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Update

Update everybody. Been working on The Lion Kingdom and wrote a bit of The Boneless Dungeon Book II – Golems! Can’t wait to share it all with you.

If you haven’t already, please write a review for The Boneless Dungeon on Amazon. It goes a long way in sharing my story with more people.

Also, the Audible version of The Boneless Dungeon will be coming soon! Within the next month.

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Out Now!

The Boneless Dungeon: Rebirth is out now on Kindle, soon to be Paperback. Sales have been high and reception good, check it out for yourself here.

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The Boneless Dungeon Pre-Order now available

Pre-orders of my new novel start TODAY!

The Boneless Dungeon: Rebirth

This is book one of a new series (The Boneless Dungeon). You can pre-order it here: https://amzn.to/2AZiVr2

Scheduled release at the end of the month.

DESCRIPTION IN-PROGRESS

Breck was living in an overpopulated grim future before an accident at work broke his bones and killed him. Before he died, he received odd messages awarding him skills and abilities. Little did he know that he was about to be reborn as a dungeon core. A dungeon core handicapped with the inability to create bones, the very building blocks that comprise most living creatures. His trusty AI companion from Earth gives him the hope of becoming human again if he gains enough ranks to transcend.
Zach is a new adventurer at the lowest ranks. Because of a random turn of events, he is given the opportunity of a lifetime. A quest directly from the head of the adventurer’s guild that offers a high payout. This could be the lucky break he needs to make something of himself. That is, if others allow him to complete it alive.
Can Breck gain enough essence to rank up and become human again? Will Zach be able to complete his quest while other guild members are hunting him? What happens when their paths collide? Find all this out and more in, The Boneless Dungeon: Rebirth.

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The Elk Kingdom Audiobook Release

申し申し everyone! It is a glorious 日. Endless Fantasy Online: The Elk Kingdom audio 本 is finally released as of 三 minutes ago!

Check it out: https://www.audible.com/pd/B088FYWY2S...

九 hours and nineteen minutes of adrenaline fueled fantasy fun!

After the Battle for the Phoenix Kingdom, Luke and his friends have been given a quest by the 王女 herself. Heading out into the wild, the party 早々 finds themselves 中 the thralls of adventure when they are ambushed by a group of bandits. While distracted by a bandit infestation, the Crimson Shadow Guild, led by Shadow Incarnate, is 早々 gaining 力.

The party has to make it to the Elk Kingdom and bring 王 Henry home. While 中 the Elk Kingdom, Luke and company receive training 中 their new classes and gain new skills. It all boils 下 to 一 simple question: Will it be enough?

Will Luke and his party gain the skills they need to combat the growing darkness? Can he and his party muster the 力 and courage needed to protect Endless Fantasy Online? Will darkness take 上 the land?

Find answers to all of these and more 中 Endless Fantasy Online: The Elk Kingdom!

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Thank you / Update

Hello,

I just wanted to thank everyone who read or bought Endless Fantasy Online: The Elk Kingdom. As some of you may know, I took a portion of the proceeds and donated them to cancer research in honor of my grandmother who, very unfortunately, passed away right before I could release it. I hope she’s reading it in heaven, and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I know she did.

On a happier note, the audio version of The Elk Kingdom is on track for an end of March or very early April release. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have when reviewing my narrators work.

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The Boneless Dungeon – Cover

Hello Everyone. Please enjoy the reveal of The Boneless Dungeon cover. This is book one, titled Rebirth.

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Audio Book Review from LitRPG Podcast

Hey everyone. If you get a chance, check out a new review from the LitRPG Podcast for Endless Fantasy Online: The Phoenix Kingdom. It received a 7.8 out of 10!

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The Lion Kingdom Cover Reveal

I know the book isn’t coming out for a little while (only 1/10th done) but I wanted to tease all of you with the cover art. Please enjoy.

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The Boneless Dungeon, Chapter One: Death.

Hello Everyone, I wanted to share the first chapter of a new book series I’m working on called The Boneless Dungeon. I have more chapters available on my Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/devinauspland) if your interested.

I’m working on this title at the same as The Lion Kingdom (Book III of the Endless Fantasy Online Series). I hope to have them both launch around the same time.

Any who, I present you Chapter One of The Boneless Dungeon:

NOTE: This chapter is unedited and may change upon official release.

Buzz… Buzz… Buzz… Breck slapped his hand against the snooze
button on the top of his alarm clock.  The persistent buzzing stopped, and
he stretched while laying in bed. Sitting up, he gazed at his alarm
clock. 4Four am… time to get up, I suppose. He turned his alarm clock
off and got out of bed. He walked to his bathroom, removing his clothes as he
meandered across his small seven by seven room. “Hey Jeeves.” He groggily
called out to the empty white tiles.

