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Blood Shaper Chapter Fifty-one

Darten set the clump of dirt containing the dead Treant gently on the ground and moved all of the soil and rock away, leaving just the monster’s corpse lying there. “So, they left?”

Kay looked around the camp for signs of where they might have gone but found nothing. “Well, Eleniah was going to scout around for threats and resources in the area before I heard you guys fighting those beetles, so maybe they went and did that?”

“What next then?” Darten asked.

“W...

Blood Shaper Chapter Fifty

“I’m sorry,” Darten said, his head bowed. “That sounds… terrible.”

“Still, it sounds like you ran into some good people,” Meten said as he smiled at Kay.

“Uncle!”

“What?” He glanced at Darten, “He met Eleniah and those other adventurer friends; it’s a good thing!”

Darten sighed, “It sounds like you’re downplaying the bad parts of what happened to him. He got sucked away from everything he ever knew and thrown into a world with a lot mo...

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Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-nine

Kay jogged back into camp, just catching Eleniah as she was walking off. “Hey!”

“Back so soon? Where’s the tree?”

“We heard fighting coming from past the trees, and I decided to come back and ask for your advice.” The last part he said with some sarcasm attached. “I heard weapons, so it’s people of some kind.”

She turned and started jogging. “Good thinking. In some cases, it can be a bad idea to go towards the sounds of fighting, but since we have exact...

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-eight

Kay ate slowly, taking his time to enjoy the meal he’d made for their breakfast. Since they were planning on being in the area for a while, he’d used their better supplies to make breakfast as a kind of celebration for finding a good spot. It certainly tasted a lot better than dried meats and long-lasting travel bread. 

As he ate, he stared up at the mountain across the lake. It wasn’t that far away, the lake was thinner at the northern part, where they’d finally found what...

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-seven

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Pre-chapter note: Sorry this didn't get posted Friday like I thought I would, things didn't work out the way I wanted. But here's a chapter!

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“That’s pretty!” Murunel exclaimed as they looked down the cliff to the glittering lake below.

“It really is.” Kay agreed quietly.

When the forest had finally ended, the land started to rise as they traveled. After passing through a very hilly area, the group of three had found a valley sloping downward. K...

Minor Delay

With both my day job and writing combined, I'm feeling a tiny bit burnt out, so today's posts and updates are going to be put up this evening.

Thanks for your patience, your chapters will be available today, just not this morning.

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-six

“Does this count as something interesting?” Kay asked as he stared at the tower, overgrown with clinging vines. It was tilted to one side, a bit like pictures of the Leaning Tower of Pisa Kay had seen once.

“Ruins were on my list, so yeah, totally,” Murunel replied. Kay could see her stretching out in the sphere as she tried to get a better view. “Is there anything else?”

“All I see is the tower.” Kay turned his head to one side, keeping his eyes on the structure. ...

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-five

Kay held his hand in front of the ball on his neck, and Murunel immediately stopped talking. After she’d managed to stop crying in a combination of relief and joy the night before, the dragon had turned into quite the chatterbox. Forty years of not being able to talk were coming out all at once, not that Kay or Eleniah had a problem with it. Just being able to speak to someone had turned Murunel’s mood around considerably.

Thankfully, as Kay scanned the environment around him, looki...

Tier Change

Just a simple thing, but I thought I'd announce it so it wasn't a surprise. I'll be changing tier rewards slightly. Due to the number of patrons I have now, (And thanks all of you so much!) there's a huge blob of names to type every time I do a free chapter. From today on, I'll only be pasting individual names of all Partisan tier members. 

In the future as I hopefully get more time to fuss with details, I'll make something to keep track of and update names, then I'll switch it to ...

Chapter Forty-four

“So that’s all the basics you need to know to set up camp.” Eleniah gestured around at the tent, fire pit, and basic latrine she’d made while Kay watched and helped a little. “You remember it all?”

“I think so. Basics we need, things we sometimes won’t do and when we won’t, and things to watch out for. Pretty sure I remember it all.”

