Jake’s first question when he heard about the Demon Lord having a harem regarded the logistics. You see, the Demon Lord was quite large, while all the regular demons he saw in his sphere were human-sized, so…
Anyway, not important. What was important was the entire theming of the thirty...
2023-04-19 10:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post”I rate this floor nine out of ten when it comes to combat but a solid negative one out of ten when it comes to creativity. You just copy-pasted rooms over and over again. Downright shameful,” Jake admonished Minaga out loud as he stood atop a tower identical to four other towers in prior roo...
2023-04-18 10:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Jake had killed the Warden, the demons more or less fell apart, and it was just a cleanup from there. A few of them had tried to get to the prisoners during the attack, but Dina’s bark-covered roots had completely stopped all their attempts.
Jake joined the others in killing, and in...
2023-04-17 10:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time since entering Minaga’s Labyrinth, Jake had truly met his match. Minaga had claimed Jake wouldn’t be able to ”cheat” on this floor, and Jake had obviously not believed him. It wasn’t that there was no way to cheat him, just that doing it would fuck over others far too...
2023-04-14 10:41:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe cathedral had, amazingly so, not at all been affected by the attack from the Sword Saint. It was maybe protected by some magical barrier, or perhaps the construction was indeed durable enough to handle his weird reversal of the rain.
This meant that the interior was also spotless and be...
2023-04-13 10:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostEven if they didn’t have to do the bonus objective to dispel the curse, they still wanted to kill this Prime Summoner, as it would no doubt reward extra Nevermore Points. Jake couldn’t really say he felt sorry about breaking whatever scenario Minaga had planned, though he could see what their...
2023-04-12 10:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostGoing through the gateway leading out of the thirty-first floor, Jake wasn’t exactly sure what he had expected. Considering the uniqueness of these next ten floors and Minaga being the one in charge, it wasn’t even sure there would be an in-between room. There was one, but it wasn’t at all ...
2023-04-11 10:11:41 +0000 UTC View PostJake was blasted backward as he blocked with a barrier of stable arcane mana. A torrent of flames bellowed out from the Demon Lord, obscuring its form even as it walked forward. As the one closest to the gate, Jake had taken the brunt of it, but he had reacted quickly due to his danger sense, not...
2023-04-10 10:21:36 +0000 UTC View Post”Lucky bunch! Found your way to the first room right off the bat without encountering any dead ends! Now to find the key… if there even is one here!” Minaga said with his usual glee as Jake and company walked out of what looked like a wall of fog and entered a massive chamb...
2023-04-07 10:54:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe thirty-first floor felt different the moment they arrived. They walked out of the gateway and into a large chamber that looked out of some temple, with white pillars lining the walls and a large elevated stone platform in the middle. Towards the other end of the chamber was a massive gate wit...
2023-04-06 10:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostDue to the inability to give out concrete information about the floors of Nevermore, no one even knew how many there were in the C-grade section. Jake and Co naturally also didn’t know, but they could infer based on how slowly the levels of enemies increased. To see the average levels of enemie...
2023-04-05 10:41:53 +0000 UTC View PostFloors 1 to 5 had pretty clear goals in mind: determine the dungeon divers’ ability to adapt to different environments and handle different enemy types. It also included a good deal of exploration, with a major part of each floor being about finding the exit.
Floors 6 to 10, on the other ...
2023-04-04 10:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostNevermore was often called the greatest dungeon in the multiverse, but it wasn’t just one dungeon. In fact, it was a multitude of dungeons stacked on top of one another, and even if Nevermore broke conventional rules, it was still classified as a dungeon. However, be it due to fairness from the...
2023-04-03 10:23:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe dryad didn’t seem to register the words immediately but finally reacted after a second.
“Huh?” Dina asked, confused. “I… I could… but why?”
The old man shook his head and smiled. “The four of us have either fought side by side or against each other before. We know ...
2023-03-31 07:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe fourth floor. Jake and his party entered and were all met by a very different environment than the one they had just been in. Pure darkness roamed, and the air smelled of soil and death. The environmental mana affinity matched this as it was an odd mix of earth, death, and dark. Shortly after...
