Heya guys, just letting you know about the chapters delay. Sorry about that, I had a family emergency so I wasn't home for a few days. I'll consider this past week as my break week so there won't be another this month.
Chapters for both Vae Victis and Infinite Realm will come out in the next few days.
2023-06-17 18:03:38 +0000 UTC
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End of the first Arc! Next chapter will be back on Earth stuff. Next chapter in a day or two.
Moments and Tears of the Stormlands
Oluwatobi Musa sat back on his haunches, looking over his family playing by the pond. He was fortunate, he knew, to have found such a place in the middle of nowhere. He'd brought his family here in search of a be...
2023-06-11 18:55:52 +0000 UTC
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Just a quick update for those of you who don't read my other series. I usually take 1 week a month off for admin and break stuff. So just letting you know that this week is my break week. Chapters return next week!
The Connections That We Forge
Shadow guided me with his arm around my back and mine around his shoulders as I walked with him to a small rock. Wearin...
2023-05-30 08:58:45 +0000 UTC
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Next Chapter Tomorrow!
The Blood Dance
I gazed down at my own reflection in the shallow pond, seeing the faint light of emerald green swimming through my eyes. The crack in my pupil was still small, unchanged from the last time I had looked, but just the fact that it was there at all was incredible. I kept thinking that it was just my imagination, yet I could fe...
2023-05-28 22:46:16 +0000 UTC
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Adult
“Ugh,” I grimaced as I bit into the almost charred meat stuck on a stick. Luckily, I had gotten rid of most of the burnt part before biting down, but the meat was still tough. I tore it apart with my teeth and then pulled it apart in pieces and swallowed them quickly. “This is disgusting,” I muttered after swallowing.
Shadow laughed from his seat acr...
2023-05-22 15:20:39 +0000 UTC
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Tldr: chapters coming soon! 6 IR chapters and 3 VV chapters in the next few days.
The longer update is that I’ve somehow, unintentionally, ended up doing a lot of planning and setting up work this week. I was going to leave that for my admin week which was supposed to be this next one, but I ended up just kinda falling into that work. Sorry about that! On the...
2023-05-21 12:09:13 +0000 UTC
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Invoker
As the blazing crimson cloud swelled around me, a voice echoed all around.
"SEIZE THE ONLY TRUE WAY. PANDEMONIUM, FREEDOM."
The cloud was reaching out to me, and each heavy, clinging strand seemed to yank at pieces of me buried deep inside. An intense surge of fear and anger pulsed through my veins as if I had been injected with a po...
2023-05-15 18:25:02 +0000 UTC
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The Taste of Death
The first time I encountered death, it was when my grandfather died, my mother's father. I was very young; I didn't understand what had happened. And for the longest time, all that I remembered was the smell of death.
To me, it was the scent of polished wood, the casket they placed him in. The scent of freshly cut flowers, that made up the funer...
2023-05-11 08:16:08 +0000 UTC
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New chapters! Sorry it took the entire week, was planning on it being earlier with the break and all, but I got sick! Next week's chapters should be coming mid week!
https://infinite-realm.ivan-kal.com/2023/05/07/chapter-429-431/
Password:
BreakOut
2023-05-07 11:10:58 +0000 UTC
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The Ambush
“Are you afraid?” Shadow asked as the two of us walked through the jungle, his voice came as a whisper from behind me. I didn’t answer immediately, instead my hand reached for the wrist of my other, not finding what I was looking for. I caught myself, Saia was of course not there. She somewhere ahead of us, scouting for a good place to make an ambush. T...
2023-05-06 06:59:07 +0000 UTC
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Through the Jungle
I spent the next day learning more about Shadow’s school of being. We didn’t have the time for him to do more than just teach me the basics. Still, there was a lot to learn. The most important part was perhaps the three principles behind the Heart of Azure and Scarlet. We were having a short break, which I used to review the lesso...
2023-05-02 20:15:06 +0000 UTC
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Interlude - The Terror in the Stormlands
Knight Mage Herim of Fleetwoods walked behind his escorts, a pair of Royal Guardsmen, as they led him through the corridors of the Stormgarden Fortress. The vibrant moss on the gray stone walls shone with light, illuminating their path. The way the moss was grown and tended was exquisite, but Herim could not brin...
