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While I agree with your point we can't forget that the main difficulty with the gates was how to prevent them from ripping people apart during the transport. And that was something these people haven't managed to properly figure out. Besides that we also can't forget that being able to copy something does not always mean they have to understand what it is that they're doing allowing for easier but deadlier knockoffs.

I highly highly doubt that the level 100 enchanter that thinks they can crack open the secret behind the Meadow's (MUCH BETTER THAN THE TALEEN) gates, which are intentionally obfuscated and anti-espionage enchanted, will do a better job than the level 200-300 people who were studying Taleen gates for hundreds of years and made no progress

NethanielShade

Too bad Ilea doesn't want to torture people, situation pretty much calls for it.

It seems implied that with gates out in the open, as in not in dangerous dungeon., it's much easier for people to study them. Especially if you consider that many people who are good at studying and likely not very good at adventuring, Also all those gates are actually working, so people can both study how they work and are painfully aware it's possible to copy.

Lmao, kill the people she cares about…so then you have an immortal you can’t kill or seal that’s friends with multiple 4 marks specifically wanting not to stop your practices, but actual kill you and anybody even remarkably related to the killing of her friends….sure, you may crumble her empire, but if the cost is being hunted to ends of the earth by one of the strongest humans in existence who can fuck off to another realm and get even stronger…I’d just take the back seat.

IJustWannaRead

The Lilly are stupid there picking a fight they have no chance of winning just to prove to themselves that there not irrelevant. As for knowing her weakness, well yes they do and it's her friends. They should also be aware that killing or harming her friends is also the one thing that will ensure she makes it her life's mission to eradicate everyone even tangentially related to the Lilly.

Will C

A little suggestion maybe a good one for the author because he modify thing here ;P Maybe add that they have a healer at all the end of their bad teleportation gate because they take damage using them so need heal all time you use them (and so maybe only the "hight level" human can use them) so we know really that its a organized and powerfull bunch who can do this and did it and that well they are still limitation for them and they still bad with this new tech and its cause them problem to build them and hard to use them and their new network :) Mmm we get soul magic in this world imagine if the sentinel with Aki and Meadow and the Lich have created a tech or a artifact for "save" Sentinel who activated the distress beacon and just died just before the help come (because soul stay a little no?), so they can still recup the soul and rebuild/heal, move it to a body for them (Aki new friend Pretorian Sentinel Corps) "One time a Sentinel, Always a Sentinel" "Even in Death, We Serve" If they fast enough with the help coming they still have some option to "save" them in some form when they recently died :P

Zarik0

If she white washs the lily without them doing damage to her it will be to much .they know about her her contacts her weaknesses remove her support and she is not as effective I'm sure assassin lady knows this if llea just stomps them it will make lily look stupid . There needs to be big implications by the end of this ark. Also I feel llea needs to lose as well and I mean hard I'm hoping there is a human stronger then her or atleast they use brain over brawn coz she needs to suffer herself to grow stakes it shouldn't always be others that suffer for her or that she is untouchable coz u can't switch between the two it's one or the other . I really hope we in for a bumpy road otherwise was it worth doing in the first place .

Eyes wide

Willa was introduced just for the purpose of making us feel lose that's the only reason she was used here coz we know her so it stands to reason that if a no name won't do then no named characters are really safe so don't get attached. I hope u add a chapter where llea has to tell her parents other wise why have them I the story at all might as well maximise the effect

Eyes wide

Thanks for the fix I will however say this I will never invest my intrest in any character you create for this story simple for the fact that none are safe and would rather just focus on llea not interested in the sentinels at all at first I thought some would achieve llea levels or at least be similar but now I understand that basically the named sentinels are just red shirts used to make the stakes seem more real . So the sentinels I know the names of expendable the ones I know nothing about inheritors of llea legacy. Go

Eyes wide

Thanks for the chapter

BlackRazaras

In use doesn't matter. You don't get to "see" them working because the internals are all essentially "hidden" behind skill, class, and knowledge requirements. It'd be like trying to decrypt something by just copying it.

tibbish

I was hoping for more progress of this Sentinel team. Hoping to see them doing quests and leveling up as a side story since Ilea is too OP at this point and her fights are becoming to predictable. She has to fight 4 ???? to make it even interesting and the fight is so one-sided. But you killed off 2 of the 4 so there goes that story. I hope you create new storyline for the other un-named Sentinel teams.

