A small piece of human skin floated through the air while being disintegrated by destructive arcane mana. The human it had originated from had already teleported away as a taloned foot shot through the speck of skin, obliterating it entirely.
The Sovereign quickly spun in the air to kick an...
2025-04-18 10:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostJake focused his senses, as rather than panic in his moment of crisis, he felt a deep sense of calm that allowed him to respond the best way he possibly could. The final gambit of the Warlord had bound Jake tightly in a fashion not easily escaped. It wasn’t his physical body that was restrained...
2025-04-17 11:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post<AUTHOR NOTE>
Hello there, people. Once more, Travis had finished narrating an Audiobook and thus book 12 has been released on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/...
2025-04-16 11:22:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe large red mantis regarded its eggs for a moment before exiting the large hollowed-out tree. Surrounding it were about a hundred mantises, most of them orange and all of them with razor-sharp blades as their appendages.
The red mantis regarded a deep orange one kneeling at the front as t...
2025-04-15 11:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Be honest here. I know it’s not ideal, but do you think that’s better or worse than expected?” Jake asked the projection of a woman in front of him.
“Slightly worse... I had underestimated the arrogance some people possess. Even if they logically know they need to rein in their e...
2025-04-14 11:12:36 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett couldn’t help but feel excited. This was her first official task as a member of the Order of the Malefic Viper, and it wasn’t an insignificant one either.
With the opening of the ninety-third universe, many factions were naturally interested in establishing a presence on Earth....
2025-04-11 11:18:57 +0000 UTC View PostGrand Lake 1.
Lame name aside, these lakes, numbered one to five, were the source of mana and growth for the entire Hunting Ground, nurtured by the powerful entity living within the planet. Each Grand Lake served as the center of every Area, and due to the way environmental mana propagated,...
2025-04-10 11:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostJake truly experienced the woes of being too strong, as even something like the Simivita had proven unable to put up a proper fight. He likely wouldn’t have bothered fighting the Simivitas, as battling a large tribe was unnecessarily stressful, and he preferred facing solitary monsters.
P...
2025-04-09 11:16:19 +0000 UTC View PostTaking a break from practice to have some fun was a great way to refresh the mind and approach the topic with a fresh outlook. At least, that was Jake’s excuse when he decided to fight the Simivita Chieftain in melee.
It was likely also the best idea if his goal was to ensure everyone sur...
2025-04-08 11:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostThey had definitely bitten off more than they could chew.
Keerla and Solana had always been a good team when hunting together. Solana was a talented dryad fighter, and Keerla had proven herself skilled enough with a bow to be blessed by Artemis. Individually, they were strong, but together,...
2025-04-07 11:22:16 +0000 UTC View PostSolitary monsters were definitely superior to those who formed groups. It made sense, as these creatures would have been killed a long time ago if they couldn’t handle groups by themselves, and natural selection had done a good job of filtering out the weaker beasts that preferred to be alone.<...
2025-04-04 11:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostJake had been more injured than he initially thought. The destructive energies running through his body due to his boosting skill had obscured much of the internal damage, but once it was dispelled, Jake could see and feel just how dangerous sound-based attacks could be.
As he meditated to ...
2025-04-03 11:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostPoisoning the entire local population of Rainbowfeather Songbirds took a bit of preparation. If Jake simply began throwing around bottles haphazardly, he doubted he could create a large enough field of death to do the damage he wanted to.
That’s why Jake took a slower and more measured ap...
2025-04-02 11:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe rogue stealthily moved through the underbrush, clearing a path for his allies. Not far away, hidden within a magical concealment formation, his two hunting companions waited for him to finish. Their prey was a peak C-grade creature they had been eyeing for a while, and all their preparations ...
2025-04-01 11:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostJake stood in the air, observing the grand jungle that spread out endlessly beneath him. When he looked into the distance, he faintly detected curvature, indicating that he was no longer on the Great Planet. He guessed he was on another planet, likely smaller than Earth by a fair margin, about a ...
