Jake looked directly into the eyes of the Horde Leader. They both paused for a moment as they considered each other. On one side, a small human down on one knee with a bow in his hand, and on the other, a boar the size of a huge truck.
Yet the boar was the one to avert its gaze first. Jake ...
2020-12-22 14:59:54 +0000 UTC View PostPacking up, Jake looked over his potions one last time. A dozen health potions, twenty-two stamina potions, and a good nine bottles of Necrotic Poison. Every single one of the potions and poison the most potent iterations he had ever made.
If he had more time, he would have attempted common...
2020-12-21 16:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostSubmerging his consciousness in meditation, he didn’t enter the heightened state of focus like he had done last time. There was virtually no change from any other time he had used the skill, despite the recent upgrade.
This was honestly a relief to Jake. In the back of his mind, he did br...
2020-12-21 15:09:12 +0000 UTC View PostKatelynn took off her uniform in the changing room and quickly took out her phone from her locker. She checked her phone to find a good podcast to listen to while driving home, wondering if a new episode was out of that true crime one she really liked.
She had just gotten off work from a 12...
2020-12-20 15:11:18 +0000 UTC View PostJake had long gotten used to not really having to eat or drink anything. Whatever he chugged down here and there appeared to be enough to keep him going. He could barely remember the feeling of hunger or thirst anymore.
However, what he had kept doing was breathing. It just felt far too nat...
2020-12-18 15:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostAffinities, mana, magic as a whole, actually, was still a new concept to Jake and everyone else going through the tutorials. Books in the Challenge Dungeon had all been very unspecific about how mana and magic worked and only described possible methods of using it.
Jake’s most significant...
2020-12-17 15:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostJake awoke and felt well-rested and relieved. He had feared a nightmare when he closed his eyes, but instead, he got a pleasant dream. Like the last one, this one was also weirdly lucid throughout. Of course, this one didn’t have some bastard god but was of his own making.
From the very b...
2020-12-16 15:31:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe family sat gathered around the table, enjoying their breakfast. The rays of sunlight hit the table, highlighting the vast selection to choose from. Scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, bread, whatever one wanted. Caleb had even convinced their dad to make pancakes that morning. Mom had objected, ...
2020-12-15 15:24:40 +0000 UTC View PostJake tended to be rather good at predicting what the response to his attacks would be. He had expected the closest boars to rush towards their now dead comrade, or perhaps to all start searching frantically for the killer.
It turns out that this time Jake had predicted a bit wrong. Just a t...
2020-12-14 15:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostTonken worked the field like any other day. To grow the crops was hard work, but it was necessary to keep the mana rich plants healthy. Tonken had always been good at it, and he loved to live among the plants and trees.
They were just a normal family of seven. His mom and pa owning the farm...
2020-12-13 15:14:10 +0000 UTC View Post”To possess a bloodline is to be a chosen of the system itself. Power only the privileged few can ever hope to grasp.”
Learutit sat cross-legged as she expelled the mana from her body. She didn’t meditate, as that would be… suicidal. Her excess mana took a ...
2020-12-13 15:13:23 +0000 UTC View PostAs he jumped up the cliff and began running the final stretch to the dungeon, he checked through his full status.
Status
Name: Jake Thayne
Race: [Human (E) – lvl 58]
Class: [Ambitious Hunter – lvl 65]
Profession: [Prodigious Alchemist of the Male...
2020-12-11 15:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostJake practically flew through the terrain as he ran across the valley, scanning it with his sphere wherever he went. He didn’t really encounter any enemies on the way, something he very much appreciated.
William had done an outstanding job of clearing out a lot of beasts in the inner area...
2020-12-10 15:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe smiling white-haired man appeared in what appeared to be an ordinary western suburban house. But outside the windows was not the streets of the suburb, but a vast void of nothingness.
He waved his hand and summoned a broken, nearly body-shaped mess of metal, blood, and gore. With anothe...
2020-12-09 15:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay… no talking about bloodlines…” Jake said, a bit hesitant but not arguing back.
They both sat in silence for a while before the Viper spoke again. “But… it does explain quite a few things…”
“What do you mean?”
“About this entire tutorial of yours. This...