Thunderspark

I think it is too early and that implies leaks. But thinking that everyone is way behind once the hiding ancients are poked also seems a bit arrogant.

Adurna

Likely cause these are in use, and are very easily accessed. But yeah this did feel quick

Jachin Nelson

Thanks for the chapter, I am confused how they copied the gates so easily as the taleen ones couldnt be copied for years and supposedly the meadows version was even better protected...... Other than that I loved the chapter though it is sad that some of the medic corps stufents died, llea better get reenge for them!!!!!!

marius taylor

Actually it is. Meadow obfuscated how the gate works, just like the Taleen did, but even more so than the Taleen did with their gate network. Also the gates are only assembled in the field. They're produced elsewhere so observing the final assembly doesn't tell you anything about how to actually make one.

tibbish

While true there is a major difference. People that have worked with both parts and the whole are out and about and construction has been witnessed by others as well as needed materials traded. It is not as blank a slat to work with as when the old Redleaf started deciphering the gates.

Adurna

Thanks for the chapter. Great stuff.

Joshua Little

Mike, the Accord’s gates should be *harder* to copy than the Taleen gates, what with all of the anti-subterfuge the Meadow and the rest of the people who worked on it went through. There is no “studying them for a few months and poof magically gottem” when they couldn’t understand the Taleen gates.

NethanielShade

My guess is it's backed by one of the LIly founders that are suppose to be level 500+ it wouldn't surprise me if they had the resources and connections to copy functional gates given the chance to study them for months.

mike

Its dumb move Aki did because he could've easily sent in some L200+ Sentinals or Hand members to figure it out rather than some low levelled newbs. There was no good reason to send low levellved newbs into a situation where you KNOW there are high levelled opponents who are being sneaky running around.

tibbish

Doesn't work like that. Otherwise everyone would've just copied the Taleen's gates centuries ago. You need the knowledge, classes, and levels in them to copy or make gates. Ilea had on her team the best and most knowledgable group of humans anywhere working on it, who had already been working on it for years with no results before they started working for her. And they still needed help from Meadow. So the gates are very very very clearly something you just can't copy.

tibbish

When illea says "sorry I." To trian, it should probably be "sorry, I..."

Forrest Minter

I’m super sad Willa and Ember died, but it happens, and honestly I was expecting a named character death to come up again, since it’s been a while. Also Aki did nothing wrong. But WTF is with a random criminal organization having gates?!? Even if it’s not a random organization and it’s the Lily or something, it still makes zero sense and goes against a lot of stuff said in the story in the past. 1.) The rare materials used in the gates were all bought up by the accords before the gates were public, so the already rare materials should be super scarce and super expensive. 2.) The entire process of actually making a new gate happens in secret, the assembly process happens on location but that divulges no sensitive information. 3.) Arthur was the Lily’s ‘expert’ on Taleen gate technology, and he never succeeded in making the gates. Assuming this is the Lily, are we supposed to expect they have someone who could have figured it out this fast now that they didn’t before? Something really really doesn’t add up. Feels like a major plot hole.

NethanielShade

there's also the probability of a taleen guy who recklessly opposes the accords

bob barker

Wait!! There are the gates under Ravenhall, meaby someone went there and studyed those or those that made them decided that now it's the right time to start their own teleportation network, since the cat is out of the bag.

