Ascender-targeted shops and inns passed by on either side as I moved without purpose along the main thoroughfare. I was pulled back to my first foray into this microcosm of Alacryan culture, each aspect of it so hyper-focused, remembering the thug’s ill-thought-out attempt to mug me, my run-in with “Haedrig,” and my eventual—unfortunate—pairing with the Granbehls.
It’s a s...
2023-09-15 17:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post“It will not be a safe road, or an easy one, but the path will be of our own choosing.”
2023-09-13 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostˇThe matte black cube rested on the bed in front of me, its weight pressing down into the surface of the soft blanket. It was heavy, dull, and frustratingly blank, lacking any indication that this was some repository of great insight. Had I not received it from the last djinn remnant, as well as already having worked through the long and frustrating process of unlocking the first two ...
2023-09-08 17:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostI started to speak, wanting to add something—anything—but I caught Boo’s eye. The guardian bear gave me an empathetic nod, and I understood what he meant.
2023-09-06 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Reuploading Chapter 431 due to some reports of it missing! Hopefully, this chapter is now visible to all readers!
The droning of the mana-powered skyship shooting through the air provided a calming ambient static as I sat down at the foot of the ship cabin’s bed where Sylvie was lying down. Outside, the pressure emanating from the two remaining dr...
2023-09-01 17:31:53 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
Rolling onto my back, I turned away from where the tempus warp portal had vanished. Something nearby was issuing a faint but worrying hum as dim light spilled across the garden: the tempus warp itself. It was glowing faintly and putting off enough heat that it had withered the flowers it had crushed only seconds ago.
I stared at the artifact for far to...
2023-09-01 17:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostHope you have all had a great month so far. Thank you to everyone who participated in the Q&A. Similar to last month, I put together a list of questions and answers.
As a friendly reminder, Q&As are a new exclusive perk for my Asura and Lance patrons, so pl...
2023-08-31 19:30:29 +0000 UTC View Post"...Call on your bloods, your neighbors, and your friends to set aside their petty grievances for now. Tomorrow, we take a step forward as a nation. Unified.”
2023-08-30 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCECILIA
I stared at the space where the portal had been, its afterimage still visible against the darkness of the night and the slums below. My mind was blank, the fury of the battle washed away by the shock of its sudden end. Even the screaming pain of the wound in my side seemed subdued, distant as it pumped blood around my hand.
I had failed. Grey had been there,...
2023-08-25 17:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostThen everything else came rushing back in. The fear, the guilt, the rage, the uncertainty, the hope…but the pain overwhelmed it all. For a moment, I remembered how it had felt to die.
2023-08-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone ^^ It’s time for another monthly Q&A for Asura & Lances. Please submit questions here by 8/24. For this month, please ask either author-based questions OR questions about the latest 4 chapters.
Like last month, I’ll be putting up another post on Patreon later this month to share the Q&A...
2023-08-22 23:03:26 +0000 UTC View PostMy sword, conjured of pure aether and held together by my will alone, plunged into the interwoven threads of aether around me.
Revealed by the God Step godrune, the network of amethyst paths connected every point to every other point around me—through the aetheric realm, I had learned from the last djinn projection. The godrune had changed when I made that realization, and the ...
2023-08-18 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post"...Grey doesn’t matter anymore, he’s just a road bump between us and getting exactly what you want, don’t you see?”
2023-08-16 19:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
The night was dark, the stars hidden behind thin clouds blowing down from the Basilisk Fang Mountains in the distance.
We’d hurried through the city of Nirmala in silence. Four guards had been posted at the descension portal when we arrived; their deaths had been quick, but the fight had interrupted a conversation I’d been having with Sylvie. Now, ...
2023-08-11 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“We should not have entrusted so many Alacryans with our plan,” he added in a stage whisper.2023-08-09 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
CECILIA
Voices above, around. Familiar, but far away. So, so far away…
The words, talking about the flames in my flesh, dancing like sprites. Swirling, eager mana, burning, burning. Too much. More and more, drawn to me, flames to the moth. Filling me. My blood, my bones.
Mine.
Mine, like the hole. Deep and endless. A frost-filled pit. Can’t ...
2023-08-04 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnywhere else in the world, they would have been a formidable, even overwhelming force, but here, now…they seemed so unimportant. They were nothing.2023-08-02 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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“This is not the Victoriad, and I am not introducing a contestant fighting to be a retainer, so I will skip over the flagrant compliments and unnecessary list of achievements.” Seris paused for a moment, letting the collection of highbloods look around at each other suspiciously. “Although known in Alacrya as Grey, the truth is this: I introduce to you Arthur Leywin, Lance of the country ...
2023-07-28 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe shared this illustration process on socials today, but I wanted to share the full width version here. And yes, we made lyra less horny 👀
Thanks for your support on vol. 11!
2023-07-27 17:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t hate either of them, not the way they hated me. It was too complicated.2023-07-26 19:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s that time of the month for another Q&A for Asuras and Lances. Please submit your questions here by 7/24. For this month, please only ask questions about this past month’s chapters (ch. 435-438)!
I will create another post on Patreon later this month to address questions. This approach will hopefully i...
2023-07-21 23:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
“It was a loose idea at best, Arthur,” Caera said with uncharacteristic hesitance, her tone almost pleading. “A whim really. If it’s not possible…I’m not an artificer…you don’t need to take it so seriously…”
I was sitting cross-legged on the ground in front of Seris with Realmheart active, the violet runes it conjured bur...
2023-07-21 17:01:21 +0000 UTC View Post‘It seems worth a try.’ Sylvie rested her hand on Regis’s mane. ‘It will buy us all time at the very least.’2023-07-19 22:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post
CAERA DENOIR
The bottom dropped out of my stomach as Regis leapt off the side of the gargantuan branch on which we’d been running. Trees larger than even the most grandiose cathedrals and palaces rose all around us, their branches crossing over and beneath one another in an incomprehensible network both above and below. Under me, Regis’s flesh began to writhe.
H...
2023-07-14 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“She’s waited for me long enough.” I looked at my companions, weariness creeping in with each syllable I spoke. “Let’s get moving.”2023-07-12 18:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
ARTHUR LEYWIN
A dark shape passed between the enormous limbs of the endlessly climbing trees. The movement was too fast and the cover too dense for me to make out any details. Even with Realmheart active, I could sense neither mana nor aether from the shadow in the brief moment I was able to see it.
“What was that?” Ellie asked, her voice high-pitched...
2023-07-07 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSylvie, now would be a great time to snap out of it, I thought, not expecting a response.2023-07-05 19:32:00 +0000 UTC View Post
SYLVIE INDRATH
The Compass portal wrapped around me, embracing me and pulling me in. The transition was seamless, unlike the ancient portals dotted around Dicathen. On the other side, I found myself in a picturesque world that seemed more likely to be found in Epheotus than in Dicathen or Alacrya. Towering trees, their tops not visible from the forest floor, grew up from ...
2023-06-30 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post