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Irwin's Journey 484: Two and one
Ambraz let out a groan, still perched on Irwin's stomach. "Irwin, meet Pur'am, my second progeny."Irwin watched the purple Ganvil circle them, staring at him, still pushing against his soulforce barrier."I see," he replied. "And how is he trying to move into my soulscape?...
Irwin's Journey 483: Give?!
Zan slammed her hammer into the card, singing softly while Silv'am hummed a counter tune. She sensed that the card's resonance was almost complete, and as she struck it again, she let her song end in a high crescendo.The cards hovered and their amethyst border rippled, changing into the pale...
Irwin's Journey 482: Made from Purperion
"Now then, you have me rather curious," Irwin said. "What is going on?"Rinbus took a deep breath, staring up at him. "Rindiri and the others weren't your own species initially, were they?"Irwin blinked in surprise. He hadn't told Rinbus or anyone here about the Yuurin...
Irwin's Journey 481: Time to multiply
"As you can see, the tree-wharf is close to being fully functional," Rindiri said as she stomped beside Irwin.He nodded as he followed her, half of his attention on the massive changes to the eastern part of Trunkle. The wall had been expanded a few hundred feet outward, around one of the la...
Irwin's Journey 480: Growth spurt
"Are you alright?" Irwin asked, staring at his friend."Yes. Just give me a moment," he Daubutim said, the bursts of red lightning in his eyes increasing, the light from them around so bright that it was lighting up the entire room.A few moments went by, but it quickly became clear th...
Irwin's Journey 479: Time manipulation
Slaudi leaned back in his chair, glaring at the tablet on his desk. They had been traveling for over a week, and all the news he'd gotten as he closed in on the first of his bases had been bad.How can such a small force still hold us back? They are just chunks of flying metal!He glared at the ta...
Irwin's Journey 478: Another Volcano Titan
Rubini groaned and dropped the hammer on the nearby table. Feeling disgusted, she picked up the chunk of metal. She could sense the tiny inconsistencies still lingering in it, like small irregularities mocking her. Compared to when she'd started, she'd improved immensely, but she just couldn...
Irwin's Journey 477: One of many
"Make sure you stay in the house," Irwin said, as he looked at Rindiri and the two Yuurindi."We will, Captain," Rindiri said. "Good luck.""Luck has nothing to do with it," Ambraz said happily, flying nearby. "Now, let's do this, kid! As soon as we are done, yo...
Irwin's Journey 476: Black blood
Three days went by both faster and slower than Irwin wanted. By the second day, the headache was preventing him from sleeping or fully enjoying himself. It made it hard to keep his calm. When the others woke on the third day, he knew he would have to head back as soon as he said his goodbyes."Ki...
Irwin's Journey 475: Greed
Irwin hovered in the middle of Preg's old cave. He let his senses do a final sweep around, and he sensed Mouli, the enormous fire snake, guarding the entrance. It wasn't really necessary because the chances of anything even entering the Ghulnithair terrain were nearly impossible. Still, he&#...
Irwin's Journey 474: Give you a hand
Rubini felt her entire body protest as she pulled Julla back to the edge of the merchant's storage district and the narrow streets she and the others used to sleep in."Rubi," Julla muttered, yawning and wiping a few hairs from her face. "Will you have time to ask around tonight?"...
Irwin's Journey 473: Assassins
Rubini walked into the building, followed by a curious and excited Julla. The entrance was already cleaned of sand, and as Rubini looked around, they saw a towering Oxarite use a comparatively tiny broom to wipe sand from one of the sides of the buildings. Her dark, slightly gleaming arms bulged wit...
Irwin's Journey 472: Portal Webs
"Ten times as much soulforce as you have now?" Amburaz said slowly. "You are sure he said that?"Irwin nodded as he sat at the edge of the pyroflux lake, legs inside the hot liquid, as he watched the massive group of fire elemental snakes congregated in the distance. The Ghulnithair h...
Irwin's Journey 471: Future growth
Irwin frowned as he stared out across Flamerock, which had new walls and towers, with Ignitzians walking across everywhere."After the Smiths War, Flamerock became a lot less open to new people," Rinbus said from beside him. "With Lejingi able to create most of the harder cards, and them ...
Irwin's Journey 470: [REVISED] Spreading out
Author's note: So, some of you will be like - wait, didn't we have a chapter 470 already? Yes, you did. However, I had a lot of feedback on it, and in hindsight I agreed with a lot. So, I've rewritten nearly all of this chapter, keeping only a few parts while changing a few others.Part o...
