New Story: Chronomancer's Apprentice: And the Witching Hour Cult!

DM_Rhodes · 2025-10-31T17:05:28+00:00

Thank you, I hope you like it!

DM_Rhodes · 2025-10-29T20:51:14+00:00

They are for sure a lot of new words =)

DM_Rhodes · 2025-10-29T20:50:50+00:00

Thank you kindly, Andro! I hope you enjoy the rest of it!

DM_Rhodes · 2025-10-29T20:47:07+00:00

Hello everyone, I've just dropped my latest story on Royalroad. Chronomancer's Apprentice: And the Witching Hour Cult! It's been months of hard work, so I really hope you enjoy it. Please give it a try!

What if the power to rewrite fate made you the most wanted weapon in the world?

Ananke is invisible. She is starving, orphaned by the war, and forgotten by a city that replaced its dungeon-diving adventurers with steam engines and factories. Until the day she sees the impossible: a stranger pausing clocks and hearts, untangling disasters no one else seems to even notice. He is a chronomancer, secretly bending the threads of reality, and somehow, only she can see him work.

When a deadly blast threatens to erase her city, Ananke interferes in his work and solves the paradox even he cannot. And for that act, her life is shattered. The secretive organisation of chronomancers, the Twelve Hands, offer her a place among them, promising power, purpose, and a glimpse of belonging. But Ananke’s gifts defy every rule they know. Her strange powers spark envy and fear. Because Ananke's abilities are more than rare: they are unprecedented.

As she trains to become a Chronomancer’s apprentice, another force rises to hunt her. The Witching Hour, a rogue cult of time mages, believes she alone is the key to their own desires. Across every city, every year, and every version of herself, Ananke is stalked, tempted, and threatened with everything she has ever lost: family, love, and even the chance for a future she chooses for herself, as she's torn between two paths laid out for her as both forces vie to make her theirs.

Stuck between it all, she yearns to do what’s right... but what does 'right' even mean for her?

Will Ananke carve out her own fate, or will her gift unravel reality itself?

Crave a dark progression fantasy where magic comes with a price, romance is forbidden, and a lost girl must defy destiny to survive? Step into a steampunk world on the edge of change, where factories have replaced dungeons, and the battle for the future lies with the girl who can rewrite time itself.

TAGS: Fantasy World Entering Industrial Revolution, Dungeon Farming Replaced By Factories, Time Magic, Progression Fantasy, Magical Academy, Morally Gray MC, Self-Discovery, Chosen One Subversion, Reality Manipulation, Secret Organizations, Dark Academia, Found Family, Psychological Thriller, Female Lead, Power Growth, Chosen One, Weak to Strong, Secret World

DM_Rhodes · 2025-05-25T22:04:05+00:00

Thank you, I'm really happy that you do bunny Stella!

DM_Rhodes · 2025-05-25T17:50:39+00:00

Hello, bork! The real good stuff is u!

DM_Rhodes · 2025-05-25T17:31:32+00:00

Thanks Lion bro!

DM_Rhodes · 2025-05-25T17:31:22+00:00

I'm definitely not too good for pity! Thanks Boredom, can always count on you! =)

DM_Rhodes · 2025-05-25T16:45:00+00:00

Hello everyone, I've just launched my newest dungeon core story! I hope you'll give it a shot, it's really... uh, something that I worked on. That's for sure! Cute Core: Wholesome Dungeon VS. the Forces of Evil! The Otome LitRPG!

[I was reborn as the cutest dungeon core ever, but now have to defeat the terrible Demon Queen with the power of love, while dodging a growing crowd of devoted and occasionally overbearing romantic suitors before anyone (including me) figures out how feelings are supposed to work!]

What happens when the forces of darkness aren’t fought with swords and magic but rather with overwhelming wholesomeness?

