Table of Contents - Books and Chapters (Accidental Champion & Dreamtouched)
Dreamtouched - Book 1
Prologue: Dreamtouched (book 1) - Prologue
Chapter 1: Dreamtouched (book 1) - Chapter 1
Chapter 2: 2023-09-27 03:06:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Announcement.
Today I realised that I’m pushing myself too hard, and if I don’t change something I’m going to break.
I wrote today’s chapter for Accidental Champion and don’t feel like it’s up to the quality I want—and the quality that you guys deserve.
I’m currently writing two books at once, Surgecaller 9 and Accidental Champion 2, both with hard deadlines that seem immovable. I...
2023-09-11 13:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 8 - Celestial Energy
(Updated Author Note: I changed a few things at the very end of this chapter, following "And then… then there was Earth." Nothing major, just a few details about invasion restrictions back on Earth. Oh, and I'll be posting a new chapter today!)
(Author Note: There were a few errors in the stats in this chapter, but they've all been fixed now. I had a glitch in m...
2023-09-08 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 7 - Legends
Xavier found he couldn’t resist watching the castle’s exodus.
He’d destroyed the fifth wave in almost an instant, dismissing the notification that came up saying he’d cleared the floor, eager to about Celestial Energy. But the queen had to see to their people through the portal, and he wasn’t selfish enough to keep the adviser from that.
Queen Alastea stood by the portal. ...
2023-09-07 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 6 - Core Strength
Xavier sat, cross-legged on the cold stone floor of the battlements. He could have applied the 20 free stat points the second he’d levelled up, but he wanted to be able to focus on the shift he felt.
With a smile, Xavier placed all the points into his Spirit attribute.
Spirit increased from 493 → 518!
Something shifted within his mind. No, within his very ...
2023-09-06 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 5 - Journey to E Grade
(Author note: I posted this on the wrong tier this morning. Thanks everyone for letting me know! Posting time is 5am for me, so I only just got to my desk and realised.)
Xavier looked between Queen Alastea and Adviser Karlon. They spoke politely to each other, but there was an undercurrent to their words. If anything, it looked more like they were bickering with one anot...
Tier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 4 - Soul Blocks
Xavier spoke with the queen and her adviser, Karlon, right up until the war drums began to beat once more, the thrum of their consistent thuds announcing the imminence of the next wave.
Has it really been an hour already?
He pushed himself off the cold stone, standing from where he’d been sitting on the parapet. Xavier informed the queen to once more order her soldiers no...
2023-09-04 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 3 – What Ifs And Could Have Beens
Xavier sat on the parapet wall of Queen Alastea’s castle. Behind him, the ranks upon ranks of the Endless Horde waited for the next wave to begin. In front, Queen Alastea and her Adviser, Karlon, stood. He ran a hand through his hair.
These people are real. There were so many things he didn’t understand about that.
“What confuses you?” Karlon asked in the tone of a ...
2023-09-01 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 2 - You Want To Explain That Again?
When Xavier stepped inside the tower room his mouth fell open. All he could do was stare around in awe.
The castle’s tower library was like something out of Beauty and the Beast. The room was circular with ceilings three floors high. Bookshelves lined every inch of the walls reaching all the way up to the tower’s ceiling which was topped off with thick glass, letting the sun bath the ...
2023-08-31 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion (Book 2) - Chapter 1 - Why Don’t I Just See What I Can Do
The army of enemy Denizens and beasts stretched on farther than the eye could see, covering the horizon on every side of Queen Alastea’s castle. A sight that should strike fear into any warrior’s heart. The ranks of the Endless Horde held Denizens of all sort and manner—some that looked no different to those soldiers standing within the castle. Humans, elves, and men who looked like demon...
2023-08-30 19:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 96 - Balanced On A Knife’s Edge
[Author's Note: I think this is where I'll end the first book. Chapters for the second book will continue as normal tomorrow, however!]
In between the stars at the core of the galaxy, near the supermassive black hole that kept the sector together, the Empress Larona floated in a deep meditation. The vacuum of space had long ago...
Tier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 95 - The Endless Horde
The next three waves on the fifth floor of the Tower of Champions came and went all too fast.
The second wave had been barely more difficult than the first. While the first wave had only contained beasts, the second wave had contained races of humanoid Denizens. Xavier wasn’t surprised to see that the Endless Horde contained even more variety amongst its ranks than that of those within ...
2023-08-28 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 94 - You Know About The Multiverse?
Xavier looked around the battlefield with slight surprise. He’d expected the first wave to take much longer than it had. In fact, he’d been trying to make the wave last a little longer so Howard and Justin would have a chance to practise their new spells in combat.
But only a few minutes passed before all the Wolven were dead around Queen Alastea’s castle.
He glanced over at t...
2023-08-25 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 93 - Staff-Scythe Mastery
Xavier, standing on the battlements of Queen Alastea’s castle, gazed down at the first wave of enemies charging toward the wall.
There were too many for him to count, but there had to be a few thousand beasts in the wave. None of the ranks of Denizens in the distance had charged forward to fight.
The first wave of beasts were wolf-like creatures the size of horses. They had twin h...
2023-08-24 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 92 - Champions of the Void
A wide smile burst onto Xavier’s face as he read the notification explaining what would happen on the fifth floor of the Tower of Champions.
He was in a castle about to be under siege by countless waves of enemies. Perhaps he should have felt some dread after reading the last line of the notification—
The waves are never Ending
—but this seemed like the ...
2023-08-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 91 - Never Ending
Xavier spoke with the Champions down in the tavern for a full hour before he headed back to the Staging Room. He wasn’t used to having so many people listening to his every word, but he pushed past any nerves he was feeling rather easily. Especially whenever he looked over at Dawkins. The man was no longer nursing his fist—his broken knuckles would have healed quick enough—but he was begr...