Federico

A nice pair of chapters. It seems there are two issues most people have here: 1) Copying the gates. It might seem fast, but keep real world examples in mind. Taleen gates were thought of as something impossible to create. Few people bothered to study them (doing which was already made tough due to the gates being deep within Taleen dungeons) and those that did, like Arthur Redleaf were limited in their funding (he had to fight Golden Lilly for his project to be funded). But now not only do they know that the gates are possible, but it's also an absolute priority to develop their own, for any powers that want to stay relevant. Be it Golden Lilly, stand alone Kingdoms or some new organization, you better believe they put all their funds into research. Combined with the knowledge that it's possible, an ease of studying the new gates, and possible info leaks, it's not impossible. 2) The second issue is people feeling that Aki screwed up. Which he did, in retrospect. Thing is, Aki thought that the guardians were destroyed by some anti-robot faction, and was afraid to drive them underground if powerful machines or sentinels showed up. A group of lvl 100'ish sentinels wouldn't cause such a panic, while them being human would make it unlikely for the anti-robot faction to attack them with such decisiveness that a group of sentinels actually died before Aki could arrive there. Aki's screw up is that he didn't think it was a powerful group, likely opposing the Accords at large, with people of high enough levels that they could one-shot level hundred sentinels. Phoebe and her group also screwed up, in that they should've retreated once they got the tip from the bartender. They went into the city to gather some info, heading into an unknown territory with no idea of who/what they will find there wasn't part of it. If they retreated, and a higher level'ed group of sentinels were sent in, things would turn out differently. Phoebe's group, especially Willa, were also too cocky. Healing and resistances are great, but there is a reason Sentinel Hunters had to be over lvl 200. Following Ilea, we might forget how easy it is to die in that world. This chapters were a good reminder that while Sentinels are far ahead of their peers, they aren't much when fighting someone double their level.

Jac Onue

I think its more about Avoiding Lilith coming down on the bosses than then having spares. I think of it like Drug Cartels dumping drugs overseas in order to dispose of all proof. Even if they destroy everything they have.....they can always rebuild in secret. if they let themselves be tracked....they can be killed and they lose everything.

MrrC

Likely instructions from the top. Imagine Military officers being given - shoot to kill orders for anyone who crosses to a certain distance (US military in Iraq had a few cases where civilian vehicles were shot up because of rules of engagement). If the rules are that if Battle Healers show up (thus automatically Sentinels) then clean the site - it would make perfect sense

MrrC

I have noticed two things that i find weird. Firstly, the decision to kill the sentinels. I was initially expecting a hostage situation. So, i am still a bit surprised that it was basically a kill on sight. I find that to be stupid. There should have been survailance, they should be aware that they are getting investigated, stopping the low leveled sentinels and shooing them off or frightenkng them off should have been possible and more reasonable. Especially without any evidence against them. This should have been a "hey there, hippety hoppety, get of my property". Secondly, the quick evacuation and destruction of all the evidence. I find it slightly unreasonable to just kill, up and run, when there is no indication that there is reinforcement coming. That there is a black cube in the hands of one sentinel shouldn't mean anything. Additinally, Akis Hunters should be quick enough to disable any resistance the moment they storm the scene. Which makes a" oh shit, hunter pretorians, evac, evac, evac" unrealistic as well. That they killed all their slaves as well is also weird. Especially before killing the sentinels. This hole operation of theirs stinks of eithed stuidity and total unreason, or it is a deliberate stricke. And now that i say it, that seems to be most reasonable. This was a calculated attack.

RageBone

The only thing I find baffling is that these guys not only have teleportation gates but have been using an already established teleportation network and are able to replace those gates quickly if torching them is an option, even if that is only a last resort. That just seems a bit too much for what I think is less than 6 months since releasing the gates. Granted the Accords flipped the status quo enough to turn a lot of humanity against them but I still don't see where humanity suddenly got the knowledge to do all this so quickly. The Taleen only just came out so the teleportation gates would not be from them. Helena only just thought about contacting the Lily Founders after the Taleen came out so I doubt it is the Lily's Founders. Nor would it be that Ascended guy cause humans would be too beneath him. At this point there would either need to be a major leak of how to make the enchantments and/or something insane like a cult of ancient humans that eat Fae for their abilities.

