Chapter 1,183.
Added 2024-01-17 19:45:47 +0000 UTCZac was mentally and physically exhausted after madly pushing through the breakthrough. Time waited for no man, so Zac steeled himself as he faced the rumbling sky. Nothing happened beyond the palpable feeling of anger being stronger than before, and a smile spread across Zac's lips as he opened his quest screen.
The First Step of Destiny (Void Road): Form a High-quality Middle D-grade Cosmic Core of the Void Road. Reward: - (0/1) [00:18:46:24] (COMPLETE)
He was wrong. Time does wait for some men. The System was still keeping order, which meant he had some options. Zac sat back down and took out a vial containing a special set of recovery pills. They were called [Cry of Glory], a product of one of the Grand Clans. Their effect was amazing, like a hearty meal and a nourishing pill cocktail wrapped into one. And yet, few would take them unless they were left with no choice.
Normal recovery pills used materials with gentle energy and focused on minimizing Pill Toxins. Any sequelae left behind had to be the easily-removed kind. After all, most warriors were forced to eat such pills every other day. If they left lasting damage, the pills would be useless. Leveling or Dao Pills, in contrast, were used so seldom that most cultivators were willing to accept some stubborn Pill Toxins in return for extra progress.
[Cry of Glory] was the exact opposite of the norm, providing immense recovery at the cost of riddling the body with toxins. Even his D-grade [Purity of the Void] couldn't fully deal with the unique pills. As such, warriors would only use it when staring death in the eye in hopes of unleashing a final cry of glory.
His furious blitz through the Core Formation had already added a significant amount of impurities, and using [Cry of Glory] would only add to the mess. But so what? There was a tribulation right around the corner that would deal with that headache.
Zac groaned in a mix of pain and pleasure as the pills exploded in his stomach, releasing fiery waves that swept through his body. Body and soul were rapidly being invigorated as the medicinal energy burrowed into cells and Soul Cores. No pill could let him return to peak condition in such short order, but [Cry of Glory] was a good start.
The real question was what he should do next. Zac opened his Quest Screen again, his eyes turning to the two other quests marked as complete. He shook his head and closed the screen. This wasn't the time to upgrade his Supreme Pathbound Skills, even if it was part of his original itinerary for the Temporal Chamber. It wasn't like skills were very useful when facing a tribulation, and his limited time was better spent on something else.
It all depended on how high his ambitions were. Danger and opportunity often came hand in hand, and the tribulation did present some unique opportunities. One was the extra round of cleansing lightning. However, the big one was the chance to let his Cosmic Core go through a second round of refinement.
Facing the tribulation was a necessary step when forming your Cosmic Core, where it provided a final round of tempering. Zac remembered how the harrowing experience had further compressed his core and fused some materials that hadn't fully meshed. Zac was overall satisfied with his current result, but that didn't mean it couldn't be improved.
At the same time, his Cosmic Core was currently like a piece of metal rapidly cooling after being taken out of the furnace. The core would have long since solidified if he spent the whole deadline on recovery, running his chances of rebirth. There was also the Temporal backlash to worry about. He had come up with a few theories and ideas over the past weeks, but there were still many questions that remained unanswered.
What kind of tribulation would he face? Would the System restrain it to a reasonable level if the Heavens went out of control? Could he leave the Temporal Chamber without triggering the quest?
Zac scanned his Spatial Ring to confirm what resources had left as greed fought with caution. His eyes landed on a set of talismans, and greed won over. He was already in deep, so he might as well take a gamble on himself. Besides, another 18 hours of rest wouldn't make much difference if the Heavens blasted him with a tribulation far beyond his means.
A large box appeared on the Core Formation Platform. Zac opened it and threw out its contents in every direction. He also turned off the Spatial Batteries and activated a set of arrays. The dozens of engraved crystals he'd thrown began drawing on the ambient energy, and Zac nodded in satisfaction when nothing was supplied to replenish. The effect wasn't big right now, but the Temporal Chamber would be an energy wasteland by the time its one-year isolation ended.
Zac flashed away, taking a steadying breath as he approached the Temporal Chamber's edge. A screen suddenly appeared, forcing his two bodies to a screeching halt.
[WARNING: Reentering Multiversal Timeflow will end limited quest.]
One question answered, at least. Zac shook his head with regret before returning to the platforms. He'd hoped to leave early, giving him a chance to deal with the Temporal backlash before facing the tribulation. That wasn't an option, so he'd just have to pray his theory was correct.