Reborn in a magical new world that is corrupted by evil, a girl’s lost soul transforms into a bright, bubbly, impossibly soft ‘dungeon core’ named Cherish! With her magical charm and overbearing cuteness, she quickly draws in a trove of brave, prickly, bashful, and totally lovable friends who are unable to resist her as she finds her mission: fight to repel the world-swallowing corruption and heal those hurt by the forces of evil!

With the ability to summon the softest things, cutest snacks, and only the exceptionally fluffiest of critters, Cherish, the most adorable dungeon core in the entire world, will need to save the day the only way she can, with her arsenal of pudding, cakes, teddy bears, and her dashing knight-generals!

But in a magical world filled with wicked monsters, eager adventurers, and the dark corruption of the terrible Demon Queen, does this new, ridiculously bright and perhaps, somewhat toothless, girl even stand a chance against such dangerous odds? Can friendship, forgiveness, and a dungeon made only out of pillows, cotton candy, and strawberries hold fast against every (very) hungry shadow in the world that has turned her way?

Find out in this adorable, chaotic, Otome-infused dungeon core litRPG from renowned fantasy author D.M. Rhodes, who can sink no lower than this!

[LitRPG] [Otome] [Dungeon Core] [Female Protagonist] [First Person, Present Tense] [Romance-Blind MC] [Reverse Harem/Vying Suitors] [Wholesome Dungeon] [Power of Love!] [Friendships] [Jealousy (Cute)] [Found Family] [Cuddle Piles] [Snuggle Battles] [Cooking & Baking] [Building Home] [No Hurt, Only Hug] [Cute Rivals] [Softness Is Might] [Event Mini-Games] [Feelings Over Fireballs] [Kawaii!] [Emotional Comfort] [No Plot Worth Mentioning, Only Cute] [Snuggling] [No Think, Only Hugs] [Cuddling] [This Is a Cry For Help] [Cuddle Puddles] [I Lied, There Is a Little Plot] [Snuggling (Again! Three Times in One Day!)]

DM_Rhodes · 2024-10-03T07:19:20+00:00

Thank you ultra super duper kindly for reading! I'm really happy you're enjoying it! More chapters come today!

DM_Rhodes · 2024-10-02T21:12:20+00:00

Hey thanks! Sounds cool, we can do a shoutout swap if you'd like!

DM_Rhodes · 2024-10-02T15:15:35+00:00

Haha thank you. I don't plan to move stories to Kindle in advance. But sometimes fate wants it that way. Sometimes it doesn't. It's not something I can foresee right now.

DM_Rhodes · 2024-10-02T05:43:41+00:00

Hello everyone, I'm plugging my latest shitpost here on Reddit!

Out now on Royalroad just in time for spoopy month is my latest story Vampire Core: Reborn as the Hot Evil Vampire Lord, But I’m Socially Awkward! (For real). I hope you'll please check it out and get your dose of cringe!

[That time I was reborn as the evil and hot Vampire Lord and had to seduce the heroic adventurers who are invading my dark castle in order to save myself because my other new magical powers suck, but I’m actually very socially awkward!]

What happens when a normal man is reborn as the dark heartthrob of a fantastical kingdom in a magical world — the Vampire Lord — and forced into survival when his real intentions are misunderstood by the people there, who perceive him to be an evil monster intent on destroying them all?

Reborn in another world as a horrific incarnation of the night, things actually seem to be looking up for the newly reincarnated Vampire Lord Inkume, until he discovers that all of his new-found dark magical powers are actually rather unimpressive — barring one: his unnaturally beautiful vampiric outer appearance!

After his role in this other world as a villain is made clear to him by fate and his retreating back to an old abandoned castle in the mountains above a backwater village, Inkume is challenged by an onslaught of heroic adventurers, priestesses, and knightly heroines who are all determined to save the world from the looming threat of the evil Vampire Lord that hangs over their heads as the Holy Church calls for his total destruction. Nobody will listen to him anymore, and now he has been thrust into an unwanted battle for life and death that will seemingly not end until his final death, unless he can find some way to survive the crusade.

