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Chapter 5
Author's Note: So I'll probably stop just straight up releasing chapters now, while I write a bunch more to prepare for the official release. I'll do more editing too, polish some things up, because I've already had to change a few things. For one, it took 5 chapters to cover this, and I thought I'd have it done in 2. Another issue is that I'm terrible at planning crimes or having characters solve them, and my idea was dumb. I still went with it mostly, because i figured why not. Show that howie really is 17, and well, s...
Chapter 4
Author's Note: In true Ruff fashion, it's taken me more chapters to get to where I was going than I thought it would take. Things have been ... hopefully tense, and I'm hoping the next chapter is a little more exciting. If it ends where I think it does, that'll probably be the last one I post up willy nilly, so I can start building up more chapters for a real release. That's all for now, so enjoy!Edit: Also, I updated the prev posts with some changes i've made. Bit of spit and polish, crammed a couple more facts and back...
Chapter 3
Gonna take the rest of today and maybe tomorrow to touch up the chapters I got. Do a bit more of foreshadowing in all three. Theres more stuff I want to hint at besides whats revealed here, like Howie's hat, plus leave a better trail so what he does here doesn't feel like as much of an asspull. Anywho, I'd love to know your thoughts please, here or on discord, or comments on the gdrive too. Thanks and enjoy!https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mRz73AG8ZZXpHU6RscbNTBadfLvZ26vb7tXZBXlp40c/edit?usp=sharingNow, most my magic, I learned f...
Unnamed: Chapter 2
This one is a lot rougher than chapter 1. Gonna look over it again tomorrow, but figured I could share anyways. ATM, the tentative title for the work is Firstborn of the Frontier. Alternatively, I might go with Firstborn: Frontier Legacy. I still like Cowboys and Cultists, but I wasn't planning too many cultists shenanigans. Anywhoo, enjoy and lemme know your thoughts on the ch and the title.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FW1IaDMeh0W-GcWTSsG6CPFLNbF9WEvnN7vqYii8jXs/edit?usp=sharingContrary to the name, Pleasant Dunes is anything but.Wh...
So I'm back, kinda.
First things first. Hi all. Thanks for still being here even though I've been inactive.Meant to come back sooner, but things took longer than expected. 2023 has not been kind. I don't wanna get into it. The important thing is that I'm already working on my next story, and I've got my first chapter here for you today.A few issues though. One, it's a first draft of a first chapter I'm not entirely set on keeping. Mostly because the voice I went with for the MC. I love it, but it's exhausting to write, so if I do a few ...
October Payments Paused, state of Epubs
I've been busy with my dog's health stuff, but I should have time to organize and create the epubs tomorrow and friday. Takes some time since I gotta copy the chapter from RR (for most up to date corrections), paste in the chapter, the volume, and the full version. It's not difficult, just boring, and I get distracted easily and often. I'll name them after I read them again, but I should have the epubs made by the weekend, but the pause payment thing is so you can access it for another full month and whatnot.So yea. That's a...
The Final Chapter For realsies no joke.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWrNUBxNHW5Dckc4moF_hC0PgGuP3vAYGMa7B8B64jY/edit?usp=sharingThe crowd chants my new title with all the affection and enthusiasm they have to spare, all but ruining any chance I have of fixing my good friend’s terrible naming sense, so I stifle a sigh and beat a hasty retreat back to the walls to take shelter from all the attention and check on all my floofs.Thankfully, the Heavens are merciful and the chanting is cut short as the Supreme Families make their presence known in a most awe-inspiring fashion, co...
Chapter 839
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jp06lnHB2XbgxM_kjUUpXNaEZH825Kl7T29acbVngKo/edit?usp=sharingVictory is mine, but the cheer and merriment will have to wait as I watch a man mourn the loss of his brother.Gently cradling the crumbling soul of the man who conquered the Azure Sea, the portly scholar Di Zi sheds no tears and emanates no grief, for his control over his emotions is so ingrained that he’s all but forgotten how to feel. By necessity, if I were to guess, since an errant soul like Di Zi cannot afford to indulge his emotions lest he e...
Chapter 838 unedited unmemed
Author’s Note: I’ve written and rewritten the first part so many times, yet it still kinda feels liek a giant mess, so maybe subject to change.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d5u7biSmQDQcCDbu8noDtNkALTOn4iFuS3LFXEISLfs/edit?usp=sharingAbsolute power corrupts absolutely.A proverb from my past life which holds all too true in this one, and a warning I would do well to heed before seizing absolute power for myself. The secrets of Heaven lay well within reach, so close I only need to step forward and seize them, but I hesitate to do so beca...
I gots nothing for anyone
Been grinding away at ch 838 for awhile now, and trying to avoid having to release a V2 like i did for the last two chapters. It's... going.. but not all that well. Hopefully, I'll have it for tomorrow or saturaday, and then another before tuesday, but who knows. Sorry for the delay, but it is what it is.
