HankTheMoose

3.53 A Friendly Face

The smell of hellfire filled the room as the demon king’s enormous face split, revealing a colossal maw filled with teeth all the way down. While his master’s appearance didn’t phase Nuros, the hellish light emanating Varamemnon’s eyes did, pressing down on him like a heavy weight.

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3.52 Treachery

Aelos cast himself through the night toward the distant, telltale red-orange flicker of hellfire. He’d been following his tracker for days as he pressed ever further south into the Phoenix Reaches. A river of golden fire cut through the grassy plain in the far distance, bisecting the monotonous...

3.51 Zijeregh

“Did it really have to be here?” great one Ed grumbled at Jori, looking around at the hellfire-pitted walls and floor of the tiny cell. He nodded briefly at the others, who were crowded against the walls in anticipation of their arrival – Maladzhoth and Xoryath. She’d left most o...

3.50 Side Effects

After checking to make sure that none of the bodies lying all around the confluence were still breathing, Bernt walked back to where the summoning circle had been to retrieve his bag. He was limping slightly. Now that the excitement of the fight was wearing off, Bernt realized that he hadn’t go...

3.49 The Confluence 4

For a few seconds, the pressure built in Bernt’s head so much that he saw spots in his vision. Then, just as quickly as it had come, it was gone. The pain disappeared with it, as if it had never been and the sand that had felt as though it were cooking his face just a moment before now felt not...

3.48 The Confluence 3

Hey all, got an extra long one for you today.  It was a bit tricky to write and since we're starting the climax of book 3, I want to invite you guys to throw in any feedback about this particular section. Is it too abstruse? Does it hit?

Lastly, I'm adding a small section with...

3.47 The Confluence 2

Hi all, I'm going to be driving across the country to Berlin next week to look at an apartment (I'm hopefully moving soon!), so posts next week are going to be irregular. I'm not sure how many chapters we'll get, but I'm just going to play it by ear.

Cheers!

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3.46 The Confluence 1

Edit 3/7: remembered that Bernt is supposed to use a compatible material for the elemental summoning circle, so I added that into this chapter.

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Bernt trudged across the endless, grassy plain four days later, keeping his course due west toward the distant mountains. He c...

3.45 Demonic Pact

Bernt watched from behind the temperature barrier that closed off his small stone shelter as fire rained from the sky, bathing the landscape in light from above and below. It was the second time Bernt witnessed this phenomenon, but the first time he had such a great view. Seeing the unnatural clo...

3.44 A New World

Zijeregh climbed out of the crack in front of her, emerging out into the light of day for the first time in days under the boughs of an ever-burning tree. She inhaled the hot air, letting it burn her nostrils. Her vessel’s skin burned slightly at the touch of direct sunlight and she had to squi...

3.43 The Phoenix Reaches

To Bernt’s relief, the storm clouds did not prove to be an example of the Phoenix Reaches’ infamous burning rain. Bernt had read something once about how mountains were supposed to make clouds and cause rainfall somehow, but he hadn’t expected to find an example of it here – none of the m...

3.42 The Sunset Range

It was late by the time Bernt finally stopped for the night, curling up in his bedroll in a somewhat sheltered spot between a few large boulders. He slept fitfully for a few hours, plagued by nightmares of the day’s events. It wasn’t the cultist ambush, the demons or the guard with the rock t...

3.41 Another Way

Bernt moved more slowly after encountering the goat demon. He couldn’t afford to keep getting into surprise fights. Sure, his banefire spell gave him a powerful advantage against demons, but sooner or later he was going to stop getting lucky. He didn’t want to think about what might have happ...

Book 1 is Published!

Book 1 is now available on Kindle Unlimited and Audible! If you'd like a copy, you can get it here. Of course, as my loyal Patrons, your purchase is not necessary. If you want to read earlier parts of the story th...

3.40 Wait Up

Bernt tasted blood in his mouth. His face burned, and something was pulling on his leg, dragging him across the ground. Rocks scraped across his back and head painfully – both had been scraped raw. He kicked weakly as he tried to blink his eyes open.

To his surprise, his captor lost his g...

Character List

By request, I'm posting a running character list. This is not complete, well organized, or even terribly well labeled, but it's what I use myself to keep track of who's who as I'm writing. I'll be fixing/updating it in the future, but I didn't want to just have it in the To-Do pile for a mont...