2023-08-22 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 90 - Trust
“Watched?” Sam asked, staring intently at Xavier. “Why do you think you’re being watched?”
Xavier lowered his gaze. Looking down at the key he’d just placed on the bar instead of up at the bartender. “At the end of the fourth floor, after I received my titles, I felt—” He paused, bit his lip.
Sam raised a hand. “As much as I want you to continue that sentence, Xa...
2023-08-21 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 89 - The System Is Not Your Friend, Xavier
Xavier stared, expectantly, at the bartender—caretaker, or whatever the hell Sam, AKA Samericalian, actually was—waiting for him to answer all of his questions. Or, at least some of them.
Sam pulled up a stool on the other side of the bar and slid up onto it. He plopped his elbows onto the bar and let out a sigh. “A sector is…” He waved his hand in a circle. “A very, ...
2023-08-18 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 88 - Caretaker
Xavier walked down the spiralling staircase toward the lower floors. He didn’t even pause when he reached the floor that contained his chambers, he simply kept on walking, heading to the ground floor, contemplating what he wished to talk to Sam about.
The last time they had spoken, Xavier had burned through his core. If the man hadn’t been there, there was a good chance that Xavier wo...
2023-08-17 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 87 - Divine Beacon
“Divine Beacon?” Xavier’s curiosity was piqued. The names of Howard, Justin, and Xavier’s own class had felt more descriptive than hers did.
His mind worked, wondering about the name. He supposed the divine part could speak of her ability to heal others, where the beacon part could have something to do with summoning.
But she may have gained other powers se...
2023-08-16 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 86 - Ducklings
“A new energy source,” Xavier asked, his curiosity more than piqued, excitement swelling in his chest. “What do you mean, a new energy source?”
The big man shrugged, then scratched at his beard. “It looks like it works off my Toughness attribute.” He shook his head. “Which, of course, should be obvious…” He chuckles. “For every point in Toughness I have 100 points in T...
2023-08-15 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 85 - A New Energy Source
Xavier, still holding the Sector Travel Key in his hand—it felt oddly heavy, given its size, and he got the feeling the key wasn’t actually made from brass—looked over at the others.
Howard, Siobhan and Justin had just opened their own loot boxes. Their eyes had that slightly glazed over look a Denizen got when they were staring at their notifications. None of them had a particularl...
2023-08-14 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 84 - Is There Nothing Left Out There For Me, O Great System?
In the centre of the Greater Universe, upon the largest, most densely populated planet in the Traval sector, stood a tower that reached so high into the sky it was above the clouds.
The tower had a thousand floors. The owner of the tower had it made as an homage to the one where he had first gained his strength, and it has stood since before most of the planets in the universe had even be...
2023-08-11 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 83 - A Speck Of Dust
Xavier watched, somewhat impatiently, as Howard was able to solo clutch after clutch on his own. It didn’t take the man too long until he was able to take down an entire clutch fast enough to be ready in time to face down the next.
And so it wasn’t long before the man reached level 10. His spell and skill ranks soared straight up to 10 and beyond as well. Like Justin, he gained anothe...
2023-08-10 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 82 - Hold Your Ground
They re-entered the floor once more, and though Xavier was admittedly getting sick of clearing the same floor over and over, he couldn’t argue with the results.
At least watching what the others could do never failed to be entertaining.
Darkness spread out before them, only Xavier able to see the auras of the thousand beasts that were out there. He stood at the back of the platfor...
2023-08-09 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCreation (Surgecaller Book 9) - Chapter 1
Liona lunged forward, grasping at nothing as Huon fell back from the ledge he’d been standing upon. Her feet skidded through the snowy ground.
Then he was gone.
For a moment, Liona just watched as Huon sprouted wings and began to fly away, far faster than she could ever manage.
He’s leaving me. He’s leaving and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Liona fo...
2023-08-09 08:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostCreation chapters dropping soon!
Just letting you all know I've officially started writing chapters for Surgecaller book 9. Chapters will be uploaded sporadically as they're ready.
For those of you new to my work, coming in through Accidental Champion from Royal Road, here's the blurb for book 1, and the amazon link is at the end if you're curious.
(All 8 currently published books are in Kindle Unlimited.)...
2023-08-09 08:31:31 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 81 - Growing Impatient
Xavier watched in slight awe at what was the insanity of Justin.
Less than an hour ago, the kid had been terrified of heights. Now, here he was, voluntarily flinging himself off the floating rock’s ledge over and over, straight into that pitch darkness, gaining a single kill each time.
The party got into a rhythm once more. It was far slower going than it had been when it had just...
2023-08-08 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 80 - What Do You Mean, Fly?
Xavier smirked as he watched Justin step right back from the ledge, then everyone turned their attention onto Siobhan.
Justin was the first one to speak. “What… what do you mean, fly?” His eyebrows shot straight to the top of his forehead. “I don’t have wings!”
Howard chuckled. “That would be a sight.”
Siobhan, still with that somewhat menacing, wicked...
2023-08-07 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTier 3+ - Accidental Champion - Chapter 79 - Like Fast Travel In A Video Game
In the darkness of the fourth floor, the only thing visible to the naked eye the four of them standing on that floating chunk of rock, with Xavier’s Spiritual Trifecta spell giving off a silver light, and Siobhan’s fireball washing them in flickering orange, Howard and Justin struck Xavier in the back with a constant stream of attacks, slicing through his Shrouded Robes, gouging sharp red l...
2023-08-06 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post