Atlas Dwarf

Aki is fine with the decision and reasonning he made with the infos he have at the time and dont forget he still new at all this multitask and in his new situation, sooo that overall fine for me, he gonna grow with the "mistake" he have done here as a character What throw me off is the copy of the teleportation gate so soon, so "easy", this is just a nope for me with already how hard is to do it and you add the meadow upgrade of security on the tech and all that (and rare ressource for now because all gates get build at the moment and so they easely noticed by our master spy of the Accord where the material go), so a entire network and so soon like that? I hope the author gonna give us a really solid reason for this but the only one i can see is that its can only be a really really serious problem coming for the Accord and its a really really big stuff/people behind who can do it and just did it, need a big solid reason for this and anyway its still gonna feel nope i guess except if its god level like meadow behind :P

Zarik0

would love to see the accords destroying a country :D and Lily of course

Silk Soda

The way I see it is like this. The solution to a complex puzzle is very simple when you have the solution given to you. The Meadow and allies figured the hard part out, these other countries are just copying their hard work.

Jack Dallman

Eh she has gained a couple levels since then and being posr 620 probably means that may have been a few months to find beasties. Also Lily probably has less people overall but most are at least level 200 and been there for years so replicating gates that are being given out doesn't seem too hard.

Nicholas

So, I was feeling a tad bored of the last handful of chapters, but these last two were really good. Like, this was impactful, and even though I wasn't super attached to Willa and Ember, I enjoyed them and it hurt for them to die.

Silvia Norton

Hints have been given, though they could be misdirects. Likely that it’s the golden lily who have set up this other teleport network. (Assassins involved too) They wanted help from Taleen dwarves who could have the expertise to build similar to their originals Material purchases by Claire to build their network had been noted and mentioned that other powers had started purchasing I think the big thing for me is there is not sense of how long has passed from when those negotiations happened to now. Days, weeks, months? Seems like not long enough to be so established, given Ilea’s lack of levels

Enough Efficiency

I think the entire situation would have been fine if the scenario was different. The sentinels being under leveled is fine because their job was to scout not engage so Aki assigning them the mission makes perfect sense , them dying cause they got cocky totally makes sense. What I can't seem to grasp is how the enemy has Teleportation gates already, all the authorities on the matter are already on Lilith's side and even then they weren't actually capable of recreating the Taleen gates without the help of the Meadow so how could there reasonably be any possible way that they got the gates working without having an active gate to study and within a short period. Based on the information we have been giving its an event that has no precedent for it to flow into the story without issue

Daniel is ŁØNE

It's a shame about Willa and Ember, I liked them. Still had hope for them at the end of the last chapter. A shame... Still an amazing chapter. Thanks a lot Edit: I read a lot of the other comments and have to say that I disagree with the notion that most think Aki was dumb for sending such weak Sentinels. He explained his reasoning before and it was a solid calculated risk. He couldn't have known, that the enemies were that strong and he didn't even want them to fight the people who destroyed his machines. This is simply a case of a plan going wrong. It happens to the best of people. Sure I'm disappointed about Willas death, but it was well written and I understand why it happened. There is also no reason to think it is bad writing that the enemies had the gates already figured out. I believe it was said, that the gates themselves would be protected and that no outsider could just link into them like the meadow managed with the taleen gates. The slavers didn't manage that. They build their own gates and had to blow them up to protect them. As for how they managed that I am exited to find out. Furthermore an unknown amount of time has passed since the gates were introduced. Likely a few months and not just a week as some others claim.

yannick schwende

I really want to see a scene with Ilea going to her parents like the government does when a soldier dies. Would be a nice president as well.

Martin Brandel

I'm certain that the reason for the spread of the gates is treachery. Most likely from some Io dwarves. Though there is also the possibility that some high-level human enchanter has betrayed the Accords. Actually now that I'm writing this I have just remembered: I never trusted Wayland. Also yes, Aki is a muppet.

