announce that my next project will be releasing on RoyalRoad tomorrow! Oct. 21st. I'll be holding off on releasing Patreon chapters with it immediately, so I'll be waiting a few weeks before any advance chapters for that start appearing here. I'll be writing it...
Saltworld Preview - Chapter 1: Bad Morning
Hello, everyone! So I wasn't planning on releasing this on September, but I figured I should give the Patrons who stayed some kind of thank you for the support despite my break. So... here it is!This is a teaser for my second project, which is currently named Saltworld. It's a placeholder title, so I'll likely change it if I can think of something better. Right now, however, it'll stay as it is until better options come up. Anyway, here's the chapter! I hope you guys find the...
Announcement!
Tl;dr at the bottom.So I've been writing the epilogue......and I realized that I just ended up writing the first chapter of book 2.The chapter is complete now, but I don't think it's an epilogue. I had planned to release it as one, but after reading through it once, I realized that it doesn't really work as an aftermath. So for now? I'll be cancelling my plans for an epilogue.Delving into Aami's POV and other characters would already be book 2 content, so there really isn...
Lost In Translation, Chapter 32 - Hug
Same chapter as before! The real new chapter is chapter 31 below this. I just reposted this with the new chapter number for the sake of proper sorting and pacing. For those unaware, this chapter was previously chapter 30. It's been changed to 32 for pacing reasons, but is otherwise unchanged.For patrons who have already read this chapter, go ahead and read 31 below!----Mother had improved to a terrifying degree.Despite throwing most of the work to her, she wrote like a demon. In the two year...
Lost In Translation, Chapter 31 - Ale
Aami stared at the puddle of melted soil and blinked. Frowning, she turned her gaze to Priscia, “I’m still new to this friend thing, but I’m pretty sure poisoning each other is a mother and son kind of activity.”Priscia looked up and furrowed her brows, “What kind of mother did you have?”“None! That’s my other friend’s mother. I don’t have one. I kind of just started existing one day, you know?”“That’s—wait, are you not mad at me?”“Why would I be?”“I literally...
Interlude Poll 2
Next interlude poll is here! It's going to come out after I finish chapter 31, which will be out in a couple days. Choose from the list, and if someone makes a suggestion in the comments that gets a lot of likes, I'll consider those an option and a vote as well.Also! I might change chapter 30 (Hug) to be chapter 31 instead. The chapter I release in a couple hours might be a better fit for 30 for pacing reasons, since it'll be Aami's perspective before the week long time skip in t...
Side Story 1
This is a poll for which POV side story Patrons would like to see after chapter 16! Please choose from the options below.
Patreon Relaunched!
Hello, everyone! It's been a while. I've reopened my Patreon after completing two weeks of consistent releases with my new fiction, Lost In Translation! If you've never seen it, please check it out here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41511/lost-in-translationAs an additional note, I will be releasing the Patreon advanced chapters here over the next four days, so any 5$ Patrons will be able to read them immediately! Normal, schedules releases on RoyalRoad will resume once I finish...
Update: Re-writing and trying to improve as a writer.
Hey guys, I haven't updated in a while, but I just wanted to update everyone on my status at the moment. School's been making me incredibly busy lately, and all my writing time has evaporated. Normally, I'd still be able to release a chapter a week despite the multiple deadlines they give us on a daily basis, but I've decided to suspend putting this out on RRL and making new chapters for a bit longer as I want to improve things in the new fiction a lot more.The worldbuilding, for...
Book 3, Chapter 17: A Blue Canvas
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 17: A Blue Canvas[Alen]“Uh, anyone nearby?” Alen asked, pressing down on the button as he stared down at Slayh below. His horde had the man surrounded, and it seemed like such an easy task to drown the man in his pack of undead, but Alen knew that a person who could stand on the same height as Seith would be no one to scoff at. He stared down at the Kivotl man, and Slayh’s dark eyes stared back up at him.“You are not attacking,” Slayh ...
Book 3, Chapter 16: Renovation
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 16: Renovation[Alen]People often don’t often realize how painful it is to regrow an arm made out of keratin, and with what he was doing at the moment, Alen was made very aware of that fact. Sweat dripped from the side of his face as he looked at the twisting curling mess of bone that slowly inched its way out of his shoulder. Cell by cell, nerve ending by nerve ending, Alen felt everything click onto life as the skeletal structure of his arm c...
