The cavern was still, entirely blanketed in silence. There were no plants, no movement, and seemingly no life. Save for one creature.
A large Hive Queen still stood in the middle of the grand cavern, looking tired. As she began moving, a second figure also let itself be known. Cracks spread...
2023-01-25 11:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hive King was blasted away by an arrow hitting it in the back just before it had time to turn and continue its assault. Jake whipped his body around toward the Queen and released a Splitting Arrow, forcing her to conjure a barrier in front of her humanoid body.
The dozen or so arrows em...
2023-01-24 12:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostEach level in C-grade mattered far more than those in D-grade. It was just simple math, really. However, there was still one thing that could make up for this gap in stats: titles. Jake had over 70% more in all stats just from titles increasing them percentage-wise, and this was not counting all ...
2023-01-23 11:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostWeird notifications all around. Well, except for the first one, as Jake had finally gotten a level. So that was nice, even if it was only one.
*’DING!’ Class: [Arcane Hunter of Horizon’s Edge] has reached level 201 - Stat points allocated, +50 Free Points* 2023-01-20 11:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Jumping, Jake avoided both Guards trying to get him from behind, focusing his attention on the Protector in front of him. It leaped up to chase him, making Jake kick off a platform of condensed mana to clash with it again. However, this time he didn’t make it a competition of pure power.
...
2023-01-19 11:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostFor one and a half hours, the termites left him completely alone. In between every few crafts, Jake released a Pulse of Perception to see what was up, only to find them all unmoving. What he did find surprising was that the Queen was no longer in the egg chamber but in a large cavern that had bee...
2023-01-18 11:56:45 +0000 UTC View PostCalibration of Pathfinder-18 was complete as he tested the basic specs and parameters of the new scouting drone, finding the stats within expectations. Offensive options had been limited in favor of higher speed and increased stealth capability, making it a more specialized drone than most others...
2023-01-17 11:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostThere was one good thing about exterminating ectognamorphs compared to other races. If someone wanted to wipe out a faction of humans, one had to kill every single one to be successful. Failing to do so risked that the survivors could keep reproducing and reviving the faction, with there even bei...
2023-01-16 11:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostJake liked loot. Who didn’t like loot? Wait, did getting a weapon from a craftsman even count as loot, as he technically didn’t loot it off anything? Jake wasn’t sure, but he kind of hoped it did, and if it didn’t, he just refused to care and still classified it as getting loot.
Arn...
2023-01-13 11:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting room was silent for several seconds as Albaromoz stared at the spot where the Bloodline Patriarch had disappeared from. No, he had been teleported away. For a moment, the dragon had felt a divine presence before the teleportation, making so many questions appear in his head, but it di...
2023-01-12 12:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostJake and Draskil left Draskil’s residence soon after, with the Malefic Dragonkin making sure Jake once more walked through and saw his entire damn harem that Jake was pretty sure had grown by a few people in the short time they were in the chamber.
The conversation with Helen had been sho...
2023-01-11 11:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostJake tossed the token up and down as he looked at the beautiful carving of a red dragon on it. It was clearly made of high-tier metal, produced as a show-off piece for the Emberflight to display how wealthy and powerful they were.
Which was just the problem. They were large and powerful. An...
2023-01-10 11:54:10 +0000 UTC View PostJake stared at the elf for several seconds as his brain tried to process what she had just said.
“Mistress like the others.”
When the hell had he gotten any mistresses!? Why would she even think he had any to begin with?
Few questions truly stumped him, but this one just did...
2023-01-09 11:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostTwo weeks after Jake had returned to the Order, he was hard at work with the many cores he still had in storage. Meira had continued to buy new cores to keep the ritual going during his absence and had quite a stock built up to complement all those Jake had also dropped off.
Working on the ...
2023-01-06 11:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostJake had a lot to think about. Annoying things to think about.
He knew he wasn’t the most moral of people, considering his rather liberal approach to killing. He did not hesitate when he went out into the world and hunted down sapient C-grade beasts simply for experience points, and he ha...
