Jake stared up at the puzzle door, no one answering his inquiry right away. He could get why it could be a bit unsetting to chat with the guy who had nearly just killed someone, but in Jake’s defense, the guy hadn’t died. The lack of a notification confirmed that, and Jake was pretty sure people were healed when exiting.
“Uhm, it’s a magic puzzle of sorts,” some young man finall...
2021-08-23 11:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJake was in a hurry to get back to the Count’s chamber, as he had a bad feeling in his gut. And no, it wasn’t from just being the center of attention and feeling like that time when he was a kid and was in a school play, with all the parents staring at him. Instead, this kind of bad feeling was the kind he got when someone was about to steal his shit.
Okay, it was only was like that i...
2021-08-22 10:57:14 +0000 UTC View PostFucking shitty bullshit boss, Jake thought as he chased after the damn vampire Count. It had been barely a second ahead of him, but that second meant that when he reached the entrance to the trap room, the damn barrier was back, blocking his way. It had a slight red glow now, and there was no illusionary barrier trying to conceal it either… in other words, it was just there to slow h...
2021-08-20 11:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe vampire Count was truly a peculiar creature. He moved and acted like a fully intelligent and relatively competent fighter. It nearly fooled Jake into believing that he was fighting a smart enemy and not an absolute moron. However, the illusion was dispelled every time the Count opened his mouth.
”This is the part where you fall down and bleed to death!” the vampire yelled as he fi...
2021-08-19 11:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostSylphie had a lot of things she liked. She liked tasty things, her mom and dad, Uncle, biggest bird Stormild, shiny things, whooshing stuff, tasty things, whacking stuff. Oh, and tasty things. As for things she didn’t like? Those were there too.
She didn’t like all kinds of bad guys. Eagles were baddies, that was for sure. Anyone Uncle didn’t like were bad also. Oh, and those bad mo...
2021-08-18 11:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostCarmen sprinted through the mist-filled halls, smashing down any damn ghoul in the way. It reminded her a bit of the good old days of the tutorial where she smashed zombies day in and day out. She snickered as she turned another corner, and before the ghoul could react, she dropkicked it square in the face, smashing its head between her heavy boots and the wall. She identified the undead-like t...
2021-08-17 11:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostOne man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Many would say that in a Treasure Hunt with high rarity items spread throughout a large area, one should not stay in a single place for a prolonged period to procure things that didn’t even count as items. Most would argue that was a waste of time. But to Jake, the true treasure was not the huge metal gate: it was the sense of victory he got when...
2021-08-16 10:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostJake searched his inventory and found a stone chair he had swiped before. He summoned it and sat back as he listened to the projection talk. This wasn’t a case like in the Undergrowth dungeon and that Altmar elf. This was just a recording, nothing more, nothing less.
“This place is – or perhaps was – once called Yalsten. We were always a secluded small world with few exits or ...
2021-08-15 10:59:18 +0000 UTC View Post”I fucking hate curses,” Jake muttered out loud as he got up. It had taken nearly an hour to fully eliminate the energies in his body, and he had only been up in those dark clouds for a minute or two. Shit, he had even lost over a thousand health during the process. When he imagined what was further up, he shuddered.
Seeing that traveling up the side of the mountain wasn’t an option...
2021-08-13 11:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostJake sprinted through the mist, Sylphie flying along with him. His Sphere of Perception was a bit over 300 meters in radius as he scanned the area at the ground level and even scanned to see if anything was hidden beneath. With his eyes, he scouted the area ahead, seeing movement here and there within the mist. It was incredibly subtle shifts in the background, a bit of mist not moving as unifo...
2021-08-12 11:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe mist rolled over the hills as the vast open plains that were otherwise desolate suddenly saw movement. First, a figure appeared, a hawk still on his shoulder. Then, another person appeared a second later, and within two minutes, over fifty people stood there.
Jake saw Miranda had entered with both the slave woman and the thief. He wasn’t sure what she had done, but both seemed to be...
2021-08-11 11:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostMan, people can get so tense sometimes, Jake thought as all the people looked his way. Most of them even had their weapons drawn! Even Neil and his party looked on the edge, and only Sultan and Arnold were rather unaffected by the entire situation. Well, Arnold did look up from his tablet, frowned briefly, and just looked back down.
Miranda threw him a glance he couldn’t quite ...
2021-08-10 10:54:35 +0000 UTC View PostSystem Announcement:
The Treasure Hunt Special Event will commence in: 23:14:53
All qualified participants will be invited at the allotted time. Those within the territory of a Pylon will be able to enter together, while any not within a Pylon’s territory will enter as individuals by default.
Neil, Christen, Eleanor, Silas, ...
2021-08-09 10:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Jake was working on his elixirs in a trance-like state, everyone else around the globe also progressed. Parties dove in dungeons, hunted down more and more powerful beasts and crafted items more potent than anything they had ever created before.
Every single day more D-grade appeared, and in these last two weeks, it was easily in the triple digits every single day. At this point, Ne...
2021-08-08 11:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostJake had wanted to get transmuting nearly right away after he regenerated his resources but found that the bow looked a bit… sluggish? It was no longer glowing, and the gems also looked completely inert. He came to realize he would need to give the poor bow a break before he began changing stuff. So he put it in his spatial storage and found that it could luckily still restore its mana within...
