Hey everyone! Thanks so much for continuing to support Battleforged. I'm grateful to you all, humbled that you've all stuck around for this long, and I'm excited for Eric's future and your part in shaping his tale!
I always try to be true to my characters and my sense of their flow, but I think I've reached a solid point in the story where Eric's adventures could evolve in all sorts of interesting ways. I'd love your feedback on what you would like to see happen in Eric's (and pos...
2024-10-15 00:31:42 +0000 UTC
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The surprised looks being sent his way by hundreds of Administrators in their changshan tunics, turbans, robes, and three-piece suits was gratifying, and the desperate promises messaged to him from a handful of women wearing silken kimonos, qipaos, enchanted blouses, and power suits was surprising. He was just grateful to sense people fleeing from the various counsel chambers.
Even the cynical, hawk-eyed men and women from other other council chambers who hadn’t responded...
2024-10-14 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Servant-Master bonds are now in effect!
You are now GLOWING with Hyperion Radiation!
You have FAILED to save versus Excruciating Pain!
You have been struck by Titanic Blow!
438 Physical Resistance & Cuirass of The Underlord reduces Annihilating Blow to Critical Injury!
Eric’s world had become one of seering brilliance and unending fire blazing through his soul.
He choked back a shriek of agony ...
2024-10-11 05:10:21 +0000 UTC
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Yuki, taking small solace in being surrounded by friends and future classmates every bit as exhausted and overwhelmed as she was upon their floating force dome piloted by a headmaster who looked as worn out as everyone else, leaned her head against the boy she had every intention of claiming the moment they landed, no matter the consequences. And the look in his cheeky grin brought a flush to her face, because it was clear that he felt the same.
“You’re mine,” he whispered ...
2024-10-07 04:00:08 +0000 UTC
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A/N - Extra long chapter today. 2 Parts! Please enjoy.
“Svena? I have a bad feeling about this.”
Svena, face covered in grime and exhaustion even through the faceplate of her power armor, gave her closest elven friend a bemused look, before turning to regard the pair of imperial agents standing beside their employer, all three now staring at Svena and her companions like bugs under a microscope.
“Yeah, I don’t particularly like the look of Lord Song...
2024-10-04 04:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“Oh fucking hell, this is bad.” Eric swallowed the awful surge of dismay he felt. His furious sense of triumph of minutes before, the sweet endless rush of shockingly fast travel of just moments before, that wondrous fiery flicker of hope… had just died to bitter ashes before the mocking laughter of his most hated foe as he forced himself to face the sight before him.
What a fool he had been to think that even several hundred thousand of his elite troops stood a chance agai...
2024-09-30 03:58:01 +0000 UTC
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“Rich? Do you think we’re going to make it?”
Yuki swallowed her own stupid words, flinching at the scowls and despairing looks on so many faces, even if her words had been too soft for any newly reforged level 0 apprentice to hear.
Richard Li smiled as he leaned beside her, giving the hand he held a gentle squeeze. “Absolutely!” His eyes lit up with a bright intensity that warmed Yuki’s heart. As if he was hope, shining in the gloom even as they fle...
2024-09-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Eric laughed with mad, furious exultation. Because final days or no, he was REVELING in the sheer rush of growing in strength and power and sheer glorious HATE as he glared down at the countless nightmare swarm of locusts that had consumed an entire province in less than a day.
An entire province.
In less than 24 hours.
And just a few miles away, protected by the thinnest of barriers, an innocent girl had just fallen in love with the reborn dream of an el...
2024-09-23 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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He fought off growing panic at the inevitability of a bitter cruel mocking fate that he REFUSED to accept any twisted cards trying to link him and his world to and instead focused on the glorious shining silvery cord of possibility that made this endless night the farthest thing from an apocalyptic tragedy. Because here and now, unlike as was the case for countless struggling souls in countless novels, he could actually empower himself. Better himself. Learn from his mistakes in the be...
2024-09-20 04:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Eric howled with manic mirth, no matter his blindness, no matter his temporary Unified Restoration Suppression.
What mattered was that his army was growing like never before. Infravision and an absolutely absurd Perception meant that he could easily make out the battlefield with all its exquisite nuances and degrees of heat, much as he had once used to hunt rats in pitch darkness. His interface made it clear that even as his revenants were savagely reduced by several...
2024-09-16 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Bunbun, report!”
For endless, agonizing moments, Eric heard nothing, even as he raced for the heavens once more, the air going bitter cold and thin before he turned back around and dove with a hawk’s fury, the air screaming with the charge of his revenants racing beside him. Working with increasing practice and cohesion, they kept an extremely tight formation to minimize air resistance as their speed increased to near fighter jet speeds.
