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Chapter 870 - Taken Too Far
I don't think I can really count this as early ... but it is indeed on time!Enjoy!------------“Serenity?” Aide’s voice rang in Serenity's mind before he was even really awake. Adrenaline - or whatever his body now used that served the same purpose - shot through Serenity. This had to b...
Chapter 869 - Lesser Demons Everywhere
I am currently expecting the next chapter to be on time. Early would be nice but I can't promise it.Enjoy!-------------“Red agrees with you.” Russ frowned and shook his head slightly at the deconstructed trap. “What about the wood thing with a monster core?”Serenity shrugged. “A comple...
Chapter 868 - Only the Beginning
Enjoy!--------------A neon pink thorn brought back memories. They weren’t good ones, but at least they made it fairly easy to figure out what the monster had to be. It had to be a Demon of Pain, a Thorn Demon.It was a hard decision, but Serenity had to trust that Earth’s defenders could handle a...
Chapter 867 - Shattered Spell
Enjoy!--------------The Lesser Demon of Wrath was incredibly cute, far cuter than the Lesser Demon of Sorrow. Serenity was pretty confident that other people wouldn’t think so, but there was something about how tiny and aggressive it was that made it positively endearing.As he watched, it tried to...
Chapter 866 - Crying Child
Enjoy!----------Where did the Lesser Sorrow Demon come from?The question bothered Serenity. It wasn’t the only question that bothered him, but it was the one he couldn’t resolve just by asking Aki. She didn’t know where it came from; Russ didn’t have any idea either. Serenity could tell that...
Chapter 865 - The Creature in the Marsh
Enjoy!--------------Legion told Serenity about the trapped package a few hours after it happened.Russ waited until Serenity was back on Earth to fill in the details. All of the details. “...six trapped packages that day. We’re lucky that only two of them were opened by their apparently intended ...
Chapter 864 - Separated
Enjoy!-------------This time, Serenity saw Elder Lizven’s eyes follow his to the planet above them. After a moment, she lowered her gaze to meet his, wrinkled her brow, and asked “Just who were you?”Somehow, even though she directed the question at him, Serenity didn’t think she actually exp...
Chapter 863 - Retest
Enjoy!--------------As far as Serenity could tell, the enchantment on the rope binding his hands was simply to make it sturdier. He’d checked and that was all he could see. :I seem to be fine. I can get out of this whenever I want to; it’s strong, but that’s all. Nothing to stop shapeshifting....
Chapter 862 - A Happy Annoyance
Enjoy!-------The portal guard led the group to a building that was clearly grown in the side of the large tree that was closest to the portal. Even so, it wasn’t all that close. If this was where the guards’ station for the portal was, it was surprisingly inconveniently located. Even in a place ...
Chapter 861 - Miniature
Currently coping with covid. Chapters may be late. Sorry. This should have been out hours ago.Enjoy!--------Becca left work at the Adventurer’s Guild at three that afternoon. She was happy to be working the early shift; the evening shift was usually when the entitled delvers came out, the ones who...
Chapter 860 - Others
Enjoy!-------------There were no hellhounds on the way to the first reported incident. Russ was grateful for it; he’d stiffened up in the time he spent watching the video of the hellhound summoning, and while he made certain to stretch before he got into the car, he just knew he’d pick up worse ...
Chapter 859 - It’s Not Over
Enjoy!-----------Quincy stayed with Russ through his entire round of medical treatment. Between the deep puncture wounds and burns, Russ decided to pay for magical healing; without it, he would probably have had to stay at least overnight but magical healing had been around for long enough that they...
Chapter 858 - Not Mundane
Enjoy!----------“It’s not a bomb,” Brown told Russ. “There are no signs of any explosives at all. Here, let me show you the X-Ray.”Russ was lucky Brown got along so well with the local police; if he didn’t, this entire exercise would have been far more difficult. Ever since they were mov...
Chapter 857 - Not the Vase you’re Looking For
Enjoy!--------------Rube nodded at the security guard, Jim, as he headed into the elevator to the underground area. It still surprised him that something as simple as finding a discarded but colorful box led him to work at a museum, much less the Metropolitan. Not only did he not have a doctorate, h...
Chapter 856 - To the Mines
Enjoy!----------Shopping meant that Serenity didn’t manage to make it to the Guild hall until the next morning and then it was afternoon before he, along with Raz, Blaze, and Ita, entered the nearby dungeon. Riss, Legion, and the rest of the entourage were back at the market; Serenity was glad to ...