Back at the arrays, Zac took out the [Golden Spark Talisman] and placed it against his belly. It turned into a streak of light that shot into the quantum space. Inside, it caused a huge commotion by igniting the remnant energies surrounding the core. Meanwhile, Zac reactivated the Core Formation Platforms, triggering a huge influx of energy that drained the chamber far quicker than the hollow energy crystals.
His core shook from the sudden mayhem, and Zac felt like he was getting stabbed. The pain was worth it, considering the [Golden Spark Talisman] would let his core stay in a moldable state for a few more hours. The talisman was normally used for last-minute repairs after detonating the subspace, though the damage they caused usually left you in a worse state than when you started.
Zac would obviously make use of the opportunity to make some alterations. If he didn't, the core would probably be pushed back to Middle Quality. However, the real reason he used the talisman was to deal with his pathways. He'd done what he could over the past sixteen days, but they were still in disarray after the ignition and the constant energy eruptions during the reformation.
The sections around his core were unsurprisingly the most damaged, severely limiting the amount of energy he could draw. If he wanted to benefit from the tribulation, he first needed to ensure he could utilize the added strength from his breakthrough. Disintegrated connectors were redrawn at a rapid pace, sturdier, and more sophisticated than before.
Upgrading the pathways before he'd seen his Cosmic Core's final iteration was to put the cart before the horse. Even disregarding the tribulation, most Cultivators held off on upgrading their pathways for a while. This time, the System wouldn't lend a helping hand and make the first adjustments, and many needed to use their core for a while before figuring out what kind of alterations they needed to perform.
Zac's understanding of his Daos, Class, and Path was more than enough to skip that step. Even if the upcoming lightning bath altered his core like the Tribulation Throne, it wouldn't greatly impact the pathway design.
The Middle D-grade overhaul wasn't as comprehensive as when you first stepped into Hegemony. Still, Zac was far from finished when he stopped after five hours of frantic construction work. The effect of the [Golden Spark Talisman] was running out ahead of schedule, unable to keep Zac's core malleable nearly as long as advertised.
Still, Zac was much more confident as he felt dense rivers of energy course through his bodies. Most of his pathways remained in Early D-grade, but the main circuit had been fully upgraded. Furthermore, all the damaged sections were mended, leaving his energy flow smooth and stable. He'd even taken the opportunity to deal with some of the imperfections on his core, though the damage caused by the [Golden Spark Talisman]canceled out most of his progress.
It was time to get going.
Zac's two bodies gathered by the exit, each gripping a [Time Devouring Puppet] despite their limited reusability. Zac grabbed the shoulder of his Draugr Body and flashed forward, cutting through the curtain of Temporal doldrum and the accumulated wall of frozen energy beyond. The Void shielded their bodies from the temporal difference when passing through the barrier, but it wasn't enough to quell the tearing pain.
A tremendous explosion left Zac's ear ringing, and he was flung into the hidden hallway. The energy vacuum created by the hollow crystals wasn't enough to pull back the immense amounts of leakage that had already left the Temporal Chamber. The force was terrifying, and large cracks spread across the ceiling and floor. Only the emergency hallway was spared, thanks to a coffin blocking the mayhem long enough for the Teleportation Array to whisk him away.
The transfer was nigh-instantaneous. Malevolent red replaced gold and black as Zac appeared within an illusion array in the secluded mountain valley. A deafening crash turned four mountain peaks to dust as the Heavens pursued him into flowing time. Its churning clouds were already so overstuffed with extermination that Zac was given no warning before a pillar of lightning came crashing toward him with blinding speed.
The puppets had already crumbled, unable to withstand the immense Temporal backlash, forcing Zac to bear the full weight of his sins. His tempered bodies fought back with everything they had, yet he found himself dying piece by piece. [Void Zone] could have helped, but Zac kept his bloodline in check while glaring at the incoming tribulation with agonized determination.
He clawed at the sky, using his right hands to conjure huge blades displaying his path. Evolutionary and Inexorable axelights tore through the sky, becoming one just as they met the descending lightning. The valley shook, Dao was exterminated, and the pillar poured into Zac with most of its energy intact.
A familiar agony tore through Zac's body, seeking to extinguish his path and rip back what he'd stolen from the Cosmos. Whether spirit or physical body, they were drowned in a sea of crackling red. Arcs of lightning burrowed into his cells, targeting the golden hurricanes and bottomless ponds. His body was covered in gruesome wounds and angry scars in no time, making Zac look like a crumbling statue as he stood rooted in place from the sensory overload.
Not even Time was spared from Heaven's relentless assault.