2021-08-06 11:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostTrying to explain to two anxious hawks that their daughter was just relaxing with a Primordial that also happened to be a living natural disaster wasn’t the easiest. They seemed more than a bit worried, but Jake kept assuring them it would all be fine. It did help that Sylphie was still on top of his head, looking to be asleep.
Anyway, the two of them got the gist of it quite quickly an...
2021-08-05 10:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostJake had signed quite a few contracts during his life. It had been a staple of his pre-system work, and of course, when you made large and important purchases such as a car or a home, you had to sign. So he knew a bit about signing stuff, and there were a few things one had to always remember.
First and foremost was naturally to spend an unreasonable amount of time practicing your signatu...
2021-08-04 11:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostJake felt it before he saw her. A new presence appeared a split second before she was fully back. A small bird appeared back on top of his head, having shifted from a sitting to a standing position.
“Welcome back, Sylphie,” Jake said with a smile as he inspected the hawk.
[Sylphian Eyas – lvl 100]
Well, okay, not a hawk but an eyas, I guess. Level 10...
2021-08-03 10:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe group of four – three hawks and a human – arrived safely back at Haven. Sylphie stuck to Jake the entire time as he carried her on the flight. She was awfully quiet the whole way, and he was pretty worried about her.
Once they got back, she didn’t leave him but stayed cradled in his arms. Jake just sighed as he went to his porch and sat down. The two parent-birds joined him as t...
2021-08-02 10:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostJake felt a lot better as he stared at the downed Goldsun Eagle Prima before him. The eagle’s one wing lay on the ground beside it, and its radiant feathers were now no longer glowing. He had called for the birds to come and finish it off, as quite frankly, Jake had no desire to.
He hadn’t enjoyed the fight at all, only the purpose behind it. The Eagle Prima hadn’t been powerful eno...
2021-08-01 10:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostSylphie hated herself. She was a really bad hawk and hadn’t done as she was told. Her mom and dad had repeatedly told her to be careful around those things called natural treasures, but she couldn’t hold herself back when she felt it. She hadn’t listened… and it had gotten them all killed.
She even tried to run as they told her, but she couldn’t even do that! Another of those bi...
2021-07-30 10:53:31 +0000 UTC View PostJake hummed as he finished up another batch of elixirs. It had been a few days since he got the new skill and the Pride upgrade, and he had spent this time practicing that skill and doing alchemy. He hadn’t used that teaching skill at all. Mainly because he hadn’t spoken or interacted with anyone.
His practice with Pride of the Malefic Viper has been pretty simple. Infusing his presen...
2021-07-29 11:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a good conversation with his resident god, nothing was better than a new skill selection.
Jake did want to use Path of the Heretical Chosen right away again, but the skill didn’t respond. He assumed he didn’t meet that magical unknown threshold, as it didn’t feel like the skill had a cooldown or some other limitation.
Jake had gotten some inspiration besides Pride. Espec...
2021-07-28 10:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostJake returned to his lodge as if nothing had happened. Barely any time had passed in the real world during his journey through time and space. It had been another great showcase of the higher level of power, even if it all had gone past fast, and to be honest, not much had happened. Besides, it wasn’t like just seeing someone summon a huge barrier taught Jake how to. If it did, wouldn’t the...
2021-07-27 10:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostJake opened up his system menu and went through all the stuff.
He had saved up a stupid amount of Free Points. 220 of them, to be exact. He should have probably just tossed them where they belonged, to begin with, but hey, better late than ever. As to where they belonged?
All to perception!
Heck, if Jake were to do another of those weird Legacy trips from his Path of the Heret...
2021-07-26 10:56:33 +0000 UTC View PostJake sat with a book in one hand, skimming through it as he stroked Sylphie’s feathers with the other. She lay napping on his lap, seemingly very content with the situation. She had been working hard as always based on how she managed to bring back the core of a D-grade monkey. He felt an odd sense of pride that she managed to solo kill D-grades while still not a fully-fledged D-grade herself...
2021-07-25 10:51:40 +0000 UTC View PostPoisons? Now, Poisons were easy mode. That’s where Jake quickly found his footing and created some cool stuff right away. It felt natural to him, and he had so many skills to make it easier. Sure, there were many things he couldn’t make, but he was pretty confident in his abilities.
Potions? Still kind of easy. Especially mana potions. Heck, all the three fundamentals potions weren’...
2021-07-23 10:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostJake made his way back to Haven with only a few stops on the way. Arnold was still trying to improve the Nanoblade, and Hank was still busy, so Jake didn’t need to meet anyone but just checked in from a distance.
He left behind Miranda, Lillian, and Neil with Sultan to figure out some final things. Nothing major, just where he could set up shop, and for him to sell some stuff to those t...
2021-07-22 10:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostJake didn’t know what to expect. He expected Sultan to have some good stuff considering his status as a D-grade merchant who had been around the place, but exactly how good he wasn’t sure. This was the first real merchant he had ever encountered, after all. For the Record, Jake hadn’t looted anything off the two D-grade women. Their equipment wasn’t actual gear, playing into his suspici...
2021-07-21 10:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe situation was just a tiny bit tenser after Jake took out the trash. He considering if they should slap on a charge for contaminating Haven with toxic waste but held himself back. During the brief intermission, the two women had exited the cabin. They now actually stood behind Sultan as if seeking protection from him, both looking terrified.
Miranda cleared her voice, bringing the atte...
2021-07-20 10:54:37 +0000 UTC View Post