Chapter 855 - Tsallin
Enjoy!----------Tsallin was a city built at the mouth of a river. At Tsallin, it was called the Tsa; Serenity knew the river had other names as you traveled upstream. They wouldn’t matter, because the trip from Tsallin was a sea voyage from Tsallin to Kvellin. In Kvellin, they’d be able to find ...
Chapter 854 - Vacation
Enjoy!-----------Russ needed a vacation. Most years, that wasn’t an issue; he worked when he was needed and was on call the rest of the time. Where possible, the other Guardians took his cases; he was mostly retired, after all. Despite the sheer size of the territory he covered, that usually meant...
Chapter 853 - All Too Similar
Enjoy!Edit: Managed to get Patreon to display the image instead of the page it's from.------He was halfway done with the mapping project when something about the small shattered ley line areas attracted his notice: they all emanated from the points where the lines crossed. That didn’t mean any...
Chapter 852 - Power
Enjoy!-------------The MANIC device didn’t make any sense.Human tilted it at someone else in the crowded area and got yet another nonsensical result. This time, it said Tier Three but she could immediately tell that the woman was only Tier One and definitely wasn’t masking her aura.She wasn’t ...
Chapter 851 - In the Morning
Enjoy!-----------Serenity and Russ were eating breakfast when the world shook. Serenity could hear Gaia’s jubilation, so he immediately knew what had happened: Earth had advanced to Tier Four. That was insanely fast; worlds were supposed to be slower than people, not faster!Russ seemed confused, s...
Chapter 850 - Curiosity
Enjoy!----------------Human was not in the van.Once again, Death debated abandoning her humanlike form to find the Beast-God and once again, she rejected the idea. Not only was it not necessary, this was interesting in a way she hadn’t seen in a long time. Probably ever.Death wasn’t certain she...
Chapter 849 - Maps
Enjoy!-----------Serenity felt a lot more relaxed as he climbed back up the stairs at the dungeon’s exit. He might not have gotten the workout he wanted, but he had gotten some food and time with good company instead. It helped.The good feelings were a little hurt when he headed out of the Guild b...
Chapter 848 - A Distinct Downside
Enjoy!-----------When Serenity returned to Aki’s dungeon, he found Raz in his draconic form teaching a young woman about dungeon management. That had to be Nadia Davis, the niece of the helicopter pilot who’d taken him to the island with the Well of Souls. She was so intent on Raz’s lesson, so...
Chapter 847 - Another Connection
Enjoy!-----------Why was he here, watching while the enchanter was questioned?Serenity really didn’t have anything to contribute. He could just as easily have watched this later or even heard the details from Russ, but Russ wanted him here. Serenity wasn’t sure why. It wasn’t like they were ta...
Chapter 846 - Poorly Hidden Secrets
Enjoy!----------“Not allowed?” Blaze frowned at Russ. “You can enforce that?”“If we catch it,” Russ admitted. “We try, and I like to think that something this overt is always caught eventually, but sometimes they go for entirely too long. Once upon a time … it was only a few years ag...
Chapter 845 - What took so long?
Enjoy!-----------Everything was more or less back under control when Russ finally called Serenity and asked him to head back to New York City. It wasn’t quite an afterthought when Russ asked Serenity to bring Blaze and Ita but leave Rissa behind.They met at a strip mall, in the back room of a stor...
Chapter 844 - There’s Always Cleanup
Enjoy!--------During the weeks after the fight on A’Atla, Serenity kept busy putting things back together. He was busy enough inside the tunnels that he wasn’t with the first group that reached the dungeon. He heard about the encounters with the snakes; they ran from the Lamia without engaging h...
Chapter 843 - Not Just Another Day
Enjoy!----------------Becca looked up from her phone when the door chimed to let her know someone had arrived. She tucked the phone under the desk. Maybe she would take up Kerr’s offer of paying for training; it would give her something to do between customers other than scroll through Facebook.Sh...
Between-Arc Appendices and Author's Note for Arc 10, Teaser for Arc 11
Character List of Deep Blue SeaThis list includes people mentioned in all Arcs to date.It does not include people with only a single mention or the “people” from the Story Dungeon; they are specifically for that Story. If I missed anyone more important than that (I often do), please let me know ...
Chapter 842 - Revelations
There's a section here that was requested yesterday ... it fits well so I put it in today's epilogue and moved the bit I had planned for that section to the prologue that will come in a couple days. It sets stuff up for the next book anyway.Enjoy!------------Letter from Honoria Clearsight, H...