Zac's laughter joined the thunderstorm's deafening roars as he was cleared of temporal debt through Heavenly intervention. This was why he'd taken the first bolt head-on after measuring its strength. Tribulation Lightning could purge pretty much anything, and it turned out the Temporal backlash was no different.
It was as though the lightning realized it had been tricked, and it rallied with redoubled vigor as it poured into his quantum space. Facing the tribulation with two bodies had caused the punishment to split, but it fused back into one before descending on his Cosmic Core. His newly formed core shook and crackled as it withstood the punishment with dogged determination.
The pain was like having nerve endings set on fire, spreading across Zac's bodies through his pathways. Zac called on the immense power of his Middle D-grade Core, and the lightning was submerged in a sea of energy that filled his Duplicity Core before pouring into his Pathways. Faced with such an overwhelming resistance, some of the lightning sought other targets to destroy.
Just as the tribulation was about to break into his Soul Aperture, a second sea poured out of the hidden space. Dao joined energy, forming an unbreakable army that began a war of mutual destruction. Wrathful lightning was subdued, diluted, and dispersed, though only after exacting a price of flesh.
This was the normal way to combat Tribulation Lightning when you lacked special methods like [Void Heart] or Technocrat arrays. It was nowhere near as effective, but Zac couldn't blow his best cards on the first bolt. The tribulation destroying the temporal energies was his best-case scenario, and the System was clearly holding back some of Heaven's power. However, the energies gathering above confirmed this would be a tough fight.
A second bolt descended before Zac had fully routed the first, holding as much energy as the final bolt of his previous tribulation. It only took a look for Zac to activate both [Void Zone]and [Void Mountain], and he shrunk the superimposed nullification spheres as much as he could to maximize their effect.
Most Middle Hegemons would be rendered utterly helpless within such a powerful domain of anti-Dao, yet it wasn't nearly enough to deal with Heaven's wrath. It tore into the domain, only losing a fifth of its force as it drew closer. The oversized bolt slammed into Zac's raised palms, and it briefly looked like time had stopped again.
The illusion only lasted a fraction of a second before Zac spewed blood and stumbled to his knees. The lighting continued into his body, noticeably weakened. Despite the mysterious loss of energy, Zac had his Soul Aperture overrun with furious lightning, momentarily surpassing even his quantum space. The Heavens were out for blood, but their target disappeared before they could cause any real damage.
Zac's Soul Cores became the victim of the seething extermination when the tribulation couldn't find its real target. Luckily, the lightning was bound to its purpose, and it continued toward his Cosmic Core before causing permanent damage. Zac thanked the stars he'd deactivated [Void Mountain] before it was too late.
He was shocked at how effective his Bloodline Talent was at dealing with the Tribulation Lightning. He'd activated the external version, and any lightning touching his palms had simply disappeared. Zac would have saved it for the final bolt if he knew how strong it was. The consumption was just as shocking, though, and he'd used up all but a tenth of his [Void Energy] in that short window.
Worse, his actions seemed to have truly pissed off the heavens. The clouds shuddered, forming complex patterns that caused a sharp, throbbing pain in Zac's mind. Meanwhile, a familiar aura appeared in the depths of the storm, one that almost made Zac forget that half a lightning bolt was still rampaging through his core. It was Law, all four of them mixed into one terrifying force.
Had he actually summoned a real Four Desolates Tribulation in Middle Hegemony?
Zac was about to lodge a complaint with the System, praying it would step in again. However, the words died in his throat upon realizing the flicker of Law didn't grow stronger. Few would even notice it without previous experience.
Such a small amount should be within his limits, right? Even if it were the real thing and not an imitation like the Tribulation Throne. He might even have formed some natural resistance because of his rebirth.
Wasn't this what he came for?
Zac panted, his bodies twitching from the remnant lightning while red strings appeared all around him. He'd felt despair the last time he faced a similar scene. This time, there was only determination. He was still an ant before the Heavens, but he was not the same person as before. The System wanted him to prove his Void Road? Then he'd oblige by taking a bite out of the sky.
What little Void Energy Zac had left flooded his body as he fully opened the floodgates, and all lingering arcs outside the quantum space were summarily snuffed out. It was like the Heavens had caught his scent, and the final bolt came without delay. It looked almost the same as the previous one except for a slightly darker hue. However, Zac could vaguely discern illusory runes floating in its center. They flickered like they lacked the energy to fully express their meaning, yet they held far greater horror than the rest of the bolt.
