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Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Simply walking toward the stand of trees in the distance wasn’t quite the stroll in the park that Thaden had hoped for.  Not more than 100 feet from where he’d taken control of the Beezards, his army was attacked by 3 giant Mutated Beezard Warriors that seemed to float up from the flowers despite there not being any room for them to hide, which were each the size of a greyhound bus.  At Level 44, they were already inherently stronger than his own minions, but ...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Walking through the dungeon entrance was as strange as it always was, though he certainly wasn’t expecting what ended up being on the other side.  Based on the underground location, he had figured that the dungeon would be based around caves or dark spaces, but he was almost immediately blinded by the bright sunlight as he emerged into a vast sea of calf-length grass and thousands of flowers in a riot of colors for as far as the eye could see.  When he was able ...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 22

Chapter 22

The area around Teglir was interesting because, at first glance, it didn’t seem like it could sustain as many Adventurers that operated out of the city.  The immediate area, for approximately 50 miles around, was pretty much all cleared land that had functional farm fields spread around it.  As Thaden had learned earlier, the farm communes that ran the farming operations employed many thousands of people, all of whom needed to be protected from stray monsters th...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Thaden dug into his breakfast with gusto, the food better than he expected for a buffet-style format in the Coalition’s dining area.  It made sense for the food to be made in mass quantities like it was given the sheer amount of Adventurers filling the massive cafeteria-style room, but it had still surprised him to learn that it was a buffet.  Of course, with thousands of people wanting to eat around the same time, there were actually 8 different stations around...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 20

Chapter 20

“Thank you.  I really appreciate you working with me on this.”

Thaden had been surprised to learn that the Teglir Branch Leader of the Adventurer’s Coalition was only Diamond Badge Rank, as he expected her to have at least Platinum, if not Platinum+ like his own.  As such, Eleria – the Coalition Leader – was unable to provide him a Platinum-Ranked Badge, as Diamond was the highest that she could provide; it was the only spare Badge of that Rank in ...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 19

Chapter 19

“So where exactly is the—” Thaden began to ask as they rounded a corner after passing through an incredibly busy street in the city, but he cut himself off as his vision caught the sight ahead of him.  So far, beyond the walls protecting the city, the buildings hadn’t appeared too different from the ones he’d seen in Felith or Purbooth, though on a grander scale; the streets were remarkably clean for such a large city, especially near the docks, which he some...

Plans for Jan 11-16

The release of The Affinity Collector went pretty well! Now that it's done I can finally focus on finishing the rest of Healer Arc 2, which I'm hoping to have completed by the end of January. I'm approximately halfway done with it, so it's definitely possible :)

Next week, I don't believe I have any other plans other than to write -- so I'm shooting for 10 chapters! The following Sunday, Jan 18th, I need to work with my cover designer on the first Healer Arc 2 cover (and title, I sup...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Thaden had visited the cities that had been created on the developmental world of Tarth, and at the time, he had considered them fairly massive when compared to the various towns that dotted the Region that he’d ended up in.  Unlike those cities, which apparently only had a few decades of time to be completely built and furnished by the natives before the Contenders arrived, the city of Teglir appeared to have been around a long, long time. 

It wasn’t th...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Thaden stood along the railing around the rear of the ship, looking down at the water that passed underneath the vessel as the river gradually curved in a northeasterly direction.  Unlike what he’d experienced when he first encountered the waterway, the only living things inside the water were normal-looking fish that wouldn’t have looked out of place in any river on Earth.  Any sign of the monsters that had inhabited the forested area was completely gone, and...

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Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 16

Chapter 16

“See anything yet?  They usually start up around here, don’t they?”

Garney looked up from his position along the bow of the Rivercat where he’d been focused on the water below, only to see the ship’s captain nervously looking around at the Adventurer Party he had hired to escort them to Fanebridge to deliver a shipment.  The route was a common one that happened every other day, but each trip always required protection from the dangers that lurked a...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 15

(As a heads-up, this is the final chapter of Healer Arc 2 Book 1 for my $2 Patrons until the book is completely written; at that point, I'll gradually release all the chapters leading up to its publication on Amazon.)

Chapter 15

“Are you sure this will work?” Thaden asked, glancing over at Sadia who was back in her giant squirrel form. 

She spread her hands to her sides and moved them up and down with her palm up, as if to say she wasn’t sure.  “...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 14

Chapter 14

It took Thaden a few seconds to shift his mindset away from his Competency Advancements to the larger world around him, but once he was able to comprehend what he was looking at, he immediately understood why Sadia needed his attention.

“Where did this come from?” he asked, confused, while he climbed down from the back of the large wolf.  As soon as he was one the ground, Sadia shifted back to her normal squirrel form with a simple thought from Thaden.  ...

The Affinity Collector chapters taken down

As mentioned last Friday, I have taken down all of the chapters for The Affinity Collector/8 Year Story to comply with KU guidelines. If anyone was still reading it, message me and I'll get you a copy that you can continue reading.

Plans for Jan 4-9

I hope everyone is having a great New Year!

I was only able to get 1 chapter done today because it was a bit more involved with creating some spells and whatnot, and it was about 50% longer than my typical chapter. Still, I'm happy with how the story is going and my progress, and I'm shooting for a late February release for it on kindle.