“Good, we’ll go over everything together a few more nights before I start leaving you to it.” She wandered over to the rock...

Art Poll Results!

I'm going to go ahead and close the two polls a little early, because results seem to be pretty much set in stone, and the number of votes hasn't updated much in the last two days. So!

The results are pretty much what I was expecting, Cover Art first, then character art, then for the first scene piece (Or what have you, call them as you will) will be Murunel getting out of the ball. 

I already have a cover artist I found that I'm going to ask for a quote, and I'll be hunting ...

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-three

Alice’s party said goodbye to the two of them one last time close to the city gates. There was not much traffic right then, so they weren’t blocking anyone while they talked.

“Be safe, you guys,” Alice said as she hugged Eleniah. Eleniah awkwardly patted the younger woman on the back.

“We’ll do our best,” Kay replied as he shook Verndan’s hand.

Eleniah snorted. “Don’t worry, I’ll be training him, so he gets ambushed less.”

They all laughed as Ka...

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-two

Kay followed as Eleniah stormed back inside, still angry about the theory he’d pieced together. He totally understood; if he had someone he loved who claimed to trust him, treating him like that all the time, he’d be angry too.

He peeked into her room, where she was leaning over her desk.

“Come here.” She beckoned at him.

He stepped inside and looked over her shoulder.

“We’re leaving tomorrow if you don’t have any good reason not to?” She glanced at him...

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty-one

The week of being under house arrest was simultaneously restful and boring. It let Kay’s arms get back to mostly normal, but he was also annoyed at being confined for a week.

“Why are we stuck in here?” He demanded one morning as he and Eleniah sat in the living room.

She looked up from her book. “The City Guard is investigating everything that happened, and they don’t want us running off if they decide we’re guilty of something.”

“Guilty of what? I got kidna...

Second Art Poll!

That's right, there's two! This was originally going to be for Partisans only the day we hit one thousand a month, but I screwed up on Friday and didn't update Supporter tier patrons chapter access! So this one will open to them too!

This poll is to vote for which scene I get art for first! I like seeing art of different scenes from stories, so I'm going to get some made for my story!

The options are all of scenes yet to come, so hopefully I can get the art ready around the time t...

First Art Poll!

Since we've hit a thousand dollars a month, I have a surprise! That's right, art polls! Not only will I be cutting hours at my day job in order to write more, I'll also be starting to commission some art! This first poll will determine the first thing I commission: Real cover art for Blood Shaper or character art of Kay, Eleniah, and a secret third character you haven't met yet?

All patrons will get to vote to see which one comes first! Then after I get the first one, I'll commission th...

Ahh!

Apparently something went wrong yesterday with updating Chapter forty from Partisan only to Partisan and Supporter. It's fixed now! I might have not hit the confirm or save button or something like that. Sorry everybody!

Blood Shaper Chapter Forty

Kay woke up, once again groggy and confused. This time at least, it didn’t feel like a tiny person inside his skull was trying to beat their way out with their fists. “I really need to stop waking up like this.” He muttered to himself.
“Then maybe you should work on paying better attention to your surroundings.”
Kay looked over to see Eleniah sitting next to his bed. “Hey.”
“Dammit, Kay.” she stared at him, her emotions running across her face. After a moment of sit...

Blood Shaper Chapter Thirty-nine

Pre-chapter note: This was originally going to be a longer chapter that got posted yesterday, but I'm unhappy with how the emotions and backstory and such that's happening in the later half is being conveyed. So I split it in twain and now you get the first, less emotional half, while I work on the more impactful part again.

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Kay moaned in pain as Coultron kicked him in the ribs.

“Now, do you know your place?�...

Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day, to those patrons who celebrate it today! I have the day off, so Partisans can reasonably expect at least one more chapter by the end of the day today! Yaay!

I'm trying to build up my cache of them, so Partisans have more and more to read ahead.

I'm telling you this, so that I have your expectations weighing on me. I find those help me focus my motivation better.

Thanks everyone!