Zac pushed with everything he had, and space shuddered between himself and the incoming lightning bolt. There was a powerful resistance like the Void didn't wish to be dragged into this matter. Zac broke through the opposition, ripping open a vortex fifty meters across just in time to block.
The tribulation lightning seemed equally reluctant to face the nothingness within the large swirl, but Zac didn't give it a chance to avoid a collision. Extermination poured into the beyond until Zac couldn't hold on any longer. Less than a third remained as the bolt continued toward Zac, who finally unsealed the frantically struggling [Void Heart].
The Hidden Node had been forced to witness its favorite food being squandered, and it seemed adamant to take what remained for himself. It thumped with enough force to create actual winds and the remaining, and most of the remaining lightning was swallowed before it could even enter the quantum space.
Zac glanced at the clouds reluctantly parting, confirming the Heavens didn't have a fourth bolt in the chamber before turning his gaze inward. [Void Heart] had gone silent like it always did after overindulging. Lingering lightning still crackled along his newly formed pathways, but the Law Runes were mysteriously gone. Zac frowned until he felt a chill of premonition.
It was at that time a figure suddenly landed before him. It was Joanna, her eyes scanning the surroundings for dangers.
"I'm fine, but it's not over. Give me a minute," Zac said with a hoarse voice before sitting down.
His words became prophetic as he was beset by intense prickling pain, like he'd fallen into a barrel of burning needles.[Void Heart] was holding steady, but the Tribulation Lightning had found another outlet. It clawed its way out of the depths, emerging from Abyssal pools and golden hurricanes. The Void couldn't or wouldn't consume the full wrath of the final bolt, and Zac finally felt the aura of Law return.
But why was it slightly different?
Comments
“The Void couldn't or wouldn't consume the full wrath of the final bolt, and Zac finally felt the aura of Law return. But why was it slightly different?” Hello, Zac? Because you—the Void Emperor—changed the Law to better suit your own wants and needs. Small preview for the future.
Jeff McCulley
2024-02-04 19:51:56 +0000 UTCExactly this. But He doesn't have to worry about monarchs on the system protected, graded battlegrounds. The issue is that his force isn't truly middle D Grade yet and is vulnerable. His justification so far for not pushing harder is that his force isn't ready and he's scared to death of casualties being higher than necessary. He could just give away a dozen or so middle D grade destroyers to the Peak family or Dravorak in exchange for a squad of a few dozen Middle D grade hegemons on a 3 month military contract and offer them generous bonuses for keeping his casualties lower and his people safe from nasty tricks. And Zac could go after the Elites. The factions in Zecia would probably be fighting each other to get in line for that deal.
Collin Sorrells
2024-01-18 20:08:24 +0000 UTCSo basically hire some meat shields. And this is the difference in background at play, if some kan'tanu monarch targeted zacs people or zac himself, there's not much for any of them to do but hope the alliance monarch in charge makes a move. Besides, as seen that ch when zac was trading treasures on the ship, he already got ahold of unique treasures for his seal bearers and as long as they're all middle hegemony, they won't be one shot by another middle hegemon unless they're a monster on zac or Yselios level.
Lex Luther S
2024-01-18 18:33:49 +0000 UTCThis was supposed to be a reply to the 'warpath' comment.
Cameron Taylor
2024-01-18 17:09:45 +0000 UTCI suspect that it’s going to be slightly different and that he gets the undead involved in the quest. The could be the people who “take the blame” He might try to keep certain aspects hidden though
Henry Wartemberg
2024-01-18 16:33:30 +0000 UTCWhat did Iz's Dao guard say? "Potential is meaningless in the face of raw power". Or something along those lines? What if some millennia old Divine monarch trash at the end of their rope squashed Iz like a bug? Every single Ultom contender has a Dao guard. Zac himself should have a Dao guard technically speaking. But he is a progenitor, and the ruler and patriarch of his empire, so his case is special. It's kind of his responsibility to hire some common muscle specializing in defense to keep his people from getting unfairly one hit by people they shouldn't quite be 1vs1 against yet. It doesn't mean that they wouldn't have life and death battles or be pitted against appropriate foes.
Collin Sorrells
2024-01-18 14:52:10 +0000 UTCA Big shock. Truly a big surprise that the greedy shifty deviant asura allowed greed to win over caution
Lex Luther S
2024-01-18 11:56:53 +0000 UTCZacs already mentioned it won't be possible for arcaz to catch up unless he cripples his progress for his dreamer side and zac is most certainly not willing to do that so kator is not gonna be happy even if arcaz gains 2-3 times as much merit as zac. Only hope is with the "Lighting the Centurion beacon" quest and zac probably gonna take both bodies on that expedition.