Book 3, Chapter 15: Not Death
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 15: Not Death[Alen]The sound of nothingness enveloped his senses, and for a moment, Alen felt nothing, saw nothing, and thought of nothing. His vision was dark, flashes of black and white roaring noiselessly. Both fast and slow, the world had turned into a bicolored mosaic of darkness and light. He was certain the rest of his party were behind him, but he couldn’t feel their presence. Physical, magical, ethereal, nothing could exist in the dea...
Aegis Kalmore, Chapter 1: An Operation
Chapter 1: An OperationAegis saw shadows dancing on the walls, shadows laughing from the ceiling. Laughing at him. Rocks stung his back as he was dragged by his feet across the dungeon's floors, his arms limply trailing behind him. The two people pulling him were conversing silently. Through his blurry vision, he would see them glance at him disdainfully, their words failing to reach his ears over the ocean of noise roaring within his brain. His body felt weak, and his eyelids were heavy. Th...
Book 3, Chapter 14: Deathflare Blast
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 14: Deathflare Blast[Sam]Sam ran across the halls, following just behind Adam and Lynn. He pulled on the magic in his body, and with ease, he manipulated it, melding the magic into his muscles—strengthening them to keep up with Adam and Lynn. They rushed forward, Alen’s words in mind. He was handling something with that other party member apparently, and Sam silently congratulated him in his head.Now all they had to do was get out of here. H...
Book 3, Interlude: Coincidence
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthSide Chapter: Coincidence[Cuck]The last thing it could recall before it was abruptly thrown out of the Galeboat’s bottom compartment was a loud crash, along with the deafening roar of a very angry fish. After that, things were a bit of a blur. Not figuratively, no. Literally. Like all small, inconsequential pieces of rubble, or in its case, resurrected poultry, it was swept away by something bigger. Not the hands of humans that had tried to eat it in ...
Book 3, Chapter 13: Kept In Reserve
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 13: Kept In Reserve[Alen]Flame-like lights shone from yellow rocks mounted on sconces affixed to the walls of the spiral staircase. It was dim, foreboding. Shadows and silhouettes danced in the shade as a group of ten ascended. The one at the lead was a man, his big eyes scanning the corridor at the end of the steps. He nodded.“Clear,” Razzan said, in his unmistakable accent. He moved forward, and the rest followed. Alen’s hands were tense...
Book 3, Chapter 12: Portal
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 12: Portal[Alen]The change in atmosphere was palpable, and Alen found himself settling into a different mindset. A persona—a piece of himself he only reserved for when things would see blood. As the roar rang out throughout the cave, Alen was already moving. His party had settled onto a similar state of action. The group of Kavarith splintered into different directions. Lynn jumped off her mount, and Alen sent the one mounted by his summon to ...
Book 3, Chapter 11: Matriarch
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 11: Matriarch[Alen]Alen leaned against the wall, his arms crossed. He stared seriously at the navigation device Dieter held in his hand. Above it, a three-dimensional image of the Underearth Dieter had mapped came into view, the cave structures of each room and passage outlined by the pulses of magic emitted by each sigil he left. Alen could tell Dieter’s device was of a high quality too, with the sheer amount of sigils being far above the amo...
Book 3, Chapter 10: Not Muffins
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 10: Not Muffins[Adam]He stared at the piece of wood in his hands. The dagger was carved almost to completion. It was white, and the patterns of the Orinwood he’d used were prominent, the lines in the grain occasionally flashing with traces of a blue light. Orinwood, high quality. It was powerful, magical. Rich in mana, he was confident that this dagger made of the stuff and the shortsword that he’d carve afterwards would be his best so far. ...
Book 3, Chapter 9: Almost
Necromancer and Co., Book 3: The UnderearthChapter 9: Almost[Lynn]It was in the middle of the night when she’d heard a voice in her head. Familiar, bringing with it a twinge of annoyance as she stirred lightly in her sleep.“Lynn,” it said, hurried.She twisted in her sheets, groaning.“Lynn. You there? Lynn.”The elf let out a disgruntled noise, somewhere between a grunt and a monosyllabic complaint. She pulled her sheets over her head, then covered her long, delicate ears with the soft p...