Cormac

People seem to be complaining about these chapters, but personally I liked them. Sure maybe Aki was a bit dumb, but to be fair he's still getting used to his newfound power. Maybe he's still a bit confused. I think that people getting so upset over their deaths is a sign of great writing. You really made those characters feel real, and it sucks to loose them. It makes it so much more impactful.

Kalahatze

I agree with the comments. The death were telegraphed, predictable and pointless. Stupidity and arrogance.

Endoria

I also liked Fanias point of view so please don't kill her to quickly.

Han Pol

Illea experiencing her first big leadership struggle i love it

Jasonzerowars Playes

Thank you!

Andrew

There is actually a conflict kind of like this in history. Think of the Accords as Napoleonic France. France at that time was against slavery with the liberty equality fraternity thing. France also gained a huge influence over Spain ( Barilia) a kingdom with many oversea slaves. The slave owners in the new world were not at all happy with that and revolted and that resulted in parts in the Latin American wars of independence. So kind of a war for the right to keep slaves. Of course there were more reasons but that one was one of the major ones. And of course we don't know if it will be a war in the end.

Han Pol

Meh I'm going to take a break for awhile just not clicking with the story as much as I used too. This is not completely saying this chapter was an issue more that it was just a tipping point.

Will C

to... investigate. the risks were known and weighed against the possibility of a higher level team forcing the operation to run without any info gathered. The team made a call to go into that area without more support and paid the price. I disagree with everyone claiming Aki made a dumb move. He made a calculated risk and it didn't pan out well. Though if this unseats a big black market earlier than it would have otherwise it's almost inarguable that, even with the deaths, it was still an important mission. One that may have never gotten anywhere with a team of hunters.

BaguaBrady

It doesn’t make any sense, how did they cracked the gates so quickly when Meadow and Iana increased the security measures. I mean, if the humans were this capable then why haven’t they successfully replicated the Taleen gates before.

Carlo Aquino

Most comments on your story I've seen in a while. I dig the direction the story is going, and I understand why some choices were made, but it feels really weird to me the way the 2 of them died. Just saying, I get that they were arrogant and stuff, but they were teleporting out, why didn't they just let them retreat? This is literally the worst outcome for everyone involved in the underground operations. The fact Aki underestimated them is fine, level 100s can beat guardians if they have the right tools, and level 50-100s sentinels can fight sub 200s, so it was a fair assumption that the enemy wouldn't be super strong or organised. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it feels like there might have been a better way for this outcome to happen. But I trust the direction of the story, so we'll see what happens

Christian Nweneka

There are dozens if not hundreds of gates. It's definitely possible someone just watched them build those or someone leaked information. I doubt the main team built every single one of those gates.

Tjark

I don't think that's how healing magic works. Ilea and the sentinels just point at someone or touch them and push magic to them so the magic is doing the work. At some point Ilea could also examine a body and push her magic to specific places that are especially wounded. So it's still the magic that does the real healing. And we also know that healers can't heal lost limbs after a certain amount of time has passed. I'd expect death is similar to that. The magic doesn't know what to heal. That's my guess at least. Edit: You might also need to consider the soul so you won't just raise an undead accidentally.

Tjark

I am rather confused on how for thousands of years no one can copy Taleen gates but in a matter of months people are able to copy gates. The Meadow said it would be very difficult to reverse engineer the gates, so the only way it would have happened if someone leaked the complete tech.

lenkite

Why she can't revive people? Heal the body and shock the heart

Anthony Sjögreen

One difficulty I have is that they sent an investigation team of Sentinels who were only half the level of the Guardians that were destroyed.

Grond (James)

Others have mentioned the disbelief with them having gates. I'm also on the fence because wouldn't Clare have noticed the move on the types of resources for such a gate network? I thought it wasn't that easy to reproduce, especially without leaving a trail. Assuming they hadn't already bought everything of course.