2025-03-31 11:22:40 +0000 UTC View PostJake had always known that his investment in Perception was a stroke of genius. He wasn’t just doing it because his Bloodline increased his Perception, and because having his senses improve just felt right somehow. That feeling of rightness likely came from his intuition, and since intuition ca...
2025-03-28 12:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes in life, one has to ask oneself important questions. What do I want to do with my life? What brings me purpose? How do I feel about someone? This was one such situation as Jake asked himself a vital question:
Am I actually a fucking idiot?
Jake had tried hard. Reall...
2025-03-27 12:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostJake’s loss was quick and entirely as he’d expected. The version of Artemis he was fighting now was not the same as the Lord of the Hunt from back in the Challenge Dungeon. This was the real Artemis with her full comprehension of concepts. The version back then had only been a mere specter of...
2025-03-26 12:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostVisualization was key. All skills had Records that represented them, and all Records could be imagined if one understood them well enough. At least, that had always been Jake’s understanding. He needed to fully understand a skill before he could properly visualize it within his Soulspace.
Jake almost wanted to go and talk with Nature’s Attendant immediately but controlled himself, deciding he wasn’t in a rush. Besides, he and Yggdrasil were already working on helping the Fallen King, and Jake didn’t want to come rushing in only a week later to ask for another favor.
In...
2025-03-24 12:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, my palace is definitely bigger. They don’t even have an indoor pool! Jake thought proudly to himself as he inspected the large compound assigned to the Sword Saint during his stay with the Pantheon of Life.
Although the place was still excessively large for housing just one...
2025-03-21 12:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe blade cut through the web of vines as the swordsman expertly avoided the thorns covering them, even as they shot out, aiming to impale his body. A screen of water protected him as a green blast sought to push him back, allowing him to continue his pursuit as the druid in front of him slammed ...
2025-03-20 12:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe palace assigned to Jake was needlessly big, to the level of it being kind of silly. It had at least a few hundred rooms by Jake’s estimate and all the facilities one could ever need, from a fully equipped blacksmith to an alchemy lab. One could run an entire damn product line out of there, ...
2025-03-19 12:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostJake had been right in many of his assumptions regarding the Pantheon of Life. The information he’d read during the voyage there had also been confirmed continually as Jake got a tour of what he mentally called the capital city of the Pantheon of Life.
He also learned a lot about the peop...
2025-03-18 12:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostJake was definitely nervous as he finally found himself alone facing Artemis. It wasn’t nerves born of fear, but a mix of anticipation and hope that everything would go as he’d wished.
So far, Jake still didn’t have full knowledge of how Artemis felt about everything. At most, he coul...
2025-03-17 12:24:30 +0000 UTC View PostYggdrasil dispelled the many leaves again after a few seconds of giving Jake time to be in awe. He had a lot of questions, and he couldn’t hold back but at least ask some of them.
“This space is bigger than it looks from the outside, right?” Jake asked. Sure, Yggdrasil was already mas...
2025-03-14 12:22:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Jake agreed to a private meeting, he could once more return to just being a background character as Duskleaf and Nature’s Attendant kept speaking. Yggdrasil wasn’t very active at all in the conversation but did add a sentence here and there. From this brief meeting, Jake got the feeling...
2025-03-13 12:07:32 +0000 UTC View PostArtemis teleported across the Great Planet as she answered the summons of Yggdrasil. Not that she had to be summoned in the first place, as she’d fully planned on being present when the people from the Order of the Malefic Viper arrived. This was a day she’d been waiting for, after all.
Jake thought the trees he had seen on Earth were big, and sure, compared to before the system, they had indeed been utterly massive. However, when he looked at the monstrosity of wood so far away that he couldn’t even begin to guess the distance, he couldn’t help but feel like they were tiny ...
2025-03-11 12:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe Pantheon of Life was a relatively unique faction in the multiverse.
Most huge Primordial factions strived to increase the territory they controlled, wanted to expand their power, and actively recruited gods to join them in order to compete with other factions for resources. Even the Ord...
2025-03-10 12:13:11 +0000 UTC View Post