Lex Luther S
2024-01-18 11:54:15 +0000 UTCWhich quest? The Centurion beacon one?
Lex Luther S
2024-01-18 11:52:01 +0000 UTCI rather doubt zac would do that. For one, zec wouldn't deign to hire dao guards for his people as he knows them best, they'd end up lacking confidence from zac doing so and zac himself knows better than anyone that one must face the winds and fates tides if they want a chance to go beyond their limits. Beyond their fate and providence. Joanna is prime example of this. Through her gritt and doged determination, she not only proved she was worthy of the indomitable courts but also gained an inheritance from the spear of the emperor, even knowing that that is her path forward. As for hiring hegemons, I doubt there's many more to go around. Most are stuck protecting their own factions and domains unless zac offers some unique treasures and most wandering cultivators have already found a place to reside after learning of the war. Zac will certainly spill an oceans worth of blood but ultimately, it'll be with hegemons from his own faction with maybe some hired remaining wandering cultivators.
Lex Luther S
2024-01-18 11:07:44 +0000 UTCOne of Zac needs to start the work for the quest fairly soon. We have seen what the System does if it gets impatient. Very big with the carrot and stick.
Cameron Taylor
2024-01-18 10:56:43 +0000 UTCLet his Draug half farm battlefields for expansion and experience reasons like you say. That makes the undead happy that he is letting their half catch up.
Cameron Taylor
2024-01-18 10:55:01 +0000 UTCi am under the impression the first destiny is created by the Sanga and is Buddha or something
Stefan Muntean
2024-01-18 08:55:49 +0000 UTCOuroboros, he wasn't a day late, he had 18 hours left when he finished his core. It was Days:Hours:Minutes:Seconds and it was counting down. He used only 5 or 6 hours of it cleaning up his pathways, then stepped out to get the temporal backlash, followed by the tribulation lightning of the Old Heavens.
Brian Block
2024-01-18 06:13:42 +0000 UTCAnd the Zac created a third Destiny and just pissed off the heavens.
Harley Shockley
2024-01-18 04:10:21 +0000 UTCWe really need Zac to go on a warpath rampage now. Complete and total war against the Kan Tanu invaders. He needs to use his fame and money to hire as many middle D grade Dao guard mercenaries to protect his key people and as many half step hegemons as he can possibly afford to bolster his armies and go to war in earnest. Even trading ships from his shipyard to the Peaks and other families and empires for contracts of service in his army for their Middle D grade and lower grunts that aren't that important to them, but would bolster Zac's armies to an amazing degree. Most the Zecia elites come up short vs the invaders and their heart curses. There is not a middle D grade Kan Tanu elite that can match Zac. And he has a ludicrous amount of faction merit for his empire that he can't use for himself anyways. He's really in a unique situation to hit them very hard on the ranked battle grounds protected by the system. He needs all the fighting experience and kill energy he can get now to level up and improve his Dao, he's basically already got the qualifications he needs to ascend to late hegemony with his high quality core. And he also needs to collect as many planets as he can, move them to his empire with faction merit, and then teleport his entire empire away to somewhere hidden and safe with the boon incursion reward he still has coming from the system. It's do or die right now and he should have a serious sense of urgency. If he doesn't spend every nexus coin he has and faction merit point he has to push as hard as possible for late hegemony and hit the Kan Tanu as hard as possible for the next 6 months straight, it would be truly idiotic and unbelievable and the first thing that didn't make sense to me in this wonderful series. Please don't have him immediately run off on the foreign gods mission and fall into another lucky opportunity. He got a wakeup call vs Y'esellio and all the other actors so much stronger than him currently. He would be mad to run off now. It's time for him to step onto the killing fields and earn some power with all his accumulations. Let's have some bloodshed, let it be epic, let him reach late D grade at record speed. He's not really some frontier nobody, let him enter Ultom as a contender. This is his time to shine.
Collin Sorrells
2024-01-18 03:46:24 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter.
Joshua Little
2024-01-18 02:49:46 +0000 UTCYrial has a rather good understanding of zacs path before his encounter with ultom and even then suggested only at late hegemony, and I imagine that remains true even after zacs become an eonic seed of insane proportions. After all, as someone mentioned, it's meant to be the guide to monarchy, so why go there at middle D grade, not even halfway there? Besides, it'd likely be another trial like the F grade and E grad variants looking at zacs "cyclic path" and seeing their blueprint for hegemony and monarchy as well. Not only that but they only get one chance as well so zac most certainly won't change it going at middle D grade, especially since he hasn't really solved the issue with his face and yrial will deduct even more points next time.
