Irwin's Journey - The Cardsmith
Irwin's Journey - The Cardsmith
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SUMMARY
Progression, magical cards, weak to strong, card reforging!
The young, sickly Irwin has seen nothing but bad luck in his short life. When his brother finally returns with a magical card for him, his luck is about to change. But will it change for the better? Irwin is sent off together with another group of youths to placate a group of sorcerers. With just a weird utility card granted by his brother, he can only pray to stay alive long enough.
[Has been updated with the rewrite of the first 27 chapters]
This is a Card gathering story! Crafting is initially not the main focus, but as the story progresses, it becomes more and more important to the MC.
Release schedule: [Fri/Sun] Roughly 22:00
I am still a non-native English speaker (hard to change), so even with the edits and rewrites, you might find some oddities. Let me know, and I'll fix them right up.
6 Latest Chapters[ Updated 23 hours ago ]
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: It’s never what you want
- Chapter 2: To Card or not to Card
- Chapter 3: Sorcerer says
- Chapter 4: Future laid out
- Chapter 5: Story time
- Chapter 6: Ragtag group
- Chapter 7: Thrown in the deep
- Chapter 8: The first practice room
- Chapter 9: School of pain and misery
- Chapter 10: Practice makes perfect
- Chapter 11: Rinse and repeat
- Chapter 12: The Linchpin
- Chapter 13: Fun from above
- Chapter 14: Anvil of the gods
- Chapter 15: Cards, cards, cards
- Chapter 16: Bacon and porridge
- Chapter 17: Combining
- Chapter 18: Interrogated
- Chapter 18.2 Training Dummy
- Chapter 18.3 Midnight warning
- Chapter 19: To Wignut
- Chapter 20: Rumors and reality
- Chapter 21: Portal One
- Chapter 22: Stuck
- Chapter 23: Water and fire
- Chapter 23.2: Back against the wall
- Chapter 24: Lose some, win some
- Chapter 25: Lost and found
- Chapter 26: Blackened Hands
- Chapter 27: Coal
- Chapter 28: Shattering
- Chapter 29: Doomblade Hardswing
- Chapter 30: House cleaning
- Chapter 31: A plan, of sorts
- Chapter 32: Food and training
- Chapter 33: Books
- Chapter 34: Nexus
- Chapter 35: Smithies and Libraries
- Chapter 36: Hammering
- Chapter 37: More pain
- Chapter 38: Chicken scratches
- Chapter 39: Bablibon
- Chapter 40: Four horns
- Chapter 41: Familiar foes
- Chapter 42: Troublesome encounters
- Chapter 43: Degonda
- Chapter 44: Room and board
- Chapter 45: Hot and cozy
- Chapter 46: Finding a smith
- Chapter 47: Working
- Chapter 48: Grappling Gauntlets
- Chapter 49: Bruises
- Chapter 50: Strike the iron when it’s hot!
- Chapter 51: Crushed
- Chapter 52: Coalesced, remnant soul cards
- Chapter 53: Resonance
- Chapter 54: Change of plans
- Chapter 55: One for many
- Chapter 56: Shattered rest
- Chapter 57: Reforging is hard!
- Chapter 58: Taking chances
- Chapter 59: A good night’s rest!
- Chapter 60: Hot and cold
- Chapter 61: Grief and wailing
- Chapter 62: Full-hand
- Chapter 63: Incomming
- Chapter 64: A rabbit?
- Chapter 65: Gallon’s Blazers
- Chapter 66: Chains of ice
- Chapter 67: Shattered
- Chapter 68: Derlin Cards
- Chapter 69: Unexpected Battle
- Chapter 70: Time dilation
- Chapter 71: Run Linchpin, run!
- Chapter 72: Hammer time
- Chapter 73: Out of the portal and into the...
- Chapter 74: Return
- Chapter 75: Exposed
- Chapter 76: Hammer and anvil
- Chapter 77: Cutthroat
- Chapter 78: The Burned Pillars
- Chapter 79: Esterdon
- Chapter 80: Coulwater tower
- Chapter 81: Elderly sorcerer
- Chapter 82: Crazed?
- Chapter 83: Dark Hound
- Chapter 84: Battle Hammer
- Chapter 85: Grey-eyed watcher
- Chapter 86: Armless
- Chapter 87: The Central Registry
- Chapter 88: Smith’s Guild Charter
- Chapter 89: Good deal or bad deal?