2020-12-08 15:42:10 +0000 UTC View PostAt the edge of a crater in the middle of the forest, two figures sat drinking. The crater’s epicenter still carried the outline of what had once been a person with small smidgens of blood here and there.
Around the two people drinking were several empty bottles. They chatted as they drank...
2020-12-07 16:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostJake didn’t have a lot of close friends growing up, but he did have some. One of them was Patrick or Pat for short. Pat and Jake went to daycare together and even entered the same school. They were in different classes, but they still met up during recess and went to each other’s places after...
2020-12-07 15:42:29 +0000 UTC View PostReading guide for the side stories to avoid potential spoilers:
Side Story 1: Read after around chapter 70 - IN BOOK 2 ON KU
Side Story 2: Read after chapter 76
Side Story 3: Read after around chapter 90 - IN BOOK 2 ON KU
Side Story 4: Read after chapter 96
Side Stor...
2020-12-06 15:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Fucking die already!” William yelled as the huge beast in front of him refused to submit. It was far from the first time he had fought the damn thing, and this had to be the time he would win.
The Den Mother was covered in wounds as the huge sawblade cut into its side, managing to cut ...
2020-12-06 15:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostCasper stood silently as he looked at himself in the mirror before him. He still found it hard to recognize that this was truly him even after so many days has passed. His ashen skin, gray eyes with black pupils, and black hair that looked to be graying was all so unfamiliar.
But what was e...
2020-12-06 15:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostJake felt like he was suddenly submerged in oil. Everything went completely black, and his entire body felt like he was deep underwater. Even sound seemed to disappear as he was left with nearly no external stimulus. He said nearly as two things still worked - his sphere and his roaring ...
2020-12-04 15:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe tunnel opened up once more as Jake found himself in a small circular cistern. Water was stored below as a cross-shaped bridge allowed one to avoid getting wet. The road straight ahead led to another hallway while the two paths to the sides led directly into pipes.
Jake had just entered ...
2020-12-03 15:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostJake was two levels above the required one for choosing a new skill, but luckily, it didn’t seem to have any adverse effect. He had feared that delaying it for too long would lead to complications, but then again, the restrictions about skills-gain in combat were system-imposed, so it would be ...
2020-12-02 16:28:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe clattering got louder as Jake felt tensions rise. He summoned his bow and nocked an arrow, prepared for whatever may appear. He could hear the sound coming from the far end of the basin below. Whatever it was, it was coming from there.
The barrier of mana felt completely impassable when...
2020-12-02 15:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe darkness permeated his entire being as he sat in meditation. His regeneration was far higher than it had ever been before as the mana poured into him. Meanwhile, tendrils of dark mana spread throughout the hallway, making him look like some eldritch octopus with tiny arms.
Occasionally ...
2020-12-01 15:36:08 +0000 UTC View PostJake walked through the shithole that dared call itself a dungeon with sloppy steps. Once in a while, a damn rat jumped out at him before swiftly being executed. He had stopped caring about elaborate tactics many hours ago.
The first few hours went fine and all. Shoot a burning arrow, kill ...
2020-11-30 15:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that struck him was the smell - an all-encompassing stench that seemed to mask any other scent. Jake was happy that perception didn’t just straight-up make his sense of smell more potent, or he may have just fallen over and died there and then. At least he would have wished that...
2020-11-29 15:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostJelamel studied the tome meticulously as his teacher had commanded him to. One of the ancient tomes that, according to legend, had been written by the Eternal Servant himself. He had studied this book many times before, but he felt like it was never enough.
Of course, his copy wasn’t the ...
2020-11-29 15:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostHis entire body ached with pain. Pain, unlike any he had ever felt before.
But he could only smile at the sensation because pain meant that he was still alive.
When he had regained consciousness, he didn’t know. But he did know that it had been several days since he had nearly falle...
2020-11-27 15:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostJake opened his eyes when he saw the countdown for the dungeon shutdown reach 13 minutes. He had initially decided to get up at 15, but two more minutes shouldn’t hurt, right?
During his meditation, he did have time to go over his notifications.
*’DING!’ Class: [Ambi...
2020-11-26 15:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post