Daniel

Whew

Luciaron

A lot of similar comments, so I’m consolidating and reposting my thoughts as a general response. 1) The Sentinels fucked up, not Aki. Sending a patrol in to gauge the situation without escalating it was entirely reasonable. The Sentinels should have called in. They were cocky, which is entirely plausible considering their power sets and the low levels they’d seen in the city. 2) The security leak that allowed the spread of gate technology does seem like a plot point. I trust G. Harthane. 3) The Accords have recently set up a multinational coalition as protector of the human plains, but it’s reasonable powerful criminals would try to maintain their livelihood in the periphery. 4) Fania et al know they fucked up by destroying guardians, and even more by killing Sentinels. They don’t know about Ilea’s ability to track recent teleports, so thought they could torch everything and get away. 5) Red shirts are a mocked trope for a reason. Deaths of minor characters I care about only make me more invested in a story. And kudos to G Harthane that there are so many characters I care about. Finally, congratulations on 800 chapters, and a robust Patreon!

Camelopardalis

Have we meet Fania before?

Augustus

Killing the occasional side character, especially foolish cocky ones, is fine IMO. Its going to happen eventually anyways given how dangerous the Sentials/Hand's work is. A bigger issue is the TP proliferation and Aki's terrible decision making sending them in. THOSE 2 things come off....oddly to say the least.

tibbish

Well sad to see another story die to pointless tragedy.

ShadeByTheSea

Yeah, and it's unnecessary since there was plenty of other plots to start an arc with.

ShadeByTheSea

Its only a secret resource if you actually use it. And no one was using these gates until a little while ago. Now apparently they're all over the place! With how difficult it was for Ilea's team to copy them it seems unbelievable. And remember Ilea got her team from a guy she killed who had been running that same team on that same task for years with no results. She also had a lot of help from Meadow too.

tibbish

I am also pissed with Aki. I understand the reasoning (i.e wanting to train them in a hostile environment, which is how they have been trained from the start). But a lot of things were overlooked in this mission and Aki was being incompetent.

Monika Djomi

Ty for the chapters, they were really good. Ppl may complain about killing two characters we knew but it really hit harder because we knew them and not just random dead sentinels. I like where this is going and want a pissed goddess Lilith descending on her enemies with all her wrath!

Chad Hagner

Oh I think some countries might not exist much longer. Thanks for the chapters, sad for the losses but it does happen.....biggest anger issue no doubt being who they died to instead of monsters.

Straven

This chapter feels forced all the way. Felt like they wanted illea to go berserk and use it to start a new arc or something.Aki suddenly becoming irrational, sentinels getting overconfident and most of all teleportation gates appearing suddenly.Nothing makes sense, if there really was someone who can create a teleporatation gate, why wouldnt they create any until now?

I have a feeling it's not Meadow's gate that was copied, just a replication of the Taleens. It fits. The Lily have had access to and and have been studying the Taleen gate for a very long time. So it makes sense that they may have already replicated it just not used it extensively, like a secrete resource.

Monika Djomi

My guess is that a faction of the Io dwarves could have been used to help create these.

Elliot

After a point the soul is gone and fixing bodily damage is just prettying up a corpse

tibbish

Bring the Lich, resurrect them. What is this little temporary death in the face of Lilith. On a more serious note, shouldn't it be possible to fix the body and restart their heart? Like magic CPR. Or did we already have this conversation when Eve died.

Seems pretty weird they've already got gates and such. Yeah some things were public but enough of it was supposed to require specialized knowledge to be too difficult to copy any time soon by default. Oh well. Ilea can track back through most of them fast enough that she'll probably burn through almost their whole network in day I bet.

tibbish

they have forgotten lilith. crush them.

Arexio R.

We all see the stitches. Hard to agree when we don't like what happen. Wait and see!

Julien Fellegara

Congratulations on reaching chapter 800! Thank you as always for the lovely work :)

Alsia

So true.