Lex Luther S
2024-01-18 02:33:29 +0000 UTCBasically zac used some treasures that originally would have helped but likely dropped the quality of his core, but the upcoming zapping from the heavens made zac take the gamble. As for actually taking the strikes, zac endured the first, even using it to erase the payment for zac abusing temporal chambers and used void zone and void mountain to help mitigate the 2nd bolt while the 3rd bolt had the slightest tinge of the 4 laws in them which basically means an even stronger bolt than one with angry red in it though this time he allowed Void heart to eat it's fill. Yet somehow the 4 laws escaped the voids grasp through the Abyssal ponds and golden vortexs in his respective bodies cells, and for some reason, this aura of law was slightly different from what was absorbed. But ultimately the walking calamity named Zachary Atwood will walk away with insane benefits.
Lex Luther S
2024-01-18 02:26:40 +0000 UTCHe was one day late but it gave it to him anyway. Just didn't give him that one.
ouroboros
2024-01-18 00:21:14 +0000 UTCThe void of law? That's up as shit.
ouroboros
2024-01-18 00:20:33 +0000 UTCI agree that would be the logical conclusion. The issue is which Tayn finds out this info and the mood they're in when they do. For example Iz's grandpa that spends most of his time at the home base or that uncle who was ready to serve up some grilled eel would be fine with this. They both like Zac's ambition and the fire he's put into Iz Tayn. They are both also understanding enough that if Iz got a little hurt they could right it off. However people like that dao guardian, her grandmother or even that chick that's bringing Kruta over are another story. They live up to the Tayn family legacy. Any of them would just as likely fillet Zac for allowing a scratch to befall Iz, blame him and burn Zecia to the ground. Even if it meant losing access to the inheritance.
Darnell Maxwell
2024-01-17 23:44:24 +0000 UTCI still think Zac will save Iz in the inheritance trial and Iz will tell Zac to take the prize. The Tayns will thank Zac and provide protection for Zac. I think they'll like and even be impressed that Zac is setting up something like the Twilight Harbor. They'll see his fate and want Iz to be dragged along. Edit: IMSMC, in the PV, Zac's core expansion was like 95 km when 20 km was mentioned as exceptional.
Mike Naka
2024-01-17 23:36:37 +0000 UTCHuh. Once again, I'm somewhat lost as to what's going on. But it seems good on the whole?
BelligerentGnu
2024-01-17 23:29:26 +0000 UTCZac mentioned that the death energy his cells returned felt ancient. Maybe it is actually returning an older form of death. In which case it would stand to reason for them to return an older form of the laws as well.
Luke Scheffe
2024-01-17 23:18:57 +0000 UTCThere are nine seals, eight thrones, four laws and one destiny. The second destiny is one that was created by the limitless empire, and is not a part of the heavens.
Luke Scheffe
2024-01-17 23:14:38 +0000 UTCThe issue is convincing them to not just kill him and take it themselves. Especially since he'll have to defeat Iz Tayn to get it without killing her or passing her off. Since if she's badly injured they are gonna blame Zac.
Darnell Maxwell
2024-01-17 22:31:06 +0000 UTCI mean just sending a bottelnecked divine Monarch to make sure the other factions fall in line when zac isnt there to punsh some sense in to them should be easy for them and in return for acces to the eternal heritage it should ne quite the bargain
Frederik
2024-01-17 22:27:38 +0000 UTCIt’s a little pointless for him to do that. It’s meant to be a guide for the transition to Monarchy. He has a million other headaches to deal with before thinking about that. 1st figuring out what’s up with his duplicity core
Henry Wartemberg
2024-01-17 22:23:46 +0000 UTCI kinda hope for a zacs luck to come in clutch as you put it and him making a deal trading access to the eternal heritage for an allience/the backing of the tayns in taking over the Sektor when zac has stepped in to C grade
Frederik
2024-01-17 22:23:35 +0000 UTCyeah but zac is also very much above anything expectable so I think he could do it at middle hegemony
Frederik
2024-01-17 22:17:04 +0000 UTCI love how Zac just views tribulation lightning as an extra thurough bath with a hint of danger. Thanks for the chapter!
brennon Petersen
2024-01-17 22:13:51 +0000 UTCIz doesn't but someone on her level might. Just because she's the strongest person we've seen so far, doesn't mean she's the strongest in their generation. Especially since she spends most of her time watching Zac.