Chapter 837 V2
Author’s note: this first section is gonna go at the top, before the other PoVs. I left those out for now because I haven’t touched them yet, and would like to hear some thoughts on the changes I have made. My insecurities are showing, so embarrassing…https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSoaFlBmMPN_xrX5lEEsA905wN8iz8ouvS0Ppo580_8/edit?usp=sharingThe barrier between reality and the Void is one delineated by the speed at which time is perceived.Or at least, that’s how I understand it. Here in the Void, everything moves at the speed of tho...
Chapter 837 unedited unmemed
Author’s Note: To get to new stuff that hasn't been posted, search for the @@ rather than the ~~, cuz there are a lot of ~~https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oFwAVjgc51mzYAzJoL5DqnG3RRF6Kq8L4NPywiIKDmI/edit?usp=sharingEyes darting over to stare at one particular patch of sky, Lin-Lin squinted as hard as she could, but still couldn’t make out her beloved hubby, despite knowing he was right there.Things had to be really, really bad though, because it sounded like he needed her help, but she was more than happy to lend a hand however she ...
Chapter 836 V2.0
Author's Note: if your read the first version, you can pretty much skip to the ~~~ part, but I left the first half in so you can find out where it fits. I'll post 837 in a few hours or so when I'm done with it, but that means 3rd grade who are +1 chapter ahead will be +2, and won't get a chapter on tuesday. I'm doing this because the part i removed from 836 V1 is just gonna be the first half of 837 anyways, so you've already read it and might as well get the rest. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kD2JrejNXFeqnPF-hbXmJ...
Chapter 836
Will be making many changes to this chap, probs shifting some PoV's around, but not finished writing them so you get this version. Sorries.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NyLEeW0099UOv7HN2il4I_s34OXUXKPzduwNY16l9P8/edit?usp=sharingThe resounding silence echoes endlessly in response to my non-verbal call to arms, proving once and for all that thoughts and prayers are worth their weight in gold.No, that’s the old me, the empty me, the one who was too afraid to want things because the inevitable disappointment was too hard to bear. This ...
Chapter 835 unedited unmemed
Author's Note: Hate where I left this one off, but I kept going and going, and would've had to keep going before I found a better end point. I might just continue this one as a super long chapter, but we'll see come tomorrow.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWWn1dUcrBDogle-JkOjuPsvC7yAWbjA_gn5F25m1A8/edit?usp=sharingPride.Contentment.And complete, utter insanity.There were no other words to describe the landscape unfolding before this Sovereign’s eyes, one hidden behind Falling Rain’s cold, distant gaze and deep within his de...
Chapter 834
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13FwGpWUSEhTydJWgU6LoUexA6meXuDm0uPGaARrBoyI/edit?usp=sharingA single attack to turn the tides, a single strike to end this war.That’s what I was going for, but it turns out I’m not that guy.The Eternal Emperor is just better. There. I said it. The bitter admission steals away my courage and resolve as I crash into the desert sands below, an impact which might well have killed me if not for Pong Pong’s protective sphere of flowing water. Even then, my limp frame slides a fair distance before coming to a ...
Chapter 833
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xzQWwhskvUGSgxXm9JA1Vo0WlRJU-hh0xTpyrGVYsw/edit?usp=sharingTo cultivate is to nurture the truth.What truth? The Truth of the Heavens, the Truth of the World, and the Truth of the Self.A statement this Sovereign had replayed in mind countless times, and to this day, he still did not dare to claim he wholly understood it. These words belonged to Fifth Brother Di Zi, spoken countless times over the years they spent together, but this Sovereign remembered two occasions in particular. The first being the day they...
Chapter 832
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ah-03-Z2rW0mlXjmsUB4JRHBVCFsHljWSu8FF0RafR4/edit?usp=sharingFailure. Wastrel. Disappointment.Lies and slander the lot of it, for this Sovereign knew well his own worth and the validity of his Dao, so there was nothing his Natal Soul could do or say to change this. If there was a flaw to be found in his Path, it would be found in his faulty implementation, for his methods and goals were in accordance with his Will. So it has always been, and though he had erred in the past and could have done better, could hav...
Chapter 831
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KV5LFTAAOCCuPWlu_8dMDmqF_0GO390mp3EBzKdUlJw/edit?usp=sharingThe warm, red glow of courage and determination as I resolve to give this everything I have, in spite of the sickly, greenish yellow of bitter, vitriolic antipathy I sometimes feel for this world, one which I have come to love in spite of all its flaws.A fluttering light pink tinged with a hint of red of love and passion for my beloved wives fighting on the wall, followed by the darker pink of the general love and affection I hold for my family, frie...
Chapter 830 unedited unmemed
I forgot to edit this, but I dont have the will to do it RN. I'll try to have it done tomorrow night, so wait if you care, but until then, here it be.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_U2GVWQ0qY0sil5ZMHWPHgUaA8W0NVo3T9xeXcnoZNE/edit?usp=sharingIdle curiosity was a dangerous vice to indulge, especially whilst mired in such dire straits, but after so many years of monotonous stability, this Sovereign could not resist this one in a hundred-thousand millennia chance to study a perspective so utterly foreign he could not even begin to imagine ...
