Thanks to everyone who's followed Jiyong on his story. Apologies for not being able to support Royal Road releases for book three, Subterfuge, but it is well underway on my Patreon (16 chapter up and cool new patron merch rewards on the way).

For Subterfuge, I brought back some old bad guys and introduced a few new ones. There's giant robots patrolling the streets of a hyper advanced Kokyu, beach luaus, pirate battles, enchanted lie detecting floors, portals, and so much more.

If you want access to those chapters, check my page out here: www.patreon.com/jdastra

If you read Bastion Academy Malware, and would like to help support the release on Amazon, you can find it here: https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B08VLZFM1H

Currently sitting at a #1 new release, there's a lot of changes that went into Malware (based on some of your feedback!) that makes it a lot more polished, and a better read.

Summary:

There are no shortcuts on the path to enlightenment, but some will try.

The summer was prosperous for Jiyong, giving him the funds he needed to attend another year at Bastion Academy. The new first-year students are just as bright-eyed and rowdy as he remembers being, but there’s something more sinister to blame for their aggressive behavior: designer drugs.

The ability for any student to temporarily unlock the full potential of their magic with a single potion threatens to upend the school’s ranking system. Worse, something dark lurks in the shadows of these performance enhancers: a signal sending personal data to a location within the kingdom, and Jiyong’s mother’s illness is responding to the same signal.

When the drug problem at the school turns deadly, Jiyong will have to hunt down the source to discover the cure before his friends and half the school’s cores are eaten from the inside out. Can he save not only the school, but his mother, too?

From J.D. Astra, author of Viridian Gate Online: Firebrand, comes a brand-new Cultivation Academy series, bursting at the seams with nanites, martial arts, and robot battling.