“What’s this from again?” asked Nate, removing a little of the tender meat from his teeth with his tongue. “Oxenaw,” answered Wulfgar, rubbi
“What’s this from again?” asked Nate, removing a little of the tender meat from his teeth with his tongue.
“Oxenaw,” answered Wulfgar, rubbing his tattooed head with his spar...
2025-07-24 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat across from Aisling, a piece of torn paper between them lying flat on the table. “Looks like it’s pretty far away,” commented Nate.
Nate sat across from Aisling, a piece of torn paper between them lying flat on the table.
“Looks like it’s pretty far away,” commented Nate.
“It is. Not quite the opposite si...
2025-07-22 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKiri strode through the mud, her eyes fixed on the castle walls before her. Spears were launched in her direction and she carefully picked a
Kiri strode through the mud, her eyes fixed on the castle walls before her. Spears were launched in her direction and she carefully picked a path between them, occasionally catching one and spinning t...
2025-07-20 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat in the middle of his art gallery, his eyes drifting from one artwork to another as he considered his actions from the night before. Those of his paintings that depicted war and strife received more of his attention. He couldn’t help but wonder if it was his thoughts of the Nameless and Gashana that kept dragging his eyes to those part...
2025-07-17 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe assassins made their move, answering Nate’s provocation. He sensed their movements as they dashed forward, using shadows to cover and co
The assassins made their move, answering Nate’s provocation. He sensed their movements as they dashed forward, using shadows to cover and conceal themselves, even the shifting of the sand beneath ...
2025-07-15 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNate stood at the edge of the living room observing the dinner party he had organised. Weirdly, it made him feel like something of an adult.
Nate stood at the edge of the living room observing the dinner party he had organised. Weirdly, it made him feel like something of an adult. He could recognise that he was an introverted individual. T...
2025-07-13 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNate finished sending off the last invitation, watching as the small piece of paper flew out the window, carried by a bird made of paint. He glanced at Frick curiously.
“Now that they’re all gone, are you going to tell me why you so desperately wanted to do Luc’s invitation?”
“I’ll tell you later, Boss. For now, gotta go!...
2025-07-10 20:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostNate stepped out of the portal in the middle of the forest, right where they had set up the previous portal emplacement and almost been accosted by three, old Lesser Divinities. That single step was like moving from swimming in an ocean to trudging through a desert. The ambient mana on Galle was so thin by comparison with the Wild Realm that it ...
2025-07-08 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat on a stone bench staring out across the vista of the lands below. Ankh’Aris’s mountain continued to stretch above, with a layer of clouds concealing the peak. Even so, they were high enough up the mountain slopes to have a few clouds drifting below them. The archipelago they had found themselves in stretched into the distance, pictu...
2025-07-06 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNate could understand Ankh’Aris’s disappointment. The ancient dragon could almost certainly sense the Divine Energy Nate had been accruing over the last month or so. Between Nate’s slowly growing understanding of the Concepts of Reality and their relationships, coupled with his creative pursuits, he had been glutting on Divine Energy at a ...
2025-07-03 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIMPORTANT: If you haven't read Chapter 259 stop reading here as there are spoilers below. Good? Good!
Now that that is out of the way, I am planning out Nate's future path and am curious about my readers preferences.
So, the question is how much do you want to see Stats and Skills in the future basically?
2025-07-02 23:03:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate looked at Frick as his Familiar dutifully worked to expand their house.
“What was the Third Hell like?”
“It was like being eaten by maggots and dying of thirst while you tried to gorge yourself on a hunk of meat. The only mana to be found was in the cores of the demons themselves. But the sense of hungering for something, ...
2025-07-01 20:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostNate brought up the first notification for his new Skills.
Skill Synergy discovered between your Permanent Alterations (Epic) Skill, Spacetime Manipulation (Epic Skill), Conceptual Automated Existence (Divine) Skill and Artistic Creation (Legendary) Skill. Combine these Skills to gain Art Imitates Life (Divine) Skill.
Proceed?<...
Nate was dying. Approaching the Divine Artifact of Erosion had been as painful and deleterious as approaching Ruin and different to approaching Change. Cataclysm had felt explosively destructive but its waves of destruction had, interestingly, been easier to avoid with his Concept of Space. Nate was now forced to walk towards the final Divine Ar...
2025-06-26 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNate stood before a fire pit carved into the black sands of the realm that Ankh’Aris had catapulted him into. The obsidian stone of the firepit rippled like water, bowing to the demands of the divine artifact sitting at its heart. Within the crevice was a single piece of blackened wood. As Nate watched, the wood turned into a pile of dark ash,...