2023-04-28 18:38:46 +0000 UTC
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Woe
“I call my school of being, the Heart of Azure and Scarlet,” Shadow started, using a stick to draw a circle with a crack in its side in the dirt. We had moved back to the fire and sat down next to it. He started by explaining what a school of being was. Which was exactly what it meant. A way of life, a teaching. What bushidō would be on Earth, ...
2023-04-25 20:46:11 +0000 UTC
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Here are the chapters! Let me know how it feels. Honestly it was much better for me when I was writing them, I even ended up writing a lot more than I usually do, the three chapters together are around double the length of what I usually release. Let me know in the comments what you think about getting all three chapter together.
Next week is admin week!
2023-04-23 21:18:28 +0000 UTC
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Bond
“Something is missing here,” I heard Khalil say and raised my eyes to look at him.
“Missing where?” I asked.
“Everywhere,” Khalil grimaced. “According to my research, the vampires are… hiding something.”
I chuckled. “Oh really? What was your first clue? That they hid in the shadows for a few thous...
2023-04-21 12:49:51 +0000 UTC
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Future
We returned back to our camp in silence. Shadow had offered the crystal back to me, which surprised me, I figured that he would want to keep it. Once back, we sat around the fire in silence. Saia jumped into my lap and I patted her absentmindedly. Her skin, or hull, or whatever it was, actually felt really nice. It was smooth, and felt like it would be soft. Some...
2023-04-18 09:57:39 +0000 UTC
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Heya, just letting you all know that this coming week I'm gonna be trying something different, so I'll drop all the chapter on the same day, probably at the end of the week. I've been having some issues with the flow of the story, and I think that basically having one big chapter instead of three smaller ones might help me fix that a bit. It isn't a permanent change yet, I'm just trying it out ...
2023-04-16 17:47:44 +0000 UTC
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Revelations
Mask of the Drainer — No Investment; 7th Carving
I startled and woke.
The light was hitting my face, and the scent of blood filled my nostrils. For a moment, I froze, my mind confused and then I remembered. I remembered my hunt, the injury, I remembered Shimi using a healing potion and then the thirst ...
2023-04-15 15:41:24 +0000 UTC
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Heya guys, just wanted to let you know that both chapters for this week will release tomorrow. I wanted to drop both at the same time today, since one is a bit more of a set up. But, they need a bit more work, so they'll be out tomorrow!
2023-04-14 17:02:12 +0000 UTC
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The Second Hunt
When I was a child, I used to play hide and seek with my friends. Other poor children from the village. I always won. I always had a knack for finding good hiding places, as well as spotting those who were trying to be sneaky. It was funny how this situation reminded me of my childhood. I hadn’t thought about it for such a long time. I was free of all ...
2023-04-13 15:08:33 +0000 UTC
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Shelter
I woke, as always, with the setting of the sun. I did not dream, or if I had I did not remember it. If there was one thing that I missed about sleeping it was dreaming. The thing that came over me now was more of a state of unconsciousness, even with this sun, than it was actual sleep. My body just being unable to keep up under the daylight. I wondered if perhap...
2023-04-11 22:34:10 +0000 UTC
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The First Hunt
“The fact that you are weaker during the day is an issue,” Shimi said. “At night, you stand a chance, but the animals lurking about at night are more dangerous. I would suggest hunting the animals as they sleep but most animals here are nocturnal. There are a few herds of okolon that I saw around, they are Third Investment, if you can isolate one yo...
2023-04-10 07:57:42 +0000 UTC
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We’re Fucked
I watched him all through the night, until the sun rose, then through the next day. I was worried there for a bit and had fed him the potion two more times. But as the sun set again I was convinced that his state wasn’t deteriorating. I sucked in a breath as a shiver of the setting sun ran through me. My strength returned, my world sharpened, all was we...
2023-04-08 19:00:30 +0000 UTC
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A New Day
The night fell as we walked to the river. I paused and let the feeling pass over me, relishing in the return to my full strength. The pain around my neck flared, a reminder that the silver inflicted wound was yet to fully heal. My other wounds, though had recovered, in part because of the blood of the mature ferrorn as Shimi had called it, for which I was grat...
2023-04-07 20:35:20 +0000 UTC
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