Happy Friday, everyone!
The weekly chapter update should be available to all my patrons now ^^ I can imagine some of you might have gasped when you saw the title of this post, but do not be too alarmed, haha. Volume 10 will be ending soon, and with that, I decided to take a four-week break while pausing my Patreon for the month of April to prepare for Volume 11.
TLDR: I will not be ...
2023-03-17 23:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostCECILIA
“And here we are, once again,” I said, glancing to my left.
Nico was flying next to me as we hovered just outside the protective barrier surrounding the western half of Sehz-Clar. Behind us, twenty thousand loyal Alacryan soldiers filled the streets of Rosaere, the city spanning the two distinct halves of the dominion. The translucent shield neatly bisec...
2023-03-17 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhat she had labored for years to create, I had just unmade in an instant.2023-03-15 20:18:30 +0000 UTC View Post
By the time I stepped out of the descension portal into my family’s room in Vildorial, the others had already spread out. Boo was in the kitchen slurping up something out of a cast iron pot, and Ellie was wrapped in our mother’s embrace. Mica had thrown herself down on the couch, heedless of how filthy and blood-stained she was. Lyra was standing near the small fireplace on the far side of ...
2023-03-10 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post‘I was just thinking,’ he noted, his tone more serious than usual. ‘This world is fucked up.’2023-03-08 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Light and color bled across the blank white canvas in greens, blues, and purples. My surroundings ran like watercolors, coalescing into a stained-glass diorama before finally realizing recognizable shapes. I found myself sitting on a soft cushion made of a deep navy material. In front of me was a small wooden desk, expertly crafted to highlight the whirling grain of whatever alien tree it was c...
2023-03-03 18:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Vol 2 Release!
I am sure this post title turned some heads, haha. We shared some news about it on the Discord already, but if you're keen, come join a game night with me :D My team and I had some conversations on how to best celebrate the Vol 2 c...
2023-03-02 19:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post"...Why is it acceptable to guard knowledge but not lives?”2023-02-28 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The noise and turmoil of combat filled my senses as I watched each of my companions carefully. Whining squeals of pain erupted from the horde of scurrying monsters, while Boo voiced his battle fury in a roar that shook the mana that made up this platform. Mica and Lyra shouted at each other in turn as they worked side by side to hold off the surge.
Although Ellie herself was quiet, she ma...
2023-02-24 18:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostA choked sob lodged in my throat as I stared down at Ellie. My mind was blank. I grasped for sense, but the image of her ripped open and crimson with her own blood seemed so impossible, so unbelievable, that all reality shivered to a halt. The only thing to penetrate my brain aside from the horrible sight was the mournful roaring and tramping of Boo behind me, which felt like a manifestation of...
2023-02-17 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post"...You’ve”—her tone softened somewhat—“had it worse than I have. It is my turn to take that risk.”2023-02-15 20:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
ARTHUR LEYWIN
As I watched the others vanish one by one through another portal—the fourth now since leaving the third djinn ruin—I considered the mental map left for me by Sylvia. Despite my confidence in isolating the proper zone, it was still strange. Unlike all the other pictures in my mind, which included a sense of what to expect in the zone, this one was empty, ...
2023-02-10 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Do people ever get…stuck in the Relictombs?”2023-02-08 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The oppressive gusts of void wind pressed in on me from every direction, blinding and deafening me. I could sense nothing but the rapidfire beating of my heart and the cold metal pressing against my wrists. Even the omnipresent hush of the ocean lapping against the shore was obscured.
“You two, get the tempus warp packed up for travel.” Muffled by the spell, Wolfrum’s voice was dist...
2023-02-03 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe world was ripped away from me, or I from it. There was no air in my lungs.2023-02-01 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
CAERA DENOIR
Our base of operations in Sandaerene lacked all the charm and beauty of Seris’s villa in Aedelgard. Seris had commandeered one of the Sovereign’s research facilities for us to use as a command center, and there was something about the sterile, functional building that left me feeling chilled all the time. Nothing but cold metal and even colder white light...
2023-01-27 18:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post“The way she thinks, plans, and executes…lessons taken directly from the High Sovereign. But she is using his own tools against him. It’s…almost poetic.”2023-01-25 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The final episode of the season will be up on Tapas in less than 10 minutes.
Thank you so much for your support up to this point! We'll see you very soon ^^
Hello!
I will be working with Tapas to make sure all my comic readers will have fun TBATE content in between Season 5 and Season 6!
Our main team will be preparing for Season 6(after a well-deserved break on Fuyuki's end). In the meantime, we are planning on working with various artists to bring you some free TBATE comic shorts. Some will be canon, and some won't...
2023-01-20 22:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostARTHUR LEYWIN
The zone trembled as its behemoth protector collapsed, its chest pierced with translucent mana arrows and stone shards, its final piteous roar choked with black blood.
Mica, sweating and caked with dirt, nudged the behemoth with a toe, making the massive, fur-covered corpse rock slightly. Its tiny black eyes were staring sightlessly past me from above ...
2023-01-20 18:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post"I can see the anguish in your mind, but I can offer you no balm for your pain. I…am…s-sorry…”2023-01-19 19:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
ALARIC MAER
I reread Lady Caera of Highblood-bloody-Denoir’s letter for the third time, unsure if it was the alcohol that made the words so insensible or if it was just what she was asking me to do. The bar below was quiet—a sign of the times—which actually made it harder to focus, if anything. I needed noise, movement, action—distraction. I missed the boy, althou...
2023-01-13 18:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Not my commander anymore,” I mumbled, closing my eyes and leaning forward to rest my head on the small desk. “I’m no soldier, and you’re dead.”2023-01-12 00:01:46 +0000 UTC View Post
ELEANOR LEYWIN
“This would be much easier if we just flew,” Mica said grumpily as she wiped a glob of blackish-greenish sludge from her face, all that remained of yet another beast that had attacked us.
“You can’t simply bypass the rigors of the Relictombs,” Lyra pointed out, sounding exactly like a school teacher. “The point is to ascend 2023-01-06 18:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn’t sure how that made me feel. I don’t think I could isolate my feelings like that. My emotions are a part of who I am. Who is he, really, when he’s like this?2023-01-04 21:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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The next episode is heading to you sometime today :) hang in there!
2023-01-04 19:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostJust wanted to take some time to thank everyone for another fantastic year. I’ve been writing TBATE for a bit over 6 years and it’s crazy to think that the novel has over 1 million words and the comic is going to soon hit 200 episodes! Through the years, I’ve expressed repeatedly that this couldn’t have happened without you all and I still stand by that. Lurking through the discord and ...
2022-12-30 22:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostCECILIA
My entire body quaked with convulsions that I couldn’t suppress as the power within me clawed and hammered its way out. Beneath me, the small bed I’d finally come to accept as my own rattled against the floorboard, the wooden frame crackling like pine needles in a fire. My eyes wouldn’t close, instead staring wide-eyed around the unadorned room, the line of ...
2022-12-30 18:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostI shook my head, certain in my earlier observations. “He was holding back for some reason. I think he was afraid to hurt me.”2022-12-28 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post