“Yes Sir. How can I be of assistance?” A British, somewhat
computerized, voice called back out of an unseen source.

Breck stretched and cracked his back before responding.
“Start my morning procedure please.”

“Yes Sir.” Jeeves responded promptly.

The shower came on next to Breck and the room
heated up. He could hear several machines turning on in the room he had
previously exited, and the smell of ground coffee beans wafted by. After
brushing his teeth, he jumped into the shower, cleaned himself and emptied his
tank. He clicked a round chrome button, and the water cut off. Several rows of shower
tiles pulled back to reveal circular blowers. Hot air began striking him from
all sides and he was soon dry.

He reentered his main living space and took in his
surroundings. His bed had folded itself back into the wall, being replaced by a
small circular table with two fold-out chairs. The space that previously held
his nightstand and alarm clock was now a small kitchenette, complete with a
mini-fridge, sink, and cooktop. On the wall, opposite his table and chairs, was
a large projection showing today’s stock market changes.

“Jeeves, replace the current viewing with my serenity mix
please.” The projection shut off and the entire windowless room now projected a
beach with calm waves brushing against the shore. Seagulls were cawing faintly
in the distance and relaxing music played at a low volume. Breck sipped his
coffee as a tray slid out of an opening in the wall.

“Your breakfast, Sir.” The computerized voice echoed in the
near-empty room.

Looking down, Breck saw his normal breakfast. There was a
piece of square white bread with the appearance and texture of Styrofoam, a
bowl of thick gray nutrient-rich goop and a glass of clear water. He pulled
apart the bread and dipped it into the gray goop before depositing it in his
mouth. “Mmm, just how Mom used to make it.” He said in overly sarcastic voice.
When he finished his breakfast, he slid his tray back into the opening it came
from and walked over to a wall near one of the two doors in the room. Placing a
hand against the wall caused a wardrobe to slide out and into the room. He
grabbed one of the gray suits, quickly dressed himself and exited the room.

The door slid open automatically to reveal a long,
dull-looking hallway. There were light fixtures in the ceiling that gave off a
dim off-white glow. There weren’t any paintings, rugs or other decorative
features anywhere to be found. There were only a multitude of doors with
rectangular screens displaying the apartment number and occupant’s name at eye
level. As Breck walked away, his door shut and his display read, “Breck Jones,
Apartment 17JZ.”

As Breck walked to the end of the hallway where the
elevators were located, he looked around at the vast amount of rooms they
stuffed into each apartment complex. The hallway he walked down had an unknown
amount of branching paths leading off of it. Most apartments, even the ones
issued to families, were the same size as his. Doing some quick mental math, he
figured there had to be at least a hundred different rooms on his floor
alone. They really cram us in here like cockroaches don’t they.

Reaching the end of the hallway, Breck placed a hand on a
scanner next to the shut elevator doors. A quick scan of his palm later and the
elevator was on its way. He entered it when it arrived and descended to the
first floor of his apartment complex. The elevator opened directly in front of
the door leading out into the street. Elevator technology had come a long way
in the previous years, enabling them to travel in most directions and thus
eliminating the need for buildings like his to require a lobby. The apartment
and hotel owners loved that fact as it allowed them to stuff even more people
into their already cramped buildings.

Breck placed his hand against the tinted front door and
prepared himself for the assault on his senses that hit him every time he left
his building. When the door was pushed open, the small room he was standing in
almost instantly filled with smog and pollution. Noise flooded into the cramped
space and Breck physically winced from the sudden change in volume. The sounds
of an overly crowded and busy populace were almost too much for him to handle
but, like most things, he learned to live with it.

Taking a step into the street, he was washed away with the
crowd of shoulder-to-shoulder people. The population in cities continued to
flourish over the years and when the current sidewalk infrastructure wasn’t
enough to support the people, the government built the new road networks
underground. Whether because of lack of planning or rushing to complete the
project, they vented all the exhaust upward through a variety of pipes
connected to existing manholes. It didn’t take long for the pipes to become
overworked and leak into the streets, causing the massive amount of smog that
people just got used to.

Maybe they saw the thousands of people dying from the
pollution to be another way of controlling population growth. The smog wasn’t
the first decision that made him think the government was deliberately ignoring
decisions that were killing people. To be fair, the government was now a shell
of what it once was. With the massive increase in population, there were
massive increases in crime, violence and gangs. Some kind of local governing
crime syndicate ran most cities now, including the one he lived in. The
government denied it but it was bluntly obvious to all that they just didn’t
have the resources to control it, so they choose to ignore it.

