Path of the Aegis [Chapter 1 | Kyle]
Path of the Aegis, Chapter 1
2024-02-18 00:16:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Path of the Aegis [Prologue]
Finished reworking most of the system and am now getting into rewriting the first chapters with all of your suggestions. Due to Patreon being a hassle to read on, I'll be taking Senescent's advice and will be uploading Light and Dark mode PDF's moving forward so that you can open the file and read through your Kindle apps. I'll also be using a program that will help me utilize charts and blue b...
2024-02-05 01:23:15 +0000 UTC View PostA Summoner Awakens 2 Available on Kindle!
A Summoner Awakens, Book 2, is now available on Amazon Kindle and as a paperback! No current date on the audio, but it's scheduled to be recorded. I think Jeff said he has one more to record before he can get Summoner in the booth!
Enjoy a detailed, medium to high-stakes world with an intriguing, card-based power system, well-defined characters, and a mysterious plot—all wrappe...
2024-01-16 16:26:40 +0000 UTC View PostASA Data
Updated link for the Summoner Data!
I know some of you requested access so you could use it when Book 2 releases and once the audio comes out in a couple of months. Sorry for the lapse. I blocked the link to avoid spoilers when working on the Deck/Role chapters, then moved everything from my personal email to a Kerberos email and forgot to unlock it. Here ya go!
2024-01-14 18:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32 [Corruption]
I blinked and tried to adjust to the sudden change, and when my vision cleared, I found myself standing at the end of a bridge of pulsating purple light.
The Achievement platform. Strange… I recall needing to ascend a flight of stairs to enter here. A quirk of the Third Tier, perhaps? Nathaniel never mentioned this.
Without hesitation, I stepped onto the bridge...
2024-01-09 03:51:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31 [Third Tier]
“Yer sure all I need to do is press ‘em in those little holes?” Locke asked skeptically, holding one of the memory sticks up to the dull light of the cloudy sky. His interest briefly flicked to the directional Relic I’d lent him to safely reach the next meeting place before switching back to the small metal stick.
“As far as we’re aware,” I confirmed. “Once all ...
2024-01-09 03:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30 [Drawbacks]
Kasamira dropped to her knees and slid down the slanted wall of one of the many toppled buildings. She leaned back, narrowly avoiding the claws of a Feline Class Beast she was facing, then lashed out with the Plagued Talons that had replaced her nails.
Her talons shone with a red hue that extended the full height of the Beast, rending it in two as she passed beneath it. Instead...
2024-01-09 03:49:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29 [Intertwined]
“Rowan, over here!”
I looked up from the pile of debris I was sifting through and saw David hovering above the broken buildings just a few streets over. He waved one arm over his head while pointing down at something I couldn’t see on the other side of a high, crumbling wall. Rosie leapt from her place on my shoulder and flew over the obstacles to get a look at what he’d found. 2024-01-01 00:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 28 [Limits and Tiers]
The shadows seemed to swim away the moment my foot hit the ground. It took a few blinks to acclimate to the quick shift in my surroundings, but once I could see clearly, I found myself staring out into the same ruined city I remembered from my first life.
Debris from hundreds of collapsed buildings lay strewn about the fractured stone ground beneath. Thick, sickly vines grew fr...
2023-12-28 15:12:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27 [Forgotten Memories]
Oh, Jonathan… I wish that I could truly express the importance of the Tower’s trials. The secrets of the ‘in-between’ are more than just fabrications of the Tower. More than just tests to ensure our preparedness for moving forward. There are hidden truths in every instance, truths that cannot be discerned without knowing history that has been lost to the ages. I can only ...
2023-12-10 07:19:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25 [Discovery]
“Been almost twenty years, Charles… and not one word from the others in the Order. How much longer we doin’ this?” a deep, rumbling voice tumbled from the chapped lips of a short, burly man. His bushy brown beard swayed in the wind and his bald head shined each time the sun peaked through the clouds.
He stood on the back of a behemoth of a creature, with wings spanning ...
2023-12-03 00:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24-4 [Aurora’s Journal: Locke]
I’m relieved that I didn’t miss anything important. During my review, Locke had been sorting through his own Cards—using the questions that Rowan had asked me—to remove those he no longer deemed necessary. I had been stunned when using Memory to replay what had happened during my vision… Rowan had actually held up his fingers and asked the same questions as the elderly ...
2023-11-26 19:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24-3 [Aurora’s Journal: Aurora]
I’m not sure why I was so nervous when my turn came to pass, but I had no reason to be. Rowan took his time looking at each of my Cards and asking my reasons for adding them to my Deck. Not once did he disparage my choices. In fact, despite saying he’d help me choose which Cards to remove and guide my decisions when it came to replacing them… the man didn’t tell me to rem...
2023-11-23 19:35:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24-2 [Aurora’s Journal: Nathaniel]
I thought Rowan was something but Nathaniel… Well, at least it makes sense for him to have such a powerful build. What doesn’t make sense is how he’s invested so much Essence without exploding! Nathaniel and Rowan have both mentioned multiple times how I need to Level my physical Foundations so that I can handle eating the remains of Plagued Beasts. As much as I’m loathed to do so...
2023-11-11 15:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19 [Elijah]
Elijah’s eyes snapped open. The sound of the strange voice peeled back the heavy curtain of sleep that had been draped over him. He yawned and stretched his arms while blinking rapidly in an all-out attempt to fight off the warm embrace that threatened to drag him back to his dreams. In one swift motion, he tossed off the blanket that had been wrapped around him like a cocoon… an...