Revising chapter 470
Sooooo it seems I might have gone a bit to fast with my desire to reach the next part of the story. Chapter 470, the one from yesterday is getting a bit more push back than normal, with the general tendency seeming to be that people don't like how fast things went and how passive Irwin was in th...
Irwin's Journey 470: [OLD ONE] Rapid change of plans
"-and how many? We don't know. The short of it is, we found portals deep within every Eternal Mine, and any other chasm and hole," Flowrishin said.Irwin stopped pacing, focusing on her. Flowrishin was the only one left, as Brecka and Nimlarel had headed out with Rorin to find Rinbus. She...
Irwin's Journey - book 3 released!
Hey guys, after a long and grueling slo- Uhh, I mean, after a great deal of fun times, I bring you the third edited book of Irwin's Journey! I'll not rehash what I already did during the last post, but for those who haven't you can read some more about things here.https://www.amazon.com...
Irwin's Journey 469: One way to say hello
Irwin hummed as he walked into the Smiths Guild. Except for the main entrance, most of the area behind it had been changed from what he remembered. Not that it had been set in stone yet when he left, but he had expected at least the main entrance to remain the same.Instead, the doorless pathway led ...
Irwin's Journey 468: Aura
Authors note: I added an entire section to this chapter to hopefully better explain what Irwin's new heartcard does. Well,the Aura soul part at least. I usually don't alert people of changes to chapters, but because its not the last chapter, and a substantial edit, I'm making two excepti...
Irwin's Journey 467: Aura Cards
It took them a few hours and some searching to find the pillar of glass sand that surrounded the exit portal. Nothing seemed to have changed from it, not from the outside nor the inside."It's incredible," Nimlarel whispered, staring at the black tear in reality with the small lightning b...
Irwin's Journey book 3 - Release!
Hey guys! So book three is back from the editor and proofreaders, and will be releasing as soon as I've gone over all changes. Probably September 1e. Things are going much faster than usual but I've had some things going in the wrong order. For those with the ability, if you could get me a s...
Irwin's Journey 466: Another Derlin
Irwin woke with a start, the vestiges of a dream fading. He faintly recalled it had been about him traveling through the Portal Gallery with his family. It took two seconds for him to remember which day it was, and when he did, his eyes snapped open and he surged out of his sand bed.He sensed his ot...
Irwin's Journey 465: Eb and flow
Irwin kept humming and moving around the sound waves as he zipped through the building and cavern, picking up the loose cards. During his chat with Ambraz, he’d moved more Ancestral Coperion into his soulscape. He could now constantly sense how it slowly absorbed his own ambient soulforce.Odd, how...
Some news about the future!
So, three bits of news for you!1. Irwin’s Journey Book 3 ReleaseBook 3 of Irwin’s Journey will release on Amazon next Thursday! I’ll be sharing a sneak peek of the cover this weekend.2. Moving from Self-Publishing to a PublisherThis will be the last book I self-publish. Over the past few years...
Irwin's Journey 464: One hand at a time
"Do you think he will be back again tonight?" Brecka asked, arms crossed as she stared down the enormous gorge far below the tree.She didn't notice the worried glances of Rinbus, who was standing a short distance away."I don't think so. He told us he was going to go a lot deeper ...
Irwin's Journey 463: Execution
Hilbarin snuck forward, trying to ignore the raging battle behind him. The occasional shaking of the ground was a great cover for his not-so-subtle sneaking, and he glanced around at the others. He knew many of them; old lords and ladies that had once been in control of families and ridges, and now ...
Irwin's Journey 462: Through the wall
Salezina, still Empress though she hoped not for much longer, stood with arms crossed behind the secret wall, staring at the shade walkers move into her room. The runes covering the wall showed them like rapidly moving clouds, darting back and forth as they searched for her."I guess you were rig...
Irwin's Journey 461: Shaking
A day after he had arrived, Irwin stood in what he was told was the official Imperial treasury. Masses of metals and cards filled the chamber around him, though from what the Empress had told him, most were either useless or fake.Not all, however. And Irwin slowly turned around, six cards already in...
Irwin's Journey 460: As the back so the front
"I always worried about her," Vaidara muttered, as she leaned back and rubbed her eyes. "Still, after she joined with Lord Sachindrian, things seemed to be calming down. I had hoped that not having to do Burrows for a while, and being together with Sachindrian would help her forget…...
