Tom and Jerry stood atop the tower, gazing at the lands beyond. All across the mountain peaks, forests, and valleys, the world sparkled like a mirror broken into a million pieces.
“The snow is melting,” Jerry said.
“It is, Master…” Boney sighed. “Our time is running out.”
“And the Billies have still not returned.”
Back in the early days of November, the squad of soldiers led by Captain Reymond had demanded that Jerry leave the tower. He had refused, a...
2024-12-28 09:23:25 +0000 UTC
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While the winter months passed timely, with all their joys and difficulties, Jerry still had the occasional guests over—or rather, guest.
“Shit, Jerry.” Derek slammed his cup on the table. ”It’s freezing in here!”
“The cold never bothered me anyway.” Jerry shrugged. “The fire should be roaring soon; give it a moment.”
“I will, if my teeth stop clattering.”
It wasn’t the first time Derek visited. He dropped by once every few weeks for a drink, ...
2024-12-28 09:22:35 +0000 UTC
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Of the many undead varieties, I find the skeletal ones most appealing. They are clean, versatile, and do not smell. But what they make up for in convenience, they lack in prowess.
Ghouls, the incarnations of those who died of starvation, are the exact opposite. While their grim sustenance is hard to maintain, requiring a steady supply of corpses, their demonic frenzy is a boon that few other undead can match, especially in large-scale battles.
Wraiths are als...
2024-12-28 09:21:10 +0000 UTC
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Mayor Ashman welcomed Jerry into his house, heart pounding wildly.
What’s the matter with those two? Okay, necromancers are dangerous, but they aren’t the devil! This one is even nice. Why does Murdock have to go and pick the hornet’s nest?
The truth was, he knew exactly why. Murdock, for all his power, could be a petty man. He enjoyed the authority his strength gave him, and Jerry’s presence threatened to take that away. After all, if Murdock wasn’t great at pr...
2024-12-28 09:20:17 +0000 UTC
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Inside Murdock’s grand house, two naked bodies embraced each other. There were juices involved, sure, but this was decidedly not herbalism.
Jerry pulled his senses back to his own body and grabbed his head.
“Boney!” he shouted, opening his eyes. “They’re fucking!”
“They’re fucking what?” asked the skeleton, surprised at his master’s quick return.
“Each other! Melissa is having an affair with Murdock!”
“What? Oh, no!” Boney grabbed his ...
2024-12-28 09:19:31 +0000 UTC
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When the rain was past, Jerry ran outside to the moist forest. Water droplets hung from the edge of leaves and the air was filled with the scent of petrichor, one he particularly enjoyed. All through the forest, the animals hiding from the rain were now resurfacing, bringing life back to the wet green.
Jerry walked past the thick trees and sparse foliage, stepping on patches of grass as he made his way inwards. He could have asked Foxy to perform this task but doing it himself felt bett...
2024-12-28 09:18:51 +0000 UTC
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Of all the fields of study, I am most interested yet least knowledgeable on souls. Even the little I do know, however, is enough to stand head and shoulders above most of my peers—including the bearded fools of Erland.
Through my studies, I have discovered that souls are immaterial, unfettered to the realm we mortals occupy. We should not even be able to detect their existence, yet we can, for there is one thing which calls souls to our realm and binds them to it: bodies....
2024-12-28 09:18:21 +0000 UTC
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Not much is known about nature spirits.
They are separated into five elemental affinities, same as the schools of magic: pyromancy, hydromancy, biomancy, photomancy, and, of course, necromancy.
Being physical manifestations of the natural world, nature spirits—or magical creatures, as they are often called—embody magic in ways that humans never could. The shape of each is usually unmalleable, but together, they come in infinite varieties.
F...
2024-12-28 09:17:53 +0000 UTC
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Headless’ thrown head found Brad right in the chest. The man looked down and screamed. The head screamed, too. Jerry found it funny.
More screams came from the forest. Through the tree line, bandits jumped out in panic, running away from something. Behind them, a massive tree trunk appeared. Axehand easily held it aloft with both axes, wielding it like a gigantic bat. Jerry blinked. He’d had no idea that the skeleton was so strong.
The bandits darted around like frightened chi...
2024-12-28 09:17:22 +0000 UTC
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“Hey!” Derek swung his hut’s door open with a big smile. “I’m back!”
“Hey dad,” Holly said. She was using a round rock to squash some herbs on the table, as Murdock had taught her to. She was working. And she was whistling.
“You look mighty happy today,” Derek said, rejoicing. Since the Jerry incident, as he called it, she had not smiled much, and now she was whistling. All his sorrows and worries melted away like snow in the spring. He smiled widely, ...