Julien Fellegara

To the lucky ones who die young!

Chopper

Basically they are fucking with her only hard and fast no no, slavery....they are trying to wake the dragon. Lol send someone she can't beat? She will just go the khor for a year and come back a 4 mark probably with a "dragon" tier friend

kyle

What I don't like is the teleport gates. It took how long for them to replicate the taleen one WITH the meadows help, and the ones they made supposedly have better protections. So how the hell did they already replicate them?

Sarvyn

Yeah but that would just be cheap. These deaths actually mean something beyond just sentinel died. It reminded Ilea of the fact that while she may be strong she can’t defend everyone, and neither can the safety nets she’s built catch everything. It may be a fantasy world but that doesn’t mean life is perfect at higher levels.

Enzo Elacqua

It's like what happened with Eve, it hit her hard, but she will hit them back harder.

Perfect Intelligence - in both senses of the phrase - is for Mary Stus or Pollyannic fiction. In hindsight sure there are different decisions they could have made, but at the time it was a calculated risk. And sometimes those get you killed.

I wish you’d just used some random Sentinels, ones we haven’t learned about. It’s happened before. You introduce a new character for a few chapters and then kill them off, so why did you decide to kill off 2 secondary characters with a lot of storytelling potential rather than 2 randoms? I mean just the fact that Sentinels died would piss Ilea off, it doesn’t have to be 2 that the have been introduced as actual characters. It easily could have been mentioned with new characters that they knew Ilea but the audience didn’t know them and then have them dying would still infuriate Ilea rather than infuriating your audience. It could actually still be rather easily changed to different characters. Most of the dialog could stay the same & just switch out character names. You’d still have to change some of the more personable moments to different things for new people but it wouldn’t be all the hard. Plus Patreon tends to be used as first drafts for people so until it’s on Royal Road nothing is permanent!!

SpaceGoddess76

Yeah me to. I thought they couldn't be copied at all. And the meadow is supervising it. So that seems way to quick for like a couple of month.

Alnatura

For me this chapter is fine. I'm a little confused at how they managed to copy the gates so quickly considering the effort involved I their development. But I figure that'll be explained as things progress.

White Neko Knight

This seems like it's almost obviously the Lilly.

MrrC

Great chapters. Keep up the good work and enjoy the time off

Matt

Spends multiple arcs building up how impossible replicating the gates is and how they needed the help of an actual God to do it... other guys figure it out in a week.

Nicholas Paterson

There are people capable of stealth observation. I imagine they just watched Aki build a few gates from scratch and then copied and pasted. There are also enough intelligent people in this world that they don’t need a full instruction manual.

SunderGoldmane

Sooooo the golden lily is in for a change of leadership….

SunderGoldmane

The way they die is not compelling its forced the believability is way off and it does not fit the characters at all especially aki .

Eyes wide

These were good and also sad chapters I hope to see some character development from this along with some more world-building that doesn't involve punching things

If u look at the adventures guild and how they judge threat levels aki messed up big time and in such a way that questions should be asked of him would u send low level healers against things that wiped out high level machines. Sorry but can't swallow this it's just dumb

Eyes wide

I believe a short eulogy is deserved here Willa, the doe eyed little barmaid, who dreamed of adventure and never thought her life would amount to anything more that heating bath tubs, who wrote embarrassing poetry about her hero and worked harder than all her pears to achieve an exceptional class. Ember, who abandoned a life that was forced upon her, who braved a long journey with an uncertain end, whose timid nature hid a brave soul, and who found good friends and comrades after a life time of being alone. Two young girls whose fires burnt bright before being snuffed out. One knock I had against the story was that it lost its sense of danger around chapter 200, when you knew no side character was safe, I for one am glad that its back, makes things more compelling

Blackmoon11

And oh well ilea better be able to just purge instead of play politics

Shadeymankey

How tf they copied the meadow’s gates?