2023-10-26 01:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18 [Leah]
Leah heard the pop echo through the cavern and looked away from Rowan’s sleeping form to catch the tail end of her husband already crushing another Slime in the same place as the last. She watched as he dug out the creature’s Core, then lifted a large bundle from the stone wall before walking towards them.
Seeing that everything was fine, she returned to looking at...
2023-10-14 15:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24-1 [Aurora’s Journal: Rowan]
I’m… Speechless. How can someone like Rowan have so many rare and powerful Cards? Nathaniel, sure… but Rowan? Even after Nathaniel’s mind-blowing revelation of the existence of these… Promotion Cards… the one that Rowan earned on the First Floor only had eight uses! Rowan has twentyHoly Cards and tons of Blessed Cards besides!
I’ll have to wo...
2023-10-14 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24 [Roles]
“Ya really let this bloke tote aroun’ a whole veranda?” Locke stared disbelievingly at the table and chairs Nathaniel had just dragged from his storage space. Nathaniel ignored the question, opting instead to arrange the seating.
Aurora’s Cards had already been removed from their slots and were neatly displayed in front of her. She sat patiently with a pen in hand, pad in front, a...
2023-09-30 16:13:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17 [Shop | Kyle]
Kyle looked on with interest as his Grimoire flipped to the communication page and began to pen in a veritable wall of text. While waiting for Iroh to finish, he watched the little Slime burrow itself into one of the piles before coming back out with an old bicycle horn inside it. He felt… uneasy. It wasn’t the Slime or the cave that had him feeling off, however. It was Iroh… 2023-09-14 01:50:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 23 [A Stroke of Luck?]
I smiled wryly down at the Card in my hand. The chances for a Card to drop weren’t the best, but if one were to drop, I had a fifty-fifty shot at it being a Pure Summon.
“Ha. An Ability Card.” I turned to Nathaniel and flashed him an amused grin. “Shouldn’t come as a surprise since I’ve always had the rottenest luck. Seems that even an Origin Card made just for this c...
2023-09-14 01:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16 [Loading | Kyle]
Despite how tired he was, Kyle could hardly contain his excitement as he read the Ability description in his Grimoire.
[Innate Ability | True Sight]
[Tier | 0]
[Stage | 0]
[Mastery | 3]
[...
2023-09-02 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22 [Locke's Debut]
Shimmering glows littered the forest floor, almost blinding in the shade cast by the late afternoon sun. So as not to be distracted by the many marks, I willed my Tracking Ability to end before its limit had been reached, then leapt to a nearby branch.
There you are…
I watched from my new vantage, tucked behind a dense cluster of leaves, as the Toxic Lepus we’d tracked ...
2023-08-27 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15 [Crystal Flame | Leah]
Leah skidded to a halt a few yards away from a massive translucent gray Slime—just outside where Kyle estimated its perception limit would be. Across from her, where she could barely see him through the murky ooze, her husband gave her a thumbs up and started calmly walking forward, stomping on the ground to make sure that the beast sensed him. As expected, the seven-foot-tall monster’s mem...
2023-08-27 14:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostBaby Kerberos!
The mass drop for the Royal Road release of Path of the Aegis is now complete. Aegis is around 2 months ahead on Patreon with the normal release schedule, and I'll work on upping that as time goes on. I believe A Summoner Awakens is 3 months ahead at the moment, so I'll be trying to catch up to that before eventually pushing t...
2023-08-19 16:33:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14 [Don’t Worry | Kyle]
Kyle hardly had time to read the notifications that Iroh was relaying, but he managed to get the gist of it. Somehow, his daughter had instantly shot up to the second Semi-Stage in Stage One. Worried that something had slipped past his wife, he’d been prepared to plow through the small army of Slimes like an all-star linebacker, but when he looked at the hill Leah and Maeve were ca...
2023-08-19 14:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13 [Accidental Awakening | Leah | Maeve]
Leah swung her club at a tiny red Slime, killing it instantly despite it being her first attack on the creature. She was pleased with herself. Not from the instant kill—though that was a big deal—no, what had her satisfied was the trail of putrid scum that had covered the ground in a ‘V’ shape behind where the monster had been. It had taken some getting used to, but she was...
2023-08-14 15:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12 [More Learnin’ | Kyle]
Kyle walked toward the rightmost hill, stomping on any lower Stage Slimes he passed along the way. Down by the foot of that rise was a Slime whose size was only matched by those closer to the Domain’s entrance… and he wanted it.
Damned Energy… Kyle griped inwardly. He still wasn’t tired, but his Energy seemed to be dropping faster than it had been before. Wit...
2023-08-14 15:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11 [Damage | Leah]
“Don’t your feet hurt?” Leah sat at the base of the hill, looking up at the two small… Slimes… that were creeping down toward them. She’d gone through several emotions in a short time when they’d gotten close enough for her to see the first. What little denial she’d been feeling vanished, only to be replaced by fear that there were actually monsters out the...
2023-08-12 15:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10 [The Walk | Kyle]
Welp, got the hard part outta the way. That went much better’n I’d thought it would. So, what we workin’ on next? While Leah fiddled with her Grimoire, Kyle altered his priorities to match his current progress. Maeve’s torrent of questions had finally ended—with her last being how she could get a Grimoire. She’d pouted for a minute after he told her she would h...
2023-08-12 15:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9 [Awakened and Distressed | Leah]
"Nnnnnngghhh!"
Leah woke to a very, very familiar, crisp snap and an unbearable stinging from her nether region. Her hands shot to her ass and massaged the wound while she loathingly endeavored to force the sleep away. She didn't want to. That had been the best sleep she'd gotten since before her first child. As for the man who’d interrupted her peaceful s...
2023-08-12 15:35:01 +0000 UTC View Post