Yesterday, I wrote 300 words of The Mage’s Adventures and bug-fixed for four hours. After over a year of slow, painstaking work, a rewrite of the last few chapters is finally up on the beta. Chapter 10 is 72k words, and brings the total word count of the book to 166k. This means you’ll be getting a free 50k word update since the original word count was 115k. 
I made this update in part to complete the story as a standalone, but also to address some major issues with the original twist ending that readers have pointed out for years. Although I do think the twist was clever, and I would have been interested to explore it further, the hundreds of people who thought it was rushed and linear, were hard to ignore or disagree with.
So, I transformed this story into what it was meant to be all along, and what The Magician’s Burden meandered and beat around the bush about, but never truly nailed or finished: a deadly rivalry with Killian. This last chapter is split into three massive branches, with further branches within them, and layered with flavor text.
The only thing left to write is the consequence of using Zaleth’s powers, which will be woven into the last chapter. I’ll hopefully post that in a few days.
I hope all fans of The Magician’s Burden and The Mage’s Adventures will check this out and like it as much as I do!