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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 339 – The Climb
- Chapter 340 – Out of the Maze
- Chapter 341 – Establishing a Routine
- Chapter 342 – Invitation
- Chapter 343 – Single Team Maze Run
- Chapter 344 – Nettlefish
- Chapter 345 – A Choice Link-Gate
- Chapter 346 – New Hub Discovered!
- Chapter 347 – Return to the Night Market
- Chapter 348 – An Unpleasant Surprise
- Chapter 349 – Return to Mazehold
- Chapter 350 – A Forgotten Chance
- Chapter 351 – A New Task
- Chapter 352 – The Back Way
- Chapter 353 – Dyleda with the Blade
- Chapter 354 – Interrupted
- Chapter 355 – It’s Old
- Chapter 356 – It will hold
- Chapter 357 – To the Windows
- Chapter 358 – Spatial Resin
- Chapter 359 – Splitting the Party
- Chapter 360 – Third Upgrade
- Chapter 361 – Sphere Overhaul
- Chapter 362 – The Last Pieces
- Chapter 363 – Demense of the Arcane Coatl
- Chapter 364 – Arcane Demense
- Chapter 365 – Arcane Coatl Hybrid
- Chapter 366 – Equipment
- Chapter 367 – Third Upgrade Team
- Chapter 368 – Ansuz’s Quest
- Chapter 369 – New Data
- Chapter 370 – So What Now?
- Chapter 371 – The Secret Anchor
- Chapter 372 – Sweetfire’s Idea
- Chapter 373 – After Dinner
- Chapter 374 – The Maze Redux
- Chapter 375 – The Broken Lord’s Link-Gate
- Chapter 376 – Ghosts in the Atrium
- Chapter 377 – Powerful but Damaged
- Chapter 378 – Not So Weak After All
- Chapter 379 – Echoes of a Bygone Era
- Chapter 380 – The Empire’s Heart
- Chapter 381 – Tower Conquerors?
- Chapter 382 – Sigils of the Past
- Chapter 383 – Sophia’s Sigil
- Chapter 384 – Final Check
- Chapter 385 – The Tower Must Fall
- Chapter 386 – Judgement
- Chapter 387 – Truly a Broken Lord
- Chapter 388 – Offer Allegiance