- Chapter 90: Try singing
- Chapter 91: Unexpected guests
- Chapter 92: The price of success
- Chapter 93: Familiar faces
- Chapter 94: Portal Gallery
- Chapter 95: To Scour
- Chapter 96: Nice and warm!
- Chapter 97: Boiling blood
- Chapter 98: Firespark desert
- Chapter 99: A cloud of Emberions
- Chapter 100: Home sweet home
- Chapter 101: The smithing starts now!
- Chapter 102: Dréimire
- Chapter 103: Four in a row
- Chapter 104: The path of the card
- Chapter 105: Lord Urdwellan
- Chapter 106: Haudur’s Charter
- Chapter 107: Soulforce
- Chapter 108: Familiar Names
- Chapter 109: Hammer, Maul, Mallet
- Chapter 110: Cousin issues
- Chapter 111: Copperion Flesh
- Chapter 112: Hunger
- Chapter 113: Heartburn
- Chapter 114: Steamy
- Chapter 115: Uneasy compromise
- Chapter 116: Familiar Laughter
- Chapter 117: Rules and regulations
- Chapter 118: Layers
- Chapter 119: Foggy battle
- Chapter 120: Heart tree
- Chapter 121: Armies
- Chapter 122: Prisoners
- Chapter 123: Preparations
- Chapter 124: Setting up a trap
- Chapter 125: Deceptive rest
- Chapter 126: Interrogation
- Chapter 127: Night raid
- Not a Chapter: NaNoWriMo Chapter 2023 update!
- Chapter 128: Denied entry
- Chapter 129: Onward, or else
- Chapter 130: Abide by the rules
- Chapter 131: History or myth
- Chapter 132: Lead the way!
- Chapter 133: A casual stroll
- Chapter 134: Tiny Helpers
- Chapter 135: Diamonds are the best?
- Chapter 136: Chained to the wall
- Chapter 137: Curious hoop
- Chapter 138: Remaining
- Chapter 139: Sleeping Beauty
- Chapter 140: Hotstuff
- Chapter 141: Request from a friend
- Chapter 142: Another step
- Chapter 143: Calm before the bidding
- Chapter 144: Another card
- Chapter 145: Infernal Itching
- Chapter 146: Volatile card
- Chapter 147: Familiar Foes
- Chapter 148: In the depths
- Chapter 149: Time flies
- Chapter 150: Dead Pact Mercenaries
- Chapter 151: [Hidden]
- Chapter 152: Surprises and warnings
- Chapter 153: Birth of a heartcard
- Chapter 154: House arrest
- Chapter 155: Over seventy percent!
- Chapter 156: Expected and unexpected losses
- Chapter 157: The start of something new
- Chapter 157.2: Emberion interlude
- Chapter 158: Five
- Chapter 159: Return to Fiverio
- Chapter 160: The next plan
- Chapter 161: Plan B
- Chapter 162: A quiet stop
- Chapter 163: Splintered
- Chapter 164: Sesnanser
- Chapter 165: Chasing
- Chapter 166: Crashing through a roof
- Chapter 167: A hundred brothers and sisters
- Chapter 168: Drinks all around
- Chapter 169: The chase
- Chapter 170: An eye for...
- Chapter 171: Getaway
- Chapter 172: Towards the unknown
- Chapter 173: The Sonata
- Chapter 174: Chaos storm
- Chapter 175: Dividends of the song
- Chapter 176: Boulder marks the spot?
- Chapter 177: Shared Pain
- Chapter 178: Lies and half truths
- Chapter 179: Milky Eyes
- Chapter 180: Cracking the wood
- Chapter 181: Insufferable
- Chapter 182: A Portal Gallery back alley?
- Chapter 183: Begging to join
- Chapter 184: A soft breeze
- Chapter 185: Emerald and Ruby
- Chapter 186: Blood and gore
- Chapter 187: Preparations
- Chapter 188: Back on Giard
- Chapter 189: The secret room
- Chapter 190: Scorched by the waves
- Chapter 191: Planning a large-scale evacuation
- Chapter 192: Certain or uncertain future
- Chapter 193: Card trouble
- Chapter 194: A foul stench
- Chapter 195: Full circle
- Chapter 196: Irwin?
- Chapter 197: Family time
- Chapter 198: Emergency smithing
- Chapter 199: Disbelief
- Chapter 200: Stubborn
- Chapter 201: A game of questions
- Chapter 202: Searching and finding
- Chapter 203: A battle of shadows
- Chapter 204: Hangover
- Chapter 205: Death and new beginnings
- Chapter 206: Death or safety?