Darnell Maxwell
2024-01-17 21:45:08 +0000 UTCIz doesn't really want the inheritance but lucked into a seal and is happy to play along
Pickled Rick
2024-01-17 21:43:35 +0000 UTCMy theory is the System is the Void Emporer and it wants Zac to succeed but it can't play favourites. It can however bend the rules so they help Zac by helping themselves.
Pickled Rick
2024-01-17 21:40:55 +0000 UTCThat’s kinda what I was thinking
Austin Barton
2024-01-17 21:39:15 +0000 UTC9 8 4 1 are the important numbers we have been told about so far for the heavens but there is definitely an inverse void version that mirrors all the dao heaven stuff
Pickled Rick
2024-01-17 21:38:37 +0000 UTCThank you I forgot about most of that thanks
Austin Barton
2024-01-17 21:31:11 +0000 UTCI can hear Ogras bitching about treasures falling from the Heavens
Lumpawaroo
2024-01-17 21:25:10 +0000 UTCThere are 17 Peaks of the Dao, 9 Courts, 8 Seals, 4 Laws, 2 Destiny's. Eight Pillars were erected for the Creation of the System.
Lumpawaroo
2024-01-17 21:22:39 +0000 UTCLAWS OF THE VOID LETS GOOOOOO
James Faulkner
2024-01-17 21:10:10 +0000 UTCThat MF is most resilient thing under the heaven
SandreX
2024-01-17 21:07:42 +0000 UTCUhhh.. loook... "Zac scanned his Spatial Ring to confirm what resources had left as greed fought with caution. His eyes landed on a set of talismans, and greed won over" Zacs greed won!! Imagine that! I had not seen that one coming... said no one... ever...
Kharas
2024-01-17 21:02:59 +0000 UTC10 to 1 that the tree will have absorbed something and will help him along towards late Hegemony :p
Kharas
2024-01-17 20:59:20 +0000 UTCI think there are 8 laws 4 for dao and 4 for void and together they reach the terminus and I think that’s what tfd is going for with all the 8 symbolism unless I’m miss remembering the number of 8 pillars of the dao.
Austin Barton
2024-01-17 20:49:48 +0000 UTCYrial said it was meant for those approaching peak hegemony, but that zac should be able to brute force it, but no sooner than late hegemony.
Lex Luther S
2024-01-17 20:43:20 +0000 UTCI have been looking forward to Zach meeting Yrial again!
Douglas Sokolowski
2024-01-17 20:36:10 +0000 UTCMaybe it’s a little bit older than before? Previously, Zac had mentioned how the returns from the void feel ancient. If the heavens are getting weaker, it stands to reason that the four laws would be getting weaker as well. So maybe this is the potency the four laws would have had at the end of the last era, so just a little bit stronger.
Luke Scheffe
2024-01-17 20:35:18 +0000 UTCOr the pore tree of ascension who was still holding on a seed of spiritually:( he was in the middle of that mountains I think 🤔
Stefan Muntean
2024-01-17 20:35:04 +0000 UTCRIP island mountains.
Telewyn
2024-01-17 20:30:46 +0000 UTCI was hoping that after Zac "easy upgrade" he would tackle Yrial D grade trial, since he told Zac to go for it after he reached middle hegemony, but with all this trouble he conjured he'll be in bed for a while.
Omiso
2024-01-17 20:29:57 +0000 UTC1) JOANNA WHAT ARE YOU DOING! THAT'S TRIBULATION LIGHTNING! There was no way you could have known the exterior danger would be over so soon. You should have at least waited a couple of minutes before showing up. What if some lingering lightning attacked you when leaving Zac. Be more careful next time! 2) NOW THAT'S MY GIRL! BEEN HERE SINCE DAY ONE AND HIS MOST LOYAL FOLLOWER!! The second the lightning wasn't visible she dove in to see if her Emperor needed any help! She would have probably fought that cowardly lightning with her own spear if there was still any left to hurt Zac. Let's fucking Go! 3) I don't know if it was intentional, but this chapter has actually made me believe Zac has a chance of living through this Ultom trial. Now don't get me wrong. If he comes across a Kator or Yvelio in the next couple of chapters on the battlefield. Dude is gonna be fucked 8 ways to Sunday. No chance of him winning that. Even if his Empire started cultivating faith and channeling it to Zac. Still don't see him winning that. BUT! Now I have a better understanding of what S Grade energy capacity means for his core. Originally I thought it meant that despite half of it being useless to each body individually. Each body had access to enough energy that on their own, they appeared slightly above average. Like someone would see just Arcaz and think he has slighty more miasma than yor average undead hegemon at that level. Didn’t realize it was more like ten times the average for someone at that level. Even if we lowball that and say each body has 5 times the energy on their own adding up to a collective 10. That means he can greatly boost the energy usage of his unevolved skills when he upgrades them! Skills like Primal Edict and Pillar of desolation are cool right now. But imagine how much stronger they can be when it literally takes more energy than some hegemons have in their cores just to activate the damn thing! And he still has about two years to upgrade them and get them there. I still don't see him beating someone like Iz Tayn for the main inheritance. I'm hoping his luck comes in clutch there. But I at least think he finally has a chance of surviving this death game.