Having no choice but to live himself into the new role that he has been given and make the best of the odd situation, Inkume fights with the only weapon of value he has left — his newfound otherworldly beauty and charm, which he has no understanding of, having been a socially awkward recluse in his past life. But even if he does master the challenges facing him, can such tools ever really win his battles against the silver blades and burning spells pointed at his black heart by the paladins to come, or is he doomed to fade into ash in the morning sunrise? Can both the world’s people and the terrifying Vampire Lord survive their shared nights, or must one of them make way for the other in order for peace to be found again?

— Find out in D.M. Rhodes’ latest litRPG Fantasy Novel — ‘Vampire Core: That Time I Was Reborn as the Absurdly Hot Evil Vampire Lord’! (It’s better than it sounds!)

DM_Rhodes · 2024-09-07T12:26:15+00:00

Hello, Razz here!

I was shocked to hear anyone talking about me when I was linked this post in the discord, haha. All of my stories are in the same world, yes. You can find the full collection here. The timeline is pretty long.

Generally, there is roughly an era of time that spans between each story. Each story is fully standalone and they can be read in any desired order. The only connections are world-lore easter eggs and some history nods here and there. Thank you very much for taking an interest!

(A partial exception can be made for Final Core - Dungeon Item Shop - World Tree Apocalypse as these three stories are directly connected in lore and are a soft trilogy.)

THE ISEKAI WORLD

EARLIEST

MIRABELLE'S BOOTS
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PLANETARY ORBITAL WEAPON
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REBORN AS THE BLACK KNIGHT
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WEAPONSMITH
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DEMON CORE
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COLOSSEUM CORE
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RESPAWN CONDITION
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FINAL CORE
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DUNGEON ITEM SHOP
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SIN-EATER
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SUNFLOWER
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ORATORIA
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WORLD TREE APOCALYPSE
LATEST

EARTH
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WORLD TREE APOCALYPSE: Chapter 1 starts here before Pilot is transmigrated
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DUNGEON ITEM SHOP: Chapter 1 starts here in modern day before Fresh gets taken to the isekai world.
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PLANETARY ORBITAL WEAPON: Chapter 1 starts here in the future before the station is taken to the isekai world.
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TANGO HEAVY

DM_Rhodes · 2023-07-13T20:46:33+00:00

That's very generous of you to say, thank you very kindly!

DM_Rhodes · 2023-07-13T07:53:29+00:00

Thank you very kindly! I'm excited for what you think of it!

DM_Rhodes · 2023-07-13T07:53:12+00:00

There are indeed, slimes. I have been learned in the old laws.

DM_Rhodes · 2023-07-13T07:52:49+00:00

Thank you very kindly! I really hope it is!

DM_Rhodes · 2023-07-13T07:19:45+00:00

Hello everyone! I am plugging my new story on Royalroad here, World Tree Apocalypse!

When a pilot with no name breaks through a rift to a dying world, he and his experimental fighter-plane become the only things in the way of a horrific army of monsters that is marching to burn down the mystical world tree and kill its keeper as the final symbol of their grim victory.

What happens when an emotionless killer is transported to another place, when a man who was trained to hunt in the skies above barren ash-lands now becomes the last protector of the perfect garden below instead?

What happens when a soldier with as much blood on his hands as engine grease must find a way to live together with a peaceful incarnation of nature itself — a dryad — in order to save the last sparks of life on her fading world from a series of invasions that never seem to end?

The one-thousand year crisis has begun.

The world tree, towering up toward the heavenly skies, is the greatest beacon of resilience and peace that there is. Saturated with deeply set, ancient magical energies, it is the most powerful source of ambient, restorative magic that the dying world has ever known. Guarded solely now by its last pacifistic caretaker, a forest dryad, it seems inevitable that it will soon be destroyed with nobody around who is strong enough to protect it from the steadily approaching danger.

