[Master Julian, entering through the final gate now.]
Julian felt the whirring vibration ripple around him as he sat calmly in the car while Femty guided him through. He had passed through several radiant gates already, yet he still hadn’t grown used to the sensation.
Each one felt different, and each time he expected something—perhaps a fragment of memory, maybe even something ...
2025-09-19 14:17:25 +0000 UTC View Post“You know… it’s just a game, right? We don’t need to bring any of that into our real lives?”
Hank’s stepmother’s birthday party had been lively. Had been.
Now, the room buzzed only with hushed whispers and nervous glances—every pair of eyes drifting toward one man.
Julian.
He sat at the hosts’ table, right beside the family. The plates in front...
2025-08-22 00:31:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Please! Look here, Mr. Winters!”
“We just want to ask you a few questions! We’ll only take a minute of your time!”
“Where have you been this whole time?! Is it true that you were depressed?!”
“Mr. Winters! What can you say about your long-time girlfriend backing out of her major record deal?! Did she do that to take care of you?!”
The reporters were re...
2025-08-14 11:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe president of the Exterminator Association’s voice carried easily through the quiet of her office. She had invited Julian for coffee—though, as always, it was never about the coffee at all.
Julian didn’t drink anything but water, but he accepted anyway. Now a plain glass sat in front of him, untouched, while Aaliyah already had her second cup of coffee before they even truly star...
2025-08-10 08:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post“You first.”
“Him first?!”
Everyone’s gasp escaped their throats all at the same time, but one candidate stepped forward, his voice cracking with desperation.
“I’m supposed to go first!” he argued, flicking a quick glance at Julian before glaring directly at Angelo. “If you let him go first, the rest of us are going to look bad! The guilds are watching!” 2025-08-06 12:42:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Julian was now peacefully waiting for his batch to be called to take the second test. He shouldn’t be, since everyone was practically ogling and talking about him, but he was—in fact, he was probably the only one having a peaceful time.
The other candidates—and anyone who’d been alerted to his presence—were still in utter shock. Some people who had been piloting their vehicles m...
2025-08-03 15:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostNeuromuscular Output Efficiency Test.
The Exterminator Association had used it since its inception. And it wasn’t just them—nearly every organization that demanded physical performance used it to evaluate their people. The military. Elite security corps. Even Humanity Engineering had used it when they tested Julian’s clone before sending him into Artemia.
It w...
2025-07-28 21:23:51 +0000 UTC View Post<Julian Winters is back!>
<who???>
<The Sword Junkie!>
<...the streamer?>
<Bro. The mutant!>
<Wait… was this the one i’ve been watching on the leaks? The one who got slaughtered in the stream??>
<That was his clone, and he was drugged or sumthin>
<lol. Why are you defending a celebrity? He got cucked><...
2025-07-26 20:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post[You have arrived at your destination, Sir Julian.]
“Thank you. I’ll be fine here, you can go back home.”
Julian moved from his seat, expecting the door of the car to open. But he ended up ramming his arm against it instead, causing the entire car to shake.
There were already people staring at Julian’s car. After all, it stood out—longer than the others, sleek and mo...
2025-07-22 19:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post[…I brought the daemons to Earth.]
Julian stood in front of the door to his old forge, his hand frozen on the knob. He already knew what Erin would say next; he already heard this part of the recording before, but it still made him feel some type of… way.
That lingering unease began to fade, however, as Femty’s voice softly echoed in his mind.
[Master Julian, sh...
2025-07-19 18:50:24 +0000 UTC View Postno spoilers.
[Master Winters, shouldn’t you be taking it easy? You’ve only just woken up from your coma.]
“I think I’ve rested enough.”
[You should listen to the artificial entity, Shadow Blacksmith. Aside from your body, your mind is not yet fit for this.]
[Although I hesitate to question your decisions, they are right, Master.]
Almost three mon...
2025-07-15 20:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post“They left me. Expunged me from my own grave—and then abandoned me here, in a world I never asked to be part of.”
Silvie knew exactly who the Shield Saint was. Victoria had mentioned her before, a clone that was made directly from her DNA and then placed, without her choice, to be one of the pioneers for th...
2025-07-12 11:17:31 +0000 UTC View Post***First of all, I would like to apologize for not uploading. It's nearing the release of the first book on Amazon T_T. Anyway... it's time for you to find out why this is taking so long.
A few seconds earlier, just before Juliet opened the bottle of ale, Julian had already begun to sense that something was wrong. The simple ...
2025-06-20 00:02:21 +0000 UTC View PostSilvie had only been “alive” for less than an hour, and yet right now, she was completely frozen. Paralyzed.
She had read about it. Heard it. Even had protocols built into her programming to recognize and respond to it, so she could keep Julian safe at all times.
But this was the first time she felt fear for what it truly was.
And it was terrifying.
She didn...
2025-06-10 15:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Julian!”
Frail.
Julian had felt weak before—but this was the first time he truly couldn’t move. He tried standing, but ended up being caught by Silvie as his legs weren’t working properly at all.
She clutched him tightly, uncertain, not knowing what to do with him at all. She quickly lowered him into her lap, her hands trembling as she patted his face again...
