Right away, Jake knew this time was different than any prior. The feeling he got was one not from a perspective… it was one where he was purely an observer of the world - of everything that happe...
2022-02-22 11:46:55 +0000 UTC
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Jake hastily dodged the arcane beam but was still scratched by it due to its intense destructive power. The remnant energies burned his cloak as Jake felt his left arm singe a little as some of his...
2022-02-21 11:44:38 +0000 UTC
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Manticores were sure interesting creatures. Clearly pretty powerful for their levels based on how well the one Jake fought handled things. They even had mouth magic that impressed Jake as it could ...
2022-02-18 11:44:23 +0000 UTC
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Jake quickly took out the token to begin the sixth combat test. The fifth one had honestly been too easy, but then again, the huge thing was incredibly ill-matched against Jake. It just relied on b...
2022-02-17 11:38:33 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
Hello there! Check Discord for updates :p
But small TLDR: Doing better. Not back to 100%, but updates should be back to five a week. Posting times, ...
2022-02-16 11:37:07 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
Just a small heads-up, there will be no chapter tomorrow and maybe not the start of next week either. I have been experiencing some wrist pain recently (m...
2022-02-10 12:51:21 +0000 UTC
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Jake was pretty sure he was actually shit at transmutation. The first part of the test had passed, and the second one had begun. A half-finished concoction had appeared before him as well as about ...
2022-02-09 11:44:47 +0000 UTC
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With a wave of his hand, a new cauldron was summoned as the scalekin explained:
“The potion brewing test is similar to the poison concocting one, with only a few changes. As far fewer types...
2022-02-08 11:44:30 +0000 UTC
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It was coming from the walls!
Mana seeped into the chamber passively, as the pylons also began giving off a bit of pure mana. The mana coming from the walls seemed harmless at first and began...
2022-02-07 11:47:07 +0000 UTC
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”Why does he keep commenting on the taste?” one of the projections muttered.
”A better question would be why he wastes his time inserting insults towards every fungus he consumes, most ...
2022-02-04 11:47:03 +0000 UTC
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Jake had only stood with Draskil for a few minutes while waiting for the last group to arrive, but it had been enough for him to establish himself. He did find the very purposefully built room inte...
2022-02-03 11:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Jake was transported once more together with Reika and the others as they went onto the teleportation circle pointed out by the demon. He hadn’t even gotten the name of the horned guy but assumed...
2022-02-02 11:45:39 +0000 UTC
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Another trip through the void, and Jake found himself back in the tower. At the same time, nine other people appeared. Two of them fell like puppets with their strings cut, another fell over and be...
2022-02-01 09:29:55 +0000 UTC
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Jake felt himself once more pulled through space. This time he focused on not trying to look anywhere or spread out his senses as he passed through that weird void. It went a bit faster than the fi...
2022-01-31 08:17:16 +0000 UTC
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Jake’s perception-related abilities, primarily courtesy of his Bloodline, were quite mysterious and odd at times, even to himself. As he sat there in meditation and felt Identify after Identify h...
2022-01-28 11:44:35 +0000 UTC
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Villy, you fucking troll, Jake cursed as he finally found the problem. Holy fucking shit, did he feel like beating that snake god up with a tire iron. Jake had no damn clue how long he had...
2022-01-27 11:46:40 +0000 UTC
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Vilastromoz was prepared to have Jake begin the next phase of the training, but the human just displayed a satisfied smile at his success as he slowly leaned forward until he fell flat on his face ...
2022-01-26 11:46:24 +0000 UTC
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Jake sat in meditation as he felt his own body. Not just the physical one, but the metaphysical representation of it. He felt his stamina, mana, and health move as he tried to trace it all back to ...
2022-01-25 11:44:36 +0000 UTC
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Jake had tried quite a few teleportation methods during his time in the system. The best kind was the one done by the system in that he didn’t even feel it. It was just a blink, and you suddenly ...
2022-01-24 11:46:51 +0000 UTC
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Days passed as Jake entertained Reika, primarily through discussions on alchemy and just seeing the city. He had even given her a tour of his new alchemy laboratory, which she was quite impressed w...
2022-01-21 11:43:27 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
Weird intermission number, huh? Well, the reason for that is pretty simple. Two side stories (the one with Viridia+Villy, the Order and stupid arrogan...
2022-01-20 11:45:56 +0000 UTC
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Ten minutes passed, and… nothing. Besides a few drone-like machines checking them out, no movement had been made from the Fort to welcome their arrival. Reika was getting partly worried and partl...
2022-01-19 11:47:59 +0000 UTC
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Jake looked on as the scientist worked.
Arnold kept looking at the necklace a bit more and took out some measurement tools again to try and take a few more looks. He frowned a bit more as he ...
2022-01-18 11:48:13 +0000 UTC
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Haven had a lot of land around it. Especially between the Fort and Haven existed a vast plain of nothingness. Jake had originally wanted to have the trolls live in this kind of area but quickly fou...
2022-01-17 11:43:13 +0000 UTC
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Honestly, if there was one convenience the system had brought that Jake could not see ever living without again, it was the Self-Repair enchantment. That, and other enchantments allowing armor to r...
2022-01-14 11:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Fifteen minutes passed without any movement before Jake dared to take out a healing potion and consume it. His Mark made him aware the Hive King had returned to somewhere deep underground again bef...
2022-01-13 11:47:17 +0000 UTC
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The gap between grades only grew larger and more challenging to overcome the higher one went. For a decently talented E-grade to beat a weak low-tier D-grade was only to be expected, while the same...
2022-01-12 11:46:30 +0000 UTC
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Chris worked with fervor as he cleaned and rearranged a few of the pillars, stones, and metal pikes. It had to be kept perfect at all times as the materials absorbed the necessary energy from the c...
2022-01-11 11:49:09 +0000 UTC
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Jake shifted the form of Eternal Hunger a few times, from a dagger to a sword, to a two-handed blade, and even into a spear and an exact replica of the old Scimitar of Eternal Hunger. He had also t...
2022-01-10 11:44:53 +0000 UTC
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