Shadeymankey

Well sad that these are known characters that died but on the other hand that can kinda keep it exciting. and gives us a bit more of a stake in the conflict. And while Aki is at fault it wasn't known that they would stick into such a hornet nest when the town leaders were the one that asked for help. His reasoning overall was maybe a bit to risky but also only bad in hindsight not wanting to make a show of power when investigating. So they are kinda lucky to have found the hornet nest so quickly. Poor Willa

Han Pol

I'm really confused. I thought they coded the teleportation gates with the help of the tree? It should be impossible to copy them so easily..

Patrick Schuldt

Seems like a repeat of earlier honestly. Someone close to Ilea dies to slavers/secret organization (maybe even the same) and she needs to find them. Good thing I enjoyed it so this will probably be good as well. Just have to be careful it's not too similar. On the bright side, I do believe after that arc came the exploration of the north and if that means Ilea will go out exploring again after this crisis is complete, I'd be very happy.

Tjark

Also shows that while Ilea is OP that's only in direct combat. She couldn't prevent this and neither does she immediately know who's fault it is/can find them easily.

Tjark

Well, that's one way to kick off things. I am a bit pissed we lost those two to such an obvious oversight on Aki's part. I hope Wayland will prove his worth here and we'll get on their trail soon.

Kale Daley

Think so as well. But probably not Helena. Maybe the orgy dude from Asila and the woman from Nipha. Not sure about Kroll as this isn't really Michael's style.

Tjark

Shit'sgoin'DOWN

bob barker

I agree... but why not both?! We can have some cathartic slaver but kicking AND have some more justified opposition. And it would be especially cool if that opposition didn't mind the slavers as much as murderbots (like the lili i guess)

Martin Brandel

The Lily just signed a blood feud that they have insufficient healers to honour.

Alex I

I have to agree it is Akis fault…guardians were killed before he could even notice they were being attacked…let’s send people that aren’t even level 200 to deal with…I’m sure they’ll be fine….lmao. I’m of the mind ilea should have lashed out. The sentinels are not akis machines, they aren’t nearly as replaceable, he should have known better. Tho I guess not lashing out with her level of power is probably better. Maybe it’ll knock aki off his high horse tho of “I’m so powerful now.” Glad she’ll finally have to do shit about the lily tho.

IJustWannaRead

in the end she just became a tyrant, even if you have the best intentions not everyone is going to agree with you, it could have been a good plot direction if the opposition she faced weren't Slavers, its such a good excuse to make them antagonist but its equally low quality at this point, a group that see the accords as tyrants trying to control everyone and its fighting for freedom would have been way more interesting, especially if it was led by an equally op leader that could beat ilea

DANTE

Wow go figure people aren't scared of a few thousand murder bots but are shitting their pants over killing a couple of healers. I mean both are bad but the opposition lost their stealth due to a few idiots. And then made it worse by pissing off the currently strongest known human in existence.

MountainFox

Shits getting real!! Woo! Let's go conflict! Loss! And some but kicking! I love how killing a sentinel has become the equivalent of killing a cop.

Martin Brandel

While its not ilea losing, it is still showing that there are consequences to actions. What is needed to help ground this story a bit more. While Ilea is now Op, the sentinals at lvl 70-100 are quite fragile even as healers.

Benjamin

Golden Lily bullshit 101. I hope she stops delaying and finally goes berserker on them and scorches their network clean

Seijax

I have to say it was nice to see the power differences come in to play again. The sentinels are good but they aren't that goo 🤣

Leviathon251

Fuck never get invested they died like punks I so pissed off right now. Why willa what was the point of having us meet her family .I AM NOT OK WITH THIS

Eyes wide

Honestly that was aki's fault its all on him level two hundred machines get wasted and u send low level healers that was very dumb . And any one saying he didn't know is dumb coz he lost high level machines which means high level threats he sent them there to die .

Eyes wide

Fuck that was bad. The Lily is involved for sure.

Alexander Dupree

Congrats on 800 chapters