2023-03-30 10:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wyrmgod of Nevermore. One of twelve Primordials, and a being often viewed as the greatest of all the dragons. The Draconian Accords had been overseen by the Wyrmgod, and all dragons in existence viewed him as the most powerful. While the Malefic Viper was also a dragon before godhood, simply ...
2023-03-29 09:56:45 +0000 UTC View PostJust after Jake was contacted and told his teammates were done, he just happened to find himself standing in front of a large gateway that he didn’t doubt led to the next floor. One thing did confuse him a bit, though. There was also another smaller teleportation circle of some kind near the wa...
2023-03-28 05:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostJake didn’t know how long they were falling. It felt like minutes, yet also hours. No notification ever popped up, and no prompt asked them to enter. They did not have to register or do anything to confirm they were a party, as the system handled all that. All they had to do was enter together ...
2023-03-27 04:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post“That must have been cathartic,” the Sword Saint said after they had made some good distance between themselves and the northern arenas. “I take it no one is following us?”
“Nobody, as far as I can tell. And yes, it felt damn good to finally tell that fucker off,” Jake wholehear...
2023-03-24 03:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nevermore Arenas. To Jake and the others in his party, these did not have much pull, but to others, they were a cornerstone of Nevermore City. They pulled in huge audiences and were somewhere geniuses from all over the multiverse gathered from C-grade to S-grade. It was a chance to show off t...
2023-03-23 11:53:27 +0000 UTC View PostJake instantly understood how the list was full when he laid his eyes on the first wall, which displayed the top ten individuals of the ninety-third universe.
Nevermore Leaderboards (C-grade): 93rd Universe.
1. Holy Templar – Low Tier
2. Holy Knight – Low Ti...
2023-03-22 11:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostEvery single universe in existence was filled with life, planets, stars, and incredible opportunities. Yet the thing it had more of than anything else was nothingness. Empty spaces that seemed infinitely large, so big that some S-grades would struggle to pass through it in their entire lifetimes....
2023-03-21 11:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostBack in the main hall, the festivities that were actually just a glorified political event continued. A number of people still held hope that they could join the Chosen of the Malefic Viper and his party for Nevermore, as they all knew what that would mean.
It wasn’t out of the question f...
2023-03-20 12:04:25 +0000 UTC View PostJake felt how serious Viridia was, so he assumed this Nature’s Attendant was someone important just from her reaction.
”How will we meet?” Jake asked.
”I believe a private meeting room has been prepared. A god of his level descending upon this hall filled with mor...
2023-03-17 07:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostHe had known from the very beginning he would be the primary target of anyone interested in joining Jake’s party. The reason for this was manifold. Firstly, he was the only other human in the group and an earthling like Jake, which unintuitively made him stand out. Miyamoto also had what most w...
2023-03-16 12:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Jake and the Automata Legion had their discussion, Vesperia got the chance to have a talk with her fellow True Royal.
“I hope I am not overstepping by wanting a more private conversation,” the True Royal Hive Queen reached out to her.
Vesperia naturally took no offe...
2023-03-15 11:59:57 +0000 UTC View PostJake appeared together with Villy inside a new, far smaller hall. A few seconds later, Vesperia also popped into existence.
“I greet the Malefic One and my sire,” she bowed towards the snake god after she oriented herself.
“Hey again,” Jake said with a smile. “Say, what have...
2023-03-14 12:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostWhy? Why had he done it? Jake briefly remembered some stupid ideas he had shown Felix, but… why? Why had that sculpture-loving moron thought this was a good idea? Should Jake have seen this coming?
No… no, it was too late to consider any of these things. Now, all he could do was damage ...
2023-03-13 12:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs Jake had been briefed on earlier, then the majority of presents would not be handed to him directly. Most would go through the Order and simply be delivered to his residence, or somewhere else he designated, with Miranda or Viridia briefing Jake on any important things he may want to bring alo...
2023-03-10 12:02:51 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Jake and Villy had time to wind down, it was time to move on to the next session of the ceremony. The two of them had only discussed what had happened a bit, with the Viper reminding Jake that the entire ceremony so far had effectively been televised across the multiverse, meaning all the b...
2023-03-09 12:02:19 +0000 UTC View Post