Eric shot ahead to strike at ...
2024-09-13 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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"Eric! They’re swarming! There’s too many of them! The sky is black with locusts!"
Eric took a ragged breath, heart spiking with panic as he snarled and raced through the sky faster… faster… as fast as he fucking could. As fast as 60 Usain Bolts cracking Mach 2 as the shrieking air kissed his face no worse than the breeze he needed to suck great big gulps in as he glared at the crackling storm of lightning and thick white fog that did NOTHING to block his ...
2024-09-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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A/N - Yuki's POV
Gore from the fresh screams of yet another Paladin perishing despite their best efforts spattered across Yuki’s face as she screamed with the glory of her very first ascension and what a breathless Richard assured her would normally be the beginning of Core Compression if she was prudent and wanted the best possible Bronze ascension… but that wasn’t the case for her. She was ALREADY filled with the highest possible grade of Qi, having been fo...
2024-09-05 04:00:24 +0000 UTC
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A/N - Yuki's POV
Yuki’s heart was pounding. Her lips were dry and cracked, her mouth tasting of iron and despair. Senren whimpered along with half a dozen other students, and Richard was pleading with someone or something with feverish intensity and all Yuki could do was stare as Headmaster Wyrmwood’s voice roared with desperate urgency.
“Retrieve the Paladins and retreat! Your Grace, Queen Elonia, we must retreat! We’re about to be breached!”
2024-09-02 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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A/N POV - Eric's future classmates!
Yuki, fully kitted in lamellar armor, squeezed the hilt of her ko-naginata, glaring through the protective force dome over the flying disk that she and all the Mistridge classmates that had joined her were now riding, more than a few shivering from fear far more than wonder as they gazed out at the scene of horror in the distance.
“This is why I held back, Jack. Even though I knew I was being an idiot, missing out on...
2024-08-30 04:00:11 +0000 UTC
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A/N - Bonus Chapter! Please enjoy :)
“Eric, there are too many of them!”
Eric snarled his hate for the massive swarm of locusts below. A swarm so vast that his heart had lurched the moment he saw the mile wide devastation as multiple paths demarcated by wreckage and massive stumps had coalesced, less than five miles from the border between ascending Black and the paradise he had made for his sister and so many lost souls.
A paradise about ...
2024-08-28 04:01:01 +0000 UTC
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A/N - I actually have a SURPLUS! YAY! And you know what that means... extra bonus chapter coming in two days!
Eric’s heart was pounding with a growing sense of urgency as he tore through the air, racing to the next hot spot, the air filled with the sharp chirps and grinding squeals as he slowed his pace enough to glare down at the scene of absolute devastation below. The once lush primeval forest had been replaced by mangled stumps, rocks, churned topsoil, and thousand...
2024-08-26 04:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Elonia's POV - Eric's back next chapter!
“I demand you unhand me at once!” Sir Fesspot roared, now covered in smoking burns as gold bands were wrapped around him and all four of the now hogtied and blindfolded goblins. Fesspot’s tweed jacket seemed to boil as if it had been sewn together with fibers far less stable than wool.
The souls of his victims, Elonia uncharitably thought.
“Unhand me, or you will be at war with the entire Terran—”
2024-08-23 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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A/N - Elonia's POV
“Your position is not quite so secure as you seem to think, Elonia Silver!” Sneered the stick-thin bureaucrat dressed in tweed gazing up at the cool demeanor of the queen before him. He paid no mind to the pair of paladins stationed to either side of Elonia’s throne, mithril halberds resting upon the marble tiles that could so easily be used to decapitate any threat in the blink of an eye, serving as Elonia’s honor guard.
The Terra...
2024-08-19 04:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Eric exchanged a fierce grin with his familiar. “We’re fucking doing it, Bun! Raising high level locusts just like those fucking orcs of last year! Has it been a year? Just weeks? Fuck if I know. Fuck if I care! How you feelin’ Bunbun?”
“Incredible, fearless leader!” Bunbun hooted, crimson lightning crackling from her ears to fork between a half dozen locusts actually stupid enough to fly right for them. “The Spicy air is so fucking sweet! Shivering thr...
2024-08-16 03:59:02 +0000 UTC
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Eric came back to himself with a gasp, his feeling of utter euphoria turning to dismay when he found himself in the heart of a roaring inferno, with everything within fifty meters utterly obliterated.