Darnell Maxwell
2024-01-17 20:29:43 +0000 UTCSystem's golden boi can't be touched :d When Zac moved out of chamber, I bet System was like: "Yess ma boi, make father proud"
SandreX
2024-01-17 20:29:19 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter! Eager to read what happens next 🩷
2024-01-17 20:27:46 +0000 UTCEpic Clash!
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2024-01-17 20:27:02 +0000 UTCWell, zac already has a theory that everytime the era ends and the Dao crumbles, the Dao is rebuilt slightly weaker. Could be why Ultom is so important, likely being from the first era when the heavens came into existence. And this would make sense; if something is broken and then rebuilt, it's not absurd to think it won't be as strong as it once was. As for how they would fuck up future eras through the 4 laws is an interesting thought; so far zacs theory is that the 4 laws are mostly static and that's why Ultom works. But what if those from the lost era had such insane strength and accumulations that through their war with the heavens and the building of Ultom, they forced the 4 Laws into becoming far more static than originally meant to be, thereby harming the foundations of the future heavens and even causing the Dao to be weaker overall? But that begs the question on why exposure to the void would change that unless it's specifically the specific void aura of zacs inverted Void emperor bloodline. Man ch can't get here soon enough now that this theory is in my head🤔🤔
Lex Luther S
2024-01-17 20:26:29 +0000 UTCLove how Void Heart is low-key mad that Zac stole its food :d
SandreX
2024-01-17 20:25:45 +0000 UTCFORGE SOME OF THESE FOUR LAWS INTO JOANNA!!!! That would be a hell of an upgrade for her, she wouldn't become pre-cosmic attuned like Zac but just taking a small dip into the four laws should have great effects.
Justin van mele
2024-01-17 20:25:23 +0000 UTCHonestly zac truly is a deviant. Taking a bite out of the sky? Who else would dare be so arrogant but the deviant asura? As for this new round of tempering and purging, boy ohhhh boy the end results are looking mighty fine indeed. As for the aura of law returning and even being different, I wonder if encountering the void changed it somehow; either that or the law saw the void and changed to counter the void? Given the 4 Laws are static throughout the eras, it could be they have more in common with the void than the Dao🤔🤔
Lex Luther S
2024-01-17 20:18:36 +0000 UTCThe people who were somewhere else 😂😂
Stefan Muntean
2024-01-17 20:16:06 +0000 UTCOk, letting the joke aside think the idea is that the people in the Lost era (perhaps first era) f.k up, they modified the laws and the eras are going weaker and weaker and the heaven is crumbling or something. My opinion on what the Author is hinting at.
Stefan Muntean
2024-01-17 20:14:12 +0000 UTCCome to see Zac dance from the first moment but the son of the fake Haven used privilege card :)) "He was wrong. Time does wait for some men" Lucky the true Haven doesn't tolerate that and roasted him a wee bit:)) hope the laws smack him some more 😂😂😂
Stefan Muntean
2024-01-17 20:09:43 +0000 UTCNice one
Jonas Lemke
2024-01-17 20:07:11 +0000 UTCLaw of the Void
Jason Hatter
2024-01-17 20:05:23 +0000 UTCI don't think the core formation process is considered complete until the tribulation is over
Thomas Todd
2024-01-17 20:05:08 +0000 UTCJuicy chapters man, keep them coming
Michael McMahon
2024-01-17 20:02:13 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter. Zac is ever the monster!
Alexander Dupree
2024-01-17 20:00:48 +0000 UTCThank you!
Andrew
2024-01-17 19:59:59 +0000 UTCZac fought the Law, but who won?
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2024-01-17 19:57:36 +0000 UTCIf Zac completed the timed quest, should it be 1/1 or is it still 0/1?
Greg Lambert
2024-01-17 19:57:06 +0000 UTCNice! Also first 😁
The Lost Pages
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