Coughing and hacking a few times, along with everyone else,
Breck pushed along toward the market district where he worked. When he was near
his building, he rudely pushed his way through the crowd to reach the front
door. Once inside, he was greeted with a similar scene. He was in a small room
containing small pod like elevators. Placing his palm against a scanner opened
the door to one pod, and he stepped in. The door shut behind him and he shot
upward. After a few moments, and directional changes, the door to his pod
opened to a sea of desks and cubicles.

He walked for fifteen minutes past the shouting and
scurrying of his busy coworkers until he found his work area. He sat in his
beat-up chair looking down at the only thing on his desk, a steel blue cube.
Placing a thumb on it caused it to come alive. Several projections shot out of
the cube displaying a variety of information. Most of them were showing
information related to different stocks with news outlets scattered in between.
A projection of a keyboard, mouse, and notepad appeared on his desk alongside a
virtual potted plant and a photo of his deceased parents. His once barren desk
was now filled with virtual objects.

Breck used to have a physical photo of his parents, but it
got worn and destroyed over the years. He would have printed a new one but
paper was extremely expensive and only the 1% could afford it. All the world’s
trees had been relocated to oxygen farms, and a tree was rarely ever cut down,
causing the spike in price. This was the same reason why a virtual notepad was
located on his desk and not a real one.

He manipulated the stock screens around him, purchasing low
and selling high. Different accounts, clients and companies were being pushed
and pulled to the different screens as he worked. A large display at the top
center of his view constantly showed his net gain or loss for the day. Breck
continued working for ten hours and when he was satisfied with his progress for
the day, he logged out. A green “+19% CREDITS” flashed before everything
vanished and his desk became bare once again.

Pushing back his office chair, he rose and walked toward the
exit. He had almost reached the pods when someone called out to him. “Hey
B-Rod, wait up!”

Breck turned and saw not one but two people chasing after
him. One was a short slender man, and the other was a taller, more husky
individual. He recognized both and called back unenthusiastically. “Hey, Jesse.
Hey, Austin.”

The shorter man, Jesse, responded first. “Hey. Saw your
numbers for the day on the leader-board again. A nineteen percent increase,
right?” He whistled. “That’s impressive. I can never top five or six percent in
today’s market.”

“Yeah. How do you do it, man?” Austin inquired.

Breck shrugged. “I don’t know. I guess I’m just good at
analyzing trends and data. I guess I’m just lucky.”

“Come on! Seriously, what’s your secret?” Austin protested.

Breck placed his palm on the scanner next to the pods and a
door opened up, so he entered. He held out a hand to stop the door from
closing. “No secrets. I guess I’m just better than you.” He pulled his hand in
and the door shut. The last thing he saw was Jesse and Austin staring back at
him in stunned anger. When the pod re-opened, Breck took one look into the busy
street and sighed audibly. I hate these crowds. Exiting into
the street, he made his way back to his apartment.

When he entered his apartment, his computerized assistant
spoke up. “Hello Sir. Would you like me to make you dinner?” Breck grunted his
affirmation, and he stripped down to his underpants, his clothes being pulled
into compartments on the floor for cleaning. “Right away, Sir.”

Breck sat in his fold out chair as another tray of hot gray
goop slid out of the wall. This time there was no bread but instead a cookie
with a single chocolate chip in it. Confused, he asked, “What’s this Jeeves? I
can’t afford whatever this is.” He was cautious to even ask about the alien
object, afraid that they may charge him for it if he had.

“This was sent by your company, Sir. There was a note along
with it. Would you like me to read it?” Breck nodded his head. “Hello Mr.
Jones. Here at the Homestead Corporation, we value our star employees. For
consistently performing in the top ten percent on the leader-board, we have
rewarded you with this delicacy. Please enjoy and know that the Homestead
Corporation appreciates your continued performance.”

Breck poked at the cookie. He had never tasted or even seen
one before but had overheard fantastic things said about them from his bosses
around the water cooler. “What’s this brown thing in the center? Is it a
nutrient pellet?”

“No, Sir. That is a bit of chocolate. A chocolate chip, to
be exact.” Jeeves responded with his disembodied voice.

Chocolate? What the hell is chocolate? Breck
thought as he picked up the round disk. By normal, old Earth, standards, this
cookie wasn’t anything to write home about. It was only an inch in diameter and
was almost flat. The cookies one would buy at an old discount store were much
nicer looking, and likely tastier, than the so called ‘cookie’ sitting in front
of him.

He lifted the unknown food to his mouth and took a hesitant
bite. The taste of sugar filled his mouth and a warm smile crossed his face.
“This is incredible, Jeeves!” He ate the rest of the cookie as slowly as
possible, wishing to treasure each and every bite. When he was done he licked
his tray and fingers to get even a remote taste of the now devoured delicacy.
“Ok Jeeves, wake me up early tomorrow so I can put in some extra time at the
office. I want to earn another one of those!”