2025-06-24 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat naked in the sands of Ankh’Aris’s destructive cultivation realm, as he fought for his own survival. The blasts of sand had stripped him bald, his beautiful blond hair evaporating into nothing. His skin would be pockmarked by an errant blast of wind, or wither beneath the slightest of gusts, only to reform a moment later as Nate spen...
2025-06-22 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKiri lunged at Ankh’Aris the moment he appeared in front of Nate. Even imbued with soul energy she was too slow. One second she was throwing herself at Ankh’Aris and the next she was dangling above the floor, a claw covered in black scales wrapped around her throat. Stillshe fought, trying to lash out with her tethered arms and daggers. The ...
2025-06-19 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate was giving Lord Ankh’Aris’s offer a great deal of thought, among other things. The problem he was experiencing was that those other things kept jockeying for his attention. They had just been told that The System was basically handing out easy developments to the universes near the Source of Mana just so it could dump more mana into the...
2025-06-17 20:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe question reverberated in Nate’s mind. What did he desire? The obvious answer was clearly developing his Destruction affinity. Something Lord Ankh’Aris seemed uniquely capable of providing. Had The System known all along? Of course it had, he realised. It could see his thoughts, read his hopes and dreams like it was reading a book. So, it...
2025-06-15 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNate pondered Kiri’s question about why Arikanvil was in a research station floating around Galle.
“The other three I get,” continued Kiri. “They’re Lesser Divines. Probably somewhat like us. Somewhat because, you know, they suck. I bet they didn’t evolve to Divine till level one-hundred-and-eighty.”
“Not two-hundred-...
2025-06-12 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate loved creating art. To use his imagination, a canvas and some paint to make something from nothing always left him feeling accomplished. Even when the work itself was mediocre, though he was his own harshest critic in this regard. That being said, while he loved creating art, sailing through the sky on a flying ship with Kiri sitting next t...
2025-06-10 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate looked across the City of Pinoreth as he made his plans. Reciprocity was silent as he contemplated dealing with the beasts assaulting the walls and he instantly recognised why. Those beasts were here for him. The Divine Energy they had sensed was like blood in the water to them. The Calikex and their city were merely obstacles. With the bea...
2025-06-08 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKiri moved like an awkward hunting hawk through the skies. A beam of light shot at her and she activated Shadow of the Soul, creating a shadow of herself to take the blast. The impact lit up the sky between her and her target and with a burst of Soul Energy she teleported to where she sensed it was. Striking down at the empty space before her, s...
2025-06-05 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate stared out over the bay and towards the horizon as his Grandmaster-tier Space Sigil hung in front of him. Keeping the bath of paint around him flowing while maintaining the separate colours, he activated Conceptual Insight and then pushed Divine Energy into the Skill. Thirty units of Divine Energy vanished instantly and the...
2025-06-03 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. It's been a hot minute since the last amazon release and I am excited to see how far the story has come and am eternally grateful for everyones support.
Book 3, A Shade Closer, releases on Amazon today (it was already out in Australia but we live in the future...and also upside down). Links are below for both the Kindle and Au...
2025-06-02 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat atop the cliffs overlooking Pinoreth, bathed in paint. With a rune made of the Shape, Paint and Control Sigils he kept the different colours of Mythic paint separated around him, like multicoloured islands. Not too far away, Kiri was working through attack patterns that made use of her new shadow and echo Skills with Frick playing the p...
2025-06-01 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNate sat down across from the Elders of the Depths Walker Temple before him, the air alive with the pressure of the Heart of the Sea all around them. Reciprocity pushed at Nate to repay the answer to his question.
“Do you understand what you do when you meditate on the nature of the Heart of the Sea?” he asked.
“We do not medit...
2025-05-29 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNate slid beneath the water's surface. His barrier kept the water at bay as he formed it to the contours of his body. Conceptual Runic Mastery allowed him to create a rune of Water Shaping to control his position within the sea beneath the city of Pinoreth. This close to the city there were only small fish, the largest no bigger...
2025-05-27 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Time moves on and Book 3 is going to Amazon in a week (Kindle and Audible). Normally I would've put this up earlier but time got away from me. Attached is the epub file for The Runic Artist - A Shade Closer for those of you who don't like Amazon.
Thanks for reading and hope you're still enjoying the story.
Note: This post wi...
2025-05-26 00:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostNate stood on the balcony, enjoying the cool, ocean breeze as he mentally probed the remains of his right arm. His first thoughts were to remove the Fire Concept embedded in the wound, but he was finding that the Concept was tenacious. There were Subconcepts within the fire that were similar to others he had encountered. At first, he’d wondere...
2025-05-25 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post