Blood Shaper Chapter Thirty-eight

The room beyond the one containing the cell was thankfully empty. Kay slowly walked forward, looking around as he stepped inside. There was a desk directly across from the door he’d just come through, and it looked recently vacated. An open door to the side of the room led to a staircase, and hopefully, Kay’s escape.

Kay was about to head upstairs when he noticed a chest sitting on the far side of the desk. Looking down at his shirtless chest, he decided to check and see if it had h...

Blood Shaper Chapter Thirty-seven

Eleniah pushed open the door and walked into the house she was renting. She still didn’t think of this place as “home”. She knew she would leave Tumbling Rapids someday, and she just wasn’t attached to the building. If she never saw it again five seconds from now, it wouldn’t be that big a deal.
“Kay? You here?” She called out, to no reply. She shrugged and walked into the dining room, where she’d left her note a few days ago. There was nothing on the table, and a quick loo...

Blood Shaper Chapter Thirty-six

Kay woke up groggy and confused. Also his head hurt. Like, a lot. Why did his head hurt so damn much? It wasn’t like he’d been beaten unconscious. He tried to stand up and staggered onto his feet, clutching his head.

“Oh, he’s up.”

Kay tried to look towards the voice he’d heard, but the bright lights sent lances of pain through his head. He wrapped his arm around his eyes instead.

“That… Doesn’t look good.” A different voice said. “I thought they used t...

Blood Shaper Chapter Thirty-five

“Hey, Eduard?” Kay sidled close to the half-elf as they were gathering up the bodies of the snake-like monsters they had killed. “I have a question.”

“Sure, what is it?”

Kay hesitated. “It, well, it might be a bit rude, so tell me if I should drop it.”

Eduard nodded. “Sure, you can’t know if something is rude without asking about it.”

“Okay.” Kay paused for a moment, then rushed the question out. “How are you a half-elf?”

“What?”...

Blood Shaper Chapter Thirty-four

A little less than a Torotian week after the fight with the Blood Mage, Kay woke to an empty house. 

Higher tier people needed less sleep, and so Kay was used to Eleniah being up at least an hour or two before him. She apparently had been, but she hadn’t stuck around according to the note on the table. It read: “Got a good lead on the Nelamian stuff, headed out after it. Will check in two days from now. If you don’t hear from me by then, head to Guildmaster Caruion, he’s be...

Blood Shaper Chapter Thirty-three

After getting back to the rental house, Kay helped Eleniah prepare for dinner. Most of his life in Torotia till this point had been focused on adventuring and leveling his combat skills. He hadn’t had the chance to pick up the Cooking skill, but he;d made enough meals for himself back on Earth that he could at least help with the basics.

“I just realized.” Eleniah turned to him as he started chopping vegetables. “Have you looked at your class effect?”

“My what?”

Apologies!

Advanced chapters weren't here for awhile, but that's fixed! I'm posting them now. I'm going to change up the way I do it, and just open them up as it reaches the right moment for each tier instead of posting multiple each time.

Also, since they're available for anyone on RR, I'm not going to post the chapters that are missing here on here. Imo it's easier to read the on RR, so go do that! They're already their!

Blood Shaper Chapter Fourteen (Helper)

“What do you mean you haven’t worked on his class at all?” Douglas demanded. “It’s been three months!”

“Don’t you yell at me!” Eleniah snapped back at him.

“It’s been three months and he hasn’t upgraded to tier two! It takes less than one for the average person to do that! What have you been doing?!” The gnome slammed the table, making very little noise even in his rage.

“I’ve been training him to be better than the idiots that rush to each tier...

Blood Shaper Chapter Fifteen (Enthusiasts)

“Melee weapons?” Kay asked, looking around at the multiple weapon racks in the back yard.

Eleniah nodded. “Right! Since your range is only a few meters right now, you’re probably never going to be much of a medium or long range combatant. If you need to be close up to use you magic, we might as well add some weapons into your arsenal.”

The automatic translation effect had decided to change the units of measurement of this world into the metric system, which made sense se...