The King had indeed asked a very pertinent question. Why the hell was Jake even wasting a second of his time on William? The little psycho was not an ally, a friend, or even an acquaintance. Shit, he was worse than a stranger in that he was a former enemy.
However, Jake’s curiosity had won out. Eversmile was someone who had fucked with Jake before, and Jake had assumed that William was ...
2022-09-23 10:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostWhat the actual fuck, Jake thought as William finally started stringing together sentences more than a few words long. He began to explain what he had done since returning from the Tutorial, and it all just felt so odd to hear.
Right after returning, he had met up with the psychiatrist – not a psychologist, Jake still kinda didn’t know the difference – as well as her child....
2022-09-22 10:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe heat dispersed as the sun was severed in two. The world flashed as it exploded, blanketing the entire plains in flames that washed over the old swordsman. His stance held firm as all the fire soon enough stopped.
Clouds above were parted as if a giant blade had cut them open. Miyamoto lowered his blade as his body wrinkled again, and his black hair turned gray, with most of it falling...
2022-09-21 10:28:40 +0000 UTC View PostSword met trident as the clang of metal sent them both back. The blade rose again as the robed nahoom retreated with measured steps. Miyamoto pressed forward as several more blows were exchanged, his opponent backing away with every attack.
The mana in the air began to heat up as the swordsman dodged to avoid a beam of concentrated sunlight descending from far above. Around the alien inva...
2022-09-20 10:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostOne became ten.
Each arrow split ten times each, making what would only have been light rain into a storm flood. Each arrow was still purely stable arcane mana as it fell. The Ashen Phantom Devourer reacted quickly as it tried to move away, but the King strained himself to contain the Unique Lifeform.
Not that he had to constrain it for long, as the arrows hit less than a second aft...
2022-09-19 10:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a fight that he knew they could not lose. One that could perhaps decide the fate of the planet he had now come to call home.
The King meditated as he healed himself as much as possible. He wished he was skilled in formations to set up a proper one to help him in his regeneration, but sadly that did not fall within his skill set. Having anyone else make such a magic circle also woul...
2022-09-16 09:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostJake spent the next day or so refining and making more of the poison that he would use to take down the Unique Lifeform as he waited for it to appear below. It took about twenty-six hours before Jake spotted the Ashen Phantom Devourer move roughly a hundred kilometers below himself.
Its form was truly massive, and to Jake, it looked like the sandstorm he had seen in the desert but made of...
2022-09-15 09:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostVilastromoz grinned as he waited for Snappy to return. Genuinely, he hadn’t been sure if Snappy would actually give his True Blessing to the worm. He had gone with the tried and tested strategy of starting with the most extreme example of a Blessing while only expecting a Divine Blessing. A Greater Blessing also wouldn’t have been that off from his expectations.
He would lie if he sai...
2022-09-14 10:07:46 +0000 UTC View PostThey had just made it above the clouds as Jake felt a ping by Villy. “Hey, Jake, can I borrow you for a second?”
“Sure, what’s up?” he asked.
“No, I mean in a more literal sense. Can I borrow your body to do something?”
“I guess?” Jake kind of agreed.
“Great!”
Jake felt the Viper descend. It was lik...
2022-09-13 10:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe days passed one by one as Earth had finally begun finding some semblance of stability. Settlements and larger cities had survived the many beasts attacking and made adequate defenses in preparation for more attacks. Some cities still fell here and there, but for the most part, there was peace.
Some smaller teleportation networks had even appeared, linking allied cities to one another....
2022-09-12 10:11:47 +0000 UTC View Post“I feel bad for them. Imagine just living your happy life in the water, and then suddenly, this naked monster comes down and forces you to stab them several times as you try to get away in fear. But the monster refuses and just keeps smashing his body into you in a ridiculous display of self-harm. The confusion when he then just leaves with several of your spikes in his chest must only ma...
2022-09-09 10:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostJake and Sandy continued their journey over the ocean as Jake worked on the upcoming battle. His talk with Villy about the First Sage had been enlightening, and the upgraded Blood of the Malefic Viper would surely help with what he wanted to do. However, it was far from enough.
Unique Lifeforms were annoying opponents; Jake had no doubt about that. This particular Unique Lifeform he would...
2022-09-08 11:39:23 +0000 UTC View PostHe reached out and instantly felt the connection form. “Hey Villy, I-“
“Jake, just know that Duskleaf and I are both here for you in your time of need. You do not need to resort to self-harm like that, okay? We are willing to talk, so you can stop cutting your hand off. It has suffered enough… no, you have suffered enough,”Villy’s voice descended with the fak...
2022-09-07 10:19:39 +0000 UTC View PostJake was absolutely certain of one thing: two identical Bloodlines could not exist. Even if someone with a Bloodline had a child, the child would have their own Bloodline with its own unique signature. One would be able to feel the difference between two family members even if the effects of their Bloodlines were identical.
But the old man had the exact same Bloodline as Villy. J...
2022-09-06 10:20:20 +0000 UTC View Post<AUTHOR NOTE>
Break announcement: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71540652
TLDR: Taking October off, Patreon payment will be paused during the month.
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"The fighting style itself cannot reasonably include a method to nullify ne...