- Chapter 207: Starving people
- Chapter 208: Clearing the plains
- Chapter 209: Switching sides
- Chapter 210 Furious frost
- Chapter 211: Final hurdle
- Chapter 212: Soulclone
- Chapter 213: New Degonda
- Chapter 214: Portal Keep City
- Chapter 215: What do words do?
- Chapter 216: Pots and pans!
- Chapter 217: Frying pan
- Chapter 218: Shadowwalker
- Chapter 219: Bluehair
- Chapter 220: Immovable sword
- Chapter 221: The Shadows of Dimarintsia
- Chapter 222: Arrows in the back
- Chapter 223: First Soulcard
- Chapter 224: Guest
- Chapter 225: The next step
- Chapter 226: One more day
- Chapter 227: Silvery Lightning
- Chapter 228: Into the unknown
- Chapter 229: Glacial Area
- Chapter 230: No baggage
- Chapter 231: A soulforce tune
- Chapter 232: The Roaming Shipyard
- Chapter 233: Blockade
- Chapter 234: The Ruby’s Revenge
- Chapter 235: Emotional damage
- Chapter 236: Boohm
- Chapter 237: Haggling Hurts
- Chapter 238: Traveling across the Portal Gallery
- Chapter 239: The Boring Corridors
- Chapter 240: Grab and hold!
- Chapter 241: A deal
- Chapter 242: Proadon
- Chapter 243: Pirates
- Chapter 244: Sword blows
- Chapter 245: Resolve
- Chapter 246: Prodigy Am’braz
- Chapter 247: Brazardian
- Chapter 248: Failing the questions
- Chapter 249: Dropping some jaws
- Chapter 250: Golden Friction Academy
- Chapter 251: Meeting new people
- Chapter 252: Diagram Smithing
- Chapter 253: Instrumentalization
- Chapter 254: Toward the next heartcard!
- Chapter 255: We need more coals?
- Chapter 256: Temper
- Chapter 257: Risks
- Chapter 258: Barging in
- Chapter 259: Package delivery?
- Chapter 260: Short notice
- Chapter 261: Roaring Metal
- Chapter 262: Loaded up and ready to go
- Chapter 263: Sonic Shift
- Chapter 264: Vibrating ship
- Chapter 265: A children’s rhyme
- Chapter 266: Unexpected growth
- Chapter 267: Risks
- Chapter 268: Purified Soulforce
- Chapter 269: Unexpected Advantages
- Chapter 270: Into the storm
- Chapter 271: Mind poison
- Chapter 272: Choices
- Chapter 273: Going wild
- Chapter 274: Intercept course
- Chapter 275: Insanity
- Chapter 276: Plans, plans, plans
- Chapter 277: A familiar feeling
- Chapter 278: Happy to be back
- Chapter 279: Untwisting minds
- Chapter 280: Ancient knowledge
- Chapter 281: No pain, no gain
- Chapter 282: Bonding
- Chapter 283: Long ears
- Chapter 284: Sharptooth cannibal
- Chapter 285: Swat!
- Chapter 286: Rustbucket’s lessons
- Chapter 287: Dodging
- Chapter 288: The next step
- Chapter 289: Hard to find
- Chapter 290: New lessons
- Chapter 291: Gathering
- Chapter 292: Border guard?
- Chapter 293: Don’t lose your head
- Chapter 294: Split shock
- Chapter 295: A drink is never a bad idea...
- Chapter 296: Obsidian City
- Chapter 297: Resonance
- Chapter 298: Unstable tension
- Chapter 299: Three out of five
- Chapter 300: Smelter
- Chapter 301: Drinking
- Chapter 302: Stink
- Chapter 303: Squeeze
- Chapter 304: Berries and seas
- Chapter 305: Familiar eyes
- Chapter 306: Baby steps
- Chapter 307: Lips Sealed
- Chapter 308: Purple mist
- Chapter 309: Purple fart
- Chapter 310: Swarm
- Chapter 311: Going down
- Chapter 312: The Lure
- Chapter 313: Hard choices
- Chapter 314: Glow
- Chapter 315: On the otherside
- Chapter 316: Fluttering in the breeze
- Chapter 317: Tiscian’s Glare
- Chapter 318: Mountains