Chapter 829
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zp6JRriyGAH3V6e9bfq5zHB-XPUz_n9ZlkXMR5f4S9c/edit?usp=sharingVictory or death.The rallying cry of Sanshu’s Magistrate and one embraced by many a Warrior who took part in that fateful siege, including Baatar’s precious son, but he never did like the maxim much.Victory was fleeting, but death an absolute, meaning victory could always be attained even after a defeat. Where there was life, there was hope, as Mother was so often heard to say, but as Baatar fought upon the battlements of Shi Bei with leaden arms...
Chapter 828 unedited unmemed
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17UDu02OfJIieW3fuo6Zc7v2oSsm7SpZpALdIcXr2vGM/edit?usp=sharingThe abrupt nature of this latest turn of events saw this Sovereign shocked into still silence as he gazed into the Void and saw neither hide nor hair of his trapped prey.Trapped no more, for the towering structure housing Falling Rain’s indecipherable Natal Throne had disappeared, but how, this Sovereign could not say. There had been no forceful escape from his host’s Domain, one which had been configured to remain impermeable to all souls, fragm...
Chapter 827
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pksW-6HtteRvQyToUvlj8hfWH6Y1qCZRVqU04XQSeZU/edit?usp=sharingEmpowered by a deluge of righteous fury derived from my scathing and forthright censure, I raise Unity overhead and perform a movement which can only be described as perfection.Difficult to say what about it is perfect in and of itself, because if I knew what made it perfect, I would know how to replicate it after the fact. In terms of physical movements and Spiritual flow, I’ve made similar such movements countless times before, a simple, two-hand...
Chapter 826 sorta edited memed
Author’s Note: First off, apologies this took so long to write. Between me being picky and life being a bitch, this one was a real struggle. Might continue in this trend, might not, because I have no idea how my brain works, but yea. Here it be, so enjoy it, and no idea when I’ll have the next one done, though as always, I try for asap.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OHDVlcqPiB_dyjANQNjgFW5urgzwzJ8TTO4LhomIMX8/edit?usp=sharingAuthor’s Note: Still much to change about this chapter, but wont have time to make them till the weekend. If y...
Chapter 825
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DS0P5Q37ZgNuqC2JB1ryBpN-gd4l4PWlW0XWOYgiKoU/edit?usp=sharingAs the scene unfolds before my senses to reveal the life and times of the Eternal Emperor, I make the conscious decision to neither struggle against nor surrender against this illusion.Instead, I pit myself against a deluge of boredom and apathy, one which stems not from my foe, but from within, because this epic saga of the Eternal Emperor’s life can only be best described as some shit-tier television. The visuals? Stunningly vivid in ways I can b...
Chapter 824
Still needs to go through more edits and changes, so wait for RR if you don't want to read twice.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mg2mQ6CbxMlt8P9sN8Pl0kXYrpm0XMkPRhIDWyujWMQ/edit?usp=sharingWarrior. Leader. Warmonger. Butcher.All these titles and more were his to bear, and Ying Zheng wore them with pride. There was power in these names and the recognition that came with it, prestige and influence which he would one day wield like weapons as deadly as any sword or spear, but his origins were humble and ordinary as could be. The bastard so...
Chapter 823
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G32FRLIgctJrczzhM7au_KlX4xMz_zYhlpTD_UWetbw/edit?usp=sharingThe rise and fall of the rolling tides did much to calm this Sovereign’s weary spirit, a most welcome balm to soothe the soul in these most troubled of times.A rare and pleasant surprise, to discover a Natal Palace in so complete and comprehensive a state. Truly a remarkable find, especially given the subject’s crude and lacking upbringing. A second-generation outlander born beyond the borders of the Empire, one whose roots traced back to a group...
Chapter 822
https://docs.google.com/document/d/189HnSjfk8CTxst6whohTGhW11Azj_gxOcPZqvpKrT28/edit?usp=sharingPleased as punch at having executed order 66 and kicked off the (soul) Clone Wars, my plan to sit back and watch it all unfold comes to a grinding halt as a hurtling mountain crashes into the small of my back.Or at least that’s what it feels like, though upon further inspection, I discover what I suspected was a mountain was actually just the ugly, solid boot of a large grandfather. Stocky and burly sure, but mountain he is not, a rugged, barrel-ch...
Chapter 821
https://docs.google.com/document/d/124zO6NIHphhVKkmqvmYuOIyMlEWq-_Ylke3soEP-fnw/edit?usp=sharingDeath.The natural consequence pertaining to the interruption of all organic functions which sustains a living creature’s life. An end all mortals feared, but also a new beginning which signalled the transition from one life to the next. There was no life without death, no light without shadow, no beginning without an end, no love without hatred, for everything within existence had its place within the grand Balance of the Heavens.But this death bro...
Chapter 820 sorta edited unmemed
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lVNt6fYQ4c6B7XBsP73_Z2m3aq3s7d_kjEetcEav1pQ/edit?usp=sharingAuthor’s note: This ch needs a bit more work, have lots in mind, just not sure how to do it. Will probs do it over the weekend.If anyone were to ever ask, I would be the first to admit that I possess paranoid tendencies, but my cynical reluctance to accept Shen ZhenWu’s offer would be more accurately labelled as ‘heightened situational awareness’When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, which means something is rotten in the A...