2022-09-05 10:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostThat’s right, I am taking off the month of October. To many of you, this should not at all come as a surprise, considering there is The International (Dota 2 tournament) in October and that I have stated that I would take the month off on Discord quite a few times already.
Previously I have only taken two weeks off, but this time around, I decided off a full month for a few reasons. Fir...
2022-09-05 10:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhen fighting a larger foe, one had to always make use of that against them. The shark’s size made it far stronger in direct clashes, but Jake’s smaller size offered him more mobility and allowed him to make his way around the shark and be more maneuverable.
Not that the shark was slow. It did not only use its body but its magic to move in unpredictable ways. Jake had to constantly ad...
2022-09-02 10:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostShe had to ask herself if maybe she was the one who had something wrong with her. Yeah, maybe it was her? Miranda just couldn’t see any other way for everything to make sense. Because if it wasn’t her, then what the hell was wrong with everyone Jake introduced to her or made friends with?
They had spent over a month in the Grand Mangrove River by now, and things had been mostly fine. ...
2022-09-01 09:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostSandy was definitely the most lopsided creature Jake had ever come across. Okay, maybe something like the Termite Hive Queen was equally lopsided, but Sandy was definitely so specialized and weird that it boggled his mind.
Most creatures Jake knew could fight. Like, fighting was a basic skill of the multiverse, right? Jake had yet to come across a single C-grade that couldn’t at least f...
2022-08-31 10:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostUpgrading skills was always a difficult and time-consuming process. You had so much to evaluate and so much to do, and Jake’s method of upgrading was considered even harder than the standard approach. He insisted on only doing it during combat and only reflected on how to upgrade the skills on a surface level in between fights.
This would usually be an incredibly ineffective, if not dow...
2022-08-30 10:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostCountless factions dominated the multiverse, but few were as unique as the Risen. They were the living dead, and that came with both bonuses and demerits. Some bonuses included a natural lifespan equal to your True Soul’s natural lifespan, meaning you would live as long as possible, and aging would only come to pass due to the person wanting it. Combat-wise, they truly did not have many diffe...
2022-08-29 09:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostAcross the planet, the chaos brought on by the United Cities Alliance and Ell’Hakan continued. Beasts attacked like never before, and millions died within only a week as many settlements fell, unprepared and too weak to resist. Those who held on still took losses, and the survivors all had a newfound hatred. The work that had been made to establish positive relations between monsters and huma...
2022-08-26 09:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostJake breathed heavily as he stared out at the vast landscape before him. An area the size of a semi-large city was scorched and burned as the remnants of the battle remained. In the middle of it all lay a giant beast, its very blood only adding to this environmental destruction. Even in death, its blood retained the same destructive properties as it burned the ground.
The final attack of ...
2022-08-25 10:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post<AUTHOR NOTE>
Just a heads-up, there will be no chapter tomorrow (24th of August, 2022) due to private circumstances. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Miranda’s mind was a bit jumbled from the powerful aura, and it took her a moment to formulate a response. This resulted in her not being the first one to answer. 2022-08-23 10:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
It had only taken Sandy about a day to find good prey for Jake, and it wasn’t even guarding that good of a natural treasure according to the worm, heavily insinuating he should feel thankful.
His opponent had been this weird wooly thing that Jake had no idea what was about, but it bled and suffered from necrosis the same as everything else, and with it only being level 201, Jake quickly...
2022-08-22 10:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post”This is complete bullshit,” Carmen said as she stared at the golden projection.
”It wasn’t my call, but it comes all the way from the top,” the projection of Sven said, shaking his head. ”This may sound curt, but it is partly because of you. Your personal relationship with the Malefic’s Chosen is both a merit and a demerit. On the one side, it ensures us a spot in this worl...
2022-08-19 10:21:47 +0000 UTC View PostJake was rubbing his hands as he looked forward to seeing Villy in a perilous situation that forced him to escape. Entering the vision, he was not sure what to expect. Maybe Villy getting beaten up? Him waltzing into the territory of some far more powerful monster, making him tug his tail between his legs?
As the vision appeared, it was neither of that. He saw Villy flying through an odd ...
2022-08-18 10:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt was an absolutely crazy thought. Poisoning space itself… no, poisoning reality. To target every single facet of reality and effectively create a vacuum of concepts between you and your destination.
That is also why the mist was used. The mist was from Blood of the Malefic Viper and thus contained Records of all poisons Jake had ever interacted with. With the Trial of Myriad Poisons, ...
2022-08-17 10:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostAt the higher grades and levels of power, the scaling of survivability and damage output was not balanced. Killing an F-grade human as another F-grade human was easy. Just stab them in the heart, and they die.
For an E-grade, you had to stab them a few times in the heart and maybe land a few more blows before they went down for good. D-grade it got even harder, and nothing short of blowin...
2022-08-16 10:18:09 +0000 UTC View PostJake waited expectedly for Sandy to return. As he waited, he also considered an option he hadn’t even thought of before… what if Sandy turned hostile? There was a legitimate risk that the worm would return stronger than Jake was as the evolution could lead to intense power growth. No, it would definitely lead to immense power growth.
Moreover, Sandy didn’t need him anymore. He had h...
2022-08-15 10:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post