2023-01-05 11:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostSetting up a ritual circle was a bit like making a painting, but in order to make the painting, you had to program every stroke using some illogical programming language that also, for some bloody reason, had to follow weird rules reminiscent of feng shui. Concepts had to play properly together, ...
2023-01-04 12:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostIn the sky, there had once been a cloud island. It had been quite large, too, with a few elementals spawning here and there. Using past tense was very important in this case, as now there was no island to be seen anywhere. It turned out that clouds and giant tornadoes did not mix well. Or, well, ...
2023-01-03 12:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostSylphie released a challenging screech as Jake smiled in response. Fighting in Haven was naturally a no-go, so they would have to head somewhere else.
“Find a cloud island?” Jake asked the bird, getting an approving screech as she pointed with her wing toward a spot in the sky. Jake nar...
2023-01-02 12:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostHello there. TLDR: No chapter, I am sick, may not be any new chaps for the rest of the year.
It sucks, but I have been sick since the weekend, and it sadly has only gotten worse. Not covid for those wondering, more likely a bad case of influenza or a throat infection.
While I could tr...
2022-12-21 11:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostJake felt the influx of knowledge as his class evolved. For a moment, Jake felt as if he sitting within an endless void with only darkness all around him, except for a single horizontal line of light impossibly far away. He blinked, and it was gone, making Jake certain he had not actually been tr...
2022-12-20 11:47:32 +0000 UTC View PostAh, class evolutions. Who didn’t love class evolutions? They were often a lot more exciting than race and profession, even if this time around, the race one had been quite noteworthy, to say the least.
Jake had always viewed his class quite a bit differently than his profession. He felt c...
2022-12-19 11:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostJake smiled as the Viper probed him. He felt the Blessing strengthen as he knew he had just entrenched himself even further with the Viper, and clearly, so did the snake god.
“Just upgraded my profession. A straight upgrade, the same name, too, meaning I am still a Heretic-Chosen Alch...
2022-12-16 11:51:35 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, Jake had perhaps been a bit too excited about his evolution when he had gone to visit Arnold, and it was probably also not a good idea to annoy the guy you wanted to make stuff for you. Even if Jake didn’t want favors from him – which he did - pissing off a mad scientist with an army of...
2022-12-15 11:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post*’DING!’ Race: [Human (C)] has reached level 200 - Stat points allocated, +45 Free Points*
The level was gained, and he returned to the real world.
Jake had been prepared this time around. He had steeled himself and done all he could to limit his senses t...
2022-12-14 11:49:58 +0000 UTC View Post<Author note>
The smallest of retcons ever has been made, as I changed the last sentence of the last chapter to Jake flying back to Haven and sitting on his bed before he began the evolution. Most of you probably only ever saw the edited version, so have no worries! 2022-12-13 11:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Complicated.
That was the word Vilastromoz would describe the situation.
He had an odd relationship with the unknown. On the one hand, the unknown was a nuisance. It represented an obstacle one potentially had to understand to continue moving forward. Yet, on the other hand, it repres...
2022-12-12 11:50:26 +0000 UTC View PostJake woke up with a yawn after his nap and was instantly struck by the stench. He held his nose for a moment as he looked around and saw the source of it. The ground was black and rotting, the treants already well on their way to getting decomposed by now.
With a bit of panic, Jake turned t...
2022-12-09 11:51:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe treants had both grown significantly more powerful after the infusion of power from the Ethgleam Mothertree, making it apparent there was great synergy between them. It did not come as a surprise considering the treants were called Ethgleam Elderbark Treants, but it was still fascinating to s...
2022-12-08 11:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostA massive area of the forest burned, enough so that it would constitute a huge natural disaster in the world before the system. Yet, oddly enough, none of the tall trees had toppled, but all stood strong. Their bark burned, their leaves perhaps gone, but their trunks stood strong, and their auras...
2022-12-07 11:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostWhile it was true Jake usually didn’t like to get involved in the fights of others, he didn’t really count this one. They were barely fighting but just throwing stuff at each other, accomplishing nothing. What did the bears hope for? That the big tree would run out of energy? They had a limit...
2022-12-06 11:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post