Next week, I have the release of The Affinity Collector! That means that, on Monday, I'll be taking the chapters for the "8 Year Story" down to...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Thaden seemed to have gotten away from the town of Purbooth without the members of the Local Legion stopping him, but he wasn’t going to let his temporary success get to his head.

“When they find that you’ve left, it’s more than likely that they’re going to come after you.  I would suggest putting as much distance between you as possible.”

Obviously, he agreed, as he didn’t want to risk them finding him and questionin...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 12

(Only 1 chapter today; I forgot that I had to do some end-of-year accounting this morning)

Chapter 12

The destruction of Felith didn’t happen in a vacuum.  Unlike the “native” citizens that inhabited Tarth, who were implicitly instructed – or ordered – to essentially take whatever disasters befell them without reaction, the world of Plangea was a real community that didn’t simply pass off the obliteration of one of their towns without do...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 11

Happy New Year!

Chapter 11

It wasn’t the first, and likely wouldn’t be the last, time that he’d spent the night in a tree to keep him safe from the denizens of the jungle.  The biggest difference between his experiences before and his most recent night was the size of the trees he had to climb, as the ones in the jungle were a bit smaller than he was used to and so therefore he had to pull three of them together to create a stable place where he wouldn’t cr...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Thaden didn’t hurry.  As much as he probably should’ve hoofed it after his Party left him behind, to theoretically join them in finding out exactly what was going on, the fact that he was moving toward where he felt the whiff of the System heading made his steps hesitant.  Who could blame him, though, given his past relationship with the all-powerful entity?  It was the System that had ultimately attempted to kill him on multiple occasions, had i...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 9

Chapter 9

The extraction process was done quickly upon the numerous corpses around the final cave, despite there being hundreds of them, and soon enough they were heading into the only place that hadn’t been explored as of yet: The place where the Boss had broken through the wall.  The darkness inside it had retreated somewhat, allowing them to see that it led to a much smaller cave, which had the familiar wavy distortion along the backwall that signaled that it was an...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Thaden and the rest of his Party quickly discovered that while the Gremklins were essentially immune to their own Blasters blowing up, that didn’t extend to the explosive traps that they encountered along their way through the dungeon.  With his group of enthralled monsters leading the way as essentially disposable mine detectors, Thaden had them sweep back and forth along the path they were taking, setting off a half-dozen detonations that otherwise would’ve hit th...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 7

Chapter 7

The sensation of passing through the dungeon’s threshold was familiar to what Thaden was used to on Tarth; there was a brief moment of transition where everything seemed to freeze as he took a step forward, a stutter in the passage of time that held him hostage to the whims of the transitionary plane.  Because he wasn’t the Party Leader, he didn’t have any input on the difficulty of the dungeon – if such a thing was even possible in the “real” world, as he w...

Plans for Dec 28-Jan 2

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I attempted to write more today, but with all the Christmas prep, I couldn't get my head into it, so I decided to cut it short. I spent a few hours posting and promoting my free eBooks, so if you haven't seen the post yet, download a bunch of them before Christmas ends!

I'm taking the rest of the week off, and on Sunday I'll be wrapping up the last of The Affinity Collector so that it is ready for publication. After that, I only really have a few min...

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Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The Branch Leader for the Felith Adventurer’s Coalition worked extremely quickly, so much so that Thaden barely had a chance to catch his breath after his stressful conversation with her.  He had done his best to fake as much confidence as he could during their talk, and at the end, it seemed like he had succeeded in creating a mysterious objective for himself being in the area – which was mostly supplied by Rivella as she offered her own opinions.  The fact th...

Plans for Dec 21-26

I got started on the second Healer Arc! It's only 5 chapters so far, but once the holidays are over, I'm hoping to have a lot more time to work on it.

Next week, I have a funeral and a birthday party to go to over the weekend, so I likely won't be getting any work done. On Monday, I'll only have a small portion of the day to work, as I have some familial obligations, so there may or may not be a chapter. Tuesday and Wednesday I'm hoping to get a chapter out each day.

I'm taking...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Rivella looked across the table at the pale-skinned, fur-less Human as she tried to reconcile what she was visually seeing and what the System was telling her about this individual.  Initially, when she’d first seen him, he appeared as if he’d just come from the fields, dirty and exhausted-looking, which she later learned was exactly where he’d been; the fact that he had been working out there as a Platinum+-Ranked Coalition member was a mystery, as was just about...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 4

Chapter 4

It turned out that the Adventurer Coalition building had rooms for rent, or in the case of Thaden, his Platinum+ Rank status allowed him to stay for free.  Even though the Coalition having rooms for the Adventurers to stay inside had been common in Tarth, he’d heard no mention of it since he’d arrived in the town or Felith, nor did the building seem to have space for these rooms.  He quickly discovered that it was because the rooms for rent were inside a differ...

Healer Arc 2 -- Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Because he wasn’t technically part of the Coalition and therefore didn’t have access to the entirety of the building, Thaden hadn’t been up to the second floor.  Now that he was finally there, he realized that he wasn’t missing much; the entirety of the second floor was basically nothing more than a nearly empty attic, illuminated by a singular box on a pedestal set up in the exact center of the floor.  The light that seemed to come out of the transparent b...

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