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Broken Lands

Broken Lands
The day it all started was supposed to be an ordinary day.
For Sophia Rothmer, that meant escorting a new delver through a simple dungeon’s Tier One area. Sure, she knew her mother had seen a future where she ended up in another world on her own adventure, but that was months ago; it probably wasn’t going to happen.
For a group of offworld mercenaries, that meant damaging a dungeon’s instance core, snagging some extra treasure, and blaming it on either Sophia or her trainee.
For Dav Carolan, that meant exploring a new world. He may not know what’s going on, but he’ll figure it out; he always does.
The heist didn’t go as planned. After a disorienting and potentially life-altering trip through the place between everything known as the Origin, Sophia and Dav find themselves in a cave. They have no idea what happened to the bandits, no idea where they are, and Sophia seems to have lost her Skills.
It’s not an auspicious welcome to the Broken Lands.
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The content warnings are mostly to give me room to write; this fiction is not intended to be edgy, but there are times when someone is seriously injured and the Bad Guys sometimes do Bad Things. The characters also had lives before the story and they're ... not always happy.
No AI assistance was used in the writing, but there is AI art.
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Chapter List
- Chapter 437 – Rent a Room
- Chapter 438 – Third Branch
- Chapter 439 – Leo’s Mistake
- Chapter 440 – A Girl and her … Fish?
- Chapter 441 – It’s not panic, really!
- Chapter 442 – Reunited
- Chapter 443 – Return to the Gardens
- Chapter 444 – A Lesson and a Date
- Chapter 445 – Auction
- Chapter 446 – Meeting the Parents
- Chapter 447 – Meteor Pillars
- Chapter 448 – At the Pillar
- Chapter 449 – First Fall
- Chapter 450 – Strike Plan
- Chapter 451 – Third Upgrade Domain
- Chapter 452 – Aht’ko
- Chapter 453 – Haunted
- Chapter 454 – Unbelievable
- Chapter 455 – Sleeping Domain
- Chapter 456 – Final Fall
- Chapter 457 – You Were Slow
- Chapter 458 – Bonus Rounds?
- Chapter 459 – Treasury
- Chapter 460 – Treasures
- Chapter 461 – Hearthtree Seeds
- Chapter 462 – Watering Trees
- Chapter 463 – Thinking On Paper
- Chapter 464 – First Treasure Challenge
- Chapter 465 – Treasure Challenges
- Chapter 466 – Key Information
- Chapter 467 – Treasures
- Chapter 468 – Manifested Abilities
- Chapter 469 – Inspector
- Chapter 470 – Heartwood
- Chapter 471 – Troublemaker
- Chapter 472 – Splinter
- Chapter 473 – Uncomfortable Dance