2024-12-28 09:16:54 +0000 UTC
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Brad grumbled. When three men disappeared near that puny village, Pilpen, he’d assumed they’d run away. It was natural. What would a handful of villagers do to three hardened men? Feed them to death?
Therefore, he’d reported his suspicions to the big man, Jericho himself.
Now, the twelve-man-strong task force they’d sent to this puny village of Pilpen had not returned. Something was up. And that something meant that Brad’s earlier assumption, the one he had reported,...
2024-12-28 09:16:21 +0000 UTC
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Sup bros! Posting a few new chapters. Not too many; only about 30.
I started posting Good Guy Necromancer on RR yesterday, where it's at chapter 10 by now -- and already 30 followers! It will have daily releases for a month. Since I can't have my true supporters at the same level as RR readers, I decided to publish an extra 30 chapters here, and then one daily, so you're steadily 30 chapters ahead of RR. That number will go up by one chapter a week, but only after the one-month ho...
2024-12-28 09:15:01 +0000 UTC
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The Kingdom of Escarbot is split from east to west by the Axel Ridge, a mountain range so large it defines the kingdom. To the west of Escarbot lie the Moonlight Kingdom, the land of merchants and wizards, and the Jewel Sea, named for the color its waters take in the summer. To the east, the Alabaster Kingdom, famed for its great explorers and mighty warriors, and especially for the famed Wyvern Riders of Nopelin.
South of the three Kingdoms lies the Narrow Sea, and beyond ...
2024-12-24 18:54:01 +0000 UTC
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At the man’s command, eleven more bandits jumped out of the forest and ran toward the village. They weren’t far, only two hundred feet away. The distance would evaporate in no time.
Therefore, Jerry did the only sensible thing; he ran away, dropping what he was carrying and bolting for the village center. At the same time, he mentally ordered his skeletons to assist. A bandit raid was not something he wanted to face alone.
“Bandits!” he shouted.
The villagers noticed...
2024-12-24 18:52:02 +0000 UTC
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When Jerry exited the tower, he found himself staring not at a fence but a veritable wall.
Or, at least, a small part of a wall.
When he said ‘fence,’ he’d meant sparse wooden stakes on the ground, maybe with a loose array of planks connecting them. It would be a barrier with little practicality, built for the sole reason of marking one’s territory.
However, Jerry had not given detailed instructions, and Boney had taken the task to heart. For the small part ...
2024-12-24 18:50:01 +0000 UTC
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As dictated by the laws of magic, every power has a drawback. For pyromancers, it is their fire’s voracious need for energy. For necromancers, it is the strain we must endure to sustain our undead.
When we control an undead, we not only need to maintain the bonds between its body and soul, but also provide enough energy to constantly wrestle the soul under submission and force it to obey us. Otherwise, the undead collapse or rebel, running off and causing mayhem. It is th...
2024-12-24 18:48:01 +0000 UTC
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After a day’s work for the undead and half a day’s for the living, the abandoned guard tower was no longer abandoned, nor did it house any guards. Instead, it now belonged to a very satisfied necromancer, named Jerry, who had never in his life felt prouder at owning something.
Shoes were nice, sure, but a tower was a tower, and what was a necromancer without his tower?
Of course, there was still plenty of work to be done, but the building was at least habitable.
Sometime...
2024-12-24 18:46:01 +0000 UTC
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On the subject of souls, I must admit my fascination. For centuries, they have remained an enigma, both in their nature and specific qualities, but I believe I hold the key to unprecedented discoveries.
Previous research indicates that, when undead rise, they inherit a part of the soul of the body’s previous owner. This incomplete soul deteriorates with the amount of time between death and reanimation. Additionally, it does not contain any memories, barring extremely rare...
2024-12-24 18:44:01 +0000 UTC
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Derek lived in a lovely little house at the edge of the village, crafted entirely out of wood. Besides a small storage shack outside, there were exactly two rooms; the main one, which was a little bit of everything, and Holly’s bedroom. Derek insisted that girls needed privacy and had built this extra room soon after her birth.
There was also an outhouse, of course. What were they, animals?
“This is a nice house,” Jerry commented, taking it all in as Derek opened the door. ...
2024-12-24 18:42:01 +0000 UTC
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A torrent of fire flew from the man’s hands onto Jerry’s body. The scalding heat made him dash backward in fear. At the same time, two more torrents jumped at the skeletons but failed to even char their bones. They both reacted instantaneously.
With an angry bellow, Boboar threw himself at the man, who jumped to the side with surprising agility. Unable to stop, the double-boar crashed against a tree, shaking the entire trunk and roots underneath.
Foxy also jumped at the wizard...