With his earlier alarm set and his stomach full, he stood
from his chair and watched as it, along with the table, retracted into a hole.
His bed, which slid out of its own compartment in the wall, replaced them. He
fell into his less-than-stellar-quality mattress and sleep took him.

When he woke up the next morning, he repeated his normal
morning routine. He showered, ate and made his way to work. When he was done
working for the day, he was once again approached by Jesse and Austin.

“What’s with the smile?” Jesse asked.

“Huh? Oh, it’s nothing. Just heading home.” Breck replied as
he summoned a pod.

“Really? You never smile.” Austin pushed.

“It’s nothing, guys.” The pod door in front of him opened.
“Well, that’s my ride.” He stepped in and allowed the door to shut. How
could I not smile? I had the best thing in the world to eat yesterday. What’s
the expression? Oh, yeah. I could die happy now. As if the universe
was answering his call, his pod began to creek to a stop. Red lights flashed
and a non-stop buzzing sound came from all around.

Breck hit the emergency call button but received no
response. “Hello? What’s going on?” After several minutes of not receiving a
response, he attempted to pull the door open. Digging his fingers into the
crack between the door and the wall, he pulled with all his might. He could
hear the gears holding the door shut start to give way. Taking a deep breath,
he gave it everything he had and the door slowly opened. There was nothing but
darkness on the other side. When the red lights flashed, Breck got glimpses of
a large shaft with other pods zooming past.

It’s way too dark for me to see. I can’t stand all this
darkness! Breck thought to himself.

Request confirmed. Acquisition of the skill Night
Vision is successful.

What the hell was that? And where the hell is my help?!

Request confirmed. Acquisition of the skill Call
for Help is successful.

“Ok, seriously. What’s going on he…” The cables connected to
the pod snapped, sending it into a free fall. With the door open and nothing to
hold on to, he fell into the darkness. It didn’t take long for him to collide
with other pods on his rapid, fifty-floor descent. The pods he hit managed to
slow him as he broke countless bones before landing at the bottom of the
service shaft. He lay there in an ever-growing pool of his own blood, unable to
move his broken limbs.

It hurts… It hurts so much… Breck could barely
keep his mind straight through the pain.

Request confirmed. Acquisition of the skill Fall
Resistance is successful.

Continuing. Physical Attack Resistance is
successful.

Every bone in my body hurts. I can’t… I can’t move…

Creating a body that does not require bones. Successful.

Continuing. Creating a body that can’t move. Successful.

Continuing. Body of essence created. Successful.

Breck looked around. Am I going to die in this dark
room alone? Is there no one out there?

Creating a companion. Searching database for applicable
information. Successful. Companion, Jeeves, created.

He tried again to move, and the pain intensified. I
can’t take it! I want to die. The pain’s too much.

Request confirmed. Acquisition of the skill Sacrifice is
successful.

Sacrifice  has combined with your body
of essence and created the unique skill Essence Absorption.

Your essence is now being absorbed.

Breck’s eyes got heavy, so he allowed them to shut. Words,
more like symbols, appeared in front of him but he couldn’t read them. They
were in a language he couldn’t understand or even recognize. I don’t
understand. I can’t read this.

Request confirmed. Acquisition of the skill Tongues is
successful.

Tongues  skill activated!
Language Acari acquired.

The words in front of him rearranged themselves until they
formed words in English. The words read, ‘You have died.’

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Elk Kingdom Released!

Endless Fantasy Online: The Elk Kingdom released TODAY!!!! The book is finally out, please enjoy it!

Kindle: https://amzn.to/2LsqngN
Paperback: https://amzn.to/2OeTuWg

NOTE: A PORTION OF ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE ROSWELL CANCER FACILITY TO HELP FACILITY CANCER RESEARCH.

DESCRIPTION

After the Battle for the Phoenix Kingdom, Luke and his friends have been given a quest by the princess herself. Heading out into the wild, the party quickly finds themselves in the thralls of adventure when they are ambushed by a group of bandits. While distracted by a bandit infestation, the Crimson Shadow Guild, led by Shadow Incarnate, is quickly gaining power.

The party has to make it to the Elk Kingdom and bring King Henry home. While in the Elk Kingdom, Luke and company receive training in their new classes and gain new skills. It all boils down to one simple question: Will it be enough?

Will Luke and his party gain the skills they need to combat the growing darkness? Can he and his party muster the strength and courage needed to protect Endless Fantasy Online? Will darkness take over the land?

Find answers to all of these and more in Endless Fantasy Online: The Elk Kingdom!

STATS

Main character: Beast Tamer class
Party: Rogue, Barbarian and Holy Knight
Genre: Trap in a VR Game, Main Bad Guy

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