Dismay turned to panicked alarm.
“Fuck! Elly! Bennet! Are you guys okay? Roboro Vuentus! Iram Ignis! Plures Attentio!”
He didn’t bother trying to formulate a new spell on the spot, merely relied on what he had already practiced back at his sister’s o...
2024-08-12 03:59:01 +0000 UTC
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“Please… help me!”
A desperate cry rang through the darkness as Eric came to with a gasp. Somehow he wasn’t surprised to find himself back in the concrete and steel bunker that stunk of rust, blood and death that had come so close to spelling his end, just days ago.
He gasped in horrified dismay, to see the girl who had come so close to killing him now bound in horrific chains of rust and blood.
“Why am I here? Who are you? What is happening to me?”
...
2024-08-09 03:59:00 +0000 UTC
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* This is Liutenant Rake of Silver Wolves! Rising Sun, do you copy? Rising Sun! *
Svena glared at the lush foliage all around her, wiping the humidity off her faceplate.
“Fucking hell, Bennett. Flying swarms of giant insects that would be a nightmare for anyone not wearing powered armor are bad enough! We also got giant spiders filling entire forest with sticky webbing that would have made for a Very Bad Day, were it not for our guns.” She glared a...
2024-08-05 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Sanguis Fulmin!” Bunbun cried, crimson bolts of crackling death flashing in a jagged arc to strike and chain between the trio of now smoking wasps that had been a heartbeat away from striking them with their spear-like poison-tipped stingers.
Only to rejoin their arachnid phalanx leader, seconds later.
“Surge Centuria! Imperator Imperat Tibi!”
You have successfully raised 3 Level 50 Terror Wasps! - Modified revenant level = 88!
2024-08-02 04:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Seriously? You're offering me another diplomatic mission?” Eric chuckled, though when his familiar hopped up and claimed the envelop before returning to his side, he didn’t hesitate to take it.
“Indeed,” the Silver-tier headmaster assured, eyes twinkling. “Should you find yourself heading to New York…”
“Or Boston,” Elonia said with an anxious smile of her own, handing him a second note and whispered words that made him wince internally.
But all he...
2024-07-29 03:59:02 +0000 UTC
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A/N - Exciting News! Book 4 of Battleforged will be coming out on KU shortly! To celebrate, I'm releasing a fat (nearly 8000 word!) Chapter. I hope you enjoy!
Richard’s excited nod was followed by them all crossing the sparkling bridge. Morlekai and Alice tried to play it cool, but their wide-eyed looks of wonder were the equal of Richard’s own. Jack, Yuki, and Marsha exchanging satisfied smiles, pleased to be back in a place where they had at least an ephemera...
2024-07-26 03:59:00 +0000 UTC
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A/N - Thanks again for your patience, everyone. I do hope you enjoy the chapter! - After this will be another slice-of-life chapter on Friday and then Eric will get back to doing what he does best before the school arc! And Eric will do his best to cram ALOT in before the new semester!
Eric could only focus on dreams of conquest and the financial mecca he’d made this world’s New York for so long before he was distracted by Richard’s stories and his fr...
2024-07-23 02:04:24 +0000 UTC
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“Captain Arnor of the Blood Ravens. You’re timing is perfect!” Eric said with a perfectly straight face. “So, you got the interface message I shot your way? I was afraid it wouldn’t cross different domains. I’m not that strong yet, but you’re elite, so why wouldn’t you get a business message?”
The mech-warrior slowly shook his head. “Sorry, kid. We’re no longer Blood Raven. Our former corp folded. We’re now all members of Crimson Song corp, owned and...
2024-07-19 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“I just sent a message to Queen Elonia. I hope she likes my gift.”
Eric scowled. “You just gave her Queensland. You’re trying to impress her.”
Richard flashed a shameless smile. “Wouldn’t you want to impress the most beautiful girl in the entire world?”
“Not if she’s my sister!”
Richard gave him a look. “Well, she certainly isn’t mine.”
Eric closed his eyes and groaned, not expecting the pat on his shoulder.
...
2024-07-15 04:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Thank fuck, they’re backing off!” Jack said with a relieved curse after just a handful of minutes, the Blood Ravens playing it cool enough, slowing down and flying back around with a final wave of a salute before heading back.
Marsha flashed a weak smile. “Maybe they were just giving us a, um, honor guard? It makes sense, right? We did just sign a major treaty with them and give them a hundred million in gold?”
Yuki shook her head with disbelief. “You actually ...
2024-07-12 04:00:02 +0000 UTC
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