2024-12-24 18:40:01 +0000 UTC
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The bandits lay dead. The two hellish monsters awaited while their master calmly inspected the devastation.
Holly, already with her ass on the ground, backpedaled furiously. It dirtied her beautiful blue dress, but she didn’t have the presence of mind to deal with that at the moment. A far more pressing question loomed in her mind.
What the hell just happened?
“Y-you…” she said, raising a trembling finger. “You’re a necromancer!”
“I am,” the man repli...
2024-12-24 18:38:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to a brave new world, bros!
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People detest necromancers. They call us disgusting, repulsive, ungodly. They are wrong about those, but they are right to fear us.
Necromancers and mundanes cannot coexist. We are simply too different; to us, people are materials, a nascent state of zombies, as farm animals are to farmers. To them, we are predators. They are right to fear us; for we are enemies, but it takes many of them to kill one of us, and only one of...
2024-12-24 18:36:00 +0000 UTC
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Bros!!!
Merry Chirstmas to those who celebrate and happy holidays to those who don't. In any case, I celebrate Christmas, so I prepared a little present for you. The first ten chapters of my new series are now available on Patreon. Ho ho ho!
I'm super excited about this. Good Guy Necromancer is a series I started before even Road to Mastery. I then put it on hold because RtM blew up and I needed the money, but I kept getting ideas for it the whole time. Now that I can ret...
2024-12-24 18:34:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey bros! It's been a while! One month to be exact, since I finished Road to Mastery and took a break. I have rested.
Now I'm back in business, and better than ever. I've already started work on Good Guy Necromancer, my next series, so expect me to start posting in 2-3 weeks. I had a good backlog on that story, written before even RtM, and I was very pleasantly surprised at the writing level. I half-expected it to be shit, but actually, now I'm worried I won't be able to match my previo...
2024-12-10 09:20:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey bros. It's a new day today, so thanks again for your warm comments. They made my heart all tingly. I'm pausing my Patreon page today, so here is the book file I promised: a pdf version (not final) of the entire Book 6. Please don't distribute it. It's free for any patrons at the 10$ tier or above, but I've also made it so lower-tier patrons and the public can buy it for a small price. I'm doing this because new members won't be able to join or upgrade while I'm paused, so I want them to s...
2024-11-08 14:05:12 +0000 UTC
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I just typed in the final words of the series. Bros… I can’t believe it’s over. Road to Mastery has been my project for the past two years, my continued obsession and companion. It not only pushed my skills to a new level, but also my life, financially and in a bunch of other fields.
Throughout these two years, despite the success and reader satisfaction that Road to Mastery received, I never allowed myself to experience it fully. It was incomplete. Anything could go wrong. That i...
2024-11-07 17:46:01 +0000 UTC
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A man rested on a lush hill, arms crossed behind his head. He enjoyed the wind, the sun, the grass blades caressing his back. His eyes were closed in happiness—or, more probably, he was asleep.
“Hey Dad,” a woman said, manifesting beside him. She seemed in her late twenties, but that was definitely not the case.
The man cracked open an eye and smiled. “Ebele,” he said.
“Mom says dinner is ready,” the woman said, “but you don’t have to come if you don’t wa...
2024-11-07 17:44:00 +0000 UTC
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Jack gritted his teeth. The tumors he had to constantly purge were one thing, but this situation was even harder to resolve. A simple purging wouldn’t work. Every evolution was spurred on by his own body, responding to the expertly designed fake stimuli provided by Enas—he was, after all, the original creator of human bodies. Moreover, the foreign life energy which had invaded his body was sneaky—it assimilated with his, polluting it. He had no way to purge it before it exhausted itself...
2024-11-07 17:42:01 +0000 UTC
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Enas’s face turned furious. Green aura emanated in waves, his S-Grade power finally fully activating. “I don’t know how you got so strong,” he said, “but you’re delusional if you think you can defeat me.”
Jack smiled. A torrent of purple and gold erupted from under his feet, making his magic trunks flap lightly, the two colors merging in the air like lightning strikes. Under the light, his eyes were sharp and confident. The pressure of merely releasing his aura was so stro...
2024-11-07 17:40:00 +0000 UTC
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Back on Earth, Jack’s clone had suddenly fallen to the banquet floor, convulsing and screaming in pain.
“Jack!” everyone shouted.
Vivi wore a dark expression. She knew about the war, but this was unexpected. What could be happening? She directed people to assist, but the healers weren’t even close to the level where they could help him. She sensed his aura growing weaker, infused with a hint of wicked green. She had no idea what was going on.
Jack… she tho...
2024-11-07 17:38:00 +0000 UTC
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