2025-06-08 18:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post[Julian Winters. For life of this magnitude to be born... a sacrifice must be made.]
Julian could feel it—the violent throbbing of his heart, like it was moments away from bursting. Each beat rang through his chest like a warning, pounding the message into him again and again.
He had to give something. Sacrifice something. If not, Artemia would take everything...
2025-06-04 18:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Everything… is wrong.”
Nuru was still persistent with her thought; that was all she could think.
Everything about Julian’s method was completely different from how Maldan had taught her to create golems. Every step diverged. Every principle contradicted. It was all… wrong.
And yet—Before them stood a statue that looked like it had been carved by the greatest sculp...
2025-05-28 13:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post“So this be the flame of those beloved by spirits? Behold, Nuru—we stand upon the verge of witnessing a god’s own hand at work.”
Julian had only just lit the forge, and yet Nuru already felt the difference. A stark, undeniable difference between their methods and his. Of course, she had seen spirit-enhanced flames once or twice before, but even those moments paled in comparison to...
2025-05-25 15:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostHalf a day later, Julian was once again in Artemia, quietly following Maldan through the village. The wild festivities had died down—but not entirely. The villagers were now spreading carpets across the ground and arranging short-legged tables in a circle, as if preparing for another miracle they believed Julian would bring forth.
Ever since he returned with Exhalia dwelling within him,...
2025-05-19 13:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Is it possible… to put an entire avatar spirit inside a golem?”
The celebration around them hadn’t stopped—laughter, cheers, and the clinking of mugs still filled the air—but for Maldan, all of it seemed to vanish. Julian’s question echoed again and again in his mind, muffling the world around him.
He had held the title of Golemsmith for decades. He had pushed the bou...
2025-05-15 19:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostOutside or inside the Game, people are always like this, Adam. You should never get, humanity didn't get worse after the Game started—they just flourished.
Adam watched the men continue to look at the menu with cheeky smiles on their faces, elbows jabbing his ribs deliberately as they passed it around. The tallest one still leaned heavily against Adam's shoulder, nearly pushing...
2025-05-10 14:35:59 +0000 UTC View PostJulian no longer knew what was happening.
He’d almost forgotten he was still technically following the Bridge quest given to him by the Guidance—what even was it about anymore? He hadn’t checked in ages. All he remembered was that it started with a lump of coal. Now, he was here, just waiting to learn how to create a golem, because Maldan had promised to teac...
Sorry for the no upload yesterday, it's because I've been in talks... and Legendary Shadow Blacksmith is now officially available for pre-order for those who want to support it early! I don't really know how Amazon works just yet, and my publisher only sent me the link for now.
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"The monsters… they're leaving."
“True. Without their immediate heat source, these animals are leaving now.”
MEGAN had once again come out of Julian’s chest, drifting beside Juliet as they both watched the beasts and monsters fan out across the slowly thawing fields of Dodona. Their shrinking forms moved through the mist, almost as fractured as the ice crunching beneath thei...
2025-05-05 06:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nothing else Julian could hear but the pain. And it was… strange.
He had felt pain before—he had been wounded, battered, broken. But this was different. This was the first time his mind could think of nothing else but the sensation of his flesh being peeled away, layer by layer… by layer.
It consumed him.
The Avatar of Exhalia claimed her only domain w...
2025-05-02 13:41:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Boss, what do we do!?”
“Master, I urge you to find a way out! The avatar of Exhalia has been known to be violent!”
“Julian, what’s the game plan here!? Julian!”
Juliet, the Avatar of Searadyn, and MEGAN all screamed into his ears. And yet, the only sound Julian listened to was the heart.
The giant heart right at the center of the grotto continued to throb....
2025-04-30 15:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post"Ha…"
The sound of Adam's tired breath hummed with the wind blowing across his face, almost harmonizing with the hum of his bicycle tire that was rolling against the worn asphalt.
He pedaled steadily along the empty country road, and the horizon stretched before him—nothing but fields and hills under the afternoon sun. Finally, he wasn't surrounded by the destruction and chaos o...
2025-04-29 12:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post"Just how many of these things are there!? Boss, behind you! There's—ugh, why do I even bother?"
Hours.
They had been walking inside the volcano for hours now—long enough that Julian had seriously considered Juliet’s earlier advice to just jump and scale the walls of the volcano. But since they'd already been close to the bottom when they last entered another cavern, they deci...
2025-04-28 09:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostJulian had once asked MEGAN to scour the entire internet and metastream when he first became the Shadow Blacksmith—to dig through every archive, every forum, every scrap of data tied to Otherworld or Artemia in search of a single name: Erin.
But even after hours of relentless digging, there was nothing. No record, no trace.
MEGAN had even gone so far as to approach Victoria direct...
2025-04-21 12:56:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Boss, look at that. That’s… that’s—Isn’t that a Dravokil!?”
“I don’t know what that is.”
“The only thing you need to know about them is that they’re level 50 the moment they’re born, Boss. It’s… best we circle around it.”
“No need. It doesn’t look like it wants to attack. None of them do.”
The Dodona tundra—an endless stretch of i...
2025-04-18 10:50:58 +0000 UTC View Post