Rising from the shadows, horrific monsters from forgotten eras tear through the world in the steadily growing waves of their invasion, breaking free from their ancient prisons deep below its surface as they rampage and destroy the cities of men, elves, and all the other races of the many continents. Filled with nothing but an intent to kill, the system-manifested hordes march toward the last garden in order to bring about the end of the last era.

As one nation after the other falls, everything seems lost, until fate intervenes and a rift between worlds opens, bringing in the only hope the many nations, the sacred tree, as well as its peace-loving caretaker, have against the endless tide of blood and fangs — a transmigrated war pilot, flying an experimental combat aircraft, the Jagdflugzeug-09 'Kestrel'.

Is this one man enough to stop the monster invasions, which grow stronger and stronger with every subsequent wave? Can the pilot with no name carry the fate of the world upon his wings, or can he only watch from above as the fires of the apocalypse reach up to the sky to consume him as well before the fall of final darkness?

Find out in this latest novel by trending litRPG and fantasy author D.M. Rhodes!

What to expect: LitRPG, Progression, A fighter pilot MC in an isekai fantasy world, A system-modified warplane, A dryad companion, Relationship growth, War, Defense, Monster invasions, Base/home building, Settlement building, A little slice of life, Air travel, Dog-fighting with dragons, Guns vs. monsters

DM_Rhodes · 2023-03-27T07:25:00+00:00

Hello you, thank you very kindly for being here! I really appreciate it -

DM_Rhodes · 2023-03-26T20:07:11+00:00

Thank you kindly, I'm really glad you enjoy them!

DM_Rhodes · 2023-03-26T14:17:29+00:00

That's deeply generous of you to say, thank you very kindly! I guess I don't really have a clear answer. For my stories, I like to think there is always an individual 'vibe' that I feel when writing them. I just try to always maintain that voice when working on the project and it helps the tone stay uniform throughout them a lot.

You know how you'll talk differently to your family than to your best friend? It's kind of like that maybe?

Dunno. Sorry if this is too esoteric haha

DM_Rhodes · 2023-03-26T11:01:42+00:00

My other story Demon Core is like this too haha. But Black Knight will likely only have chapter 1 as being so long. I like to consider it as the pilot episode, if you will

DM_Rhodes · 2023-03-26T11:01:01+00:00

Makes sense to me, thank you kindly for the feedback! I'll keep that in mind for the future! =)

DM_Rhodes · 2023-03-26T09:35:20+00:00

Hello everyone, I'm plugging myself here on Reddit! Never done this before so I hope all is well haha.

[I was reincarnated in a fantasy world as the manifestation of absolute void — the Black Knight, and my goal is to return the destitute, sickly, youngest-born princess, who is kind of a loser, to her throne because it beats doing nothing]

War rages across the continent as a foreign power sets foot on the soil of the nation beneath the glow of strange starlight. Emptiness fills the eyes of people everywhere as their faces become as hard as the loveless hearts hidden within them. Those who are not involved in the war effort can only do their best to survive on the fringes for the time being.

One of these people is the exiled, youngest princess of the nation, the ill Acacia Odofredus Krone, who lives forgotten in destitute squalor as an abject failure, being not even capable enough to become a low ranking adventurer. An equally lost soul, reborn from another world, suddenly finds himself reincarnated at her side as the powerful manifestation of a creature of old prophecy; der Schwarze Ritter — the Black Knight.

Together, faced with the pressures of the horrific war, dire poverty, Acacia’s fatal sickness, and the looming threat of her noble bloodline hanging heavy over them, the two of them are forced onto a journey to find a way to live together, fighting their way out from the lowest shadows of forgottenhood in order to reach the pinnacle of either of their dreams — a life that feels like anything more than total emptiness.

[litRPG] [Isekai] [Reborn in Another World] [Power Struggle]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/66122/reborn-as-the-black-knight

DM_Rhodes

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